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January 11, 2023 • 37 mins

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the Bears going to get possibly the top draft in the upcoming NFL Draft, Top Gun Maverik deserved to be the best movie of the year, and Lamar Jackson may not even play in the Ravens upcoming playoff game!

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And let me tell you, Mike, what I'm very excited
about here. What's on watching the You know, golden globes
are on Everybody's winning White lotus just one. And of
course that was a show created by Mike White, not
not that Mike White, the other Mike White, the other
Mike White, Rock Mike White and so amazing race Mike White. Yeah,

(01:07):
because they want ned schneeblely is trending, which was his
name in School of Rock. There you go, Mike White, Windy,
Mike White's name kend no no no, Ned Schneebly is
gonna trend. I gotta. I got a chance to watch
Jennifer Coolidge's UH speech and a lot of it was
dedicated to him talking about some dark places she was

(01:29):
in and and how positive guy he was and is
to be around, and really made it all about pumping
him up. So he was in tears by time it ended,
and she said she now gets invited to parties on
the hill, which she didn't before. You know, speak of
parties and celebrations, the open talks about horns. Really surprised
Timmy L. Trumpet didn't find his way into the celebratory

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thing of our anniversary. Yeah, I'm kind of surprised about that.
That's something for our creative director of Vito Violante to
try to figure out that there was not a criticism.
It was, well, there should be more horns in there,
there should be more to me. Well, you know, I
celebrate horn sections. I'm a big fan of Chicago, no
doubt Roses. When they were on that tour that they
had Tracy and everybody that were in the background playing,

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playing the horns, Elton John's band, all those things. Yeah,
I like a good horn and and a flute player
whenever you can add them. You know what else it's missing?
What's that? Damn Colbell gotta have really explore the room.
I really I want you to do that, Gene. All right,
you know what's gonna debut on harmon rants on TikTok
tomorrow though, what's half time? Oh? Okay, halftime tomorrow on TikTok. Alright,

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it's calf time on TikTok. You better send royalties my way.
I'll tell you what, buddy, if it makes money. Damn right,
speaking of royalties, does Mike Tannenbaum's money. I think he
owes us money, you know him? Not what I mean?
It was a week ago, right, a week ago we

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did We did it a couple of time in the show.
We talked about, Hey, look at this game coming up
this weekend, the Texans, and I told you Texans, we're
gonna beat the Colts. Hey, Texans beat the Colts. Texans win,
Bears lose, Bears are gonna be picking number one in
the draft. Okay, And when that happens, the desire and

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the pressure to select a quarterback is immense. So yeah,
Justin Fields on the block in the off season. The
Bears could wind up trading him, And I told the
bold prediction the Bears would trade him because it's just
too difficult a mountain to try to navigate to say, Yes,

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here's a coaching staff that didn't pick Justin Fields even
though he made great starts. It's not about Justin Fields
because I love Justin Fields. And if they made him available,
plenty of teams would go after him. Like if Lamar
Jackson and and Justin Fields are the two quarterbacks this
offseason that's suddenly become available. Yeah, Justin Fields is right
behind Lamar Jackson. Right, you don't have to pay Justin
Fields where you pay Lamar Jackson's He wants a big contract,

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he wants all the money guaranteed. I'd go get Justin
Fields because he's terrific. If he played Week seventeen, he
would have set the record for most yards rushing in
the season by a quarterback. It would have happened. He
has made big strides. But but think about the pressure
of picking number one overall with all these quarterback prospects

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out there, right, Yes, Bryce Young is a little small,
but no one sees the field like he like he does. Right,
He's got the best vision of any quarterback coming out
of the draft in probably ten years. Right, Bryce Young
could be a star. C J. Stroud could be a star.
You have lots of guys they're up at the top,
but Bryce Young and c J. Stroud are those two
big names, and you think they're not gonna think they're

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they're not gonna look at well, we can reset the
quarterback clock by drafting a guy here where Look, we're
two years into justin fields already and he's playing well,
he might deserve a big extension. We can reset that clock.
Are we really gonna go by and not take a
quarterback and run the risk of, hey, we had a
chance to get a general, rational guy and we didn't

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get him. Are you really going to do that? As
time gets closer to the draft, that pressure amps up
and ramps up more and more and more. And plus
you have a a faction of of the of the
Bears that you feel like they've never really gone all
in on justin field. It's kind of like the Eagles
with Jalen Hurts going into this year, like, yeah, they
like them, but they kind of had him at arms length.

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Are they really going to develop them? They wouldn't let
Justin Fields loose at all. There aren't let him through
the football the first few games of the year. Then
suddenly they decided, okay, fine, let's turn them loose. Oh
and look what happened. The Bears started scoring points, he
started becoming a dynamic quarterback. They were never all in
on him. And this is a this is a regime
that didn't draft him. So you have all of these
things going on now, and then Mike Tannenbaum goes on

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goes on TV Today and says, you know, if I'm
the Bears, I trade Justin Fields and take a quarterback
that number one overall pick here. I'm like, we did
this thing like a week ago before this even happened.
We did this a week ago. Man, we should make
a lot of money. We can make a lot money
for our takes. Yeah, we've kind of thrown this one
up for a while, and it's really been interesting to

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watch in Chicago there you basically had the media fighting
each other. This is an Anchorman come to life in
a lot of ways, because I mean, there there is
the insane defensive fields to the point where he's infallible
and everything else has to be. They just haven't developed
him right, they haven't gotten the tools and etcetera, etcetera,

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Versus the other side that is, well, he's got so
many issues that no matter what you do around him,
that he's never gonna be a complete quarterback, which I
think is also assinine. Unfortunately, this is one where Nuance
gets into it and hot take nonsense. Uh, well is
there just by suggesting it? But when you dig a

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little deeper, right, We talked about it in the opening
weeks of the season breaking down these games. Why because
if it wasn't on national TV outside of Chicago, nobody
watched this stuff. Don't kid yourselves. I every nobody saw
a Week three or four if it was on the
one pm Fox game outside of the two teams, fan

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bases that were contesting it, and people that analyze some film. Right. Otherwise,
it's a lot of hot takes on the stuff you
didn't see. Well, you had a center that couldn't snap
the ball and pretend to block anybody, which meant he
was never throwing from a pocket at any point to
start the season. Offensive line they might have one or
two pieces that you say, Okay, these guys we can

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work with going forward. They gotta figure out the run game.
We talked about this a little bit last night. David
Montgomery wants to come back. He's the same boat as
Josh Jacobs man. I'd really like to play there. Well,
what's the price? What it? What it? What has gonna be?
Khalil Herbert coming off an injury, Chase Claypool still fancies
himself a top five receiver. How the hell are you
gonna win if that guy thinks he's the top five

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receiver in the NFL because he's gonna try to command
ten targets a game thinking he's a wizard and he's
a jag. Okay, so that's a problem you're gonna have
to deal with. And that was one of the trades
they made. Very small investment, but it certainly is one
where you raise the eyebrow, but nothing more than what
was it a second round pick when it's all said
and done. But it's still a a deal that you

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made to try to get help Commits Solid had a
four or five week run where he was fantastic and
then receded, and then Darnell Mooney is what a two
or a three in your ideal team. Nice player, but
he's not a true number one. So what are you
gonna do. You've got a giant bag of cash to
try to convince people to come in, and you've got

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a lot of building blocks to work on. You've got
a new president that's gonna get hired, and then you
have the decision on fields of deal. Like what you've seen,
can you coach him out of some of the turnover
mistakes because go back and roll tape on that. Everybody
that wants to just genuflect to this guy, he made
some incredibly poor and terrible decisions that you can't excuse
away no matter what the personnel is around and that

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and that's act. And I like him, and I think
he's a guy that fits the city. He embraces the
the mantolia and what it means to be a quarterback
for a team and a fan base that's been so
desperate to find one. But that doesn't mean that you
ought to automatically crown him. If you will find another deal,
you go find a deal if it's gonna make you better. Now,

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if you think Jason you're crazy, not gonna trade Judson. Yeah, look,
I love Justin Fields. I think he's terrific. And and
they finally did the right thing and letting him cook
and say let's see what this guy can do and
figure out the offense around it. But the bottom line
is there's a lot of things at work. There are
are we completely sold he's going to be a great quarterback?
Will he make those improvements passing because he's got to

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throw the ball a little bit better. You can you
can run for a hundred and twenty yards a week
and that's awesome, and you can't go six for seventeen
for seventy eight yards, right, you need to be able
to throw the ball a little bit better. You don't
need to win passing titles, but you need to win.
You need to throw the ball a little bit better
than that. But it's it's the combination of that and
the number one overall pick. It really is immense. And
here's earlier to say you think I'm lying to you,

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you know what, I'll tell you what. Here's Ryan Poles
saying that, Yeah, yeah, we love Justin Fields, he's our guy.
But we're gonna do the same as we've always done.
We're gonna evaluate the draft class, and I would say this,
I'd have to be absolutely blown away to make that
type of decision. Hmm, that's not Justin's our guy. That's uh,

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that's hey, we're gonna evaluate the draft class and we'd
have to be blown away. No, that's not. Hey, Justin
Fields is our quarterback man, and we're looking at getting
a great player here at number one or maybe trading down.
Oh what this is not the Hey, yeah, we love
Justin Fields. The door is wide open for the Bears
to trade him. And do you think, oh, well, what
else is is is Ryan Pole's gonna say, oh, you've

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got to keep the leverage. He doesn't have to keep leverage.
He picks number one. It's not like he's picking third
or forth the No, No, he has all the leverage.
He picks number one over. Anybody that wants to call
is still going to call it if nothing else, If
nothing else, If you say he's our guy, You've now
got people scrambling to try to call for both the

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pick and justice Fields. Hey, what what does it take? Like?
It now becomes a two pronged approach as opposed to know,
he's our guy, and now you're just negotiating over the
draft pick. No, no, no, there's much more at play
here at Polls is doing it right. And I think,
at least to this point, I give the benefit of
the doubt that this is a different era than the

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Hollis McCaskey thing. I know we had Jason lacking for
on Last Hour and they talked to history, and that's
been the the the battle cry for a lot of folks.
You know, it's changed. Can it may be slow, but
you did hire a different cat and and brought him
in and he did some things that past gms had
no guts or ability to do. So you're already looking

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at evolution here, right. It's it takes time, Like you know,
moving moving actially along here doesn't mean it's it's going
to end up in the position we all think it
should one way or another. No, but to just say
they've always failed, well, eventually you know something's gonna change.
Actually you get it right, right, No, but but but

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it's it goes back to the analogy from Last Hour.
It well, but you had that, But you had it
right all those years ago with the the guy with
the thing in the place and the fur coats. Uh.
He predicted things and he got it right. Doesn't mean
it happens but once every fifty years or or so.
But the the idea just being that you do have

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new people in charge, new ideas in the room. And
let's face it, the franchise, the matriarch has just turned
a hundred. You've got a lot of things on the table,
including a move out of the city and out to
the suburbs, which is unthinkable five years ago. No what
we would have laughed at that being because it's it's

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just like all of the stadiums that we're here in
Los Angeles. You can build a museum of all those
mini stadiums and proposals for all those years. Guess what
last night they play the National title game. Georgia did
uh in that stadium? Okay, same thing here. Change maybe slow,
but the fact that they're talking about saying hey, blank

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you to the city and to the park districts and
everybody else and moving out of town to get their
own revenue and everything else, it means the business of
the game is finally trickled into those offices and with
it maybe some more football scents as well. Just watch
with all of that coming, it's gonna be impossible for
the Bears to not trade justin fields. The only way

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out is if they trade the pick. Well, you know what,
you know, might we don't want the drama, we trade that.
There's no way they stay at number one and don't
take a quarterback. That's their only way out is that. Okay,
how do we get out of this if we really
don't want like, we'll do our due diligence on Bryce
Young and c J. Stroud. Hey guess what, because Ryan
polsk is always saying a couple of months, hey, I'm
blown away by Bryce Young. Boy, I'm blown away. Buy

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this kid, right, But the only way out of it
is if they trade the pick is to say, hey,
we gotta they do a New York Giant. So well,
we had to do this, We had no choice. But
it takes a Juan Barkley at number two. He's a
generational running back. The Bears can say we were blown
away with this trade offer by a team that really
wants Bryce Young or c J. Strout, so we kind
of have to do this. That's there. They don't stay
at number one if they're not taking a quarterback. That's

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their only way out. If they're scared of making that
decision and want to make it look like, well, we didn't.
In the end, we didn't have to make that because
because we traded the pick and we got a couple
other picks, We're gonna revamp our team. We need we
need different things, different positions. That's their only way out.
What did I tell you? You got? You have a
lot of needs, and you've got a couple of teams
behind you that are gonna be desperate to to try
to go up and get that pick and leap frog

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each other. So you pit at a minimum, the Texans
and the Colts against each other, same division, right still
fighting trying to figure things out. Maybe those guys don't
like each other and the owners just have a slab fight.
But the the idea is that, all right, you can
go trade it back to Houston and then hey, we

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now have the number two pick. Hi, Indianapolis, would you
like what's left in the quarterbacks? How about you give
us a bevy of picks And then all of a sudden,
there you are repleting. You build around justin fields and
and you if you want to trade picks back out
into the marketplace and go get a couple of established veterans,
because that's the other thing that has changed these last

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couple of years, where you can't actually get into the
marketplace and go get yourself some viable starters based on contract,
playing time in general, quarrels within squads, just wats, justin fields.
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into Jerry Jones Mike Carman, the Golden Globes are over
and the Fableman's one best picture Now it's gold floaks
good things a lot. I've I've heard good things. You know.
It's kind of a semi autobiographical thing. Steven Spielberg his

(16:53):
passion project about a young BOYO falls in love with
filmmaking and okay, I get it. Wait a second. Top
Gun didn't win. Yeah, you know, And that's the thing.
And you know, me, the big movie guy, I am
that this is why movies have gotten out of People
have gotten out of touch with movies and award shows
because so many things win which people don't get a

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chance to see. And it's they're only gonna nominate and
really give something to a certain type of movie. Right, Hey, Hey,
we should nominate Top Gun because it made a billion dollars.
But we're never gonna let it win. We're never gonna
vote for it. Um. Top Gun Maverick brought people back
to the Cinema. It made worldwide a billion dollars, one

(17:34):
of the top five grossing movies of all time. The
fighter plane scenes are the best scenes you will see
in a movie all last year, right, all the Tom
Cruise is really good in it, all the all the
all the the supporting cast is really good. But when
you're talking about best picture, that's achievement in filmmaking. Um,
that's pretty much all the achievement and filmmaking. I need

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the fighter the scenes, the way it was shot was
was breathed again. I've seen it like five times. I
still can tike it over some of the stuff they have.
It should have won, just for the scene where Cruises
flying low when he's showing everybody how to do the
mission and he's ten feet off the bleeping ground and
he's going back and forth. But it was one of
those movies that it brought people back. That's achievement in filmmaking.

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Top Gun Mavericks should have one best picture and it
shouldn't be closed. I get there's controversy. Tom Cruise returned
his awards, and hey, he stood up for a big cause,
which is great that people rallied behind, and maybe that's
gonna he's gonna be held that against him. Oh, he
turns to gold Globe. We're not gonna get the gold globe.
She's returning to the gold Globe. Top gun. Mavericks should
have one best picture and it shouldn't even have been closed. Yeah,
I think we get into how how are you determining this?

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How much does box office play and how much of
getting people out to theaters? Uh at all? And keeping
some of the movie making alive. Uh. It should it
shouldn't get credit for this this past year, right? What
it what it did to maybe embolden some of the
film studios to maybe put a little more into budgets

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for that kind of film, you know, when it's interesting
to the philosophy of all of this. Right, people choose
what they go see, right I I didn't. Was looking
at The Fableman's two weeks ago, and I chose not
to drive forty five minutes to go see it. No,
I was curious to see it. No, I mean, what
was a limited release? Right? It's there, But you're making

(19:22):
a choice with your entertainment dollar and with your time,
So I I don't dismiss it just because it only
did five millions of box officer ten million of box
office whatever. I found some value in bab A lot
of strange movie first twenty minutes, certainly what everybody has
fixated on in the lack of a cohesive marketing plan.
But I went. I gave it my time. I was entertained.

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Uh the banshees of Innesirian watch that on cable the
other you know, on streaming the other day, and I'm
sad I didn't support it by giving my fifteen bucks
the box office because I loved it, right, just I
never found the time over break or better. Yet, once again,
I chose to watch a low level bowl game. Uh,
then go to the movies and shame on me for

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Bowl Game number thirty four that we didn't talk about.
But the point is that you make choices with your
your dollars and with your time. And here some of
it is, you know, the self congratulatory, pat each other
on the back kind of thing. When we've had a chance.
I've turned up the volume a bit, and most of
the commentary and an attempts at humor from the presenters

(20:29):
as cringeworthy. It's like, clearly you need the writers, so
shout them out a little bit more we want Ricky
your face back. That's among the things you won't be seeing.
Yeah that I don't know that that's gonna happen. What
do you mean some of the greatest uh indictments and
comments on hipocrisy that you ever? You just you just

(20:49):
went full Alex type your right there for what do
you mean? What do you mean? But you know why?
What do you mean? You know who's the blame? Right?
Don't don't say Carlos Correa no, because he wasn't there.
Don't say Zach Will don't says associated with Aaron Rodgers
just crippled everything. Oh boy, I'll tell you. I mean,
I don't some sometimes I just don't must no. Cous

(21:15):
Well Goose had a good run in the first he did,
he did halfway, Halfway. Hey had a good run for
the first half of the movie. He did Twitter at
about a Fresca. Mike hat Swollen don the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. So the Cowboys
apparently have a lot of problems, right, and maybe they
need a new head coach. Maybe they're gonna fire Mike McCarthy,
Maybe they're not. Jerry Jones does his normal weekly appearance

(21:36):
on one or four three the fan in Dallas today
and and he said, oh, no, no, Mike McCarthy, Fire
Mike McCarthy. I got all the intel I need on
this head coach. Could anything happen in this playoff game
Monday that could put Mike McCarthy's job status in question
for next year? No, I don't even want to know.

(21:58):
That's it. I don't need to go into all the
plus uses. But I've got a lot more to evaluate.
Mike McCarthy owned in this playoff game. Uh, nothing could
happened during the game, but after the game, if Sean
Payton comes available, then that could do it. So, uh,
notice how I answered your question, but I still left

(22:18):
the door open a little bit. But after the game,
if I get a phone call and I see it's
Sean Payton, I'll go. First thing I'll do is I
will stream Home Team give another view there for the
Sean Payton story, and I'll watch that, and then I
will hire him as a head coach. Uh. Just think
about this. I mean, he's doing an interview and and
it should be all about the game, and it's hey,
could you fire Mike McCarthy if you don't win this

(22:40):
game this weekend. I mean, that is just insane. But
this shows you how people are out of their minds
when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys and and people
and I look people in the media, people on the radio,
here at this station, and you know, everywhere else and
on TV. The cow Boys don't have problems. Okay, they don't.

(23:03):
The problem is I feel like Jeff Conneckie, the problems
in your mouth. The problem is how people talk about
the Cowboys and how they're perceived. Because the Cowboys are
a pretty good team, right and it's been a pretty
good team for a little while. Are they a juggernaut?
They are not. They've not been a juggernaut since the
nineteen nineties. It's been twenty five years since the Cowboys

(23:25):
have been a juggernaut. But the media makes them something
they're not. Because of their popularity, the Cowboys are clearly
the most popular team in the NFL. Look at all
the ratings, Cowboys game most watch game in the NFL
in the last ten years, Sunday Night Football with the
Cowboys most watched game all year. The Cowboys are extremely popular.
But what gets confused is because and a lot of

(23:46):
times people can't find ways to talk about the Cowboys,
it's they're a good team. Could they be a team
that wins a playoff game and goes on a mini run? Yeah?
Could they lose their first game this weekend? Yeah, this
is where the Cowboys are. There are a good team
amongst other good teams. Is Dak Prescott? Oh, my goodness,
Dak Prescott? He's he's so disappointing. No, Dak Prescott is

(24:09):
a good quarterback. Is he a great quarterback? No, he's
making a lot of money. Cowboys have a good running attack.
Their defense is good. Are they elite? Are they the
forty Niners? No? Are they the Eagles? No? Are they
the Chiefs? No? Are they the Bills? No? They were
a good team amongst other good teams. That's who the
Cowboys are. But you hear them being talked about and
every week is either all the Cowboys win, look at them,

(24:32):
They're at the top of the mountain, or all everything
is awful. The Cowboys need to blow it up. What
are they doing? They gotta start over. It's insane and
and it and it's it's really in how you hear
people talk about the Cowboys that you think they have
all these problems Oh the Cowboys doing. They gotta go
back to the drawing board. What drawing board? This? This
is not a team that is going fifteen and two

(24:53):
every year and they lose in the second round of
the playoffs. Is not the Green Bay Packers, you know.
This is the Cowboys where, yeah, they're in the playoffs
every couple of years and they could win, they could lose.
They've they've won three playoff games in the last twelve years.
They get to the dance sometimes. Sometimes that's kind of
who the Cowboys are there the Vikings, except they play
in Dallas and they're America's team. They're incredibly popular. But

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it's not that the Cowboys are so they're so low,
they're so high. The Cowboys are just a good team.
And that's where that's where the conversation should come from
with the Cowboys, because they're really just overrated when it
comes to how good or how bad people think they are,
they're not as good as they are when they win.
It's all look at the Cowboys, their star studded team
and they're running rough shot over the other team. Now

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the Cowboys are good when they lose. It's not all
this is terrible, like you look at this loss on Sunday,
you would have think the Cowboys gacked away a five
game lead, missed the plays. You think the Cowboys were
the Jets they were the way the way. Oh they Yeah,
they lost a game that turned out to not mean anything. Yes,
they laid an egg. Okay, but you know what, since
Dak Prescott's come back, the offensive scored over thirty points

(25:58):
a game. They're still pretty good. They're just not great,
and they're just don't have a lot of problems. That's
who they are. They're just like any of these other
good but not great teams. But the way they're being
presented is that they have all kinds of problems. They
should be better than they are, and everybody's bought into
that because that's all you hear about the Cowboys year
after years a Cowboys and Cowboys, Oh it's the Cowboys

(26:19):
are just like it's been twenty five years for the
Cowboys being just like everybody else. They're just more popular.
But they're not this team. They're not the way they're
presented by a lot of people. See Jason, I think
a lot of this goes harkens back to, you know,
with the years we've been on air together in the
years of the Jim Harbaugh run at the University of Michigan.
You've got to recognize who the hell you are. Okay,

(26:42):
guys winning at eight, nine, ten games a year, yet
he's he's a terrible coach. This is what he has.
It does like, did you remember some of the lean
years that you've had, some of the disappointing, pathetic, embarrassing
years that you had. You made the guy to take
a pay cut after the COVID year. The hell was
that all about? And now he's had two great runs
in a in a in a row and either anxiousness

(27:05):
or still feeling disrespected, doesn't like n I l all
those things we've talked about earlier in the show. You
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Emmett Smith and Michael Irvine, Dion Sanders, all of those,

(27:29):
they're not walking through the door man. That's that's a
long damn time ago. That's that's that it's thirty years
about Romo might show up and start mocking the product
that he's watching being forced to wear a bad Christmas
sweater when he was doing that uh Broncos Rams game.

(27:50):
That was a guy that you wished just give him
a bottle in the booth. He really needs it at
this point because he's in pain. But it's the just
that idea with the Cowboys of yeah, Jerry gives us stuff.
How many owners could you pick out their voice outside
of Jerry Jones in the National Football League? Right, nobody
talks very quiet Robert Kraft a little bit, and you

(28:12):
would just make that guess based on Caden's age, and
that the word Tommy is probably showing up at least
two or three times. Right. Beyond that, you don't know
these guys and the conglomerates and what's going on. So
it's the salesman, the Carnival Barker, the P. T. Barnum
that is Jerry Jones that helps perpetuate it. The fact

(28:35):
that it's a global brand. I mean, how many seasons
that damn Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders show did they have? My
kids have watched it all. I've got friends that have
watched it all, it's like, what twelve thirteen years or
whatever the hell they did that thing? They could tell
you who the the girls were that were sent home
early in in week three. Great reality show, but but
it's brand extension, right. How many times do you see

(28:57):
that damn star on books? It's like, what's the connection?
And I did Dallas once? Okay? Cool? Or I watched
him on TV all the time? Right? Growing up, you
had a lot of random people that you found in
your life that were suddenly Steelers cowboys or forty Niner fans.
Why because they won? They were on TV and Jerry
keeps milking that for all it's worth and ergo, we
we ascribe a larger value to the team and expectations

(29:22):
from there. Yet, how how loyal has he been? Right?
For all the talk of heap fires guys fast? What
what was the other argument? Why is Jason Garrett still there?
What's going on? Why Kelvin Moore? What's his deal? Like,
you just keep going down the line of guys that
got to stay there forever. The only guy that didn't
get a shot with it was Tom Landry and his
hat and then he and Jimmy Johnson fought over credit.

(29:46):
Yeah yeah, but look that that was I mean, it's
been twenty five years, and you can only be on
a team's hangover for so long. And and this and
and it's the Cowboys. Cogoan the Cowboys. Are you still
looking for a quarterback? Baby five? Nobody even pays attention
that they played in a Super Bowl with Lovey Devin
has to return the opening kickoff and then Prince played halftime.

(30:09):
They'll just rubber Prince played halftime. Yeah well yeah yeah,
and Rex Gross been played in the game. There was
that too, and then but that the game sucked. Yeah,
look like Peyton Manning got his Super Bowl and he
did not play well. But but even the Bear, even
Bears fans, Yeah, okay, it's every year is not gonna
be the eighty five Bears. But people in the media,
they think every year is is the Cowboy of the night.
They should Why aren't they the Cowboys of the nineties

(30:29):
because they haven't been that team in Yes, they're popular
that but dope, but they confuse popularity with how good
they think the team is. And they can and and
that's why every week all the Cowboys that Cowboys. I'll
tell you right now, Cowboys don't have problems. They're a
good team that can win this week. They can look
just like most other teams in the NFL. They're not elite,
so stop treating them like every win is well, they

(30:50):
still could have done more. They still didn't do enough.
They still and every loss is oh, blow it up
and start over. Why did you pay Doc? Why did
you that? That's simply not who they are and they have,
I mean, the twenty five years agoing. It's not some
Johnny come Lately thing where well I'm getting used to
the Cowboys just being okay. No, that twenty five years
to get used to the Cowboys just being okay, twenty
five years of it. Yeah, it's it's two things. Number one,

(31:12):
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(31:33):
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J speaking of bundling and saving, the Ravens hoping that

(31:54):
Lamar Jackson has bundled and has saved himself for this
weekend in the playoffs. Uh, the this story is just
gonna start to mushroom. As as the week gotten mushrooms.
This is going to just mushroom as the week goes on.
Lamar Jackson status and situation with the Ravens. It's been
comical to hear the last couple of days, John Harbaugh saying,

(32:17):
I don't know. I won't get to talk to Lamar
until Wednesday. I don't know how he's gonna be. This
is a guy that was visibly limping on the sideline
last week. He hasn't been cleared to practice, and yet
the Ravens are hoping he comes back for their playoff
game this weekend. Um, Look, let me tell you nothing
has changed. Nothing has changed. Look today the Ravens gave

(32:39):
ro Kwan Smith a five year, hundred billion dollar contract.
That guy's been there for five minutes, and Lamar Jackson
still wants to deal with guaranteed money and the Ravens
won't give it to him. Okay, all that's going on
right now for the Ravens and and and Lamar Jackson.
They are past a disconnect between the two sides. What
it is now is it's handling the end because in

(33:01):
the off season, Lamar Jackson's gonna get traded. You can say, oh,
but they can franchise. I'm not no, you think Lamar
Jackson's gonna play unto the franchise tag. He's already shown you, Hey,
if I'm dinged up here, my knee is danged up,
I'm gonna set I'm not gonna ruin my value here.
He will sit out and be very happy doing it
until they trade him. He has shown you that that's
what he is going to do. You know you're not

(33:21):
gonna you're gonna franchise me. I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna play on it. I'm gonna wait and I'm gonna
force you to trade me. And in the end, the
Ravens know they're gonna trade him because they don't want
to give him the money. It's not like they want
to sign him long term. Because they've tried. Lamar wants
more money than they want to give him. He wants
to Shaun Watson type cash. And you know, look, you
can blame the Browns all you want. And I know
that the Ravens are probably upset. Everybody in the NFL

(33:43):
is upset. Did you have to guarantee that guy all
that money? But Lamar Jackson saying, I've accomplished a lot more.
I'm the same age. I'm twenty five years old. Man,
this is what I want. Other teams will give it
to me. The Ravens will trade him because they don't
want to pay him. They don't They want to just
try to get another couple of years out of him
before it's like, okay, he's twenty eight, twenty nine is
gonna start breaking down. Uh. You know that the quarterbacks
that are that are dual option guys don't last as long.

(34:05):
We're ready to move on. They don't want to pay him.
He wants to go someplace else. They're just now trying
to manage the end and handle the end of this.
Nobody wants to look bad. The Ravens want to look
like we can at least hey try something with Lamar.
We weren't going to get there. We want to trade him.
Lamar wants to manage the end well and look like
a good guy so he can get to his next team,

(34:26):
and other teams are gonna want to walk in and
trade for him. This is just going to end in
this offseason. Nothing has changed. Where Lamar Jackson plays this
weekend or not. Lamar Jackson is gonna be the number
one sought after quarterback this offseason. Teams are gonna be calling.
It's gonna be a big trade package that's gonna get
him from the Ravens. It will happen. See how than
he is, See how I mean it's played out a lot.

(34:47):
As we we've discussed the it would the entire way.
I mean, there's more behind the scenes. We've chronicled the
press conference responses from Harbor through the last seven weeks,
how much shorter they got the as soon as he
went to the I'm all, I can only coach who's
here a week ago? All right, Yeah, he's done with

(35:08):
this nonsense. And then you've got Huntley who's banged up
as well. So you've had Anthony Brown out there. You're
averaging what eleven and eleven point seven points per game
or something in Lamar's absence, so you'd say leverage there.
But Pascatti was the only guy to openly squawk with
a megaphone, stealing from Isaac with the Bart Simpson like

(35:31):
megaphone when he went testing after going to the police
station and linking them all together and then everything gets
blown out. It's kind of what Pa shot he did
when he balked at the Deshaun Watson contracts. It's like, he,
damned if we're paying that much, Reagan, you know you
guaranteed money to anybody. You know, Bucky Brooks and I
do in the Sunday mornings, Jason. He proffered something before

(35:52):
the going back to the draft a couple of years
ago of the aforementioned justin fields, like the way you
try to play your style in Baltimore. That's a guy
they should have been looking to try to figure out
how to get and run it like a college program
where Lamart graduates, it goes somewhere else and you have
the next quarterback ready to come up right the old

(36:13):
sharks tooth analogy, take a bite, the next one pops
into place, and you're ready to go again. Uh and
and right now you're in no man's land because you've
got a guy who clearly thinks he should get that
big money. What was it, a hundred thirty was what
they offered. That's a very large run between that and
what DeShawn got. So he's trying to get that and

(36:35):
it gets back to agents and all of that. We've
talked about that ad nauseum. But it does not end
well and Bashat he's got a lot to answer for
in terms of his part of negotiations and hardball tactics,
particularly when you see how devoid of talent in most places. Uh,

(36:55):
they've been congratulations zone to Roquan Smith, Bears in pay him.
He goes there and he gets a hundred million dollars.
What do you got, Frostberg? Well, Lamar missing all these
games is fine and dandy, but if he misses Sunday's game,
that's where the fan base turns on him. Yeah. If
he doesn't, Yeah, it's gonna be it. It's gonna be done.
Just buy the ro Kuan Smith jersey. Ar mean, you
got a Bears Rokuan Smith jersey. You can say you

(37:17):
have at least one fan. I mean, I got a
flawless rookie autograph card if someone wants that, Oh well,
I mean I do need some toilet paper. Wow rope
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