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love putting out this content for you. Got the big
Aaron Glenn take from last night on the On this,
I'm telling you, I'm believing that everything that Jets want
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to do. If Aaron Glenn can't turn the Jets around,
then nobody can like he he is the guy. If
he can't, I don't know. Forget it doesn't matter. May
as well not even watch it. He's the last guy.
He's the last guy. It's like one of those dis
He's supposed to be like one of those disaster movies
where you're the only person that can save the world.
Everybody out now, you have to do it. If you
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don't do it, the world end. Oh okay, it's doctor
Strange holding up the one figure. This is the one
scenario we win? Yes? Is this the one scenario where
the Jets are good? Yes? Okay, all right, we'll figure
it out.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's all on the shoulders Glenn. Completely different way of
looking at things.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
He's the guy. He's it.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
He's the guy, and I am legend instead of Will Smith.
He's the guy East Pedro, Pascal and last of us.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yes, well hopefully not sorry no spoiler, but hopefully not.
Hopefully better, hopefully better. I was just trying to go
to our I mean, I mean that are supposed to
lead us to the great Now I'll give you I'll
give you a minor spoil. I mean, like he just
laid waste to all of those people at the makeshift hospital.
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Well then they have it coming they were gonna so well, well, potentially.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You have to be bigger sacrifice Ellie to potentially secure
everybody of courtsps.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Like I could see where you would have to do
that to save humanity, and boy, maybe you could have
just taken her out of there. But wow, he just everybody.
Everybody's just gone. He was just like a John Wick
movie at the end, Like, Wow, he's just going through everybody.
Maybe that's who Aaron Glen has to be as well.
He's gotta beat John Wick bulletproof uh Jets shirt that
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he's wearing, like John Wick does. What what motivates you,
Coach Glenn, Well, they killed my dog? What motivates you?
I had to play for the Jets for most of
my career and now you're back. Yes, it's it's like
a sweat hog. I sold my soul. Hey, uh if
you got if you get me to the NFL, I'll
even play for the Jets. I'll even come back and
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coach there when I'm done. Done. Aaron Glenn, you get
it your dreams where your ticket aut I really have
to do. It's okay, well, all right, welcome back. Oh
so hey, so I made a segue in my head
because you mentioned the sweathogs. I got to think I
almost played I almost played the best joke on my
dad today. Right, we'll get to shoot door Sanders in
a second. So today he like, we do this thing
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every year where he wants to take Zoe back to
school shopping. Right, so we go to the mall back
to school shop. Now, my dad, like me, likes to shop.
So if he gets to a point where Zoe's in
a store where she's gonna look at things for a
few minutes, my dad will say, oh, I'll go next
door to the store. So my dad goes in, we
see lids, and he goes, oh, oh, I just see
the lids. I'm gonna go take a look at the
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forty sevens and here the forty seven brand hats. Says okay,
and my dad likes to wear his favorite hat is
this like sun bleached yankee hat that has seen better days,
but he wears it all the time. Right, Okay, So
we go in and I see him and he picks
out this powder blue Yankee hat. Right, it's powder blue
collar yeah. He's like, oh, I'm gonna get this. I said, okay.
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So I go to the So I go to the guy,
go hey, my dad's right here. He's gonna buy that
Yankee hat. Do me a favor. It is my dad.
Everything's fine. When he comes by it, just say hey,
if you want me to, sir, I can throw that
other haut at for you, the other hat out for
you right here, if you want to. And he goes oh.
I said, try, it's my dad is fun. I'm a
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Met fan, he's a Yankee fan. He goes oh. I said,
just tell him, just like when you come in you
buy a new pair of sneakers and they say, hey,
we can you know, we'll throw the you can pare
out if you want recycling for you. You say. He
goes eh and that. But he wouldn't do it. He
didn't do it. I think he felt weird. You're like,
I don't know what's gonna happen, is really And I
stood right next to him. I was like, wait, because
I wanted to punch line right. I wanted to punch on. Hey, sir,
We'll throw that hat out for you if you want.
But but he didn't do it. I was like one
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of those mystery boxes that they put in nut lids.
CA do that in store? I don't think you do
that in store. Oh that would be pretty cool if
you could just walk with fifteen bucks and buy a
mystery at and open it. Oh no, no, no, it is
like the two hundred dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like if
you could do that in the store, okay, but yeah,
it's certainly not a fifteen dollars proposition. I was so close.
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I was. I really want to say, sir, I'll throw
that hat out for you if you want to.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It would have been kind of interesting. I mean, if
you have videotape the response, yeah, oh you know what,
And I did see what Walt how he would have
responded to that. The other thing is someone would really
do a good sell of it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Sometimes I kind of worry about my dad and his
response to things, because sometimes he can really just get
upset right away because you know, he's eighty and he's like, yeah,
he's very self sufficient, gets around everything. But I could see,
like usually everywhere we go, like any kind of any
kind of place you go to that has to have
retail or service, Like sometimes he like the percentage chance
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is like seventy percent he's gonna be upset or.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Service part of being out in a mall. Yeah, you know,
I sometimes I think you should probably go somewhere else.
But I was right there next to him. I felt
like I controlled the situation. Take a roll of the dice.
I know that that would have been so bad. Like
the worst thing is if if something happens food wise,
he doesn't get his food in time, or it's longer
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than he expects, or his coffee has made a little
bit wrong or or not with everything in it, that
they could just bring him on the side.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
No, no, no, he's that's what he gets ride.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Take him out to watch ducks swim, buy in a
little pond at this point the way you're describing that,
or will he get mad at the ducks swimming fast?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, Duck's not fat, just like our bullpen, Just like
the Yankees bullpen. It stinks just like him. Uh So
Shadoor Sanders, coming off of his huge Week one in
the NFL preseason, I said, well, he's gotta be gotta
let him run with the number one quarterback job, right
have to write what Look at what he did first
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game one hundred and forty yards two touchdowns. He looked great.
There's no reason not to. What are you really doing
if you're not? I'm sorry that Dylan Gabriel and Kenny
Pickett were hurt, Joe Flacco didn't play, But what are
you really doing? What are you really doing? There's no
reason to not let him run with the ones, right,
don't have to give him the job, but let him
run with the ones because he's earned it with that performance. Yet,
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the Browns depth chart has come out and guess it
was still fourth. Shador Sanders, Well, I mean, Stefanski warned you.
He said it was probably gonna be the case. That's
just stupid. I'm really it's just what really?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Are you trying to win games?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
What are you trying to do? Again? You don't have
to give him the job, but you got if a
guy shows up when the lights are bright and this
is one of his big chances to come through and
he has that kind of game, yeah you can. You
can elevate him on the depth chart. At the very least,
you could say, hey, he's running now second behind Joe Flacco.
You know you have no you'd have no reason to
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be beholden to Kenny Pickett or to to Dylan Gabriel.
I mean, are you trying to win games?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Man?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Here's a quarterback that came out Week one preseason, but
you got to judge by what happens when the lights
go on, and he was really good, and yet still
it's the only thing that comes to mind, the only
thing that I can think of and go, all right,
is this what they're trying to do, is that they
really have to be sure that Shadoor Sandals is gonna
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be able to handle everything that goes along with being
a starting quarterback in the NFL. Right, he had the
driving issues in the off season. You had all the
different times where we heard from different teams that, yeah,
didn't really show up for the meetings as well, didn't
have didn't really have the the excitedness we would expect
on a quarterback. One didn't want to talk to us
about how prepared he was or wasn't for a certain
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play description we wanted to talk to him about. And
then you had during the game the one instance where
on a play where he got sacked, he got up
and yelled at one of his receivers, and then after
the game gets into it with Tony Grosse. He won
of a longtime Cleveland Brown's beat reporters by saying, you
got to say anything nice to me, Tony, you never
said anything nice to me, even though it was kind
of a jokey back and forth and Grosse he talked
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about it today that hey, it really wasn't that big
a deal. I'm surprised I became that big a deal.
I mean, dude, a shaduor Sanders of course are going
to be a big deal. But he seemed to blow
it off and say, you know, it wasn't that big
a deal. We were joking about it at the end.
The only thing I can think of, which is what
Stefanski should say, because other other than that you're alienating
your fan base, is saying we want to make sure
Chador Sanders can handle everything that goes along with being
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a starting quarterback in the NFL, and that way you
read between the lines and you get okay. Here he
was yielded a teammate during the game. First thing he
does in the post game is talk to a Cleveland
Browns beat guy, and Sale said he was with how
he was treating him, what he would say about him, dude,
that's not what you do. You need to be responsible
and mature enough to handle these things. That's the message
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everybody would get, right, and that's what I'm hoping that's
the only thing that makes sense, because outside of this,
it's like, what are you really trying to do where
they're go If he can't handle it and he's not good,
he doesn't need to start. But there's no reason not
give him more reps, let him, let him have this
and try to hammer out that, Hey, you got to
be doing a little bit differently because you're you're now
you're not just a starting quarterback in college football. You're
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you're a guy that's worth hundreds of millions of dollars
because you are the quarterback of a football team in
the NFL, And there's a difference between being a face
of the franchise that I would get. Well, we didn't
get that. We didn't get, but I would hope that
that would be something that Stefanski would say or the
Browns slowed out saying, hey, want to make sure these
are mature enough to handle stuff, because I understand that
part of it, but on the field, like, really, the
guy was lights out, He's better than Dylan Gabriel would
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have been, better than Picket would have been, probably better
than Flacco would have been. At this point, it's preseason.
Flacco is not going to go crazy, and still his
reward is I'm still fourth string Like that, I don't
know what kind of message you're trying to send there. Well,
I think some of it is all right. It's a
good first step, but you still have to keep battling.
You didn't.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Those other guys are are still ahead of you on
the depth chart even though they didn't play. Now the
Dylan Gabriel, what have they done? What have they done
to keep you to stay ahead of you?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Longevity? Dylan Gables been in the league the same time.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Not saying him, I'm saying, when you go to what
you have for expectations off Picket and Flacco if nothing else,
I guess you say he moves to third, that he's
outplayed Gabriel. Look, the entrance music thing was odd, but whatever,
they allowed it, So move on. The grossy, grossy thing.
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In the post game, said many guys have done it
from the podium instead of coming to him one on one,
and even you know he even saw the laugh and
whatever that they had a moment move on, but it
is shades of things that may still for the team
be an uncomfortable thing and part of why you had
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the drop to the fifth round. But going back to Friday,
he showed enough on tape to where you think you'd
get more reps at least a few more with a
someone on the second unit or even going to that
number one slot. But I guess they're gonna make him
earn it the long way and he's gonna have to
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do it again.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Man, I mean, really, I if it's if it's a
if it's a if it's a I want to say,
if it's a maturation thing, it's you need to be
able to handle this, right, Like I said, I get that,
But this is a team that's been starved for great
quarterback play for years, right, for years. Think about that
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for a second, right, Deshaun Watson's been nothing but underachieving
since they decided to give him all that money. Baker Mayfield,
you had to get rid of him because it wasn't
good enough. Right, So you're going back years and years
to the last time you had a glimmer of hope
at quarterback. Now you get it, and it's yeah, the
guy's still fourth string. We wait, what how is it
we've been waiting. That's like saying, hey, I've been waiting
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for six years for a drink of water. I really
need to drink of water. Well, yeah, I understand you
need to drink of water. I get it. I have
a whole glass of water here for you. I have
a whole glass. But you know what, I'm just gonna
give you a sip instead. But wait, but I really
need the water. Now you're just gonna get a sip
because but I really need it. No, No, just gonna
give you a little sip and then I'm gonna pull
the water back and hold the water out there, boil
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that water nice and cold, ice cubes clinking in the glass.
It's like when you see the big Coca Cola display
on the movies when they show you how it poured
in and look at that and all the buzzles and
the fizz and the effort vessents. That looks so good. Yeah,
that water looks good, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No, not gonna give anymore. Wait, well, I think some
of it.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You invoke the name of Baker Mayfield and you go back,
and I'll do this quickly is that what was his
biggest downfall wasn't necessarily what he was doing on the field,
was spending too much time dealing with you and Colin
and anybody in the media. So when you still see
shades of that with with Shador Sanders, you want to
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you want to try to stomp that out because that's
been part of what came with him from college which
led him to become a fifth round pick for you.
On the field, you saw a lot of what is
potentially there. Take it with a grain of salt, playing
against twos and stuff when he had his best success.
But you can only play who's on the field and
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who's on the schedule. But it's all that other stuff
that's still perhaps a lingering memory institutionally of that Baker
Mayfield era.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Exit out about a Fresco exit, swollen dog. It just
baffles me that this is how the Browns.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It's like, give this was the Jets, you just go Jets,
same big air Brown Joe.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
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Speaker 5 (16:07):
How are you outstanding? My friends? I was in New
York last night. I was actually at Yankee Stadium for
the Yankees and the Twins. I know that pin Alonso
made some Mets history tonight for a team that, by
the way, I want to make sure I lead with
the positivity. Jason. Yes, New York Mets as of as
of now to now tonight now still still are in
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possession of a National League wild card spot, albeit the
third of three, but they are in the dance for now,
two games ahead of the Cincinnati Retch.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Now, you know, and you could tell me this, You
can tell Sternsy my reaction because when when he hit
that home run, right, you think I'm full of Hey,
he passed Darryl Strawberry. It's a big deal. I think
about my life and I'm a teenager when Strawberry was
so good. No, right away, I said, now, we got
to win this game. Let's not blow this please league
like Dat's myria Alonzow. It's the home run I celebrated
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for about half a second ago. We got to win
this game, man, we can't. It's five to one. We
got to win this well.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
And let's let's point out. And I'm sure this has
been covered very adeptly on the Fox Sports Radio studio updates,
but the final core was thirteen to five in favor
of the Mets. They kept hitting throughout sixteen hits, thirteen runs.
I do know that you have you have already made
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some suggestions to me. We are frequently texting. You've got
an idea about you wanted to make sure that we
saw McLean and Sprote. Ideally, you wanted the three probable
starters for this series to be Sprote, McLean, and Jonah
Tong the prospects, so you wanted all three of them up.
It didn't quite happen that way, but the Mets nonetheless
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a very important win. And I was able to speak
with Justin before the segment started working on the he
really say that Conford, Oh, should play more often. There's
a lot of There's a lot of conversation right now.
Both of you guys just kind of boosted up your
confidence a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, now we gotta call it like it is. When
I said to you that text, who I really wanted
this series was, I said, seever Kusman Gooden. That was
the guys I wanted for this series. But now you
know he can't get them out here.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
And John matt Lack, you missed great John Mattlack, who,
by the way, John Matt Lack, I always have great
things to say about John matt Lack. He was the
Tigers minor league pitching coordinator when I first started covering
pro baseball more than twenty years ago. And so John
Matt Lacks, as you know as many of our listeners,
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though one of the great New York Mets starting pitchers. Ever,
he was always so gracious and courteous in returning my
calls when I was just a twenty one year old
who just had all kinds of questions about everything in
the world, and he was very patient with me. And
I will always thank John matt Lack for that.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh that's so nice.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
We got positivity of the Mets with a win, and
you're talking about the Michael Confordo angle, many angles here
in Los Angeles to run with the Dodgers, that nine
game lead evaporating as it has, and just trying to
find answers in some level of consistency JP.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
What could Dave Roberts do to but what can he
pull out of his hat?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, the question I have right now, Mike is actually
the offense, and that to me is the big issue.
The rotation is getting better. You think about now the
return of Snell Glass. Now they're expecting big things from
down the stretch them. Moto in many ways has been
their most consistent starter from the start of the season,
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and now Kirshaw looked really good. But I think the
big question now has to do with the lineup it
and I really think overall, I know we're talking about
what they could do to get more out of Confordo
and that line line up spot. They at least were
able to win a weekend series against the Blue Jays,
who have been one of the hottest teams in Major
League Baseball. Yes, I know they're tied right out tonight
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with the Angels, and yes, I know it wasn't necessarily
a great start for Shian, but in general, I do
think there is still a lot to like about this lineup.
Maybe the one thing you would say, and again it's
on display tonight, just too at the menu scoring position
that they are maybe not cashing in at the same
level of the same rates of plating runs and they've
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got opportunities. I still like the general structure of this
lineup with Otani at the top. Of course, Bets has
just started to come alive a little bit. Obviously for
the year, his numbers won't look that's like, but he
has been better of late. Will Smith has put together
I think a phenomenal year all the way around. But
I do agree with the critique that the bottom part
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of the lineup, even with a couple of hits from
Rushing today including a homer, the bottom part of the
lineup is not quite as potent as it was at
this time last year. You just look at the bottom
three right now. It's a confordo with batting one to
eighty seven, freelim batting one ninety four and then rushing
batting two o two. It's just it's not the same
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fearsome one through nine that we saw one year ago,
and for that matter, nor is the Yankees lineup at
that same level. So I think you consider how just
how much opportunity there is. We're talking right now as
much about the Brewers, the Mariners, the Padres as we
are about the Yankees and Dodgers, and I think on
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some level in the game that's healthy. It's certainly it's
a pretty powerful counter argument to those that thought, based
on last year's World Series that a Dodgers the Yankees
rematch was inevitable. Let's be clear about it, it is not. Now.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I know you're getting set to broadcast from Williamsport, which
is going to be so much fun for you. Are
you more excited about Williamsport or Padres Dodgers series this weekend?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Just between us, off the record, Podras Dodgers, but that's
the series, and listen. As much as we would love
to be able to reconfigure the schedule on the fly,
I mean, listen, Matts Mariners is a good matchup for
this week, and I'm excited to see both teams, But
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I would kind of like to see if we could
fly in the Dodgers and Padres and then put that
really contentious match up in front of the kids, and
then and then say basically, okay, everybody, no fights tonight,
no clearing the benches tonight in front of the kids.
We can't do it. It'd be a good good reminder
of that. But listen to Padres and the Mariners. They
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both played really well since the deadline. And I like that.
I like that the teams that were aggressive have been
rewarded for it. And it certainly puts together a pretty
powerful argument to t GMS and the team president and
the owner that the players really do feed off of
that energy. So uh, good aut him for being aggressive.
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And and credit to those two teams in particular, Seattle
and San Diego for putting together some impressive runs here
now in the month of August.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So are we going to get our Aaron Boone outstream
because they're wearing bags on their heads in the third.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Level now, JP, I know I was there last night.
Talk to Aaron. He didn't seem he didn't seem many
more stress than normally does. And I think that's really
a good thing. Uh. That's that's the important thing for
the Yankees. The reasons why they are not leading the division.
Aaron Boone is not is not the one to blame it.
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In my opinion, there are a number of issues going
on there. I do think that the return of Stanton
and the home runs last night and tonight, it's just
he's really important to them. But when Stanton is in
the lineup, when he's homering, it's a different team. And
Volpi got it, got in on the act tonight too.
Warren pitsh really well last another good start tonight for Rodan.
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That's it. They just have to get deeper in games.
And so if they keep playing the way they played
the last couple of nights, and again it's against a
Twins team that's sold off with the deadline, I get it.
But to me, the important thing is consistency and stability
in the rotation, and just talking to Aaron yesterday, it
sounds like he believes they're a lot closer in that
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regard than they've been in a while. And so I'm
willing to let this thing play out and listen, if
they haven't made a change of manager yet, and certainly
he's under contract well beyond the end of the season.
If they haven't made a change yet, I would have
a hard time thinking that they would do that in season.
Maybe the chance to be there if they missed the
playoffs entirely, but I think it internally, they still seem
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pretty pleased with the work that Boone is doing, despite
the up and down results over the last month plus.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
But here's the thing, John Paul is, I look at
it this way. If the Yankees don't make the playoffs underachieve,
they're gonna fire him at the end of the season. Right,
it's been eight years no championships, which you know they
got rid of Joe Torre a lot faster and he
won four. I maintain that if the Yankees get to
a point where they fall two three games out of
the wild card, right, if they fall two three games
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out of the wild card, that would happen, and they
would replace Boone just as a final break glass in
case emergency thing. This is the last thing we can
do to try to keep this season on track, because
why wait till the end of the year. If we're
gonna miss the playoffs, then do something we're gonna do anyway, Whereas, hey,
maybe this is what we can do. We can jar
the team for the last five six weeks of the
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season that if if that happens for the Yankees and
suddenly there are a couple of games on the outside
looking in, I can see that happening.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
It's it's possible, listen, nything is possible. I still don't
see it as being that likely. And part of the answer,
part of the reason is who are you going to
replace him with?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Uh Derrek Teeter Jeter has been critical.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I I do not think that there is much of
a chance at all that that Jeter would be the
manager of the New York Yankees now. If at some point,
and I don't think it's imminently, if at some point
far into the future, they were to look at the
possibility of him being at that at that higher level,
(26:26):
you know, club president, something of that, of that type,
maybe maybe, I maybe I would see him in that role.
I just don't think managing is what he's going to
want to do now, the one, the one Yankee icon.
It's not going to happen now because he's got an
important job with the team that's in their division. But
(26:47):
I could see at some point in time in the future,
not now, but eventually don Maddingly managing this team. At
some point I'm not saying it's now, but I at
some point I could see him being the manager just
because he's he's managed multiple stops. I think that he's
never really had a chance to consistently have a winning team.
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He was there with the Dodgers kind of in the
early phase of it. I just think that he would
have a very very special connection and fond of the
fan base there. Again, I don't think it's gonna happen imminently,
but it wouldn't surprise me if at some point in
this career maddenly becomes a Yankee again. And I don't
think it's gonna happen now, but I do wonder sometime
(27:35):
down the line.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
What's funny is you know you're talking about the teams
that went for it at the trade deadline and being
rewarded as such. I'm going back to my hometown. Obviously,
the White Sox are what they are, and Cools Montgomery
is fine and hitting home runs and that's exciting. On
the North side, I get a lot of notes from
friends going, why didn't we do something? Yeah, what are
(27:57):
we doing? What happened to Pete Crow Armstrong? As in
Kyle Tucker still a superstar and it's all just kind
of melting down while you watch the Brewers just falling
to win after win after win.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I think it's I struggle to say this. We're not
even halfway through August, but it's difficult for me to
imagine a world in which the Cubs win this division.
It's amazing that I'm saying this based on the fact
that right around the fourth of July, I was feeling like, man,
this team is they're the best team maybe in all
(28:31):
baseball that they look that good. But you're right. This
period of time has really revealed the extent to which
PCA was with the driver, because since he's been slumping,
they have not been the same team, and Tucker's been
just okay with PCA. The thing that even when he
was going good, we kept hearing and I think it
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was a fair critique. The guy just swings so much
and he's not selective, and at some point you go
around in the league once or twice, people are going
to figure that out. And I just think that he's
been maybe whether it's said he's tired, whether it's that
he's a little jumpie and just not getting good pitches hit.
(29:14):
But when pitchers realize they don't have to throw you
a strike to get you out. You're not going to
see many strikes, and he's going to have to show
that you can make that adjustment or else. What we've
seen the last couple few weeks will become probably the
norm for the rest of the season. He's still talented
enough to make the change, but it's going to be
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a fairly dramatic shift and approach from what we have
seen to this point because the free swinging ways of
Pete grow Armstrong no longer are as charming as they
were back in April or May.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morose.
You see him on MLB Network, seem at Williamsport the
League World Series. Now, I have a dare for you.
You normally accept every dare give you, so.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
I have to hear let me know, well, okay, here
I got.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I want you to interview one of the pitchers at Williamsport,
and I want you to say, in the middle of
the interview, here, let me show you how to throw
a spitball.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Ah, I do believe I need to go back into
the room book to see if the spitball is expressly
banned by the laws of the game at the little
league level. I need to go see the Little League
Constitution there in beautiful Williams for that's going to be
on my itinery. I love that trip. I've been very
(30:33):
fortunate to be there every year that MLB has played
a Little League Classic, so I can't wait to go
back there for I guess little now be a ninth time.
So super excited about it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Have fun, look forward to talk to you man. Enjoy
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Thanks, guys, I really appreciate all the best.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
See you Bunny a night. There goes the great John Palmer.
Rose says, here's how you throw a spitball. Here's how
you cut the ball right. You cut it right to
show you.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
How to knife right here, get that little razor blade
in the tape, o your wristband.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Sharpen your fingernails, and that's how you do.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
We're gonna sit together and watch a ten minute tape
in which Dusty Rhodes is gonna tell you how to
do this properly, how to do proper blading of a baseball.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Let's find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
A guy who's been called the gay Lord Perry of
Fox Sports Radio. Everybody he comes in, he puts a
lot of acoline on the microphone. It's Steve to say,
it's a Hall of Famer. Got some on the neck
right now. There you go, good man, if he's ready.
He would always touch every part of his body. Yeah. Absolutely.
(31:32):
The best one was literally right in.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Between right at the throat, in between the two local
cor you never knew.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Just had nervous ticks. I mean, when you get rid
of it, why is that shiny? It's just sweat. No,
come on, it's still sweaty.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I remember at one point he struck out Reggie Jackson,
who was convinced it was yet another spitball. Jackson came
out of the duck out with a bucket of water
before the home flight.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Umpire, how do you not see this?
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Well?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
The Padre could be tying the first place Dodgers in
the NL West standings after tonight. They're only a game back.
The lead was nine for LA in early July. Since then,
the Dodgers record is twelve and nineteen. They are tied
in Anaheim. The Dodgers right now, it's five to five,
top of the seventh, but the Dodgers did hit into
a triple play on a soft liner up the middle
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the Padres.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
That was adult rushing. That was all his fault.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, running at first base and trying to get out
of way, and it looked, honestly, it looked like stepping
on the bag and a hard landing at first like
when Bryce Harper got so seriously injured in recent years.
Rushing is still the Dodger catcher. After all that, the
Padres are holding on four to one at the Giants.
In the bottom of the sixth San Francisco with bases
(32:44):
loaded and one out, Colorado ended an eight game losing streak,
winning three to nothing at Saint Louis. Winning pitcher Kyle
Freeland had been two and twelve but went seven and
a third scoreless. Tonight, Boston wins at Houston fourteen to one.
Roman Anthony a homer and four walks. That means Houston's
now tied for first place in the Al West with
the Mariners, who won their eighth game in a row,
(33:06):
won nothing at Baltimore with a run in the first.
Milwaukee won its eleventh straight game fourteen nothing over Pittsburgh.
The Brewers hit five homers the loss to Paul Skeins.
Toronto down the Cubs five to one. Wins for Arizona
and Kansas City and for the Yankees, who won nine
to one over Minnesota. Aaron Judges thirty eighth homer this year,
(33:27):
Pete Alonzo with two long balls. The Mets ended a
seven game losing streak, beating up Atlanta thirteen to five.
Alonzo now with the most homers in Mets history and
Philadelphia loss. Cincinnati beat him six to one, so the
Phillies lead in the nl e's five games over the Mets.
Cleveland beat Miami four to three. Jose Ramirez two solo homers,
including one in the bottom of the eighth. Packers quarterback
(33:48):
Jordan Love had surgery on his left thumb. They hoped
to have him back at practice next week and just
two w NBA games Tonight three and a half minutes
to go. New York leading at LA ninety eight eighty eight.
Breonna Stewart due to return from injury till late August.
For Indiana, Caitlin Clark missed an eleventh straight game still
hasn't practiced due to the groin injury. Dallas held on
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at Indiana eighty one eighty. Dallas was eight and twenty
four this year. Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, Aaron Rodgers made
a fair amount of headline today by saying something that
I have his back on. Wait, what's go I have
his back on it. Yeah, that's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
Hobo or I'm going to do something here that I
really haven't done, like I don't know in like months
and months and months, months and months and months and months.
I have Aaron Well, the Mets did win tonight. That
is true. It feels like months and months night. It
has been a minute. Yes, I have Aaron Rodgers back
(34:59):
on the headline he made today. Okay, and I never
thought it'd it, but I do. Aaron Rodgers today says
that he can't stand the helmet that he has to
wear this year. Uh, not practicing with the right helmet
(35:21):
because his old helmet that he wore for a long
time no longer is up to standards for the NFL. Right,
he had the shut Air XP pro Q eleven Ltd.
Which come on, it's that. That's way too long of
a name for a helmet. It's the shut per Air
pro XP. Like, that's it, man, you gotta once you're
into what could be a cadence, you gotta stop. That's enough.
(35:43):
But it didn't meet the NFL's new safety standards, and
Aaron Rodgers is very upset about that, saying I don't
like it. I'm trying to change. We're in the process.
The new helmet I'm wearing looks like a damn spaceship
out there. Now, you figure, right, go come on? Used
to it? Your old helmet stuck? Yeah, he sounds like
I'm an old football player. I want to wear the
(36:05):
old leather helmet that I broke into the league with
all those years ago, and when I played for Army
and we won the national championship by going seven to
zero and and and beating Columbia to winning the title
six Nothing like I understand that. I I get that.
You want you know he wants. He sounds like an
old guy, But I get it, right, I get and
I think anybody who's ever played football, the helmet is
(36:27):
the biggest inconvenience. It's the biggest piece of equipment that
you have to get used to. And when you've been
wearing one for so long, yeah, wearing a different ones
a big deal. Like whenever kids go to football camps, right,
Like kids go to football camps and in the in
the summer, and they go they go to a camp.
It's never a hitting camp because obviously there's too much liability,
but it's always helmets, sometimes shoulder pants, but it's always helmets.
(36:50):
Why Because helmet is the biggest piece of equipment you
need to get used to in the NFL, and and
and and at any level at high school, at pee
wee and college everything. And I still I can remember
and I remember how I went through playing football in
high school with a helmet and buy a helmet was
so uncomfortable. It was so tight, And I wore it
every day for three and a half hours and I
(37:12):
ran laps in it, and we did and we practiced,
and it was so tight and so uncomfortable. And I
don't understand how I wore it because I put on
a helmet now going this is the I gotta take it.
This is the worst thing ever is the worst. The
worst thing I could ever do is put this helmet on.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
I just remember that I played a year with a
helmet that was just way too small and couldn't go
through it again. So they actually did a bake sale
to get me, and I had one of the first
air helmets.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Because my head was yeah, it happens.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Actually this the swollen dome was legit long before it
became a moniker because I couldn't fit my head in
a two shot.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
But for a season it was smaller because your helmet
crushed you and kept it was awful, right, And then
they gave me the air helmet, but we then spent
weeks trying to figure out what the proper inflation of
that was before it started to hurt and become an issue.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
So, yeah, it becomes a big deal. And for veteran
players like this, you're used to one thing, so when
the models change, where one gets put out a favor
because it doesn't pass the same safety and health specifications
that you're at in twenty twenty five, Yeah, it's pain
in the ass.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, he said, look, I've worn this shut helmet and
Steve thee Steve Shut helmet. Boy, there's a dated reference
for you. I've wondered for twenty years and somehow it
finally didn't pass the safety standard. You know, I'd be
okay with saying, hey, you want to sign a waiver,
wear your old helmet.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah, if you're gonna let me bring my amone, you know,
smelling salt to whatever, it's bring my own that. How
about I bring my own helmet while I'm at it.
We're still in the whole world of concussion protocol questions.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I'll sign a waiver, I want to wear this helmet.
I feel fine, I'll sign. I'll sign that.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I figured you you were gonna go to his comments
because he was asked about cam Hayward sitting out. It's
like and he went complete corporate Aaron Rodgers of you know, guys,
gotta you know, look into his contract if he's not
happy or what like. No, Cam Hayward a couple of
months ago was telling you to get off your ass
and sign.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
How about you do the same. I would have been used.
We need you here now. Figured out the helmet thing.
A couple of months ago were wearing a brand new helmet.
Tell you what. That's how it is. I feel it.
I feel like we should wear helmets for a while. No, no,
we're never gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
No, that again, that is the I got a place
where we can get some game used xfl ones is
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I'm not even gonna try it because a couple of
times I've tried, they said, oh, this helmet will fit you,
and I tried, No, I'm not gonna jam off. No,
I'm you want to wear it like I feel like
I'm a play but we can't spark a try to
get the the the job head over my ear. I'm like,
I don't want to do that. I'm not gonna I'm
done with this. I'm not. I don't understand how I
(39:50):
was able to do that for three for the game
man man, it was all Billy Chapel. It was just
Vin Scully was in your head every play. And my
first year I didn't even have a great helmet because
I joined late, so I got like the dregs. Like
I wore like a max Pro helmet, which is like
that's like like I didn't even know that would pass
anything to put it together with duct tape. Oh it was.
(40:12):
It was so much like this looks like such a
low rent helmet, man, I gotta wear this all season,
and any one of those big cages in front, like
I can't even seven. Then you were playing defensive backs.
That was terrible. It was the worst, man, Aaron Rodgers.
I got your back, man, I got your back first
and only time, cutting printed exit out about a Fresco
(40:32):
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love putting out this content for you. Got the big
Aaron Glenn take from last night on the On this,
I'm telling you, I'm believing that everything that Jets want
(01:10):
to do. If Aaron Glenn can't turn the Jets around,
then nobody can like he he is the guy. If
he can't, I don't know. Forget it doesn't matter. May
as well not even watch it. He's the last guy.
He's the last guy. It's like one of those dis
He's supposed to be like one of those disaster movies
where you're the only person that can save the world.
Everybody out now, you have to do it. If you
(01:30):
don't do it, the world end. Oh okay, it's doctor
Strange holding up the one figure. This is the one
scenario we win? Yes? Is this the one scenario where
the Jets are good? Yes? Okay, all right, we'll figure
it out.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's all on the shoulders Glenn. Completely different way of
looking at things.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
He's the guy. He's it.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
He's the guy, and I am legend instead of Will Smith.
He's the guy East Pedro, Pascal and last of us.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yes, well hopefully not sorry no spoiler, but hopefully not.
Hopefully better, hopefully better. I was just trying to go
to our I mean, I mean that are supposed to
lead us to the great Now I'll give you I'll
give you a minor spoil. I mean, like he just
laid waste to all of those people at the makeshift hospital.
(02:16):
Well then they have it coming they were gonna so well, well, potentially.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You have to be bigger sacrifice Ellie to potentially secure
everybody of courtsps.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Like I could see where you would have to do
that to save humanity, and boy, maybe you could have
just taken her out of there. But wow, he just everybody.
Everybody's just gone. He was just like a John Wick
movie at the end, Like, Wow, he's just going through everybody.
Maybe that's who Aaron Glen has to be as well.
He's gotta beat John Wick bulletproof uh Jets shirt that
(02:48):
he's wearing, like John Wick does. What what motivates you,
Coach Glenn, Well, they killed my dog? What motivates you?
I had to play for the Jets for most of
my career and now you're back. Yes, it's it's like
a sweat hog. I sold my soul. Hey, uh if
you got if you get me to the NFL, I'll
even play for the Jets. I'll even come back and
(03:09):
coach there when I'm done. Done. Aaron Glenn, you get
it your dreams where your ticket aut I really have
to do. It's okay, well, all right, welcome back. Oh
so hey, so I made a segue in my head
because you mentioned the sweathogs. I got to think I
almost played I almost played the best joke on my
dad today. Right, we'll get to shoot door Sanders in
a second. So today he like, we do this thing
(03:31):
every year where he wants to take Zoe back to
school shopping. Right, so we go to the mall back
to school shop. Now, my dad, like me, likes to shop.
So if he gets to a point where Zoe's in
a store where she's gonna look at things for a
few minutes, my dad will say, oh, I'll go next
door to the store. So my dad goes in, we
see lids, and he goes, oh, oh, I just see
the lids. I'm gonna go take a look at the
(03:51):
forty sevens and here the forty seven brand hats. Says okay,
and my dad likes to wear his favorite hat is
this like sun bleached yankee hat that has seen better days,
but he wears it all the time. Right, Okay, So
we go in and I see him and he picks
out this powder blue Yankee hat. Right, it's powder blue
collar yeah. He's like, oh, I'm gonna get this. I said, okay.
(04:12):
So I go to the So I go to the guy,
go hey, my dad's right here. He's gonna buy that
Yankee hat. Do me a favor. It is my dad.
Everything's fine. When he comes by it, just say hey,
if you want me to, sir, I can throw that
other haut at for you, the other hat out for
you right here, if you want to. And he goes oh.
I said, try, it's my dad is fun. I'm a
(04:33):
Met fan, he's a Yankee fan. He goes oh. I said,
just tell him, just like when you come in you
buy a new pair of sneakers and they say, hey,
we can you know, we'll throw the you can pare
out if you want recycling for you. You say. He
goes eh and that. But he wouldn't do it. He
didn't do it. I think he felt weird. You're like,
I don't know what's gonna happen, is really And I
stood right next to him. I was like, wait, because
I wanted to punch line right. I wanted to punch on. Hey, sir,
We'll throw that hat out for you if you want.
But but he didn't do it. I was like one
(04:55):
of those mystery boxes that they put in nut lids.
CA do that in store? I don't think you do
that in store. Oh that would be pretty cool if
you could just walk with fifteen bucks and buy a
mystery at and open it. Oh no, no, no, it is
like the two hundred dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like if
you could do that in the store, okay, but yeah,
it's certainly not a fifteen dollars proposition. I was so close.
(05:17):
I was. I really want to say, sir, I'll throw
that hat out for you if you want to.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
It would have been kind of interesting. I mean, if
you have videotape the response, yeah, oh you know what,
And I did see what Walt how he would have
responded to that. The other thing is someone would really
do a good sell of it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Sometimes I kind of worry about my dad and his
response to things, because sometimes he can really just get
upset right away because you know, he's eighty and he's like, yeah,
he's very self sufficient, gets around everything. But I could see,
like usually everywhere we go, like any kind of any
kind of place you go to that has to have
retail or service, Like sometimes he like the percentage chance
(05:52):
is like seventy percent he's gonna be upset or.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Service part of being out in a mall. Yeah, you know,
I sometimes I think you should probably go somewhere else.
But I was right there next to him. I felt
like I controlled the situation. Take a roll of the dice.
I know that that would have been so bad. Like
the worst thing is if if something happens food wise,
he doesn't get his food in time, or it's longer
(06:16):
than he expects, or his coffee has made a little
bit wrong or or not with everything in it, that
they could just bring him on the side.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
No, no, no, he's that's what he gets ride.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Take him out to watch ducks swim, buy in a
little pond at this point the way you're describing that,
or will he get mad at the ducks swimming fast?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Yeah, Duck's not fat, just like our bullpen, Just like
the Yankees bullpen. It stinks just like him. Uh So
Shadoor Sanders, coming off of his huge Week one in
the NFL preseason, I said, well, he's gotta be gotta
let him run with the number one quarterback job, right
have to write what Look at what he did first
(06:54):
game one hundred and forty yards two touchdowns. He looked great.
There's no reason not to. What are you really doing
if you're not? I'm sorry that Dylan Gabriel and Kenny
Pickett were hurt, Joe Flacco didn't play, But what are
you really doing? What are you really doing? There's no
reason to not let him run with the ones, right,
don't have to give him the job, but let him
run with the ones because he's earned it with that performance. Yet,
(07:15):
the Browns depth chart has come out and guess it
was still fourth. Shador Sanders, Well, I mean, Stefanski warned you.
He said it was probably gonna be the case. That's
just stupid. I'm really it's just what really?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Are you trying to win games?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
What are you trying to do? Again? You don't have
to give him the job, but you got if a
guy shows up when the lights are bright and this
is one of his big chances to come through and
he has that kind of game, yeah you can. You
can elevate him on the depth chart. At the very least,
you could say, hey, he's running now second behind Joe Flacco.
You know you have no you'd have no reason to
(07:52):
be beholden to Kenny Pickett or to to Dylan Gabriel.
I mean, are you trying to win games?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Man?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Here's a quarterback that came out Week one preseason, but
you got to judge by what happens when the lights
go on, and he was really good, and yet still
it's the only thing that comes to mind, the only
thing that I can think of and go, all right,
is this what they're trying to do, is that they
really have to be sure that Shadoor Sandals is gonna
(08:18):
be able to handle everything that goes along with being
a starting quarterback in the NFL. Right, he had the
driving issues in the off season. You had all the
different times where we heard from different teams that, yeah,
didn't really show up for the meetings as well, didn't
have didn't really have the the excitedness we would expect
on a quarterback. One didn't want to talk to us
about how prepared he was or wasn't for a certain
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play description we wanted to talk to him about. And
then you had during the game the one instance where
on a play where he got sacked, he got up
and yelled at one of his receivers, and then after
the game gets into it with Tony Grosse. He won
of a longtime Cleveland Brown's beat reporters by saying, you
got to say anything nice to me, Tony, you never
said anything nice to me, even though it was kind
of a jokey back and forth and Grosse he talked
(09:03):
about it today that hey, it really wasn't that big
a deal. I'm surprised I became that big a deal.
I mean, dude, a shaduor Sanders of course are going
to be a big deal. But he seemed to blow
it off and say, you know, it wasn't that big
a deal. We were joking about it at the end.
The only thing I can think of, which is what
Stefanski should say, because other other than that you're alienating
your fan base, is saying we want to make sure
Chador Sanders can handle everything that goes along with being
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a starting quarterback in the NFL, and that way you
read between the lines and you get okay. Here he
was yielded a teammate during the game. First thing he
does in the post game is talk to a Cleveland
Browns beat guy, and Sale said he was with how
he was treating him, what he would say about him, dude,
that's not what you do. You need to be responsible
and mature enough to handle these things. That's the message
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everybody would get, right, and that's what I'm hoping that's
the only thing that makes sense, because outside of this,
it's like, what are you really trying to do where
they're go If he can't handle it and he's not good,
he doesn't need to start. But there's no reason not
give him more reps, let him, let him have this
and try to hammer out that, Hey, you got to
be doing a little bit differently because you're you're now
you're not just a starting quarterback in college football. You're
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you're a guy that's worth hundreds of millions of dollars
because you are the quarterback of a football team in
the NFL, And there's a difference between being a face
of the franchise that I would get. Well, we didn't
get that. We didn't get, but I would hope that
that would be something that Stefanski would say or the
Browns slowed out saying, hey, want to make sure these
are mature enough to handle stuff, because I understand that
part of it, but on the field, like, really, the
guy was lights out, He's better than Dylan Gabriel would
(10:29):
have been, better than Picket would have been, probably better
than Flacco would have been. At this point, it's preseason.
Flacco is not going to go crazy, and still his
reward is I'm still fourth string Like that, I don't
know what kind of message you're trying to send there. Well,
I think some of it is all right. It's a
good first step, but you still have to keep battling.
You didn't.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Those other guys are are still ahead of you on
the depth chart even though they didn't play. Now the
Dylan Gabriel, what have they done? What have they done
to keep you to stay ahead of you?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Longevity? Dylan Gables been in the league the same time.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Not saying him, I'm saying, when you go to what
you have for expectations off Picket and Flacco if nothing else,
I guess you say he moves to third, that he's
outplayed Gabriel. Look, the entrance music thing was odd, but whatever,
they allowed it, So move on. The grossy, grossy thing.
(11:22):
In the post game, said many guys have done it
from the podium instead of coming to him one on one,
and even you know he even saw the laugh and
whatever that they had a moment move on, but it
is shades of things that may still for the team
be an uncomfortable thing and part of why you had
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the drop to the fifth round. But going back to Friday,
he showed enough on tape to where you think you'd
get more reps at least a few more with a
someone on the second unit or even going to that
number one slot. But I guess they're gonna make him
earn it the long way and he's gonna have to
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do it again.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Man, I mean, really, I if it's if it's a
if it's a if it's a I want to say,
if it's a maturation thing, it's you need to be
able to handle this, right, Like I said, I get that,
But this is a team that's been starved for great
quarterback play for years, right, for years. Think about that
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for a second, right, Deshaun Watson's been nothing but underachieving
since they decided to give him all that money. Baker Mayfield,
you had to get rid of him because it wasn't
good enough. Right, So you're going back years and years
to the last time you had a glimmer of hope
at quarterback. Now you get it, and it's yeah, the
guy's still fourth string. We wait, what how is it
we've been waiting. That's like saying, hey, I've been waiting
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for six years for a drink of water. I really
need to drink of water. Well, yeah, I understand you
need to drink of water. I get it. I have
a whole glass of water here for you. I have
a whole glass. But you know what, I'm just gonna
give you a sip instead. But wait, but I really
need the water. Now you're just gonna get a sip
because but I really need it. No, No, just gonna
give you a little sip and then I'm gonna pull
the water back and hold the water out there, boil
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that water nice and cold, ice cubes clinking in the glass.
It's like when you see the big Coca Cola display
on the movies when they show you how it poured
in and look at that and all the buzzles and
the fizz and the effort vessents. That looks so good. Yeah,
that water looks good, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Yet?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
No, not gonna give anymore. Wait, well, I think some
of it.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You invoke the name of Baker Mayfield and you go back,
and I'll do this quickly is that what was his
biggest downfall wasn't necessarily what he was doing on the field,
was spending too much time dealing with you and Colin
and anybody in the media. So when you still see
shades of that with with Shador Sanders, you want to
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you want to try to stomp that out because that's
been part of what came with him from college which
led him to become a fifth round pick for you.
On the field, you saw a lot of what is
potentially there. Take it with a grain of salt, playing
against twos and stuff when he had his best success.
But you can only play who's on the field and
(14:08):
who's on the schedule. But it's all that other stuff
that's still perhaps a lingering memory institutionally of that Baker
Mayfield era.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Exit out about a Fresco exit, swollen dog. It just
baffles me that this is how the Browns.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
It's like, give this was the Jets, you just go Jets,
same big air Brown Joe.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon coming up next, could we potentially
see a huge firing sometime in the next week or so.
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I mean it the Little League World Series. It is
long time MLB network insider. He's on Twitter at John Morosi.
(16:04):
It is the Pope, John Paul Morosi. What's happening, Bud?
Speaker 5 (16:07):
How are you outstanding? My friends? I was in New
York last night. I was actually at Yankee Stadium for
the Yankees and the Twins. I know that pin Alonso
made some Mets history tonight for a team that, by
the way, I want to make sure I lead with
the positivity. Jason. Yes, New York Mets as of as
of now to now tonight now still still are in
(16:30):
possession of a National League wild card spot, albeit the
third of three, but they are in the dance for now,
two games ahead of the Cincinnati Retch.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Now, you know, and you could tell me this, You
can tell Sternsy my reaction because when when he hit
that home run, right, you think I'm full of Hey,
he passed Darryl Strawberry. It's a big deal. I think
about my life and I'm a teenager when Strawberry was
so good. No, right away, I said, now, we got
to win this game. Let's not blow this please league
like Dat's myria Alonzow. It's the home run I celebrated
(17:03):
for about half a second ago. We got to win
this game, man, we can't. It's five to one. We
got to win this well.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
And let's let's point out. And I'm sure this has
been covered very adeptly on the Fox Sports Radio studio updates,
but the final core was thirteen to five in favor
of the Mets. They kept hitting throughout sixteen hits, thirteen runs.
I do know that you have you have already made
(17:30):
some suggestions to me. We are frequently texting. You've got
an idea about you wanted to make sure that we
saw McLean and Sprote. Ideally, you wanted the three probable
starters for this series to be Sprote, McLean, and Jonah
Tong the prospects, so you wanted all three of them up.
It didn't quite happen that way, but the Mets nonetheless
(17:53):
a very important win. And I was able to speak
with Justin before the segment started working on the he
really say that Conford, Oh, should play more often. There's
a lot of There's a lot of conversation right now.
Both of you guys just kind of boosted up your
confidence a little bit.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, now we gotta call it like it is. When
I said to you that text, who I really wanted
this series was, I said, seever Kusman Gooden. That was
the guys I wanted for this series. But now you
know he can't get them out here.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
And John matt Lack, you missed great John Mattlack, who,
by the way, John Matt Lack, I always have great
things to say about John matt Lack. He was the
Tigers minor league pitching coordinator when I first started covering
pro baseball more than twenty years ago. And so John
Matt Lacks, as you know as many of our listeners,
(18:43):
though one of the great New York Mets starting pitchers. Ever,
he was always so gracious and courteous in returning my
calls when I was just a twenty one year old
who just had all kinds of questions about everything in
the world, and he was very patient with me. And
I will always thank John matt Lack for that.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Oh that's so nice.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
We got positivity of the Mets with a win, and
you're talking about the Michael Confordo angle, many angles here
in Los Angeles to run with the Dodgers, that nine
game lead evaporating as it has, and just trying to
find answers in some level of consistency JP.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
What could Dave Roberts do to but what can he
pull out of his hat?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, the question I have right now, Mike is actually
the offense, and that to me is the big issue.
The rotation is getting better. You think about now the
return of Snell Glass. Now they're expecting big things from
down the stretch them. Moto in many ways has been
their most consistent starter from the start of the season,
(19:47):
and now Kirshaw looked really good. But I think the
big question now has to do with the lineup it
and I really think overall, I know we're talking about
what they could do to get more out of Confordo
and that line line up spot. They at least were
able to win a weekend series against the Blue Jays,
who have been one of the hottest teams in Major
League Baseball. Yes, I know they're tied right out tonight
(20:09):
with the Angels, and yes, I know it wasn't necessarily
a great start for Shian, but in general, I do
think there is still a lot to like about this lineup.
Maybe the one thing you would say, and again it's
on display tonight, just too at the menu scoring position
that they are maybe not cashing in at the same
level of the same rates of plating runs and they've
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got opportunities. I still like the general structure of this
lineup with Otani at the top. Of course, Bets has
just started to come alive a little bit. Obviously for
the year, his numbers won't look that's like, but he
has been better of late. Will Smith has put together
I think a phenomenal year all the way around. But
I do agree with the critique that the bottom part
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of the lineup, even with a couple of hits from
Rushing today including a homer, the bottom part of the
lineup is not quite as potent as it was at
this time last year. You just look at the bottom
three right now. It's a confordo with batting one to
eighty seven, freelim batting one ninety four and then rushing
batting two o two. It's just it's not the same
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fearsome one through nine that we saw one year ago,
and for that matter, nor is the Yankees lineup at
that same level. So I think you consider how just
how much opportunity there is. We're talking right now as
much about the Brewers, the Mariners, the Padres as we
are about the Yankees and Dodgers, and I think on
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some level in the game that's healthy. It's certainly it's
a pretty powerful counter argument to those that thought, based
on last year's World Series that a Dodgers the Yankees
rematch was inevitable. Let's be clear about it, it is not. Now.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I know you're getting set to broadcast from Williamsport, which
is going to be so much fun for you. Are
you more excited about Williamsport or Padres Dodgers series this weekend?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Just between us, off the record, Podras Dodgers, but that's
the series, and listen. As much as we would love
to be able to reconfigure the schedule on the fly,
I mean, listen, Matts Mariners is a good matchup for
this week, and I'm excited to see both teams, But
(22:23):
I would kind of like to see if we could
fly in the Dodgers and Padres and then put that
really contentious match up in front of the kids, and
then and then say basically, okay, everybody, no fights tonight,
no clearing the benches tonight in front of the kids.
We can't do it. It'd be a good good reminder
of that. But listen to Padres and the Mariners. They
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both played really well since the deadline. And I like that.
I like that the teams that were aggressive have been
rewarded for it. And it certainly puts together a pretty
powerful argument to t GMS and the team president and
the owner that the players really do feed off of
that energy. So uh, good aut him for being aggressive.
(23:05):
And and credit to those two teams in particular, Seattle
and San Diego for putting together some impressive runs here
now in the month of August.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So are we going to get our Aaron Boone outstream
because they're wearing bags on their heads in the third.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Level now, JP, I know I was there last night.
Talk to Aaron. He didn't seem he didn't seem many
more stress than normally does. And I think that's really
a good thing. Uh. That's that's the important thing for
the Yankees. The reasons why they are not leading the division.
Aaron Boone is not is not the one to blame it.
(23:41):
In my opinion, there are a number of issues going
on there. I do think that the return of Stanton
and the home runs last night and tonight, it's just
he's really important to them. But when Stanton is in
the lineup, when he's homering, it's a different team. And
Volpi got it, got in on the act tonight too.
Warren pitsh really well last another good start tonight for Rodan.
(24:04):
That's it. They just have to get deeper in games.
And so if they keep playing the way they played
the last couple of nights, and again it's against a
Twins team that's sold off with the deadline, I get it.
But to me, the important thing is consistency and stability
in the rotation, and just talking to Aaron yesterday, it
sounds like he believes they're a lot closer in that
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regard than they've been in a while. And so I'm
willing to let this thing play out and listen, if
they haven't made a change of manager yet, and certainly
he's under contract well beyond the end of the season.
If they haven't made a change yet, I would have
a hard time thinking that they would do that in season.
Maybe the chance to be there if they missed the
playoffs entirely, but I think it internally, they still seem
(24:50):
pretty pleased with the work that Boone is doing, despite
the up and down results over the last month plus.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
But here's the thing, John Paul is, I look at
it this way. If the Yankees don't make the playoffs underachieve,
they're gonna fire him at the end of the season. Right,
it's been eight years no championships, which you know they
got rid of Joe Torre a lot faster and he
won four. I maintain that if the Yankees get to
a point where they fall two three games out of
the wild card, right, if they fall two three games
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out of the wild card, that would happen, and they
would replace Boone just as a final break glass in
case emergency thing. This is the last thing we can
do to try to keep this season on track, because
why wait till the end of the year. If we're
gonna miss the playoffs, then do something we're gonna do anyway, Whereas, hey,
maybe this is what we can do. We can jar
the team for the last five six weeks of the
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season that if if that happens for the Yankees and
suddenly there are a couple of games on the outside
looking in, I can see that happening.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
It's it's possible, listen, nything is possible. I still don't
see it as being that likely. And part of the answer,
part of the reason is who are you going to
replace him with?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Uh Derrek Teeter Jeter has been critical.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I I do not think that there is much of
a chance at all that that Jeter would be the
manager of the New York Yankees now. If at some point,
and I don't think it's imminently, if at some point
far into the future, they were to look at the
possibility of him being at that at that higher level,
(26:26):
you know, club president, something of that, of that type,
maybe maybe, I maybe I would see him in that role.
I just don't think managing is what he's going to
want to do now, the one, the one Yankee icon.
It's not going to happen now because he's got an
important job with the team that's in their division. But
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I could see at some point in time in the future,
not now, but eventually don Maddingly managing this team. At
some point I'm not saying it's now, but I at
some point I could see him being the manager just
because he's he's managed multiple stops. I think that he's
never really had a chance to consistently have a winning team.
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He was there with the Dodgers kind of in the
early phase of it. I just think that he would
have a very very special connection and fond of the
fan base there. Again, I don't think it's gonna happen imminently,
but it wouldn't surprise me if at some point in
this career maddenly becomes a Yankee again. And I don't
think it's gonna happen now, but I do wonder sometime
(27:35):
down the line.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
What's funny is you know you're talking about the teams
that went for it at the trade deadline and being
rewarded as such. I'm going back to my hometown. Obviously,
the White Sox are what they are, and Cools Montgomery
is fine and hitting home runs and that's exciting. On
the North side, I get a lot of notes from
friends going, why didn't we do something? Yeah, what are
(27:57):
we doing? What happened to Pete Crow Armstrong? As in
Kyle Tucker still a superstar and it's all just kind
of melting down while you watch the Brewers just falling
to win after win after win.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I think it's I struggle to say this. We're not
even halfway through August, but it's difficult for me to
imagine a world in which the Cubs win this division.
It's amazing that I'm saying this based on the fact
that right around the fourth of July, I was feeling like, man,
this team is they're the best team maybe in all
(28:31):
baseball that they look that good. But you're right. This
period of time has really revealed the extent to which
PCA was with the driver, because since he's been slumping,
they have not been the same team, and Tucker's been
just okay with PCA. The thing that even when he
was going good, we kept hearing and I think it
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was a fair critique. The guy just swings so much
and he's not selective, and at some point you go
around in the league once or twice, people are going
to figure that out. And I just think that he's
been maybe whether it's said he's tired, whether it's that
he's a little jumpie and just not getting good pitches hit.
(29:14):
But when pitchers realize they don't have to throw you
a strike to get you out. You're not going to
see many strikes, and he's going to have to show
that you can make that adjustment or else. What we've
seen the last couple few weeks will become probably the
norm for the rest of the season. He's still talented
enough to make the change, but it's going to be
(29:35):
a fairly dramatic shift and approach from what we have
seen to this point because the free swinging ways of
Pete grow Armstrong no longer are as charming as they
were back in April or May.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morose.
You see him on MLB Network, seem at Williamsport the
League World Series. Now, I have a dare for you.
You normally accept every dare give you, so.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
I have to hear let me know, well, okay, here
I got.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I want you to interview one of the pitchers at Williamsport,
and I want you to say, in the middle of
the interview, here, let me show you how to throw
a spitball.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Ah, I do believe I need to go back into
the room book to see if the spitball is expressly
banned by the laws of the game at the little
league level. I need to go see the Little League
Constitution there in beautiful Williams for that's going to be
on my itinery. I love that trip. I've been very
(30:33):
fortunate to be there every year that MLB has played
a Little League Classic, so I can't wait to go
back there for I guess little now be a ninth time.
So super excited about it.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Have fun, look forward to talk to you man. Enjoy
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Thanks, guys, I really appreciate all the best.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
See you Bunny a night. There goes the great John Palmer.
Rose says, here's how you throw a spitball. Here's how
you cut the ball right. You cut it right to
show you.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
How to knife right here, get that little razor blade
in the tape, o your wristband.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Sharpen your fingernails, and that's how you do.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
We're gonna sit together and watch a ten minute tape
in which Dusty Rhodes is gonna tell you how to
do this properly, how to do proper blading of a baseball.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Let's find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
A guy who's been called the gay Lord Perry of
Fox Sports Radio. Everybody he comes in, he puts a
lot of acoline on the microphone. It's Steve to say,
it's a Hall of Famer. Got some on the neck
right now. There you go, good man, if he's ready.
He would always touch every part of his body. Yeah. Absolutely.
(31:32):
The best one was literally right in.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Between right at the throat, in between the two local
cor you never knew.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Just had nervous ticks. I mean, when you get rid
of it, why is that shiny? It's just sweat. No,
come on, it's still sweaty.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I remember at one point he struck out Reggie Jackson,
who was convinced it was yet another spitball. Jackson came
out of the duck out with a bucket of water
before the home flight.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Umpire, how do you not see this?
Speaker 5 (31:59):
Well?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
The Padre could be tying the first place Dodgers in
the NL West standings after tonight. They're only a game back.
The lead was nine for LA in early July. Since then,
the Dodgers record is twelve and nineteen. They are tied
in Anaheim. The Dodgers right now, it's five to five,
top of the seventh, but the Dodgers did hit into
a triple play on a soft liner up the middle
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the Padres.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
That was adult rushing. That was all his fault.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Yeah, running at first base and trying to get out
of way, and it looked, honestly, it looked like stepping
on the bag and a hard landing at first like
when Bryce Harper got so seriously injured in recent years.
Rushing is still the Dodger catcher. After all that, the
Padres are holding on four to one at the Giants.
In the bottom of the sixth San Francisco with bases
(32:44):
loaded and one out, Colorado ended an eight game losing streak,
winning three to nothing at Saint Louis. Winning pitcher Kyle
Freeland had been two and twelve but went seven and
a third scoreless. Tonight, Boston wins at Houston fourteen to one.
Roman Anthony a homer and four walks. That means Houston's
now tied for first place in the Al West with
the Mariners, who won their eighth game in a row,
(33:06):
won nothing at Baltimore with a run in the first.
Milwaukee won its eleventh straight game fourteen nothing over Pittsburgh.
The Brewers hit five homers the loss to Paul Skeins.
Toronto down the Cubs five to one. Wins for Arizona
and Kansas City and for the Yankees, who won nine
to one over Minnesota. Aaron Judges thirty eighth homer this year,
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Pete Alonzo with two long balls. The Mets ended a
seven game losing streak, beating up Atlanta thirteen to five.
Alonzo now with the most homers in Mets history and
Philadelphia loss. Cincinnati beat him six to one, so the
Phillies lead in the nl e's five games over the Mets.
Cleveland beat Miami four to three. Jose Ramirez two solo homers,
including one in the bottom of the eighth. Packers quarterback
(33:48):
Jordan Love had surgery on his left thumb. They hoped
to have him back at practice next week and just
two w NBA games Tonight three and a half minutes
to go. New York leading at LA ninety eight eighty eight.
Breonna Stewart due to return from injury till late August.
For Indiana, Caitlin Clark missed an eleventh straight game still
hasn't practiced due to the groin injury. Dallas held on
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at Indiana eighty one eighty. Dallas was eight and twenty
four this year. Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, Aaron Rodgers made
a fair amount of headline today by saying something that
I have his back on. Wait, what's go I have
his back on it. Yeah, that's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
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Hobo or I'm going to do something here that I
really haven't done, like I don't know in like months
and months and months, months and months and months and months.
I have Aaron Well, the Mets did win tonight. That
is true. It feels like months and months night. It
has been a minute. Yes, I have Aaron Rodgers back
(34:59):
on the headline he made today. Okay, and I never
thought it'd it, but I do. Aaron Rodgers today says
that he can't stand the helmet that he has to
wear this year. Uh, not practicing with the right helmet
(35:21):
because his old helmet that he wore for a long
time no longer is up to standards for the NFL. Right,
he had the shut Air XP pro Q eleven Ltd.
Which come on, it's that. That's way too long of
a name for a helmet. It's the shut per Air
pro XP. Like, that's it, man, you gotta once you're
into what could be a cadence, you gotta stop. That's enough.
(35:43):
But it didn't meet the NFL's new safety standards, and
Aaron Rodgers is very upset about that, saying I don't
like it. I'm trying to change. We're in the process.
The new helmet I'm wearing looks like a damn spaceship
out there. Now, you figure, right, go come on? Used
to it? Your old helmet stuck? Yeah, he sounds like
I'm an old football player. I want to wear the
(36:05):
old leather helmet that I broke into the league with
all those years ago, and when I played for Army
and we won the national championship by going seven to
zero and and and beating Columbia to winning the title
six Nothing like I understand that. I I get that.
You want you know he wants. He sounds like an
old guy, But I get it, right, I get and
I think anybody who's ever played football, the helmet is
(36:27):
the biggest inconvenience. It's the biggest piece of equipment that
you have to get used to. And when you've been
wearing one for so long, yeah, wearing a different ones
a big deal. Like whenever kids go to football camps, right,
Like kids go to football camps and in the in
the summer, and they go they go to a camp.
It's never a hitting camp because obviously there's too much liability,
but it's always helmets, sometimes shoulder pants, but it's always helmets.
(36:50):
Why Because helmet is the biggest piece of equipment you
need to get used to in the NFL, and and
and and at any level at high school, at pee
wee and college everything. And I still I can remember
and I remember how I went through playing football in
high school with a helmet and buy a helmet was
so uncomfortable. It was so tight, And I wore it
every day for three and a half hours and I
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ran laps in it, and we did and we practiced,
and it was so tight and so uncomfortable. And I
don't understand how I wore it because I put on
a helmet now going this is the I gotta take it.
This is the worst thing ever is the worst. The
worst thing I could ever do is put this helmet on.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
I just remember that I played a year with a
helmet that was just way too small and couldn't go
through it again. So they actually did a bake sale
to get me, and I had one of the first
air helmets.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Because my head was yeah, it happens.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Actually this the swollen dome was legit long before it
became a moniker because I couldn't fit my head in
a two shot.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
But for a season it was smaller because your helmet
crushed you and kept it was awful, right, And then
they gave me the air helmet, but we then spent
weeks trying to figure out what the proper inflation of
that was before it started to hurt and become an issue.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
So, yeah, it becomes a big deal. And for veteran
players like this, you're used to one thing, so when
the models change, where one gets put out a favor
because it doesn't pass the same safety and health specifications
that you're at in twenty twenty five, Yeah, it's pain
in the ass.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Yeah, he said, look, I've worn this shut helmet and
Steve thee Steve Shut helmet. Boy, there's a dated reference
for you. I've wondered for twenty years and somehow it
finally didn't pass the safety standard. You know, I'd be
okay with saying, hey, you want to sign a waiver,
wear your old helmet.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah, if you're gonna let me bring my amone, you know,
smelling salt to whatever, it's bring my own that. How
about I bring my own helmet while I'm at it.
We're still in the whole world of concussion protocol questions.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I'll sign a waiver, I want to wear this helmet.
I feel fine, I'll sign. I'll sign that.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I figured you you were gonna go to his comments
because he was asked about cam Hayward sitting out. It's
like and he went complete corporate Aaron Rodgers of you know, guys,
gotta you know, look into his contract if he's not
happy or what like. No, Cam Hayward a couple of
months ago was telling you to get off your ass
and sign.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
How about you do the same. I would have been used.
We need you here now. Figured out the helmet thing.
A couple of months ago were wearing a brand new helmet.
Tell you what. That's how it is. I feel it.
I feel like we should wear helmets for a while. No, no,
we're never gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
No, that again, that is the I got a place
where we can get some game used xfl ones is
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I'm not even gonna try it because a couple of
times I've tried, they said, oh, this helmet will fit you,
and I tried, No, I'm not gonna jam off. No,
I'm you want to wear it like I feel like
I'm a play but we can't spark a try to
get the the the job head over my ear. I'm like,
I don't want to do that. I'm not gonna I'm
done with this. I'm not. I don't understand how I
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was able to do that for three for the game
man man, it was all Billy Chapel. It was just
Vin Scully was in your head every play. And my
first year I didn't even have a great helmet because
I joined late, so I got like the dregs. Like
I wore like a max Pro helmet, which is like
that's like like I didn't even know that would pass
anything to put it together with duct tape. Oh it was.
(40:12):
It was so much like this looks like such a
low rent helmet, man, I gotta wear this all season,
and any one of those big cages in front, like
I can't even seven. Then you were playing defensive backs.
That was terrible. It was the worst, man, Aaron Rodgers.
I got your back, man, I got your back first
and only time, cutting printed exit out about a Fresco
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