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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Uh so, yeah, there's JJ Reddick. We
know he hates me, but I don't think he really
likes many people. Uh No, you're probably right about that,
but uh, he may hate somebody more than he hates me,
more than you me. Be sure had a new contender.
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Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Well, there's a reason why
we're talking about JJ Reddick here. So far, Lebron James
for the Lakers eight points, four rebounds, couple of steals
(01:11):
for the Lakers who have started out pretty slow against
the Minnesota Timberwolves in a game you thought they would
come out big, they would be able to, you know,
try to seize the narrative, kind of like you thow
the saw the Rockets do tonight against the Warriors. Instead,
it was the Tea Wolves who were more aggressive, especially
on the glass. They continue to lead the Lakers right
now an elimination game, forty four to thirty seven with
(01:33):
about six minutes to go before a halftime in a row.
But maybe maybe the Lakers had the air taken out
of the balloon because of what happened in JJ Reddick's
pregame press conference, because.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Now there may be somebody JJ Reddick haates more than me.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, you know, someone had to come up and become
a contender, right, you hold a record for so long.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
That's true, that's true. But I'm okay. But I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I mean, and maybe who knows, we got to wait
to the postgame press conference, JJ, who do you hate
more than dude that asked that question or Jason Smith? Well,
but it also means that you've really got to come
up with a fiery take by.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The end of the night to reclaim your uh Okay, well, well,
you know, hey, we'll see how this y.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, but what are we talking about? Obviously, one of
the big topics of conversation coming off the Lakers lost
to the t Wolves in Game four was that JJ
Reddick played the same five players for the entire second
half and lost. It looked like the Lakers Wilton at
the end, Lebron was tired, Luca surely was tired. So
(02:35):
that was a big question. I mean, not as big
a question of tips put Brunson in the game, but
this one was a little bit bigger as well. So
before the game, before the game, JJ Reddicks press conference,
he was asked about that, and I don't think he
really appreciated the question. Uh take a listen, because JJ
walked out of the press conference following this question and answer.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
As you watched the film, what do you recall about
your thought process in the moment sticking with the five
you stuck with in the fourth quarter the other day?
And is there an assistant or someone maybe that you'll
lean on tonight maybe to try to get you know,
some other guys involved if that opportunity presents.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Are you saying that because I'm inexperienced and that was
an inexperienced decision that I made. Do you think I
don't talk to my assistance about substitutions every single time out? No?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I just think there's a lot of coaches lean on
their assistants in those situations.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
As do I.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I locked every single time. That's a weird assumption, and
that's it. That's it. You think I don't talk to
my assistants, I don't know. Do you do you talk?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I don't know about that, jaj. You want to Jason
Smith wanted me to ask that question. I have a
full recording if you in the fourth quarter, you didn't
look to talk to anybody, No, including the guys on
the bench. We wont I watch you, Jaja. We had
that Zubruder film on you followed you did you didn't
say a word to anybody? Just very very very terse
poorly phrased question. I think you know, he could have
(04:06):
gotten to it a lot faster in terms of what
did you learn when you went back in film review
about down distance and closing out the game.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
But he didn't. He made it about having a go to.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Guy on the bed and shit, Hey, I'm not the
smartest guy in the room in this situation. There's other
people to blame too, because I asked them what they thought.
I've been reading the message boards. You're taking it in
the teeth right now. Nobody likes what you're doing. Oh
I'm a message boards. Oh my goodness, the message boards.
(04:40):
So I gotta think after listening to that again, I
gotta think that JJ Reddick maybe hates this guy more
than he hates me now because me, it was kind
of a He obviously didn't like me, mention me twice,
but he did mention me by name. So there's that
doesn't like me, but really doesn't like this guy because
he got a little bit more, a little more stand office.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh absolutely, this guy. Yeah, no, he was salty.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I wanted to hear the guy say, so you asked
me you talking about my inexperience.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yes, yes, that's the question right now. But that's just it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
If he just stopped it right there, it's like, yeah,
it kind of showed is this a decision making?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Was all you? Was it a collaborative effort? Did Lebron
take over?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Like?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
How did this work? H hang up and walking?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Did you ask Lebron what you wanted to do, and
then Lebron said, I don't know, and then you really
had no idea. So were you like Tims where you
just got stuck watching the game and forgot what was
going on, but you hadn't substituted it all in the
second half.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Is that what happened? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It is really one of the more puzzling exchanges, almost
like Tibbodeau yesterday, and you're still harping on that. You
saw the Bridges comments coming out of the locker room
talking about their slow starts to second halves and kind
of slapping the coaching staff for what they do and
don't do coming out of the break. But certainly for
(05:55):
JJ Reddick, where many people have been I don't think
I've heard more people say, hey, I was wrong about
a sports topic. We've been in this business a long time,
right as observers and as active participants. Not often will
you have people just say, oh, you know what, I
got it wrong? And JJ Reddick had a lot of people,
(06:15):
which I thought was premature.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
It's a regular season. I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You can win games in the regular see we see
this app at all time, teams win a lot of games,
and then they go into the playoffs and they stink
because now decision making rotations shrink.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
All of those things.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
To say, all right, that's where you make your money,
right as a player and as a coach, that's where
you make your reputation, make your legend. Winning a bunch
of regular season games is all fine and good, but
you need to finish the job. And for JJ Reddick,
he had even the most staunch in boisterous adversaries all
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falling in line, whether it was because of the clutch
communications of.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
You like talking to these guys, don't you you like
your court side.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Seats, don't you or legitimately just say wow, he's done
a really great job. Whatever the case was, they they
were throwing flowers at the third place finish. Well, look,
and here's what I come down to with this decision, right,
which clearly now is gonna be something he's asked about
after the game tonight, win or lose, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
If they got no legs left in the second half.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, we're gonna play. We're gonna play all five starters
forty eight minutes to night. Is that answer your question?
Can eight minutes or five minutes from Maxi Kleiba. He
could have he could have he could have gone that
way tonight with it. Yeah, all all five stars playing
forty eight minutes. Next question, like he could have made
done fun with it. But no, but he got a
little uh, you get a little stand off this yere
kate taking me on here.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well he did it. When someone asked about the starting lineup,
he determined.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, yeah, you can tell, you can you can tell
the guy who's feeling the pressure. JJ Reddick is feeling
the pressure. Right, But now to second guess him on
what he did in the second half by playing everybody
for all five for for the entire second half. Okay,
if Lebron says he's good, okay, right, often Reeve says
he's good. I get it, I understand. But here's the thing.
(08:03):
You know, you know, the one guy who needs rest
is who Luca. Luca needs to sit. His conditioning is
not great. He still labors up the court in the
fourth quarter. He plays a lot of minutes. You know,
he's the one guy that needs to rest. If you're
gonna say, okay, I'll leave the other four guys out there,
the one guy that needs three minutes at the end
of the third quarter, beginning of the fourth.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You know Luca needs that. And what happened the end
of the game.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
He couldn't bring the ball up over half court, right,
you had that big foul that should have been called.
But he's having trouble just with a defender on him
because he's so exhausted. And then they wind up taking
the ball out of bounds. Lebron turns it over like
Lucas the guy you know needs a break, and you
didn't give him a rest. That's the question I have,
which is legitimate. Everything else, Hey, follow with the game.
You talk to you guys, but you really think all
(08:49):
everybody there, I mean, that's Ridiculous's malpracticed by the Lakers
if everybody is all on the same pitch. Yeah, leave
Luca out there, dude, Luca needs to He needs some time, right,
he needs some timestead.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Field the final minute.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You can go back into the the play by play
to figure out exactly where that optimal moment would have
been in the final two minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
But then you get the long TV timeout.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
At the quarter break. Right, it's a ton of time
to pay bills. Give you a preview of what's coming
up for the rest of the week. Reset the first
three quarters. I mean it's almost like a Super Bowl
halftime show. By time they get back to the fourth quarter.
That's where you get have stolen Luca Daunc' just some
pivotal minutes, some gatorade moments. Not to mention he was
(09:32):
sick the game before, so was he one hundred percent.
Even at this point, you could say take all your
you want whatever else and rest. It's still only he's
coming back off of whatever was going on from game. Wait, no,
wait to wait, I gotta his emodium something you should
be taking. That's the stuff that helps you stop your
h diarrhea problems. Oh that's what that is. Okay, okay,
(09:55):
all right, I thought emodium. Okay, you know, I don't
pay attention to a lot of stuff that's hey, yeah,
now when I heard him, you know it's yeah, yeah, okay,
and help me go or.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Does I know.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I'm not sure do I need it or do I
not need This is the one where you don't.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I mean, you can go get yourself some stylish adult diapers.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I mean, however you're gonna go through. I mean, you
could get some gold plated diapers. Baby, whatever, it's gonna
get you through whatever. Never questioned Bruce Dickinson.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Clearly the man was not one hundred percent, and then
you're testing him to play out the full twenty four
against the team that's aggressive on every possession because these
guys don't stop, right.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I mean, like that's one thing. Whatever you think about.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
The Timberwolves, you can make your cracks about Rudy Gobert
and whatever else. There's effort going on. And for Luca
you're gonna wear down. And what happened They missed blank
you know, point blank layups lebron't even talking about in
the poste. No, that's was retired, Like yeah, it was
like you're retired. That's like that's like when a kid
when you tell, Okay, time to go to bed.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I'm not tired, not tired. I'm tired. No, I'm not
die Okay. I just said, yeah, no, you're tired, time
to go to bed.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And then you know, then then the kid doesn't remember
going to bed because it was cry because it was
so tired.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
They find themselves out and passed it.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Tired.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You know that's the thing, if you if you could
if the Lakers could have found a way to start
tonight's game with the energy a kid has who wants
to tell his parents he's not tired. I mean they'd
be winning by fifteen. Well, I mean you bottle up
the screams. I mean, since you did add that to it.
I mean like in Monsters, Inc. You bottle that up
and now you got energy.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Why I'm tired, I'm not tied.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I like to watch door. Are you having flashbacks?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
No, no, no, no no, it's always an easy kid. She didn't.
That's normally what you yell after three steps. I'm ted.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Why didn't Tims?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
But bruns it in the game? Runs it out of
the game. The final too bad?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
And that was more mean. When I went home, lest Yeah,
you're kind of going through it.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I could totally see you, like hands at ten and
two for the first time in your life and screaming
obscenities at sibs as you're driving into the Southern California night. Jason,
Are you tired? And I'm just really mad at tips?
Oh that again, I understand that. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, no,
I gotta work. I mean somewhere, I mean that you
do cross that bridge, right, because the kid's kind of
salty because you're sure you're intimating that a they are
(12:34):
being cranky and being a pain in the neck. They
are well, but some kids don't respond well to no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Not every kid respond no. I understand that you're absolutely right.
It's like no.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But the point is, I know you're still tired. You
could tell me, but I know you're not dead.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Come on, the Mets are no, they're not. No, no,
no no. They lost tonight because Mark Viento sticks.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
He's struck.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Gotta lieven times. Uh so you need some chock.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Maybe now I'm replaced at the in the in the
top twenty five people, JJ Reddick hates the most I've
been supplanted.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Maybe I'm down to number two this week.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
My win last week wasn't as impressive and this guy's
question really got him going, so he moved to number one.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Wow, that's a ranking.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
All right, I want to talk about rank them all right,
let's go, Hey, we should try to frostbur We try
to get that guy on the show after the game tonight.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Which guy JJ Reddick.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, he's coming off the show. Listen, they keep playing
like this. He's on vacation. What else is he doing? No,
get the guy that asked the question. We'll get the
reporter that asked the question of JJ Redick. They made
JJ Reddick you know, No, I don't know who was it?
Find out let me know. Oh, well, don't you have
like voice activation stuff? You can figure that out. Yeah,
but I'm not wasting it on a guy who pissed
JJ Reddick off before the biggest playoff game of his career.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Jade.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Maybe he's just trying to motivate them really because it
didn't work.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, no, no, it absolutely. I'm not saying it was.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It was something that was successful, but I'm saying maybe
that was the intention. Well, but maybe it'll it'll spur
great cognitive thought entering the fourth quarter that leads you
to victory.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well that's why I got all four screens on the Lakers,
all right.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Uh and again the Lakers trail right now by ten
with just undertab.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
To get that, I got to give the score. The
Lakers are losing, Lakers are losing, Lakers are down.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
God had a really good dunk where he did one
of those quid directions or I will run you over moment,
be like MANI from Major League three pointer? Good and
that's it? What's just called no no, no, no jumper off?
What's the speech here at halftime? Is there even a speech?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Whether they all look at Lebron and be like, Yo,
you're old, you're old.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Just go watch the Red Panda. I'm out of my sight.
I think the speech is Lebron, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Man? What do you think? Are you ready to lose
another shot at the finals?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
What do you think? What do you think here, Lebron?
What do you think? Hey, Luca, you ready? You guys ready?
Can you guys come out with some sort because it's
not like this is not the question we've had about
the Lakers forever. This isn't They look great and then
they come out and they play flat And it's been
the The motivation has been at the crux and it's stupid,
but it's been at the crux of everything the Lakers
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have done this year. Every time you think they've turned
the corner, they're terrific, their title contender, they wind up
coming out flat and unmotivated. This is not something new.
It's not something new. This is one of those halftime speeches. Whright,
just go Okay, you know what, I can't say anything.
I can't say anything. You need you guys need to
understand if you want to keep playing basketball or go home?
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How far does this fall make Lebron fall in the
all time rankings? Eight seven second No, I'm just kidding.
Exit out about a fresca exit swallen' do home. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon as Luka Doncic goes in for a
layup gets fouled. He's being helped up right now. Looks
like he's okay. We'll bring you more on this story.
But coming up next, Oh boys, we have all kinds
(15:55):
of fun football topics to get to with our next guest,
including what to make out of the whole Bill Belichick situation,
why there's so many prank calls during the NFL Draft.
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posted right after we get off the air well update
from La Luka Doncic a hard foul by Dante DiVincenzo
in the final minute of the first half. Luca was
down on the floor was looked at by medical personnel.
He limped off the court and they looked to see
if it was going to be a flagrant foul. It
was kind of a dirty hit by Devincenzu, kind of
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comes down with like an axe handle over Luca's shoulder.
Luca lance kind of on his knee, he reaches for
his lower back. He hits the free throws and then
leaves the court, walks to the locker room before halftime began.
So we'll have an update on that as soon as
we do. The Timberwolves lead the Lakers elimination game for
the Lakers fifty nine forty nine, and maybe they're doing
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it without Luca for the second half, but joining us
now I'm a hot line for all the big news
in the NFL. A man who actually spent most of
the NFL Draft pranking potential NFL draftees that he was
Andrew Luck calling him to congratulate them on their draft position.
It's longtime NFL insider, thirty third team rider and Andrew Luck.
(17:51):
Sound alike, Jason Cole, Jay Cole? What's happening?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Man? I actually was outlay first temper.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Oh okay, all right, all right, would.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
You accept the money from Stanford because we're willing to
spend billions out dis desperately to try and stay in
college football? Would you accept that and bottle out of
the draft?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So you called, you called your door Sanders with that
a bunch of times, got it?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
We call sever eight times.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You know what?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What do you make?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
All these prank calls? And everybody got Sanders and Ty
Warren and today Abdul Carter said he got a prank
phone call about being drafted.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Second, it's been going on for a long time. I mean,
this is not this is not really new, and it's
but guys give out their phone numbers, and especially guys
in college to probably give out their phone numbers to
how many different women over the course of their college career. Yeah,
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like it's going to happen. Their numbers get around and
people have access to this stuff all the time, and
you know it's I think it's stupid by people to
do it, but yeah, it's going to happen, you know.
I mean people have been knowing prank calls for sixty
or seventy years, so yeah, this just takes it to
(19:14):
another level. But yeah, I mean I thought the punishment
was appropriate for the Falcons and for all Brick. I
would say that if I was at Ulbrick, I would
make my kid do ten thousand push ups in a
week and playing dirty jock and socks during Falcons camp
for like two weeks. I'd just say, Yeah, they had
(19:38):
put food on your table and you decided to prank column.
Here's your punishment. Do you get to go do laundry
for two weeks? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I wonder what it's like in the Olbrick household the
last few hours. One hundred thousand dollars, one hundred thous dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
A little chili, a little at least. That's just that
way when your kids, when your kid who doesn't have
a hundred K probably in college, costing you close to
one hundred k to put him through college, taught you
another one hundred k. Yeah, not happy. Happy.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You might be making a giant pot of chili because
you could do that cost efficiently.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
To jeff olbricks story, which is I think that when
he was coaching with San Francisco, well maybe when he's playing,
like Colin McGregor came to a practice and told this story.
Somebody told me this and that he actually wanted to,
like offer to fight Colin McGregor. He just was like,
(20:43):
I'll fight him, I'll do it. Imagine that being you're
you're now the son of the guy who wanted to
fight Colin McGregor. What do you think your your life's
like at home right now?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, that's a tough, tough way to go. Yeah, I
mean back when McGregor was a bad was one of
the baddest men on the plane.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Ah, man fighting Connor McGregor, Hi, goodness, all.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Bricks got him on size. I'd take all brick in
that match, I've gotta tell you I would.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, I mean on the plus, on the plus side
as you go through it, though.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I mean, well, it does include Shador.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It did give us a topic that is in Shadoor
or Bill Belichick out of the draft, you know, talking
about protocols and stuff, So we got that going for us.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
It's so psycho it's unable. I'll be none of that.
We're not talking about that. Well, no, not talking about that,
like it's one of the most innocent questions in the world. Yeah,
how'd you guys meet? Like sis if you're just cutting
(21:55):
that thing completely off, Like, what the heck is going
on here? Whatever?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I hope he enjoys that, because it sounds like it's
going to be a really lasting relationship.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I can't get over Jie call for a guy who
has been the control freak for his entire life, both
on and off the field. I'm giving all my control
away to my twenty four year old girlfriend, all of
this stuff. She's gonna disrupt the interview all like I'm
giving away all this control.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Well, he does. One of the biggest problems is that
the guy who used to do this for him isn't
around anymore. So, like the Bear Shingerian with the guy
with the Patriots who handled a lot of stuff behind
the scenes for Bill and set it up and ran
their fearance. And so Bear stayed in New England because
that's where his family is, did not go to North
(22:46):
Carolina with them. Doesn't he even want to be out
of work for a year while still was waiting around.
So she's taken she's taken over the job that of
a guy who you know, from a guy who did
it before for Bill. Bill didn't have anybody else to
step into that role, so she sort of volunteered for it,
I assume. And yeah, I mean god, I mean, all
(23:10):
of a sudden, it's like a female crazy eye killer,
you know, like this is definitely out of the Larry
David skip. That's what it looked like to me.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
So we got that percolating in the background.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We'll see, uh and follow that coming out of the
draft and any big takeaways from you in terms of
the the process and procedures we talked about Shador Sanders.
I want to applaud the NFL Society for not saying, well,
we have to have quarterbacks one, two three, just because.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Now I love the I love the whole Shador Sanders Theater,
like it's just tremendous and the people falling all over
themselves trying to figure it all out. It's yeah, I
can't send people to step back and go, yeah, the
kid smart like is a smart like. That's it. And
you can't be a schmuck and be a quarterback like
(24:04):
you really can't treat your you know, everybody wants to
talk about Dion this it's like, no, guys, guys hard
to deal with. And I love the idea of people
talking about, oh, you sand bag interviews, but that was
a really big topic way back at the combine, like, oh,
he's going to stand bag certain interviews for teams he
(24:25):
doesn't want to play for. Like that always works out
against you, Like you're always stuffed off in any situation.
Interviewing the best way you possibly can. Now, if you
want to stay to a team like I don't want
to play for you, you should say that. You just
be honest about it and not stand bag the interview.
(24:48):
You know you should. You should present yourself because you
don't know where you're going to be four years from
now or where some of the people who are in
that room are going to be four years from now.
So if you stand bag an interview and all of
a sudden some guy ends up on a team where
you might want to be as a free agent, or
you're struggling and you need to get a recommendation to
get a job from that guy. It's like you weren't
(25:12):
jerk in an interview, now now you want to work
for me? I mean, come on, I mean, who who
thinks this is ever a good idea to standbag an interview?
I mean, this is just idiotic, scept and so just
on you know, the thought process on the standards end
of it, Like they got what they deserved on this one.
(25:33):
They really did. Instead of being honest and saying, hey, look,
I'll answer all your questions like you the best answer
I possibly can, but I'm honestly telling you I don't
want to play for you, and here are the reasons
for it. Instead of manning up like that, he decides
to do this other crap. I mean, it's just like
it's like it's like eighth grade stuff. It really is
(25:56):
like so immature, you know, I don't I don't know
how Dion thought this was a good idea.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, he thought he had the power, Like he's going back,
where is that tweet that came up from last year?
My son's going to the top five. I got time
for this today. Like he thought, I have the asset and.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
We can do whatever we want to. And clearly he
didn't have the asset.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
No, he didn't have the asset, I mean. And the
thing about it, he didn't adjust it. Like when his
kid was playing a lot more like Jameis Winston and
not the good Jameis Winston at Florida State, the playing
like the bad Jameis Winston that we've seen, you know,
in the last four or five years. He didn't adjustice
and go, no, wait a second, my kid really maybe
(26:38):
got to struggle to be in the first round, Like
didn't really adjust his thinking and wasn't real with his
kid and just yeap, when you're as good as Dion,
you can be as big a pain in the in
the rear as you want to be. And people are
like they'll get you know, they'll just go, look, you
do whatever you want to do. You're that good show
(27:00):
up on Sunday. We don't care. Yah, Lawrence Taylor, you
can be the biggest chrich in the world. But Parcels
is going to tell Belichick just get him to Sunday,
Like that's what Parcel literally used to do with Belichick.
Get him to Sunday. We need him. We don't care
about the other six days a week, right Beyond the
same kind of thing. Dam was a very serious football player,
(27:21):
So I'm not trying to take that away from it.
But he you know, was loud, and you know, was obnoxious,
and you know, would talk and so he would do
some things that would generally distract you, but he would
fall out on Sunday. And he was generally a really
hard worker. So he wasn't that big a problem child.
But the presumption that his kid is that good man,
(27:44):
that's just it. You have no sense of reality, just
none at all. And his kid is I'm better than
a fifth round pick, and he really is. He should
have been a second or third round pick. But the
way that they've acted is just it is anti quarterback.
It's just anti the way quarterback that's supposed to act
(28:06):
if you're going to leave the team. So they got
what they deserve the way this goes.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That is
at Jason Coles too.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Is that what no, no, no, Mason Taylor questions you've
got you have the type Dolphin on here now on
the Jets go. He's a mixture of two Hall of
Fame Dolphin players.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
This is year thirty seven in a row. I like
the Jets Draft. Now we see how it goes in
the studio. Yeah, dude, Joe Douglas did. Joe Douglas did
a bit with me after the after the show. He
gave me a hug when I got to meet him
last week the night of the draft.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, he's a good dude.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
How did you react? You did you hold back? Did
you well?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, I only got to meet him in the crossover
the shows because he couldn't stay because he had to
fly out.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
So I said, hey, can we do something for like
and me?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
He said yeah sure, and I'm I'm wearing my jets
and I first thing I said to him is, hey, so,
uh is this awkward?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
He goes, no, no, no, no, it's fun, not at all, okay,
And then he gave me wait and then we hugged it.
We hugged it out at the end. It was great.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Butt. But you weren't honest with him, like you didn't
you kept it under wrap. I told him.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I told him what a great job he didn't drafting
Garrett Wilson, I had, I did, I did, said percent.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
He isolated that one guy. Yeah. Yeah, it's you can
find it. It's all over Twitter. It's all over Twitter.
Just to look.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Jason Smith, Joe Douglas. You'll see our meeting a lot
of people standing in the hallway j Cole the entire
time waiting for it to go wrong. Yeah, yeah, there
was a Yeah, it was definite. Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I would have been agitating if you're laughing, Yeah I would.
I would have definitely gone against my advice. And what
a steering for him to punch you or something.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah. Well here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
When I met him and he stood up and I'm like,
oh he is a big dude, like Joe Douglas is
a big I'm like, oh yeah, I would lose this
in a second.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
And I would lose this in a second.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Make your bike down, Hey, Joe.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
How you doing? Nice to his arms? Pick as your head.
J Cole is always buddy appreciated.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Man.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
We'll talk to you next week. I have a good one.
Say you, buddy.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Exit out by a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. Jason Smith
Mike harmon Time Now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports From someone who's been called
the Luca Dauncich. Fox Sports Radio immediately recognizes when she
might be injured.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
It's wante Blago swift. What's trending? You know what?
Speaker 7 (30:38):
If I'm injured, you wouldn't know it.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Really, I'm gonna stay out there.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
You play her sto session, look at her? All right?
Speaker 7 (30:44):
You should. Literally last night, I got ran over by
one of my male teammates on the volleyball court.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Hit me hard.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
My shoulder still hurts, and.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I got up and he was like, oh my god,
are you a kid?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I was like, get off me, let's go.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I gotta serve. Let's go. Step on their throat.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
That's my mentality all the time, step on their throat.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
And at what point did you regret that when I
got home?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
When he got home at home, do.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
We have.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Because it could no longer be I fell at work? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Yeah, it was just you know, my shoulder, second walker
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
But like you is your place to somebody else's my place?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Okay, but yes, you won't know if I'm hurt.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
So the latest with Luka Doncic is that he went
to the locker room before halftime with a back injury.
He has a wrap around his lower back right now.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
But he is back on the court.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
They're about to start the third quarter.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Minnesota is up though, fifty nine to fifty one.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Again.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
They just got going in the third quarter of this one.
Rudy Gobert the leading score. He's killing it, I know,
fifteen points, eight rebounds. Even the guys on TNT couldn't
believe it. But you were mentioning how they didn't use
any subs in the last game, and the one person
who needs the subs is Luka Doncic. They put a
graphic up on t He actually is averaging the most
(32:01):
minutes in the playoffs for the Lakers, forty one. Like
the one guy who needs it averaging the most minutes
for the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Don't ask JJ Redick.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Don't ask himological question. No, no, no no, because he
feels attacked.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
He feels attacked because he is inexperience according to him.
So yeah, Timberwolves up right now in this elimination game
for the Lakers. It was an elimination game for the Rockets,
but they still live after defeating the Warriors one thirty
one to one sixteen, so Game six is not going
to be on Friday. Atlanta Hawks guard Dyson Daniels did
win the NBA's Most Improved Player of the Year award.
It was announced earlier today. On the ice right now,
(32:36):
the Jets are up on the Blues four to two
after two periods. That series is tied at two apiece.
The Capitals and the Panthers are both advancing to the
next round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, defeating their opponents.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Earlier today in Major League.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Baseball, and the last update, I told you guys that
the A's and the Rangers were tied at one apiece
in the ninth inning, and then this happened.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Here's the pitch.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
That's we're not flyball this Centerville. That's it.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Well, going back to there is near the truck, on
the truck.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
At the it's a grand slam for Lawrence Butler and
the A's lead.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
It's seven to one, and that was the final score.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
You heard it all on the A's radio network. Seven
to one against the Rangers after a grand slam in
the ninth inning. Lastly, here have you guys seen the
preview for the next Final Destination movie.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah, let's go. I don't think I can do it.
What's different about this one? Obviously they're all the same.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Right, but this went like the preview, right, you want
to tell you what they showed in the preview. It
looked like a chain was hanging from maybe a fan,
and it hooked on a guy's nose ring and he started.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
It looked like it was lifting.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Taking the fans. It's a public service announcement. Public service announcement.
I think we go out and have drinks and then
go watch it.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I don't know if I could do it.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
And I've seen them, you know, but like I haven't
seen the last seven? Am I gonna know what's going on?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Is sort of sort of?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
The last time I saw is when Stiffler said, am
I gonna die before I see the Jets win the
Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Which I think was the first one? Okay, most people
will yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Generational generation.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
I don't know. I don't know if I can do it.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
All right, all right, just just just just don't have
a nose ring and you'll be okay.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
I'm never gonna have a nose ringover Not that I was,
but now I'm.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Really not no, really not. See they did their job.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You're right, you're right, Begs Monson, Jason Smith and Mike Harman.
Coming up next, a surprise NFL retirement today that took
a lot of people by surprise.
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Lock it in.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Turn your mic on ripped out here we got see
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Went off and then I don't know who's in charge
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you just hit it. You WENTZ for two turning on
your microphone.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
You were oh for one trying to pay attention to
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your microphone.
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Toby failed you laid enough and I decided not to
go challenge for the.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
So a big return.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I'll have more in the NBA, Lakers have cut this
lead to five t Wolves lead at sixty six sixty one,
seven minutes to go in.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
The third quarter.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
UH.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
A big retirement in the NFL. Today, Jordan Travis, who
was drafted by the Jets in the fifth round because
he's coming off a really bad injury at Florida State,
announce his retirement from the league. Now there's been a
bit of back and forth with him the last couple
of years. Remember he gets hurt. I got hurt my birthday. UH.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
In twenty twenty three, as Florida State.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Was on it's your fault, it is my my fault,
gets hurt in a hip drop tackle and he misses
the rest of the season.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Remember this is Florida State.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
An undefeated Florida State team does not get to go
to the playoff because hey, we have a lot of teams.
We got teams with one loss, and hey, here's an
undefeated Florida State team but without their quarterback, and they
get left out of the playoff. Jordan Travis gets drafted
by the probably would have been a second round pick
if he was healthy, because the guy was really really good. Yes,
he had a little bit of issues, wasn't the greatest
(37:26):
pocket passer, but boy, he could make plays. Probably would
have been starting in the NFL by now, but never
got healthy. There was a bit of a back and
forth where his agent says the Jets kind of rushed
him to come back and there was a setback in
his recovery. But in his statement today, he thanked the
Jets for everything and realized that medically he had to retire.
He's not gonna be able to play in the NFL.
(37:46):
And it's just sad because this is a guy who
was so electric, and you know, he started out his career,
he transferred and finally got to Florida State where here
they are undefeated and they get left out of the playoff,
and he just feels so sad for the kid. And
he's all full of positivity. He says, look, God's got
a plan. I'm excited for what's next in my life.
I just can't play football anymore. And you know, I
(38:08):
spend a lot of time today thinking back to that
moment where we knew, we already knew we were getting
the new playoff. But this was the shining example. I
remember thinking and saying on the radio that with you
and I that if we didn't have a twelve team playoff,
this would get us a twelve team playoff, because yeah,
you want to try to find an argument to get
Texas and Alabama in and leave out an undefeated team,
(38:30):
It's ridiculous. I don't care if the entire team got hurt.
What you're saying is going undefeated in a power power
five conference, you're going to get left out of of
a four team playoff, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
And who knows what would have happened had he stayed healthy.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
There You know, Florida State is in, and maybe Texas
is out, and maybe it's Michigan and Florida State for
the national title. But this is still the biggest miscarriage
of justice I've seen in college football the last five years.
Here's an undefeated team that did everything you had, they
didn't falter at all.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
But other teams that lost, yeah, we think they're better
than you. Now.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Now what you're telling me is the regular seasons irrelevant?
That you can you can you can be have one
loss to whatever it is, and if the other team
loses a player. Yeah, we think you're better that that's
that's what's really It still gets me about this that
that decision was made, that it's all been. All they
did was say the bet the from the BCS all
the way through the fourteen playoff, win all your games.
(39:26):
That was that was the decision. Win all your games.
We're not having this conversation. They won all their games,
they still got left out. Worst decision made in college
football the last five years. Well, as we talked about
it the night that that was decided, it was the
indictment of everything with the system opening the door to
a larger playoff, which is never going to be perfect, right,
all the folks and we were talking about from the
college basketball side of things. Now when you look at
(39:48):
nil and everything, Uh, now it's the battle lines you're drawn.
Is this good or bad? This is obviously a good
move to expand the playoff. You have no idea what
the wins above replacement was for the guy that would
have replaced him. They got beat bad in the bowl
game because they didn't go and people opted out. Obviously
(40:09):
we're going and transferring and going to the NFL. So
of course that's gonna happen. But what I mean the
whole thing. For years, it's always been win all your games,
were not and they were very haughty about that, win
all your games. They won all their games. Yeah, we're
still leaving y out Ah. You guys suck. You guys
really suck. Shows the power of Jordan Travis though. I mean,
you know, he becomes a college legend off that I
(40:29):
wish him well and obviously a very tough decision to
come to exit outbout a Fresca exit swelling Dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, we got more from the NBA coming up,
update on the Lakers and the Tea Wolves. But I
have a solution to all the NFL prank calls during
the Draft. I got a solution. It's easy. It's next
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Uh so, yeah, there's JJ Reddick. We
know he hates me, but I don't think he really
likes many people. Uh No, you're probably right about that,
but uh, he may hate somebody more than he hates me,
more than you me. Be sure had a new contender.
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Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Well, there's a reason why
we're talking about JJ Reddick here. So far, Lebron James
for the Lakers eight points, four rebounds, couple of steals
(01:11):
for the Lakers who have started out pretty slow against
the Minnesota Timberwolves in a game you thought they would
come out big, they would be able to, you know,
try to seize the narrative, kind of like you thow
the saw the Rockets do tonight against the Warriors. Instead,
it was the Tea Wolves who were more aggressive, especially
on the glass. They continue to lead the Lakers right
now an elimination game, forty four to thirty seven with
(01:33):
about six minutes to go before a halftime in a row.
But maybe maybe the Lakers had the air taken out
of the balloon because of what happened in JJ Reddick's
pregame press conference, because.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Now there may be somebody JJ Reddick haates more than me.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, you know, someone had to come up and become
a contender, right, you hold a record for so long.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
That's true, that's true. But I'm okay. But I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I mean, and maybe who knows, we got to wait
to the postgame press conference, JJ, who do you hate
more than dude that asked that question or Jason Smith? Well,
but it also means that you've really got to come
up with a fiery take by.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
The end of the night to reclaim your uh Okay, well, well,
you know, hey, we'll see how this y.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, but what are we talking about? Obviously, one of
the big topics of conversation coming off the Lakers lost
to the t Wolves in Game four was that JJ
Reddick played the same five players for the entire second
half and lost. It looked like the Lakers Wilton at
the end, Lebron was tired, Luca surely was tired. So
(02:35):
that was a big question. I mean, not as big
a question of tips put Brunson in the game, but
this one was a little bit bigger as well. So
before the game, before the game, JJ Reddicks press conference,
he was asked about that, and I don't think he
really appreciated the question. Uh take a listen, because JJ
walked out of the press conference following this question and answer.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
As you watched the film, what do you recall about
your thought process in the moment sticking with the five
you stuck with in the fourth quarter the other day?
And is there an assistant or someone maybe that you'll
lean on tonight maybe to try to get you know,
some other guys involved if that opportunity presents.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Are you saying that because I'm inexperienced and that was
an inexperienced decision that I made. Do you think I
don't talk to my assistance about substitutions every single time out? No?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I just think there's a lot of coaches lean on
their assistants in those situations.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
As do I.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I locked every single time. That's a weird assumption, and
that's it. That's it. You think I don't talk to
my assistants, I don't know. Do you do you talk?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I don't know about that, jaj. You want to Jason
Smith wanted me to ask that question. I have a
full recording if you in the fourth quarter, you didn't
look to talk to anybody, No, including the guys on
the bench. We wont I watch you, Jaja. We had
that Zubruder film on you followed you did you didn't
say a word to anybody? Just very very very terse
poorly phrased question. I think you know, he could have
(04:06):
gotten to it a lot faster in terms of what
did you learn when you went back in film review
about down distance and closing out the game.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
But he didn't. He made it about having a go to.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Guy on the bed and shit, Hey, I'm not the
smartest guy in the room in this situation. There's other
people to blame too, because I asked them what they thought.
I've been reading the message boards. You're taking it in
the teeth right now. Nobody likes what you're doing. Oh
I'm a message boards. Oh my goodness, the message boards.
(04:40):
So I gotta think after listening to that again, I
gotta think that JJ Reddick maybe hates this guy more
than he hates me now because me, it was kind
of a He obviously didn't like me, mention me twice,
but he did mention me by name. So there's that
doesn't like me, but really doesn't like this guy because
he got a little bit more, a little more stand office.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh absolutely, this guy. Yeah, no, he was salty.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I wanted to hear the guy say, so you asked
me you talking about my inexperience.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yes, yes, that's the question right now. But that's just it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
If he just stopped it right there, it's like, yeah,
it kind of showed is this a decision making?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Was all you? Was it a collaborative effort? Did Lebron
take over?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Like?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
How did this work? H hang up and walking?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Did you ask Lebron what you wanted to do, and
then Lebron said, I don't know, and then you really
had no idea. So were you like Tims where you
just got stuck watching the game and forgot what was
going on, but you hadn't substituted it all in the
second half.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Is that what happened? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It is really one of the more puzzling exchanges, almost
like Tibbodeau yesterday, and you're still harping on that. You
saw the Bridges comments coming out of the locker room
talking about their slow starts to second halves and kind
of slapping the coaching staff for what they do and
don't do coming out of the break. But certainly for
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JJ Reddick, where many people have been I don't think
I've heard more people say, hey, I was wrong about
a sports topic. We've been in this business a long time,
right as observers and as active participants. Not often will
you have people just say, oh, you know what, I
got it wrong? And JJ Reddick had a lot of people,
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which I thought was premature.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
It's a regular season. I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You can win games in the regular see we see
this app at all time, teams win a lot of games,
and then they go into the playoffs and they stink
because now decision making rotations shrink.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
All of those things.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
To say, all right, that's where you make your money,
right as a player and as a coach, that's where
you make your reputation, make your legend. Winning a bunch
of regular season games is all fine and good, but
you need to finish the job. And for JJ Reddick,
he had even the most staunch in boisterous adversaries all
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falling in line, whether it was because of the clutch
communications of.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
You like talking to these guys, don't you you like
your court side.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Seats, don't you or legitimately just say wow, he's done
a really great job. Whatever the case was, they they
were throwing flowers at the third place finish. Well, look,
and here's what I come down to with this decision, right,
which clearly now is gonna be something he's asked about
after the game tonight, win or lose, whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
If they got no legs left in the second half.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, we're gonna play. We're gonna play all five starters
forty eight minutes to night. Is that answer your question?
Can eight minutes or five minutes from Maxi Kleiba. He
could have he could have he could have gone that
way tonight with it. Yeah, all all five stars playing
forty eight minutes. Next question, like he could have made
done fun with it. But no, but he got a
little uh, you get a little stand off this yere
kate taking me on here.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well he did it. When someone asked about the starting lineup,
he determined.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, yeah, you can tell, you can you can tell
the guy who's feeling the pressure. JJ Reddick is feeling
the pressure. Right, But now to second guess him on
what he did in the second half by playing everybody
for all five for for the entire second half. Okay,
if Lebron says he's good, okay, right, often Reeve says
he's good. I get it, I understand. But here's the thing.
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You know, you know, the one guy who needs rest
is who Luca. Luca needs to sit. His conditioning is
not great. He still labors up the court in the
fourth quarter. He plays a lot of minutes. You know,
he's the one guy that needs to rest. If you're
gonna say, okay, I'll leave the other four guys out there,
the one guy that needs three minutes at the end
of the third quarter, beginning of the fourth.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You know Luca needs that. And what happened the end
of the game.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
He couldn't bring the ball up over half court, right,
you had that big foul that should have been called.
But he's having trouble just with a defender on him
because he's so exhausted. And then they wind up taking
the ball out of bounds. Lebron turns it over like
Lucas the guy you know needs a break, and you
didn't give him a rest. That's the question I have,
which is legitimate. Everything else, Hey, follow with the game.
You talk to you guys, but you really think all
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everybody there, I mean, that's Ridiculous's malpracticed by the Lakers
if everybody is all on the same pitch. Yeah, leave
Luca out there, dude, Luca needs to He needs some time, right,
he needs some timestead.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Field the final minute.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You can go back into the the play by play
to figure out exactly where that optimal moment would have
been in the final two minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
But then you get the long TV timeout.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
At the quarter break. Right, it's a ton of time
to pay bills. Give you a preview of what's coming
up for the rest of the week. Reset the first
three quarters. I mean it's almost like a Super Bowl
halftime show. By time they get back to the fourth quarter.
That's where you get have stolen Luca Daunc' just some
pivotal minutes, some gatorade moments. Not to mention he was
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sick the game before, so was he one hundred percent.
Even at this point, you could say take all your
you want whatever else and rest. It's still only he's
coming back off of whatever was going on from game. Wait, no,
wait to wait, I gotta his emodium something you should
be taking. That's the stuff that helps you stop your
h diarrhea problems. Oh that's what that is. Okay, okay,
(09:55):
all right, I thought emodium. Okay, you know, I don't
pay attention to a lot of stuff that's hey, yeah,
now when I heard him, you know it's yeah, yeah, okay,
and help me go or.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Does I know.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I'm not sure do I need it or do I
not need This is the one where you don't.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I mean, you can go get yourself some stylish adult diapers.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I mean, however you're gonna go through. I mean, you
could get some gold plated diapers. Baby, whatever, it's gonna
get you through whatever. Never questioned Bruce Dickinson.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Clearly the man was not one hundred percent, and then
you're testing him to play out the full twenty four
against the team that's aggressive on every possession because these
guys don't stop, right.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I mean, like that's one thing. Whatever you think about.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
The Timberwolves, you can make your cracks about Rudy Gobert
and whatever else. There's effort going on. And for Luca
you're gonna wear down. And what happened They missed blank
you know, point blank layups lebron't even talking about in
the poste. No, that's was retired, Like yeah, it was
like you're retired. That's like that's like when a kid
when you tell, Okay, time to go to bed.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I'm not tired, not tired. I'm tired. No, I'm not
die Okay. I just said, yeah, no, you're tired, time
to go to bed.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And then you know, then then the kid doesn't remember
going to bed because it was cry because it was
so tired.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
They find themselves out and passed it.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Tired.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You know that's the thing, if you if you could
if the Lakers could have found a way to start
tonight's game with the energy a kid has who wants
to tell his parents he's not tired. I mean they'd
be winning by fifteen. Well, I mean you bottle up
the screams. I mean, since you did add that to it.
I mean like in Monsters, Inc. You bottle that up
and now you got energy.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Why I'm tired, I'm not tied.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I like to watch door. Are you having flashbacks?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:45):
No, no, no, no no, it's always an easy kid. She didn't.
That's normally what you yell after three steps. I'm ted.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Why didn't Tims?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
But bruns it in the game? Runs it out of
the game. The final too bad?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
And that was more mean. When I went home, lest Yeah,
you're kind of going through it.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I could totally see you, like hands at ten and
two for the first time in your life and screaming
obscenities at sibs as you're driving into the Southern California night. Jason,
Are you tired? And I'm just really mad at tips?
Oh that again, I understand that. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, no,
I gotta work. I mean somewhere, I mean that you
do cross that bridge, right, because the kid's kind of
salty because you're sure you're intimating that a they are
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being cranky and being a pain in the neck. They
are well, but some kids don't respond well to no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Not every kid respond no. I understand that you're absolutely right.
It's like no.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
But the point is, I know you're still tired. You
could tell me, but I know you're not dead.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Come on, the Mets are no, they're not. No, no,
no no. They lost tonight because Mark Viento sticks.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
He's struck.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Gotta lieven times. Uh so you need some chock.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Maybe now I'm replaced at the in the in the
top twenty five people, JJ Reddick hates the most I've
been supplanted.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Maybe I'm down to number two this week.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
My win last week wasn't as impressive and this guy's
question really got him going, so he moved to number one.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Wow, that's a ranking.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
All right, I want to talk about rank them all right,
let's go, Hey, we should try to frostbur We try
to get that guy on the show after the game tonight.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Which guy JJ Reddick.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, he's coming off the show. Listen, they keep playing
like this. He's on vacation. What else is he doing? No,
get the guy that asked the question. We'll get the
reporter that asked the question of JJ Redick. They made
JJ Reddick you know, No, I don't know who was it?
Find out let me know. Oh, well, don't you have
like voice activation stuff? You can figure that out. Yeah,
but I'm not wasting it on a guy who pissed
JJ Reddick off before the biggest playoff game of his career.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Jade.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Maybe he's just trying to motivate them really because it
didn't work.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, no, no, it absolutely. I'm not saying it was.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It was something that was successful, but I'm saying maybe
that was the intention. Well, but maybe it'll it'll spur
great cognitive thought entering the fourth quarter that leads you
to victory.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Well that's why I got all four screens on the Lakers,
all right.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Uh and again the Lakers trail right now by ten
with just undertab.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
To get that, I got to give the score. The
Lakers are losing, Lakers are losing, Lakers are down.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
God had a really good dunk where he did one
of those quid directions or I will run you over moment,
be like MANI from Major League three pointer? Good and
that's it? What's just called no no, no, no jumper off?
What's the speech here at halftime? Is there even a speech?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Uh? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Whether they all look at Lebron and be like, Yo,
you're old, you're old.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Just go watch the Red Panda. I'm out of my sight.
I think the speech is Lebron, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Man? What do you think? Are you ready to lose
another shot at the finals?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
What do you think? What do you think here, Lebron?
What do you think? Hey, Luca, you ready? You guys ready?
Can you guys come out with some sort because it's
not like this is not the question we've had about
the Lakers forever. This isn't They look great and then
they come out and they play flat And it's been
the The motivation has been at the crux and it's stupid,
but it's been at the crux of everything the Lakers
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have done this year. Every time you think they've turned
the corner, they're terrific, their title contender, they wind up
coming out flat and unmotivated. This is not something new.
It's not something new. This is one of those halftime speeches. Whright,
just go Okay, you know what, I can't say anything.
I can't say anything. You need you guys need to
understand if you want to keep playing basketball or go home?
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How far does this fall make Lebron fall in the
all time rankings? Eight seven second No, I'm just kidding.
Exit out about a fresca exit swallen' do home. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon as Luka Doncic goes in for a
layup gets fouled. He's being helped up right now. Looks
like he's okay. We'll bring you more on this story.
But coming up next, Oh boys, we have all kinds
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of fun football topics to get to with our next guest,
including what to make out of the whole Bill Belichick situation,
why there's so many prank calls during the NFL Draft.
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posted right after we get off the air well update
from La Luka Doncic a hard foul by Dante DiVincenzo
in the final minute of the first half. Luca was
down on the floor was looked at by medical personnel.
He limped off the court and they looked to see
if it was going to be a flagrant foul. It
was kind of a dirty hit by Devincenzu, kind of
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comes down with like an axe handle over Luca's shoulder.
Luca lance kind of on his knee, he reaches for
his lower back. He hits the free throws and then
leaves the court, walks to the locker room before halftime began.
So we'll have an update on that as soon as
we do. The Timberwolves lead the Lakers elimination game for
the Lakers fifty nine forty nine, and maybe they're doing
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it without Luca for the second half, but joining us
now I'm a hot line for all the big news
in the NFL. A man who actually spent most of
the NFL Draft pranking potential NFL draftees that he was
Andrew Luck calling him to congratulate them on their draft position.
It's longtime NFL insider, thirty third team rider and Andrew Luck.
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Sound alike, Jason Cole, Jay Cole? What's happening?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Man? I actually was outlay first temper.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Oh okay, all right, all right, would.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
You accept the money from Stanford because we're willing to
spend billions out dis desperately to try and stay in
college football? Would you accept that and bottle out of
the draft?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
So you called, you called your door Sanders with that
a bunch of times, got it?
Speaker 5 (18:17):
We call sever eight times.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You know what?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
What do you make?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
All these prank calls? And everybody got Sanders and Ty
Warren and today Abdul Carter said he got a prank
phone call about being drafted.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Second, it's been going on for a long time. I mean,
this is not this is not really new, and it's
but guys give out their phone numbers, and especially guys
in college to probably give out their phone numbers to
how many different women over the course of their college career. Yeah,
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like it's going to happen. Their numbers get around and
people have access to this stuff all the time, and
you know it's I think it's stupid by people to
do it, but yeah, it's going to happen, you know.
I mean people have been knowing prank calls for sixty
or seventy years, so yeah, this just takes it to
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another level. But yeah, I mean I thought the punishment
was appropriate for the Falcons and for all Brick. I
would say that if I was at Ulbrick, I would
make my kid do ten thousand push ups in a
week and playing dirty jock and socks during Falcons camp
for like two weeks. I'd just say, Yeah, they had
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put food on your table and you decided to prank column.
Here's your punishment. Do you get to go do laundry
for two weeks? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I wonder what it's like in the Olbrick household the
last few hours. One hundred thousand dollars, one hundred thous dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
A little chili, a little at least. That's just that
way when your kids, when your kid who doesn't have
a hundred K probably in college, costing you close to
one hundred k to put him through college, taught you
another one hundred k. Yeah, not happy. Happy.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You might be making a giant pot of chili because
you could do that cost efficiently.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
To jeff olbricks story, which is I think that when
he was coaching with San Francisco, well maybe when he's playing,
like Colin McGregor came to a practice and told this story.
Somebody told me this and that he actually wanted to,
like offer to fight Colin McGregor. He just was like,
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I'll fight him, I'll do it. Imagine that being you're
you're now the son of the guy who wanted to
fight Colin McGregor. What do you think your your life's
like at home right now?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, that's a tough, tough way to go. Yeah, I
mean back when McGregor was a bad was one of
the baddest men on the plane.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Ah, man fighting Connor McGregor, Hi, goodness, all.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Bricks got him on size. I'd take all brick in
that match, I've gotta tell you I would.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, I mean on the plus, on the plus side
as you go through it, though.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I mean, well, it does include Shador.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It did give us a topic that is in Shadoor
or Bill Belichick out of the draft, you know, talking
about protocols and stuff, So we got that going for us.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
It's so psycho it's unable. I'll be none of that.
We're not talking about that. Well, no, not talking about that,
like it's one of the most innocent questions in the world. Yeah,
how'd you guys meet? Like sis if you're just cutting
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that thing completely off, Like, what the heck is going
on here? Whatever?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I hope he enjoys that, because it sounds like it's
going to be a really lasting relationship.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I can't get over Jie call for a guy who
has been the control freak for his entire life, both
on and off the field. I'm giving all my control
away to my twenty four year old girlfriend, all of
this stuff. She's gonna disrupt the interview all like I'm
giving away all this control.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Well, he does. One of the biggest problems is that
the guy who used to do this for him isn't
around anymore. So, like the Bear Shingerian with the guy
with the Patriots who handled a lot of stuff behind
the scenes for Bill and set it up and ran
their fearance. And so Bear stayed in New England because
that's where his family is, did not go to North
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Carolina with them. Doesn't he even want to be out
of work for a year while still was waiting around.
So she's taken she's taken over the job that of
a guy who you know, from a guy who did
it before for Bill. Bill didn't have anybody else to
step into that role, so she sort of volunteered for it,
I assume. And yeah, I mean god, I mean, all
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of a sudden, it's like a female crazy eye killer,
you know, like this is definitely out of the Larry
David skip. That's what it looked like to me.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
So we got that percolating in the background.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
We'll see, uh and follow that coming out of the
draft and any big takeaways from you in terms of
the the process and procedures we talked about Shador Sanders.
I want to applaud the NFL Society for not saying, well,
we have to have quarterbacks one, two three, just because.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Now I love the I love the whole Shador Sanders Theater,
like it's just tremendous and the people falling all over
themselves trying to figure it all out. It's yeah, I
can't send people to step back and go, yeah, the
kid smart like is a smart like. That's it. And
you can't be a schmuck and be a quarterback like
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you really can't treat your you know, everybody wants to
talk about Dion this it's like, no, guys, guys hard
to deal with. And I love the idea of people
talking about, oh, you sand bag interviews, but that was
a really big topic way back at the combine, like, oh,
he's going to stand bag certain interviews for teams he
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doesn't want to play for. Like that always works out
against you, Like you're always stuffed off in any situation.
Interviewing the best way you possibly can. Now, if you
want to stay to a team like I don't want
to play for you, you should say that. You just
be honest about it and not stand bag the interview.
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You know you should. You should present yourself because you
don't know where you're going to be four years from
now or where some of the people who are in
that room are going to be four years from now.
So if you stand bag an interview and all of
a sudden some guy ends up on a team where
you might want to be as a free agent, or
you're struggling and you need to get a recommendation to
get a job from that guy. It's like you weren't
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jerk in an interview, now now you want to work
for me? I mean, come on, I mean, who who
thinks this is ever a good idea to standbag an interview?
I mean, this is just idiotic, scept and so just
on you know, the thought process on the standards end
of it, Like they got what they deserved on this one.
(25:33):
They really did. Instead of being honest and saying, hey, look,
I'll answer all your questions like you the best answer
I possibly can, but I'm honestly telling you I don't
want to play for you, and here are the reasons
for it. Instead of manning up like that, he decides
to do this other crap. I mean, it's just like
it's like it's like eighth grade stuff. It really is
(25:56):
like so immature, you know, I don't I don't know
how Dion thought this was a good idea.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, he thought he had the power, Like he's going back,
where is that tweet that came up from last year?
My son's going to the top five. I got time
for this today. Like he thought, I have the asset and.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
We can do whatever we want to. And clearly he
didn't have the asset.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
No, he didn't have the asset, I mean. And the
thing about it, he didn't adjust it. Like when his
kid was playing a lot more like Jameis Winston and
not the good Jameis Winston at Florida State, the playing
like the bad Jameis Winston that we've seen, you know,
in the last four or five years. He didn't adjustice
and go, no, wait a second, my kid really maybe
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got to struggle to be in the first round, Like
didn't really adjust his thinking and wasn't real with his
kid and just yeap, when you're as good as Dion,
you can be as big a pain in the in
the rear as you want to be. And people are
like they'll get you know, they'll just go, look, you
do whatever you want to do. You're that good show
(27:00):
up on Sunday. We don't care. Yah, Lawrence Taylor, you
can be the biggest chrich in the world. But Parcels
is going to tell Belichick just get him to Sunday,
Like that's what Parcel literally used to do with Belichick.
Get him to Sunday. We need him. We don't care
about the other six days a week, right Beyond the
same kind of thing. Dam was a very serious football player,
(27:21):
So I'm not trying to take that away from it.
But he you know, was loud, and you know, was obnoxious,
and you know, would talk and so he would do
some things that would generally distract you, but he would
fall out on Sunday. And he was generally a really
hard worker. So he wasn't that big a problem child.
But the presumption that his kid is that good man,
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that's just it. You have no sense of reality, just
none at all. And his kid is I'm better than
a fifth round pick, and he really is. He should
have been a second or third round pick. But the
way that they've acted is just it is anti quarterback.
It's just anti the way quarterback that's supposed to act
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if you're going to leave the team. So they got
what they deserve the way this goes.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That is
at Jason Coles too.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Is that what no, no, no, Mason Taylor questions you've
got you have the type Dolphin on here now on
the Jets go. He's a mixture of two Hall of
Fame Dolphin players.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
This is year thirty seven in a row. I like
the Jets Draft. Now we see how it goes in
the studio. Yeah, dude, Joe Douglas did. Joe Douglas did
a bit with me after the after the show. He
gave me a hug when I got to meet him
last week the night of the draft.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, he's a good dude.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
How did you react? You did you hold back? Did
you well?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, I only got to meet him in the crossover
the shows because he couldn't stay because he had to
fly out.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
So I said, hey, can we do something for like
and me?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
He said yeah sure, and I'm I'm wearing my jets
and I first thing I said to him is, hey, so,
uh is this awkward?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
He goes, no, no, no, no, it's fun, not at all, okay,
And then he gave me wait and then we hugged it.
We hugged it out at the end. It was great.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Butt. But you weren't honest with him, like you didn't
you kept it under wrap. I told him.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I told him what a great job he didn't drafting
Garrett Wilson, I had, I did, I did, said percent.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
He isolated that one guy. Yeah. Yeah, it's you can
find it. It's all over Twitter. It's all over Twitter.
Just to look.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Jason Smith, Joe Douglas. You'll see our meeting a lot
of people standing in the hallway j Cole the entire
time waiting for it to go wrong. Yeah, yeah, there
was a Yeah, it was definite. Uh.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I would have been agitating if you're laughing, Yeah I would.
I would have definitely gone against my advice. And what
a steering for him to punch you or something.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah. Well here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
When I met him and he stood up and I'm like,
oh he is a big dude, like Joe Douglas is
a big I'm like, oh yeah, I would lose this
in a second.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
And I would lose this in a second.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
Make your bike down, Hey, Joe.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
How you doing? Nice to his arms? Pick as your head.
J Cole is always buddy appreciated.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Man.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
We'll talk to you next week. I have a good one.
Say you, buddy.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Exit out by a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. Jason Smith
Mike harmon Time Now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports From someone who's been called
the Luca Dauncich. Fox Sports Radio immediately recognizes when she
might be injured.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
It's wante Blago swift. What's trending? You know what?
Speaker 7 (30:38):
If I'm injured, you wouldn't know it.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Really, I'm gonna stay out there.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
You play her sto session, look at her? All right?
Speaker 7 (30:44):
You should. Literally last night, I got ran over by
one of my male teammates on the volleyball court.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Hit me hard.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
My shoulder still hurts, and.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
I got up and he was like, oh my god,
are you a kid?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
I was like, get off me, let's go.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I gotta serve. Let's go. Step on their throat.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
That's my mentality all the time, step on their throat.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
And at what point did you regret that when I
got home?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
When he got home at home, do.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
We have.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Because it could no longer be I fell at work? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (31:11):
Yeah, it was just you know, my shoulder, second walker
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
But like you is your place to somebody else's my place?
Speaker 5 (31:20):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Okay, but yes, you won't know if I'm hurt.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
So the latest with Luka Doncic is that he went
to the locker room before halftime with a back injury.
He has a wrap around his lower back right now.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
But he is back on the court.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
They're about to start the third quarter.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
Minnesota is up though, fifty nine to fifty one.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Again.
Speaker 7 (31:41):
They just got going in the third quarter of this one.
Rudy Gobert the leading score. He's killing it, I know,
fifteen points, eight rebounds. Even the guys on TNT couldn't
believe it. But you were mentioning how they didn't use
any subs in the last game, and the one person
who needs the subs is Luka Doncic. They put a
graphic up on t He actually is averaging the most
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minutes in the playoffs for the Lakers, forty one. Like
the one guy who needs it averaging the most minutes
for the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Don't ask JJ Redick.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Don't ask himological question. No, no, no no, because he
feels attacked.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
He feels attacked because he is inexperience according to him.
So yeah, Timberwolves up right now in this elimination game
for the Lakers. It was an elimination game for the Rockets,
but they still live after defeating the Warriors one thirty
one to one sixteen, so Game six is not going
to be on Friday. Atlanta Hawks guard Dyson Daniels did
win the NBA's Most Improved Player of the Year award.
It was announced earlier today. On the ice right now,
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the Jets are up on the Blues four to two
after two periods. That series is tied at two apiece.
The Capitals and the Panthers are both advancing to the
next round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, defeating their opponents.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Earlier today in Major League.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Baseball, and the last update, I told you guys that
the A's and the Rangers were tied at one apiece
in the ninth inning, and then this happened.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Here's the pitch.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
That's we're not flyball this Centerville. That's it.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Well, going back to there is near the truck, on
the truck.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
At the it's a grand slam for Lawrence Butler and
the A's lead.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
It's seven to one, and that was the final score.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
You heard it all on the A's radio network. Seven
to one against the Rangers after a grand slam in
the ninth inning. Lastly, here have you guys seen the
preview for the next Final Destination movie.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah, let's go. I don't think I can do it.
What's different about this one? Obviously they're all the same.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
Right, but this went like the preview, right, you want
to tell you what they showed in the preview. It
looked like a chain was hanging from maybe a fan,
and it hooked on a guy's nose ring and he started.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
It looked like it was lifting.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Taking the fans. It's a public service announcement. Public service announcement.
I think we go out and have drinks and then
go watch it.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
I don't know if I could do it.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
And I've seen them, you know, but like I haven't
seen the last seven? Am I gonna know what's going on?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Is sort of sort of?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
The last time I saw is when Stiffler said, am
I gonna die before I see the Jets win the
Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Which I think was the first one? Okay, most people
will yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Generational generation.
Speaker 7 (34:07):
I don't know. I don't know if I can do it.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
All right, all right, just just just just don't have
a nose ring and you'll be okay.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
I'm never gonna have a nose ringover Not that I was,
but now I'm.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Really not no, really not. See they did their job.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You're right, you're right, Begs Monson, Jason Smith and Mike Harman.
Coming up next, a surprise NFL retirement today that took
a lot of people by surprise.
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That's next. This is Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (35:33):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. You know you can stream this show
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Speaker 3 (36:00):
Lock it in.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Turn your mic on ripped out here we got see
in radio. It's always better when your microphone is on.
Went off and then I don't know who's in charge
of turning your microphone on? You are no, you are
you just hit it. You WENTZ for two turning on
your microphone.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
You were oh for one trying to pay attention to
the game. You were the Mark Vientos of turning on
your microphone.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Toby failed you laid enough and I decided not to
go challenge for the.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
So a big return.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
I'll have more in the NBA, Lakers have cut this
lead to five t Wolves lead at sixty six sixty one,
seven minutes to go in.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
The third quarter.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
UH.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
A big retirement in the NFL. Today, Jordan Travis, who
was drafted by the Jets in the fifth round because
he's coming off a really bad injury at Florida State,
announce his retirement from the league. Now there's been a
bit of back and forth with him the last couple
of years. Remember he gets hurt. I got hurt my birthday. UH.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
In twenty twenty three, as Florida State.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Was on it's your fault, it is my my fault,
gets hurt in a hip drop tackle and he misses
the rest of the season.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Remember this is Florida State.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
An undefeated Florida State team does not get to go
to the playoff because hey, we have a lot of teams.
We got teams with one loss, and hey, here's an
undefeated Florida State team but without their quarterback, and they
get left out of the playoff. Jordan Travis gets drafted
by the probably would have been a second round pick
if he was healthy, because the guy was really really good. Yes,
he had a little bit of issues, wasn't the greatest
(37:26):
pocket passer, but boy, he could make plays. Probably would
have been starting in the NFL by now, but never
got healthy. There was a bit of a back and
forth where his agent says the Jets kind of rushed
him to come back and there was a setback in
his recovery. But in his statement today, he thanked the
Jets for everything and realized that medically he had to retire.
He's not gonna be able to play in the NFL.
(37:46):
And it's just sad because this is a guy who
was so electric, and you know, he started out his career,
he transferred and finally got to Florida State where here
they are undefeated and they get left out of the playoff,
and he just feels so sad for the kid. And
he's all full of positivity. He says, look, God's got
a plan. I'm excited for what's next in my life.
I just can't play football anymore. And you know, I
(38:08):
spend a lot of time today thinking back to that
moment where we knew, we already knew we were getting
the new playoff. But this was the shining example. I
remember thinking and saying on the radio that with you
and I that if we didn't have a twelve team playoff,
this would get us a twelve team playoff, because yeah,
you want to try to find an argument to get
Texas and Alabama in and leave out an undefeated team,
(38:30):
It's ridiculous. I don't care if the entire team got hurt.
What you're saying is going undefeated in a power power
five conference, you're going to get left out of of
a four team playoff, which is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
And who knows what would have happened had he stayed healthy.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
There You know, Florida State is in, and maybe Texas
is out, and maybe it's Michigan and Florida State for
the national title. But this is still the biggest miscarriage
of justice I've seen in college football the last five years.
Here's an undefeated team that did everything you had, they
didn't falter at all.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
But other teams that lost, yeah, we think they're better
than you. Now.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Now what you're telling me is the regular seasons irrelevant?
That you can you can you can be have one
loss to whatever it is, and if the other team
loses a player. Yeah, we think you're better that that's
that's what's really It still gets me about this that
that decision was made, that it's all been. All they
did was say the bet the from the BCS all
the way through the fourteen playoff, win all your games.
(39:26):
That was that was the decision. Win all your games.
We're not having this conversation. They won all their games,
they still got left out. Worst decision made in college
football the last five years. Well, as we talked about
it the night that that was decided, it was the
indictment of everything with the system opening the door to
a larger playoff, which is never going to be perfect, right,
all the folks and we were talking about from the
college basketball side of things. Now when you look at
(39:48):
nil and everything, Uh, now it's the battle lines you're drawn.
Is this good or bad? This is obviously a good
move to expand the playoff. You have no idea what
the wins above replacement was for the guy that would
have replaced him. They got beat bad in the bowl
game because they didn't go and people opted out. Obviously
(40:09):
we're going and transferring and going to the NFL. So
of course that's gonna happen. But what I mean the
whole thing. For years, it's always been win all your games,
were not and they were very haughty about that, win
all your games. They won all their games. Yeah, we're
still leaving y out Ah. You guys suck. You guys
really suck. Shows the power of Jordan Travis though. I mean,
you know, he becomes a college legend off that I
(40:29):
wish him well and obviously a very tough decision to
come to exit outbout a Fresca exit swelling Dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, we got more from the NBA coming up,
update on the Lakers and the Tea Wolves. But I
have a solution to all the NFL prank calls during
the Draft. I got a solution. It's easy. It's next
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