March 13, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you how the Lakers survive the next few weeks without LeBron James. NFL Insider Jason Cole joins the show for the latest on Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson. Plus the biggest loser of NFL free agency!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
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Speaker 3 (00:52):
That was allows Jets highlight. Ah, let's see yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's about right. Yeah field too.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Here we go, Ja, here's here's the Jets last twenty
five years in seven seconds, You're done. Namath wants to
kiss Susie Cauber. Back to back AFC title games in
the early tens.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Nobody remembers that's it. Well, but you had that Aaron.
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
You had Aaron Rodgers running out with the flag. That's
the last big Okay, they actually commemorated that, right, you're right,
all right. They they've got the partnership with Dan Patrick,
so give them their love. They they actually did a
trading card of Aaron Rodgers and the image was him
with the flag because obviously they couldn't get any game footage.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah oh no that year.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, in one of their higher end products. It's literally
him running out with the flag is one of the
low numbers.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So they car Okay, twenty five years name nameath wants
to kiss Susie back to back AFC title games in
ten and eleven.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Rogers, Right, I'll give you four snaps for that card.
That might be an overpay. I might.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I might have to give you an otani uh in
in exchange with that. But yeah, there's your highlight. Because
remember the anticipation of his arrival that night. I mean
we were in studio and I watched you die a
little bit. I think I saw your soul leave.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That That's right, that's what I said, you know what,
I I fall victim to it all the time.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
The Jets just can't have nice things. They just can't.
We played the tailor switch. They just can't that night.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Quite often, this is why we can't have nice Sorry, buddy,
can't do it.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
But the Mets season is coming soon. We're okay, We're okind.
I'm excited about it. Man, at least you're not the Yankee.
You lose Soo and then look at your starting rotation.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You lose, You lose Garrett Cole, you lose Gidri. I mean,
it's it's tough man.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Gian Carlos Stanton has no elbows, Rivera retires. I mean,
it's it's a rough rount. The captain isn't there.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Don Gullet's not good anymore. No, it's very hard.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Whitey Ford's not pitching's walking through that door. I always
and the thing is, I always do a thing whenever
I'm out, Like if we're out to lunch or somewhere
and someone in line behind us they come in and
they're wearing a Yankees hat. I always say, oh, if
you want to go ahead, second best team in New York,
you can. You can walk right ahead and me go
ah ha. And I do that all the time. Oh, Hey,
(03:09):
the second best team in New York. If you want
to go in front, that's fine, that's fine right there.
What are we talking about to do that all the time?
Anybody ever take a swing at you?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
No, no, because I I I pick and choose when
to say that. I think someone small like oh, you
look like they'll they'll be okay with it because I
say with it in fun.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Now I'm not gonna you know, no, but I mean, look,
everybody can infer tone.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I'm not gonna do it to someone who's coming in
yelling on their cell phone, going and if they do
that again, I'll kick their resk.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Hey, second best team in New York. No, I'm not
gonna do that.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
That would be kind of cool because that would be
a viral moment because we would get the credit for
that that someone would invariably uh and unquestionably have on
their cell phone and no time.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
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You guys want a team that you're not gonna have
to worry about filling out Oo Frostburg, Syracuse. Yeah no,
we're down ten to SMB.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Did you see that sequence that just played out? We're
circling the drain right now. Be on the bracket.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Miss shot, great effort, you get the steal, takes it
out to the top of the key, kicks it to
his guy for the three, and the airball stays oh.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, no, no, no, tysher who actually picked SMU? What
two years ago in the tournament with that lot those
couple of years ago, pre COVID picked SMU to win
the NCAA.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Turn back when we gave TVs to the winners and stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, okay, yeah, Well some people want Tractor Supply too,
you know, it's pretty big deal. Twenty twenty ferds gift
card Tractor Supply for really. Yeah, it's pretty big deal man.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I like to mulch my grounds. That sounds good.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It costs more than a television I'll tell you that. Yeah, yeah, sure.
But speaking of basketball, right, we'll have more NCAAA as
we have another big night of games happening. Good news
for the Lakers and Lebron James. Oh, Charles Barkley just
took a tons.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Lebron James on his way back to LA. Maybe he's
back in LA already, but the news today returning to
LA for treatment on his groin injury, and everything is positive.
Initially it was expected for him to miss a week
or two with this injury, and it looks like that's
what it is right now. It's good news today that
he's back in LA for treatment and maybe we see
(05:37):
Lebron in another week when he gets back into the
Lakers lineup. And when this happened and he got hurt
and all the doom and gloom came out, I looked
at this. I see this from a different perspective. I
can give you a really big sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
different with a silver lining part. This injury was never
(06:00):
deemed serious, right, was never deemed serious? Yes, Okay, whenever
it's a soft tissue injuries, of course it's it's it's
a thing. But this was not tearing the growing off
the bone. This was Hey an injury that it's a
week or two. Lebron doesn't miss the playoffs. Lebron does.
You have to worry about him being injured being forty,
because he does get dinged up. But Lebron James getting
(06:22):
hurt now is not as awful as people say it is.
It's not because at some point you would like Lebron
to have a little bit of an in season break, right.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
That's why we joked about it kind of tongue in cheek.
As a load management.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
He's forty years old. You're depending on him for a lot,
especially in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Him and Luca.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
What you have seen so far with him and Luca doncich, Hey,
they can carry the Lakers all the way to the
Western Conference Finals, maybe the NBA Finals. Maybe Luca heats
up and suddenly, look at what this Lakers team can do. Right,
They're scoring a lot of points, they're playing great defense,
Like suddenly they're a title contender. But you're depending on
Lebron for a lot. You need him to make his
way through the NBA playoffs and stay healthy. You don't
(07:05):
have to worry about chemistry with Luca because clearly, after
three weeks of playing with him, it looks like they've
played together for years. So it's not like, well, we
got to see each other's game. No, they they have
meshed really well from the beginning. So there's no concern.
As long as Lebron's going to be out a week
or two, I wouldn't be surprised, not to get conspiracy theory.
But if it's exactly two weeks, right, if it's exactly
(07:28):
two weeks, he's at weeks two weeks.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's a geographical oddity from everyone you watched.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I mean, look, you watched the Jazz have to pay
a fine because Larry markin and sat out too many games.
But now he's playing tonight, right, playing the next game. Oh,
we'll play him tonight. Don't worry about it. But I
would be surprised if it was exactly two weeks. Not
that Lebron is faking. I'm not saying that. What I'm
saying is that, hey, maybe it's an injury for Lebron
that would normally be a couple of games and the
Lakers are saying, you know what, let's give you a
(07:53):
little bit of extra time. Let's say two weeks on
the outside. And now here's Lebron at the end of
March gets a good two week break so we can refresh,
recharge before he comes back for the stretch run where
the Lakers will be in contention for the number two
seed and ready for the playoffs. Like I look at
it as hey, when he comes back, this is not serious.
(08:14):
This is a two week break for him. It's a
two week break, and this is how teams are gonna
have to navigate injuries and making sure, hey, our player
gets some time off now, especially if you're gonna wind
up finding people for it. But I would not be
surprised if this is a Lebron is good enough to
come back now or in a game or two. But
you know what, it's gonna be a couple of weeks
and then he comes back. This is not the worst thing,
(08:35):
and in the end it could wind up being one
of those things that one of those silver linings. It
just gets bigger as time goes on, because getting this
two week break at the perfect time, with enough time
where it's near the end of the season, but it's
not so close to the playoffs where you're rusty when
you come back, Like this is where you would get that.
This is where you would write in a break like
that for Lebron James if you could. This is not
(08:56):
an awful thing and it could wind up being a
boon for.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
The Lakers in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, it's Unfortunately it becomes an awful headline for the
NBA because you can take all the pot shots you want,
all right, the step to steven A Smith, steven A
Smith signed his hundred million dollar deal. He's gotten so
much mileage out of this, which I called pathetic, you know,
both for him and Lebron when it all went down.
(09:21):
But like that's the headline coming off of sending out
on your social media. Oh, look at our schedule in
mid March and then you're injured and you're gonna miss it, right,
So here here's the tough stretch, six games and eight
days or whatever it is against mostly top tier teams,
and I'm gonna miss it. Look, the Jazz are trying
(09:42):
to chase the Wizards down for the most ping pong balls,
So you'll take the fine. And if it was double there,
you'd take the physical challenge and you'd move on. But
for the Lakers, yeah, it's it's the worst because you
get the load management. I should say it's worse for
the NBA because you get the load management concerns of
is he really that injured or are we now massaging
(10:04):
this to where it becomes this longer period.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And look, the old rule.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Of thumb and business is and life in general, under
promise over delivered.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
So wow, it could be two weeks. Oh wait, he's
back in a week. What a hero?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Plug at him.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
He's gonna battle it out and run through.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
And so perhaps there's the win in that regard if
he does come back. But to your point, yeah, it's
reeks of load management, and that's what the NBA has
been trying to avoid these last couple of years. And
I know there's a lot of metrics of oh, look
at all these games where Lebron could have sat out
but didn't. Okay, he's supposed to play Like so I
(10:47):
don't know what that argument is, Like, what where we're
supposed to applaud him.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Because he plays a higher number of game.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
No, he's still playing on a team, he's still collecting
a check. So he's available, then yeah, he shouldn't be
in the stream Clowe that he should be playing and
for this injury. He said it the night that it happened.
He's like, no, this is not like what was it
twenty eighteen against Golden State when he got hurt and
missed seventeen games. He goes, no, it's it feels better
(11:13):
than that, So it shouldn't be that long. So now
we're in that, all right, let's parse out what public
opinion is about the length of the absence as well
as the opponents. So unfortunately, you don't get the benefit
of the doubt when you're then gonna find the jazz.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
For sucking more for a guy sitting out.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Again not the worst and not awful, and again it
could turn out to be something good for the Lakers
because he gets a break. Sure, but you know it's funny,
you say, the whole, whole big stephen A Smith Lebron
thing the last few days is just ridiculous. You know,
I was thinking about this today when I saw the
latest invention on the going. Okay, guys, just just stop,
just stop.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
You mean when stephen A did his general hospital at
Method acting, this is why Okay, this crazy story from
a couple of weeks ago where somehow Steven A.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Smith got a couple of votes.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Hey, we're looking for the Democratic nominee in twenty twenty eight, right, Okay,
this is why he can't ever run for president because
look at what's happened with Lebron, and all of a
sudden he is defensive and trying to explain himself. He's
too sensitive when it comes. He can't he can't take
criticism when it comes at him. And of course what
happens when you run for president. You gotta understand you're
(12:24):
gonna get hit with everything. Here's a whole thing with Lebron.
Lebron is mad at him, but he decides to address it.
And then people say, okay, now I'm going to change
the conversation here and change the topic here.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Now he's too sensitive.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
When Friday and you you were out, it was on
with Arnie Spanier, I called it a pathetic cowtowing to Lebron,
his people, the NBA and the Democratic Party. These are
all potential voters that you kissed off. Sure, so you know,
all of a sudden you're talking to I understand as a.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Father, but you got you gotta come back, you gotta
have you gotta have some sort of hey, this is
what happened, and I got to own it and move on.
But at anytime he's challenged on stuff as he just
gets so defensive and it gets to a point where
you just want to ignore it. And I thought, you
can't do that. You can't do that. Run for the
high ignore it. Part of me tells me I'd like
(13:16):
him to win because then I could keep doing my
Steven A. Smith impression. It would be I mean that
that would be great. You just got a million dollar
bag reportedly. I mean, that's that's It's like the John
hundred million dollar bag. Yeah, you can you can keep
doing that forever. I mean, what do we do.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
The impressions are of the highest among us.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm gonna fix the economy by getting Kevin Durant to
the Knicks because that gets the next into the NBA finals.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Questions, Yeah, all the all the debates running for would
be about the Knicks and their playoff chance. That sounded
like something just a shortened version of what Michael Douglas
did in the American press.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Before we get into foreign police. See, we're gonna talk
about the nick starting five playing too many minutes. Mister Smith,
go ahead your first wait, what Jade Vans is saying? What?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
What?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
What?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
What are we talking about? Gotta go to the heart
of the American people could.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
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Speaker 3 (17:29):
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The biographies of Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson. Concurrently, he
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Speaker 5 (17:39):
They're strong sellers right now?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, sure, hey both.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I mean really, you know, Ja Cole, when when we
sit here the end of day three of free agency
and all this talk about Rogers and Wilson, and I
just keep saying to myself, if somebody wanted both of
those guys, they would have probably had him by now,
wouldn't they, Like I said, sound like Russell Russell Wilson.
(18:04):
If the Steelers wanted him, they really would have had
If the Giants wanted him, they really would have signed him.
Somebody else would have figured out a deal with Aaron
Rodgers knowing he was going to be released. Then would
have happened by now? No, or not at all.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I think he decided he didn't like the tone of
your question. He just didn't want to talk about Rogers
and Wilson.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Maybe done. I'm done talking about these guys. I'm done
with them.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's every off season the last three years it's Rogers
and Wilson.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Or legitimately, he went to work researching a little Golden
Books version of his biography.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh, Golden Books for I like that they're making a comeback.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
They are like little display as if you go to
a tarja or something, you'll find.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You want to quit. Golden Book story so good.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
One of my friend's house this weekend, we go over
to have lunch and he's from Philadelphia, and so he's
got a Golden Books Phillies like alphabet, like an alphabet
book for his daughter who's too So they read the
book and a is for you know, and yeah, they
go through the whole thing and he goes, look at that,
had just bought it for a frame. I said, oh,
this is Does it Does it end with the Lindor
(19:10):
Grand slam in the in the n L d S.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Heart break? I start flipping through the pages, going does
it end with that? Does it end with that? It
ends with him fighting in a postum in the dugout.
You should see how big the rat was.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I believe we have Jason callback was taking a couple
of deep press understand that. Yes, for the third straight
off season, we're gonna have to talk about Aaron Rodgers
and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
I think, isn't it sure?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Very nice? Okay, very good. That's good for Mickey Morandini,
sure sure.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Geez for Gary Matthews. Wow, that's great. Z ben Zerbers
didn't play for them, did he? So Aaron Rogers, what
are we doing? Like, Hey, what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Wouldn't be if if anybody wanted either of them have already?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
No, Well, Aaron's probably going to take his time and
be a bit of a diva and thinking that everybody
in the world wants him and his you know, like,
I don't think Aaron's gotten to the point where he's
figured out that people are tired of the act. And
Russell probably has figured it out because he had to,
(20:35):
you know, he had to settle for the situation in
Pittsburgh last year. But Aaron still has lives in a
certain sense of dissociative reality. And man that I feel
like such a psychotherapist.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
That was pretty good.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Yeah, but yeah, I think that Aaron doesn't understand that
the world not all that like him to him anymore.
And I would really think, if I'm Pat McAfee, might
be time to pull that contract, might be not to
pay that million dollars a year because people might not
(21:15):
be tuning in as much. Although you never know. It's
served like a car accident waiting to happen. Look, I
think Aaron can still play, or at least I think
there's something there that I would bet on if I
was Pittsburgh and hope for something. But you know, like,
(21:41):
I think he's better than Justin Fields, which is sort
of ironic given the situation that just played out this week,
because obviously the Jets that's agreed, But it tells you
a lot about the Jets that they were so tired
of the Aaron Rodgers world that they wanted they preferred
justin Field too. Was a backup for the Steelers, and
(22:03):
not a very good one and as your partner in
crime will say, not great when he was in Chicago either.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, you picked me right up there, Jay Cal Thanks,
I'm rob excited about the season again, Slat, you're a
Jets fan.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Why would you ever be excited about it? Seeing them?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Did I tell you? Did I tell?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
My wife said to me the other day, when when
when the Jets signed Justin Fields. I said, oh, hey,
I got to go back up with a computer. A
couple of big signings just came down. The Jets just
got Justin Fields. And she goes, oh, how do you
feel about that? I go, well, Aaron Rodg named Aaron
Glenn's building the culture. I mean, boy, you can really
run the football. Well, he did some things good last.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Few of you.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
A couple of times in Pittsburgh. I'm telling you, hang on,
hang on, love the guys. And I said, you know,
and I feel good about it. Right, he did some
good things good in Pittsburgh last year before he had
the job taken from did some good things. And in
Chicago he ran for a thousand yards.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
So I feel good you did not have the job
taken there and she said, sure he did.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
By Tomlin decided I'm going to give this job to
Russell Wilson was five and two as a starter.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Why would you take it rid of your quarterback? Nope,
giving it to Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
So anyway, I say this, and my wife looks at
me and says, you say that every year you're excited
about the Jets quarterback every year, And every year it
doesn't work. And I said to her, I only have
to be right once about this, that's all.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
They just have to be right.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
In the world of psychotherapy, where we referred to this
as the Carmazzi syndrome.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
The Ken Dorsey syndrome. Whatever.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, Krzi Geo is coming back. Oh my god, Like,
I don't know what kind of culture you're building with Jessin.
Like he's a good dude, Like he's a good teammate.
You know, he handled he handled the situation last year
very professionally. But there's a reason they took the job
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from him, if you, if I want to grant you
your dissociative reality, that they took the job away from him,
Like he just wasn't that good. Like when you don't
see wide receivers in the end zone as they're as
they're you know, becoming open, and they're in the middle
of the field in your line of sight and you
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don't see them, that's a problem as a quarterback. I don't,
I don't. This is not deep quarterback analysis, But when
you just don't see them and the guy is open,
something's not working, just not just not you know, Like
and again I'm not talking about read progressions or anything
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else like that. I was wide open in the middle field.
You know, he's running there, he's in, he's right there,
and you don't throw him the ball. I don't know
what else to tell you, Like, it's just not working,
all right.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
That's Perry positive in all of this, that we're all depressed.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Why why why are you trying to lie to your
best friends?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Why?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Well, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I was just going to take it back out to
the thirty thousand foot view of the NFL and all.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
The money spent this week. No, no, no.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I mean, look, he's got his Jets thing, and I've
got everybody trying to build an arc to carry all
the New Bears fans based on a couple of offensive
linemen showing up.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So I gotta deal with that for the second straight year.
Baby Tuney, Toney and Jackson and Dolmen and everybody's showing up.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
So yeah, so the bandwagon is really getting overloaded right now,
which means you need to short that normally when the
public hets on the side. I was just going to
ask you from the thirty thousand foot view, what team
did you get excited about the moves they made this week?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I like Denver because I really liked Dray green Law.
I mean, assuming you's healthy, I really like that move.
And I like he sometimes gets himself out of position,
you know, and and game was a little too much
un run place because he wants to come up and
hit people. But I like that and improving and improving
those are like those are two good buys at a
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time where you know, people are throwing a lot of
money at guys because they just have the money. Like I.
This is why I always say to people, like, don't
tell me about the court, you know, the franchise quarterback
number being a real problem anymore. It's not because you
can pay all sorts of guys anywhere between ten and
twenty million dollars a year and you're doing fine. So
(26:36):
I like, I like those moves. I like, you know,
New England picked up a couple of guys who were
good play, good, solid players. The problem is that like
you're just you're paying guys like their superstars, and the
fans expect that these guys all of a sudden are
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going to be serious stars. And where it is is
the cap has gotten so big, where what two and
eighty one million dollars this year. You're paying a lot
of you know, like average starters ten, fifteen, even twenty
million dollars a year, and so there's too much of
an expectation on those guys and not enough perspective. So
I worry a little bit about like about that, Like
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when Sam Darnold is rated as the fourth best player
on the free agent market, that tells you that the
free agent market is really not very good. That's how
that's how we looked at it. Okay, Milton Williams was
number one on somebody's list, and I'm like, Milton Williams,
like he should give half that money to Jalen Carter
(27:43):
because Jalen Carter made him look so good and made
his life so much easier all season long, and like, like,
Jalen Carter should be his agent basically and get paid
even more money than his agent would get. So yeah,
I just this is n exciting. I love what I did.
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Love what the Bears did because I thought they didn't
overpay too much for the guys that they got. They
made some wise moves. I really think Tony is a
is I hate the word culture, but I think he's
He's a great pro. The way that he played this
last year by moving to left tackle, even though you
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know it didn't make him look great all season long,
he sacrificed that and went out there and played and
gave it the best shot he could. So I like
guys like that. I think that's going to help the
Bears a lot and you know, hopefully turn around. You
know the situation with Caleb.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Check him out on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two.
That's at Jason Cole sixty two.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Oh. I forgot to tell you. I love what the
Cowboys did this week.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
No, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. They said.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
They're all all all in, baby, all in. I have
a friend who's a big Cowboys fan, and the first
day he's like, oh, we're we're about to pick up
Jonathan Allen and then he signed with the Vikings.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Go cash do SMU ticket, Jacob, I think you mispronounced
Javonte Williams.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Oh great, thanks Eric, later say you buddy, have fun.
There goes Jason Cole.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
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you can stream this show and all of our Fox
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the app to stream us live. So the thing with
the situation, and I understand where he talks about Sam
(29:45):
Darnold being here in free agency, but this is kind
of the game, and I get that. Yeah, teams can
say I don't want to go spend a lot because
we're getting average starters. But you've always had average starters, right,
this is where you've always gotten because it's gotten too
much money. Where else are you gonna spend your money?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
This is I'm sorry, but this is the gate the
cap goes up, and this is what the best. This
is why players love free agency. I can be an
average player, I get way more money than I normally would.
It's why people love hitting free agency.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Teams take care of theirs, and most of them get
ahead of the game of keeping their stars around.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Right.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I get that you may not like it.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But where you're not gonna get people on other places,
Jerry Jones, you're not gonna get You're not gonna get
talent anywhere else but the draft. There's no special Cowboys
draft that they're gonna have just for you. In early July,
that's not happening.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
More run for Greg Hardy in the last twenty four
hours that he might have had as a player except
Draft night.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Exit out bout of Frasca, exit Swelling Dome. Jason Smith
My Garman live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports from a man who's been compared to
being the Jerry Jones of Fox Sports Radio because he
always says he's all in, whether he is or not,
it's Martin.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Well, I mean, I'm definitely all in the building, which
was Jerry's strategy.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Okay, I definitely haven't left since I got here. Okay, good, Okay,
see that's good, very good. You're all in. Very I
haven't left.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
We'll be leaving at some point, but no time soon.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Eight minutes, nineteen seconds left in the third quarter between
the Timberwolves and the Nuggets, Minnesota with a sixty eight
to sixty one lead. Nicole Jochis with twenty four points
and six rebounds.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Julius Randle.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
With sixteen six minutes left in the third quarter, the
Knicks have a sixty four to fifty eight lead over
the Trailblazers Miles Bridges with twenty one oh sorry, McHale
Bridges with twenty one points for the Knicks. Earlier today,
we saw the Thunder beat the Celtics one to eighteen
to one twelve. Say Gildas Alexander had thirty four points
and seven assists. Jason Tatum was two rebounds and two
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assists short of a triple double with thirty three, eight
and eight. The Raptors beat the seventy six Ers one
eighteen to one oh five. Quinton Grimes had thirty twenty
nine points and three steals. He's got more thirty point
games of the seventy six ers than Paul George does,
even though today was a twenty nine point game. But
he's been bawling so far this year.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Paul George the opposite. The Clippers have.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
With a one nineteen to one oh four win over
the Miami Heat. Bogdan Bogdanovitch with a thirty point ten
rebound double double. Rockets beat the Suns one eleven to
one oh four. Jalen Green with twenty nine, seven rebounds
and three steals. The Spurs beat the Mavericks one twenty
six to one sixteen Darren Fox thirty two points nine
rebounds and eleven assists. The San Francisco forty nine Ers
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are gonna sign Mac Jones on a two year, seven
million dollar deal five million guaranteed it can get up
to eleven and a half million in incentives, and wide
receiver Mike Williams rejoining the Chargers on a deal worth
up to six million. Damar Hamlin's deals details came out.
He signed with the Bills for a one year, two
million dollars Earlier, we saw the Jets release five time
(32:52):
Pro Bowler linebacker CJ.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Mosley.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
The Raiders released Gardner Minshew and Andre James Russell Wilson
slated to meet with the Cleveland Browns and the New
York Giants that had.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
That meeting on Friday.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
The Seahawks sign pro four time Pro Boiler DeMarcus Lawrence
to a four year, three year, forty two million dollar
deal after eleven seasons with the Cowboys. In the Rams
have released wide receiver and former Super Bowl MVP Cooper Cup.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Jason Mike Back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Thanks a bun gammed up Jason Smith Mike Harmon live
from the tire Rag dot Com Studios coming up next,
three days into free agency, who looks like they could
be the biggest loser of NFL free agency.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
So Far's here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
No, no, no, okay, stop ten and seven dark Horse Wildcard.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Uh here's a hint.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
The biggest loser is someone that's not even in the
NFL yet. Ooh, that's next right here, Jason and Mike
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today's show and the best of version posted right after
we get off the air. So here we are three
days into NFL free agency, and I'll tell you who the.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Biggest loser could be.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
When it's all said and done, someone who's not even
the league yet, But it could wind up being Shador
Sanders because he could wind up having that Aaron Rodgers
like fall into the early twenties because of how things
have gone the first few days. Right, you think about
where things sit. The teams are the first three picks, Titans, Browns,
(34:51):
the Giants. The Giants have tried to get Matthew Stafford.
They're kicking the tires on potentially Russell Wilson. Doesn't mean
they can't make a quarterback there, but they're looking elsewhere.
The Steelers, right, may wind up getting Aaron Rodgers. Okay,
take that out of the mix. But look at what
these other teams have done. The Jets they went out
and got Justin Fields, right. The Raiders they went out
(35:13):
and got Geno Smith. This probably and likely takes them
out of the mix for quarterbacks at six and seven,
which is where the next spot would be. So now
you have the first three picks, with Abdul Carter gonna
go on the top three, Travis Hunter is probably gonna
go in the top three, and probably cam Ward who
is separating himself from Shador Sanders. Now maybe he goes
(35:35):
number one. Maybe he goes number two. But cam Ward
seems to be the apple of the eye of the
Cleveland Browns and the Titans are playing things really close
to the vest right now. So whereas we thought about
a month and a half ago, Hey, first two picks
are gonna wind up being cam Ward, chuduor Sanders in
some kind of order. You have three teams that need
quarterbacks at the top of the draft. It doesn't seem
(35:56):
like that's how it's going right when you hear Carter
being a guy for the Tennessee Titans. A reason why
he's the betting favorite hunter in the top three, cam
Ward the Giants hold the key to everything, because if
the Giants don't take Shador Sanders at three, then you're
gonna see him fall all the way to the Saints
at nine. And if the Saints don't take him at nine,
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then that gets all the way into the early twenties
where you're talking about the Steelers at twenty one or
maybe the Rams at twenty six like that, instead of Hey,
there's four or five six teams that Chador Sanders could
go to. Now suddenly is if the Giants don't take
a quarterback and it seems like they're moving away from
that fact. The Giants do it, the Saints don't. I mean,
(36:39):
what's gonna happen. No one's gonna trade up to get Chador.
None of these teams need quarterbacks all the way three.
I'm telling you all the teams that are gonna need
quarterbacks that could potentially draft one in the first round
up until pick twenty six, and since the Jets and
the Raiders are out of that mix at six and seven,
it goes Giants, Saints, and then Steelers at twenty one.
(36:59):
You could see a Shador Sanders fall that far in
the NFL draft. Potetchel is certainly there.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
It's still just the question for the Giants if you're
looking at the Bridge guy, because if you're looking at
one of these veteran guys, you're not looking for a
long term so it's still a placeholder. So why would
you not still draft your guy in the future.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
M and I look at that. Even with the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah, you brought in Geno Smith, but it's not like
you you paid him massive amounts of money, you know,
at a long term deal.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Jets justin Fields.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
It's two year deal, but he still paid him for
two years, he's going to be your quarterback. The Raiders
still went and got Geno Smith and so at six
and seven when it's not a great draft for quarterbacks anyway,
and even for the Giants at three, they might think, well,
we'd rather have Travis Hunter at three and Kyle McCord
(37:55):
Jackson daughter Jalen Milroell. Certainly, those second round guys suddenly
that becomes the strategy in the philosophy. Okay, we could
get chaudorsand but if Chaudor standers that much better than
these other guys, and what we're hearing is that, hey,
there's not that much separation. He certainly didn't do himself
any favors at the combine. Whether you'd like what he
said or not, I have no problem with it, but
I understand where teams are going to be put off
(38:17):
by it. You don't want to put teams off. You
want to make sure everybody wants to draft you.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Right.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Well, it's all a question of who the decision maker
is in that room, right because you can have a
room full of folks and and if the decision maker
is the guy that took a fence to him being brash, bold, whatever,
the line may be that that is getting fed in
media circles, then yeah, that's a problem. But if he's
one of the guys in the room, yeah your opinion
(38:43):
is noted overruled.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Well, you know, or if that's the if that's the
can opener to say we're going to pass on Shador Sanders, right,
like the can opener for the Vikings to say, hey,
Sam Darnold, go out. The door was the last two
games of the season, ignoring everything else he did, let's
concentrate on the last two games. Oh, we're really not
sure we like sha Door Sanders. We don't want we
don't want to get up. We don't want to be
part of a storyline or a big narrative about it.
(39:06):
But oh hey, yeah, this could be something that turns
teams off. Like it doesn't turn me off.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
I liked it.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
You want a quarterback without it, you want a guy
that that has that kind of I'll turn this program around.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
But I get where some teams don't want to and
you want to make sure everybody wants you, not just
a couple of teams.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Yeah, everybody wants them. But it's it's that notion of
you know, the brashness. If that turns off, fine, going
in trying to parse out what's noise, what's real? When
you looked at there, as we've talked about on the show,
a bunch of the strength of schedule and what they
they navigated this last year, and where he is and
(39:44):
where he fits in an NFL system, Sure you have that.
You have Tennessee and the Giants were co number ones,
right the odds, who actually takes the number one pick?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Right now? Cam Ward is the favorite.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
But we talked about the Titans GM when he talked
about passing on a generational player, was he referring to
Abdual Carter as that guy? Perhaps looking at what Jalen
Carter's done for Philly and the universal praise there now
as he had drifted down to the Eagles a couple
of years ago. So all of that to say, you know,
(40:20):
we're trying to get through lying seasons still and which
teams may still try to put out there as much
as they want that they want to back off it,
which may just be a bunch of noise because in
the end, quarterbacks win.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
They always win. Come Draft day.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Aaron Rodgers and when we cite those kind of instances.
That's twenty years ago. A lot of lesser quarterbacks have
found their way into the top ten.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
That made no sense, regeneration that happened. There's stuff like that. Sure,
I guess it's a.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Different topic of Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Exit out out of Freska, exit swallendom.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Coming up next, we'll make a Big Bowl prediction for
one NFL star and free agency and tell you what
team may have been doing the best job the last
three days.
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Speaker 3 (00:52):
That was allows Jets highlight. Ah, let's see yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's about right. Yeah field too.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Here we go, Ja, here's here's the Jets last twenty
five years in seven seconds, You're done. Namath wants to
kiss Susie Cauber. Back to back AFC title games in
the early tens.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Nobody remembers that's it. Well, but you had that Aaron.
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
You had Aaron Rodgers running out with the flag. That's
the last big Okay, they actually commemorated that, right, you're right,
all right. They they've got the partnership with Dan Patrick,
so give them their love. They they actually did a
trading card of Aaron Rodgers and the image was him
with the flag because obviously they couldn't get any game footage.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah oh no that year.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Yeah, in one of their higher end products. It's literally
him running out with the flag is one of the
low numbers.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So they car Okay, twenty five years name nameath wants
to kiss Susie back to back AFC title games in
ten and eleven.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Rogers, Right, I'll give you four snaps for that card.
That might be an overpay. I might.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I might have to give you an otani uh in
in exchange with that. But yeah, there's your highlight. Because
remember the anticipation of his arrival that night. I mean
we were in studio and I watched you die a
little bit. I think I saw your soul leave.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That That's right, that's what I said, you know what,
I I fall victim to it all the time.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
The Jets just can't have nice things. They just can't.
We played the tailor switch. They just can't that night.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Quite often, this is why we can't have nice Sorry, buddy,
can't do it.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
But the Mets season is coming soon. We're okay, We're okind.
I'm excited about it. Man, at least you're not the Yankee.
You lose Soo and then look at your starting rotation.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You lose, You lose Garrett Cole, you lose Gidri. I mean,
it's it's tough man.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Gian Carlos Stanton has no elbows, Rivera retires. I mean,
it's it's a rough rount. The captain isn't there.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Don Gullet's not good anymore. No, it's very hard.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Whitey Ford's not pitching's walking through that door. I always
and the thing is, I always do a thing whenever
I'm out, Like if we're out to lunch or somewhere
and someone in line behind us they come in and
they're wearing a Yankees hat. I always say, oh, if
you want to go ahead, second best team in New York,
you can. You can walk right ahead and me go
ah ha. And I do that all the time. Oh, Hey,
(03:09):
the second best team in New York. If you want
to go in front, that's fine, that's fine right there.
What are we talking about to do that all the time?
Anybody ever take a swing at you?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
No, no, because I I I pick and choose when
to say that. I think someone small like oh, you
look like they'll they'll be okay with it because I
say with it in fun.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Now I'm not gonna you know, no, but I mean, look,
everybody can infer tone.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I'm not gonna do it to someone who's coming in
yelling on their cell phone, going and if they do
that again, I'll kick their resk.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Hey, second best team in New York. No, I'm not
gonna do that.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
That would be kind of cool because that would be
a viral moment because we would get the credit for
that that someone would invariably uh and unquestionably have on
their cell phone and no time.
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You guys want a team that you're not gonna have
to worry about filling out Oo Frostburg, Syracuse. Yeah no,
we're down ten to SMB.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Did you see that sequence that just played out? We're
circling the drain right now. Be on the bracket.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Miss shot, great effort, you get the steal, takes it
out to the top of the key, kicks it to
his guy for the three, and the airball stays oh.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, no, no, no, tysher who actually picked SMU? What
two years ago in the tournament with that lot those
couple of years ago, pre COVID picked SMU to win
the NCAA.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Turn back when we gave TVs to the winners and stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, okay, yeah, Well some people want Tractor Supply too,
you know, it's pretty big deal. Twenty twenty ferds gift
card Tractor Supply for really. Yeah, it's pretty big deal man.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I like to mulch my grounds. That sounds good.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It costs more than a television I'll tell you that. Yeah, yeah, sure.
But speaking of basketball, right, we'll have more NCAAA as
we have another big night of games happening. Good news
for the Lakers and Lebron James. Oh, Charles Barkley just
took a tons.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Lebron James on his way back to LA. Maybe he's
back in LA already, but the news today returning to
LA for treatment on his groin injury, and everything is positive.
Initially it was expected for him to miss a week
or two with this injury, and it looks like that's
what it is right now. It's good news today that
he's back in LA for treatment and maybe we see
(05:37):
Lebron in another week when he gets back into the
Lakers lineup. And when this happened and he got hurt
and all the doom and gloom came out, I looked
at this. I see this from a different perspective. I
can give you a really big sunshine, lollipops and rainbows
different with a silver lining part. This injury was never
(06:00):
deemed serious, right, was never deemed serious? Yes, Okay, whenever
it's a soft tissue injuries, of course it's it's it's
a thing. But this was not tearing the growing off
the bone. This was Hey an injury that it's a
week or two. Lebron doesn't miss the playoffs. Lebron does.
You have to worry about him being injured being forty,
because he does get dinged up. But Lebron James getting
(06:22):
hurt now is not as awful as people say it is.
It's not because at some point you would like Lebron
to have a little bit of an in season break, right.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
That's why we joked about it kind of tongue in cheek.
As a load management.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
He's forty years old. You're depending on him for a lot,
especially in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Him and Luca.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
What you have seen so far with him and Luca doncich, Hey,
they can carry the Lakers all the way to the
Western Conference Finals, maybe the NBA Finals. Maybe Luca heats
up and suddenly, look at what this Lakers team can do. Right,
They're scoring a lot of points, they're playing great defense,
Like suddenly they're a title contender. But you're depending on
Lebron for a lot. You need him to make his
way through the NBA playoffs and stay healthy. You don't
(07:05):
have to worry about chemistry with Luca because clearly, after
three weeks of playing with him, it looks like they've
played together for years. So it's not like, well, we
got to see each other's game. No, they they have
meshed really well from the beginning. So there's no concern.
As long as Lebron's going to be out a week
or two, I wouldn't be surprised, not to get conspiracy theory.
But if it's exactly two weeks, right, if it's exactly
(07:28):
two weeks, he's at weeks two weeks.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's a geographical oddity from everyone you watched.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I mean, look, you watched the Jazz have to pay
a fine because Larry markin and sat out too many games.
But now he's playing tonight, right, playing the next game. Oh,
we'll play him tonight. Don't worry about it. But I
would be surprised if it was exactly two weeks. Not
that Lebron is faking. I'm not saying that. What I'm
saying is that, hey, maybe it's an injury for Lebron
that would normally be a couple of games and the
Lakers are saying, you know what, let's give you a
(07:53):
little bit of extra time. Let's say two weeks on
the outside. And now here's Lebron at the end of
March gets a good two week break so we can refresh,
recharge before he comes back for the stretch run where
the Lakers will be in contention for the number two
seed and ready for the playoffs. Like I look at
it as hey, when he comes back, this is not serious.
(08:14):
This is a two week break for him. It's a
two week break, and this is how teams are gonna
have to navigate injuries and making sure, hey, our player
gets some time off now, especially if you're gonna wind
up finding people for it. But I would not be
surprised if this is a Lebron is good enough to
come back now or in a game or two. But
you know what, it's gonna be a couple of weeks
and then he comes back. This is not the worst thing,
(08:35):
and in the end it could wind up being one
of those things that one of those silver linings. It
just gets bigger as time goes on, because getting this
two week break at the perfect time, with enough time
where it's near the end of the season, but it's
not so close to the playoffs where you're rusty when
you come back, Like this is where you would get that.
This is where you would write in a break like
that for Lebron James if you could. This is not
(08:56):
an awful thing and it could wind up being a
boon for.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
The Lakers in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, it's Unfortunately it becomes an awful headline for the
NBA because you can take all the pot shots you want,
all right, the step to steven A Smith, steven A
Smith signed his hundred million dollar deal. He's gotten so
much mileage out of this, which I called pathetic, you know,
both for him and Lebron when it all went down.
(09:21):
But like that's the headline coming off of sending out
on your social media. Oh, look at our schedule in
mid March and then you're injured and you're gonna miss it, right,
So here here's the tough stretch, six games and eight
days or whatever it is against mostly top tier teams,
and I'm gonna miss it. Look, the Jazz are trying
(09:42):
to chase the Wizards down for the most ping pong balls,
So you'll take the fine. And if it was double there,
you'd take the physical challenge and you'd move on. But
for the Lakers, yeah, it's it's the worst because you
get the load management. I should say it's worse for
the NBA because you get the load management concerns of
is he really that injured or are we now massaging
(10:04):
this to where it becomes this longer period.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And look, the old rule.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Of thumb and business is and life in general, under
promise over delivered.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
So wow, it could be two weeks. Oh wait, he's
back in a week. What a hero?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Plug at him.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
He's gonna battle it out and run through.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
And so perhaps there's the win in that regard if
he does come back. But to your point, yeah, it's
reeks of load management, and that's what the NBA has
been trying to avoid these last couple of years. And
I know there's a lot of metrics of oh, look
at all these games where Lebron could have sat out
but didn't. Okay, he's supposed to play Like so I
(10:47):
don't know what that argument is, Like, what where we're
supposed to applaud him.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Because he plays a higher number of game.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
No, he's still playing on a team, he's still collecting
a check. So he's available, then yeah, he shouldn't be
in the stream Clowe that he should be playing and
for this injury. He said it the night that it happened.
He's like, no, this is not like what was it
twenty eighteen against Golden State when he got hurt and
missed seventeen games. He goes, no, it's it feels better
(11:13):
than that, So it shouldn't be that long. So now
we're in that, all right, let's parse out what public
opinion is about the length of the absence as well
as the opponents. So unfortunately, you don't get the benefit
of the doubt when you're then gonna find the jazz.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
For sucking more for a guy sitting out.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Again not the worst and not awful, and again it
could turn out to be something good for the Lakers
because he gets a break. Sure, but you know it's funny,
you say, the whole, whole big stephen A Smith Lebron
thing the last few days is just ridiculous. You know,
I was thinking about this today when I saw the
latest invention on the going. Okay, guys, just just stop,
just stop.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
You mean when stephen A did his general hospital at
Method acting, this is why Okay, this crazy story from
a couple of weeks ago where somehow Steven A.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Smith got a couple of votes.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Hey, we're looking for the Democratic nominee in twenty twenty eight, right, Okay,
this is why he can't ever run for president because
look at what's happened with Lebron, and all of a
sudden he is defensive and trying to explain himself. He's
too sensitive when it comes. He can't he can't take
criticism when it comes at him. And of course what
happens when you run for president. You gotta understand you're
(12:24):
gonna get hit with everything. Here's a whole thing with Lebron.
Lebron is mad at him, but he decides to address it.
And then people say, okay, now I'm going to change
the conversation here and change the topic here.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Now he's too sensitive.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
When Friday and you you were out, it was on
with Arnie Spanier, I called it a pathetic cowtowing to Lebron,
his people, the NBA and the Democratic Party. These are
all potential voters that you kissed off. Sure, so you know,
all of a sudden you're talking to I understand as a.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Father, but you got you gotta come back, you gotta
have you gotta have some sort of hey, this is
what happened, and I got to own it and move on.
But at anytime he's challenged on stuff as he just
gets so defensive and it gets to a point where
you just want to ignore it. And I thought, you
can't do that. You can't do that. Run for the
high ignore it. Part of me tells me I'd like
(13:16):
him to win because then I could keep doing my
Steven A. Smith impression. It would be I mean that
that would be great. You just got a million dollar
bag reportedly. I mean, that's that's It's like the John
hundred million dollar bag. Yeah, you can you can keep
doing that forever. I mean, what do we do.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
The impressions are of the highest among us.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
I'm gonna fix the economy by getting Kevin Durant to
the Knicks because that gets the next into the NBA finals.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Questions, Yeah, all the all the debates running for would
be about the Knicks and their playoff chance. That sounded
like something just a shortened version of what Michael Douglas
did in the American press.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Before we get into foreign police. See, we're gonna talk
about the nick starting five playing too many minutes. Mister Smith,
go ahead your first wait, what Jade Vans is saying? What?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
What?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
What?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
What are we talking about? Gotta go to the heart
of the American people could.
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Speaker 3 (17:29):
He is working on.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The biographies of Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson. Concurrently, he
joins us Now for a few minutes, what's happening, Bud.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
They're strong sellers right now?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, sure, hey both.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I mean really, you know, Ja Cole, when when we
sit here the end of day three of free agency
and all this talk about Rogers and Wilson, and I
just keep saying to myself, if somebody wanted both of
those guys, they would have probably had him by now,
wouldn't they, Like I said, sound like Russell Russell Wilson.
(18:04):
If the Steelers wanted him, they really would have had
If the Giants wanted him, they really would have signed him.
Somebody else would have figured out a deal with Aaron
Rodgers knowing he was going to be released. Then would
have happened by now? No, or not at all.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I think he decided he didn't like the tone of
your question. He just didn't want to talk about Rogers
and Wilson.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Maybe done. I'm done talking about these guys. I'm done
with them.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's every off season the last three years it's Rogers
and Wilson.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Or legitimately, he went to work researching a little Golden
Books version of his biography.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh, Golden Books for I like that they're making a comeback.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
They are like little display as if you go to
a tarja or something, you'll find.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You want to quit. Golden Book story so good.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
One of my friend's house this weekend, we go over
to have lunch and he's from Philadelphia, and so he's
got a Golden Books Phillies like alphabet, like an alphabet
book for his daughter who's too So they read the
book and a is for you know, and yeah, they
go through the whole thing and he goes, look at that,
had just bought it for a frame. I said, oh,
this is Does it Does it end with the Lindor
(19:10):
Grand slam in the in the n L d S.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Heart break? I start flipping through the pages, going does
it end with that? Does it end with that? It
ends with him fighting in a postum in the dugout.
You should see how big the rat was.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
I believe we have Jason callback was taking a couple
of deep press understand that. Yes, for the third straight
off season, we're gonna have to talk about Aaron Rodgers
and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
I think, isn't it sure?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Very nice? Okay, very good. That's good for Mickey Morandini,
sure sure.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Geez for Gary Matthews. Wow, that's great. Z ben Zerbers
didn't play for them, did he? So Aaron Rogers, what
are we doing? Like, Hey, what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Wouldn't be if if anybody wanted either of them have already?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
No, Well, Aaron's probably going to take his time and
be a bit of a diva and thinking that everybody
in the world wants him and his you know, like,
I don't think Aaron's gotten to the point where he's
figured out that people are tired of the act. And
Russell probably has figured it out because he had to,
(20:35):
you know, he had to settle for the situation in
Pittsburgh last year. But Aaron still has lives in a
certain sense of dissociative reality. And man that I feel
like such a psychotherapist.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
That was pretty good.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Yeah, but yeah, I think that Aaron doesn't understand that
the world not all that like him to him anymore.
And I would really think, if I'm Pat McAfee, might
be time to pull that contract, might be not to
pay that million dollars a year because people might not
(21:15):
be tuning in as much. Although you never know. It's
served like a car accident waiting to happen. Look, I
think Aaron can still play, or at least I think
there's something there that I would bet on if I
was Pittsburgh and hope for something. But you know, like,
(21:41):
I think he's better than Justin Fields, which is sort
of ironic given the situation that just played out this week,
because obviously the Jets that's agreed, But it tells you
a lot about the Jets that they were so tired
of the Aaron Rodgers world that they wanted they preferred
justin Field too. Was a backup for the Steelers, and
(22:03):
not a very good one and as your partner in
crime will say, not great when he was in Chicago either.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, you picked me right up there, Jay Cal Thanks,
I'm rob excited about the season again, Slat, you're a
Jets fan.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Why would you ever be excited about it? Seeing them?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Did I tell you? Did I tell?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
My wife said to me the other day, when when
when the Jets signed Justin Fields. I said, oh, hey,
I got to go back up with a computer. A
couple of big signings just came down. The Jets just
got Justin Fields. And she goes, oh, how do you
feel about that? I go, well, Aaron Rodg named Aaron
Glenn's building the culture. I mean, boy, you can really
run the football. Well, he did some things good last.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Few of you.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
A couple of times in Pittsburgh. I'm telling you, hang on,
hang on, love the guys. And I said, you know,
and I feel good about it. Right, he did some
good things good in Pittsburgh last year before he had
the job taken from did some good things. And in
Chicago he ran for a thousand yards.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
So I feel good you did not have the job
taken there and she said, sure he did.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
By Tomlin decided I'm going to give this job to
Russell Wilson was five and two as a starter.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Why would you take it rid of your quarterback? Nope,
giving it to Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
So anyway, I say this, and my wife looks at
me and says, you say that every year you're excited
about the Jets quarterback every year, And every year it
doesn't work. And I said to her, I only have
to be right once about this, that's all.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
They just have to be right.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
In the world of psychotherapy, where we referred to this
as the Carmazzi syndrome.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
The Ken Dorsey syndrome. Whatever.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Yeah, Krzi Geo is coming back. Oh my god, Like,
I don't know what kind of culture you're building with Jessin.
Like he's a good dude, Like he's a good teammate.
You know, he handled he handled the situation last year
very professionally. But there's a reason they took the job
(23:56):
from him, if you, if I want to grant you
your dissociative reality, that they took the job away from him,
Like he just wasn't that good. Like when you don't
see wide receivers in the end zone as they're as
they're you know, becoming open, and they're in the middle
of the field in your line of sight and you
(24:21):
don't see them, that's a problem as a quarterback. I don't,
I don't. This is not deep quarterback analysis, But when
you just don't see them and the guy is open,
something's not working, just not just not you know, Like
and again I'm not talking about read progressions or anything
(24:42):
else like that. I was wide open in the middle field.
You know, he's running there, he's in, he's right there,
and you don't throw him the ball. I don't know
what else to tell you, Like, it's just not working,
all right.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
That's Perry positive in all of this, that we're all depressed.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Why why why are you trying to lie to your
best friends?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Why?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Well, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I was just going to take it back out to
the thirty thousand foot view of the NFL and all.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
The money spent this week. No, no, no.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I mean, look, he's got his Jets thing, and I've
got everybody trying to build an arc to carry all
the New Bears fans based on a couple of offensive
linemen showing up.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So I gotta deal with that for the second straight year.
Baby Tuney, Toney and Jackson and Dolmen and everybody's showing up.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
So yeah, so the bandwagon is really getting overloaded right now,
which means you need to short that normally when the
public hets on the side. I was just going to
ask you from the thirty thousand foot view, what team
did you get excited about the moves they made this week?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I like Denver because I really liked Dray green Law.
I mean, assuming you's healthy, I really like that move.
And I like he sometimes gets himself out of position,
you know, and and game was a little too much
un run place because he wants to come up and
hit people. But I like that and improving and improving
those are like those are two good buys at a
(26:13):
time where you know, people are throwing a lot of
money at guys because they just have the money. Like I.
This is why I always say to people, like, don't
tell me about the court, you know, the franchise quarterback
number being a real problem anymore. It's not because you
can pay all sorts of guys anywhere between ten and
twenty million dollars a year and you're doing fine. So
(26:36):
I like, I like those moves. I like, you know,
New England picked up a couple of guys who were
good play, good, solid players. The problem is that like
you're just you're paying guys like their superstars, and the
fans expect that these guys all of a sudden are
(26:59):
going to be serious stars. And where it is is
the cap has gotten so big, where what two and
eighty one million dollars this year. You're paying a lot
of you know, like average starters ten, fifteen, even twenty
million dollars a year, and so there's too much of
an expectation on those guys and not enough perspective. So
I worry a little bit about like about that, Like
(27:21):
when Sam Darnold is rated as the fourth best player
on the free agent market, that tells you that the
free agent market is really not very good. That's how
that's how we looked at it. Okay, Milton Williams was
number one on somebody's list, and I'm like, Milton Williams,
like he should give half that money to Jalen Carter
(27:43):
because Jalen Carter made him look so good and made
his life so much easier all season long, and like, like,
Jalen Carter should be his agent basically and get paid
even more money than his agent would get. So yeah,
I just this is n exciting. I love what I did.
(28:04):
Love what the Bears did because I thought they didn't
overpay too much for the guys that they got. They
made some wise moves. I really think Tony is a
is I hate the word culture, but I think he's
He's a great pro. The way that he played this
last year by moving to left tackle, even though you
(28:24):
know it didn't make him look great all season long,
he sacrificed that and went out there and played and
gave it the best shot he could. So I like
guys like that. I think that's going to help the
Bears a lot and you know, hopefully turn around. You
know the situation with Caleb.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Check him out on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two.
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Speaker 5 (28:45):
Oh. I forgot to tell you. I love what the
Cowboys did this week.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
No, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. They said.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
They're all all all in, baby, all in. I have
a friend who's a big Cowboys fan, and the first
day he's like, oh, we're we're about to pick up
Jonathan Allen and then he signed with the Vikings.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Go cash do SMU ticket, Jacob, I think you mispronounced
Javonte Williams.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Oh great, thanks Eric, later say you buddy, have fun.
There goes Jason Cole.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
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you can stream this show and all of our Fox
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the app to stream us live. So the thing with
the situation, and I understand where he talks about Sam
(29:45):
Darnold being here in free agency, but this is kind
of the game, and I get that. Yeah, teams can
say I don't want to go spend a lot because
we're getting average starters. But you've always had average starters, right,
this is where you've always gotten because it's gotten too
much money. Where else are you gonna spend your money?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Right?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
This is I'm sorry, but this is the gate the
cap goes up, and this is what the best. This
is why players love free agency. I can be an
average player, I get way more money than I normally would.
It's why people love hitting free agency.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Teams take care of theirs, and most of them get
ahead of the game of keeping their stars around.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Right.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
I get that you may not like it.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But where you're not gonna get people on other places,
Jerry Jones, you're not gonna get You're not gonna get
talent anywhere else but the draft. There's no special Cowboys
draft that they're gonna have just for you. In early July,
that's not happening.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
More run for Greg Hardy in the last twenty four
hours that he might have had as a player except
Draft night.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Exit out bout of Frasca, exit Swelling Dome. Jason Smith
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Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
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always says he's all in, whether he is or not,
it's Martin.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Well, I mean, I'm definitely all in the building, which
was Jerry's strategy.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Okay, I definitely haven't left since I got here. Okay, good, Okay,
see that's good, very good. You're all in. Very I
haven't left.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
We'll be leaving at some point, but no time soon.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Eight minutes, nineteen seconds left in the third quarter between
the Timberwolves and the Nuggets, Minnesota with a sixty eight
to sixty one lead. Nicole Jochis with twenty four points
and six rebounds.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Julius Randle.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
With sixteen six minutes left in the third quarter, the
Knicks have a sixty four to fifty eight lead over
the Trailblazers Miles Bridges with twenty one oh sorry, McHale
Bridges with twenty one points for the Knicks. Earlier today,
we saw the Thunder beat the Celtics one to eighteen
to one twelve. Say Gildas Alexander had thirty four points
and seven assists. Jason Tatum was two rebounds and two
(31:47):
assists short of a triple double with thirty three, eight
and eight. The Raptors beat the seventy six Ers one
eighteen to one oh five. Quinton Grimes had thirty twenty
nine points and three steals. He's got more thirty point
games of the seventy six ers than Paul George does,
even though today was a twenty nine point game. But
he's been bawling so far this year.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Paul George the opposite. The Clippers have.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
With a one nineteen to one oh four win over
the Miami Heat. Bogdan Bogdanovitch with a thirty point ten
rebound double double. Rockets beat the Suns one eleven to
one oh four. Jalen Green with twenty nine, seven rebounds
and three steals. The Spurs beat the Mavericks one twenty
six to one sixteen Darren Fox thirty two points nine
rebounds and eleven assists. The San Francisco forty nine Ers
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are gonna sign Mac Jones on a two year, seven
million dollar deal five million guaranteed it can get up
to eleven and a half million in incentives, and wide
receiver Mike Williams rejoining the Chargers on a deal worth
up to six million. Damar Hamlin's deals details came out.
He signed with the Bills for a one year, two
million dollars Earlier, we saw the Jets release five time
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Pro Bowler linebacker CJ.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Mosley.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
The Raiders released Gardner Minshew and Andre James Russell Wilson
slated to meet with the Cleveland Browns and the New
York Giants that had.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
That meeting on Friday.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
The Seahawks sign pro four time Pro Boiler DeMarcus Lawrence
to a four year, three year, forty two million dollar
deal after eleven seasons with the Cowboys. In the Rams
have released wide receiver and former Super Bowl MVP Cooper Cup.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Jason Mike Back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Thanks a bun gammed up Jason Smith Mike Harmon live
from the tire Rag dot Com Studios coming up next,
three days into free agency, who looks like they could
be the biggest loser of NFL free agency.
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So Far's here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
No, no, no, okay, stop ten and seven dark Horse Wildcard.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Uh here's a hint.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
The biggest loser is someone that's not even in the
NFL yet. Ooh, that's next right here, Jason and Mike
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days into NFL free agency, and I'll tell you who the.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Biggest loser could be.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
When it's all said and done, someone who's not even
the league yet, But it could wind up being Shador
Sanders because he could wind up having that Aaron Rodgers
like fall into the early twenties because of how things
have gone the first few days. Right, you think about
where things sit. The teams are the first three picks, Titans, Browns,
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the Giants. The Giants have tried to get Matthew Stafford.
They're kicking the tires on potentially Russell Wilson. Doesn't mean
they can't make a quarterback there, but they're looking elsewhere.
The Steelers, right, may wind up getting Aaron Rodgers. Okay,
take that out of the mix. But look at what
these other teams have done. The Jets they went out
and got Justin Fields, right. The Raiders they went out
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and got Geno Smith. This probably and likely takes them
out of the mix for quarterbacks at six and seven,
which is where the next spot would be. So now
you have the first three picks, with Abdul Carter gonna
go on the top three, Travis Hunter is probably gonna
go in the top three, and probably cam Ward who
is separating himself from Shador Sanders. Now maybe he goes
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number one. Maybe he goes number two. But cam Ward
seems to be the apple of the eye of the
Cleveland Browns and the Titans are playing things really close
to the vest right now. So whereas we thought about
a month and a half ago, Hey, first two picks
are gonna wind up being cam Ward, chuduor Sanders in
some kind of order. You have three teams that need
quarterbacks at the top of the draft. It doesn't seem
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like that's how it's going right when you hear Carter
being a guy for the Tennessee Titans. A reason why
he's the betting favorite hunter in the top three, cam
Ward the Giants hold the key to everything, because if
the Giants don't take Shador Sanders at three, then you're
gonna see him fall all the way to the Saints
at nine. And if the Saints don't take him at nine,
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then that gets all the way into the early twenties
where you're talking about the Steelers at twenty one or
maybe the Rams at twenty six like that, instead of Hey,
there's four or five six teams that Chador Sanders could
go to. Now suddenly is if the Giants don't take
a quarterback and it seems like they're moving away from
that fact. The Giants do it, the Saints don't. I mean,
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what's gonna happen. No one's gonna trade up to get Chador.
None of these teams need quarterbacks all the way three.
I'm telling you all the teams that are gonna need
quarterbacks that could potentially draft one in the first round
up until pick twenty six, and since the Jets and
the Raiders are out of that mix at six and seven,
it goes Giants, Saints, and then Steelers at twenty one.
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You could see a Shador Sanders fall that far in
the NFL draft. Potetchel is certainly there.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
It's still just the question for the Giants if you're
looking at the Bridge guy, because if you're looking at
one of these veteran guys, you're not looking for a
long term so it's still a placeholder. So why would
you not still draft your guy in the future.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
M and I look at that. Even with the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah, you brought in Geno Smith, but it's not like
you you paid him massive amounts of money, you know,
at a long term deal.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Jets justin Fields.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
It's two year deal, but he still paid him for
two years, he's going to be your quarterback. The Raiders
still went and got Geno Smith and so at six
and seven when it's not a great draft for quarterbacks anyway,
and even for the Giants at three, they might think, well,
we'd rather have Travis Hunter at three and Kyle McCord
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Jackson daughter Jalen Milroell. Certainly, those second round guys suddenly
that becomes the strategy in the philosophy. Okay, we could
get chaudorsand but if Chaudor standers that much better than
these other guys, and what we're hearing is that, hey,
there's not that much separation. He certainly didn't do himself
any favors at the combine. Whether you'd like what he
said or not, I have no problem with it, but
I understand where teams are going to be put off
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by it. You don't want to put teams off. You
want to make sure everybody wants to draft you.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Right.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Well, it's all a question of who the decision maker
is in that room, right because you can have a
room full of folks and and if the decision maker
is the guy that took a fence to him being brash, bold, whatever,
the line may be that that is getting fed in
media circles, then yeah, that's a problem. But if he's
one of the guys in the room, yeah your opinion
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is noted overruled.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Well, you know, or if that's the if that's the
can opener to say we're going to pass on Shador Sanders, right,
like the can opener for the Vikings to say, hey,
Sam Darnold, go out. The door was the last two
games of the season, ignoring everything else he did, let's
concentrate on the last two games. Oh, we're really not
sure we like sha Door Sanders. We don't want we
don't want to get up. We don't want to be
part of a storyline or a big narrative about it.
(39:06):
But oh hey, yeah, this could be something that turns
teams off. Like it doesn't turn me off.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
I liked it.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
You want a quarterback without it, you want a guy
that that has that kind of I'll turn this program around.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
But I get where some teams don't want to and
you want to make sure everybody wants you, not just
a couple of teams.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Yeah, everybody wants them. But it's it's that notion of
you know, the brashness. If that turns off, fine, going
in trying to parse out what's noise, what's real? When
you looked at there, as we've talked about on the show,
a bunch of the strength of schedule and what they
they navigated this last year, and where he is and
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where he fits in an NFL system, Sure you have that.
You have Tennessee and the Giants were co number ones,
right the odds, who actually takes the number one pick?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Right now? Cam Ward is the favorite.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
But we talked about the Titans GM when he talked
about passing on a generational player, was he referring to
Abdual Carter as that guy? Perhaps looking at what Jalen
Carter's done for Philly and the universal praise there now
as he had drifted down to the Eagles a couple
of years ago. So all of that to say, you know,
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we're trying to get through lying seasons still and which
teams may still try to put out there as much
as they want that they want to back off it,
which may just be a bunch of noise because in
the end, quarterbacks win.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
They always win. Come Draft day.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Aaron Rodgers and when we cite those kind of instances.
That's twenty years ago. A lot of lesser quarterbacks have
found their way into the top ten.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
That made no sense, regeneration that happened. There's stuff like that. Sure,
I guess it's a.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Different topic of Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Exit out out of Freska, exit swallendom.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Coming up next, we'll make a Big Bowl prediction for
one NFL star and free agency and tell you what
team may have been doing the best job the last
three days.
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