March 5, 2026 • 40 mins
Rams got Trent McDuffie and Jason Smith was so jealous of them. They've been a Super Bowl threat for a decade with bold decisions & big personnel turnover every year. They're the best-run team in the NFL. And we remembered legendary head coach Lou Holtz!
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Mike and I love putting this content up for you
every single night. Now, as we are getting closer to
the beginning of free agency, right we're a week away,
as it's starting to play a little matchmaker here. This
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is I don't know why this team doesn't get more run,
as this should be the blueprint of how to run
a team in twenty twenty six in the NFL, right,
because we looked at the Chiefs for the longest time.
Oh boy, the Chiefs are run so well. Okay, Andy
Reid's a great coach, and you have the best quarterback
in the NFL. It's like, say, boy, look how well
the Pagriots a run. You had the best quarterback in
the NFL. You had a pretty good coach, best quarterback
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in the Yeah, you have these things that made it.
And clearly we know that. Hey, the Patriots real dynasty
was way more because of Brady. Okay, the Chiefs, boy,
they win yet because they have Mahomes. But watching the
trade the Rams made today getting Trent McDuffie from the Chiefs, right,
all pro cornerback. They give up a package of draft
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picks number twenty nine pick this year, a couple of
late round picks as well, fifth and six round picks,
a third round pick next year. So the Chiefs do
well in the deal. Don't get me wrong. You got
a first round pick, a third round pick, and a
fifth and a sixth you do Okay. Mahomes was shocked.
He put out damn on social media after seeing this
because here's McDuffie going into the final year of his
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rookie deal and looking for a big payday.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, one of their bat I mean obviously off the
charts in terms of his ability, attitude, and if you
rank their players, he's on the metal standard this point, right,
I mean, look, this is this is as good as
you're gonna get. Right, you're talking about a trade if
you trade for a late first round pick, and you
know the Rams have always been f them picks, right,
that's been their philosophy, And you kind of knew this
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was coming. Lesnied talked about it yesterday looking at the offseason,
and he said, well, the first thing you always want
to look at to say, is there an All Pro
you can add?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Hey, guess what, we just added an All Pro player.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
In other words, he was nodding and winking at you
the whole time.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let's add an All Pro player. And McDuffie, who we
kind of knew this might happen because he was asked
previously in a podcast, hey, if you're not playing for
the Chiefs, where would you like to play? And he
was like, oh man, you're gonna get me in trouble.
But you know I'm from La. So maybe the Rams
and the Ram just said, all right, so when you're
up and they're gonna pay you, we're gonna trade for you.
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So should I will say, like, this is a this
is a fate of complete like at some point he's
gonna be a w Rent.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Was this all broker before or after the third shrimp
cocktail and extra drink?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I want to play close to my family, it would
probably be the Rams so my family could come see
me every single game. Okay, now this is a few
months ago when when he was hosting a I think
he was at a doing a football camp in Kansas City,
and you know he gives that answer, so okay, that's
one of those clippings. Save Hey, all right, let's go
h this is why every team in the NFL. I
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am I'm sure the Bears are. I am sure the
Cowboys are extremely jealous of the Rams and how they're
able to not just stay relevant every year, but be
a super caliber team every year. Now in twenty twenty six,
right because you want to look back and say, well,
we've seen that before. Well, yeah, because the Patriots had
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Brady for the better part of two decades. All right,
When you have that and your coach is the same. Yeah,
you're gonna do pretty well. So I get the Patriots
dynasty also had the plays for a while ahead of time,
and the Chiefs, well, the chief super Bowl thread the
Yeah you have the same quarterback, right you had? You
have Patrick Mahomes who is the best quarterback in the game,
and he reads a good ad coat. I understand that.
But this is the Rams who've been a yearly super
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Bowl threat almost for a decade with different personnel. Year
two year they went to a super Bowl with Jared Goff.
They went to a super Bowl and won with Matthew Stafford.
They were nearly there again. This year, they were nearly
there again last year. Every year they find a way.
It's a volatile roster, way to put the roster together
where it's been. We're gonna combine guys we drafted, and
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we're gonna combine getting guys that maybe have worn out
there welcome someplace. We're okay with that. We'll get a
little bit of crazy. They would going the pass. Let's
get a little bit of crazy coming in.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's hey, let's go out and get it all pro
that the Chiefs aren't gonna be able to afford because
they need to revamp this team in the next level
and worry about different things. They got to pay for
offense in the offseason. They gotta do a lot of
different things. So, yeah, they can't pay this guy, so
we're gonna go out and get him. We don't care
about our first round pick. We just had an all
pro cornerback for the price of a guy we got
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into the first round, a third round, and a fourth
or fifth round. Yeah, I'm absolutely fine with that. The
way the Rams are able to do this and do
it so brazenly and not just fade out because at
some point I remember thinking, at some point, the bill
is coming due and the Rams are gonna have to
spend a year or two resetting. They got to get
out from bad money and they have to get back
to where they are. No, no, no, we just continue
to find a way every year to roll one year
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into the next, and maybe it's one or two years
with the star player before they say, okay, we're moving on.
How many more years they're gonna have DeVante Adams. I'd
know before they say, hey, we got to move on
from him. But that's what it is. They bring in
lots of high profile guys to fill whatever needs are.
After a couple they're gone in somehow we can bring
in somebody else replace them. Now, when you combine that
with with hey, we get a draft picked that after
a couple of years, this guy hits right. Took a
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couple of years, but guess what they hit it with
Blake Korm. So now it's not just Kyen Williams, but
it's Kien Williams and Blake Korm that's at the head
of that running game. Right. Koran was even the more
valuable running back the back half of the season this
year than Kien Williams was when you were like, Okay, well,
this guy's terrific. They have been able to not just
evaluate the talent the right way, getting guys deeper in
the draft, bringing in star players, turning them over from
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year to year. And that's the big thing is that
the turnover. They keep rolling sevens because eventually you'd say, okay,
with a turnover one year, AT's not gonna work. Right,
what you try to do, the pieces you tried to
fit at doesn't work, We'll get back it again next year. Nope.
Every year super Bowl threat, whether it's Matthew Stafford, whether
it's Jared Goff, whether it's Matthew Stafford at the age
of thirty seven, having an MVP type season. We're gonna
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we find Pooka Nakua in the draft. Guess what, He's fantastic.
We don't need cop anymore. The way the Rams do it,
I'm so incredibly jealous that they do it better than
anybody else in the NFL. I don't know how they
do it, how they keep going different money. We're gonna
spend all of like there's a salary cap, and but
they make it work every single year.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, but it goes to the larger league conversation we
have and we do this and certainly in baseball right
when everybody does their belly aching about how the Dodgers operate. Sure,
the fact that you've got seemingly an unlimited bankroll allows
you to make mistakes. It allows you to hold guys
out a bit longer if they need to come back
off an injury. There are advantages to it, no doubt,
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but you still need to be able to evaluate players
that have been discarded from other organizations, players that you
see a fit for, how you run your offense or defense.
Now for the Rams, you've now hit a point with continuity,
and that's the key word to all of this. You
mentioned New England, you mentioned Kansas City. Well, you got
the same front office, you've got the same coach, the
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same quarterback.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
In all of those.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
In this case, yeah, you had the year of Jared Goff,
but you decided you were done with him and you
moved on and McVeigh and he had to have their
you know whatever, maya kulpa, how that was handled whatever,
over time.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
But they've had their the.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Mini hiccups of waiting with baited breath as to whether
McVeigh was gonna leave, whether Matthew Stafford was available. I
still want more information on the back injury versus yeah,
I'm just not coming to camp. Figure it out kind
of thing as he goes out and has an MVP season.
But the draft analysis and the way they've been able
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to make the most out of that go back less.
Sneave was hired in twenty twelve, and I remember you
and I doing shows here locally in Los Angeles, and
when McVeigh got hired, just the questions of wow, that's
it's gutsy and it's gonna either flame out or this
guy's truly gonna be the wonder kid as you and
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I just keep referencing ted Lasso left to night. So
here you have that opportunity, and you've watched McVeigh at
year after year show that acumen, and they've drafted very well.
They've picked players off the scrap heap like Kansas City
had done, like New England had done. Think about those
guys at the end of their runs, Corey Dillon and
all those guys that showed up in New England at
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the end. But you needed that base and consistency, and
most teams are not patient enough to do that, right
Leaven the Bears right now, they've got to go and
scramble after their center says I'm leaving, I'm taking my
money and going, Okay, we thought that we had that
nailed down all right, next pivot and they're only in
year two of a regime. You're hopeful that you're building
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off of what happened last year, but you have no idea.
And I guess go back two years to the trade
that brought Caleb Williams. But I guess the larger point
is patience, because when it doesn't look like it's working
because Blake Corn was a guy people were ready to discover.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
A couple of years hasn't worked outcause usually running backs
you see it right away because if you have a
little bit of vision, you were able to come into
the league and do it. Like when you're a great
athlete coming out of college, we see it right away.
Edge Rusher's running backs, Hey, little bit of vision, this
will see But we didn't see it, Blake CRM Okay,
well they missed on them. Nope, nope. Just had to
wait a little bit and look at Blake Court a.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Little bit of time, wanting to take a little bit
of the workload away to make sure Kyron Williams was
ready for the stretch run at BAM. Now you have
a two headed monster moving forward. Williams is on a
pretty cheap deal relatively speaking, for his production these next
couple of years in Korum, still on that rookie deal.
So you get to go back into the marketplace like
this and make a play for Kansas City. Now it
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becomes really interesting. They've got the twelfth most money to
spend after renegotiating and reconstituting a bunch of these deals,
but their level of need is huge for the Rams
they got as long as Stafford and McVeigh want to
run this out. Now, this goes to the other part
of what I've said for a long time, Jet Steak,
get it. Well, No, that's been forty five years. The
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flip side.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Of it is what I say, get the Chiefs last
year because this offseason is gonna be incredibly aggressive. They're
gonna go big offensively. It's gonna be a new number
one receiver, gonna be a star number one receiver, a
star number one running back. They're going out spending money
and look what they're doing. Hey, we're not paying this
defensive player because watch what we do on offense because
they know, hey, we need to. We need to. We
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can't keep running it back with these weapons what we have.
We have to help Patrick Mahomes out a little bit more.
We tried for a few years with get by guys.
It didn't work. Who knows if for she Rice is
gonna play for us again? Who knows if Xavier Worthy
is really any more than a gadget guy. So we
gotta go out and I told you watch how aggressive
they are once free agency begins. Number one stud receiver,
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number one stud running back, and I guarantee you they
will also add a tight end because there's plenty of
good tight ends available, and they're just gonna say, listen,
come in one year, year behind Travis Kelcey, and you're
gonna play a lot. Don't worry because Travis is near
the end, and next year it's your job. David and
Joker will say, I'll sign up for that. So many
free that's such a rich position in agency, so many
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gods say yeah, I'll go there for a year, split
time with Travis Kelcey and then and then take over
and for the back half of Mahomes' career. Yeah, I'm there.
Watch what they add on offense this offseason. They're clearing
the decks for it.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, we went through the the best and deepest positions
in free agency. Skill position. Of course, for the sake
of the conversation, we'll do interior alignment another time.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But the tight end.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Position already had ten plus in terms of free agents
that could come in and be a pass catcher. And then,
as we discussed last hour, Pittsburgh is letting Johnny Smith
back into the two years ago for two he caught
eighty four balls. You don't think that had something to
do with the malfunction of that offense this year down
from Mike McDaniel and company. Hey, what happened You got
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rid of that guy that lived over the middle. Oh okay,
they'll get a stud number one. And I don't mean
like they'll get number one receiver, like they'll they'll make
a move. They'll get a stud number one stud running
back you go and free agency. Go well, okay, Alec
Pierce too, Alec Pierce is in the stud. When Alec
Pierce is your best wide receiver out there, Okay, you
gotta make a move.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You got But they're gonna they're freeing up money to
get somebody that there. Maybe it's an AJ Brown type
trade to that. Hey, we have the money for you.
It's already said, we know your contract. You're good coming in.
You're gonna fit well with what we're doing here offensively
with Patrick telling you, man, that's why you had to
get them last year, because it's gonna be a whole
new thing for them this year. Let's go AFC West,
Let's light it up, Come on now, exit out about
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single night. So before we get to the big NFL Store,
which I think the most bizarre story of the day, Look,
obviously we lost a legend today in college football head
coached Lou Holtz, who passed away at the age of
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eighty nine, And we talked about him earlier in the
show where Look, the two things he's got to get
credit for was he brought Notre Dame back, and Notre
Dame is where it is now because of him, The
continued excellence of ESPN's college football coverage. Him and Lee
Corso the two guys for the past thirty some odd
years that have been the lightning rods and also the
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touchstones for their coverage. I mean, what he did with
the College Football Final was incredible. But you know, when
you think about him, because it's been a while since
he's been on the sideline, right, you know the thing
people forget a little bit. Oh yeah, came out of
retirement to coach South Carolina. Took him to a Bowl
game in two thousand. Right, he only coached at Notre
Dame for a decade, Right, that is it like he
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left like in the middle of his of a big run.
Like okay, in his first three years, Okay, it was
a national championship. First four years, two national championship games. Hey, man,
you know Lou Holtz is, Hey, he's got to go.
But then four years later, okay, I'm done and still
stayed with the game. Came out a retirement, and you
know when when he said, I felt like I had
I had, I had gone as far as we could.
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I didn't want to just keep it going like he
wasn't doing anything, but I'm keeping note but getting it
back to where it was Like that's what made it
fun for him, That's what made it, uh, his his
coaching worthwhile, which is why Hey, I'm gonna go and
I'm gonna raise up South Carolina. And I did it. Okay,
now I'm getting I don't want to do it anymore.
On the sideline and recruiting, so I'm gonna be on
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TV on ESPN for the better part of twenty years, right, like,
like people forget he wasn't there for for that long.
It was a decade of Lou Holtz at at at
Notre Dame. And you know the things I remember when
when you think about Lou Holtz, the memories I have
of him, and everybody's got their different ones. One that
comes to mind all the time is that he was
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ahead of his time when it came to being savvy,
when it came to cameras and knowing when he was
going to be on TV and when he wasn't right,
because two things stick out for me. One is when
they were playing West Virginia for the National Championship, which
when they won, right they won in nineteen eighty nine.
They beat Major Harris. My god, he was so good.
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He could throw the football one hundred and fifty yards.
Man Major Harris was so good. And I remember before
the game they hurt him, like third play of the
game he separated his shoulder. He stayed in like that
might have been a different game. Now, people forget the
starting quarterback National Championship game. They separated his shoulder and
he still played and they won thirty four to twenty one.
But you know, it was a game. Maybe it would
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have been closer. There was video that was leaked or
came out though, like four or five days before the game,
where he was giving Notre Dame a pep talk and
he said, this is what's going to happen. We're gonna
run the football in the second quarter, and we're gonna
use and we're gonna do this and this and this,
and by the time we get to the ten minute
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mark of the third quarter, they're gonna be tired. They're
gonna be exhausted. They've never played in a game like
this before. And we are gonna control the line of
scrimmage and our drives are gonna be long, and they're
not gonna get back on the field. And all the
stuff he said is exactly what happened in the game, right,
It's about and this. You know, he knows when the
cameras are on when he's given them a speech. But
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the fact that this leaked, I think that was Louholtz
doing a little bit of gamesmanship, like he knew he knows,
all right, Hey, I don't know, I don't know when
the camera's right now he knows when he's talking to
a team and these guys with the camera filming stuff,
and that I was like, remember he was like right
on the line with it. And the other thing is
always that and this is this is my big thing
with lu Holtz is that every time Notre Dame would
score a touchdown, right, they would cut away to him
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on the sideline and he would always do the same thing.
He would he would walk down the sideline really like
he would strut down the sideline Notre Dame's celebrating, and
he would put his his number one finger up in
the air like like we're number one, ostensibly telling his
team we're going for one, we're not going for two.
But he knows the camera is on him and him
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walking down the sideline, we're number one coming off it
like he did that like a coach doesn't need to
go down the sideline and show everybody we're going you
send the kicking team out there, we're gonna go. Hey,
if I'm gonna if I tell the quarterback stare at
the field side, so it's like, oh, Lou Holtz, they're
gonna go for one. Of course, are going foot. He
knows the camera is on him. He enjoys that part
of it. He puts that image out there of Notre Dame,
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We're the best. Every touchdown one one, one one. Okay.
I don't think I ever saw him once put up
two fingers. Oh, Holt's gonna go for two. That wasn't
what he was doing. He was so savvy when it
came to things like cameras and being on television and
and pushing himself. That's something that goes by the wayside
for Lou Holtz is that, yeah, he was. He was
somebody wasn't just him an old school coach and I
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don't get all this new fangled stuff going on. Nah,
he pretty much got what it was and where college
football was at well.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
He knew we're the power was and in terms of
being you talk about that speech and later the years
in television, but certainly with Notre Dame again growing up there,
the history of it was just so powerful Midwest. But
now you you have more televised games, you have the
growing burgeoning run of what ESPN would would become that
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you're looking at all, right, now we can own this.
It became a recruiting tool, the thing you would tire
of It's like, yeah, I can get him on there
in their homes with these big games, these big moments.
And if I do this a lot, I have a
tired shoulder.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Either that or I'm doing the Roman reigns before Roman reigns.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Acknowledge me. I mean brilliant. Just think about that optic
of the sidelines going crazy, He's walking down going We're
number one, and how many kids just seeing that. I
want to go play for that game, but I want
to go play.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
South Bend is is a weird little place. It is
a special little sigh. I encourage everybody to get there
for a game. It is a very different experience. That's
my next phase as my kids go to college is
to get back to a lot of these college environments
that I haven't seen but South Bend. To get back
there for another game. And when they're good, it is.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
A whole other world.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And low Holds brought them back to that level of
prominence where the expectation, sorry Gary Barnett, expect victory kind
of thing. But you look at all those and you
look at the tributes being put up by his former
players today, you know, talking about some of those big
moments those big speeches and rallying them, you know, from
Tim Brown and Jerome Bettison down the line. It's that
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that's the part of it for me, the love of
college football, like professionally, NFL has taken over the landscape
all over. But I think of when my brothers and I,
you know, college football was king Saturday afternoons were wall
to wall, readying to do a card show or whatever.
But watching all of this of and just you know,
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taking that all in and Notre Dame at prominence. While
it did create a lot of folks that were fans
that had no affiliation to the school whatsoever, it still
was was that kind of a unifying thing within the city.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Rest in peace. Lou Holtz eighty nine years old. We'll
have more on him coming up a little bit in
fact and half hour. We're going to talk about the
National Championship. He didn't win, one of the most debated
plays in the history of college football. But I promise
this because this is the most bizarre story NFL story,
and it doesn't involve the Raiders. No, no Raiders, no Jets.
(22:40):
I'd like to say no Raiders, no Jets, no Browns,
because those are the three teams where you say okay, crazy, okay,
no Raiders, no Jets, but it is Browns. I remember
it is. It is Browns. Unfortunately, Miles Garrett, the reigning
NFL Defensive Player of the Year, issued a citation for
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speeding after he was clocked going ninety four in a
seventy mile per hour zone on the Interstate in Ohio
last month. This story breaks today court record. Somehow it
was found out, so it was going ninety four and
a seventy. It is Garrett's ninth speeding ticket since entering
the league in twenty seventeen nine, so pretty much once
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a year he is good for a big time speeding ticket.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
See this one.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I would have tried to excuse saying he was high
on love and had made the decision that he has
had his pulse racing, that he was gonna, you know,
go in and ask for the Chloe Kim's hand in marriage.
So that would be the excuse. I can't explain away
the other eight you know.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
No, And that's the thing is that this is not
look for someone who would say, well, everybody speeds, Yeah,
everybody on the freeway when you're driving. If it's fifty
five miles an hour and you're going sixty five. Oh yeah, traffick,
yeah yeah, But these speeding tickets for miles Garrett, this
is ninety five and a seventy right, last two Chloe
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Kim goes faster on the snow blo, oh my good,
and high and higher gets higher, one hundred miles per
hour in a sixty mile per hour zone. Last summer.
Right in twenty twenty two, he got in the car
accident left him with that shoulder injury and a bicep
strain after his car went off the side of the
road and flipped over. Right, that's where he was doing
I think seventy and a forty five mile per hour
(24:27):
speed limit. Like this is not where hey, in traffic
trying to get home, I'm ten or ten miles over
the speed limit. This is one thirty in the morning, midnight,
I'm going forty miles an hour over the speed limit.
And you know that if he's been doing it from
still getting tickets, you know he's doing it all the time.
He's just not getting caught alltime. But it's like holding
in the NFL. You can call holding all the time.
You not going to catch a guy's speeding all the time,
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that's for sure. You would think at some point, especially
after the twenty twenty two accident, that Miles Garrett would
have go, Okay, can't do that again, right, can't do
that again. I got hurt my car. You know, my
car was in bad shape and flipped over. That's a
scary thing. Okay, not gonna do it, but it's okay.
I'm still gonna do this. He strikes me as a
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guy seeing him talking. I'm not just saying this, throwing
this out there. Like seeing him talk and how he
carries himself over the course since he's come into the league,
he strikes me as someone that he's not gonna take
advice from anybody. He's not someone who, hey, if someone
says something to him, yeah, you're right, I should think
about that.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Like.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
He strikes me as a I have all the answers.
I know what I'm doing, and I'm gonna continue to
do stuff like this again. You would think after a
big accident, I get the if you're speeding, you get tickets.
What do I ca? I'm a football player. I'll make
my side. All I gotta do is pay this down
and I'll eventually leave my license, but after an accident
you would think, Okay, I can't do that anymore. And
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he's still doing it. You got to think at some point,
like someone's got to say, dude, how do you think
this is gonna end? Well? How do you think speeding
like this is gonna end? Well? Right? I mean I
and it's it's just that again. If it was, hey,
seventy five and a sixty five six five, this is
forty fifty miles an hour over the speed limit, or
going thirty miles an hour over speed limit where you
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really can't on on narrow highways or roadways like you
would think at some point the light would go on,
but it hasn't. In this situation, somebody be able to
tell them, hey, uh, you know, maybe you want to
take it easy, maybe you want to have somebody else drive,
or if you want to drive, hey, let's go out
to the roadway and you can you can do like
one of those experiences where you can drive sports.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
You just get out.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, you know, there's a place I just found this
out out in Ontario, which is uh, which is where
they have you know, uh, the California five hundred, the
big You can do a drifting class, Like you can
go to a class where a driver a safe environment
teaches you how to drift in a car, and you
can learn how to how to how to drift. I'm like,
that sounds pretty cool, but that's in a controlled environment
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with a professional you're doing.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
We get a film cruise, then you can make it
part of your your real man and maybe get your
self into the re reboot I was an inevitable reboot
of The Fast and the Fury is.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Put in a parking curage like that was in The
Fast and Fear. It's like, hey, we got to save money.
We don't have the budget. We're gonna have all this
take place in the parking cross. Oh okay, you figure
it out. That's that's the safe thing, right. You can
go do things like that if you really want to
drive fast and that. Okay, I want to go try
this drifting thing. But this is I mean nine tickets.
So you know he's driving like this. You know he's
continuing to drive like this.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Well, but it's like anything and a lot of folks
in your life think think about it. Wherever you're listening,
we appreciate you being part of the extended family. Look
around the room, look in the mirror wherever you gotta
go of folks that that are flirting with danger right
in any respect. What they're eating, uh, drinking, the the
way they approach their jobs and stretch boundary, like, there's
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a million ways that you can do this. And if
you've always had success, it's it's a larger extension of
what we've been talking about with players and and needing
to ramp up their their prettyduction, their preparation, et cetera.
If you haven't had to, and you've you've gotten through,
then it usually takes something really dramatic. In his case,
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he had the accident, he came back and one defensive
player of the year, so like, all right, that didn't
stop me. So and around him, you hit a point
where a lot of folks are are afraid to tell
you no, right, especially if they're all on payroll.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Because you got a lot of folks on that thing.
Is I get you feel invincible. You're supposed to when
you're an athlete like Miles Garrett. You're supposed to feel invincible.
When you're thirty years old, you're supposed to feel invincible.
But when you have an accident and okay, that could
have gone really bad a lot of different ways. Sure,
still gonna do it, Like wow, man, that's that's that's it.
Everybody's got to have that moment where they realize, all right,
(28:45):
maybe maybe this wasn't the greatest thing.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But it's part of how some folks are wired. I mean,
you've watched plenty of episodes of Jackass. I know you're
a big fan, or you know, scale back to the
ABC wide world of sports. If we weren't watching and
betting on Earl Anthony versus Mark Roth and company, we
were watching Evil Can Evil highlights. Guy was broken in
half repeated like what did you do?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Hey? For my next trick? All right, and here we go.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
So I mean there there's some level of the ride,
ride the lightning all back to last night. Sure that
that folks are apt to do. And for Miles Garrett,
I would hope, uh that that there's some level of
learning and being smarter about it. Uh, he ain't gonna
get it from the Cleveland Browns organization. That ain't exactly
a level of functional and stability that that's gonna help
(29:35):
him there, So uh yeah it Perhaps Chloe Kim is
the one that's got to talk some sense into.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Him exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down The
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Speaker 2 (29:51):
Guys?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
The World Baseball Classic is underway with pool play out
of group see only one game on this Wednesday and night.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And you bet no, because I forgot it, started to forgot.
I forgot, I thought it.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
I remember there was one isolated game by itself, and
he completely forgot that it was tonight, even though I
should know that.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
But I remember just in time.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Australia right now is up on Chinese TYPEEY two zero.
It's the bottom of the sixth any only one game again.
This is out of pool Group CE pool play Group C.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
In the NBA.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Right now, the Clippers lead the Pacers sixty three to
forty nine Kawhi Leonard twenty points less than one minute
to go in the first half. But rookie Yonni Conan
Niederhauser suffered something, guys. It was not pretty. It looked
like an ankle injury. He had to be helped off,
couldn't put any weight on it. They haven't exactly said
what it is. It just did not look good. The
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Pacers have lost six in a row. The Hawks have
won four in a row, and they're trying to make
it five right now. They're up on the Bucks in
Milwaukee one o eight to ninety eight. Janna Santetokopo does
have twenty points for Milwaukee. Shake Gildess Alexander had twenty
six points as the defeated the Knicks at Madison Square
Garden one O three to one hundred. Derek White dropped
twenty nine points for Boston, but it wasn't enough. The
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Celtics lost at home to the Hornets twenty eighteen to
eighty nine. Make that six in a row for the Hornets.
Seventy six ers over the Jazz one oh six to
one oh two. Trailblazers took down the Grizzlies went twenty
two to one fourteen. And in men's college hoops, there
were two games that were you were on the verge
of being upsets. But number seven Houston, who was down ten,
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came back to defeat Baylor seventy seven to sixty four.
Number fifteen per Due also came back from down. I
know Northwestern had it. They had it, but they beat
Northwestern seventy to sixty six. When it comes to the NFL.
Earlier today, the Chiefs traded all Pro cornerback Tren McDuffie
to the Rams for four draft picks, including a first rounder,
while the Patriots released four time Pro Bowl wide receiver
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Stefan Diggs. The Steelers are releasing tight end John U. Smith.
The ESPN reports of the Vikings are expected to release
defensive tackle Jonathan Allen and former Notre Dame head coach
Lou Holtz did pass away at the age of eighty
nine today back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
That I wonder which thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
The run total was eleven and a half and type
was a two and a half run favorite Frio.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Rial Erio and lospital.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, yo, I love that was That was back in
the day. You know, if you're if you're if you're
scoring at home, it means the library is very cold.
And I ate chicken and rice at the hospital cold
like a hospital and the hospital and yes the chicken and.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Rice corrects on coming up next way, do we tell
you what the Dallas Cowboys are planning?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Jason and be.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show
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That is not John Cena.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You know you're ruined the song with that drop. You
ruined it. Alex ty Shirts.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
If I was to talk about Stu Gots, you would hurt.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Are you raising your voice in me? Dude?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You know the cameras are on. Man, right, I I
want Tysher to be off again. Just waiting for Monday Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Give it a couple of days, any buddy, he was
off Monday.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Dude, there he missed Master of Puppets, now he did,
he did, Thank god? Did he do it again? He
doesn't even know what Master Puppets is. It's the guy
who runs the puppets. That that's you're very you're right here.
That is pretty good. Geppetto right. Was the the old
guys on the balcony that bark each other. It's the
forty that's that's uh that muppet, that's the Muppets. That's
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at the end of the Muppets. Who's the master of them? Uh,
Darth Vader. They are his father. Well, they are part
of the extended it's the Empire, it's the Emperor, then
under it goes Emperor, then Darth Vader. Then it's the
two guys from the Muppets, and then it's the Master
of Puppets, and then it's the puppets themselves. Got that's what. Okay,
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there you go. They draw that down there, So.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Low chart if there was one.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
So congratulations to the Dallas Cowboys for staying on the
hamster will they've been on for the better part of
the last twenty five year. The Cowboys today redid the
contracts of all of their star players. I think they
redid whatever money they're still paying to Roger Stallback, uh
Dak Prescott, Ceedee Lamb, A couple of others redid their deals.
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They have a couple of others on the docket to
redo their deals. Quentin Williams as someone else. They were
fifty five million dollars over the salary cap. By redoing
these deals, now they are they saved themselves sixty five
million dollars. So now they're ten million dollars under the
salary cap, which means, hey, good luck getting a free
agent would be a backup tackle. Now they say there's
(35:38):
more coming again, because there's more guys that want to
redo their deals. But this goes on the heels of
Jerry Jones saying we're gonna be the most aggressive we've
been in free agency. Okay, now you hear this and
it all sounds great, but not that I want to
be the wet blanket guy for the Cowboys. But I'll
be that guy. Uh, it really doesn't matter because the
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cow again, the cow Boys are on a hamster wheel
that they've been running for the better part of the
last thirty years. They don't know how to build a
roster at all. Jerry Jones has no idea how to
build a roster. They're awful at free agency, right awful
at free agency. They never are able to go out
and get difference makers to come in. It's always, hey,
we're gonna go out with the lower level and the
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second third wave of free agency. Not that you build
a team on free agenc. But you gotta hit on
some pretty good guys. Freegency is a big part of
the game. Now, man, Yes, you have to draft well,
but you gotta go out be able to say, hey,
this guy is gonna fit a big need for us here.
Because it's not like it wasn't the old days of
free agency where well, this guy's older, we're not gonna
sign him. He's looking to get someplace else. No, you
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can only spend so much money on different players. You
gotta be good at freegency. The Cowboys are not good
at free agency. They are good at the top level
spending on the on the top level for their team.
But they can't they can't build. They can't build a
full roster, right, They no high impact players in free agency.
They prioritize the wrong positions. Let's go get a defensive
tackle instead. Let's not worry about defensive end. Right, let's
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not where. We don't need Micah Parsons or Lawrence to
two guys in the Pro Bowl. No, no, let's go
get a defensive tackle.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Like.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
You don't need to spend that kind of money on
a defensive tackle. You spend your money on your edge guys, guys,
and get to the quarterbacks, right, you don't need You
can't pay two wide receivers thirty five million dollars a year.
You can't do it. You can pay one guy. You
can pay one guy with a guy like CD Lamb.
Sure you pay sif you can't pay two receivers. Thirty
five million dollars year. That's what they're gonna do with
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with with pickings. If they wind up keeping him not
signing him. You can't do that. No one else does that.
Cincinnati is the closest team. And look at them, right, Oh,
we paid t Higgins, we paid Jamar Chase. Okay, well
where are they as far as Super Bowl contenders can go? Right? No,
they don't know how to build a roster. Now Dallas
is gonna go out and not and putting the cherry
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on top of this Sunday for the Cowboys. You say, Okay,
they're off at free agency. They prioritize the wrong positions,
and they're gonna go out and overpay in one of
the worst free agent classes we have seen in the NFL.
So now they're gonna go and spend all kinds of
money whatever they have on guys are gonna be way overpaid. Again.
All I gotta go back and tell you is that
Alec Pierce's number one receiver in free agency, They're gonna
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go spend all kinds of money on guys. Now, we're
gonna go do this the worst timing possible. He could
have spent money any other free agency period, Hey would
make our team better, will make the defense better because
the defense they have needs everywhere except for defensive tackle.
Everywhere they have needs, and they're gonna go out and
spend money in a bad free agency class. So yeah,
it's great they got under the cap, but it's gonna
be the same thing for the Cowboys. Same thing.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
They've got a bunch of draft picked a couple of
first rounders that they'll be able to work with. But
as so long as you don't have a football guy
at the top of the chart to work with the
Joneses and change the messaging in the room, well you're
gonna keep running to the same results. And again, you know,
I back it out to the while they haven't had
the Super Bowl success and the height on top of
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the mountain here, they year to year have been better
than our respective teams for these past thirty years, if
you talk about double digit win seasons and at least
being in the conversation of a good team, we.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Haven't had a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
But for the Cowboys, you know, the standard was set
in the nineties, so you're always chasing what Jimmy Johnson
had built. When you had a guy that had some authority.
You look at it, now, have you got six million
dollars six to seven million off the last estimation of
what they have available. No matter how many guys you
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re up with, it doesn't matter. And now, based on this,
George Piketts is gonna make seven million dollars more than
ceedee lamb. Yeah, that'll go over well for a guy
who was hit or missed for a good chunk elast
year in George Pickens Plus's history. Sure, let's do that. Congratulations,
Javonte Williams came back. But beyond that, you still have
(39:56):
to rebuild and reconstitute an entire defense. Good luck, I
mean again, it's great, it's great, But the cow it's
just again. Hamster wheel, hamster it's dat's built good. Keep going, yeah,
keep going, keep going on, hamster wheel with the same
place we were last year, same place.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
You know, I hate running in place. Exit out about
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the life of Lew Holtz, we revisit one of the
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Mike and I love putting this content up for you
every single night. Now, as we are getting closer to
the beginning of free agency, right we're a week away,
as it's starting to play a little matchmaker here. This
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is I don't know why this team doesn't get more run,
as this should be the blueprint of how to run
a team in twenty twenty six in the NFL, right,
because we looked at the Chiefs for the longest time.
Oh boy, the Chiefs are run so well. Okay, Andy
Reid's a great coach, and you have the best quarterback
in the NFL. It's like, say, boy, look how well
the Pagriots a run. You had the best quarterback in
the NFL. You had a pretty good coach, best quarterback
(01:35):
in the Yeah, you have these things that made it.
And clearly we know that. Hey, the Patriots real dynasty
was way more because of Brady. Okay, the Chiefs, boy,
they win yet because they have Mahomes. But watching the
trade the Rams made today getting Trent McDuffie from the Chiefs, right,
all pro cornerback. They give up a package of draft
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picks number twenty nine pick this year, a couple of
late round picks as well, fifth and six round picks,
a third round pick next year. So the Chiefs do
well in the deal. Don't get me wrong. You got
a first round pick, a third round pick, and a
fifth and a sixth you do Okay. Mahomes was shocked.
He put out damn on social media after seeing this
because here's McDuffie going into the final year of his
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rookie deal and looking for a big payday.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, one of their bat I mean obviously off the
charts in terms of his ability, attitude, and if you
rank their players, he's on the metal standard this point, right,
I mean, look, this is this is as good as
you're gonna get. Right, you're talking about a trade if
you trade for a late first round pick, and you
know the Rams have always been f them picks, right,
that's been their philosophy, And you kind of knew this
(02:39):
was coming. Lesnied talked about it yesterday looking at the offseason,
and he said, well, the first thing you always want
to look at to say, is there an All Pro
you can add?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Hey, guess what, we just added an All Pro player.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
In other words, he was nodding and winking at you
the whole time.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let's add an All Pro player. And McDuffie, who we
kind of knew this might happen because he was asked
previously in a podcast, hey, if you're not playing for
the Chiefs, where would you like to play? And he
was like, oh man, you're gonna get me in trouble.
But you know I'm from La. So maybe the Rams
and the Ram just said, all right, so when you're
up and they're gonna pay you, we're gonna trade for you.
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So should I will say, like, this is a this
is a fate of complete like at some point he's
gonna be a w Rent.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Was this all broker before or after the third shrimp
cocktail and extra drink?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I want to play close to my family, it would
probably be the Rams so my family could come see
me every single game. Okay, now this is a few
months ago when when he was hosting a I think
he was at a doing a football camp in Kansas City,
and you know he gives that answer, so okay, that's
one of those clippings. Save Hey, all right, let's go
h this is why every team in the NFL. I
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am I'm sure the Bears are. I am sure the
Cowboys are extremely jealous of the Rams and how they're
able to not just stay relevant every year, but be
a super caliber team every year. Now in twenty twenty six,
right because you want to look back and say, well,
we've seen that before. Well, yeah, because the Patriots had
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Brady for the better part of two decades. All right,
When you have that and your coach is the same. Yeah,
you're gonna do pretty well. So I get the Patriots
dynasty also had the plays for a while ahead of time,
and the Chiefs, well, the chief super Bowl thread the
Yeah you have the same quarterback, right you had? You
have Patrick Mahomes who is the best quarterback in the game,
and he reads a good ad coat. I understand that.
But this is the Rams who've been a yearly super
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Bowl threat almost for a decade with different personnel. Year
two year they went to a super Bowl with Jared Goff.
They went to a super Bowl and won with Matthew Stafford.
They were nearly there again. This year, they were nearly
there again last year. Every year they find a way.
It's a volatile roster, way to put the roster together
where it's been. We're gonna combine guys we drafted, and
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we're gonna combine getting guys that maybe have worn out
there welcome someplace. We're okay with that. We'll get a
little bit of crazy. They would going the pass. Let's
get a little bit of crazy coming in.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's hey, let's go out and get it all pro
that the Chiefs aren't gonna be able to afford because
they need to revamp this team in the next level
and worry about different things. They got to pay for
offense in the offseason. They gotta do a lot of
different things. So, yeah, they can't pay this guy, so
we're gonna go out and get him. We don't care
about our first round pick. We just had an all
pro cornerback for the price of a guy we got
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into the first round, a third round, and a fourth
or fifth round. Yeah, I'm absolutely fine with that. The
way the Rams are able to do this and do
it so brazenly and not just fade out because at
some point I remember thinking, at some point, the bill
is coming due and the Rams are gonna have to
spend a year or two resetting. They got to get
out from bad money and they have to get back
to where they are. No, no, no, we just continue
to find a way every year to roll one year
(05:47):
into the next, and maybe it's one or two years
with the star player before they say, okay, we're moving on.
How many more years they're gonna have DeVante Adams. I'd
know before they say, hey, we got to move on
from him. But that's what it is. They bring in
lots of high profile guys to fill whatever needs are.
After a couple they're gone in somehow we can bring
in somebody else replace them. Now, when you combine that
with with hey, we get a draft picked that after
a couple of years, this guy hits right. Took a
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couple of years, but guess what they hit it with
Blake Korm. So now it's not just Kyen Williams, but
it's Kien Williams and Blake Korm that's at the head
of that running game. Right. Koran was even the more
valuable running back the back half of the season this
year than Kien Williams was when you were like, Okay, well,
this guy's terrific. They have been able to not just
evaluate the talent the right way, getting guys deeper in
the draft, bringing in star players, turning them over from
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year to year. And that's the big thing is that
the turnover. They keep rolling sevens because eventually you'd say, okay,
with a turnover one year, AT's not gonna work. Right,
what you try to do, the pieces you tried to
fit at doesn't work, We'll get back it again next year. Nope.
Every year super Bowl threat, whether it's Matthew Stafford, whether
it's Jared Goff, whether it's Matthew Stafford at the age
of thirty seven, having an MVP type season. We're gonna
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we find Pooka Nakua in the draft. Guess what, He's fantastic.
We don't need cop anymore. The way the Rams do it,
I'm so incredibly jealous that they do it better than
anybody else in the NFL. I don't know how they
do it, how they keep going different money. We're gonna
spend all of like there's a salary cap, and but
they make it work every single year.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, but it goes to the larger league conversation we
have and we do this and certainly in baseball right
when everybody does their belly aching about how the Dodgers operate. Sure,
the fact that you've got seemingly an unlimited bankroll allows
you to make mistakes. It allows you to hold guys
out a bit longer if they need to come back
off an injury. There are advantages to it, no doubt,
(07:37):
but you still need to be able to evaluate players
that have been discarded from other organizations, players that you
see a fit for, how you run your offense or defense.
Now for the Rams, you've now hit a point with continuity,
and that's the key word to all of this. You
mentioned New England, you mentioned Kansas City. Well, you got
the same front office, you've got the same coach, the
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same quarterback.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
In all of those.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
In this case, yeah, you had the year of Jared Goff,
but you decided you were done with him and you
moved on and McVeigh and he had to have their
you know whatever, maya kulpa, how that was handled whatever,
over time.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
But they've had their the.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Mini hiccups of waiting with baited breath as to whether
McVeigh was gonna leave, whether Matthew Stafford was available. I
still want more information on the back injury versus yeah,
I'm just not coming to camp. Figure it out kind
of thing as he goes out and has an MVP season.
But the draft analysis and the way they've been able
(08:36):
to make the most out of that go back less.
Sneave was hired in twenty twelve, and I remember you
and I doing shows here locally in Los Angeles, and
when McVeigh got hired, just the questions of wow, that's
it's gutsy and it's gonna either flame out or this
guy's truly gonna be the wonder kid as you and
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I just keep referencing ted Lasso left to night. So
here you have that opportunity, and you've watched McVeigh at
year after year show that acumen, and they've drafted very well.
They've picked players off the scrap heap like Kansas City
had done, like New England had done. Think about those
guys at the end of their runs, Corey Dillon and
all those guys that showed up in New England at
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the end. But you needed that base and consistency, and
most teams are not patient enough to do that, right
Leaven the Bears right now, they've got to go and
scramble after their center says I'm leaving, I'm taking my
money and going, Okay, we thought that we had that
nailed down all right, next pivot and they're only in
year two of a regime. You're hopeful that you're building
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off of what happened last year, but you have no idea.
And I guess go back two years to the trade
that brought Caleb Williams. But I guess the larger point
is patience, because when it doesn't look like it's working
because Blake Corn was a guy people were ready to discover.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
A couple of years hasn't worked outcause usually running backs
you see it right away because if you have a
little bit of vision, you were able to come into
the league and do it. Like when you're a great
athlete coming out of college, we see it right away.
Edge Rusher's running backs, Hey, little bit of vision, this
will see But we didn't see it, Blake CRM Okay,
well they missed on them. Nope, nope. Just had to
wait a little bit and look at Blake Court a.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Little bit of time, wanting to take a little bit
of the workload away to make sure Kyron Williams was
ready for the stretch run at BAM. Now you have
a two headed monster moving forward. Williams is on a
pretty cheap deal relatively speaking, for his production these next
couple of years in Korum, still on that rookie deal.
So you get to go back into the marketplace like
this and make a play for Kansas City. Now it
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becomes really interesting. They've got the twelfth most money to
spend after renegotiating and reconstituting a bunch of these deals,
but their level of need is huge for the Rams
they got as long as Stafford and McVeigh want to
run this out. Now, this goes to the other part
of what I've said for a long time, Jet Steak,
get it. Well, No, that's been forty five years. The
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flip side.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Of it is what I say, get the Chiefs last
year because this offseason is gonna be incredibly aggressive. They're
gonna go big offensively. It's gonna be a new number
one receiver, gonna be a star number one receiver, a
star number one running back. They're going out spending money
and look what they're doing. Hey, we're not paying this
defensive player because watch what we do on offense because
they know, hey, we need to. We need to. We
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can't keep running it back with these weapons what we have.
We have to help Patrick Mahomes out a little bit more.
We tried for a few years with get by guys.
It didn't work. Who knows if for she Rice is
gonna play for us again? Who knows if Xavier Worthy
is really any more than a gadget guy. So we
gotta go out and I told you watch how aggressive
they are once free agency begins. Number one stud receiver,
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number one stud running back, and I guarantee you they
will also add a tight end because there's plenty of
good tight ends available, and they're just gonna say, listen,
come in one year, year behind Travis Kelcey, and you're
gonna play a lot. Don't worry because Travis is near
the end, and next year it's your job. David and
Joker will say, I'll sign up for that. So many
free that's such a rich position in agency, so many
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gods say yeah, I'll go there for a year, split
time with Travis Kelcey and then and then take over
and for the back half of Mahomes' career. Yeah, I'm there.
Watch what they add on offense this offseason. They're clearing
the decks for it.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, we went through the the best and deepest positions
in free agency. Skill position. Of course, for the sake
of the conversation, we'll do interior alignment another time.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But the tight end.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Position already had ten plus in terms of free agents
that could come in and be a pass catcher. And then,
as we discussed last hour, Pittsburgh is letting Johnny Smith
back into the two years ago for two he caught
eighty four balls. You don't think that had something to
do with the malfunction of that offense this year down
from Mike McDaniel and company. Hey, what happened You got
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rid of that guy that lived over the middle. Oh okay,
they'll get a stud number one. And I don't mean
like they'll get number one receiver, like they'll they'll make
a move. They'll get a stud number one stud running
back you go and free agency. Go well, okay, Alec
Pierce too, Alec Pierce is in the stud. When Alec
Pierce is your best wide receiver out there, Okay, you
gotta make a move.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You got But they're gonna they're freeing up money to
get somebody that there. Maybe it's an AJ Brown type
trade to that. Hey, we have the money for you.
It's already said, we know your contract. You're good coming in.
You're gonna fit well with what we're doing here offensively
with Patrick telling you, man, that's why you had to
get them last year, because it's gonna be a whole
new thing for them this year. Let's go AFC West,
Let's light it up, Come on now, exit out about
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I love you forever and ever and ever again, Mike
and I love putting this content out for you every
single night. So before we get to the big NFL Store,
which I think the most bizarre story of the day, Look,
obviously we lost a legend today in college football head
coached Lou Holtz, who passed away at the age of
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eighty nine, And we talked about him earlier in the
show where Look, the two things he's got to get
credit for was he brought Notre Dame back, and Notre
Dame is where it is now because of him, The
continued excellence of ESPN's college football coverage. Him and Lee
Corso the two guys for the past thirty some odd
years that have been the lightning rods and also the
(15:40):
touchstones for their coverage. I mean, what he did with
the College Football Final was incredible. But you know, when
you think about him, because it's been a while since
he's been on the sideline, right, you know the thing
people forget a little bit. Oh yeah, came out of
retirement to coach South Carolina. Took him to a Bowl
game in two thousand. Right, he only coached at Notre
Dame for a decade, Right, that is it like he
(16:00):
left like in the middle of his of a big run.
Like okay, in his first three years, Okay, it was
a national championship. First four years, two national championship games. Hey, man,
you know Lou Holtz is, Hey, he's got to go.
But then four years later, okay, I'm done and still
stayed with the game. Came out a retirement, and you
know when when he said, I felt like I had
I had, I had gone as far as we could.
(16:22):
I didn't want to just keep it going like he
wasn't doing anything, but I'm keeping note but getting it
back to where it was Like that's what made it
fun for him, That's what made it, uh, his his
coaching worthwhile, which is why Hey, I'm gonna go and
I'm gonna raise up South Carolina. And I did it. Okay,
now I'm getting I don't want to do it anymore.
On the sideline and recruiting, so I'm gonna be on
(16:43):
TV on ESPN for the better part of twenty years, right, like,
like people forget he wasn't there for for that long.
It was a decade of Lou Holtz at at at
Notre Dame. And you know the things I remember when
when you think about Lou Holtz, the memories I have
of him, and everybody's got their different ones. One that
comes to mind all the time is that he was
(17:05):
ahead of his time when it came to being savvy,
when it came to cameras and knowing when he was
going to be on TV and when he wasn't right,
because two things stick out for me. One is when
they were playing West Virginia for the National Championship, which
when they won, right they won in nineteen eighty nine.
They beat Major Harris. My god, he was so good.
(17:28):
He could throw the football one hundred and fifty yards.
Man Major Harris was so good. And I remember before
the game they hurt him, like third play of the
game he separated his shoulder. He stayed in like that
might have been a different game. Now, people forget the
starting quarterback National Championship game. They separated his shoulder and
he still played and they won thirty four to twenty one.
But you know, it was a game. Maybe it would
(17:48):
have been closer. There was video that was leaked or
came out though, like four or five days before the game,
where he was giving Notre Dame a pep talk and
he said, this is what's going to happen. We're gonna
run the football in the second quarter, and we're gonna
use and we're gonna do this and this and this,
and by the time we get to the ten minute
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mark of the third quarter, they're gonna be tired. They're
gonna be exhausted. They've never played in a game like
this before. And we are gonna control the line of
scrimmage and our drives are gonna be long, and they're
not gonna get back on the field. And all the
stuff he said is exactly what happened in the game, right,
It's about and this. You know, he knows when the
cameras are on when he's given them a speech. But
(18:29):
the fact that this leaked, I think that was Louholtz
doing a little bit of gamesmanship, like he knew he knows,
all right, Hey, I don't know, I don't know when
the camera's right now he knows when he's talking to
a team and these guys with the camera filming stuff,
and that I was like, remember he was like right
on the line with it. And the other thing is
always that and this is this is my big thing
with lu Holtz is that every time Notre Dame would
score a touchdown, right, they would cut away to him
(18:51):
on the sideline and he would always do the same thing.
He would he would walk down the sideline really like
he would strut down the sideline Notre Dame's celebrating, and
he would put his his number one finger up in
the air like like we're number one, ostensibly telling his
team we're going for one, we're not going for two.
But he knows the camera is on him and him
(19:13):
walking down the sideline, we're number one coming off it
like he did that like a coach doesn't need to
go down the sideline and show everybody we're going you
send the kicking team out there, we're gonna go. Hey,
if I'm gonna if I tell the quarterback stare at
the field side, so it's like, oh, Lou Holtz, they're
gonna go for one. Of course, are going foot. He
knows the camera is on him. He enjoys that part
of it. He puts that image out there of Notre Dame,
(19:33):
We're the best. Every touchdown one one, one one. Okay.
I don't think I ever saw him once put up
two fingers. Oh, Holt's gonna go for two. That wasn't
what he was doing. He was so savvy when it
came to things like cameras and being on television and
and pushing himself. That's something that goes by the wayside
for Lou Holtz is that, yeah, he was. He was
somebody wasn't just him an old school coach and I
(19:54):
don't get all this new fangled stuff going on. Nah,
he pretty much got what it was and where college
football was at well.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
He knew we're the power was and in terms of
being you talk about that speech and later the years
in television, but certainly with Notre Dame again growing up there,
the history of it was just so powerful Midwest. But
now you you have more televised games, you have the
growing burgeoning run of what ESPN would would become that
(20:22):
you're looking at all, right, now we can own this.
It became a recruiting tool, the thing you would tire
of It's like, yeah, I can get him on there
in their homes with these big games, these big moments.
And if I do this a lot, I have a
tired shoulder.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Either that or I'm doing the Roman reigns before Roman reigns.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Acknowledge me. I mean brilliant. Just think about that optic
of the sidelines going crazy, He's walking down going We're
number one, and how many kids just seeing that. I
want to go play for that game, but I want
to go play.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
South Bend is is a weird little place. It is
a special little sigh. I encourage everybody to get there
for a game. It is a very different experience. That's
my next phase as my kids go to college is
to get back to a lot of these college environments
that I haven't seen but South Bend. To get back
there for another game. And when they're good, it is.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
A whole other world.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And low Holds brought them back to that level of
prominence where the expectation, sorry Gary Barnett, expect victory kind
of thing. But you look at all those and you
look at the tributes being put up by his former
players today, you know, talking about some of those big
moments those big speeches and rallying them, you know, from
Tim Brown and Jerome Bettison down the line. It's that
(21:38):
that's the part of it for me, the love of
college football, like professionally, NFL has taken over the landscape
all over. But I think of when my brothers and I,
you know, college football was king Saturday afternoons were wall
to wall, readying to do a card show or whatever.
But watching all of this of and just you know,
(22:01):
taking that all in and Notre Dame at prominence. While
it did create a lot of folks that were fans
that had no affiliation to the school whatsoever, it still
was was that kind of a unifying thing within the city.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Rest in peace. Lou Holtz eighty nine years old. We'll
have more on him coming up a little bit in
fact and half hour. We're going to talk about the
National Championship. He didn't win, one of the most debated
plays in the history of college football. But I promise
this because this is the most bizarre story NFL story,
and it doesn't involve the Raiders. No, no Raiders, no Jets.
(22:40):
I'd like to say no Raiders, no Jets, no Browns,
because those are the three teams where you say okay, crazy, okay,
no Raiders, no Jets, but it is Browns. I remember
it is. It is Browns. Unfortunately, Miles Garrett, the reigning
NFL Defensive Player of the Year, issued a citation for
(23:02):
speeding after he was clocked going ninety four in a
seventy mile per hour zone on the Interstate in Ohio
last month. This story breaks today court record. Somehow it
was found out, so it was going ninety four and
a seventy. It is Garrett's ninth speeding ticket since entering
the league in twenty seventeen nine, so pretty much once
(23:24):
a year he is good for a big time speeding ticket.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
See this one.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I would have tried to excuse saying he was high
on love and had made the decision that he has
had his pulse racing, that he was gonna, you know,
go in and ask for the Chloe Kim's hand in marriage.
So that would be the excuse. I can't explain away
the other eight you know.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
No, And that's the thing is that this is not
look for someone who would say, well, everybody speeds, Yeah,
everybody on the freeway when you're driving. If it's fifty
five miles an hour and you're going sixty five. Oh yeah, traffick,
yeah yeah, But these speeding tickets for miles Garrett, this
is ninety five and a seventy right, last two Chloe
(24:06):
Kim goes faster on the snow blo, oh my good,
and high and higher gets higher, one hundred miles per
hour in a sixty mile per hour zone. Last summer.
Right in twenty twenty two, he got in the car
accident left him with that shoulder injury and a bicep
strain after his car went off the side of the
road and flipped over. Right, that's where he was doing
I think seventy and a forty five mile per hour
(24:27):
speed limit. Like this is not where hey, in traffic
trying to get home, I'm ten or ten miles over
the speed limit. This is one thirty in the morning, midnight,
I'm going forty miles an hour over the speed limit.
And you know that if he's been doing it from
still getting tickets, you know he's doing it all the time.
He's just not getting caught alltime. But it's like holding
in the NFL. You can call holding all the time.
You not going to catch a guy's speeding all the time,
(24:48):
that's for sure. You would think at some point, especially
after the twenty twenty two accident, that Miles Garrett would
have go, Okay, can't do that again, right, can't do
that again. I got hurt my car. You know, my
car was in bad shape and flipped over. That's a
scary thing. Okay, not gonna do it, but it's okay.
I'm still gonna do this. He strikes me as a
(25:10):
guy seeing him talking. I'm not just saying this, throwing
this out there. Like seeing him talk and how he
carries himself over the course since he's come into the league,
he strikes me as someone that he's not gonna take
advice from anybody. He's not someone who, hey, if someone
says something to him, yeah, you're right, I should think
about that.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Like.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
He strikes me as a I have all the answers.
I know what I'm doing, and I'm gonna continue to
do stuff like this again. You would think after a
big accident, I get the if you're speeding, you get tickets.
What do I ca? I'm a football player. I'll make
my side. All I gotta do is pay this down
and I'll eventually leave my license, but after an accident
you would think, Okay, I can't do that anymore. And
(25:49):
he's still doing it. You got to think at some point,
like someone's got to say, dude, how do you think
this is gonna end? Well? How do you think speeding
like this is gonna end? Well? Right? I mean I
and it's it's just that again. If it was, hey,
seventy five and a sixty five six five, this is
forty fifty miles an hour over the speed limit, or
going thirty miles an hour over speed limit where you
(26:11):
really can't on on narrow highways or roadways like you
would think at some point the light would go on,
but it hasn't. In this situation, somebody be able to
tell them, hey, uh, you know, maybe you want to
take it easy, maybe you want to have somebody else drive,
or if you want to drive, hey, let's go out
to the roadway and you can you can do like
one of those experiences where you can drive sports.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
You just get out.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, you know, there's a place I just found this
out out in Ontario, which is uh, which is where
they have you know, uh, the California five hundred, the
big You can do a drifting class, Like you can
go to a class where a driver a safe environment
teaches you how to drift in a car, and you
can learn how to how to how to drift. I'm like,
that sounds pretty cool, but that's in a controlled environment
(26:53):
with a professional you're doing.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
We get a film cruise, then you can make it
part of your your real man and maybe get your
self into the re reboot I was an inevitable reboot
of The Fast and the Fury is.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Put in a parking curage like that was in The
Fast and Fear. It's like, hey, we got to save money.
We don't have the budget. We're gonna have all this
take place in the parking cross. Oh okay, you figure
it out. That's that's the safe thing, right. You can
go do things like that if you really want to
drive fast and that. Okay, I want to go try
this drifting thing. But this is I mean nine tickets.
So you know he's driving like this. You know he's
continuing to drive like this.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Well, but it's like anything and a lot of folks
in your life think think about it. Wherever you're listening,
we appreciate you being part of the extended family. Look
around the room, look in the mirror wherever you gotta
go of folks that that are flirting with danger right
in any respect. What they're eating, uh, drinking, the the
way they approach their jobs and stretch boundary, like, there's
(27:47):
a million ways that you can do this. And if
you've always had success, it's it's a larger extension of
what we've been talking about with players and and needing
to ramp up their their prettyduction, their preparation, et cetera.
If you haven't had to, and you've you've gotten through,
then it usually takes something really dramatic. In his case,
(28:09):
he had the accident, he came back and one defensive
player of the year, so like, all right, that didn't
stop me. So and around him, you hit a point
where a lot of folks are are afraid to tell
you no, right, especially if they're all on payroll.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Because you got a lot of folks on that thing.
Is I get you feel invincible. You're supposed to when
you're an athlete like Miles Garrett. You're supposed to feel invincible.
When you're thirty years old, you're supposed to feel invincible.
But when you have an accident and okay, that could
have gone really bad a lot of different ways. Sure,
still gonna do it, Like wow, man, that's that's that's it.
Everybody's got to have that moment where they realize, all right,
(28:45):
maybe maybe this wasn't the greatest thing.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But it's part of how some folks are wired. I mean,
you've watched plenty of episodes of Jackass. I know you're
a big fan, or you know, scale back to the
ABC wide world of sports. If we weren't watching and
betting on Earl Anthony versus Mark Roth and company, we
were watching Evil Can Evil highlights. Guy was broken in
half repeated like what did you do?
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Hey? For my next trick? All right, and here we go.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
So I mean there there's some level of the ride,
ride the lightning all back to last night. Sure that
that folks are apt to do. And for Miles Garrett,
I would hope, uh that that there's some level of
learning and being smarter about it. Uh, he ain't gonna
get it from the Cleveland Browns organization. That ain't exactly
a level of functional and stability that that's gonna help
(29:35):
him there, So uh yeah it Perhaps Chloe Kim is
the one that's got to talk some sense into.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Him exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down The
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Speaker 2 (29:51):
Guys?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
The World Baseball Classic is underway with pool play out
of group see only one game on this Wednesday and night.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
And you bet no, because I forgot it, started to forgot.
I forgot, I thought it.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
I remember there was one isolated game by itself, and
he completely forgot that it was tonight, even though I
should know that.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
But I remember just in time.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Australia right now is up on Chinese TYPEEY two zero.
It's the bottom of the sixth any only one game again.
This is out of pool Group CE pool play Group C.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
In the NBA.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Right now, the Clippers lead the Pacers sixty three to
forty nine Kawhi Leonard twenty points less than one minute
to go in the first half. But rookie Yonni Conan
Niederhauser suffered something, guys. It was not pretty. It looked
like an ankle injury. He had to be helped off,
couldn't put any weight on it. They haven't exactly said
what it is. It just did not look good. The
(30:45):
Pacers have lost six in a row. The Hawks have
won four in a row, and they're trying to make
it five right now. They're up on the Bucks in
Milwaukee one o eight to ninety eight. Janna Santetokopo does
have twenty points for Milwaukee. Shake Gildess Alexander had twenty
six points as the defeated the Knicks at Madison Square
Garden one O three to one hundred. Derek White dropped
twenty nine points for Boston, but it wasn't enough. The
(31:07):
Celtics lost at home to the Hornets twenty eighteen to
eighty nine. Make that six in a row for the Hornets.
Seventy six ers over the Jazz one oh six to
one oh two. Trailblazers took down the Grizzlies went twenty
two to one fourteen. And in men's college hoops, there
were two games that were you were on the verge
of being upsets. But number seven Houston, who was down ten,
(31:28):
came back to defeat Baylor seventy seven to sixty four.
Number fifteen per Due also came back from down. I
know Northwestern had it. They had it, but they beat
Northwestern seventy to sixty six. When it comes to the NFL.
Earlier today, the Chiefs traded all Pro cornerback Tren McDuffie
to the Rams for four draft picks, including a first rounder,
while the Patriots released four time Pro Bowl wide receiver
(31:50):
Stefan Diggs. The Steelers are releasing tight end John U. Smith.
The ESPN reports of the Vikings are expected to release
defensive tackle Jonathan Allen and former Notre Dame head coach
Lou Holtz did pass away at the age of eighty
nine today back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
That I wonder which thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
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Speaker 4 (32:26):
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Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, yo, I love that was That was back in
the day. You know, if you're if you're if you're
scoring at home, it means the library is very cold.
And I ate chicken and rice at the hospital cold
like a hospital and the hospital and yes the chicken and.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Rice corrects on coming up next way, do we tell
you what the Dallas Cowboys are planning?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Jason and be.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show
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That is not John Cena.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You know you're ruined the song with that drop. You
ruined it. Alex ty Shirts.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
If I was to talk about Stu Gots, you would hurt.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Are you raising your voice in me? Dude?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You know the cameras are on. Man, right, I I
want Tysher to be off again. Just waiting for Monday Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Give it a couple of days, any buddy, he was
off Monday.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Dude, there he missed Master of Puppets, now he did,
he did, Thank god? Did he do it again? He
doesn't even know what Master Puppets is. It's the guy
who runs the puppets. That that's you're very you're right here.
That is pretty good. Geppetto right. Was the the old
guys on the balcony that bark each other. It's the
forty that's that's uh that muppet, that's the Muppets. That's
(34:24):
at the end of the Muppets. Who's the master of them? Uh,
Darth Vader. They are his father. Well, they are part
of the extended it's the Empire, it's the Emperor, then
under it goes Emperor, then Darth Vader. Then it's the
two guys from the Muppets, and then it's the Master
of Puppets, and then it's the puppets themselves. Got that's what. Okay,
(34:46):
there you go. They draw that down there, So.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Low chart if there was one.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
So congratulations to the Dallas Cowboys for staying on the
hamster will they've been on for the better part of
the last twenty five year. The Cowboys today redid the
contracts of all of their star players. I think they
redid whatever money they're still paying to Roger Stallback, uh
Dak Prescott, Ceedee Lamb, A couple of others redid their deals.
(35:15):
They have a couple of others on the docket to
redo their deals. Quentin Williams as someone else. They were
fifty five million dollars over the salary cap. By redoing
these deals, now they are they saved themselves sixty five
million dollars. So now they're ten million dollars under the
salary cap, which means, hey, good luck getting a free
agent would be a backup tackle. Now they say there's
(35:38):
more coming again, because there's more guys that want to
redo their deals. But this goes on the heels of
Jerry Jones saying we're gonna be the most aggressive we've
been in free agency. Okay, now you hear this and
it all sounds great, but not that I want to
be the wet blanket guy for the Cowboys. But I'll
be that guy. Uh, it really doesn't matter because the
(35:59):
cow again, the cow Boys are on a hamster wheel
that they've been running for the better part of the
last thirty years. They don't know how to build a
roster at all. Jerry Jones has no idea how to
build a roster. They're awful at free agency, right awful
at free agency. They never are able to go out
and get difference makers to come in. It's always, hey,
we're gonna go out with the lower level and the
(36:20):
second third wave of free agency. Not that you build
a team on free agenc. But you gotta hit on
some pretty good guys. Freegency is a big part of
the game. Now, man, Yes, you have to draft well,
but you gotta go out be able to say, hey,
this guy is gonna fit a big need for us here.
Because it's not like it wasn't the old days of
free agency where well, this guy's older, we're not gonna
sign him. He's looking to get someplace else. No, you
(36:41):
can only spend so much money on different players. You
gotta be good at freegency. The Cowboys are not good
at free agency. They are good at the top level
spending on the on the top level for their team.
But they can't they can't build. They can't build a
full roster, right, They no high impact players in free agency.
They prioritize the wrong positions. Let's go get a defensive
tackle instead. Let's not worry about defensive end. Right, let's
(37:04):
not where. We don't need Micah Parsons or Lawrence to
two guys in the Pro Bowl. No, no, let's go
get a defensive tackle.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Like.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
You don't need to spend that kind of money on
a defensive tackle. You spend your money on your edge guys, guys,
and get to the quarterbacks, right, you don't need You
can't pay two wide receivers thirty five million dollars a year.
You can't do it. You can pay one guy. You
can pay one guy with a guy like CD Lamb.
Sure you pay sif you can't pay two receivers. Thirty
five million dollars year. That's what they're gonna do with
(37:31):
with with pickings. If they wind up keeping him not
signing him. You can't do that. No one else does that.
Cincinnati is the closest team. And look at them, right, Oh,
we paid t Higgins, we paid Jamar Chase. Okay, well
where are they as far as Super Bowl contenders can go? Right? No,
they don't know how to build a roster. Now Dallas
is gonna go out and not and putting the cherry
(37:51):
on top of this Sunday for the Cowboys. You say, Okay,
they're off at free agency. They prioritize the wrong positions,
and they're gonna go out and overpay in one of
the worst free agent classes we have seen in the NFL.
So now they're gonna go and spend all kinds of
money whatever they have on guys are gonna be way overpaid. Again.
All I gotta go back and tell you is that
Alec Pierce's number one receiver in free agency, They're gonna
(38:13):
go spend all kinds of money on guys. Now, we're
gonna go do this the worst timing possible. He could
have spent money any other free agency period, Hey would
make our team better, will make the defense better because
the defense they have needs everywhere except for defensive tackle.
Everywhere they have needs, and they're gonna go out and
spend money in a bad free agency class. So yeah,
it's great they got under the cap, but it's gonna
be the same thing for the Cowboys. Same thing.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
They've got a bunch of draft picked a couple of
first rounders that they'll be able to work with. But
as so long as you don't have a football guy
at the top of the chart to work with the
Joneses and change the messaging in the room, well you're
gonna keep running to the same results. And again, you know,
I back it out to the while they haven't had
the Super Bowl success and the height on top of
(38:58):
the mountain here, they year to year have been better
than our respective teams for these past thirty years, if
you talk about double digit win seasons and at least
being in the conversation of a good team, we.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Haven't had a lot of that.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
But for the Cowboys, you know, the standard was set
in the nineties, so you're always chasing what Jimmy Johnson
had built. When you had a guy that had some authority.
You look at it, now, have you got six million
dollars six to seven million off the last estimation of
what they have available. No matter how many guys you
(39:36):
re up with, it doesn't matter. And now, based on this,
George Piketts is gonna make seven million dollars more than
ceedee lamb. Yeah, that'll go over well for a guy
who was hit or missed for a good chunk elast
year in George Pickens Plus's history. Sure, let's do that. Congratulations,
Javonte Williams came back. But beyond that, you still have
(39:56):
to rebuild and reconstitute an entire defense. Good luck, I
mean again, it's great, it's great, But the cow it's
just again. Hamster wheel, hamster it's dat's built good. Keep going, yeah,
keep going, keep going on, hamster wheel with the same
place we were last year, same place.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
You know, I hate running in place. Exit out about
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