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You think it took for Luca to be I know,
I have the answer. Boom. Jason Smith with the answer.
Go five minutes. Yes, listening survey and fine, don chicic.
So he's got to get his sea legs back. He
has not played since Christmas for free. Look well, look
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of the Lakers. All the crowd got what they wanted
to see. Early I guess they were standing when he
cut it. Maybe they can sit down now. There it
is Lakers Radio Network on the call, Luka Doncic's first
bucket as a Laker. They lead it right now over
the Washington Generals being played by the Utah Jazz thirty
(01:35):
two twenty one. Luca leaves the game seven minutes, five points,
a rebound and an assist. That his first bucket, and
he looked tired right away. There was a timeout at
the six point fifty one mark and Luca goes and
he's the first Laker to go sit on the chair,
drink gator right now, happy and smiling, but you can
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tell he's breathing heavy. I'm like he thinks sauts to
already well, but it's.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Like I told you, what better warm up to get
back onto a court than a couple of games against
the Jazz.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Already well, I mean that's a that's a heavy four minutes. Look,
I get that. Look. He hasn't played since Christmas. It's
an emotional night. He got introduced last. You know, we
played you the introduction, but.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I guess he didn't sleep well last putting here at
a Super Bowl party or anything that the Mavericks might
have thought he was involved in.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
But but boy, the Lakers would really like to go okay,
we really don't want the narrative of Luca is not
in shape. And here's the first big cutaway of him
after five minutes, sitting on First Lake.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
In a sit.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh, that means you fired the camera man hired. Man,
that's what I look like after I get home from
walking Benny. Like if I go home at night and
walk Benny in the cold, I'll get him sit down
and go, oh, I need a couple of minutes here,
I'd walked around the block. I need.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I mean, if it's clean night, I mean maybe the
lungs are compressed a little bit. Maybe maybe maybe it's
been a long day. I need the last bit you had.
I need some time.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Luca plays five and a half minutes, and okay to
up sub sub ready to come out of hand? Up
sub sub? Who's ready? Who's ready? Who's ready? Who's ready
to go?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
We'll just say he hasn't played since Christmas. It's like, well,
that's actually six weeks ago. That's a long time of
the inactivity. Man, I don't know how long he was
ramping up his cardio and then I mean, he was
supposed to be ready Saturday, and then he wasn't.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I don't think he was. He didn't want to be
on the Mavericks anymore. He said, it always going to
end this way. The Mavericks traded, and they didn't wake
up one day and just decide to trade him. There
was stuff going on. I don't think he's done anything
to get ready until last year. Oh I'm a laker.
I gotta try now. I gotta make it look like
I'm getting in shape. It's gonna be a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, I think he'd like to keep in some modicum
of the conditioning, knowing that you're getting back on the
court eventually.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Well, yeah, I'm sure Magic Johnson's calling him every day.
How you doing, You're working out? What are you doing?
Where are you right now here, treadmill? What's going on?
What's happening?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Magic wasted a half a day watching Mark Williams tap
the other day.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Sure he'd like to have that back.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So what he said on Twitter said, I spent a
whole half a day really learning about this kid, and
then he did the obligatory eight hours after the trade
was rescinded.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Boy, it's too bad that trade did not go you know,
and I got to think at this point, maybe that's
something that will be revisited in the off season simply
because look, the Lakers know they need a big like that,
and you weren't able to get one of the you
thought you had your guy. I wouldn't be surprised if
that got revisited because they're filing a grievance. Well, it's
embarrassing for the Lakers to go, yeah, no, we're happened to.
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How do you feel about his medical? Look, we said
it when the trade happened. What an amazing talent he is,
but he's got injury issues, right, I don't know. We
feel fine about the medicals. Oh yeah, failed the physical? Wait?
What yeah? Failed the physical?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Wait when we liked the medicals because of what they
told us until we actually saw the scans and ran
theoms through the paces and that was it, right, Because
I mean, his availability rate rivals that of Joel Embiid,
who we talk about quite a bit and went on
the court and you can't teach seven feet right, and
he was going to be the lab partner and all
those things, which is why it was so important that
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Jackson Hay has got one of those lobs right off
to jump.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
See, we still have a guy look at and I
saw Look. I watched the doctor Nick Riviera press conference
about Williams and he said a lot of great things
about it. Well, he first guy.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Said hi everybody and got you gotta bought her up
the crowd. He's he's very much played with the crowd.
You gotta get him on your side. And then you
start making up Look, because you can do a lot
of made up medical terms. I am sure plenty gets
slipped into all the procedurals I've been watching through these years,
no matter how many medical consultants are on on the set,
(05:31):
and you know, getting paid a lot of money to
be like no, no, no, no, that's medically inaccurate.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You just look up Gray's Anatomy. What the TV show? No,
the book, that's what that's from about. Book. Just look
up the book, or just go on TikTok and read
a recap of Gray's Anatomy and find out what it is.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
By the way, the Great Gray's Anatomy book is really
really long. How long is the index? Is that a
separate book?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah? No, you gotta buy a companion book. For the
the Index series companion, there's new parts of the body.
We have a discuss.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
No, no, no, it's just so you can go find
what you need in the actual book.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Let's see abductor adductor adductor right, where is that hanging?
It's not in the back hang on, Anthony Davis the
adductor thing. Let me left.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
No, I don't know it's it's in the leg, okay, guy,
But I go to the gym and it's got the
red part marked out like it's the wacky Doctor's game
operation to tell me which part of the body I'm
working at.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Here goes this funny bone. Uh so again. Lakers lead
the Jazz right now, thirty four to twenty one. Luca
out of the game after seven minutes played again five points,
one rebound, one assist. He is on a minute's count
tonight because of his injury coming back. But yes, he
does look very tired, very early.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
No, so we'll have more.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
On this as as Luca gets back into the game.
At some point you think he's going back and I
don't know, mal wait, wait, he's actually laying on the
ground taking a nap. No, so, yeah, you don't want
to say that to you want to look, I feel
like disclavered. This was satire in comedy. But you know,
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look as we you know, look back at the Super
Bowl yesterday and and you know, try to give you
a different stuff than what you've heard all day about
the Super Bowl. After the Eagle's dominant performance yesterday, Yeah, clearly,
you know they were able to turn the tables two
years after getting smacked by them thirty eight to thirty five.
The big penalty at the end, the holding penalty by Bradbury,
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the winning field goal for the Chiefs. The Eagles blew
a big lead in that game, and the Chiefs were
able to come back and win. But I wonder, okay,
I wonder looking at the game yesterday and seeing the
strengths of the Eagles were still the same strengths yesterday
that they were a couple of years ago. I really
I wonder if the field was different two years ago,
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if we wouldn't have seen a very similar game to
what we saw yesterday. Because if you remember, the big
story of Super Bowl fifty seven was the players were
slipping the slider on the field the entire game, right,
They slipping at the entire game. The offenses were the offenses, right,
The Chiefs offense was great, the Eagles offense was great,
but the Eagles defense, really it was it was almost
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like the slipping and sliding sort of leveled the playing
field because the Chiefs defense was pretty good a couple
of years ago. But I gotta say the Eagles defense
was a hell of a lot better, right. I mean,
this is this is a team that two years ago
was number two in yards allowed per game. Kansas City
was middle of the pack. They were number one in
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passing yards against per game, kansaity middle of the pack.
They were number three in turnover differential. They were number
one in sacks, Kansas City was twenty second. So the
defense of the of the Eagles had a huge advantage
over the Chiefs. And yeah, the Chiefs, all this attention
we made, all the chief they got, they got there,
they got their offensive line better, they signed Joe Toney,
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all these things. But I really wonder, because the offense
is pretty much went up and down the field at will,
if the field wasn't so slippery, if we would have
seen exactly what we saw yesterday day, two years ago,
and it would have been wow, look at the Eagles
defensive line owning the Chiefs. We saw that in the
Super Bowl with the with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They
were able to because they did the same thing yesterday,
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did exactly what Tampa Bay did three years ago when
Brady won for the last time. Right, no matter what
the Chiefs did, it was the it doesn't matter. The
offensive line was able to create pressure without blitzing, and
you win a lot of games when you can do that.
If you can create pressure without blitzing, you win a
lot of games. And it was the same thing for
the Chiefs against the Tampa Bay Bucks that it was
against the Eagles. They just kept doing the same things.
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There was no creativity. There was no let's do something different,
let's try something to get something going. It was just
let's try keep doing the same things and and and
try to you know, eventually get something different to happen.
That's not going to because when you just keep trying
the same things over and over again, that's the definition
of insanity. You're just expecting a different result. That's what
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would have happened. That's what happened in both those Super Bowls.
And I got a feeling it probably would have happened
two years ago because but the but the defense, you know,
when you're sliding, when you got to react, it's always
tougher on the defense that it is on the offense
when you have a slippery field. Right. That's why in
snow games, it's not about the defense, it's you get
that slick field. It's about by the time you get
to the middle of the fourth quarter, every other play is
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a seventy five yard slant for a touchdown because the
defender can't stay with the wide receiver. It's such a
huge thing to come back from and I almost feel like, yeah,
that leveled the playing field way more than we thought
it did a couple of years ago. And if it
was a field where nobody was slipping around, we probably
would have seen an Eagles victory.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
All I remember going back to the big play that
kept getting shown on the Saquon Barkley highlight reel in
the snow. Right, you had three guys that tried to
contact them, but they had no opportunity to really get
any footing or force on any physicality there. So he
just sprints straight through and off to daylight, going back
into the antles of history. Of course, we have to
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go back and find George Toma, the sod father for
the explanation as to what happened is that they'd watered
it down and then they installed before it was dry.
That they didn't give it enough time to take care
of business, hence owing to the slipper. Look, we get
into how big your spikes are, right, did you need
to change that out to get yourself better grip, better
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opportunity there to cut some of it?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, just that margin.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Is such the difference one step and gone in having
to plan right, you get a guy leaning one way,
that's two two hundred and thirty forty pounds leaning one way.
Hard to do the breakneck speed and get back into coverage,
especially the way the offense is set to where it's
spread out, So I mean the recovery of a safety
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or a linebacker to get back into the play to
give help in pursuit. You know, it's an extra ten
to fifteen yards, or maybe you're on a full sprinted daylight.
So yeah, the fast track certainly an advantage here. And look,
the Chiefs game plan was sorry to be the best.
I joked with you off air, It's like, well, no, Matt,
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naggy jokes about getting him a job this year or
anybody stumping for him this time around, right, because they
got obliterated and they had no answer to try to
slow down the defensive front. They were not going to
be helped by any slippage because anytime Mahomes held the ball,
he was getting drilled and then it was a step behind. Right,
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how many times did he throw behind a guy who
was pretty open?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Right, Like he had opportunities. He missed a lot of throws.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And I get it you're sped up because of that pressure,
but your your field comparison and analysis. I think it's
an interesting point to go back and really watch that
Super Bowl in full, to count how many, like we
do with officials, you know, how many would have could
have should have penalties? Same thing here and would be interceptions.
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We love that static stat for quarterbacks we hate so
remember that the almost interception because what happened, Hey, Mahomes
almost through that because now we're on he's a heel now,
so we got that all lost interception. But it's very
much that, right, It's it just becomes a much different
watch when you anticipate, Wow, these guys are really struggling and.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
It changes the play calling. So Kellen Moore looks like
a lizard, do no and look. And the thing is
is that you can say, well, the field affected both
teams the same way. Okay, okay, I understand that. But
when you when you take a side of the football
that is way more dominant than the other team and
you even that out because it could be you and
I could have a race and you could be way
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faster than I am. But if we're running over ice,
who knows who can win? Right, that's taking us down
to the to the basic level of whoever can stand up.
This is not about the fact that you were faster
than me, because your advantage is taken away because we're
running on ice. Now picturing that scene from Batman where
by walking out on the ikes, right. But so that's
really when you think about what the Eagles did well,
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that's getting to the quarterback and sacks and turnovers and
yards allowed. They had gotten beat like that all year.
But the advantage was clearly on the offense. And both
offenses played great, right, the Eagles offense, which is not
quite as good as the Chief offense. That leveled the
playing field a little bit. There was a field goal
game at the end. But defensively, wow, that was a
big advantage for the Eagles with what they did. It's
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the same team, the same tenants, the same principles that
they were able to do yesterday. And really, if the
field wasn't something where they were slipping and sliding, do
the Chiefs come back at some point? Does that happen
or it looks a lot more like yesterday with Mahomes
getting hit throwing the ball and it's not a great
Chiefs run. Not that the officials you know, told Chip Toma, hey,
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make sure this field is like it's going to help
the Chiefs. But really, I look at that Super Bowl
way differently now than I did. Where what's the big
takeaway from the Super Bowl yesterday? Well, it's the defensive
line of the Eagles and what they were able to do.
You look back at that Super Bowl, what was the takeaway? Well,
the holding call on brad Bury at the very end.
Now it's the holding call and the field so slippery,
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and how much did that help the Chiefs? Again, referees
didn't do it. Unless they did. Referees didn't do it. It's
just a thing that helped the Chiefs more because they're
what they were worse at as the Eagles that really
got sanded off.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, and there's you know, certainly we'll get some angry
responses from Chiefs fans at how about a Prescott swollen?
Don't bring them all the same, I love hate. Just
keep listening and keep evangelizing the friends and family. We
got to impress the Polsters. But the idea being that
you're looking at a squad and the Eagles right strength
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all across the board, right, we know they've built the interior.
It's like your Jets used to have the plethera of
defensive linemen back in the day. Right, that's what you
were known for. That's what the Eagles have been like.
They built the guts well each and every time and
last last time out costly turnover, change of events and
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then one or two big plays, some slip which became
one of the big hallmarks of the game yesterday, dried true,
playing fast, trusting your back seven because well our four
are getting home like I don't think any like, you know,
we talked about it briefly. I was in here doing
the show that I do with the Bucky and Andy
Fox Football Sundays and was talking to Bo Benzon, one
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of our producers, and Chris Prophett and we looked at
each other and we just had that moment of what
if this becomes a Seattle Denver game? Slow percentage, small
percentage on the pie chart, but what if it does?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
And lo and behold.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Slack got it?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
We got that? Yeah, no kid, wow exit out about
a Fresca exit, swollen dome, Jason Smith, Mike Carmon, just
something to think about. Tell you that if the if
the footing was better, I think we would have seen
a repeat of yesterday. Will be two titles for the Eagles,
two titles for hers, two titles for Nick Sirianni mixed.
Sirianni one of the most decorated head coaches in the
history of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
He's now a legend. Now a legend. He's doing singalongs
and everything. He didn't fight with a single media member
one I did like Brady making fun of that. Yeah,
otherwise fun. Sure, he had a couple of good little
one liners. But now they'll still fight in the offseason.
They'll fight plenty of time, plenty of time. They're not
gonna be happy. They wanted a bigger margin of victory.
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(17:30):
but coming up next. We've already turned the page to
next season in the NFL, and we already have a
huge storyline that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
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Speaker 1 (17:50):
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Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Six and a
half to go on the second quarter, the Lakers lead
the Washington Generals fifty two thirty one. Wow, I mean really,
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I mean I wonder you know, because I didn't look ahead.
But when this trade went down, right when when the
when the Lakers trade went down, getting Luca like and
they realized, okay, he's gonna be out a few days.
Did they change the schedule without telling anybody? And like
tonight was supposed to be They're supposed to play like
the thunder and nobody that it was, and instead it
was oh you no, no boom. But we're putting who
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like And they had to do it really fast, like, well,
who's got an open date? We can put on there
really fast. Let's use the algorithm, get the computer up there.
Yet no good, minimal adjustment to the rest of the schedule.
We got the jazz up going to La now.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Well, and you can also do it with minimal involvement
of anybody really paying attention, because you know it's the Jazz.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Uh, you've got to get this right.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
So you got the Jazz tonight, then at Utah and
went and then we've got the All Star break.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Okay, cool?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
And then their first game after the All Star Break
Charlotte at home, followed by a road trip against the
suddenly viable Portland Trailblazers, and then on the road at Denver.
That game is already cemented in ink maybe in blood
on ABC as the big delecast of the week. So
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and and then finally versus Dallas in Los Angeles on
the twenty fifth. So a couple of nice warm up
games the All Star break before we get to reality.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, I guess to give a better Washington Generals because
I mean, that's day I got to explain. I thought
they were due. I mean, definitely the Jazz are playing
the role of S. D. Jones even more timely. There
you go, nice long career for S. D. Jones. So
it's the current prelim that would I don't know, Oh
(20:02):
who's that?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Because they don't do the same kind of scheduling with
the jobber on a Saturday.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
More.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Now you get guys that are you know, if you're
on the card on Raw or SmackDown. You know we
saw SmackDown on Fox yesterday. Yeah, you're you're at least
a little more. Hey, give me ideas, folks at SWALLOWINGO Matt,
how about a fresco.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Luca has seven points so far. He has played ten minutes,
seven points to assist one rebound. He's got a three.
That was his first bucket as a Laker and it
has been all Los Angeles tonight again it's a twenty
one point lead for the Lakers are getting it from everywhere.
Austin Reeves has twelve, lebron has eleven, and again SD
(20:46):
Jones trying to at least make things a little interesting
here as the Jazz are somehow down twenty one with
about four minutes ago in the first half. Does Luca
play in the second half? Can I get that prop bet?
At this point, I think he wants, Oh, you want
to get him to ten points, right, you want to
make sure it's okay, get him there. I think that's
gonna happen. If not, hey another night for Bronnie. We
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can get some more well you know, you know you
what a funny thing like I feel like this is
where we're getting with Brownie. Is that Syracuse used to
and I'm sure other schools have this tradition, Is that
Syracuse has a tradition of the they always fans always
pick the one of the walk Ons, right, I always
pick one of the walk Ons. And at the end
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of a blowouts back when Syracuse is good, so like
you know, ten years ago, not anymore, and Syricus blowing
somebody out. We would all chant for this this bad sure.
And I remember Sean Do carry was the guy when
when when I was there and we would all yell,
we want Sean Do we want Sean Do?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Like?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Is that gonna be at Lakers games? That when they're
blowing me up, they're going, we want Bronnie, we want Brownie.
And then event then, eventually then JJ Reddick will wait,
he'll play to the crowd, he'll do the whole I
can't hear you. And then it's good. Bronni gets up
to check in the game and everybody goes crazy. No,
it's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And someone does the exploding chalk thing for him, and anyway,
we go.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
You put Bronni in right when the Lakers clinched tacos.
That's what you do when you clinch tacos for the fans,
and that's you put Bronny in the game. That's all
works there.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You go, hey, you know, the chalk thing actually showed
up on the season premiere at The Bachelor. Someone did
that getting out of the limo to the guy knowing
he was a ballplayer at one point and he was like,
I guess you're a bron fan. Kind of under his breath,
like all right, let's go. But yeah, it's from Bronni.
What's funny is there's more and more thought pieces about
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him because he has played so well. Yeah, at times
in the G League, he's.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Like, no, he's a viable option. You stopped the sector.
He's league.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So what you're saying, he's a quade player is what
we're talking right.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
So again, we'll have more on this game coming up again.
Eighteen point lead for the Lakers right now. Luka Doncic
on nine points now on four of eight shooting from
the floor. Now, as we move on, and this is
a big story going into the Super Bowl. Yesterday, Jay Glazer,
our own Jay Lazer had the scoopage that the Jets are
moving on from Aaron Rodgers after they call him to
(23:12):
fly cross country to tell them we're not going forward
with you. He made a house call. Look, first of all,
I was wrong. I thought for sure, and I've said
it many times. Rogers is going to be the quarterback
week when even the quarterback week one. But this gets
into this gets into that, and clearly the Jets said, okay,
we want to start over again. So thanks Aaron, but
we're going to do something else. Now, there's two takes
(23:34):
from this, and the first one is that is that
when I said, Okay, why did I think Rogers would stay?
Is because who else are you going to get? Right
from the Jets perspective, what you're saying is, Okay, we're
not going to bring Aaron Rodgers back, which means we're
not going to bring DeVante Adams back. And now you're
looking at a Jets team that traded two second round
(23:54):
picks and two third round picks for guys that aren't
even going to play there next year. Good luck? Right,
So now the cupboard is bare, and who are you
gonna get? We're gonna the Jets will probably likely go
after a veteran signal caller in free agency. Oh there's nobody, man,
there's nobody yet. Kirnay, you're gonna draft a quarterback, right,
You're gonna draft Jalen Milrow. You're gonna draft Kyle McCord,
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and it's gonna be a quarterback room of one of
them with Jordan Travis. But what are you doing? Who
a you going to get? There's nobody out there, And
that's what's depressing about the Jets cutting Aaron Rodgers, Because
here I am the day after the bleeping Super Bowl,
the day after Super Bowl when I should be thinking
about next year, and already I know twenty twenty five
is gonna suck. That's a tough message to send to
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a fan base, right this early in the offseason, where
it's like, hey, guess what, guys, next year is gonna suck.
We just had a dozen years of suckage and suckitude
where nobody could get it right and is another starting over?
And I get we had to start over. I understand
all of that, but boy, that's a tough message man,
the day after the Super Bowl to say, hey, guess
what stick with us? We're starting over again. Yeah. I
understand you guys are new, but this is now twelve
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years one of the most embarrassing streaks and sports, and
now you're telling me that twenty twenty five is gonna
suck because we're a quarterback is gonna be a get
by guy? Right, That's a that's a tough thing to swallow. Man.
If you want to tell me, if you want to
get through free agency and get through the draft, and
you see how the team is being drafted, Okay, I
kind of understand where we're at now. You're getting to
the end of April, beginning of May. Teams have the
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mini camps, you get your rookie class in. You see
how things are going with free agency? All right, yeah,
I see what we did. I see the direction, right,
I kind of understand. But boy, the day after the
Super Bowl for you to be told, hey, guess what, Yeah,
the two big guys we went out and said, spend
draft picks to go get They're not gonna be here.
There's no solution out there. If there were any quarterbacks
out there, I would say, Okay, well, at least we're
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gonna get one of the quarterbacks and we're but there's
nobody out there. They're not gonna go get Kirk Cousins
not gona be the same thing they just did with
with a guy injured, coming off a devastating injury and
find out he's no good. So what are you gonna do?
Like it's a really it's it. I can't tell you
how rough it is to be told right away, hey,
guess what, We're gonna suck next year? All the Jets,
merchandise shops, NFL shop, Jets stuck on. Everything should be
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half bleeping price, because come on, you tell me, I
gotta play full price for a team that's gonna suck
next year because I know they're gonna suck.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
So when we next talked to our friend, friend of
the show, long time friend of the show, Jay Glazer,
are you gonna tell him he ruined your Super Bowl
Sunday that he was on Bourbon Street regardless?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You know?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Well, but I mean, you know the old Hey, don't
kill the messenger. I mean, he's he's got to wear
that one for you though. I mean, he's always gonna
be the face because you're gonna remember when you found
out officially, no matter what you thought might have been reality,
it came crashing around you. Wow, I found it sounds
like straight out of total recall back in the day,
But it's the the idea for the Jets of what
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is out there. Well, if two of your former quarterbacks
lead the parade, right, if Minnesota doesn't bring back Sam Darnold,
if Denver doesn't bring back Zach Wilson, those are the
two guys with the highest amount of money. Kirk Cousins,
after lying about his injury and the way he kind
of refused to talk about it any further with reporters
(27:09):
from Atlanta this week. I think he lost a little
bit of some of that you know, face thing. He
might have turned a little bit of a heel in
this regard, like wait a minute, you can't bring that
up and then suddenly clam up saying you're not doing
any media. I think you owe us a bit of
an explanation here, all these guys that covered press, press
releases and all those press conferences.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
And everything else. Beyond that, what do you got? What
do you got?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I mean, look to your happiness former Syracuse quarterback McCord
more and more. He's shooting up draft incredibly, and they
got Kyle mccroibick. Okay, that he's probably going to be
a back end first, early second at this point of
the latest reports. And that's fine, It's exactly what we
said was gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Eventually you start seeing more quarterbacks in the mix and
in the buzz. But like for Rogers, he's gone. You've
got Travis, You have no idea. He wasn't able to
play no. And then the rest of the market place
probably didn't help either that you had the Mike McDonald
quote and not anything related to the Doobie brothers, uh
saying yeah, we can win with Gino Smith. Yeah, so
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not only are you getting kicked to the Aaron Rodgers
Like wait, we're resetting again. Yeah yeah, yeah, I get
a new GM, new coach. Whatever, We're gonna suck what
you're telling me. We get to have this, you know,
year of waiting. By the way over there, they're telling
us that our former second round pick Gino is a
guy they think they can win a super Bowl with.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
That's great, you know. And and and the thing is
is that it's it's not about it's not about something
that I disagree with. It's not something, but it's really
that's a really tough message to send that. Yeah, hey,
here we are the day. It's still February, and you
know how bad twenty twenty five is gonna be? Right?
Like it's And it's one thing if hey, we were
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at real good, big heights like three or four years ago,
and then we tried to keep it going. It didn't
work out, So now we have so now you're gonna
have a tough year. I get that, but it's been
tough for over twelve years. Man, My entire forties and
I'm into my fifties now, I haven't seen a playoff game.
Come on, man, we I guess we have to keep
doing the show until that happens. I got no I
(29:15):
will get to the player. I said, Okay, I've had enough.
I'm tapping out. Add enough, I have had enough. Tap out?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
All right, I got two more pieces for you to
really make you feel great about all this. McKay beck
didn't got to do. Uh why would I feel great
about that?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
A guy we had and couldn't keep him healthy, couldn't
keep him. See one year he shows up one year
with the Eagles. Hey, super Bowl champion. Didn't want to
change his position, didn't want to change the right tackle
all this, but no, we're gonna move you to right guard.
Hey that's great. Oh he's a right guard now he's
super Bowl champion.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Make me feel no angels. So we got that, and
Garrett Wilson still wants to trade.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
I thought for sure he would want to sell. Devont
Adam's gonna be gone.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Let be the taco bell in his house. He'll be
the great taco bell in his house in the sky.
And but will say no, no, no, no no. I mean,
of course, of course, of course, of course.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Hey, you know what though, pitchers and catchers are getting
ready to no no, I got what?
Speaker 1 (30:04):
No, no, I got what? Even better for you for this,
I'm gonna have to pat in this right now. Yeah,
March for Arch, the March for Arch patent pending, patent pending,
The Tankathon for Arch. Manning is on on. I'm going
to create an AI logo by the end of the day,
(30:24):
all right, March for Arch Jets logo, you know, And
and you create the clothes like Rob Parker creates the
clothes for us here at Fox Sports Radio. You create
the clothes for us. March for Arch patent pending, patent pending.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
But now you mentioned him, he's going to try to
claim a dime on it. We're not giving he gets nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
You gotta mention it's okay.
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Why because rockets from mining us. We all deserve a
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that's kind of a big deal. Well, halftime for the
Lakers and SD Jones and it is. Let's just say
(31:13):
it has not quite been the night the Utah Jazz
had in mind Luca Dodgic's first game with the Lakers.
They lead it seventy two to forty seven at halftime.
Luka Doncic started, He played about twelve minutes, eleven points,
three assists, three rebounds. It has been all La and
(31:34):
no Williams. You know they're still doing this because you
know that trade got rescinded. So still a big night
for the Lakers again at halftime. Now they had a
twelve point lead after the first quarter and then the
thirteen more points in the second quarter. A big, big
night for the Lakers so far.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Did we get to see a bunch of Dalton connect
now or shake Milton or like what do we get
count down to Brownny? It's the count down to Bronnie
brought we want. It's like elimination chamber where there's a
countdown clock and then the door opens and he gets
to run into the ring or what you.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Could put Bronny in the game now. Really, Dalton Connect
hasn't played yet tonight, so I mean you could you
could put Bronny in the game. Now, you could put
Bronni and Connect that be the starting backcourt for the
beginning of the second half. Just let that roll. Let
it goes. Bronnie still with the squadters he back in
the g leagues. I think at this point, if he's not,
you just call him up and say, hey, get here,
get you. It's the Jazz. I would have had him
active for this one. You can play it and I
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get here, get it. It's all. It's all right for
you to play.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Come on, hey, look, Dalton's kind of upset that he
got traded until he didn't, So we're gonna activate you.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
It's like when someone like to pull the curtain back
a little bit like in radio when someone calls in
sick at the last minute and we get a phone
call mone of our bosses, how quick can you get
to the station? Yeah, Comra, how quick can you get
to the how can you get there? Now? Speaking of that,
that that only happens once in a while. Speed two.
(33:00):
Two big stories out of the NBA that are terrible, unsurprising, terrible,
but terrible, and we're just gonna have more stuff like
this as time goes on. So again, both things are terrible, unsurprising, terrible.
We just had a great week for the NBA. Well,
when I tell you the stories, what the stories have
in mind? Anthony Davis is missing multiple weeks after hurting
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his adductor in his first game with the Mavericks over
the weekend, and Joel Embiid let it slip over the weekend.
Oh yeah, I might need another surgery on my knee
at the end of this year, depending on how things go. Well,
and they come in threes because Giannis is out for
several weeks now as well. Yeah, but this is these
were but again terrible, unsurprising, but terrible. The unsurprising a
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little bit more surprising, you don't know how much, but unsurprising, terrible,
but we're gonna see. I feel like when when William
Hurt says it in a Harry Potter he did terrible
things with that wand Voldemort great but terrible. You know
William hurt. Yeah, not William hurt, John Hurt, Okay, John Hurt.
Yeah wow. I was like, whoa, that's the way of John.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
And then he turned into the Hulk. No great things,
terrible but great great. No, you're You're absolutely right. The
Anthony Davis was interesting because we talked about it a
lot Friday night his presser and how much he was
really doing the cell job of I am going to
come out there and I am going to make you
forget that seventy seven guy, and then he was an
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absolute terror for the first half.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
But the whole time as we talked.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
About it, it's like the injury has not exactly a
short term, easy fix injury.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
It's a problem. And then what happens.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
He tears himself up and down he goes and that
jewel embiid well.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I mean, you just have to get used to itself.
This is how it goes. This is how it goes
for Anthony Davis. I mean, and now you start thinking,
did the Lakers trade him out a high point coming
off a year where he played in central six game
games and he played in most of the games this year.
Did they trade him before they thought we gotta do
it before. Really, he's because big guys break down easier.
How many more years now? I almost feel like, boy,
(35:10):
we did it at just the right time.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Does Dallas get to go back and say the medicals
didn't clear. Oh boy, that really it was strained beyond it.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I'll tell you, Kathy Bates is Matt luck would have
wrote that into the uh the win An Award. There'd
be a bunch of blankety blanks in oh and uh yeah, door,
you have you have till the the end of May
to call this deal off if you want to get
Luca back. That's because and when you're right, it's just
more of the same, right, it's more. This is how
it's gonna go for Joel Embiid the rest of the
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time he's with Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
But it's always the oh, by the way, yeah, I'm
hurt again, Like that's the way he discloses it, right, Yeah,
it's not that James Harden. Hey, let me say that
again for all you in the back. Then it's like,
oh yeah, hey, hey, by the way.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I'm hurt. I'm gonna miss some time. Exit out a
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