August 5, 2026 • 36 mins
The NFL’s preseason hasn’t even started, yet Jason Smith and Mike Harmon may already have their Super Bowl picks. Everything you need to know about Tarik Skubals Dodger debut at Wrigley Field. And Jason explained why he feels bad for Shedeur Sanders!
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Mike and I love doing this every single night. Now
we'll get to that big NFL story in a second.
But Tarik's cooble now owing one of the Dodgers that's
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coming up in a few minutes as well.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Are you're really enjoying that? I mean you sound like
you're really kind of jacked up. Are you secretly a
Cub fan?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Now? No, no, I'm I'm just looking at now like
because you know, in Major League Baseball, the standing baseball, no,
the standings reset at the trade deadline. So now yeah, yeah,
I don't if you know that or not. So now
if you are having a horrible season, you start over again.
Oh so it's okay.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Now yeah, so now you're shacked up about the Mets.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, I mean you didn't know that. You know, that's
how it goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They put in the
new rule this year. Yeah, it's a pretty good rule.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So suddenly my white socks are not having a good
season anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
No, yeah, yeah, it's bad for you.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah it's back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The Red Sox just dominated them four straight, including yeah,
a game tonight that I think you love to erase
from the hard drive.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You know. But just a couple of quick baseball notes
here before we get to this, this this football topic here, Uh,
teams in the American League East, What the Red Sox
are doing is absolutely incredible. You talk about I mean,
there's teams that start out slow and they pick it
up over the course of a season. You know, once
a year you get a hey, this was our record
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on May seventeenth, and we had a one point four
percent yet and then there's what the Red Sox doing,
which are basically coming back from the dead where this
I mean, and all of a sudden, it's win streak
after win streak for the Red Sox. It was fifteen
in a row, then they lose a game. Now it's
another six in a row after tonight, like what they
have done, and then they load up at the deadline yesterday.
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And again I'm not the biggest fan of Adley Rushman,
the Adley Rushman trade, but what the Red Sox have done,
and what the what the Rushman trade says is that, hey,
they believe in this team. I mean, they can't be denied.
Right now, they're ten games over five hundred after their
win tonight. I mean, this is just they were ten
games below five hundred a little bit over a month ago, okay,
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like I think it was going to the fourth of
July weekend something like that. They were ten games under
five front, like it's over right. They were the Mets
back then, and now here there are ten games over
five hundred in a month. In one month, they've gone
from ten games under to ten games over. That's incredible, incredible.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
When you consider the division, you can can consider how
just tight it is, except for whatever the hell has
happened with Toronto and Vladimir Guerrero. I don't think any
of his bats got delivered this year. But we look
at the Yankees. They've struggled since Judge went out. We've
chronicled that, but overall, they started so strongly that you're
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still battling them. The Rays aren't going away, even if
your guy Freddy Peralta got blitzed in his first time out.
All of that as you move forward for the Red Soicks,
I mean they gave up on Meyer, they said, all right,
that guy's not her future anymore. I mean, that was
part of the trade deadlines. Like wow, that's a little
bit surprising. But all of a sudden, here they are
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five games back of the division, leading Rays, far ahead
of the Orioles and the Blue.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Jays and trying to make some Hey.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So, I mean, this has been an incredible last couple
of days in the Al East with all the big teams,
all the contenders loading up, right, not a great night
for the race tonight. Okay, hey, they're gonna show Upreddy
perraulta out of New York. He's gonna be great now
he was terrible, So what the Red Sox are doing?
But tonight the debut of Yankees' number one prospect, George
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Lombard Junior, was everything you could expect. They're already talking
that now we found our new gena. Forget about vope.
That guy's done after tonight. I don't know many guys
have had a debut quite like this, with this sort
of pressure cooker. He comes in number one prospect for
the Yankees tonight, makes a couple of dazzling plays defensively,
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hits a home run for the Yankees, They win, and
all of a sudden, it's like the Yankees have transformed
their team in the last twenty four hours. And this
is why, like Yankee fans, I don't get it. After yesterday,
Oh we need to do more. You traded for one
really good hitter in Garcia, right, Ramos is a pretty
professional hitter that's gonna be an upgrade because you had
guys you kept putting the lineup that can't hit it all.
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And now you send that message with Volpi and Domingez
going to the minor leagues. And here comes Lombard and
he's incredible. Like all of a sudden, the Yankees have
remade their team. They've remade the direction of their team.
With two trades and a rookie promotion. I'm telling you, man,
the Yankees are gonna go to the World Series again.
People forget how good they were before Aaron Judge's injury,
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and yes, that's the big caveat, and when he comes back,
that's gonna be the ballgame, right, But now you have
seen a couple of really good trades, because when you
can't hit it all, you put anybody else in that lineup,
it looks really good. And if Judge comes back, and
now Lombard with this kind of debut, it is the
new Yankees in the last twenty four hours. And I
can't stand all the Yankee fans that are complaining, going, oh,
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we didn't do any You remade your team in a day.
In a day, you have remade the energy, the direction,
and what's possible. Yes, Judge has to come back. I
get that, but wow, look at where you are right now. Man,
you you you have. You have changed the vibes in
one day or over the course of two days with
the trades of what happened today. The Yankees are back,
the aggressive Yankees have traded four pictures for Garcia. Like
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the Yankees as we knew them years and years ago.
They are back and I'm telling them like, they're gonna
go to the World Series again.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well, they're the second favorite to the Dodgers as we
began playing tonight.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And what was funny.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
In my timeline And I don't know your experiences. You've
floated through it, whether you're flipping the radio dial in
your car. And this is to you all, all of
you listening out there are extended family that all of
the questions of why the Yankees didn't add more pitching,
why didn't they go after a.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Pictures like need a pitcher?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Played it for They got, guys, the first time ever.
The Yankees didn't need a pitch.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
They have they have the best TV horay in baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
They did need one for the first time ever. I
get every year of the age didn't need a picture.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
This time your American League East.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
All of those guys came back or are coming back,
including Rodan soon enough, uh three point two eight, TVRA
Brewers at three point five, Red Sox three five, four,
Tigers three sixty, and we go on down the line.
You needed batters, You needed hitters, and you also made
a monster statement by looking around, reading the room and
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recognizing that the guys that get a lot of ink
and a lot of minutes in terms of audio and
video airplay, we're not getting it done. So you know
what you did. You silenced it. You put in the
extra cushioning around like you're you're setting up your own
little podcast studio, and you said, we don't need the
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noise anymore. Goodbye to Oldpie, goodbye to me. And as
we said yesterday, we may ever see them in pinstripes again.
They may be Rockies before it's all said and done.
And you moved into into Lombard with all of the stats,
five tool guy, big defense, like you said today, and
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a guy who replaces Dominguez. Also because last night we
had it with Garcia right, first home run in a Yankees'
debut since Diminguz in twenty twenty three, and now Lombard
does it tonight to electrify that crowd. So yeah, everything
that Cashman pulled at this point, you gotta be thrilled.
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And now you're just wishing wanni hoping. I mean, there
were actually positive reports out of Stanton because I think
he doesn't want to be left out.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Easy, easy, easy. I saw it.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
They said he was running with a pretty good gate.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yes, yeah, he looked. It was good to see him
out and about like that. That's what That's what Aaron
Boone said today, like like he'd been sick with the flu. Hey,
good to see him out taking a walk in the neighborhood. Hey,
it was great to haven't seen a while. Oh you know,
I had the flu for a little bit. But I'm
feel a better out for a walk today. Oh that's great.
You're seeing tomorrow. Okay, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So you got you gotta sell positivity. Yeah, he finally
got off his ass. No, you're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Take it easy, man.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I'm not saying he's gonna be you know, in the
lineup and then the equipment guys starting to hang his
jersey back up in his locker.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I'm not saying that, but.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Come on, uh so we got more baseball coming up
in a few minutes. Because obviously Tarik Schoobl's debut did
not go how the Dodgers expected. But you know it's
not I'm not ready to make the prediction yet, right
because obviously we have to go through the preseason and
see who stays healthy, who doesn't, how things go. But
I'll tell you what, now, we're a week into training
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camp and and seeing how how teams are acclimating. Honestly,
it's gonna be hard for me to not pick an
All LA Super Bowl. It really is gonna be hard
for he did not pick that, Like obviously the Rams,
the Rams are that good. You had the best defensive
player in football to that team, lookout right, I mean,
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I mean, what else do you expect? Maybe Aaron Donald
on his way back. Potentially it looks like he is
going to come back at some point, probably not from
the beginning of the season, probably later on when he
says I'm ready and good to go out.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But if he doesn't come back, yeah, if he ultimately
doesn't come back, he's worse than Lebron James, Aaron Rodgers,
and anybody else that woffled about retirement. Ever, was I
think we'd know that by now. I think if he
wasn't gonna come.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Back, it would be it would be where we would say, okay,
because guys know, right, they tried somebody.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
He's did all last year too.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, but I think you know he was wait, wait,
maybe he needed a time away, his body was feeling good.
Maybe the Ram didn't want to pay him money last year.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Still, but I'll tell.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
You the Rams clearly super Bowl caliber team, maybe maybe
the best team, maybe the best roster there. But again,
you add the best defensive player in the NFL. Uh, yeah,
it's gonna be that. That's a sac guy. How are
you gonna beat them? Right?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Souse?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But the Chargers and their roster and their health going
into this season, already seeing rave reviews about Mike McDaniel,
the work he's been doing with Justin Herbert, some of
the footwork to make it easier to throw the football
a little bit more. Like, everything I have seen coming
out of Charger camp has just been electric. And obviously
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the big question is can they stay healthy on the
offensive line? That was a big thing that killed them
last year.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Right, my man back in the tent, Yeah, I mean
I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
But that's the thing why you have to wait and
see how August goes, because you know it happened this
fast for the Chargers last year too. But if their
offensive line is healthy, I don't know that they need
anything else in a wide open AFC, because that's the thing.
It's not like you're walking in going okay, this is
your overwhelming Ferry. No, No, there's not that overwhelming team. Right,
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You're gonna you're gonna get a regression a little bit
from the Patriots. Are the Bills still that great? Is
anybody in the North still that great? The South is
gonna be the South? So here we are? Why not us? Right?
The Chiefs have some are gonna have problems right already
have the problems with some of their weapons. The Chargers,
this is a really, really good team. They had everything
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they did last year and then two of their best
offensive linemen got hurt and things got a little bit
more difficult for Justin Herbert. But they have the right guy.
We talked about Mike McDaniel coming in. This is what
he does better than almost anybody else, is what the
work he does with Justin Herbert this year, he knows
is what's gonna get me a head coaching job in
the NFL a year from now, right, That's what's gonna
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make the Jets call him and going, hey, we saw
what you did there with Herbert. You know we got
Dante Moore coming in. We like you work with him.
He knows that's what's going to be. Whatever. He doesn't
matter if he turns Justin Herbert into a top five,
top seven NFL quarterback for an entire season. Yeah, he's
getting that gig. But already seeing some of the stuff
he is subtly doing with him to get him the
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football out of his hands a little bit easier. It's real.
I don't know that I can pick against the Chargers
this year. They seemingly have everything they need. Could they
be a little bit better at wide receiver, Yeah, a
little bit, But I think it's case where if the
offensive line is really good, Herbert's good enough, he's gonna
make Lad McConkie back into being Lad McConkie. And they
have enough depth that could be they could be a
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candidate for a trade at the deadline. Wide receiver. Hey,
they need somebody big to come in, you know, kind
of like the Rams getting Devonte Adams stuff like that.
But outside of that, man, I'll tell you it's gonna
be really hard to not pick an all away Super
Bowl this year.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Right now, I'm waiting a response from our executive producer,
Justin Frossberg as to your prediction on the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Oh, I can't even read that on air.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
All right, So look the fact we love Keenan Allen
Allen stats for days he's gone, which lets lad McConkie
go back to his role.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
He's not fighting for footballs in that spot. Good.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
It's all about Alton Slater. Can they stay healthy? Last
year they were down to what do we talking tackles? Five, six,
seven before it's all said and done. Hampton proved himself
to be a pretty good runner. You bring in Keaton Mitchell, who,
if he's healthy, is a game breaker like that's a
one look and gone kind of guy. So that's pretty exciting.
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Videll performed well in spots last year as well. Yeah,
you'd like to have more next to Q and Trey Harris.
They need more out of him in his second year
the tight end position. They did bring in Djoku behind
Gadston the second as we look at that, so it's
all good, and obviously the defense is strong. When we
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look at Super Bowl odds overall, because this is the
fun part of it, right start getting down in the numbers.
The Bills are ten to one, Ravens at twelve to one,
Chargers at sixteen to one, same as the Chiefs, with
the Patriots not too far behind. And then you got
a little bit of a gap before you get to
Houston and those Cincinnati Bengals tied with Denver at nineteen
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to one.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, I mean, I I know that there's a ways
to go. And again, you don't know how the health
of teams is going to shake out, and it could
happen for anybody. You never know. See we've seen team
seasons end in August before. But I mean, I don't know.
I really don't know who I would take outside of
the Chargers. I don't think i'd take anybody outside of
the Rams. The only thing that would stop me because say,
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do you really want to pick you know, two teams
in the same city, Like is that really gonna happen?
Like that's the that's the only anomaly that really is
affecting me right now? Is okay? Taking it in absolute
charges in the afc rams in the NFC. Okay, great,
but you know, here's two teams that they're in the
same city. Is that really gonna happen? I got I
gotta think, I gotta, I gotta get I gotta get
rid of that anomaly out of my out of my
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my thinking, because that's the only thing right now that
would stop me from it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'm gonna try to figure out what that parlay is
to get to that super Bowl matchup and what it
would what it would pay out for you smith to
have that happens. I got it will be at so far.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I gotta think the uh, I gotta think the odds
are a little bit greater on that than maybe in
all New York super Bowl. So there is that.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
No, that is true.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
That is just just a little bit longer, no question
about it.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I mean just just I mean really it's it's all
of that. Can all of that converge, Can all of
that converge in one all LA both teams super Bowl?
Can all of that really happen? Like, I mean, I
don't know, I don't know if I should take that
into account. Maybe actually, like is that really gonna happen?
Or are we gonna look back, you know, fifty years ago,
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and of course in twenty twenty six, the very first
time we had two team up. Like, I don't know, man,
I I really but that's the only thing that would
stop me. According to the nothing on the field would
stop me. Just the math odds. I guess of that
is what would stop Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
According to.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
The Football Power Index, this is an ESPN creation. If
you were to match that up, uh, it's approximately two
point two percent likelihood, which would make it the seventh
most likely specific Super Bowl pairing according to a Quick movie.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Wow, okay, all right, I feel better. See now, I
feel better that more that that it thinks it's actually
a little more possible. I mean they are off the
beaten path.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
They are two of the top seven favorites for the
Super Bowl, so I mean looking at massive odds here.
Like the big question is when when do you When
do people decide they don't love Justin Herbert anymore?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, I'll tell you, man, that's why we went when
when they hired Mike McDaniel. That was such a big move.
That was such a big move.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Telling you, if nothing else, he's going to give us
some great quotes because he better be available to the media.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
That's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. We
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told you.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Like, I had the dot dot dot for a while.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm like, this is gonna be bad.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah, no, no, And then he cut it.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
A little shorter than I thought he would. But yeah,
it was basically to that grandiose effect that we would
we would expect from him.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, no, he is. He is not happy with all
a l a super Bowl, all l a super Bowl.
Get ready, get ready.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Oh it's exciting though, Oh it is startling. I mean
because that means folks will get jacked up around here.
They got some really great squads coming in to so
far to play. So I mean we'll have a lot
of opportunities locally, uh, to see how much folks still
enjoy going to uh live events after you know, the
World Cup?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
What's next?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, I mean it does look the World Cup was
just so great, Like it's I get where it's like,
where do we go from here?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You know, yeah, we se we sue for Money's world.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That's but to you saw and I hope there is
a lot of baseball fans who watch the game on
TNT and feel a little bit better and can can
walk off the ledge of baseball is ruined. The Dodgers
got school ball after what we saw tonight and by
the just first saying. I love the fact that now
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you know TNT getting getting baseball now. I love the
fact that their postgame show is like inside the NBA
where it just goes forever. Like I love that. Like,
you don't know how long it's gonna be. How long
will be on for? I don't know, an hour, two hours,
I don't know, it doesn't matter. Well, don't you have
to hit No, you don't have to be off the
air for for our late show or the news. Yeah,
we're just gonna go on. How long are you be
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on for? I don't know. We're just gonna go on
and see how we feel. I still want to talk. Yeah,
I'm still feeling good. Yeah all right, Yeah. Lauren Shahati said, yeah,
I got all kinds of stuff. Hey, what do you got,
Paedro Peter Bartinez? Oh yeah, I got stuff. Yeah, it
just goes forever. I love that. How long is the
show on for? I don't know, it might be on
for forty five minutes if they if they're done because
they were there all day, or they could be on
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for an hour and a half. Like, I dig that
they do that. You don't know what they're gonna do,
what they're gonna talk about, what's gonna be a big topic.
I really like that. That's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
And then we go straight into another sporting event with
Wipeout hosted by John Cena and Nicole Byers. So, I mean,
we're all good and we got to see our guy
John Paul Morosi on the field with interviews postgame.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I mean, it's a beautiful world.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And TJ clearly seeing the cole Buyers on, you can
say TNT nailed it with their programming tonight.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Well played, well played by and Sina's hair looks just glorious.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Wow on this particular episode. Yeah, because he's doing a
hard reset.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Now, yeah, some resets are harder than others. But yeah,
like I yeah, no, I get that. You know, we're
we're kind of doing the hair thing. Okay, it's it's yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I'm learning the dance to the Peacemaker opening sequence. Though
I'm just gonna randomly go to a bar and try
to lead that and see if I get everybody out
on the floor with that.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
But the the debut of Terry schoobl for the Dodgers
to go all Marv Albert on you not exactly what
La had in mind. The Cubs win it five to one. Now,
was it a bad night for schoobl No, Schooble, new surroundings,
new team, six innings, gives up a couple of runs,
strikes out six, gets some real bad luck on on
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on one of the runs that crosses the plate. But
this gets into exactly you know why it's okay the
Dodgers got schoobl Look the the second run that that
that gave the Cubs the lead and and made School
a loser. This is a horner chop that hits off
the plate, yeah, and bounces really high in the air,
and there's no way they can get it out. And
there was a there was a you know, they could
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have called runner interference, and you know running between first
and second was Edmund had a tough time coming in
for the ball. Dave Roberts came out to argue, but
that's why when the Dodgers get Schooble, saying baseball's over.
No one can ever win. That's just stupid man. That
that's from Pepe that don't watch baseball or just want
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to be mad. I just want to be mad. The
Dodgers got schooball right, because baseball is different. We talked
about at the top of the show. When Schooble left
the game, he was down two to one. Right, this
is how thin the line between winning and losing in
baseball is. It's thinner in baseball than any other sport.
In the NFL, you are the best team is going
to win the Super Bowl. Right. In the NBA, the
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best team always wins a championship. You can't upset your
way to an NBA title. NHL the same way. But baseball,
Baseball is different. You can have a great pitch game,
Schooble can go eight it is with one run, and
they can still lose. Right, look at the Dodgers now,
they've lost five in a row, and I got to think,
if they're gonna ruin baseball, they should win a game.
You know, before that happens. It's a five game losing
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streak now too, at the hands of the Cubs. It
just got beaten like a drum by the Red Sox leg.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Since last start, they're like eleven to fourteen or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I mean, this is how baseball works, and understand that. Okay,
in October, you don't know what the Dodgers' pitching situation
is gonna be. They got school because they said, hey,
all our pitchers, we have no idea what we're gonna
have here, Like Otani might not be able to pitch, right,
we don't. Blake Snell potentially is coming back his last
rehab start tonight. Hopefully he's coming back, but you don't
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know a guy coming back in the middle of August, Like,
how's that gonna go. Robleski's gonna hit his innings limit
at some point, so you know he's not going to
be effective. You're hope. Okay, so maybe you have two
pitchers with schoobl and Yamamoto. Maybe that happens at the end.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Susaki's been better, but he's still on that. I think
with a lot of Dodgers fans, maybe even within the organization,
that trust factor on a five day period.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But in the end, it comes back to the fact
that just having a great team in baseball means the
least you gotta be the hottest team going in where
you are peaking in October, not in the middle of August.
And just go back. You saw all the Dodgers unbeatable
the last two years. They needed in order. Two years
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ago the best bullpen game in the hit street at
Major League Baseball to get by the Padres. They were
going home. The Dodgers were down two to one, one
game away from going home on the road, and they
had a bullpen game, right, they should have lost, but
instead you gotta shut out. They go on. They win
the World Series. Oh, by the way, needing Freddie Freeman's
walk off Grand Slam in the ninth in a Game one,
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and a Yankees complete and total fielding meltdown to win
in New York in Game five. So yeah, the Dodgers
could have easily gone home two years ago, should have
gone home last year. You need all the stars you had.
You need a Mguel Rojas home run in the ninth
inning of Game seven against the Blue Jays to keep
that series going. Not an Otani home run, not a
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Freeman home run, not a Will Smith home run, not
a Steve Garvey home run, not a Pagro Guerrero home run,
you needed a Mguel Rojas home run to keep that
season going before they win the next inning. Like understand that.
That's how thin the line was for the It's not
like the Dodgers went faux foux fo through the playoffs.
Right here, here's a sweep here, sweepye to go Moses
Malone on you, right, and they win the World Series
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in four and five easy. The Dodgers needed some breaks,
they needed things to go their way, They needed to
they needed stuff from their non star players in order
to win. So, yes, the Dodgers are the dominant team.
There's always going to be dominant teams in sports. But
to think that there all of a sudden, just because
they got school gonna win the World Series, I'll show
you tonight, Like look as well as the dog as
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well as school pitch tonight. What happened to them? Ground
ball off the plate right? That doesn't happen in a
lot of other sports. You don't get plays like that
that single handedly helped flip a game, that are just
that odd and that and that and that quirky where
that gave gave the Cubs the lead, the Dodger never
able to come back. Hey, edwin Diaz comes in later
on in the game. Guess what, he gives up two runs,
can't even make it out of the eighth inning, right,
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so the Dodgers may have problems with him as well.
Just because they did this doesn't mean they're going to
win the World Series. It means they're really good and
they got better and they'll be in the playoffs. Right,
that's what it does. But you got to be the
hottest team with everything coming together. And even if you
have that, you can see a night like tonight where
the Dodgers looked like they were gonna win. Certainly school
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pitch well enough to win, but what happened? They didn't win.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
No, but that's it, right.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
You got a great play, Edmund the fource out at home, Okay,
for that moment, it saved it, and then you get
the chopper off the plate, and if the bats go silent,
guess what. That's the way baseball works, right. The other
side gets paid two maybe not as much as the Dodgers,
as everybody is so quick to point out, but the
Cubs don't exactly shy away from writing checks either. They're
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one of those teams in the upper part of your grid.
As you go through, but it takes everything to flow through.
How many times do you go through the way baseball works.
We don't get guys running eight and then here's our closer.
Even when you do have a game like that, closers
are anything but automatic.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Right, But the way baseball's done.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Now, all right, we got six out of that guy,
and now we're gonna bank on three or more guys
to be on their game to get the final nine outs. Yeah,
that's that's some tough business game in game out to
navigate through. It takes a lot of a lot of skill,
a lot of luck and your manager not hitting what
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what's the unlucky penny as you would call it. So
for the Dodgers, yeah, on paper, it's great. Give him
the trophy if you want crown them, do the whole
Dennis Green, slam your fists down on a podium and
start barking.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
But we got a lot of baseball to play. There's
a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I mean, look at look at what we're watching in
training camps today. As much as you get excited about
guys getting paid, how many injuries were there again today?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, our defense we get we drafted that guy and
that guy, Oh that guy might go to jail, that guy,
or he's at least gonna get suspended if he avoids
the other. And now we got a guy that's got
a ripped a cl looking at the Atlanta Falcon right
because we go to the NFC South, uh, and everybody's
within a game of each other in terms of over
under predictions in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
You got a lot of starts, right.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
We we had guy trying to work his way back
as a pavetive uh for the for the Padres walked
off the mountain.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Just walked off to that. Nope, can't do it. What happened? Nope,
don't feel it. Don't feel it right.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
There's a lot of money at play and all of that,
but but it's just that kind of thing. It's like
you're you're thinking it's all going fine, and just like that,
it blows up. So you're looking at the Dodgers, and
we chronicled it for since the.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Beginning of the season.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
It's all great.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
But and and they come to camp with eleven or
twelve guys and ready arms. They need all of them
and then some and they still have to go get reinforcements, right,
Emmachian didn't get traded, he got dfaid and now you
what's his path back?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
They they the trades they didn't make. But bringing schoobl In, yeah,
it gives you another ace at the top alongside Yamamoto.
But is he gonna be the same guy he was
in the postseason last year? You'd like to think so.
But have all the extra innings on his arm these
last couple of years do those add up to where
suddenly he's got a little dead arm come the end
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of September of October. Baseball is a funny game and
it changes on a dime. Go back to that Yankee series, right,
Aaron Judge, easy fly ball? The world changed someone not
covering first base? Hi Garrett, you know all of that.
Here we are talking about a back to back title
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon paste. So it's weird that in a year,
how much public opinion, or at least I can go
from this is a kid who comes into the NFL.
Gotta have a little more humility, gotta understand where you're at.
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And now I just feel bad for the guy. The
Athletic put out a poll today in which they talked
to a lot of coaches in the NFL and executives
and they ranked all the quarterbacks one to thirty five
right top thirty five quarterbacks in the NFL and coming
in dead last. First of all, I'm happy was not
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Geno Smith. Not Geno Smith. Okay, not Geno Smith. Happy
about that. Gino Smith was third. No. Coming in dead
last was Shador Sanders. And to see some of the
comments that people would say about him, even though it
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is anonymous, some of them really take me aback. Where
where one one coach said, oh, I'm sleeping like a
baby if I'm playing against him. Uh, you know, his
reactions are slow, He did all the X, Y and
Z like it almost does feel like the criticism of
him gets personal. And and and where he came in,
I said, Okay, I understand where you you know, you
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your own worst enemy, and you can be and the
whole thing and and the optic coming in and and
Dion the way he you know, any any involvement he
had was not great. But you know, the kid played
last year. He was a pretty hard worker, and there's
been nothing nothing about how he's not, you know, trying
his best. And when when I see this kind of
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comment and to see how how how how giddy or
how eager people are to say, yeah, he's the worst,
I feel bad for the guy, right like, regardless as
to how good a quarterback he winds up being. Look,
he's in a fixed competition right now, because you know,
Jimmy Hasselm eventually wants to put to Shan Watson out
there because he's paying him, even though the ships should
have sailed on him four years ago. No, no, let's
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get this is why the Brown's been doing nothing for
the better part of someone's college career. And I mean
someone who started as a freshman is gonna graduate going
out and even seeing the Browns winning game, Like, I get,
he's in a fixed competition, it sucks for him. But man,
when I see I just feel bad, Like I feel
like there's certain things that we get a little bit
too over the top with and this is one of them.
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I mean, I mean I'm not inside obviously, but just
you don't see this about a lot of other quarterbacks
who are you know, are in the bottom third or
the bottom part of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, it's the difficulty, right and the curiosity of what
our media business and the era of hot take non
says has brought us is. I mean, remember how celebrated
Dion was, and as soon as that started to slow up,
people jump that ship and started attacking everything with the
program right after, right as loudly as they stand for
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how they they were starting to build things with Shador
and Travis Hunter, it became a this guy can't coach,
this guy can't do this, this guy like okay, and
it extends to Shador. Now I don't know what he
becomes and whether you know, you actually ever get to
really figure that out when you're in you know, Cleveland,
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even with Todd Mounkin there, and maybe he's the guy
that can get whatever the best is. But as you said,
it's it's a stacked rig competition. With Deshaun Watson still
set to make a ton of money, He's going to
get every chance to fail. It would seem if he's
healthy enough to be on the field before shaudor wouldever
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see it. Again, fifty six percent completion percentage for Shador
a year ago, seven touchdowns, ten picks, pension for the
big play, right, the ability to extend plays, big arm,
all of that.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
But it's it's that's that age old thing.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
It's like, all right, the adaptation and growth development, whatever,
will he actually get to do that? Do I feel
bad for him? No, someone's got to be ranked last.
But to your point, yeah, the the dancing on the
Shador Sanders football grave seems so petty and wrongheaded.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, everybody seems too quick to do it, like, Okay,
he's been in the league for a year. He you know,
he played okay in spots last year. He's tough, delivers
the football for everybody else, you can say, well, there's
gonna be you know, you see improvement from year one
to year two, Right, Why can't that be the case
for him? Right? Like, why suddenly is it all he's tired?
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You didn't seem nothing of him so far this season? Right,
So that's why I feel like everything gets a little
bit over the line when it comes to.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
But I think some of it is the talk out
of both sides of your mouth. You can't tell me
how miserable and awfully run the Browns and Jets are,
and then completely bashed their quarterbacks without some sense of
nuance to it.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, well the Jets, you just bashed that.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
There's no Sam Darnold's a super Bowl champ.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
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we'll get to that big NFL story in a second.
But Tarik's cooble now owing one of the Dodgers that's
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coming up in a few minutes as well.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Are you're really enjoying that? I mean you sound like
you're really kind of jacked up. Are you secretly a
Cub fan?
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Now? No, no, I'm I'm just looking at now like
because you know, in Major League Baseball, the standing baseball, no,
the standings reset at the trade deadline. So now yeah, yeah,
I don't if you know that or not. So now
if you are having a horrible season, you start over again.
Oh so it's okay.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Now yeah, so now you're shacked up about the Mets.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, I mean you didn't know that. You know, that's
how it goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They put in the
new rule this year. Yeah, it's a pretty good rule.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So suddenly my white socks are not having a good
season anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
No, yeah, yeah, it's bad for you.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah it's back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The Red Sox just dominated them four straight, including yeah,
a game tonight that I think you love to erase
from the hard drive.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You know. But just a couple of quick baseball notes
here before we get to this, this this football topic here, Uh,
teams in the American League East, What the Red Sox
are doing is absolutely incredible. You talk about I mean,
there's teams that start out slow and they pick it
up over the course of a season. You know, once
a year you get a hey, this was our record
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on May seventeenth, and we had a one point four
percent yet and then there's what the Red Sox doing,
which are basically coming back from the dead where this
I mean, and all of a sudden, it's win streak
after win streak for the Red Sox. It was fifteen
in a row, then they lose a game. Now it's
another six in a row after tonight, like what they
have done, and then they load up at the deadline yesterday.
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And again I'm not the biggest fan of Adley Rushman,
the Adley Rushman trade, but what the Red Sox have done,
and what the what the Rushman trade says is that, hey,
they believe in this team. I mean, they can't be denied.
Right now, they're ten games over five hundred after their
win tonight. I mean, this is just they were ten
games below five hundred a little bit over a month ago, okay,
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like I think it was going to the fourth of
July weekend something like that. They were ten games under
five front, like it's over right. They were the Mets
back then, and now here there are ten games over
five hundred in a month. In one month, they've gone
from ten games under to ten games over. That's incredible, incredible.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
When you consider the division, you can can consider how
just tight it is, except for whatever the hell has
happened with Toronto and Vladimir Guerrero. I don't think any
of his bats got delivered this year. But we look
at the Yankees. They've struggled since Judge went out. We've
chronicled that, but overall, they started so strongly that you're
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still battling them. The Rays aren't going away, even if
your guy Freddy Peralta got blitzed in his first time out.
All of that as you move forward for the Red Soicks,
I mean they gave up on Meyer, they said, all right,
that guy's not her future anymore. I mean, that was
part of the trade deadlines. Like wow, that's a little
bit surprising. But all of a sudden, here they are
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five games back of the division, leading Rays, far ahead
of the Orioles and the Blue.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Jays and trying to make some Hey.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So, I mean, this has been an incredible last couple
of days in the Al East with all the big teams,
all the contenders loading up, right, not a great night
for the race tonight. Okay, hey, they're gonna show Upreddy
perraulta out of New York. He's gonna be great now
he was terrible, So what the Red Sox are doing?
But tonight the debut of Yankees' number one prospect, George
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Lombard Junior, was everything you could expect. They're already talking
that now we found our new gena. Forget about vope.
That guy's done after tonight. I don't know many guys
have had a debut quite like this, with this sort
of pressure cooker. He comes in number one prospect for
the Yankees tonight, makes a couple of dazzling plays defensively,
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hits a home run for the Yankees, They win, and
all of a sudden, it's like the Yankees have transformed
their team in the last twenty four hours. And this
is why, like Yankee fans, I don't get it. After yesterday,
Oh we need to do more. You traded for one
really good hitter in Garcia, right, Ramos is a pretty
professional hitter that's gonna be an upgrade because you had
guys you kept putting the lineup that can't hit it all.
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And now you send that message with Volpi and Domingez
going to the minor leagues. And here comes Lombard and
he's incredible. Like all of a sudden, the Yankees have
remade their team. They've remade the direction of their team.
With two trades and a rookie promotion. I'm telling you, man,
the Yankees are gonna go to the World Series again.
People forget how good they were before Aaron Judge's injury,
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and yes, that's the big caveat, and when he comes back,
that's gonna be the ballgame, right, But now you have
seen a couple of really good trades, because when you
can't hit it all, you put anybody else in that lineup,
it looks really good. And if Judge comes back, and
now Lombard with this kind of debut, it is the
new Yankees in the last twenty four hours. And I
can't stand all the Yankee fans that are complaining, going, oh,
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we didn't do any You remade your team in a day.
In a day, you have remade the energy, the direction,
and what's possible. Yes, Judge has to come back. I
get that, but wow, look at where you are right now. Man,
you you you have. You have changed the vibes in
one day or over the course of two days with
the trades of what happened today. The Yankees are back,
the aggressive Yankees have traded four pictures for Garcia. Like
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the Yankees as we knew them years and years ago.
They are back and I'm telling them like, they're gonna
go to the World Series again.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well, they're the second favorite to the Dodgers as we
began playing tonight.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And what was funny.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
In my timeline And I don't know your experiences. You've
floated through it, whether you're flipping the radio dial in
your car. And this is to you all, all of
you listening out there are extended family that all of
the questions of why the Yankees didn't add more pitching,
why didn't they go after a.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Pictures like need a pitcher?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Played it for They got, guys, the first time ever.
The Yankees didn't need a pitch.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
They have they have the best TV horay in baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
They did need one for the first time ever. I
get every year of the age didn't need a picture.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
This time your American League East.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
All of those guys came back or are coming back,
including Rodan soon enough, uh three point two eight, TVRA
Brewers at three point five, Red Sox three five, four,
Tigers three sixty, and we go on down the line.
You needed batters, You needed hitters, and you also made
a monster statement by looking around, reading the room and
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recognizing that the guys that get a lot of ink
and a lot of minutes in terms of audio and
video airplay, we're not getting it done. So you know
what you did. You silenced it. You put in the
extra cushioning around like you're you're setting up your own
little podcast studio, and you said, we don't need the
(07:56):
noise anymore. Goodbye to Oldpie, goodbye to me. And as
we said yesterday, we may ever see them in pinstripes again.
They may be Rockies before it's all said and done.
And you moved into into Lombard with all of the stats,
five tool guy, big defense, like you said today, and
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a guy who replaces Dominguez. Also because last night we
had it with Garcia right, first home run in a Yankees'
debut since Diminguz in twenty twenty three, and now Lombard
does it tonight to electrify that crowd. So yeah, everything
that Cashman pulled at this point, you gotta be thrilled.
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And now you're just wishing wanni hoping. I mean, there
were actually positive reports out of Stanton because I think
he doesn't want to be left out.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Easy, easy, easy. I saw it.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
They said he was running with a pretty good gate.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Yes, yeah, he looked. It was good to see him
out and about like that. That's what That's what Aaron
Boone said today, like like he'd been sick with the flu. Hey,
good to see him out taking a walk in the neighborhood. Hey,
it was great to haven't seen a while. Oh you know,
I had the flu for a little bit. But I'm
feel a better out for a walk today. Oh that's great.
You're seeing tomorrow. Okay, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
So you got you gotta sell positivity. Yeah, he finally
got off his ass. No, you're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Take it easy, man.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I'm not saying he's gonna be you know, in the
lineup and then the equipment guys starting to hang his
jersey back up in his locker.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I'm not saying that, but.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Come on, uh so we got more baseball coming up
in a few minutes. Because obviously Tarik Schoobl's debut did
not go how the Dodgers expected. But you know it's
not I'm not ready to make the prediction yet, right
because obviously we have to go through the preseason and
see who stays healthy, who doesn't, how things go. But
I'll tell you what, now, we're a week into training
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camp and and seeing how how teams are acclimating. Honestly,
it's gonna be hard for me to not pick an
All LA Super Bowl. It really is gonna be hard
for he did not pick that, Like obviously the Rams,
the Rams are that good. You had the best defensive
player in football to that team, lookout right, I mean,
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I mean, what else do you expect? Maybe Aaron Donald
on his way back. Potentially it looks like he is
going to come back at some point, probably not from
the beginning of the season, probably later on when he
says I'm ready and good to go out.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But if he doesn't come back, yeah, if he ultimately
doesn't come back, he's worse than Lebron James, Aaron Rodgers,
and anybody else that woffled about retirement. Ever, was I
think we'd know that by now. I think if he
wasn't gonna come.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Back, it would be it would be where we would say, okay,
because guys know, right, they tried somebody.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
He's did all last year too.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, but I think you know he was wait, wait,
maybe he needed a time away, his body was feeling good.
Maybe the Ram didn't want to pay him money last year.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Still, but I'll tell.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
You the Rams clearly super Bowl caliber team, maybe maybe
the best team, maybe the best roster there. But again,
you add the best defensive player in the NFL. Uh, yeah,
it's gonna be that. That's a sac guy. How are
you gonna beat them? Right?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Souse?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But the Chargers and their roster and their health going
into this season, already seeing rave reviews about Mike McDaniel,
the work he's been doing with Justin Herbert, some of
the footwork to make it easier to throw the football
a little bit more. Like, everything I have seen coming
out of Charger camp has just been electric. And obviously
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the big question is can they stay healthy on the
offensive line? That was a big thing that killed them
last year.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Right, my man back in the tent, Yeah, I mean
I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
But that's the thing why you have to wait and
see how August goes, because you know it happened this
fast for the Chargers last year too. But if their
offensive line is healthy, I don't know that they need
anything else in a wide open AFC, because that's the thing.
It's not like you're walking in going okay, this is
your overwhelming Ferry. No, No, there's not that overwhelming team. Right,
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You're gonna you're gonna get a regression a little bit
from the Patriots. Are the Bills still that great? Is
anybody in the North still that great? The South is
gonna be the South? So here we are? Why not us? Right?
The Chiefs have some are gonna have problems right already
have the problems with some of their weapons. The Chargers,
this is a really, really good team. They had everything
(12:21):
they did last year and then two of their best
offensive linemen got hurt and things got a little bit
more difficult for Justin Herbert. But they have the right guy.
We talked about Mike McDaniel coming in. This is what
he does better than almost anybody else, is what the
work he does with Justin Herbert this year, he knows
is what's gonna get me a head coaching job in
the NFL a year from now, right, That's what's gonna
(12:42):
make the Jets call him and going, hey, we saw
what you did there with Herbert. You know we got
Dante Moore coming in. We like you work with him.
He knows that's what's going to be. Whatever. He doesn't
matter if he turns Justin Herbert into a top five,
top seven NFL quarterback for an entire season. Yeah, he's
getting that gig. But already seeing some of the stuff
he is subtly doing with him to get him the
(13:03):
football out of his hands a little bit easier. It's real.
I don't know that I can pick against the Chargers
this year. They seemingly have everything they need. Could they
be a little bit better at wide receiver, Yeah, a
little bit, But I think it's case where if the
offensive line is really good, Herbert's good enough, he's gonna
make Lad McConkie back into being Lad McConkie. And they
have enough depth that could be they could be a
(13:25):
candidate for a trade at the deadline. Wide receiver. Hey,
they need somebody big to come in, you know, kind
of like the Rams getting Devonte Adams stuff like that.
But outside of that, man, I'll tell you it's gonna
be really hard to not pick an all away Super
Bowl this year.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Right now, I'm waiting a response from our executive producer,
Justin Frossberg as to your prediction on the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Oh, I can't even read that on air.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
All right, So look the fact we love Keenan Allen
Allen stats for days he's gone, which lets lad McConkie
go back to his role.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
He's not fighting for footballs in that spot. Good.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
It's all about Alton Slater. Can they stay healthy? Last
year they were down to what do we talking tackles? Five, six,
seven before it's all said and done. Hampton proved himself
to be a pretty good runner. You bring in Keaton Mitchell, who,
if he's healthy, is a game breaker like that's a
one look and gone kind of guy. So that's pretty exciting.
(14:21):
Videll performed well in spots last year as well. Yeah,
you'd like to have more next to Q and Trey Harris.
They need more out of him in his second year
the tight end position. They did bring in Djoku behind
Gadston the second as we look at that, so it's
all good, and obviously the defense is strong. When we
(14:43):
look at Super Bowl odds overall, because this is the
fun part of it, right start getting down in the numbers.
The Bills are ten to one, Ravens at twelve to one,
Chargers at sixteen to one, same as the Chiefs, with
the Patriots not too far behind. And then you got
a little bit of a gap before you get to
Houston and those Cincinnati Bengals tied with Denver at nineteen
(15:05):
to one.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, I mean, I I know that there's a ways
to go. And again, you don't know how the health
of teams is going to shake out, and it could
happen for anybody. You never know. See we've seen team
seasons end in August before. But I mean, I don't know.
I really don't know who I would take outside of
the Chargers. I don't think i'd take anybody outside of
the Rams. The only thing that would stop me because say,
(15:28):
do you really want to pick you know, two teams
in the same city, Like is that really gonna happen?
Like that's the that's the only anomaly that really is
affecting me right now? Is okay? Taking it in absolute
charges in the afc rams in the NFC. Okay, great,
but you know, here's two teams that they're in the
same city. Is that really gonna happen? I got I
gotta think, I gotta, I gotta get I gotta get
rid of that anomaly out of my out of my
(15:51):
my thinking, because that's the only thing right now that
would stop me from it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'm gonna try to figure out what that parlay is
to get to that super Bowl matchup and what it
would what it would pay out for you smith to
have that happens. I got it will be at so far.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I gotta think the uh, I gotta think the odds
are a little bit greater on that than maybe in
all New York super Bowl. So there is that.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
No, that is true.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
That is just just a little bit longer, no question
about it.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I mean just just I mean really it's it's all
of that. Can all of that converge, Can all of
that converge in one all LA both teams super Bowl?
Can all of that really happen? Like, I mean, I
don't know, I don't know if I should take that
into account. Maybe actually, like is that really gonna happen?
Or are we gonna look back, you know, fifty years ago,
(16:40):
and of course in twenty twenty six, the very first
time we had two team up. Like, I don't know, man,
I I really but that's the only thing that would
stop me. According to the nothing on the field would
stop me. Just the math odds. I guess of that
is what would stop Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
According to.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
The Football Power Index, this is an ESPN creation. If
you were to match that up, uh, it's approximately two
point two percent likelihood, which would make it the seventh
most likely specific Super Bowl pairing according to a Quick movie.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Wow, okay, all right, I feel better. See now, I
feel better that more that that it thinks it's actually
a little more possible. I mean they are off the
beaten path.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
They are two of the top seven favorites for the
Super Bowl, so I mean looking at massive odds here.
Like the big question is when when do you When
do people decide they don't love Justin Herbert anymore?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, I'll tell you, man, that's why we went when
when they hired Mike McDaniel. That was such a big move.
That was such a big move.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Telling you, if nothing else, he's going to give us
some great quotes because he better be available to the media.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
That's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. We
got more football on the way. But coming up next
we get into the biggest story of the night, and
again we'll tell you just exactly why the base all
season isn't over just because the Dodgers got schooble. That's next,
right here, Jason to Mike, Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (18:47):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my bas
friend Mike Harmon, well dressed hobo and yeah, you're right,
harm Frosburg is blankety blanket me for picking the I
told you.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Like, I had the dot dot dot for a while.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm like, this is gonna be bad.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Yeah, no, no, And then he cut it.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
A little shorter than I thought he would. But yeah,
it was basically to that grandiose effect that we would
we would expect from him.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, no, he is. He is not happy with all
a l a super Bowl, all l a super Bowl.
Get ready, get ready.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Oh it's exciting though, Oh it is startling. I mean
because that means folks will get jacked up around here.
They got some really great squads coming in to so
far to play. So I mean we'll have a lot
of opportunities locally, uh, to see how much folks still
enjoy going to uh live events after you know, the
World Cup?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
What's next?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Well, I mean it does look the World Cup was
just so great, Like it's I get where it's like,
where do we go from here?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You know, yeah, we se we sue for Money's world.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
That's but to you saw and I hope there is
a lot of baseball fans who watch the game on
TNT and feel a little bit better and can can
walk off the ledge of baseball is ruined. The Dodgers
got school ball after what we saw tonight and by
the just first saying. I love the fact that now
(20:17):
you know TNT getting getting baseball now. I love the
fact that their postgame show is like inside the NBA
where it just goes forever. Like I love that. Like,
you don't know how long it's gonna be. How long
will be on for? I don't know, an hour, two hours,
I don't know, it doesn't matter. Well, don't you have
to hit No, you don't have to be off the
air for for our late show or the news. Yeah,
we're just gonna go on. How long are you be
(20:38):
on for? I don't know. We're just gonna go on
and see how we feel. I still want to talk. Yeah,
I'm still feeling good. Yeah all right, Yeah. Lauren Shahati said, yeah,
I got all kinds of stuff. Hey, what do you got,
Paedro Peter Bartinez? Oh yeah, I got stuff. Yeah, it
just goes forever. I love that. How long is the
show on for? I don't know, it might be on
for forty five minutes if they if they're done because
they were there all day, or they could be on
(20:58):
for an hour and a half. Like, I dig that
they do that. You don't know what they're gonna do,
what they're gonna talk about, what's gonna be a big topic.
I really like that. That's a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
And then we go straight into another sporting event with
Wipeout hosted by John Cena and Nicole Byers. So, I mean,
we're all good and we got to see our guy
John Paul Morosi on the field with interviews postgame.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I mean, it's a beautiful world.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And TJ clearly seeing the cole Buyers on, you can
say TNT nailed it with their programming tonight.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Well played, well played by and Sina's hair looks just glorious.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Wow on this particular episode. Yeah, because he's doing a
hard reset.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Now, yeah, some resets are harder than others. But yeah,
like I yeah, no, I get that. You know, we're
we're kind of doing the hair thing. Okay, it's it's yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I'm learning the dance to the Peacemaker opening sequence. Though
I'm just gonna randomly go to a bar and try
to lead that and see if I get everybody out
on the floor with that.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
But the the debut of Terry schoobl for the Dodgers
to go all Marv Albert on you not exactly what
La had in mind. The Cubs win it five to one. Now,
was it a bad night for schoobl No, Schooble, new surroundings,
new team, six innings, gives up a couple of runs,
strikes out six, gets some real bad luck on on
(22:20):
on one of the runs that crosses the plate. But
this gets into exactly you know why it's okay the
Dodgers got schoobl Look the the second run that that
that gave the Cubs the lead and and made School
a loser. This is a horner chop that hits off
the plate, yeah, and bounces really high in the air,
and there's no way they can get it out. And
there was a there was a you know, they could
(22:40):
have called runner interference, and you know running between first
and second was Edmund had a tough time coming in
for the ball. Dave Roberts came out to argue, but
that's why when the Dodgers get Schooble, saying baseball's over.
No one can ever win. That's just stupid man. That
that's from Pepe that don't watch baseball or just want
(23:02):
to be mad. I just want to be mad. The
Dodgers got schooball right, because baseball is different. We talked
about at the top of the show. When Schooble left
the game, he was down two to one. Right, this
is how thin the line between winning and losing in
baseball is. It's thinner in baseball than any other sport.
In the NFL, you are the best team is going
to win the Super Bowl. Right. In the NBA, the
(23:22):
best team always wins a championship. You can't upset your
way to an NBA title. NHL the same way. But baseball,
Baseball is different. You can have a great pitch game,
Schooble can go eight it is with one run, and
they can still lose. Right, look at the Dodgers now,
they've lost five in a row, and I got to think,
if they're gonna ruin baseball, they should win a game.
You know, before that happens. It's a five game losing
(23:44):
streak now too, at the hands of the Cubs. It
just got beaten like a drum by the Red Sox leg.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Since last start, they're like eleven to fourteen or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I mean, this is how baseball works, and understand that. Okay,
in October, you don't know what the Dodgers' pitching situation
is gonna be. They got school because they said, hey,
all our pitchers, we have no idea what we're gonna
have here, Like Otani might not be able to pitch, right,
we don't. Blake Snell potentially is coming back his last
rehab start tonight. Hopefully he's coming back, but you don't
(24:13):
know a guy coming back in the middle of August, Like,
how's that gonna go. Robleski's gonna hit his innings limit
at some point, so you know he's not going to
be effective. You're hope. Okay, so maybe you have two
pitchers with schoobl and Yamamoto. Maybe that happens at the end.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Susaki's been better, but he's still on that. I think
with a lot of Dodgers fans, maybe even within the organization,
that trust factor on a five day period.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
But in the end, it comes back to the fact
that just having a great team in baseball means the
least you gotta be the hottest team going in where
you are peaking in October, not in the middle of August.
And just go back. You saw all the Dodgers unbeatable
the last two years. They needed in order. Two years
(24:57):
ago the best bullpen game in the hit street at
Major League Baseball to get by the Padres. They were
going home. The Dodgers were down two to one, one
game away from going home on the road, and they
had a bullpen game, right, they should have lost, but
instead you gotta shut out. They go on. They win
the World Series. Oh, by the way, needing Freddie Freeman's
walk off Grand Slam in the ninth in a Game one,
(25:19):
and a Yankees complete and total fielding meltdown to win
in New York in Game five. So yeah, the Dodgers
could have easily gone home two years ago, should have
gone home last year. You need all the stars you had.
You need a Mguel Rojas home run in the ninth
inning of Game seven against the Blue Jays to keep
that series going. Not an Otani home run, not a
(25:39):
Freeman home run, not a Will Smith home run, not
a Steve Garvey home run, not a Pagro Guerrero home run,
you needed a Mguel Rojas home run to keep that
season going before they win the next inning. Like understand that.
That's how thin the line was for the It's not
like the Dodgers went faux foux fo through the playoffs.
Right here, here's a sweep here, sweepye to go Moses
Malone on you, right, and they win the World Series
(26:01):
in four and five easy. The Dodgers needed some breaks,
they needed things to go their way, They needed to
they needed stuff from their non star players in order
to win. So, yes, the Dodgers are the dominant team.
There's always going to be dominant teams in sports. But
to think that there all of a sudden, just because
they got school gonna win the World Series, I'll show
you tonight, Like look as well as the dog as
(26:22):
well as school pitch tonight. What happened to them? Ground
ball off the plate right? That doesn't happen in a
lot of other sports. You don't get plays like that
that single handedly helped flip a game, that are just
that odd and that and that and that quirky where
that gave gave the Cubs the lead, the Dodger never
able to come back. Hey, edwin Diaz comes in later
on in the game. Guess what, he gives up two runs,
can't even make it out of the eighth inning, right,
(26:43):
so the Dodgers may have problems with him as well.
Just because they did this doesn't mean they're going to
win the World Series. It means they're really good and
they got better and they'll be in the playoffs. Right,
that's what it does. But you got to be the
hottest team with everything coming together. And even if you
have that, you can see a night like tonight where
the Dodgers looked like they were gonna win. Certainly school
(27:05):
pitch well enough to win, but what happened? They didn't win.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
No, but that's it, right.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
You got a great play, Edmund the fource out at home, Okay,
for that moment, it saved it, and then you get
the chopper off the plate, and if the bats go silent,
guess what. That's the way baseball works, right. The other
side gets paid two maybe not as much as the Dodgers,
as everybody is so quick to point out, but the
Cubs don't exactly shy away from writing checks either. They're
(27:32):
one of those teams in the upper part of your grid.
As you go through, but it takes everything to flow through.
How many times do you go through the way baseball works.
We don't get guys running eight and then here's our closer.
Even when you do have a game like that, closers
are anything but automatic.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Right, But the way baseball's done.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Now, all right, we got six out of that guy,
and now we're gonna bank on three or more guys
to be on their game to get the final nine outs. Yeah,
that's that's some tough business game in game out to
navigate through. It takes a lot of a lot of skill,
a lot of luck and your manager not hitting what
(28:17):
what's the unlucky penny as you would call it. So
for the Dodgers, yeah, on paper, it's great. Give him
the trophy if you want crown them, do the whole
Dennis Green, slam your fists down on a podium and
start barking.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
But we got a lot of baseball to play. There's
a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I mean, look at look at what we're watching in
training camps today. As much as you get excited about
guys getting paid, how many injuries were there again today?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, our defense we get we drafted that guy and
that guy, Oh that guy might go to jail, that guy,
or he's at least gonna get suspended if he avoids
the other. And now we got a guy that's got
a ripped a cl looking at the Atlanta Falcon right
because we go to the NFC South, uh, and everybody's
within a game of each other in terms of over
under predictions in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
You got a lot of starts, right.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
We we had guy trying to work his way back
as a pavetive uh for the for the Padres walked
off the mountain.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Just walked off to that. Nope, can't do it. What happened? Nope,
don't feel it. Don't feel it right.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
There's a lot of money at play and all of that,
but but it's just that kind of thing. It's like
you're you're thinking it's all going fine, and just like that,
it blows up. So you're looking at the Dodgers, and
we chronicled it for since the.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Beginning of the season.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
It's all great.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
But and and they come to camp with eleven or
twelve guys and ready arms. They need all of them
and then some and they still have to go get reinforcements, right,
Emmachian didn't get traded, he got dfaid and now you
what's his path back?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
They they the trades they didn't make. But bringing schoobl In, yeah,
it gives you another ace at the top alongside Yamamoto.
But is he gonna be the same guy he was
in the postseason last year? You'd like to think so.
But have all the extra innings on his arm these
last couple of years do those add up to where
suddenly he's got a little dead arm come the end
(30:17):
of September of October. Baseball is a funny game and
it changes on a dime. Go back to that Yankee series, right,
Aaron Judge, easy fly ball? The world changed someone not
covering first base? Hi Garrett, you know all of that.
Here we are talking about a back to back title
(30:38):
and so much.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (30:50):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon paste. So it's weird that in a year,
how much public opinion, or at least I can go
from this is a kid who comes into the NFL.
Gotta have a little more humility, gotta understand where you're at.
(31:13):
And now I just feel bad for the guy. The
Athletic put out a poll today in which they talked
to a lot of coaches in the NFL and executives
and they ranked all the quarterbacks one to thirty five
right top thirty five quarterbacks in the NFL and coming
in dead last. First of all, I'm happy was not
(31:36):
Geno Smith. Not Geno Smith. Okay, not Geno Smith. Happy
about that. Gino Smith was third. No. Coming in dead
last was Shador Sanders. And to see some of the
comments that people would say about him, even though it
(31:56):
is anonymous, some of them really take me aback. Where
where one one coach said, oh, I'm sleeping like a
baby if I'm playing against him. Uh, you know, his
reactions are slow, He did all the X, Y and
Z like it almost does feel like the criticism of
him gets personal. And and and where he came in,
I said, Okay, I understand where you you know, you
(32:16):
your own worst enemy, and you can be and the
whole thing and and the optic coming in and and
Dion the way he you know, any any involvement he
had was not great. But you know, the kid played
last year. He was a pretty hard worker, and there's
been nothing nothing about how he's not, you know, trying
his best. And when when I see this kind of
(32:37):
comment and to see how how how how giddy or
how eager people are to say, yeah, he's the worst,
I feel bad for the guy, right like, regardless as
to how good a quarterback he winds up being. Look,
he's in a fixed competition right now, because you know,
Jimmy Hasselm eventually wants to put to Shan Watson out
there because he's paying him, even though the ships should
have sailed on him four years ago. No, no, let's
(32:58):
get this is why the Brown's been doing nothing for
the better part of someone's college career. And I mean
someone who started as a freshman is gonna graduate going
out and even seeing the Browns winning game, Like, I get,
he's in a fixed competition, it sucks for him. But man,
when I see I just feel bad, Like I feel
like there's certain things that we get a little bit
too over the top with and this is one of them.
(33:19):
I mean, I mean I'm not inside obviously, but just
you don't see this about a lot of other quarterbacks
who are you know, are in the bottom third or
the bottom part of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah, it's the difficulty, right and the curiosity of what
our media business and the era of hot take non
says has brought us is. I mean, remember how celebrated
Dion was, and as soon as that started to slow up,
people jump that ship and started attacking everything with the
program right after, right as loudly as they stand for
(33:52):
how they they were starting to build things with Shador
and Travis Hunter, it became a this guy can't coach,
this guy can't do this, this guy like okay, and
it extends to Shador. Now I don't know what he
becomes and whether you know, you actually ever get to
really figure that out when you're in you know, Cleveland,
(34:14):
even with Todd Mounkin there, and maybe he's the guy
that can get whatever the best is. But as you said,
it's it's a stacked rig competition. With Deshaun Watson still
set to make a ton of money, He's going to
get every chance to fail. It would seem if he's
healthy enough to be on the field before shaudor wouldever
(34:34):
see it. Again, fifty six percent completion percentage for Shador
a year ago, seven touchdowns, ten picks, pension for the
big play, right, the ability to extend plays, big arm,
all of that.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
But it's it's that's that age old thing.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
It's like, all right, the adaptation and growth development, whatever,
will he actually get to do that? Do I feel
bad for him? No, someone's got to be ranked last.
But to your point, yeah, the the dancing on the
Shador Sanders football grave seems so petty and wrongheaded.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, everybody seems too quick to do it, like, Okay,
he's been in the league for a year. He you know,
he played okay in spots last year. He's tough, delivers
the football for everybody else, you can say, well, there's
gonna be you know, you see improvement from year one
to year two, Right, Why can't that be the case
for him? Right? Like, why suddenly is it all he's tired?
(35:30):
You didn't seem nothing of him so far this season? Right,
So that's why I feel like everything gets a little
bit over the line when it comes to.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
But I think some of it is the talk out
of both sides of your mouth. You can't tell me
how miserable and awfully run the Browns and Jets are,
and then completely bashed their quarterbacks without some sense of
nuance to it.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, well the Jets, you just bashed that.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
There's no Sam Darnold's a super Bowl champ.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
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