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for you every single night. Well stuff, I didn't have
MYO card. Was Roki Sasaki getting pulled for blake trying
it yet? This is where we are. The Dodgers with
a two to nothing lead going to the bottom of
the ninth inning. The Brewers, thanks to a load of walks,
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have been able to push this to a two to
one disadvantage. And now with Bryce Terrang up count is
one in one bases loaded, one in two count. Now
to Bryce Terrang again is Blake trining in And I
think Dodger fans are going, oh my goodness, Blake trying it.
Come on, But this is where Dave Roberts goes Lefty.
Terrang up does not go to Alex Vessie stays with
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Blake tried in here again, two to one, Dodger lead
game one of the NLCS bases loaded in the ninth
and wow, trying it almost hits Terrang with a curveball,
And I'm sorry, that's where you have to turn and
get hit by that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, you gotta take one for the team right there.
That's just that baseball fun amount. That's one on one man.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You have to turn and get hit by that pitch.
That's apps what you have to do. You cannot, you
cannot just back away. You got to turn and get
hit by that pitch. Got him absolutely. Uh So the
Dodgers one and two count. Here's the pitch, it's a strikeout.
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Blake trying and gets the final out of the game
and the Dodgers survive two to one. Blake Snell will
no longer have to fight anybody after the game.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
He might have been the most unhappy guy sitting in there.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
We've never seen it, but Blake trying and gets it done.
Really and look, quite honestly, if you are Bryce terrang,
you have to turn. I know that the reaction is, hey,
I don't want to get hit, but that's a pitch
that's really inside that you have to swing at and
you have to get hit by. And then he chases
a pitch that is three feet outside of the strike
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zone four strike three. The Dodgers win Game one, and
the Brewers are left saying, what just happened? We had
everything going our way?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
What just happened?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Trying in the second strike of that at bat was
a bit above the zone, so maybe he felt he
had to go up. But I mean, this pitch is
really really high. I like the high ones chases it
for that third stride. Trying and much maligned over the
course of the year. I mean we talked about ball,
you know, strikeouts to walk. It was basically less than
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two to one.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
He was five to four.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
E er in the regular season two and seven record
propensity to throw wild pitches. All of these things at
play and gets them to chase the high third strike.
But to your point, yeah, that ball came inside.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm sorry. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna leave a bruise. Right.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
My daughter is just healing from one she stood in
and took as a defender last week in a soccer
game that left a bruise. The shape of the ball,
it's really it was really quite disturbing to see. But
he's starting to heal. And guess what they won that game.
I here, you take take one for the team. Man.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
You have up. You have to you know.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And that's the thing is that And this was always
a tough lesson to teach the girls in softball, right,
because when you come up, your instance is to get
out of the way if a pitch, get out of
way a pitch like, okay, I get it. And when
they're young, because there's lots of like like when you
get when the kids are like eight, ten, eleven, the
pitchers are wild, and so you want to get out
of the way because you want to hit. But I
always tell hey, when it's a game that counts. You're
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not backing out of the way. You are turn because
all you gotta do is turn. You have to make
it look like you're getting out of the way. You
can't just sit there and get hit. But if it's easy,
you turn.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
To get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Instead of getting out of the way, you take that
hit by pitch, you get on first base. If it's
a term, it's a big game, you gotta do that right.
And that's I'm watching Bryce Terraum going, wow, you got
you know, you gotta find a way to just I
got to get hit by any means necessary. I get
to get on first base. But then he makes up
for it by swinging it at a pitch three feet out
of the strikeer. Well, you know, I mean, that's that's
(04:48):
a huge The Dodgers escape, and that's absolute karma for
the Dodgers, and the Brewers have to be saying, what
just happened?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
What just happened.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I think they're all gonna respond to the the Brewers
manager who said, hey, that none of them can name
eight guys at a roster. I can name that guy,
Terrain because he sucked in a big moment.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Here's how it sounded just moments ago, the Dodgers taking
a one game to non lead in the NLCS, TBS
on the call. I don't know that they found one
as much as they got bailed out because trying to
what he walks Contraras clearly, and I said at the
time it wasn't a bad walk, right, trying and comes
in first and third, and then yellich Steel's second. So
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now second and third, So now they say out of
the force play and also a base it probably wins
the game. Trying to comes in and you can tell
right away Contreras is on him right fouls off two
fast balls right back, doesn't chase a couple of pitches
outside the strike zone. That's where trying to has to say,
you know what, no, no, no, we uh all right,
it's okay. Putting him on first base, We'll get the
next guy. So he walks Contraras and then nearly hits
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Terrang and then to rank somehow at a pitch. I
mean that pitch just climbed. It almost looked like a
back door slider kind of pitch that just rose more
because the movement on it was really really difficult. It
was really weird, and it just gets up, but the
pitch is up in his eyes like it is three
feet high out of the strike zone, and instead of
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taking that, taking that to two to two a full count,
you wind up striking out and you hand the game
to the Dodgers, I mean the Dodge. Look, they didn't
find anything with Blake, Tron and the Dodgers escape. There's
good pitching to talk about, but trying to just happen
to get the out. But they escape, and they take
a huge advantage and a big emotional advantage in the NLCS. Yeah,
you talk about escape, succeed and proceed. Look, he made
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the pitch and got him to chase. Now, the second
strike of that at bad again was you know with
our little handy dandy box that they put up, was
came in high. But you get the call fine, and
then he doesn't doesn't take the doesn't take what would
be a hit by pitch to force home the tying run,
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and then chases out of his own thinking he liked
he liked the high ones again going back to a
league of their own. But for Blake, drying to look
he got he made the pitch and got him to chase.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Blake.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
We saw Blake Snell with the reaction, the big exhale
that he had. Sasaki did not have it tonight. But
as they went to the bullpen, we're looking at each
other going, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Sasaki looked stunned that he was getting taken out of
the game. Not that he wanted to fight, but the
look on his eye, you see, his eyes were just
like I'm getting taken out of this gay But he
didn't have control. He walked a couple of guys, they
got a run off him, and clearly he has not
earned the Dave Roberts eye. He has not earned the
right to I'm closing no matter what, Like he's not
Edwin Diaz, where we win or lose with you, this
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is no I come out. But the way he walked
off the mountain was like what just happened? Like he doesn't,
I don't get what just happened.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
But that becomes the question.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
We talked about the mentality of closers, and certainly still
pretty new to the situation and to the role that
we know. It is a place where mentally you got
to be locked in and you could lose a guy
really fast. And so now you question that going forward, right,
with with an outing that was less than stellar. You
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had the big double by Bowers, the ground rule double,
so second and third Churio hits the sacrifice fly. We
watched the bases locked full by all of that. To say,
what is Sasaki like the next time you go to
the pen? You have no idea, You have no idea
how he's.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Going to respond? Yeah, what do you got? Frostburg? All
of that is irrelevant.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Can we take a moment here or the next three
hours to celebrate what the hell Blake's.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
No, no, no, no, no, that was great. It's just great.
Don't know nor sell it. That's why I say it.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I wanted to say, hey, you want to get to
a pitching performance that was really good and not lucky Blake. Look,
we said this middle of September. Right, you go back
to the game where Blake Snell told Dave Roberts, no,
I'm not coming out of this game. Right, he stays
in the game. Blake Snell needed to be the Dodgers ace.
He needed to be that guy because it's not just
about talent, it's about having that extra bit of get
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on my back and I got you and so far
in the playoffs, he's pitched six seven and eight innings
with the Dodgers eight innings tonight. Never went more than
six innings in any other playoff. Adams with the Rays
and the Padres. Right talking Baseball had had this stat
a few minutes ago. Blake Snell has is becoming the
modern day Madison Bumgardner, who was really good in the
(09:36):
regular season, but Madison bum Murder wasn't unbeatable in the
regular season.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
A couple of years.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
He was really good, Like it was really good, absurd,
he was really good. You get to the playoffs and
suddenly it's whoa, whoa, whoa. That's what Blake Snell is becoming.
The one stat I saw, like his last one hundred
summut innings pitch he's allowed thirteen hits, Like every game
has been more strikeouts than innings.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Pitch like he is.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
He is at the highest level of playoff performance of
any pitcher in a while. And and like I said,
he's he's becoming the modern day because you know, Madison
bumgarn his time was over in the in the mid
you know teams when then after that he was just
yelling at people. And now you hit a home run
off he just run around the base as well. Lots
of guys hitting home runs off you. Now you've got
to just be cool with that. But that's where Blake's
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So this is why he's we said he's got to
sort all the game ones, all the biggest games for
the Dodgers. Blake's now on the mound as much as
humanly possible because he is that guy. He is that
playoff guy. He is that ace and to throw it
out there too. Not a guy that's got a lot
of tread on his arm from this year. But it
was out all right.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I pitched eleven started eleven games in the regular season.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You get to a point with a lot of playing.
We talk about a lot with the NBA where hey,
you hope some injuries are strategic, right, Like guys like
Lebron or Anthony Davis that you know we're gonna get hurt. Hey,
we hope they get hurt middle of the season, start
of the season, so when you get to the playoffs
and we need them, they're not running on empty. Right,
You want that right to talk about strategic injuries that
do it. The same thing for Blake SNeW Like, you
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hope if he's gonna be out because he misses his time.
It's a strategic injury, and it was this is strategic
as possibly have because he came back with enough time
at the end of the season to get going and
he's hit the playoffs. He is at an absolute peak
right now and you are seeing again he is performing
unlike anybody we've seen some Bumgardner a decade ago.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Eight innings pitch today, ten strikeouts. The only hit was
Durban and he was immediately picked off. Yeah, I'm so
mad at you're able to pick you off. I mean,
that was it. Otherwise he just mowed him down inning
after inning. They had the in game interview with Dave
Roberts and is like, is he in a trance?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
And Roberts just smiled.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
He goes, he's just getting started, right, Just yeah, that's
where he's at, like when he's in that zone, just
just let him go. And part of me was surprised,
even with one hundred and three pitches, he didn't demand
to go back out there for the night to finish
it himself.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
The way, Yeah, he was up over one hundred pitches,
right around one hundred pitches, and but I'm okay, Hey,
I am eminently okay with Blake Snel to Rokie Society
and Ka Sasaki been but he'd been on been unhittable.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
But what did we say, like as he was coming in,
It's like, this is the gift and exactly if you
were to ask the baseball gods, right, if if little
Dave Roberts is praying to the baseball gods, what does
he want? My starter can get me eight, which again
is rarefied air in this day and age of Major
League Baseball. When you get an effort like that, you
celebrate the hell out of it. Uh to go to
your guy that that has become your closer. The last
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couple of weeks and unfortunately Sasaki struggled with his control tonight,
twenty two pitches only ten strikes.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, I mean, look and I get it, and look
and I get I get the move from from Dave
Roberts too, because you know, yes, you're too young to
know what you don't know. But the the bad side
of that is when you say, hey, you're too young young. Yeah,
it's great because you're not feeling the pressure, but you
need to be able to say I've been I've been
here before, right, I've been here before. I know how
to get out of it when things just completely get
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you right and that and that's really what happened to
to Sasaki tonight. You could tell okay, once he walked
the run to go to Okay, now now we have
to go to we have to go to somebody else.
We can't trust you. It's another one. It's not your night,
and it's a learning experience for you. And look, Dave
Roberts is gonna sit in the postgame press conference like
a king patting himself on a back going. I told you,
Blake Trnton is my guy. I told you he's my guy. Okay, David,
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but I told you he's my guy.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Frostperg.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
You got a big Blake Snell stat for us right now?
What he got, Well, it's even a crazier house. It
is Blake Snell's staff and a postseason stat okay, of
just how good he was tonight.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You're ready for this? Mm hmm.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Blake Snell is the first MLB pitcher to face the
minimum through eight innings of a postseason game since Don
Larson No. Six perfect game.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Wow? Really, yes, Oh that's how good Blake Snell was tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, yeah, because Halliday was a no hitter, so yeah, okay, okay, wow,
I mean only got to reach base picked them off. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's Blake Snell.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
He was pissed that.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You're really nice, snow my effort. Now, I want to
say this really quick. You know what, I have something
I need say coming up next. We have more on
this game, more on Monday Night Football, which is coming
down to the final minute. Mike Harmon is biting his
nails literally. Yeah, the Bears may be able to snatch
a victory here. Caleb Williams is driving Chicago. Who needs
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a field goal to win this game? Are they gonna
get it? We're gonna get a triple doink.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Sorry too soon for that. When we get to kick off.
Let's aarony. Had one block today.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Bears Game two of the Monday night
football doubleheader.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Is over.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
The Bears were on the field for a game winning
field goal. We've seen this before. We've seen it have
We've seen double doinks, we have seen missus. We saw
Jake Moody get it blocked and a run back. Tonight
with a field goal, the Bears are gonna win twenty
five twenty four a block or a miss and the
Commanders are gonna walk away with a twenty four to
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twenty two win.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
How did it go? It went? It's half the bid
high caves good and the Bears chick Crody a hair up.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Tonight there was ESPN on the call, Moody hits it
from thirty eight yards out. The Bears win. Guys dressed
like dit car partying in the stands right now. It
is a big night for the Bears.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It's in a big celebratory moment coming out of my week.
My friend, Now, I gotta say this, Okay, Hey, hat
trick for me, thought, let me start Northwestern Northwestern.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah, everything that went on with.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
James Franklin and stunned every touchdown, three touchdown, fab me
over a twenty point favorite.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, you got it, Yeah, you got James Franklin fired.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Okay, forty nine billion dollars, he'll be okay, getting better
than this for you, nut.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Andrew Vaughn.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Now, now the Brewers, you know they lose to the
Dodgers tonight, but Andrew Vaughan, former White Sox, I helped
you eliminate the Cubs. So I got that, and then
I get this Bears win. That's a hell of it.
And it's my birthday Wednesday, So I mean, it's a
hell of a week from.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
An apartman right now.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, I mean by peak tonight though in my peak tonight,
so you know, just so you know, from hey, I
can only.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Live in the moment, right find your win. The moment
is yours right now, this is my moment. Jake Mooney,
look at this.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Harmon got Penn State to hire Jerry new Heidel is
their new head coach.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Right, He's not the head coach. Doesn't matter, It makes
no difference. It doesn't matter. It's Jerry Newheisl. Come on easy.
Yeah he is the fair haired boy, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, but you know, look, big take coming off this
game the Bears win at twenty five to twenty four. Uh,
Caleb Williams has arrived. Caleb Williams is a star.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
He is here.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Haters have to depart that bus of Caleb Williams. No,
Caleb Williams has arrived. He has been terrific this year.
I told you I was stuck. I told you, I
told you how many months I kept telling you Caleb's
gonna be fine.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
He's got what he needs. Ben Johnson's what he needs now.
It was a little rocky in right, And what did
I tell you?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It was a how long do people let it gest
date before they're they're burning things down. He's doing things
he has never had to do as a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It was gonna be a little rocky, but okay, but
this is the right thing. You just had to wait
that a little bit. But Caleb Williams was gonna be fine.
And Caleb Williams right now, this is the second straight
game that he has led the Bears down for a
game winning score at the end. And he has done
it in a variety of ways. He's on it, throwing
the football, well, he has done it, scrambling, making plays
with his legs, making smart decisions. And you had the
(18:29):
game winner against the Raiders. The game it was the Raiders,
but still game winner. But now game winner on the
road Monday night football tonight against the Commanders. He is
putting together a really good season. He has arrived.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
He is a star quarterback in the NFL. He's here.
Everything we thought about it, Oh we can't, we don't want.
I don't like did he paints his nails?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I don't like that. He has good body language all there.
You just need to be in the right system, the
right guy coaching you. As you can see all throughout
the NFL, do you have the right guy coaching in
the right system. This was this was fine from the beginning.
Ben Johnson needed time to get used to what's it
like being an NFL head coach. I'm gonna make my mistakes,
and I like the fact that most of the mistakes
he made were the first couple weeks of the season.
(19:09):
There is a marked difference in how the Bears are
finishing games the last three weeks that they've played with
a bye last week, the last three weeks compared to
the first three weeks. Right, Ben Johnson has accelerated that
learning curve, and just by the fact that hey, we
got down there twice and won the last couple of games.
This is part of your growth. This is part of
what makes you a great quarterback. Now, Caleb Williams too
big clutch. If we say the great things about Baker Bayfield,
(19:31):
we gotta say the great things about Caleb Williams. He
has arrived. He is a star. He's having a terrific season.
Even if you know, if you haven't been fantasy, he's
been great for you so far. He's a top five
fantasy quarterback. Everybody's on board. Hayter's got to depart that
bus right now. He says, Okay, hey, there's time to
get off. Time you got off the Caleb Williams sucks
bus because this is not the bus anymore. It's a
Kayleb Williams is good bus. We are renaming the bus now.
You see we have new colors. Knew everything on the bus.
(19:53):
Everybody here, Peyton Nails coming on the bus. Kaleb Williams
is good.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I saw a graphic that came up as they were
finishing the broadcast in interview in Caleb Williams he is
the first Bears quarterback in their history for five games
to start a season. So five games, that's it. Five games,
two hundred yards plus passing and a touchdown in five games.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
That great history.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
First, great wait, wait, that great history of former great
Bears quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Go ahea, let's lit's up with some of those guys.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Seven, Mike tom Zach, Jim Harbaugh, Trubisky fields your guy, yeah, smoking.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Jay smoking j I mean, just go on down the line.
We had them all.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Uh, Matt Barkley was a starter in the uh, the pantheon,
Tom Zach, right, Mike Tomson, go back to Mike Phipps.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh, Mike Browns and Bears right, Mike Phips Browns, Kyle Orton.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
We got of Kyle Orton. I mean there are many.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I still think of that picture of him walking with
the was it the the Jack Daniels when it's all
spilled on his shirt.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Like yeah, I mean you could do a Bear's jersey
just like you did with the Sexy Rex. Oh yeah,
that Super Bowl appearance forget Bears legend Andy Dalton. Oh,
that's right, that's right. There's so many. Yeah, we could
go down the path.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
But he's done. I can't believe none of those guys
have ever done right. But five games done it.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Five games, one touchdown. We're not talking two touchdowns, talking
three hundred. I mean, I know there's no four thousand
yard passer. We know that, and Caleb has made that
abundantly clear. The one thing that you come out of
this game. And I hope Caleb Williams walked over to
Jayden Daniels and said, you know, the ball can be
slippery sometimes.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Well, I mean, look, he was a jackass to him
last year.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I think Caleb buff We'll see what their exchange was
in the post. The Bears defense for Dennis Allen, they moved,
they ben, they do not break. They had several uh
that looked one would take away as where you just
kind of laugh and go okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
But still you had the one Look, it's twenty four points.
You had the one score set up by the block kick,
which is special team. But it's better to be lucky
than good. But all in its growth and it's a
big win here. And in a couple of weeks, I'll
watch this team probably maybe Lamar Jackson will be back.
But what version of the Ravens he's leading, I don't know.
(22:23):
You go back to the opening games though, Game one
against Brian Floor's new offense, trying to go against that defense,
you're gonna have your struggles, and they still almost won
that game. Week two was the battle against the Lions,
whatever the Lions may be now, and we can talk
about them. Yeah, in that game, there was a they
took it personally and they ran up the fifty two points.
(22:44):
They wanted to make sure Ben Johnson knew. We still
don't like the fact he went to the beach.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Right and every one of their players cursed him up
and down as you went. But all of that to say,
you're seeing growth, You're seeing this roster come together. Tonight
you got a great effort from the Andre Swift he
was far and away the best weapon as a runner
and as a receiver, So there needs to be a
greater depth as the season goes on. You had a
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couple of big plays. There was one to Zachaias at
the start of a drive on a second down that
should have been a first down wasn't. But then the
Commanders get the ball back and you have in shotgun
mode for Daniels. He can't handle the exchange as he
goes to to do the handoff. Bears take the possession
of the football and drive down for the game winning
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field goal.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah look that look obviously we talked about Caleb Weas
just for a second, the biggest play of the game.
The Commanders have the football and the lead. They are
driving and potentially could put the game out of reach, right,
but really put it on ice. They just biff the
handoff like this was not something where something had This
was just in the shotgun. Daniels musts the handoff and
(23:52):
Night gets in really fast. Right. One of my favorite
phrases always Johnny on the spot, like Knight, Johnny on
the spot, which you know growing up the hockey thos
Johnny on the.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Spot, Johnny on the spot, and as a crow flies.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
And night falls on it, and and Caleb Williams takes
them down final drive. I mean, it's it, really it was.
It was so impressive by the Bears because, look, finishing
games is the biggest thing that you can see a
team when they take to another level, right, because look,
the Jets are terrible, right, They're zero to six.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
What's going on with them? They can't finish games? Well,
look at the look at the One of the other
great examples is Miami.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah that Miami, right, Miami. They can't finish, You got it.
Finishing games is the biggest It's graduation day. You go
from a team that, hey, hey they're building something, to oh,
wait a minute, now we have to take this team
seriously because they know how to finish. The Bears are
three and two. They finish the last two games. They
beat the crop out of the Cowboys, and Williams threw
four touchdowns. Like the Bears are the Bears are arriving.
(24:53):
Williams is Williams is kind of the hood ornament for this. Hey,
the Bears are starting to arrive here a little bit,
and and they've become a team that now they have
confidence going into all their games because the last couple
of games, Hey, at the end, we made plays defensively
and offensively, we went down the field and scored. Right now,
is it is perfect as we wanted it to be
with no, we're not a razor sharp precision down the
(25:14):
field the end, scoring a touchdown with no time left,
but getting down there for the game winning field goal.
It looked like the Bears were gonna settle for like
a fifty yarder for Moody, which was man, you just
had one blocked and it was. But Swift makes a
couple of big plays and he was big tonight. He
had a couple of look he had a big touchdown
from Caleb Williams that he made a guy miss and
went into the end zone. But the Bears are starting
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to put all of this together now. But I'm telling
you there is nothing that separates teams more than the
ability to finish. Because I watched the Jets and I
go again, we just can't. When it was eleven to
ten going to the fourth quarter, I tweeted out thirteen
to eleven final coming up at you.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I knew that was gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Because Aaron Glenn thinks, oh my defense is just gonna
stop them every single time.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
No, it's not gonna that's not the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
And of course all the Broncos one drive right, Bonnix
completed four passes in the set and half was enough
to win because of Jets stink because their offense is
absolutely terrible. Right the Dolphins giving games away. You see
teams giving games away and go, this is part of
what what what what makes you good? And it's also
what part of what sinks your season because there's nothing
more deflating than we can't finish at the end of
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a game. And there's no formula to it. It's just
either you either you focus and execute.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Or you can't.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And the Bears have been able to execute. Man, I'm
telling you, good time, Mike. I've been telling you good
times are coming. The era of good feeling is here
for you.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
It's here. You are like, I don't know, I don't know, Bears,
I told you, Look how good the era of good
feeling is. There's still a lot of work here. Good
it is.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I'll take the win and I'm gonna celebrate the hell
out of win too. There's still a lot of work
to be done here. And now they got New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
You haven't been three and two since you went to
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Come on, now, there has been ana you looking at
me like, no, be right, no, no, no, there was
a I almost cursed at waity. I almost cursed at
that was the laws. That wasn't a mental math thing.
That was legitimately a all right do I want to
risk my job and our FCZ.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
But I'm not going to.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Oh the Caleb Haney years where you're going back to wow.
Oh sorry, sorry, sorry, back to what.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
You got at the point being that there's still a
lot of work. It's a work in progress, but you
can see the strides and you could see Ben Johnson right, good, better, best,
all that stuff, all those great speeches that come to fruition.
I was gonna pull the curtain back on the DeAndre
Swift touchdown. Is that they took a shot deep ball
(27:33):
with Roma Dunes on the play before that into double
coverage narrow miss. I yelled, damn it. I had a
cup of coffee brewing and ranto the bathroom and then
you guys are pounding out the door.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
They just scored, they just started. You gotta get out.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Here like bears, you know how many times that actually happens.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Never Harmon.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Harmon went to the bathroom and uh, Williams throws the
past to Swift. Swift makes the guy miss at midfield.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
He's gone, we're all yeming sideline. Yeah, I've been Harmon.
Where are you scored? I'm out of the I'm out
of the studio, going Harmon, Where are you? Harmon? Where
are you? I feel like at the end of Blair Witch, Josh,
tell me where you are.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Josh, I'm running. I got the video cap running up
and you're in the corner of the Witch. Put you
in the corner Sto in the.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Back having another heart attack. Harmon's path room and you
hear what what? I go get out here right now?
And I really, I really.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Thought you guys were taunting me, thinking I was gonna
go sprinting out like with my pants down.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I don't really think we can make that up.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I'm a little taken it back by how fat Frostburg
he got out when I said you got to get
out here, you got out here really fast.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Oh you didn't even want I was really yeah, Oh yeah,
there was that. Yeah, I'm just looking. His pants were
up five and you came out so fast. Look, here's
number one. Here's the replay number one.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Drinking a lot of coffee, okay, hydrating all of that stuff.
I drink a ridiculous amount of water over the course
of the day. So uh, ergo, you're you're in the bathroom.
But yes, insanity, great game for Deandre's with passing. Game
still needs to come to a fuller place from my comfort.
But look, you take the victory and you move on. Right.
(29:06):
These are games that for many, many years I have
watched them lose in dramatic fashion. When they blocked the
Moody kick earlier. I mean I threw my pen. I
still haven't found it.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
That's all right, that's all right.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
So we were in the middle of the pot because
there were a lot going on, right, we had a
switch screen we had that happened as there were tense
moments in the Dodger game. So you're in the middle
of talking, I just threw my pad. It was never
in doubt, Mike never No. No Bears and the Dodgers
no sweating. Don't put those teams in the same suse well,
they're both winners tonight.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
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It took a while, but you realize I can trust him.
When the chips are down. It's Steve the Seger.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Better late than never. Can I just point out that
Jake Moody beat Deebo Samuel in this game tonight. Former
forty nine er teammates and no doubt pen pals, but yes,
Jake Moedy. Jake Moody was four for five on field goals.
Steebo Samuel was active despite a bruise teal. He had
only fifteen yards receiving on four catches, and NFL research
(30:33):
says Caleb Williams of the Bears is on pace right
now for four thousand and nine yards passing.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
That's not yeah, but I think that got the Ravens
are in two weeks.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
That's a tough one steal. No, No, you got the
Ravens in two weeks. They're not getting healthy all of
a sudden.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
They are getting a little healthy. Did you see the
Rams struggle? I mean, I was expecting the usual thirty
five against Baltimore yesterday.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
It was about half that. Well I did it didn't
have Ferrocomo, R. Dickerson wasn't there. I mean, I think
missing some guys. Nolan Cromwell, I believe was also basic.
Thank Jackie Slater.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Sure Caleb Williams first Bear with five straight of these
games to start a season at least two hundred yards
passing and a touchdown at every game. He had two
fifty two and a touchdown. Tonight, Bears win in the
rain at Washington twenty five twenty four on a field
goal on the final play. Washington in the weather had
fumbled a handoff with about three minutes left. In fact,
(31:27):
three turnovers for the Commanders and they missed a field
goal late first half a fifty yarder that hit the upright.
Atlanta held on to beat Buffalo twenty four to fourteen.
The Bills are four and two right now. The New
England Patriots of the first place team in that division.
Falcons led at the half tonight twenty one seven. Bejon
Robinson nineteen carries one hundred and seventy yards, including an
(31:49):
eighty one yard touchdown. Also six catches sixty eight yards.
The Tennessee Titans fired coach Brian Callahan. Lions safety Brian
Branch was suspended one game for his postgame fight at
Kansas City last night. He has appealed. The six game
suspension of Chiefs wide receiver Rashi Rice officially ended what
an opener to the National League Championship Series. The Dodgers
(32:10):
won at top seeded Milwaukee two to one, a Milwaukee
team that had gone six to zero against LA back
in July in their two series. Freddie Freeman a solo
homer top of the sixth. In the top of the ninth,
Mookie Betts with a key insurance RBI on a basis
loaded walk. The Brewers scored one in the bottom of
the ninth off Roki Sasaki the save to LA's Blake Trinon,
(32:32):
who got a strikeout with bases loaded to end the game.
The Dodgers have actually won twenty one of their last
twenty seven games, and the winning pitcher tonight was phenomenal.
Blake's Now eight innings, one hit, allowed, ten strikeouts and
no walks. He threw one hundred and three pitches. This
is how phenomenal his postseason has been. You kind of
referenced this earlier Roger Clemens, for example, in his playoff career,
(32:56):
how many games with at least nine strikeouts and only
two hits less allowed? He had two of those. Max
Schuers are three in his postseason career. This is already
five times for Blake Snow with at least nine strikeouts
and two hits or less. In the start Game two
of the series in Milwaukee on Tuesday night, Seattle's up
two games to none in the ALCS after winning again
(33:17):
at top seed Toronto ten to three Julio Rodriguez with
a three run homer in the top of the first.
By the way, Toronto shortstop Bobaschet is still out this
round with a sprain knee, been out since early September.
But pitchers Max schures Are and Chris Bassett our back
on the roster this round. For the Mariners, all star
pitcher Brian Wu returned to the roster. He'd been out
(33:38):
with pictorial inflammation. Padres manager Mike Shilt retired, and Sandy
Alomar Junior passed away. A senior passed away at the
age of eighty one. Senior had played fifteen years in
the majors. He was a coach for Junior at longtime
coach in the Major League Sandy Senior passing at eighty one.
By the way, among the ten NHL games wins for
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Florida and for Philadelphia over Florida and Detroit, which won
at Toronto.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmon. We got more baseball
coming up in about twenty minutes. We take a look
at that incredible Dodger win today and the Mariners up
to zip. But straight ahead, we got a big story
out of football. One guy everybody had fired says I'm
not getting fired, but I think he is. That's the
(34:24):
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Speaker 1 (34:36):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Carmen. Yeah, a lot from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
We got more of the Night in Baseball coming up
in twelve minutes, but big stories out of football today,
not just Monday Night football. Bill Belichick has decided he
has had enough of people firing him every single day. Well,
(34:57):
I mean yeah, reports last week that Belichick was discussing
a buyout.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
It could happen any any.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Day now, but Belichick wants people to know, Hey not
so I am here until the bitter end. This is
Bill Belichick from earlier today before we tell you that exactly.
You know, what Bill Belichick said is ridiculous because look,
nothing has changed from last week to now. I said
last week. Okay, Yeah, there's difference of a pinion, you know,
(35:26):
with this, with this take that's out there that Belichick
is talking right now. But the reality is sometime between
now and the day after the end of the regular season,
Belichick's going to be let go, right And it may
it may not be this week, may not be next
week maybe, but sometime between now and the day after
the regular season, Belichick's going to be fired.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Yeah, potential.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
There'll be a mutual. Hey it didn't work. We did
the best we could. You know, I I am here.
Nothing has changed, and I'll tell you why. Very one
big thing. But first we're gonna hear Bill Belichick today
be very defiant about his future with the tar heels.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
I'll just start with, you know, right up about like
just the some of the repoards out last week about
I'm looking for Biou and Trump.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Here and all the categoric basses zero chiot.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Okay, look again, with that report a couple of weeks ago.
Now it has been a few days and Belichick has
felt him bolden enough to say didn't happen now. It
wasn't in bold enough to say it when it happened
a week and a half ago, but now he feels
it's the way to say it.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Maybe they've decided, and I wouldn't be surprised if they've
decided that, Hey, this will still happen, but not now.
Let's go through the rest of the season. Let's see
what happens. To Belichick hoping I can win five seven
games in a row and things will change. So i'dn't
be surprised if there is some sort of decision. But
Belichick says this now, just to tamp it down. But
the reason why this is gonna happen, Okay, it's gonna
(36:54):
tell you two things. Number One, the worst thing you
can have for a football program is apathy. And when
fans were leaving at halftime in the game against Clemson,
you're not getting that back. People were all in Week one,
right in the first quarter. Week one, North Carolina Stars
the game, everybody excited. In five weeks, fans left at halftime,
streamed out of the stadium because they were getting worked
(37:17):
by Clemson. Okay, they're not gonna sit here and say, oh,
all ye, it's like the time with Dion Sanders where
he had all that big time to be able to
win people over. Yeah, it's not there. So when your
program has a lot of apathy, that's gonna be the
first thing he gets a coach fired. We can't have
apathy because that means no nil money, no interest. We're
losing money. We can't have apathy. You gotta be excited
(37:37):
about the program. And the second part of it is this,
it's a very simple question. The end of this season.
The season keeps going like this, Belichick finishes five and seven,
four and eight, whatever it is, just is North Carolina
really gonna say, you know what, we want to do
this again?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
North Carolina is not going to finish the end of
this year at four and eight and go yep. Year
two is going to be even better. It's been so
rocky and so awkward with Belichick and Jordan Hudson reports
about Belichick not being able to be reachable, and clearly
he is not cut out for the college football game.
Keeping scouts away from scouting his players because he's got
a petty beef with the Patriots is ridiculous. All he's
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doing is stopping his guys from getting in the NFL.
He's not made out for college football. At the end,
North Carolina is not going to say, yes, we want
another year of this. That's why he's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I think there's this the curiosity of all right, this
was obviously a huge change. What is it, seventy plus
players that are new to the program. Okay, there's got
to be growing pains, new rules, new playbooks, new coaching staff,
all of that stuff to where with the schedule you
still thought the run up, while it might be ugly
(38:47):
at times, that you'd see progress, that you'd see growth,
that you'd get people enamored.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
We played the clip or paraphrase that at one point
with that student that was found, I was like, yeah,
I was there for part of it. It was worse
than me failing some of my midterms. That was that
was that was a female student dead panty when asked
about the state of North Carolina football. The curiosity, though,
also is that you had the chancellor there, Lee Roberts,
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also known as Valorum.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
I vote no confidence in Chancellor Valauria.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
It's it whenever we can get the Star Wars universe
and we do uh that in in the middle of
the week, that you've got to have someone standing there
in the suit and hands folded, you know, giving.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
The nod of approval.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
As Bill Belichick defiantly says, I'm not bleeping leaving kind
of a curiosity and you know, to to use that
term again, uh that that makes you scratch your head.
I don't know that it necessarily ends after one year.
I would see. I think we could see a sequel,
but a lot of it's gonna depend on all right,
of these recruits leaving, are they staying? Does he become
(39:55):
more friendly and I know he's gonna have his slap
fights with the Patriots, that's still gonna be there.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
There's thirty one other teams. You need to kiss their ass.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah, but still, but why are you why are you
making all you're doing is mate, you're I'm not saying
you're good. These players more than you are the war
that you're not fighting anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
But that's where Valorum's got to step in and be like,
that's that's done, man, that's your past.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
We got to look to the future.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Ask it out about a Fresco Riley, Ronald Hi, mister
Roberts et cart think about the future. Coming up next,
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MYO card. Was Roki Sasaki getting pulled for blake trying
it yet? This is where we are. The Dodgers with
a two to nothing lead going to the bottom of
the ninth inning. The Brewers, thanks to a load of walks,
(01:12):
have been able to push this to a two to
one disadvantage. And now with Bryce Terrang up count is
one in one bases loaded, one in two count. Now
to Bryce Terrang again is Blake trining in And I
think Dodger fans are going, oh my goodness, Blake trying it.
Come on, But this is where Dave Roberts goes Lefty.
Terrang up does not go to Alex Vessie stays with
(01:35):
Blake tried in here again, two to one, Dodger lead
game one of the NLCS bases loaded in the ninth
and wow, trying it almost hits Terrang with a curveball,
And I'm sorry, that's where you have to turn and
get hit by that.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, you gotta take one for the team right there.
That's just that baseball fun amount. That's one on one man.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You have to turn and get hit by that pitch.
That's apps what you have to do. You cannot, you
cannot just back away. You got to turn and get
hit by that pitch. Got him absolutely. Uh So the
Dodgers one and two count. Here's the pitch, it's a strikeout.
(02:15):
Blake trying and gets the final out of the game
and the Dodgers survive two to one. Blake Snell will
no longer have to fight anybody after the game.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
He might have been the most unhappy guy sitting in there.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
We've never seen it, but Blake trying and gets it done.
Really and look, quite honestly, if you are Bryce terrang,
you have to turn. I know that the reaction is, hey,
I don't want to get hit, but that's a pitch
that's really inside that you have to swing at and
you have to get hit by. And then he chases
a pitch that is three feet outside of the strike
(02:52):
zone four strike three. The Dodgers win Game one, and
the Brewers are left saying, what just happened? We had
everything going our way?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
What just happened?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Trying in the second strike of that at bat was
a bit above the zone, so maybe he felt he
had to go up. But I mean, this pitch is
really really high. I like the high ones chases it
for that third stride. Trying and much maligned over the
course of the year. I mean we talked about ball,
you know, strikeouts to walk. It was basically less than
(03:23):
two to one.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
He was five to four.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
E er in the regular season two and seven record
propensity to throw wild pitches. All of these things at
play and gets them to chase the high third strike.
But to your point, yeah, that ball came inside.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm sorry. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna leave a bruise. Right.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
My daughter is just healing from one she stood in
and took as a defender last week in a soccer
game that left a bruise. The shape of the ball,
it's really it was really quite disturbing to see. But
he's starting to heal. And guess what they won that game.
I here, you take take one for the team. Man.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
You have up. You have to you know.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And that's the thing is that And this was always
a tough lesson to teach the girls in softball, right,
because when you come up, your instance is to get
out of the way if a pitch, get out of
way a pitch like, okay, I get it. And when
they're young, because there's lots of like like when you
get when the kids are like eight, ten, eleven, the
pitchers are wild, and so you want to get out
of the way because you want to hit. But I
always tell hey, when it's a game that counts. You're
(04:20):
not backing out of the way. You are turn because
all you gotta do is turn. You have to make
it look like you're getting out of the way. You
can't just sit there and get hit. But if it's easy,
you turn.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
To get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Instead of getting out of the way, you take that
hit by pitch, you get on first base. If it's
a term, it's a big game, you gotta do that right.
And that's I'm watching Bryce Terraum going, wow, you got
you know, you gotta find a way to just I
got to get hit by any means necessary. I get
to get on first base. But then he makes up
for it by swinging it at a pitch three feet out
of the strikeer. Well, you know, I mean, that's that's
(04:48):
a huge The Dodgers escape, and that's absolute karma for
the Dodgers, and the Brewers have to be saying, what
just happened?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
What just happened.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I think they're all gonna respond to the the Brewers
manager who said, hey, that none of them can name
eight guys at a roster. I can name that guy,
Terrain because he sucked in a big moment.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Here's how it sounded just moments ago, the Dodgers taking
a one game to non lead in the NLCS, TBS
on the call. I don't know that they found one
as much as they got bailed out because trying to
what he walks Contraras clearly, and I said at the
time it wasn't a bad walk, right, trying and comes
in first and third, and then yellich Steel's second. So
(05:33):
now second and third, So now they say out of
the force play and also a base it probably wins
the game. Trying to comes in and you can tell
right away Contreras is on him right fouls off two
fast balls right back, doesn't chase a couple of pitches
outside the strike zone. That's where trying to has to say,
you know what, no, no, no, we uh all right,
it's okay. Putting him on first base, We'll get the
next guy. So he walks Contraras and then nearly hits
(05:58):
Terrang and then to rank somehow at a pitch. I
mean that pitch just climbed. It almost looked like a
back door slider kind of pitch that just rose more
because the movement on it was really really difficult. It
was really weird, and it just gets up, but the
pitch is up in his eyes like it is three
feet high out of the strike zone, and instead of
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taking that, taking that to two to two a full count,
you wind up striking out and you hand the game
to the Dodgers, I mean the Dodge. Look, they didn't
find anything with Blake, Tron and the Dodgers escape. There's
good pitching to talk about, but trying to just happen
to get the out. But they escape, and they take
a huge advantage and a big emotional advantage in the NLCS. Yeah,
you talk about escape, succeed and proceed. Look, he made
(06:43):
the pitch and got him to chase. Now, the second
strike of that at bad again was you know with
our little handy dandy box that they put up, was
came in high. But you get the call fine, and
then he doesn't doesn't take the doesn't take what would
be a hit by pitch to force home the tying run,
(07:05):
and then chases out of his own thinking he liked
he liked the high ones again going back to a
league of their own. But for Blake, drying to look
he got he made the pitch and got him to chase.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Blake.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
We saw Blake Snell with the reaction, the big exhale
that he had. Sasaki did not have it tonight. But
as they went to the bullpen, we're looking at each
other going, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Sasaki looked stunned that he was getting taken out of
the game. Not that he wanted to fight, but the
look on his eye, you see, his eyes were just
like I'm getting taken out of this gay But he
didn't have control. He walked a couple of guys, they
got a run off him, and clearly he has not
earned the Dave Roberts eye. He has not earned the
right to I'm closing no matter what, Like he's not
Edwin Diaz, where we win or lose with you, this
(07:52):
is no I come out. But the way he walked
off the mountain was like what just happened? Like he doesn't,
I don't get what just happened.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
But that becomes the question.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
We talked about the mentality of closers, and certainly still
pretty new to the situation and to the role that
we know. It is a place where mentally you got
to be locked in and you could lose a guy
really fast. And so now you question that going forward, right,
with with an outing that was less than stellar. You
(08:19):
had the big double by Bowers, the ground rule double,
so second and third Churio hits the sacrifice fly. We
watched the bases locked full by all of that. To say,
what is Sasaki like the next time you go to
the pen? You have no idea, You have no idea
how he's.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Going to respond? Yeah, what do you got? Frostburg? All
of that is irrelevant.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Can we take a moment here or the next three
hours to celebrate what the hell Blake's.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
No, no, no, no, no, that was great. It's just great.
Don't know nor sell it. That's why I say it.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I wanted to say, hey, you want to get to
a pitching performance that was really good and not lucky Blake. Look,
we said this middle of September. Right, you go back
to the game where Blake Snell told Dave Roberts, no,
I'm not coming out of this game. Right, he stays
in the game. Blake Snell needed to be the Dodgers ace.
He needed to be that guy because it's not just
about talent, it's about having that extra bit of get
(09:14):
on my back and I got you and so far
in the playoffs, he's pitched six seven and eight innings
with the Dodgers eight innings tonight. Never went more than
six innings in any other playoff. Adams with the Rays
and the Padres. Right talking Baseball had had this stat
a few minutes ago. Blake Snell has is becoming the
modern day Madison Bumgardner, who was really good in the
(09:36):
regular season, but Madison bum Murder wasn't unbeatable in the
regular season.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
A couple of years.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
He was really good, Like it was really good, absurd,
he was really good. You get to the playoffs and
suddenly it's whoa, whoa, whoa. That's what Blake Snell is becoming.
The one stat I saw, like his last one hundred
summut innings pitch he's allowed thirteen hits, Like every game
has been more strikeouts than innings.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Pitch like he is.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
He is at the highest level of playoff performance of
any pitcher in a while. And and like I said,
he's he's becoming the modern day because you know, Madison
bumgarn his time was over in the in the mid
you know teams when then after that he was just
yelling at people. And now you hit a home run
off he just run around the base as well. Lots
of guys hitting home runs off you. Now you've got
to just be cool with that. But that's where Blake's
(10:21):
So this is why he's we said he's got to
sort all the game ones, all the biggest games for
the Dodgers. Blake's now on the mound as much as
humanly possible because he is that guy. He is that
playoff guy. He is that ace and to throw it
out there too. Not a guy that's got a lot
of tread on his arm from this year. But it
was out all right.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I pitched eleven started eleven games in the regular season.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You get to a point with a lot of playing.
We talk about a lot with the NBA where hey,
you hope some injuries are strategic, right, Like guys like
Lebron or Anthony Davis that you know we're gonna get hurt. Hey,
we hope they get hurt middle of the season, start
of the season, so when you get to the playoffs
and we need them, they're not running on empty. Right,
You want that right to talk about strategic injuries that
do it. The same thing for Blake SNeW Like, you
(11:04):
hope if he's gonna be out because he misses his time.
It's a strategic injury, and it was this is strategic
as possibly have because he came back with enough time
at the end of the season to get going and
he's hit the playoffs. He is at an absolute peak
right now and you are seeing again he is performing
unlike anybody we've seen some Bumgardner a decade ago.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Eight innings pitch today, ten strikeouts. The only hit was
Durban and he was immediately picked off. Yeah, I'm so
mad at you're able to pick you off. I mean,
that was it. Otherwise he just mowed him down inning
after inning. They had the in game interview with Dave
Roberts and is like, is he in a trance?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
And Roberts just smiled.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
He goes, he's just getting started, right, Just yeah, that's
where he's at, like when he's in that zone, just
just let him go. And part of me was surprised,
even with one hundred and three pitches, he didn't demand
to go back out there for the night to finish
it himself.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
The way, Yeah, he was up over one hundred pitches,
right around one hundred pitches, and but I'm okay, Hey,
I am eminently okay with Blake Snel to Rokie Society
and Ka Sasaki been but he'd been on been unhittable.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
But what did we say, like as he was coming in,
It's like, this is the gift and exactly if you
were to ask the baseball gods, right, if if little
Dave Roberts is praying to the baseball gods, what does
he want? My starter can get me eight, which again
is rarefied air in this day and age of Major
League Baseball. When you get an effort like that, you
celebrate the hell out of it. Uh to go to
your guy that that has become your closer. The last
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couple of weeks and unfortunately Sasaki struggled with his control tonight,
twenty two pitches only ten strikes.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, I mean, look and I get it, and look
and I get I get the move from from Dave
Roberts too, because you know, yes, you're too young to
know what you don't know. But the the bad side
of that is when you say, hey, you're too young young. Yeah,
it's great because you're not feeling the pressure, but you
need to be able to say I've been I've been
here before, right, I've been here before. I know how
to get out of it when things just completely get
(13:01):
you right and that and that's really what happened to
to Sasaki tonight. You could tell okay, once he walked
the run to go to Okay, now now we have
to go to we have to go to somebody else.
We can't trust you. It's another one. It's not your night,
and it's a learning experience for you. And look, Dave
Roberts is gonna sit in the postgame press conference like
a king patting himself on a back going. I told you,
Blake Trnton is my guy. I told you he's my guy. Okay, David,
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but I told you he's my guy.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Frostperg.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
You got a big Blake Snell stat for us right now?
What he got, Well, it's even a crazier house. It
is Blake Snell's staff and a postseason stat okay, of
just how good he was tonight.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You're ready for this? Mm hmm.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Blake Snell is the first MLB pitcher to face the
minimum through eight innings of a postseason game since Don
Larson No. Six perfect game.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Wow? Really, yes, Oh that's how good Blake Snell was tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, yeah, because Halliday was a no hitter, so yeah, okay, okay, wow,
I mean only got to reach base picked them off. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's Blake Snell.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
He was pissed that.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
You're really nice, snow my effort. Now, I want to
say this really quick. You know what, I have something
I need say coming up next. We have more on
this game, more on Monday Night Football, which is coming
down to the final minute. Mike Harmon is biting his
nails literally. Yeah, the Bears may be able to snatch
a victory here. Caleb Williams is driving Chicago. Who needs
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a field goal to win this game? Are they gonna
get it? We're gonna get a triple doink.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Sorry too soon for that. When we get to kick off.
Let's aarony. Had one block today.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's coming out next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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Speaker 2 (14:38):
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Speaker 4 (14:49):
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Bears Game two of the Monday night
football doubleheader.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Is over.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
The Bears were on the field for a game winning
field goal. We've seen this before. We've seen it have
We've seen double doinks, we have seen missus. We saw
Jake Moody get it blocked and a run back. Tonight
with a field goal, the Bears are gonna win twenty
five twenty four a block or a miss and the
Commanders are gonna walk away with a twenty four to
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twenty two win.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
How did it go? It went? It's half the bid
high caves good and the Bears chick Crody a hair up.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Tonight there was ESPN on the call, Moody hits it
from thirty eight yards out. The Bears win. Guys dressed
like dit car partying in the stands right now. It
is a big night for the Bears.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
It's in a big celebratory moment coming out of my week.
My friend, Now, I gotta say this, Okay, Hey, hat
trick for me, thought, let me start Northwestern Northwestern.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah, everything that went on with.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
James Franklin and stunned every touchdown, three touchdown, fab me
over a twenty point favorite.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Yeah, you got it, Yeah, you got James Franklin fired.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Okay, forty nine billion dollars, he'll be okay, getting better
than this for you, nut.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Andrew Vaughn.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Now, now the Brewers, you know they lose to the
Dodgers tonight, but Andrew Vaughan, former White Sox, I helped
you eliminate the Cubs. So I got that, and then
I get this Bears win. That's a hell of it.
And it's my birthday Wednesday, So I mean, it's a
hell of a week from.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
An apartman right now.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, I mean by peak tonight though in my peak tonight,
so you know, just so you know, from hey, I
can only.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Live in the moment, right find your win. The moment
is yours right now, this is my moment. Jake Mooney,
look at this.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Harmon got Penn State to hire Jerry new Heidel is
their new head coach.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Right, He's not the head coach. Doesn't matter, It makes
no difference. It doesn't matter. It's Jerry Newheisl. Come on easy.
Yeah he is the fair haired boy, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, but you know, look, big take coming off this
game the Bears win at twenty five to twenty four. Uh,
Caleb Williams has arrived. Caleb Williams is a star.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
He is here.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Haters have to depart that bus of Caleb Williams. No,
Caleb Williams has arrived. He has been terrific this year.
I told you I was stuck. I told you, I
told you how many months I kept telling you Caleb's
gonna be fine.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
He's got what he needs. Ben Johnson's what he needs now.
It was a little rocky in right, And what did
I tell you?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It was a how long do people let it gest
date before they're they're burning things down. He's doing things
he has never had to do as a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
It was gonna be a little rocky, but okay, but
this is the right thing. You just had to wait
that a little bit. But Caleb Williams was gonna be fine.
And Caleb Williams right now, this is the second straight
game that he has led the Bears down for a
game winning score at the end. And he has done
it in a variety of ways. He's on it, throwing
the football, well, he has done it, scrambling, making plays
with his legs, making smart decisions. And you had the
(18:29):
game winner against the Raiders. The game it was the Raiders,
but still game winner. But now game winner on the
road Monday night football tonight against the Commanders. He is
putting together a really good season. He has arrived.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
He is a star quarterback in the NFL. He's here.
Everything we thought about it, Oh we can't, we don't want.
I don't like did he paints his nails?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I don't like that. He has good body language all there.
You just need to be in the right system, the
right guy coaching you. As you can see all throughout
the NFL, do you have the right guy coaching in
the right system. This was this was fine from the beginning.
Ben Johnson needed time to get used to what's it
like being an NFL head coach. I'm gonna make my mistakes,
and I like the fact that most of the mistakes
he made were the first couple weeks of the season.
(19:09):
There is a marked difference in how the Bears are
finishing games the last three weeks that they've played with
a bye last week, the last three weeks compared to
the first three weeks. Right, Ben Johnson has accelerated that
learning curve, and just by the fact that hey, we
got down there twice and won the last couple of games.
This is part of your growth. This is part of
what makes you a great quarterback. Now, Caleb Williams too
big clutch. If we say the great things about Baker Bayfield,
(19:31):
we gotta say the great things about Caleb Williams. He
has arrived. He is a star. He's having a terrific season.
Even if you know, if you haven't been fantasy, he's
been great for you so far. He's a top five
fantasy quarterback. Everybody's on board. Hayter's got to depart that
bus right now. He says, Okay, hey, there's time to
get off. Time you got off the Caleb Williams sucks
bus because this is not the bus anymore. It's a
Kayleb Williams is good bus. We are renaming the bus now.
You see we have new colors. Knew everything on the bus.
(19:53):
Everybody here, Peyton Nails coming on the bus. Kaleb Williams
is good.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
I saw a graphic that came up as they were
finishing the broadcast in interview in Caleb Williams he is
the first Bears quarterback in their history for five games
to start a season. So five games, that's it. Five games,
two hundred yards plus passing and a touchdown in five games.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
That great history.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
First, great wait, wait, that great history of former great
Bears quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Go ahea, let's lit's up with some of those guys.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Seven, Mike tom Zach, Jim Harbaugh, Trubisky fields your guy, yeah, smoking.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Jay smoking j I mean, just go on down the line.
We had them all.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Uh, Matt Barkley was a starter in the uh, the pantheon,
Tom Zach, right, Mike Tomson, go back to Mike Phipps.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Oh, Mike Browns and Bears right, Mike Phips Browns, Kyle Orton.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
We got of Kyle Orton. I mean there are many.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I still think of that picture of him walking with
the was it the the Jack Daniels when it's all
spilled on his shirt.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Like yeah, I mean you could do a Bear's jersey
just like you did with the Sexy Rex. Oh yeah,
that Super Bowl appearance forget Bears legend Andy Dalton. Oh,
that's right, that's right. There's so many. Yeah, we could
go down the path.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
But he's done. I can't believe none of those guys
have ever done right. But five games done it.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Five games, one touchdown. We're not talking two touchdowns, talking
three hundred. I mean, I know there's no four thousand
yard passer. We know that, and Caleb has made that
abundantly clear. The one thing that you come out of
this game. And I hope Caleb Williams walked over to
Jayden Daniels and said, you know, the ball can be
slippery sometimes.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Well, I mean, look, he was a jackass to him
last year.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I think Caleb buff We'll see what their exchange was
in the post. The Bears defense for Dennis Allen, they moved,
they ben, they do not break. They had several uh
that looked one would take away as where you just
kind of laugh and go okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
But still you had the one Look, it's twenty four points.
You had the one score set up by the block kick,
which is special team. But it's better to be lucky
than good. But all in its growth and it's a
big win here. And in a couple of weeks, I'll
watch this team probably maybe Lamar Jackson will be back.
But what version of the Ravens he's leading, I don't know.
(22:23):
You go back to the opening games though, Game one
against Brian Floor's new offense, trying to go against that defense,
you're gonna have your struggles, and they still almost won
that game. Week two was the battle against the Lions,
whatever the Lions may be now, and we can talk
about them. Yeah, in that game, there was a they
took it personally and they ran up the fifty two points.
(22:44):
They wanted to make sure Ben Johnson knew. We still
don't like the fact he went to the beach.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Right and every one of their players cursed him up
and down as you went. But all of that to say,
you're seeing growth, You're seeing this roster come together. Tonight
you got a great effort from the Andre Swift he
was far and away the best weapon as a runner
and as a receiver, So there needs to be a
greater depth as the season goes on. You had a
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couple of big plays. There was one to Zachaias at
the start of a drive on a second down that
should have been a first down wasn't. But then the
Commanders get the ball back and you have in shotgun
mode for Daniels. He can't handle the exchange as he
goes to to do the handoff. Bears take the possession
of the football and drive down for the game winning
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field goal.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah look that look obviously we talked about Caleb Weas
just for a second, the biggest play of the game.
The Commanders have the football and the lead. They are
driving and potentially could put the game out of reach, right,
but really put it on ice. They just biff the
handoff like this was not something where something had This
was just in the shotgun. Daniels musts the handoff and
(23:52):
Night gets in really fast. Right. One of my favorite
phrases always Johnny on the spot, like Knight, Johnny on
the spot, which you know growing up the hockey thos
Johnny on the.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Spot, Johnny on the spot, and as a crow flies.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
And night falls on it, and and Caleb Williams takes
them down final drive. I mean, it's it, really it was.
It was so impressive by the Bears because, look, finishing
games is the biggest thing that you can see a
team when they take to another level, right, because look,
the Jets are terrible, right, They're zero to six.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
What's going on with them? They can't finish games? Well,
look at the look at the One of the other
great examples is Miami.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah that Miami, right, Miami. They can't finish, You got it.
Finishing games is the biggest It's graduation day. You go
from a team that, hey, hey they're building something, to oh,
wait a minute, now we have to take this team
seriously because they know how to finish. The Bears are
three and two. They finish the last two games. They
beat the crop out of the Cowboys, and Williams threw
four touchdowns. Like the Bears are the Bears are arriving.
(24:53):
Williams is Williams is kind of the hood ornament for this. Hey,
the Bears are starting to arrive here a little bit,
and and they've become a team that now they have
confidence going into all their games because the last couple
of games, Hey, at the end, we made plays defensively
and offensively, we went down the field and scored. Right now,
is it is perfect as we wanted it to be
with no, we're not a razor sharp precision down the
(25:14):
field the end, scoring a touchdown with no time left,
but getting down there for the game winning field goal.
It looked like the Bears were gonna settle for like
a fifty yarder for Moody, which was man, you just
had one blocked and it was. But Swift makes a
couple of big plays and he was big tonight. He
had a couple of look he had a big touchdown
from Caleb Williams that he made a guy miss and
went into the end zone. But the Bears are starting
(25:35):
to put all of this together now. But I'm telling
you there is nothing that separates teams more than the
ability to finish. Because I watched the Jets and I
go again, we just can't. When it was eleven to
ten going to the fourth quarter, I tweeted out thirteen
to eleven final coming up at you.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I knew that was gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Because Aaron Glenn thinks, oh my defense is just gonna
stop them every single time.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
No, it's not gonna that's not the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
And of course all the Broncos one drive right, Bonnix
completed four passes in the set and half was enough
to win because of Jets stink because their offense is
absolutely terrible. Right the Dolphins giving games away. You see
teams giving games away and go, this is part of
what what what what makes you good? And it's also
what part of what sinks your season because there's nothing
more deflating than we can't finish at the end of
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a game. And there's no formula to it. It's just
either you either you focus and execute.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Or you can't.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And the Bears have been able to execute. Man, I'm
telling you, good time, Mike. I've been telling you good
times are coming. The era of good feeling is here
for you.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
It's here. You are like, I don't know, I don't know, Bears,
I told you, Look how good the era of good
feeling is. There's still a lot of work here. Good
it is.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I'll take the win and I'm gonna celebrate the hell
out of win too. There's still a lot of work
to be done here. And now they got New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
You haven't been three and two since you went to
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Come on, now, there has been ana you looking at
me like, no, be right, no, no, no, there was
a I almost cursed at waity. I almost cursed at
that was the laws. That wasn't a mental math thing.
That was legitimately a all right do I want to
risk my job and our FCZ.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
But I'm not going to.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Oh the Caleb Haney years where you're going back to wow.
Oh sorry, sorry, sorry, back to what.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
You got at the point being that there's still a
lot of work. It's a work in progress, but you
can see the strides and you could see Ben Johnson right, good, better, best,
all that stuff, all those great speeches that come to fruition.
I was gonna pull the curtain back on the DeAndre
Swift touchdown. Is that they took a shot deep ball
(27:33):
with Roma Dunes on the play before that into double
coverage narrow miss. I yelled, damn it. I had a
cup of coffee brewing and ranto the bathroom and then
you guys are pounding out the door.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
They just scored, they just started. You gotta get out.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
Here like bears, you know how many times that actually happens.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Never Harmon.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Harmon went to the bathroom and uh, Williams throws the
past to Swift. Swift makes the guy miss at midfield.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
He's gone, we're all yeming sideline. Yeah, I've been Harmon.
Where are you scored? I'm out of the I'm out
of the studio, going Harmon, Where are you? Harmon? Where
are you? I feel like at the end of Blair Witch, Josh,
tell me where you are.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Josh, I'm running. I got the video cap running up
and you're in the corner of the Witch. Put you
in the corner Sto in the.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
Back having another heart attack. Harmon's path room and you
hear what what? I go get out here right now?
And I really, I really.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Thought you guys were taunting me, thinking I was gonna
go sprinting out like with my pants down.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
I don't really think we can make that up.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I'm a little taken it back by how fat Frostburg
he got out when I said you got to get
out here, you got out here really fast.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Oh you didn't even want I was really yeah, Oh yeah,
there was that. Yeah, I'm just looking. His pants were
up five and you came out so fast. Look, here's
number one. Here's the replay number one.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Drinking a lot of coffee, okay, hydrating all of that stuff.
I drink a ridiculous amount of water over the course
of the day. So uh, ergo, you're you're in the bathroom.
But yes, insanity, great game for Deandre's with passing. Game
still needs to come to a fuller place from my comfort.
But look, you take the victory and you move on. Right.
(29:06):
These are games that for many, many years I have
watched them lose in dramatic fashion. When they blocked the
Moody kick earlier. I mean I threw my pen. I
still haven't found it.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
That's all right, that's all right.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
So we were in the middle of the pot because
there were a lot going on, right, we had a
switch screen we had that happened as there were tense
moments in the Dodger game. So you're in the middle
of talking, I just threw my pad. It was never
in doubt, Mike never No. No Bears and the Dodgers
no sweating. Don't put those teams in the same suse well,
they're both winners tonight.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
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It took a while, but you realize I can trust him.
When the chips are down. It's Steve the Seger.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Better late than never. Can I just point out that
Jake Moody beat Deebo Samuel in this game tonight. Former
forty nine er teammates and no doubt pen pals, but yes,
Jake Moedy. Jake Moody was four for five on field goals.
Steebo Samuel was active despite a bruise teal. He had
only fifteen yards receiving on four catches, and NFL research
(30:33):
says Caleb Williams of the Bears is on pace right
now for four thousand and nine yards passing.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
That's not yeah, but I think that got the Ravens
are in two weeks.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
That's a tough one steal. No, No, you got the
Ravens in two weeks. They're not getting healthy all of
a sudden.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
They are getting a little healthy. Did you see the
Rams struggle? I mean, I was expecting the usual thirty
five against Baltimore yesterday.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
It was about half that. Well I did it didn't
have Ferrocomo, R. Dickerson wasn't there. I mean, I think
missing some guys. Nolan Cromwell, I believe was also basic.
Thank Jackie Slater.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Sure Caleb Williams first Bear with five straight of these
games to start a season at least two hundred yards
passing and a touchdown at every game. He had two
fifty two and a touchdown. Tonight, Bears win in the
rain at Washington twenty five twenty four on a field
goal on the final play. Washington in the weather had
fumbled a handoff with about three minutes left. In fact,
(31:27):
three turnovers for the Commanders and they missed a field
goal late first half a fifty yarder that hit the upright.
Atlanta held on to beat Buffalo twenty four to fourteen.
The Bills are four and two right now. The New
England Patriots of the first place team in that division.
Falcons led at the half tonight twenty one seven. Bejon
Robinson nineteen carries one hundred and seventy yards, including an
(31:49):
eighty one yard touchdown. Also six catches sixty eight yards.
The Tennessee Titans fired coach Brian Callahan. Lions safety Brian
Branch was suspended one game for his postgame fight at
Kansas City last night. He has appealed. The six game
suspension of Chiefs wide receiver Rashi Rice officially ended what
an opener to the National League Championship Series. The Dodgers
(32:10):
won at top seeded Milwaukee two to one, a Milwaukee
team that had gone six to zero against LA back
in July in their two series. Freddie Freeman a solo
homer top of the sixth. In the top of the ninth,
Mookie Betts with a key insurance RBI on a basis
loaded walk. The Brewers scored one in the bottom of
the ninth off Roki Sasaki the save to LA's Blake Trinon,
(32:32):
who got a strikeout with bases loaded to end the game.
The Dodgers have actually won twenty one of their last
twenty seven games, and the winning pitcher tonight was phenomenal.
Blake's Now eight innings, one hit, allowed, ten strikeouts and
no walks. He threw one hundred and three pitches. This
is how phenomenal his postseason has been. You kind of
referenced this earlier Roger Clemens, for example, in his playoff career,
(32:56):
how many games with at least nine strikeouts and only
two hits less allowed? He had two of those. Max
Schuers are three in his postseason career. This is already
five times for Blake Snow with at least nine strikeouts
and two hits or less. In the start Game two
of the series in Milwaukee on Tuesday night, Seattle's up
two games to none in the ALCS after winning again
(33:17):
at top seed Toronto ten to three Julio Rodriguez with
a three run homer in the top of the first.
By the way, Toronto shortstop Bobaschet is still out this
round with a sprain knee, been out since early September.
But pitchers Max schures Are and Chris Bassett our back
on the roster this round. For the Mariners, all star
pitcher Brian Wu returned to the roster. He'd been out
(33:38):
with pictorial inflammation. Padres manager Mike Shilt retired, and Sandy
Alomar Junior passed away. A senior passed away at the
age of eighty one. Senior had played fifteen years in
the majors. He was a coach for Junior at longtime
coach in the Major League Sandy Senior passing at eighty one.
By the way, among the ten NHL games wins for
(33:59):
Florida and for Philadelphia over Florida and Detroit, which won
at Toronto.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmon. We got more baseball
coming up in about twenty minutes. We take a look
at that incredible Dodger win today and the Mariners up
to zip. But straight ahead, we got a big story
out of football. One guy everybody had fired says I'm
not getting fired, but I think he is. That's the
(34:24):
next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Carmen. Yeah, a lot from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
We got more of the Night in Baseball coming up
in twelve minutes, but big stories out of football today,
not just Monday Night football. Bill Belichick has decided he
has had enough of people firing him every single day. Well,
(34:57):
I mean yeah, reports last week that Belichick was discussing
a buyout.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
It could happen any any.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Day now, but Belichick wants people to know, Hey not
so I am here until the bitter end. This is
Bill Belichick from earlier today before we tell you that exactly.
You know, what Bill Belichick said is ridiculous because look,
nothing has changed from last week to now. I said
last week. Okay, Yeah, there's difference of a pinion, you know,
(35:26):
with this, with this take that's out there that Belichick
is talking right now. But the reality is sometime between
now and the day after the end of the regular season,
Belichick's going to be let go, right And it may
it may not be this week, may not be next
week maybe, but sometime between now and the day after
the regular season, Belichick's going to be fired.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Yeah, potential.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
There'll be a mutual. Hey it didn't work. We did
the best we could. You know, I I am here.
Nothing has changed, and I'll tell you why. Very one
big thing. But first we're gonna hear Bill Belichick today
be very defiant about his future with the tar heels.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
I'll just start with, you know, right up about like
just the some of the repoards out last week about
I'm looking for Biou and Trump.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Here and all the categoric basses zero chiot.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Okay, look again, with that report a couple of weeks ago.
Now it has been a few days and Belichick has
felt him bolden enough to say didn't happen now. It
wasn't in bold enough to say it when it happened
a week and a half ago, but now he feels
it's the way to say it.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Maybe they've decided, and I wouldn't be surprised if they've
decided that, Hey, this will still happen, but not now.
Let's go through the rest of the season. Let's see
what happens. To Belichick hoping I can win five seven
games in a row and things will change. So i'dn't
be surprised if there is some sort of decision. But
Belichick says this now, just to tamp it down. But
the reason why this is gonna happen, Okay, it's gonna
(36:54):
tell you two things. Number One, the worst thing you
can have for a football program is apathy. And when
fans were leaving at halftime in the game against Clemson,
you're not getting that back. People were all in Week one,
right in the first quarter. Week one, North Carolina Stars
the game, everybody excited. In five weeks, fans left at halftime,
streamed out of the stadium because they were getting worked
(37:17):
by Clemson. Okay, they're not gonna sit here and say, oh,
all ye, it's like the time with Dion Sanders where
he had all that big time to be able to
win people over. Yeah, it's not there. So when your
program has a lot of apathy, that's gonna be the
first thing he gets a coach fired. We can't have
apathy because that means no nil money, no interest. We're
losing money. We can't have apathy. You gotta be excited
(37:37):
about the program. And the second part of it is this,
it's a very simple question. The end of this season.
The season keeps going like this, Belichick finishes five and seven,
four and eight, whatever it is, just is North Carolina
really gonna say, you know what, we want to do
this again?
Speaker 4 (37:54):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
North Carolina is not going to finish the end of
this year at four and eight and go yep. Year
two is going to be even better. It's been so
rocky and so awkward with Belichick and Jordan Hudson reports
about Belichick not being able to be reachable, and clearly
he is not cut out for the college football game.
Keeping scouts away from scouting his players because he's got
a petty beef with the Patriots is ridiculous. All he's
(38:17):
doing is stopping his guys from getting in the NFL.
He's not made out for college football. At the end,
North Carolina is not going to say, yes, we want
another year of this. That's why he's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
I think there's this the curiosity of all right, this
was obviously a huge change. What is it, seventy plus
players that are new to the program. Okay, there's got
to be growing pains, new rules, new playbooks, new coaching staff,
all of that stuff to where with the schedule you
still thought the run up, while it might be ugly
(38:47):
at times, that you'd see progress, that you'd see growth,
that you'd get people enamored.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
We played the clip or paraphrase that at one point
with that student that was found, I was like, yeah,
I was there for part of it. It was worse
than me failing some of my midterms. That was that
was that was a female student dead panty when asked
about the state of North Carolina football. The curiosity, though,
also is that you had the chancellor there, Lee Roberts,
(39:16):
also known as Valorum.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
I vote no confidence in Chancellor Valauria.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
It's it whenever we can get the Star Wars universe
and we do uh that in in the middle of
the week, that you've got to have someone standing there
in the suit and hands folded, you know, giving.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
The nod of approval.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
As Bill Belichick defiantly says, I'm not bleeping leaving kind
of a curiosity and you know, to to use that
term again, uh that that makes you scratch your head.
I don't know that it necessarily ends after one year.
I would see. I think we could see a sequel,
but a lot of it's gonna depend on all right,
of these recruits leaving, are they staying? Does he become
(39:55):
more friendly and I know he's gonna have his slap
fights with the Patriots, that's still gonna be there.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
There's thirty one other teams. You need to kiss their ass.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah, but still, but why are you why are you
making all you're doing is mate, you're I'm not saying
you're good. These players more than you are the war
that you're not fighting anymore.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
But that's where Valorum's got to step in and be like,
that's that's done, man, that's your past.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
We got to look to the future.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Ask it out about a Fresco Riley, Ronald Hi, mister
Roberts et cart think about the future. Coming up next,
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