September 6, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike open hour 2 looking ahead to the best game (on paper) of the entire weekend of NFL football: the Bills vs. Ravens on Sunday night! They make their predictions for how the game plays out, including who performs better between Josh Allen and Lamar, Derrick Henry's rushing total, and more! Then they get into their live reactions immediately following the Chargers defeat of the Chiefs in Brazil on Friday Night Football! Could Justin Herbert be a legit MVP candidate? What did they think about Mahomes' performance?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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under what you call a blown coverage, Hollywood Brown is
hit with a fifty yard pass by Patrick Mahomes. The
Chargers defense stiffens forces a field goal, so now the
Chargers getting the football back with about two thirty four
left to go, trying to protect a twenty seven twenty
one lead. And there's you know, some stats we talked
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about a few minutes ago and Justin Herbert three hundred
yards and three touchdowns. You know we talked to Mahomes
fantasy points. But here's something for tonight, right. Xavier Worthy
left the game very early after colliding with Travis Kelce
going over the middle. The leading receiver for the Chiefs
tonight is, in fact, Hollywood Brown, who has a whopping
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sixteen targets from Patrick Mahomes sixteen to Juju Smith. Schuster
is next with five. Hollywood Brown has said he is
looking for Hollywood Brown like like a Lyons quarterback. We're
throwing the Calvin Johnson right like that. This is where
like Sam Darnold looked for Justin like well, anybody looks
at Justin Jefferson, but specifically Sam Darnald. Hey, I'm in trouble.
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Where's Justin this side of the field. I'm just gonna
throw it up there. Sixteen targets, ten catches for Hollywood
Brown's having a big night, but ten for ninety nine.
I mean that catch. These other nine catches just for
fifty yards. It's till ten for ninety nine on sixteen
targets from Mahomes tonight. Welcome to the Chiefs, Hollywood. Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, that's all it takes, right is feed the guy
that can make plays for you. One little step and
away he goes, and we'll see that. I really would
have been curious to see him and Worthy paired up
over a long haul. Based on some of the video
coming back off the sidelines, you see the trader looking
at whoever he's talking to you off going. It's not
(02:49):
good for Worthy, so this could be a longer, longer
term injury. But for Brown, the number of targets short intermediate.
I want to see the shot chart like he's an player,
you know, average depth and all of that kind of fun.
But on that possession, they had an opportunity after that
big connection, Travis Kelcey did a little rope a dope
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going over the middle cross in the defense and then
really didn't run, so the ball hits off his hand
when he probably could have walked into the end zone.
So some big moments, some big plays, and some chaos
ensuing on Night two. But is it glorious? Because we
still have two hundred and seventy after.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Tonight, I'll tell you, and there's a play I just
want to talk with her for a second before you
get some of the other games. Here two thirty four left.
Great play call by the Chargers. You're thinking, okay, they're
gonna try to run the football. Chiefs use their timeouts
play action for Justin Herbert and he's being rushed and
he is backing up while he is throwing the football,
and not only does he hit Will Disley, he hits
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Will Disley in stride, like this is one of those
quick handoff turn and I'm throwing the football and you know,
the defensive lineman comes in on him. He is he
is going backwards and he throws and he hits Disley
in stride. Disley gets an extra ten yards, so that
first down play gets about sixteen. So now the Chiefs
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now have to use their first time out and the
Chargers starting first, you know, first and ten again from
their own thirty from their thirty six yard line. I'm
going to tell you, for all the questions we had
about Justin Herbert, I think he's answering all of them
tonight in this game. I mean, it was a simple
play right there. But still you are gy how many
quarterbacks in the NFL would have real trouble completing that pass.
And he's going backwards and he throws and he not
(04:33):
just hits him, but he hits him in stride. And
you know Disley's able to get sixteen yards in the
first down.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, I mean we know he's taken over that mantle, right,
Matthew Stafford, the old quarterback who is your quarterback's favorite guy.
And now Justin Herbert talking about that, and there's a
lot of metrics that just say, all right, I want
to see it when it counts, right kind of thing.
And tonight on this national stage, different script, different gameplay,
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and that I think any of us really would have
anticipated in this case. I mean, Omaron Apton's up to
fifteen carries, twenty one carries overall seventy five yards for
the Chargers on the ground, but the fact that they've
had such great time and really being able to pull
the strings, however, they want Greg Roman and that offensive
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line get all all of the credit in the world.
Justin Herbert making every throw and living up to the
hype for this one and making things very interesting because
now all of a sudden, You know, anybody that was
bullish on the Chargers, you're feeling really chesty in the moments,
like you and for Justin Herbert Backers long these these
(05:41):
years that have heard the he's not that guy, he's
not that guy. Well, you can at least point print
out this box score and a.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Couple of the throws. So a lot more of this
game coming up will be at the two minute warning
in a couple of minutes, and well we'll update you again,
out and again. Chargers lead the Chiefs twenty seven to
twenty one, about two fourteen left to go in this
one in Brazil. Meanwhile, now, hey, big night. Obviously, we're
taking a look at all the big games coming up
this weekend in the NFL college football. We got big
(06:09):
stuff to get to and big games coming up, and
certainly games are bigger deals on Sunday than we thought
they were going to be. In some games, they say, oh,
I can't believe it's such a big game. But really,
of all the updates we're getting, all the injury updates
for Sunday, the game that's been kind of clean so
far when it when it's come from as far as
injuries and players we're getting. The game of the week
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is pretty clean, and that is the Bills and the Ravens.
What could be an AFC championship game. It's look, it's
the reason why it is where it is. Bill's Ravens
is an incredible matchup. And I'm gonna say this, and
I'm gonna sound insane, Mike, when it comes to this game,
right I I I believe in the Ravens to a point,
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and my point is until the playoffs, right like this game,
I know that, Look, the Bills are playing at home,
and you would think, well, here come the Bills. It's
a big Super Bowl or bus type year for them
because clearly not that they are great, not something they're
they're the best version of themselves. But they've been around
a long time eventually that you know, this group has
to kind of get it done and they should have
an easy path in the division to get there. But
(07:19):
I think they get punched in the mouth on Sunday night.
I think the Ravens come out with big plays and
they gash Buffalo's defense. Look, their defensive backs are questionable already,
Lamar Jackson. The rest of the offense is going to
force Buffalo to play catch up. And I don't know
that Buffalo has that high octane enough offense to do it.
But the Ravens clearly you've heard all. I mean, if
I have, there another another statement of it. This is
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the best roster in the NFL. I'll let you know
the Ravens have the best roster. Yeah, okay, that's great,
But I'm telling you this is this is a team
that you know, to a point, regular season big games,
nights like this, the Ravens come up big, right if
they come up small in the playoffs, and usually it's
Lamar Jackson turning the ball over and things just happened
to the Ravens and the playoffs. But regular season big games, yeah,
(08:02):
sign me up for Lamar Jackson. Sign me up for
him in this one. And I think it's gonna be
a big guy. I think he throws for three hundred
yards in this game. And it's gonna be a lot
of big, big chunk plays for Baltimore as he finds
a lot of weapons, and it's not just gonna be
Zay Flowers, not just gonna be and it's gonna be
all over the map with receivers. He's gonna of course
run and make his own big plays. This is gonna
(08:24):
be a Lamar Jackson. Wow, he's still great. The Ravens
has no reason why to not make them a super
Bowl contender, and on Monday the Big conversation as well.
Ravens are clear of the best team in the NFL.
Look at the win they had Week one over Buffalo.
I will take the Ravens now. If you ask me
if this game was coming in the playoffs, I would say,
give me the Bills. Give me the Bills, because stuff
happens to the Ravens, man, it just does. But Week
(08:45):
one regular season, give me Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You start saying stuff just happens. I got a picture
of Mark Andrews in my head. I gotta be careful
because I say that kind of stuff when I make
my appearances in Baltimore, and I fear eventually someone's gonna
actually followed through in key my car, like you keep
being been threatened for a decad. You know what's curious,
and this is you know, my usual annual scheduling, Gripe.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
This isn't college football Week one.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You'll watch anything right you could put and it's one
of my favorite games on the Slate. Give me the
Jaguars and the Panthers. We're still gonna get huge numbers.
I don't need some big to do on Sunday Night football,
but I'll take it because you know, these are two
of my favorite guys to watch. Get after it. We've
got a huge over undertotal for this one. It was
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at fifty and a half the last I saw, Ravens
favored by a point. The individual lines for passing yards
and rushing yards pretty much equal for the two. No Recard,
no Isaiah likely for the Ravens offense. On the grand scale,
that doesn't matter. I think they do get the job done.
(09:53):
They're able to run Derrick Henry enough, balanced definition and
making plays, uh to get this early season win. But
you know, it's kind of like with both of these squads.
It's like the Dodgers until it's October. I don't care
with the Dodgers, right, we watch it.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Day to day.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh my god, this guy's fine. Hey, they're gonna play
the playoffs, right, same thing here.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Uh. Look, I'm gonna disagree with you on the Dereck
Henry part of it because at some point he's gonna
hit the wall a little bit and I and it's
gonna be a comedy. Look, the bills are gonna say, listen,
we gotta stop king Henry. That's gonna be it obviously Lamar,
but we have to pick our poison and see what
we can do. I at some point, Henry's gonna hit
the wall a bit. He's over thirty big running back.
(10:36):
Not that suddenly, Hey, here's the cliff and it's here.
For Derek.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I was gonna say, it's game one. He's had a
lot of time.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You're gonna see they're gonna want to get out there
and they're gonna want to show that our offense is
gonna be explosive. It's and it's a little more it's
a little more certain games. I can say, yeah, this
will be a Derick Henry game. This is a Lamar
Jackson game.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I mean, well, you know, you know what the other
Lamar Jackson, the other other element here right, this is
your daily fantasy or you want to go deep sleeper.
Is that you're gonna see Keaton Mitchell he was a
guy that was going to start taking on a little
bit of that secondary load when Derrick Henry needed a
blow last year and then he got hurt and missed
the year. So he's a guy with the explosiveness as
a runner and receiver that could pay some big dividends
(11:20):
in this game as well, and get those those big
defensive linemen huffin to where eventually, Derek.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, they're huffing, whoa, whoa whoa.
That's oh oh oh, you mean breathing hard on the field. Okay, sorry, okay,
all right, very well, make sure okay.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I mean it's too early for those kind of references
on a Friday night, but I mean, if you're out there,
just be safe. Okay, people be safe over under for
this game, Henry is eighty two and a half rushing yards.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I will take, I will I will take. I will
safely take the under on Derrick Henry this one. I'll
safely take the look at that.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I really thought you said we're gonna say the game
of the week was Monday night.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But you know, well, we'll get to that. We have played, dude.
That's there's four days from now, at one two, that's
three and a half days from now. We got time
for that. We got a whole show for that on
Monday night. The whole show Monday is gonna be Caleb
Caleb galub galub gaylup.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, but it's gonna be living and dying with every
play because my phone's gonna be goes. Oh and if
it goes badly, you're gonna be like, hey man, I
was you I You'll actually have to say you were wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So there. Oh no, he's gonna be great. I'm telling you,
he's gonna be great unless well, well, you know would
be great is if Williams plays well, but like he
gets an important phone call or something and Tyson Beagen
has to come in and he's even better. Like that's
what I really want to see. So like some kind
of or an equipment malfunction and Beijing comes in and
plays great. Oh now we got it, look at that.
(12:39):
But wait a minute. But but Williams was good. No, no, no,
not Williams stinks and had to be benched. No, Williams
plays great in the first half, but then you know,
his cleat breaks or something happens and they gotta go
to Beijing and Beijing takes him all the way down
the field he stays in at quarterback. Oh that's why
I want to see all kinds of case.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well, you know you've had a couple of hot takers
in Chicago that have gone to on air with that going, well,
I'd pick him to go ten and seven. If Bage
it was the quarterback, that is a desperate attempt for clicks.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So there is our first big pick. Again. We got
all the rest of the night tonight, Phill with the
rest of our picks. Of the big games we have
Detroit and Green Bay, Houston and the Rams, Pittsburgh and
the Jets. Is becoming a big game, but it is
now a final in Brazil. And of all the scrambling
we've talked about tonight, with Patrick Mahomes absolutely keeping the
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Chiefs in the game by himself scrambling for ten yards
a pop when he runs the football, including a touchdown.
It is Justin Herbert getting the last scramble left, getting
the last left scrambling a third and fourteen player with
just over two minutes left to go in the game,
Justin Herbert runs for it nineteen yards and the first
(13:53):
down he slides in bounds and that's the end. The
Chargers kneel on the football from the two minute warning
on and they win this game twenty seven to twenty one,
and absolute virtuoso performance from Herbert who throws for three
hundred yards and clinches the game with that run. With
that nineteen yard run, he becomes a second best rusher
(14:15):
on the Chargers for the night. Abarian Hanton had forty
eight yards and Justin Herbert had thirty two yards. So congratulations,
A big, big game for the Chargers. They send the
Chiefs to zero to one, twenty seven to twenty one.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
What an effort from the offense there. The offensive line.
I mean, we had Mackai Beckton who had posted on
Instagram that he was hooked up to an IV machine quote,
don't eat the rice and beans in Brazil, bro with
the little barfee faces. So rallied, got hydrated, got himself together.
That offensive line doing a great job, and then Herbert
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with the massive scrambled third and fourteen. I think if
you were a Charger fan, you were clenching a little bit, going,
oh no, here we go. And instead the escape route
from Herbert and grambles and he's slid and that's about
his biggest smile. And for a guy who doesn't like
doing postgame interviews, he better get used to it after
this one, because everybody's gonna want to quote a huge.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Performance from justin Herbert Chargers beat the Chiefs twenty seven
to twenty one. Coming up next, Herbert Mahomes the Chargers
the Chiefs. What to make of this huge one in Brazil?
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Speaker 1 (17:12):
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Speaker 2 (17:16):
Jason doesn't like it A five second Dad's party.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, that's okay. The Mets one tonight, It's okay, you
can play sexy back, It's all right, it's alright. No,
Tomorrow tomorrow is King Tong day. Man, Nah, not happening tomorrow.
You get Tong sprout tomorrow, man. Yeah, buddy, we got
King Tong tomorrow. That's you all so excited? I am,
(17:40):
I am. I can't believe how much I had to
sweat my ass off with that Diaz. And as soon
as they brought I'm like, he's gonna load the bases?
What does he do? He loads a bass? I mean,
I mean it's it's like it's like I almost say
listen instead of because this is what Edwin Diaz does tonight. Right,
he comes in and this is now, this is our
his thing. He can't just have a Gordon. I'm gonna
(18:00):
throw my fastball and ninety eight ninety nine and I'm
gonna saw off bats and I'm gonna strike guys out
on three pitches. No, no, no, I need to make it
more interesting because it's only interesting for me if there's
runners on base. So I'll walk the first guy. I'll
hit another guy and oh, bases loaded, nobody out. Yeah,
that's okay that I'm down. I'm down for that, right,
(18:21):
I'm up for this. Right, I'll say all right, because
at this point I got to kind of make a
deal and get the best outcome I could be. If
this is what it's gonna be, I would say, all right, Daz,
I wanna if this is the way it's gonna be.
I want to get rid of that five to eight
minutes of absolute anxiety of you getting the bases loaded
before the inning really begins. Okay, so let's just do this.
(18:42):
You come into the game and intentionally walk the first
three guys, just point them all down. They all come
down for it now. Okay. So now at least that's
eight minutes of anxiety I don't have to deal with.
And I'm okay. So we're starting the game, and if
something bad happens, okay, it happens, and it's only a
minute and a half. This is like the eight minutes
of anxiety. And then the absolute roller coaster. It's like
(19:03):
it's like getting on a roller coaster saying okay, my
worst part for me on a roller coaster is the
going up like when you get on and they go
up really slow, your tic tic tic tic, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But you get to see the whole park out and
celebrate that a little bit. I don't like.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, I don't like that now. I don't like the
tick tic tic. That's what it is watching ds come in.
Then you get to the top and that's bases loaded,
nobody out, and then the ride starts. I'm like, if
you could just start me at the top of the ride, great,
start me there, not the going up. No, don't like it.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Don't like the going up. Yeah, but when you get
to the bottom, you go back to the top.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I was gonna start singing helter skelter. I don't like it,
But I mean, are you get tong and sprout and
we're gonna watch it all eventually implode.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
But for now, sure, sure you.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Get to kick it down the road and you have
that that rotational excellence once again, just just several years removed.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Uh so again, we got more baseball coming up. Ste
you just saying we'll have the night in what's trending
coming up in a few minutes, But we just watch
an absolute thriller from Brazil Chargers beat the Chiefs twenty
seven to twenty one, Justin Herbert with a big third
down scramble to clinch the game for the Chargers with
two minutes left to go. It was an incredible night. Now,
a lot to say about Mahomes and Herbert, and let's
(20:17):
talk about Mahomes first. This is where I'm at with
Patrick Mahomes for this season. And I said it going in,
and I feel absolutely good about it because it's exactly
how I thought this game was gonna go. What did
I say last night? And we picked it. It's gonna
be a big night for Mahomes and a win for
the Chargers, right, and that's gonna be kind of the
theme of the season. I am stock way up on
Patrick Mahomes. Right. This is gonna be the Patrick Mahomes
(20:38):
middle Finger revenge Tour. Now he's got the weapons back
and they're healthy in the offensive line. He's got everything
he needs, and he's gonna want to get people back
to run. Knowing this is the Homes I was three
years ago before he became a game manager, because that's
really what he's been the last couple of years. And
he had a big night tonight. Right, two fifty eight
in a touchdown, fifty seven yards and a touchdown running tonight,
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his scrambling was the big difference, right and his his
his ability, And this is the most maddening thing about Mahomes. Right,
if I'm watching my team play Mahomes, I don't get
mad when Mahomes shreds my team and goes for three
twenty five or hits somebody or hits Kelsey for a
big touchdown. The worst plays and the most frustrating ones
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are when he knows I'm pulling the football down because
this is gonna be a big gainer, not where I
need a yard or I need two yards. In mahomeside,
when he pulls that football down, I have that initial
reaction of this is fifteen yards, like he knows that
when it's his when it's time for him to pull
the footback, when he pulls it football down and go,
he knows this is where I'm getting tons of yards.
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And how and how many of those rushes that he
had six rushes, all of them felt like they were
back breaking rushes because the Chargers defense, which we'll get to,
was doing an unbelievable job tonight on the Chiefs offense,
This was the only play that they basically had for
three and a half quarters was when Mahomes has the
play breakdown, I'm scrambling for a backbreaking first down that
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kept the Chiefs in the game. That's the most frustrating
part of Mahomes because his ability to know when that's
gonna happen and to make that decision is just it's
so frustrated. Like I still go back a year ago
when the Jets played the Chiefs and they almost upset
them in the third game of the season, and I
just remember we lost because Mahomes kept scrambling Forday when
they have him covered, and it was fine, Oh my goodness,
(22:24):
look what's gonna happen here? Nope, can't we can't get
we can't keep track of him, and he scrambles for
a first down it's fifteen yards. That is the most
frustrating part of watching Mahomes. And that's the genius of
Patrick Mahomes, who knows when he can make those kinds
of plays with his legs and run for first downs.
Chiefs leading rusher Tonight, I am stock way up on
Patrick Mahomes this year, but I'm stocked down on the
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Chiefs because I don't see them being able to win.
This roster is a little bit older. The other teams
in the division have all gotten better and younger. There's younger,
hungrier teams in the AFC, and it's gonna be a
fight for them just to be playoff eligible. They're gonna
have to win a lot of shootouts because they don't
quite have the personnel that the other teams like the
Chargers and the Broncos and the Bills and the Bengals
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and the Ravens don't have the personnel like they do. Yeah.
I mean, one of the.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Big questions coming into this game this season for the Chiefs,
who's on the defensive side of things, of whether they'd
be able to get any kind of natural pressure where
it was speG Noola gonna have to get really creative
in terms of bringing extra bodies. In this case, nothing
worked because the Chargers offensive line the scheme for Roman,
and of course we can't say enough about what Justin
(23:34):
Herbert was able to do.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I'll give you credit.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You pick the game right, and in the end, it
was the running game that proved the difference, just not
the way you anticipated, because I don't think you were
predicting a nineteen yard scramble on a third and fourteen
for Justin Herbert to fish.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Didn't I didn't I say that? Didn't I say, Hey, look,
I'm thinking they win the game with some sort of
weird scramble play, even a waggle play. Herbert Herbert maybe
runs not left. No, Herbert definitely runs right his power
side and he slides at the end. And he has
a big smile on his face. That's kind of how
I'm seeing this game end. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I'm also going back to Mahomes a couple of years ago.
Remember when he ran five hundred yards against the Buccaneers
sideline the sideline. He must have really been hurt, because
this is spry and athletic, and watch me go to
work into the secondary, watch me lay the lumber. I
saw a lot of former players and pundit saying, yeah,
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he's gonna wear that one before long. If he's low
and his lower in his shoulder and giving out licks
towards the sidelines. Just be careful what you wish for,
because payback, as we know, has many terms associated with it.
But he was great tonight. We'll be curious to see
what the long term effects are of that collision between
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Xavier Worthy and Travis Kelsey because if Worthy missed his
significant time, now you take away one of those deep threats.
Great game for Hollywood. Brown on his sixteen targets ten
for ninety nine. Sorry, if you get that bonu set
one hundred yards, you lose and you get nothing. But
you know, Travis Kelcey, I we still do that, is
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there the bonus for all We used to do that
all the time, but like the last like ten twelve years,
I'm like, yeah, I felt like those leagues are kind
of going away with those hundred yard bonuses. Yeah, but
it's like anything right, there's still gonna be that smattering
Like now you're a holdout if you haven't gone to
at least half PPR. Everything's PPR or a boss like
(25:29):
screw that. You know, you know, you don't get points
for a quick you know, shovel pass in my book,
I need something to earn earnest where there's an overhand
throw or Patrick Mahomes falling to the ground and doing
that weird ass shovel thing he did.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
D I'm still with you, but but everybody loves PPR
and I can know and PPR leagues. I can't, but
that's what everybody wants to do, so I'm like, I can't.
I you know, I can't hate the players. I got
hit the game right.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And you can miss me on the super flesh too.
While I'm at I'm on my little soapbox. But all
of that for Mahomes, he was fantastic and got after it.
The offensive line did about as much as you could.
The run game is really going to be a question
with Pacheco and Hunt whether you're gonna get enough out
of them to give you any kind of level of balance.
(26:19):
But Kelsey failing to extend and really make a play
on that ball in the red zone after that deep
ball again predicated and set up by Mahomes on the
scramble towards the right sideline and right before he gets
leveled winging it down field to Hollywood Brown. I mean
Kelsey came across untouched, scraped across the middle, and then
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just didn't really make an effort to get to the
ball was a little out in front of him, but
should have been able to walk in for the touchdown
to give us fantastic finishes. Yeah, think about al Koa
from back in the day.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
But.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Instead we got the fantastic finish on a fantastic four
on a third down and fourteen scramble from Herbert. But yeah,
Magic Mahomes, you're brought up points. If you drafted him,
you probably got him at a little bit of a discount,
far beyond the reaches of those first four scrambling quarterbacks.
And today he said, hey, I could do that too.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Uh So, there's Mahomes now, justin Herbert who goes for
three eighteen three touchdowns on the night, and again this
scramble that clinched the game for the Chargers. Take a
listen to how it unfolded in Brazil just a few
moments ago. Well that's gonna get interen. Come on, man, Hola,
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he's putting back inside twenty five right there. You know,
here's the thing, tight shirt. Nobody remembers that play. Nobody.
They all remember the butt fumble, but nobody remembers that No.
Twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
He will never let you forget you.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Sound like Bill Paxson an Independence Day. We will not
go gentle into that good night. We'll not go gentle
to those good nights tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Uh So, channeling the you're gonna start talking about Wizards
soon and see if you can get an accent that works.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
There or what here is the Justin Herbert scramble that
won the game?
Speaker 6 (28:19):
For it and they are gonna throw it and it's
Herbert was right with a wide open lane and he
pits it up and slides down in bounds. What a
night for Justin Herbert caup no team.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
There was Charges Radio Network on the call. What a
night for Justin Herbert. Right now, you talk about what
the last couple of years have been for Patrick Mahomes
where he's become a game manager. A lot of it
because of the personnel the Chiefs have that were built
on a big defense. Justin Herbert has gone through the
last couple of years of is he still the guy
we thought he was after his first year or two
(28:57):
in the league. Right Because Herbert comes into the league,
the Charges really drafting me because well, he's the top
quarterback on the board. Didn't really have a great senior
year at Oregon, but hey, thirty touchdowns is okay, he's fantastic.
Thirty eight touchdowns a second year and we thought, man,
this guy's gonna take over the league. Last couple of years. Yeah,
he's been Okay, he's been good, But has he been
(29:20):
the guy that we thought he was in twenty twenty
and twenty twenty one. He has not been. He's a
guy that's kind of settled into being the guy that, Hey, well,
I'm gonna throw between twenty and twenty five touchdowns and
you know, five to ten interceptions I'll throw for about
you know, thirty five hundred yards like that's kind of
been the year it was. And last year Harbad didn't
rely on him nearly as much as you thought. Now
he had a great year as far as his touchdown
(29:42):
interception ratio, a career low in picks with three twenty
three touchdowns, good quarterback rating, but overall the image of
Herbert was, well, is he still the same guy? Did
he peak a little bit earlier in his career? Right
like the people all you know that peaked his freshman
in high school. But knowing hearing how and seeing how
(30:03):
Jim Harbaugh has talked about Herbert in the offseason and
just the amount of responsibility that it sounded like he
was going to put on justin Herbert's plate. It sounded like, hey,
I understand he is our best player and we're going
to go as far as he goes, no matter what
kind of offense I want to build, and Harball likes
to build an offense that doesn't really rely on the
(30:24):
quarterback to win games. Hey, you are the head of
the snake. But we got guys to run the football.
We'll throw and we need to we have weapons. We're
building the offensive line out. That's how we win here
in the NFL. Yeah, you need games where your quarterback
does it all by himself, right, you need that. And
Herbert tonight showed you that that he is still that guy. Man,
he is still that guy. This is a game against
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a pretty good defense where Herbert looked fantastic. Now he
was up up right in the pocket the entire game,
and you give a lot of credit to the charges
offensive line early. You're one hundred percent right on. He
delivered the football, he made all the big plays, three touchdowns.
He's turned Quentin Johnson into a big weapon. Now, it
just took him a year to get going. And the
big scramble on third and fourteen, Like you can see,
(31:07):
there's a difference in Herbert. And I'm already thinking that
we're gonna get this year out of Herbert's gonna look
way more like his first two years in the NFL
than his last three, Like he's back to that guy
from twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Well, the beauty of it is Greg Roman's got the
ability to go and pull the strings right and for
the entirety of the off season, all the the hyperbole
put forth by Jim Harbaugh related to Justin Herbert, some
of it to your point, right, is the all right,
I'm just making sure he knows it's on his shoulders.
(31:42):
He's got to be the guy because I'm in a
lot of punditry about it, right, waiting for him to
take that step into that next echelon of quarterbacks and
arrive and announce his presence with authority, like he's nukle loosh, right,
kind of thing that we look at Herbert and wondered
exactly how this offense would still play.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Is it going to be the run heavy? And I
think there's gonna be games where we probably see a
little bit of that.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But the re emergence and reinstitution of Keenan Allen gives
them that extra extra little bonus, right, because we already
know what McConkey was able to do before Keenan comes back. Now,
Johnston more comfortable, a guy that got past his early drops,
his early inconsistency, and he doesn't have to be the
(32:30):
guy right He can be a number two and number
three and that changes the coverage that's going to get
you open on some of these crossers like they had.
And if Herbert's going to be there and just be
able to watch the field like he was tonight, I mean,
how easy did he make it.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Look the entire night?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
And like I said, I give full credit because you're
losing slater All having this shift back. I know it
goes back to his college position, but that wasn't the plan.
The plan was that you had your bookkend and then
you work from there. And the fact that they were
able to keep this Chiefs defense absolutely useless in terms
(33:10):
of a pass rush over the course of the night,
keep him clean and allow him to pick them apart
like that only bojoll. I mean they mastered what Spagnola
was trying to run defensively against them tonight. I can't
wait to see how this flows out. They've got three
division games that start their season.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
They've got a very.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Weird schedule, and I know the point was being made
that they've already travel once they come back to La
more miles this week than the Bengals will.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Travel all year. Oh Man. So Justin Herbert is back.
Patrick Mahomes is back. The Chiefs might not be. But
that's why I picked the charges for the AFC Championship
Game time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. But guy's been called the Justin
Herbert of Fox Sports Radio. Thank you. I'm pretty sure
we're gonna get the twenty twenty twenty twenty one version
(33:58):
of him tonight doing up there.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
It's Steve to say, it just means there's no defense
to support me. By the way, according to Next Gen Stats,
on that clinching nineteen yard gain down the sidelines for
Herbert tonight, he reached a top speed of over nineteen
point eight miles per hour, third faster than he's faster
than March of his career. And by the way, in
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his four years at quarterback for his hometown Oregon Ducks,
his senior season, thirty two touchdown passes only six interceptions
won the Rose Bowl in a Top ten matchup against
Wisconsin twenty eight, twenty seven three touchdown runs, and he
was Rose Bowl MVP. In his final college game. Tonight,
opening this season an NFL game in Brazil, the Chargers
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beat Kansas City twenty seven to twenty one. Herbert three
hundred and eighteen yards passing three touchdowns. The Chiefs missed
an extra point kick, missed a two point pass attempt,
and they had a sixteen play drive in the second quarter,
nearly nine minutes worth with a they settled for a
field goal. Patrick Mahomes over two hundred and fifty yards,
(35:03):
passing one touchdown through the air, one on the ground,
but the Chiefs lose by six. They've actually had a
streak broken. They had won seventeen straight one possession games
until tonight, and in fact, in an opener, this performance
by Herbert. How many quarterbacks in the last five years
have had in their opener at least three hundred and
(35:25):
fifty total yards, at least three touchdowns, no turnovers. The
answer is Patrick Mahomes twice and now Herbert this evening.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
No, I have different, I have different I have hang on,
I have Zach Wilson and Mike White and Justin Fields
on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Does everybody remember the full week where we went Mike
White and nothing else on this show.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Remember the Mike White week? Man, those are the days.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I'm still waiting on my paycheck for what I had
to put up with.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Yeah, exactly, combat pay. At the US Open in New York,
Number two Carlos Alcarez swept Novak Djokovic in a semi final.
Number one Yonicker advance tonight. Among the three WNBA games,
Indiana ninety seven seventy seven over Chicago, which is ten
and thirty one. In late night baseball, bottom of the
twelfth inning at Texas and the Houston Rangers. Game is
(36:13):
tied at three. A's lead nine to four at the Angels,
bottom of the six Diamondbacks ahead of Boston six to
one in the top of the seventh inning. Toronto beat
the Yankees in New York seven to one. Wins for
the Mets in Philadelphia, wins for the Cubs in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O, Jason Smith, Mike
Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, Yes,
we'll have more reaction from Friday night football in Brazil.
Plus we continue our big predictions for Week one of
the NFL. We take a look at two of the
biggest games on the slate coming up next. Who's walking
away with the win? Keep it right here, Jason and
(36:48):
Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (36:59):
Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon, Gojjas.
That's that's good, ty shirt. That's good. That's good. That's good.
That's good. Okay, even better, it's I don't know if
that's even better. I've always worked for the ball. Uh So,
(37:23):
we got Pete Feutax stopping by coming up in about
ten minutes for all the latest predictions prognostications for college
football this weekend. But uh, now that we have Friday
night in the rear view mirror, a couple of big
games this weekend in the NFL, we're getting for week one. Look,
it's what we do Friday nights. We take a look,
we predict all the big games, tell you how they're
(37:43):
gonna go. And I'll tell you what a lot of
hype around this game. The Micah Parsons status is up
in the air for the Packers. Uh, probably gonna go
all the way to game time. But I'll tell you
what doesn't matter. This is where the Lions remind everybody
of who they are and how good they are. They
haven't lost their step. That might even be better of
an offensive team this year because they're healthier than they
(38:05):
were last year. Remember Aiden Hutchinson his back. Jamier Gibbs
is gonna clearly show I'm the best running back in
all of the National Football League. It's gonna be an
eye opening game. And I'll give you a bold prediction
as well. Jamison Williams leads Detroit in catches in yards
in what is his breakout year, and it's gonna be
Does Detroit need another weapon? Yes, when he wants to
(38:25):
get paid and get a new contract. Absolutely. It does
give me the Lions big as they remind everybody. Hey,
I know all this Griz is great for the Oh
the Packers are super Bowl team that gay Yeah they
got Michael part Yeah. Don't forget. We've been the best
team in the NFC overall the last couple of years.
And you're gonna see that on Sunday. Give me the
Lions over the Packers.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Jampson Williams, the receiving yards over under fifty three and
a half in this one.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So there you go. You had that going for you.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
I like the balance, the addition of Golden You drafted
him in the first You're gonna use him. He Josh
Jacobs helped leads two points. Is these points spread here
at Green Bay the narrow two point home favorite over
under sitting at forty seven, So expecting some fireworks to
flow out of here. Jacob's the favorite for an any
(39:13):
time touchdown out of everybody in the game, just ahead
of your guy, Jimi or Gibbs. I'm gonna take the
home squad to win a squeaker. They do cover the number,
but the Lion's curious to see new offensive coordinator and
new game plan. No gadgetry, or at least I don't
think so, or the new gadgetry.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Are we gonna get a lineman pass? I mean, what
are we gonna get, dude?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
If they run any of those crazy ass Ben Johnson plays,
I don't, I don't know. I think those are all
out of the playbook. I don't they're in the play
you ripped. Dan Campbell's like, okay, we're lighting these pages
on fire. Here we go. Ready, We're never gonna run
these plays again. That guy made me lose sleep.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Micah Parsons from earlier trick plays for people who can't
beat you straight up, it's like guy running around a
ring all day trying to jab.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
So there's your first one. This one. I'm really stunned.
I don't know how Bengals and the Browns is only
five and a half points, Like I read that. That's
an oo I do spread. That's an insane spread. How
is it? How is it not twenty five and a
half points?
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I mean redill five over under at forty eight. The
Bengals have one defender.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah, they're gonna play one on eleven.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
They have him, and they have the new guy who look,
let's face it, I mean they like the cut of
his jib. He's willing to go in and take Joe
Burrow down at the knees at practice Shamar Stewart after
he signed. So that's all finding good, but now it
does not work. It does not work.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
The Bengals playing with his one defender, the Brown's doing
anything they want to. It's a sixteen play drive. They're
down on the one yard like they win the game.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
But this is a two thousand and seven shootout. Like
Derek Anderson's back out there. Joe Burrow announces this season
will be different. I think it's a trap game, except wow,
Cleveland is really bad. Uh, the offense is gonna continue
how razor sharp it was in the preseason. It's a blowout,
and I'll give you this bold prediction. Dylan Gabriel sees
some snaps in the fourth quarter when the game is
(41:15):
out of reach. He gets his first run in the
NFL with the game out of reach. Wow, that's some
spicy shtu. Yeah you like that one.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
You like that.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
You just want everybody to get mad, so you should
be breaking down all the games of Week one. No, no,
Dylan Gabriel came in before chad Or Sanders eight seven seven.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
No, I mean, come on, he's coming in at the
end fourth quarter, Gabriel. It'll be absolutely fine, absolutely fun.
How about the big slay to college football Week two tomorrow?
How's it gonna play out? Find out for one of
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under what you call a blown coverage, Hollywood Brown is
hit with a fifty yard pass by Patrick Mahomes. The
Chargers defense stiffens forces a field goal, so now the
Chargers getting the football back with about two thirty four
left to go, trying to protect a twenty seven twenty
one lead. And there's you know, some stats we talked
(01:23):
about a few minutes ago and Justin Herbert three hundred
yards and three touchdowns. You know we talked to Mahomes
fantasy points. But here's something for tonight, right. Xavier Worthy
left the game very early after colliding with Travis Kelce
going over the middle. The leading receiver for the Chiefs
tonight is, in fact, Hollywood Brown, who has a whopping
(01:47):
sixteen targets from Patrick Mahomes sixteen to Juju Smith. Schuster
is next with five. Hollywood Brown has said he is
looking for Hollywood Brown like like a Lyons quarterback. We're
throwing the Calvin Johnson right like that. This is where
like Sam Darnold looked for Justin like well, anybody looks
at Justin Jefferson, but specifically Sam Darnald. Hey, I'm in trouble.
(02:09):
Where's Justin this side of the field. I'm just gonna
throw it up there. Sixteen targets, ten catches for Hollywood
Brown's having a big night, but ten for ninety nine.
I mean that catch. These other nine catches just for
fifty yards. It's till ten for ninety nine on sixteen
targets from Mahomes tonight. Welcome to the Chiefs, Hollywood. Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, that's all it takes, right is feed the guy
that can make plays for you. One little step and
away he goes, and we'll see that. I really would
have been curious to see him and Worthy paired up
over a long haul. Based on some of the video
coming back off the sidelines, you see the trader looking
at whoever he's talking to you off going. It's not
(02:49):
good for Worthy, so this could be a longer, longer
term injury. But for Brown, the number of targets short intermediate.
I want to see the shot chart like he's an player,
you know, average depth and all of that kind of fun.
But on that possession, they had an opportunity after that
big connection, Travis Kelcey did a little rope a dope
(03:10):
going over the middle cross in the defense and then
really didn't run, so the ball hits off his hand
when he probably could have walked into the end zone.
So some big moments, some big plays, and some chaos
ensuing on Night two. But is it glorious? Because we
still have two hundred and seventy after.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Tonight, I'll tell you, and there's a play I just
want to talk with her for a second before you
get some of the other games. Here two thirty four left.
Great play call by the Chargers. You're thinking, okay, they're
gonna try to run the football. Chiefs use their timeouts
play action for Justin Herbert and he's being rushed and
he is backing up while he is throwing the football,
and not only does he hit Will Disley, he hits
(03:50):
Will Disley in stride, like this is one of those
quick handoff turn and I'm throwing the football and you know,
the defensive lineman comes in on him. He is he
is going backwards and he throws and he hits Disley
in stride. Disley gets an extra ten yards, so that
first down play gets about sixteen. So now the Chiefs
(04:10):
now have to use their first time out and the
Chargers starting first, you know, first and ten again from
their own thirty from their thirty six yard line. I'm
going to tell you, for all the questions we had
about Justin Herbert, I think he's answering all of them
tonight in this game. I mean, it was a simple
play right there. But still you are gy how many
quarterbacks in the NFL would have real trouble completing that pass.
And he's going backwards and he throws and he not
(04:33):
just hits him, but he hits him in stride. And
you know Disley's able to get sixteen yards in the
first down.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, I mean we know he's taken over that mantle, right,
Matthew Stafford, the old quarterback who is your quarterback's favorite guy.
And now Justin Herbert talking about that, and there's a
lot of metrics that just say, all right, I want
to see it when it counts, right kind of thing.
And tonight on this national stage, different script, different gameplay,
(05:00):
and that I think any of us really would have
anticipated in this case. I mean, Omaron Apton's up to
fifteen carries, twenty one carries overall seventy five yards for
the Chargers on the ground, but the fact that they've
had such great time and really being able to pull
the strings, however, they want Greg Roman and that offensive
(05:20):
line get all all of the credit in the world.
Justin Herbert making every throw and living up to the
hype for this one and making things very interesting because
now all of a sudden, You know, anybody that was
bullish on the Chargers, you're feeling really chesty in the moments,
like you and for Justin Herbert Backers long these these
(05:41):
years that have heard the he's not that guy, he's
not that guy. Well, you can at least point print
out this box score and a.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Couple of the throws. So a lot more of this
game coming up will be at the two minute warning
in a couple of minutes, and well we'll update you again,
out and again. Chargers lead the Chiefs twenty seven to
twenty one, about two fourteen left to go in this
one in Brazil. Meanwhile, now, hey, big night. Obviously, we're
taking a look at all the big games coming up
this weekend in the NFL college football. We got big
(06:09):
stuff to get to and big games coming up, and
certainly games are bigger deals on Sunday than we thought
they were going to be. In some games, they say, oh,
I can't believe it's such a big game. But really,
of all the updates we're getting, all the injury updates
for Sunday, the game that's been kind of clean so
far when it when it's come from as far as
injuries and players we're getting. The game of the week
(06:32):
is pretty clean, and that is the Bills and the Ravens.
What could be an AFC championship game. It's look, it's
the reason why it is where it is. Bill's Ravens
is an incredible matchup. And I'm gonna say this, and
I'm gonna sound insane, Mike, when it comes to this game,
right I I I believe in the Ravens to a point,
(06:56):
and my point is until the playoffs, right like this game,
I know that, Look, the Bills are playing at home,
and you would think, well, here come the Bills. It's
a big Super Bowl or bus type year for them
because clearly not that they are great, not something they're
they're the best version of themselves. But they've been around
a long time eventually that you know, this group has
to kind of get it done and they should have
an easy path in the division to get there. But
(07:19):
I think they get punched in the mouth on Sunday night.
I think the Ravens come out with big plays and
they gash Buffalo's defense. Look, their defensive backs are questionable already,
Lamar Jackson. The rest of the offense is going to
force Buffalo to play catch up. And I don't know
that Buffalo has that high octane enough offense to do it.
But the Ravens clearly you've heard all. I mean, if
I have, there another another statement of it. This is
(07:41):
the best roster in the NFL. I'll let you know
the Ravens have the best roster. Yeah, okay, that's great,
But I'm telling you this is this is a team
that you know, to a point, regular season big games,
nights like this, the Ravens come up big, right if
they come up small in the playoffs, and usually it's
Lamar Jackson turning the ball over and things just happened
to the Ravens and the playoffs. But regular season big games, yeah,
(08:02):
sign me up for Lamar Jackson. Sign me up for
him in this one. And I think it's gonna be
a big guy. I think he throws for three hundred
yards in this game. And it's gonna be a lot
of big, big chunk plays for Baltimore as he finds
a lot of weapons, and it's not just gonna be
Zay Flowers, not just gonna be and it's gonna be
all over the map with receivers. He's gonna of course
run and make his own big plays. This is gonna
(08:24):
be a Lamar Jackson. Wow, he's still great. The Ravens
has no reason why to not make them a super
Bowl contender, and on Monday the Big conversation as well.
Ravens are clear of the best team in the NFL.
Look at the win they had Week one over Buffalo.
I will take the Ravens now. If you ask me
if this game was coming in the playoffs, I would say,
give me the Bills. Give me the Bills, because stuff
happens to the Ravens, man, it just does. But Week
(08:45):
one regular season, give me Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You start saying stuff just happens. I got a picture
of Mark Andrews in my head. I gotta be careful
because I say that kind of stuff when I make
my appearances in Baltimore, and I fear eventually someone's gonna
actually followed through in key my car, like you keep
being been threatened for a decad. You know what's curious,
and this is you know, my usual annual scheduling, Gripe.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
This isn't college football Week one.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You'll watch anything right you could put and it's one
of my favorite games on the Slate. Give me the
Jaguars and the Panthers. We're still gonna get huge numbers.
I don't need some big to do on Sunday Night football,
but I'll take it because you know, these are two
of my favorite guys to watch. Get after it. We've
got a huge over undertotal for this one. It was
(09:32):
at fifty and a half the last I saw, Ravens
favored by a point. The individual lines for passing yards
and rushing yards pretty much equal for the two. No Recard,
no Isaiah likely for the Ravens offense. On the grand scale,
that doesn't matter. I think they do get the job done.
(09:53):
They're able to run Derrick Henry enough, balanced definition and
making plays, uh to get this early season win. But
you know, it's kind of like with both of these squads.
It's like the Dodgers until it's October. I don't care
with the Dodgers, right, we watch it.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Day to day.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh my god, this guy's fine. Hey, they're gonna play
the playoffs, right, same thing here.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Uh. Look, I'm gonna disagree with you on the Dereck
Henry part of it because at some point he's gonna
hit the wall a little bit and I and it's
gonna be a comedy. Look, the bills are gonna say, listen,
we gotta stop king Henry. That's gonna be it obviously Lamar,
but we have to pick our poison and see what
we can do. I at some point, Henry's gonna hit
the wall a bit. He's over thirty big running back.
(10:36):
Not that suddenly, Hey, here's the cliff and it's here.
For Derek.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I was gonna say, it's game one. He's had a
lot of time.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You're gonna see they're gonna want to get out there
and they're gonna want to show that our offense is
gonna be explosive. It's and it's a little more it's
a little more certain games. I can say, yeah, this
will be a Derick Henry game. This is a Lamar
Jackson game.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I mean, well, you know, you know what the other
Lamar Jackson, the other other element here right, this is
your daily fantasy or you want to go deep sleeper.
Is that you're gonna see Keaton Mitchell he was a
guy that was going to start taking on a little
bit of that secondary load when Derrick Henry needed a
blow last year and then he got hurt and missed
the year. So he's a guy with the explosiveness as
a runner and receiver that could pay some big dividends
(11:20):
in this game as well, and get those those big
defensive linemen huffin to where eventually, Derek.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, they're huffing, whoa, whoa whoa.
That's oh oh oh, you mean breathing hard on the field. Okay, sorry, okay,
all right, very well, make sure okay.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I mean it's too early for those kind of references
on a Friday night, but I mean, if you're out there,
just be safe. Okay, people be safe over under for
this game, Henry is eighty two and a half rushing yards.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I will take, I will I will take. I will
safely take the under on Derrick Henry this one. I'll
safely take the look at that.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I really thought you said we're gonna say the game
of the week was Monday night.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But you know, well, we'll get to that. We have played, dude.
That's there's four days from now, at one two, that's
three and a half days from now. We got time
for that. We got a whole show for that on
Monday night. The whole show Monday is gonna be Caleb
Caleb galub galub gaylup.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, but it's gonna be living and dying with every
play because my phone's gonna be goes. Oh and if
it goes badly, you're gonna be like, hey man, I
was you I You'll actually have to say you were wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So there. Oh no, he's gonna be great. I'm telling you,
he's gonna be great unless well, well, you know would
be great is if Williams plays well, but like he
gets an important phone call or something and Tyson Beagen
has to come in and he's even better. Like that's
what I really want to see. So like some kind
of or an equipment malfunction and Beijing comes in and
plays great. Oh now we got it, look at that.
(12:39):
But wait a minute. But but Williams was good. No, no, no,
not Williams stinks and had to be benched. No, Williams
plays great in the first half, but then you know,
his cleat breaks or something happens and they gotta go
to Beijing and Beijing takes him all the way down
the field he stays in at quarterback. Oh that's why
I want to see all kinds of case.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well, you know you've had a couple of hot takers
in Chicago that have gone to on air with that going, well,
I'd pick him to go ten and seven. If Bage
it was the quarterback, that is a desperate attempt for clicks.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
So there is our first big pick. Again. We got
all the rest of the night tonight, Phill with the
rest of our picks. Of the big games we have
Detroit and Green Bay, Houston and the Rams, Pittsburgh and
the Jets. Is becoming a big game, but it is
now a final in Brazil. And of all the scrambling
we've talked about tonight, with Patrick Mahomes absolutely keeping the
(13:30):
Chiefs in the game by himself scrambling for ten yards
a pop when he runs the football, including a touchdown.
It is Justin Herbert getting the last scramble left, getting
the last left scrambling a third and fourteen player with
just over two minutes left to go in the game,
Justin Herbert runs for it nineteen yards and the first
(13:53):
down he slides in bounds and that's the end. The
Chargers kneel on the football from the two minute warning
on and they win this game twenty seven to twenty one,
and absolute virtuoso performance from Herbert who throws for three
hundred yards and clinches the game with that run. With
that nineteen yard run, he becomes a second best rusher
(14:15):
on the Chargers for the night. Abarian Hanton had forty
eight yards and Justin Herbert had thirty two yards. So congratulations,
A big, big game for the Chargers. They send the
Chiefs to zero to one, twenty seven to twenty one.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
What an effort from the offense there. The offensive line.
I mean, we had Mackai Beckton who had posted on
Instagram that he was hooked up to an IV machine quote,
don't eat the rice and beans in Brazil, bro with
the little barfee faces. So rallied, got hydrated, got himself together.
That offensive line doing a great job, and then Herbert
(14:48):
with the massive scrambled third and fourteen. I think if
you were a Charger fan, you were clenching a little bit, going,
oh no, here we go. And instead the escape route
from Herbert and grambles and he's slid and that's about
his biggest smile. And for a guy who doesn't like
doing postgame interviews, he better get used to it after
this one, because everybody's gonna want to quote a huge.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Performance from justin Herbert Chargers beat the Chiefs twenty seven
to twenty one. Coming up next, Herbert Mahomes the Chargers
the Chiefs. What to make of this huge one in Brazil?
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Speaker 1 (17:12):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike harmon.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Jason doesn't like it A five second Dad's party.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, that's okay. The Mets one tonight, It's okay, you
can play sexy back, It's all right, it's alright. No,
Tomorrow tomorrow is King Tong day. Man, Nah, not happening tomorrow.
You get Tong sprout tomorrow, man. Yeah, buddy, we got
King Tong tomorrow. That's you all so excited? I am,
(17:40):
I am. I can't believe how much I had to
sweat my ass off with that Diaz. And as soon
as they brought I'm like, he's gonna load the bases?
What does he do? He loads a bass? I mean,
I mean it's it's like it's like I almost say
listen instead of because this is what Edwin Diaz does tonight. Right,
he comes in and this is now, this is our
his thing. He can't just have a Gordon. I'm gonna
(18:00):
throw my fastball and ninety eight ninety nine and I'm
gonna saw off bats and I'm gonna strike guys out
on three pitches. No, no, no, I need to make it
more interesting because it's only interesting for me if there's
runners on base. So I'll walk the first guy. I'll
hit another guy and oh, bases loaded, nobody out. Yeah,
that's okay that I'm down. I'm down for that, right,
(18:21):
I'm up for this. Right, I'll say all right, because
at this point I got to kind of make a
deal and get the best outcome I could be. If
this is what it's gonna be, I would say, all right, Daz,
I wanna if this is the way it's gonna be.
I want to get rid of that five to eight
minutes of absolute anxiety of you getting the bases loaded
before the inning really begins. Okay, so let's just do this.
(18:42):
You come into the game and intentionally walk the first
three guys, just point them all down. They all come
down for it now. Okay. So now at least that's
eight minutes of anxiety I don't have to deal with.
And I'm okay. So we're starting the game, and if
something bad happens, okay, it happens, and it's only a
minute and a half. This is like the eight minutes
of anxiety. And then the absolute roller coaster. It's like
(19:03):
it's like getting on a roller coaster saying okay, my
worst part for me on a roller coaster is the
going up like when you get on and they go
up really slow, your tic tic tic tic, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But you get to see the whole park out and
celebrate that a little bit. I don't like.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, I don't like that now. I don't like the
tick tic tic. That's what it is watching ds come in.
Then you get to the top and that's bases loaded,
nobody out, and then the ride starts. I'm like, if
you could just start me at the top of the ride, great,
start me there, not the going up. No, don't like it.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Don't like the going up. Yeah, but when you get
to the bottom, you go back to the top.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I was gonna start singing helter skelter. I don't like it,
But I mean, are you get tong and sprout and
we're gonna watch it all eventually implode.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
But for now, sure, sure you.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Get to kick it down the road and you have
that that rotational excellence once again, just just several years removed.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Uh so again, we got more baseball coming up. Ste
you just saying we'll have the night in what's trending
coming up in a few minutes, But we just watch
an absolute thriller from Brazil Chargers beat the Chiefs twenty
seven to twenty one, Justin Herbert with a big third
down scramble to clinch the game for the Chargers with
two minutes left to go. It was an incredible night. Now,
a lot to say about Mahomes and Herbert, and let's
(20:17):
talk about Mahomes first. This is where I'm at with
Patrick Mahomes for this season. And I said it going in,
and I feel absolutely good about it because it's exactly
how I thought this game was gonna go. What did
I say last night? And we picked it. It's gonna
be a big night for Mahomes and a win for
the Chargers, right, and that's gonna be kind of the
theme of the season. I am stock way up on
Patrick Mahomes. Right. This is gonna be the Patrick Mahomes
(20:38):
middle Finger revenge Tour. Now he's got the weapons back
and they're healthy in the offensive line. He's got everything
he needs, and he's gonna want to get people back
to run. Knowing this is the Homes I was three
years ago before he became a game manager, because that's
really what he's been the last couple of years. And
he had a big night tonight. Right, two fifty eight
in a touchdown, fifty seven yards and a touchdown running tonight,
(21:01):
his scrambling was the big difference, right and his his
his ability, And this is the most maddening thing about Mahomes. Right,
if I'm watching my team play Mahomes, I don't get
mad when Mahomes shreds my team and goes for three
twenty five or hits somebody or hits Kelsey for a
big touchdown. The worst plays and the most frustrating ones
(21:21):
are when he knows I'm pulling the football down because
this is gonna be a big gainer, not where I
need a yard or I need two yards. In mahomeside,
when he pulls that football down, I have that initial
reaction of this is fifteen yards, like he knows that
when it's his when it's time for him to pull
the footback, when he pulls it football down and go,
he knows this is where I'm getting tons of yards.
(21:42):
And how and how many of those rushes that he
had six rushes, all of them felt like they were
back breaking rushes because the Chargers defense, which we'll get to,
was doing an unbelievable job tonight on the Chiefs offense,
This was the only play that they basically had for
three and a half quarters was when Mahomes has the
play breakdown, I'm scrambling for a backbreaking first down that
(22:02):
kept the Chiefs in the game. That's the most frustrating
part of Mahomes because his ability to know when that's
gonna happen and to make that decision is just it's
so frustrated. Like I still go back a year ago
when the Jets played the Chiefs and they almost upset
them in the third game of the season, and I
just remember we lost because Mahomes kept scrambling Forday when
they have him covered, and it was fine, Oh my goodness,
(22:24):
look what's gonna happen here? Nope, can't we can't get
we can't keep track of him, and he scrambles for
a first down it's fifteen yards. That is the most
frustrating part of watching Mahomes. And that's the genius of
Patrick Mahomes, who knows when he can make those kinds
of plays with his legs and run for first downs.
Chiefs leading rusher Tonight, I am stock way up on
Patrick Mahomes this year, but I'm stocked down on the
(22:45):
Chiefs because I don't see them being able to win.
This roster is a little bit older. The other teams
in the division have all gotten better and younger. There's younger,
hungrier teams in the AFC, and it's gonna be a
fight for them just to be playoff eligible. They're gonna
have to win a lot of shootouts because they don't
quite have the personnel that the other teams like the
Chargers and the Broncos and the Bills and the Bengals
(23:09):
and the Ravens don't have the personnel like they do. Yeah.
I mean, one of the.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Big questions coming into this game this season for the Chiefs,
who's on the defensive side of things, of whether they'd
be able to get any kind of natural pressure where
it was speG Noola gonna have to get really creative
in terms of bringing extra bodies. In this case, nothing
worked because the Chargers offensive line the scheme for Roman,
and of course we can't say enough about what Justin
(23:34):
Herbert was able to do.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I'll give you credit.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You pick the game right, and in the end, it
was the running game that proved the difference, just not
the way you anticipated, because I don't think you were
predicting a nineteen yard scramble on a third and fourteen
for Justin Herbert to fish.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Didn't I didn't I say that? Didn't I say, Hey, look,
I'm thinking they win the game with some sort of
weird scramble play, even a waggle play. Herbert Herbert maybe
runs not left. No, Herbert definitely runs right his power
side and he slides at the end. And he has
a big smile on his face. That's kind of how
I'm seeing this game end. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I'm also going back to Mahomes a couple of years ago.
Remember when he ran five hundred yards against the Buccaneers
sideline the sideline. He must have really been hurt, because
this is spry and athletic, and watch me go to
work into the secondary, watch me lay the lumber. I
saw a lot of former players and pundit saying, yeah,
(24:27):
he's gonna wear that one before long. If he's low
and his lower in his shoulder and giving out licks
towards the sidelines. Just be careful what you wish for,
because payback, as we know, has many terms associated with it.
But he was great tonight. We'll be curious to see
what the long term effects are of that collision between
(24:47):
Xavier Worthy and Travis Kelsey because if Worthy missed his
significant time, now you take away one of those deep threats.
Great game for Hollywood. Brown on his sixteen targets ten
for ninety nine. Sorry, if you get that bonu set
one hundred yards, you lose and you get nothing. But
you know, Travis Kelcey, I we still do that, is
(25:08):
there the bonus for all We used to do that
all the time, but like the last like ten twelve years,
I'm like, yeah, I felt like those leagues are kind
of going away with those hundred yard bonuses. Yeah, but
it's like anything right, there's still gonna be that smattering
Like now you're a holdout if you haven't gone to
at least half PPR. Everything's PPR or a boss like
(25:29):
screw that. You know, you know, you don't get points
for a quick you know, shovel pass in my book,
I need something to earn earnest where there's an overhand
throw or Patrick Mahomes falling to the ground and doing
that weird ass shovel thing he did.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
D I'm still with you, but but everybody loves PPR
and I can know and PPR leagues. I can't, but
that's what everybody wants to do, so I'm like, I can't.
I you know, I can't hate the players. I got
hit the game right.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And you can miss me on the super flesh too.
While I'm at I'm on my little soapbox. But all
of that for Mahomes, he was fantastic and got after it.
The offensive line did about as much as you could.
The run game is really going to be a question
with Pacheco and Hunt whether you're gonna get enough out
of them to give you any kind of level of balance.
(26:19):
But Kelsey failing to extend and really make a play
on that ball in the red zone after that deep
ball again predicated and set up by Mahomes on the
scramble towards the right sideline and right before he gets
leveled winging it down field to Hollywood Brown. I mean
Kelsey came across untouched, scraped across the middle, and then
(26:40):
just didn't really make an effort to get to the
ball was a little out in front of him, but
should have been able to walk in for the touchdown
to give us fantastic finishes. Yeah, think about al Koa
from back in the day.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
But.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Instead we got the fantastic finish on a fantastic four
on a third down and fourteen scramble from Herbert. But yeah,
Magic Mahomes, you're brought up points. If you drafted him,
you probably got him at a little bit of a discount,
far beyond the reaches of those first four scrambling quarterbacks.
And today he said, hey, I could do that too.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Uh So, there's Mahomes now, justin Herbert who goes for
three eighteen three touchdowns on the night, and again this
scramble that clinched the game for the Chargers. Take a
listen to how it unfolded in Brazil just a few
moments ago. Well that's gonna get interen. Come on, man, Hola,
(27:39):
he's putting back inside twenty five right there. You know,
here's the thing, tight shirt. Nobody remembers that play. Nobody.
They all remember the butt fumble, but nobody remembers that No.
Twenty fifth.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
He will never let you forget you.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Sound like Bill Paxson an Independence Day. We will not
go gentle into that good night. We'll not go gentle
to those good nights tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Uh So, channeling the you're gonna start talking about Wizards
soon and see if you can get an accent that works.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
There or what here is the Justin Herbert scramble that
won the game?
Speaker 6 (28:19):
For it and they are gonna throw it and it's
Herbert was right with a wide open lane and he
pits it up and slides down in bounds. What a
night for Justin Herbert caup no team.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
There was Charges Radio Network on the call. What a
night for Justin Herbert. Right now, you talk about what
the last couple of years have been for Patrick Mahomes
where he's become a game manager. A lot of it
because of the personnel the Chiefs have that were built
on a big defense. Justin Herbert has gone through the
last couple of years of is he still the guy
we thought he was after his first year or two
(28:57):
in the league. Right Because Herbert comes into the league,
the Charges really drafting me because well, he's the top
quarterback on the board. Didn't really have a great senior
year at Oregon, but hey, thirty touchdowns is okay, he's fantastic.
Thirty eight touchdowns a second year and we thought, man,
this guy's gonna take over the league. Last couple of years. Yeah,
he's been Okay, he's been good, But has he been
(29:20):
the guy that we thought he was in twenty twenty
and twenty twenty one. He has not been. He's a
guy that's kind of settled into being the guy that, Hey, well,
I'm gonna throw between twenty and twenty five touchdowns and
you know, five to ten interceptions I'll throw for about
you know, thirty five hundred yards like that's kind of
been the year it was. And last year Harbad didn't
rely on him nearly as much as you thought. Now
he had a great year as far as his touchdown
(29:42):
interception ratio, a career low in picks with three twenty
three touchdowns, good quarterback rating, but overall the image of
Herbert was, well, is he still the same guy? Did
he peak a little bit earlier in his career? Right
like the people all you know that peaked his freshman
in high school. But knowing hearing how and seeing how
(30:03):
Jim Harbaugh has talked about Herbert in the offseason and
just the amount of responsibility that it sounded like he
was going to put on justin Herbert's plate. It sounded like, hey,
I understand he is our best player and we're going
to go as far as he goes, no matter what
kind of offense I want to build, and Harball likes
to build an offense that doesn't really rely on the
(30:24):
quarterback to win games. Hey, you are the head of
the snake. But we got guys to run the football.
We'll throw and we need to we have weapons. We're
building the offensive line out. That's how we win here
in the NFL. Yeah, you need games where your quarterback
does it all by himself, right, you need that. And
Herbert tonight showed you that that he is still that guy. Man,
he is still that guy. This is a game against
(30:46):
a pretty good defense where Herbert looked fantastic. Now he
was up up right in the pocket the entire game,
and you give a lot of credit to the charges
offensive line early. You're one hundred percent right on. He
delivered the football, he made all the big plays, three touchdowns.
He's turned Quentin Johnson into a big weapon. Now, it
just took him a year to get going. And the
big scramble on third and fourteen, Like you can see,
(31:07):
there's a difference in Herbert. And I'm already thinking that
we're gonna get this year out of Herbert's gonna look
way more like his first two years in the NFL
than his last three, Like he's back to that guy
from twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Well, the beauty of it is Greg Roman's got the
ability to go and pull the strings right and for
the entirety of the off season, all the the hyperbole
put forth by Jim Harbaugh related to Justin Herbert, some
of it to your point, right, is the all right,
I'm just making sure he knows it's on his shoulders.
(31:42):
He's got to be the guy because I'm in a
lot of punditry about it, right, waiting for him to
take that step into that next echelon of quarterbacks and
arrive and announce his presence with authority, like he's nukle loosh, right,
kind of thing that we look at Herbert and wondered
exactly how this offense would still play.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Is it going to be the run heavy? And I
think there's gonna be games where we probably see a
little bit of that.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
But the re emergence and reinstitution of Keenan Allen gives
them that extra extra little bonus, right, because we already
know what McConkey was able to do before Keenan comes back. Now,
Johnston more comfortable, a guy that got past his early drops,
his early inconsistency, and he doesn't have to be the
(32:30):
guy right He can be a number two and number
three and that changes the coverage that's going to get
you open on some of these crossers like they had.
And if Herbert's going to be there and just be
able to watch the field like he was tonight, I mean,
how easy did he make it.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Look the entire night?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
And like I said, I give full credit because you're
losing slater All having this shift back. I know it
goes back to his college position, but that wasn't the plan.
The plan was that you had your bookkend and then
you work from there. And the fact that they were
able to keep this Chiefs defense absolutely useless in terms
(33:10):
of a pass rush over the course of the night,
keep him clean and allow him to pick them apart
like that only bojoll. I mean they mastered what Spagnola
was trying to run defensively against them tonight. I can't
wait to see how this flows out. They've got three
division games that start their season.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
They've got a very.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Weird schedule, and I know the point was being made
that they've already travel once they come back to La
more miles this week than the Bengals will.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Travel all year. Oh Man. So Justin Herbert is back.
Patrick Mahomes is back. The Chiefs might not be. But
that's why I picked the charges for the AFC Championship
Game time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. But guy's been called the Justin
Herbert of Fox Sports Radio. Thank you. I'm pretty sure
we're gonna get the twenty twenty twenty twenty one version
(33:58):
of him tonight doing up there.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
It's Steve to say, it just means there's no defense
to support me. By the way, according to Next Gen Stats,
on that clinching nineteen yard gain down the sidelines for
Herbert tonight, he reached a top speed of over nineteen
point eight miles per hour, third faster than he's faster
than March of his career. And by the way, in
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his four years at quarterback for his hometown Oregon Ducks,
his senior season, thirty two touchdown passes only six interceptions
won the Rose Bowl in a Top ten matchup against
Wisconsin twenty eight, twenty seven three touchdown runs, and he
was Rose Bowl MVP. In his final college game. Tonight,
opening this season an NFL game in Brazil, the Chargers
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beat Kansas City twenty seven to twenty one. Herbert three
hundred and eighteen yards passing three touchdowns. The Chiefs missed
an extra point kick, missed a two point pass attempt,
and they had a sixteen play drive in the second quarter,
nearly nine minutes worth with a they settled for a
field goal. Patrick Mahomes over two hundred and fifty yards,
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passing one touchdown through the air, one on the ground,
but the Chiefs lose by six. They've actually had a
streak broken. They had won seventeen straight one possession games
until tonight, and in fact, in an opener, this performance
by Herbert. How many quarterbacks in the last five years
have had in their opener at least three hundred and
(35:25):
fifty total yards, at least three touchdowns, no turnovers. The
answer is Patrick Mahomes twice and now Herbert this evening.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
No, I have different, I have different I have hang on,
I have Zach Wilson and Mike White and Justin Fields
on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Does everybody remember the full week where we went Mike
White and nothing else on this show.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Remember the Mike White week? Man, those are the days.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I'm still waiting on my paycheck for what I had
to put up with.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Yeah, exactly, combat pay. At the US Open in New York,
Number two Carlos Alcarez swept Novak Djokovic in a semi final.
Number one Yonicker advance tonight. Among the three WNBA games,
Indiana ninety seven seventy seven over Chicago, which is ten
and thirty one. In late night baseball, bottom of the
twelfth inning at Texas and the Houston Rangers. Game is
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tied at three. A's lead nine to four at the Angels,
bottom of the six Diamondbacks ahead of Boston six to
one in the top of the seventh inning. Toronto beat
the Yankees in New York seven to one. Wins for
the Mets in Philadelphia, wins for the Cubs in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O, Jason Smith, Mike
Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, Yes,
we'll have more reaction from Friday night football in Brazil.
Plus we continue our big predictions for Week one of
the NFL. We take a look at two of the
biggest games on the slate coming up next. Who's walking
away with the win? Keep it right here, Jason and
(36:48):
Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (36:59):
Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon, Gojjas.
That's that's good, ty shirt. That's good. That's good. That's good.
That's good. Okay, even better, it's I don't know if
that's even better. I've always worked for the ball. Uh So,
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we got Pete Feutax stopping by coming up in about
ten minutes for all the latest predictions prognostications for college
football this weekend. But uh, now that we have Friday
night in the rear view mirror, a couple of big
games this weekend in the NFL, we're getting for week one. Look,
it's what we do Friday nights. We take a look,
we predict all the big games, tell you how they're
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gonna go. And I'll tell you what a lot of
hype around this game. The Micah Parsons status is up
in the air for the Packers. Uh, probably gonna go
all the way to game time. But I'll tell you
what doesn't matter. This is where the Lions remind everybody
of who they are and how good they are. They
haven't lost their step. That might even be better of
an offensive team this year because they're healthier than they
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were last year. Remember Aiden Hutchinson his back. Jamier Gibbs
is gonna clearly show I'm the best running back in
all of the National Football League. It's gonna be an
eye opening game. And I'll give you a bold prediction
as well. Jamison Williams leads Detroit in catches in yards
in what is his breakout year, and it's gonna be
Does Detroit need another weapon? Yes, when he wants to
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get paid and get a new contract. Absolutely. It does
give me the Lions big as they remind everybody. Hey,
I know all this Griz is great for the Oh
the Packers are super Bowl team that gay Yeah they
got Michael part Yeah. Don't forget. We've been the best
team in the NFC overall the last couple of years.
And you're gonna see that on Sunday. Give me the
Lions over the Packers.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Jampson Williams, the receiving yards over under fifty three and
a half in this one.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So there you go. You had that going for you.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
I like the balance, the addition of Golden You drafted
him in the first You're gonna use him. He Josh
Jacobs helped leads two points. Is these points spread here
at Green Bay the narrow two point home favorite over
under sitting at forty seven, So expecting some fireworks to
flow out of here. Jacob's the favorite for an any
(39:13):
time touchdown out of everybody in the game, just ahead
of your guy, Jimi or Gibbs. I'm gonna take the
home squad to win a squeaker. They do cover the number,
but the Lion's curious to see new offensive coordinator and
new game plan. No gadgetry, or at least I don't
think so, or the new gadgetry.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Are we gonna get a lineman pass? I mean, what
are we gonna get, dude?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
If they run any of those crazy ass Ben Johnson plays,
I don't, I don't know. I think those are all
out of the playbook. I don't they're in the play
you ripped. Dan Campbell's like, okay, we're lighting these pages
on fire. Here we go. Ready, We're never gonna run
these plays again. That guy made me lose sleep.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Micah Parsons from earlier trick plays for people who can't
beat you straight up, it's like guy running around a
ring all day trying to jab.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
So there's your first one. This one. I'm really stunned.
I don't know how Bengals and the Browns is only
five and a half points, Like I read that. That's
an oo I do spread. That's an insane spread. How
is it? How is it not twenty five and a
half points?
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I mean redill five over under at forty eight. The
Bengals have one defender.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah, they're gonna play one on eleven.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
They have him, and they have the new guy who look,
let's face it, I mean they like the cut of
his jib. He's willing to go in and take Joe
Burrow down at the knees at practice Shamar Stewart after
he signed. So that's all finding good, but now it
does not work. It does not work.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
The Bengals playing with his one defender, the Brown's doing
anything they want to. It's a sixteen play drive. They're
down on the one yard like they win the game.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
But this is a two thousand and seven shootout. Like
Derek Anderson's back out there. Joe Burrow announces this season
will be different. I think it's a trap game, except wow,
Cleveland is really bad. Uh, the offense is gonna continue
how razor sharp it was in the preseason. It's a blowout,
and I'll give you this bold prediction. Dylan Gabriel sees
some snaps in the fourth quarter when the game is
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out of reach. He gets his first run in the
NFL with the game out of reach. Wow, that's some
spicy shtu. Yeah you like that one.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
You like that.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
You just want everybody to get mad, so you should
be breaking down all the games of Week one. No, no,
Dylan Gabriel came in before chad Or Sanders eight seven seven.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
No, I mean, come on, he's coming in at the
end fourth quarter, Gabriel. It'll be absolutely fine, absolutely fun.
How about the big slay to college football Week two tomorrow?
How's it gonna play out? Find out for one of
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