August 20, 2024 • 41 mins
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Speaker 4 (00:50):
Well, I'll tell you what, Mike mh.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
This Russell Wilson Justin Fields conversation has been. I mean,
I want to say thanks, because whenever it comes down
to NFL in the offseason, you look back and say,
what were the three biggest offseason stories in the NFL?
Like after the NFL Draft was over, after free agency,
and I got to say, we've gotten a lot of
mileage out of Justin Fields, Russell Wilson. I mean even
(01:15):
when nothing was going on, when the teams were, when
the guys are on vacation, and Russell, We've got a
lot of mileage out of this man. I gotta say
thanks because even when even when these guys are just
hanging out, not even throwing footballs, Hey, Justin Fields, Russell Wilson,
it's been that kind of summer. So first I want
to say thank you for.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
This well because you know me with the investment that
I have over the years in Justin Fields and every play,
every criticism, every bit of excitement that you had down
the stretch when they played pretty well and got to
those seven wins, knowing that the writing was on the wall,
you were not coming back that you know, It's it's
(01:52):
been an interesting watch. And from my friends in the
Pittsburgh area that live and die with the squad.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
They're in for a painful fall. It would appear well see.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And here's the thing is that all of this offense,
you figure, Okay, at some point there's when we start
playing the game's gonna be some kind of clarity.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
No, the Steelers offense looks awful.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It looks so bad that Mike Tomlin said after the
game this weekend. I mean every game looks like it's
gonna be nine to three. Uh they they play play
the Bills this weekend. Everything he says, too much JV,
too much junior varsity to our offense. All right, like
this is too much JV to our offense. But now
it's saying.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Right like you might let the defense with TJ.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Watt when he's ready and healthy and everything, and that's
all finding good. Are you scoring twenty points a game?
That's all I have to ask ye score twenty points
a game?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And the answer is.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And look, we've told you for a long time Justin
Field is going to be the guy at some point.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Why he's a better quarterback.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Russell Wilson is washed and and and eventually that's going
to happen. And but now that you get to see
actual results, you see that, oh yeah, it's happening. And
not only do I do I I am I still
on board that Justin Fields is gonna be the starter.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
What did I say? Week five?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Now I'm throwing it out there. He could be the
opening day starter. Justin Fields can be the opening day
starter for two reasons. For one reason, because the Steelers
stake no he can be the opening day starter.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
One reason Russell Wilson, because.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Now I'm saving that from a week when when when
actually he does get named, I can say there's only
run one reason why Justin Fields is named the starting quarterback.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Why because Russell Wilson stinks.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Now, there's two reasons why Justin Fields is gonna wind
up being the quarterbacks through then later and I can
now see him being named the quarterback out of the gate.
The first one is this, you watch them play. You
watch them play like like I have seen the last
two couple of weeks, and what you can take away
even though neither quarterback is able to really you know,
do well, you can't take away Okay, Fields look great,
(03:58):
but but but here's the with Russell Wilson. Now, Week one,
Justin Field's had some moments. He also fumbled twice, so
it was a zero some day for him. Right, all
the good he did, he completely biffed it by fumbling
the ball twice. Now you get to see Russell Wilson
and even though yes it's one preseason game, Russell Wilson's
didn't getting.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
To be in his late thirties. He is now a plotter. Okay,
he's not the same.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Hey, Russell Wilson's gonna run back and escape and drop
back thirty yards and run all around and then run
to the line of scrimmage and throwing to Doug Baldwin like.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He did in his a day. Well, no, look at
the escapability. No, Wilson has.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Become more of a plotter. And you look at where
his career has been the last couple of years. His
yards per attempt is down in the bottom quarter of
the league.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Like he's not.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
He's not someone you know, eight nine yards per attempt,
he's down under seven, all right, like, and that that
doesn't get it done. You know, if you're not a
dynamic quarterback, you have to be Okay, at least we're
gonna move the team up and down the field. And
Russell Wilson's not been able to do that. You saw
it when he needed to do it last year in Denver.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
He couldn't.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And Denver, who knew him better than anybody else besides
the Seahawks, will already let him go. They said, we're
okay letting you go, and we gave up a lot
of draft.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Picks for you.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But you can see that he's a plotter and for Fields.
And it's not that Fields has lit the world on fire.
I'm not saying he has. I like Justin Fields little
bit more than than others do. I know you do
as well, But Justin Fields has more dynamism to his game.
He's a little bit more dynamic. He can make a
big play here and there. He's got a little bit
more escapability. Justin Fields is just going to be a
(05:30):
little bit more electric and bring a little bit more
life to that offense. Like the Steelers didn't High didn't
bring in Russell Wilson say Okay, don't make mistakes, go
out and just be no. They need they need a
guy that can make some plays, right. You let Deontay
Johnson go. George Pickens is a guy that could show
up and have a great week one week another week.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Not.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You're reliant on the running backs, but now you're not.
Jalen Warren gets hurt, who has looked like he was
going to take over the number one role this year,
but now he's hurt. He's out a while. And whenever
you get soft tissue injuries, Jalen went who knows when
he's coming back. You can't give the ball to Naji
Harris twenty five times a game because twenty five rushes
for sixty five yards, which is what Naji Harris gives you,
is not great. So you see, Okay, now we need
(06:11):
a little bit more from Russell Wilson than that, and
that's not what he's gonna give you. He's not as
dynamic as Justin Fields. That's reason number one. Just watching
the game, you can see that Fields brings even if
it's I don't want to say infinitesimal because that's small,
even it's just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Even if he brings twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Five percent more life to the offense than Russell Wilson does,
that's gonna feed into everybody. That's gonna get everybody's juice
is flowing. That's gonna make the offense go. So if
it comes down to this, this is not Russell Wilson
from a bunch of years ago. This is a hey man,
we really gotta get We can't get out of the
gate slow. We gotta get out there and do some things.
So that's number one. Justin Field's even a little bit, Mike,
(06:49):
He's more dynamic than Russell Wilson.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
With the say design runs whatever. But you know, I
put that out with a an asterisk in terms of
that playmaking and the I like the use of the turn.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Dynamism. It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
You like that, right. I looked up to make sure
it was it's dynamism. I'm like, that's a great word.
It is, like, you know what, dynamism.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
That sounds like the name of a failed nineties early
two thousand startup.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Dude. I went to work for Dynamism. It was great.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
We had all the stock options and we went bankrupt. Man,
that ceo fled with all the money. Nothing we could do, man,
But boy, I had a fun time at Dynamism. We
had a ping pong table right outside the office, right,
we all played. We played paper football at lunch. Sometimes
we get like three days off in the middle of
the week.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I love working for Dynamism.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
And then we eventually found out that ceo the thing
he got when he absconded was a light up suit
and he used to sing.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Opera on Fridays like Dynamo. Ah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Look, that's a wow, that's a that's a that's a deep,
deep reference you made there. Buddy.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, that's that's what we do here.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
But it's the idea that Arthur Smith is the guy
pulling the strings, you know, the guy that basically put
Bijon Robinson last year at a box and never let
him play on a team that otherwise had some opportunity. Right,
good offensive line moved the ball, They gave Desmond Ridder
no support, none whatsoever, and then this guy got hired to.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Go fix the Steelers. So to that, I say, I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I don't know, but you do have a couple of
weap but you got a guy who's potentially a transcendent,
you know, top five kind of guy. Uh yeah, he
still had some drops issues in maturity issues at times
in George Pickens friarmooth when he's healthy, I know, Warren's
hurt to start things, Harris plods along. I mean, there's
(08:39):
certainly a base from which to work, But is that
the guy to pull the strings.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Regardless of who they pick as the quarterback? Is my fear.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Everybody wrong, Like for the last fifteen years, everybody that
stealers about everybody's right right, Who's the guy that's been
been making the choices?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
And that's why Tomlin. Everybody's wrong.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
All these guys think like all of it comes back
to I want to be able to have an identity
running the football.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Okay, Dream Vedice is not walking back through that Okay,
this is not.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Too Staley and those offensive lines, and.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Eric Pigrim is not walking through that door. Each Walter
Abercrombie is not walking through that door.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yes, very nice.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah you want a little little deeper.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Yeah, I like that though, But it's it's just that
that idea of all right, that's not how you're getting
over on offense in twenty twenty four, and it could
signal your doom because it would appear, you know, going
all uh Indiana Jones and the last crusade.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You may have chosen poorly now, but here's this is
the other.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
This is reason too why fields canon will start soon,
should be as early as week one.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
And I take you back, and I always think.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
About this because sometimes changes are made a quarterback, not
because of the quarterback, but because who's going to be
in the best position to move this team? Right when
Tony Romo started his career with the Dallas Cowboys, I'm
going back twenty years Romo started his career. You know
out of Eastern Illinois. Who is this guy? Drew Bledsoe's
a starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys and Bill Parcells
(10:17):
as the coach, and hey, Bledsoe's working on his new
team now after Brady takes.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Over, and look, hey, cowboys can be great. And what happened?
The Cowboys struggled?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Why because their offensive line wasn't any good and Drew Bledsoe,
as good a quarterback as he was, was a statue
in the pocket, and he kept getting sacked, and he
got sacked so much. And because there was nothing Bill
Parcells could do about the offensive line, He's like, well,
I gotta go to the backup because Tony Romo can
at least make plays with his legs.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
And what happens.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Tony Romo takes over. The Cowboys take off, and Romo
starts a twelve year career and gets paid all kinds
of money. And now he's getting paid all kinds of
money to do fair work at CBS. The same thing
now for the Steelers, right, you've heard a lot about
their offensive line, the injuries, the ineffectiveness they are having.
If this is the offensive line, you need to put
a quarterback behind center. That can make plays with his legs.
(11:07):
And I've watched Justin Field's run for one thousand yards
in the NFL. I've watched him be the second best
running quarterback I've seen the last fifteen years besides Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So if that's the skill set that can bail out
the offensive line, don't you have to go to him?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Don't you have to say, Hey, Fields is the guy?
Hey Russ.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
If this was you know, twenty fifteen and you were
you know, twenty seven and not thirty seven a, it
would be a different story.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
We know you can get outside the pocket, but you
can't do it right.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
They both get sacked, but Russell Wilson get sacked because
Russell Wilson can't get away like like he used to
be able to, whereas Justin Fields with design runs.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
And being able to get outside the pocket and being
able to throw on the run.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, he can make more plays like that, and you
can take the pressure off the offensive line. You can't
if you can't change the offensive line and bring players
in who're suddenly gonna turn it into a Hey, we
got five building blocks of granite and suddenly doesn't matter.
We have back there at quarterback, he's gonna succeed. You
kind of have to make the change of quarterback and
another game and more of these joint practices where the
Steelers offense looks like it's stuck in mud, it's gonna
(12:08):
be We have no choice but to go to Justin
Fields because with the makeup of our offense right now,
we need guys to make more plays. Right, the offensive
line is dinged up, they stink. We don't have Jalen
Warren handing the ball and Naji Harris isn't gonna work.
We need somebody that can do that, and that's Justin Fields.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Well, and that's what was always hoped for in Chicago,
that Luke Getze, the offensive coordinators in Chicago would get
the fact that, hey, you know what, if you design
some rollouts. You've seen it a little bit with Waldron
and Caleb Williams, like, oh wait, he can see the
field as he gets on the run and then he
(12:45):
can make the decision. Now, did fields often make the
decision pretty fast after a quick read? Debrun Yes, so
teaching patients and that next level would certainly be of help.
But yeah, the elusiveness and to extend drives on broken
plays and creating opportunities far more likely than Fields. I mean,
(13:08):
go back and watch some of the last tape of
Russell Wilson in Denver, which is why they ate all
the money they did. You'll find many a play, remember
that electric football game.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
And maybe maybe you got.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
But it would take like nine minutes to set up
the next play, because yeah, you put it back up
and set him back.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But every once in a while you'd have a guy
that would just start spinning around.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yeah, that was always my quarterback. Why is he spinning around?
He can't go He's gonna get sacked.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Go back and watch some game film of Russell Wilson
last year. He did that quite often. Hey he's out
of the pocket, he's moved to his right. Wait, he
just went right back into into traffic and found himself
at the bottom end of another sack. So, uh, that
being said, I'll trust Fields in those opportunities more than anything.
(13:56):
But I'm looking at Arthur Smith, and I'm staring at
a picture of him right now as I'm thinking about
this offense and what a crime he committed by keeping
p Sean Robinson did great.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
For the next guy, not so much. In twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
No way, No.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I want to ask you, do you think that's what
Sean Payton was doing last year with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
He was.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
He was diagramming plays on that old electric football set
and that's why they fence.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Found so much.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, you going to Sean, what's that noise in Coach
Peyton's office? Just don't go in whenever you hear the.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Scripting some new plays and he wants to see how
it's gonna roll up, that's all he wants to he
You know, he doesn't use the algorithms or the video
games to simulate.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
To hell with that. He goes old school.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Hey, I came up with this new play. What did
you dream it?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It was a play where the quarterback spins around in
the pocket for like thirty five seconds and then all
of a sudden he straightens out and goes up the
middle and it's wide open.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Let's try it.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
It's the old Hey fall down like you're hurt your ankle,
don't forget about you, and they need to get up
and I'll pass you the ball.
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great story out of college football from today. But you
know me, Mike, I never want to say I told
you so right that this is not me. It's not
who I am, right, you know, I told you so Okay, Yeah,
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I'm not that guy.
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It's in the deep dark recesses of the brain. I mean,
it's never at the forefront. It's never never. You know,
you never wear a shirt in blazon with it. I
don't know you've furnished a tattoo yet.
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No, as far as you know, not yet. Yeah, and
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the middle Finger Tour. Okay, you didn't pick me for
the Olympic team. I had to see all of this
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all I'm doing is coming in and playing ball. Okay,
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here comes the middle Finger Tour the second half of
the season.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I'm rested.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I've been lifting weights, I've been going a Corey Fairs,
I've been on stage, I met Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And then two games over the weekend we watched Friday night,
she goes for twenty nine, ten and five as they
beat Phoenix. Diana Tarassi check, I got you, hey, Seattle
ninety two seventy five, twenty three, nine and five. Another
check for Caitlyn Clark. The middle Finger Tour is underway.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
And it is glorious.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
It is time for the WNBA to stop being jealous
and just embrace her stardom in talent. And you're still
seeing stuff like like Skyler Diggan Smith who didn't like
the fact that Caitlin Clark was pumping up the home crowd,
wanted to make sure she walked and bumped into her
as she's walking off the court like she's pumping up
the home crowd.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Man.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I mean the hate that she gets is just so insane.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Like at any at any point there is for players
whoever to say, hey, you know what, Kaitlyn Clark, Kaylen Clark,
you still see it right.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You still see officials ridiculously.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Calling a technical foul on Kate Len Clark because she
punched the stanchion after she missed the three, and it was, oh,
you're disrespecting the game.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Officials got to get on board.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Too many they've not officiated her fairly out of the
gate and now you got you're getting it.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Really, you're getting a technical foul because you punched the stick.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Come on, now, I wouldn't say we do it? What
do we do?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
This is professional basketball, man, This isn't a Saturday game
in the gym where hey it's at the YMCNA. We
want to show good sports or hip. This is the
you miss a shot, you can punch the stanchion. If
the stanchion wants to sue, let the stanchion sue. But
I think the stanchion's just fine.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I would say this, Should she have gotten a technical
in that instance?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
No? Could she have gotten a technical fifty other times
during the game, absolutely yelling to the crowd, Yeah these
are the worst. Talking about the officials, Yeah, they're not
very good. So we got all the micd up because
she was miked up for the game. So anybody that
watched it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And
if you didn't, well let me clue in. You got
(19:57):
a lot of cutaways of all the positive notes Caitlin cluck.
And I'm not look denying and pushing it down. I'm
just saying she was she earned a technical. You just
not in that moment like that was not the time,
she said, plenty of things, had plenty of moments of
history onics where you could have called one after a call,
(20:17):
you know, the the giant arms thrown up, yelling ah,
and all those things to where if you're an official,
you may have been able to do it. They did
have that scary moment though, with that inbound play where
the free safety came and took her almost took her
head off and she was down holding her arm for
a minute. So you had one of those moments too,
(20:39):
And for Skyler Diggins, I was gonna I started to
ask if she was actually a referee, because it seemed
like there were a couple of the refs didn't know
what to do and she was able to influence them
into a call by going over and talking to them.
So I was getting ready to add that, and then
the incident you know, happened about pumping up and everything else,
which meant the internets were unleashed and.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
That was the end of that.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I'm like, yeah, I don't need to pile on now.
That's that's that's a minor thing compared to what we
have going on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Now, I'm telling you you watch that and you see
her just hey, pumping up the crowd, and she just
decides to walk briskly, so she makes sure to bump her.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You get to the hunnel really fast, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And that's and that's the thing, is that like if
Caitlyn Clark came into the league and look, is Caitlyn
Clark a look at me player?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Absolutely, but she's an on the court look at me player.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
If she was someone who came into the league and
she was talking about her greatness and was at odds
with her teammates, at odds with the coaches, at odds
with the opponents, said stuff in the.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Press, uh, you know, got in trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Like I completely get I completely get the Hey, this
rookie is a little too big for her breeches, and
we gotta we we gotta, we gotta, we gotta, we
gotta make sure that she understands what life is a
professional's about.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
If she was doing all that, I get it. I
completely got. Okay, you don't come in here and start
acting like this.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
But all she's on is coming in ball and all
the stuff that players quote don't like, it's all on
the court, which I'm sorry suck it up.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
This is professional basketball and the stuff that she that
she has to go through, it's like, you're real.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I mean, just think about taking a wide angle view
of the lenses that here's a sport that is getting
its best player, it's biggest player that they've ever had,
that's already brought them untold things like like charter travel
and more money and bigger television contracts.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
And it's like, Nope, we still don't like it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
And I don't know what business, what business can can
stay afloat when that's your attitude of a Yeah, here
comes somebody who's great for it, So what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
We don't like her nw we're well upset that she's
coming in getting credit because we have people who are
jealous and not big fans of the fact that, oh,
it's taken twenty years to figure this out. I mean,
I don't know any business where something has come in
that makes it all better and there's a big push
from the people involved in the business that says, yeah, no,
we don't want it. I'd rather go back to the
old ways. I'd rather go here's a machine that can
(23:01):
make your job easier. You're gonna get paid more money.
You're gonna have more time off. You're gonna have a
town Card's gonna pick you up from home and take
you to work every day.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
How great is that? No, I want the old way.
I don't like it. I don't like I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I don't. I don't like the old ways. Maybe coming
for your job, so be careful.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I said they're not.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
So what happened in Iron Man two?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I said they're not. I said, I said they are not.
I said nothing. Your job doesn't affect it. You get
paid more money, you get all these you had luxury rides. No, no, no,
I want where it was before. I want it back
to was Now.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
You're giving theoretical speeches like you're a political candidate, but
the idea that you've got a CBA that ends in
twenty seven, and she's getting her well planted things about
salary and such in uh as she goes through because
you've got players. I mean, look, she's got commercial endorsement,
she got paid plenty of n I l you know,
(23:52):
talking about I'm gonna become the fans of Lexi Hall,
Lexi Hall. Uh.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
That's gonna be all my accounts.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
After she came off the bench with her eight for ten,
uh six for seven from three point performance and everything else.
But you know, says all the right things as all that.
I mean, I guess the she's been a fan of
mine talking about the former record holder for assists. I
don't know, maybe an acquaintance of mine, a friend of mine,
and we've conversed since I was in college.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Probably the better way to say it that she'd been
a fan of mine for a long time.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Oh God, So that say she's perfect, but she doesn't
cause controversy. Oh look at what this. I mean, she's
not that kind of player to do that.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
But certainly again you know, for the technical file bad
in the moment, probably earned one over the course of
the game. So something that you know, she's got to
be a little less emotional when she disagrees with the call,
kind of like you know, parents and and those looking
on at youth the sports games, same thing.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Just let it go, let it go.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
They're doing their best. But it's the watching her play, right.
It was like happy Gilmour when she starts hitting those
little floaters in the lane.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Uh oh, happy learned how to put.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
And you know, get into the drive with the right
hand and and I think they're creating new stat categories
to follow for her in terms of the look ahead
passes and everything else. And you see how much better
the coordination with his her teammates are to expect said
bounce passes, said look ahead passes, all of that is
(25:30):
getting more and more fluid. So those assist totals should
be going up as well. Yeah, you embrace it. Three
years the CBA is up. Everybody will get to play
in the States and not have to take the summer
job or the fall job in Europe.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
No, I don't want to see No, I want to
go to Russia. Well, well, why look at what Katelyn
clay I don't. I don't like it. I don't want
to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
If I know, I want to go back to the
old bye, I want to make it more difficult, just
because I don't like the fact that a good player
has come into the league. Like can you imagine the
NFL if they get a guy coming in who is
going to transform the league? Like there was that was
a combination of Mahomes and Brady and all of this
and everything going on, and all the players did was
hate him. They didn't pick them for the Pro Bowl,
(26:11):
didn't pick them for the All Pro teams.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
He's getting everybody's getting more money.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The TV contracts are going up, and still you have
players saying, yeah, I don't like it now, I don't
like it.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I'd rather go back to the way it was before.
I don't like this new guy that's coming into the league.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Look, there's there's always gonna be growing pains, and everybody
wants their shine, and I get it right, you know,
depending no matter what kind of job you do, you know,
if all of a sudden, your your department gets a
little bit of run, no matter how good a job
you're doing, who who's getting the most attention, If there's
a new manager or there's some new employee or something changed,
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you know, the materially that suddenly they could just say, well,
it's obviously got to be that. So Caitlin Clark gets
her run. And in all our jobs, everybody around, no
matter what you do, I've been busting my.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Ass here forever.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Thanks for paying attention now, all right, Lloyd, after the game,
just kind of like, let's talk about our rookies.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
No, we didn't really want to know, we got to
talk about the star of the league. It's like, oh,
don't ask me about Lebron. You're gonna really ask me
about Lebron in the game he played fine. Yes, thirty
nine and seventeen and twelve. Yes, great game for Lebron.
How about one of our rookies were scoring eleven points
off the bench, Ask me about that instead.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
I mean, this is just insane.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
We're continuing to fight against the fact that this is
the best thing for our league.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Nope, nope, don't like it. Don't like it.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
And they got a sold out crowd ratings bonanza once
again on a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
All of these things.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But you know, hey, exit out about a Fresca exit
swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon. Now, to find out
what's trending, we go to the commissioner of our WNBA
fantasy league, Steve to say he's got all the answers
right Steve.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Hello, there, We've got baseball to get to in a minute.
WNBA is off tonight. There are three games tomorrow. It'll
be Dallas six and twenty playing at New York, LA
Sparks six and twenty one at Connecticut, and also tomorrow
Washington six and twenty one. Will be hosting Seattle.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I don't think those are going to be close. I'll
guess not. I think they are.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You have three games tomorrow where the records of the
teams are nineteen and seven against six and twenty one,
twenty three and four against six and twenty.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
They've already clinched a playoff birth New York with a
months to go. This is like the reverse White Sox.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
No, it's like the White Sox are playing three games
tomorrow night.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
And Seattle's decent and they're the only single digit favorite
in this thing.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Yeah, Washington six and twenty one.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Meanwhile, the PGA playoffs moved to Colorado this week, then
the Tour Championships at the end of this month in Atlanta,
and NASCAR is going to have the four hundred at
Daytona this Saturday night. They finally finished the Cup race
at Michigan today after the rain yesterday. Tyler Reddick the winner.
William Byron was second. Major League Baseball, we've got four
late games Mariners at Dodgers, a pitcher's duel, and scoreless
(29:05):
in the bottom of the sixth inning. In fact, they're
just ending the six with Brian wu as the starter
for the Mariners, having a good season and six scoreless
innings with five strikeouts. Gavin Stone, the Dodgers starting pitcher,
nine strikeouts in his six scoreless innings. Giants lead the
White Sox five to one top of the eighth. White
Sox Center with a record of thirty and ninety five
(29:25):
this year, already mathematically eliminated. Bas are shutting out the
Rays three to nothing in the bottom of the seventh.
Rais closer Pete Fairbanks goes on the injured list with
a lat strain. The Padres are winning again, five to
two over the Twins in the top of the eighth.
The Padres are just three games behind the first place
Dodgers in the NL West. Arizona was four back. The
Dbacks have already won Tonight. Arizona wins nine to six
(29:49):
at Miami. Adrian del Castill, a Miami native, hit a
grand Slam and a two run single, but Diamondbacks all
star second baseman Katel Marte goes on the injured list
with a sprained ankle. The Mets won on a solo
homer bottom of the ninth by Francisco Alvarez four to
three over Baltimore. Houston wins on a solo homer bottom
of the ninth by Jarner Diez off Boston closer Kenley
(30:12):
Jansen five to four, Houston the final, winning the game.
Despite four ers victories for the Reds, the Rangers, and
the Kansas City Royals, who've won five straight, beat the
Angels five to three. Braves third basement Austin Riley will
miss six to eight weeks with a broken hand he
was hit by a pitch yesterday. The Washington Commanders officially
named rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels as their starter. The franchise
(30:34):
will have a new starting quarterback to open the season
for a seventh straight year. LA Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert
resumed practicing today for the first time this month. He
had been in a walking boot with a foot injury.
The team's backup quarterbacks have been unable to lead the
offense to a single touchdown this preseason. Jacksonville wide receiver
Christian Kirk is out this week with a calf injury.
(30:55):
Ravens tight end Mark Andrews mispractice again today after his
car accident last week, but his coach says don't worry.
Quarterback Colt McCoy retired after twelve seasons. Buffalo wide receiver
Mark wez Valdez Scantling will miss multiple weeks with a
spray neck, and so will backup quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with
a knee injury. So Buffalo is reportedly due to sign
quarterback Anthony Brown. Steelers running back Jalen Warren could miss
(31:19):
multiple weeks with hamstring injury. The Raiders yesterday named Gardner
Minshew they're starting QB. Wide receiver DeVante Adams did not
play Saturday due to sordis. He'll be back at practice
tomorrow and Rams.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
But that was sore us at the team. That wasn't
anything to his body. He was just sore that this
is the team he's got to play.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
He was a little sore at the offense last year
as you know, to recall and with good reason. Rams
quarterback Matthew Stafford will be ready for Week one, although
he might miss more practices this week with hamstring tightness.
Just did individual work today.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Back to you, thanks a bunch, Steve.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
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two big stories out of college football. One is just
(32:32):
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The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
ti rack dot com studios. Something we haven't seen hardly
at all this year, and now we got to see it.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
We just saw a home run from Gavin Lux.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
My goodness, Gavin Lux, first one of the game. Dodgers
and the Mariners been four hits total in this game.
Lux goes deep drive to left centerfield oppos field to
give the Dodgers a one nothing lead.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Look at the Dodgers getting a well pitched game from
a starting pitcher. Mike who knew, but it absolutely is happening.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Shock and awe. Well, I mean we saw it from
Clayton kershaw Right. He gave you. He gave you a
big run deeper than I think maybe you thought.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
That happens now. Two big stories out of college football.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Actually, the first, let let's do this silly one first,
because I already know the next head coach who is
going to be the next guy to quit because I
can't do it anymore. I don't have the energy for
the nil era, and that is famed Oklahoma State head
coach Mike Gundy, because he's the.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Latest get off my law and look at he's not
that old.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Uh you know, look Ben Gundy's own Van Gundy, Jeff
van Gunnys. Mike Gundy's only you know, you know, when
he was a man, he was forty, he's you know,
he's still he's still a young guy. And he's got
a really good team this year. But he is now
the latest to say, hey, things have to stop. I'm
old and get off my lawn. He is so upset
(34:48):
with all the navigating that has to be done now
and distracted with the transfer portal and name, image and likeness.
He's drawn the line, he said today quote I told
the players there's no negotiating now. Portal's over all negotiations history.
So now we're playing football. We're just coaching and playing football.
It's non negotiable. Now start to get in December. Tell
(35:10):
your agent to quit calling and asking us for more money.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
To go to work.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
That sounds great, Yeah, that sounds great, doesn't what you think?
Of course not, of course it sounds always be closing.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yes, you know, he says that, and you sound like, yes,
these greedy players, you know, I can't believe they're doing this,
and yes, oh look at my Gundhy standing up and
striking a blow. And meanwhile everybody else is like, you know, Cols,
we'll get you more money. Well, we'll get called. This
is how it works. Now, this is college football.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
You were a four star. Yeah, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Come on over now, call you have your guys call me.
I will have people that take your phone calls and
we will figure that out.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Like this is college football now.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Like iaders are standing by, it's like a telethon, and
all the coach it's waiting for the phones to ring,
and there you see him answering them in the background
and they're talking like I mean.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
I get laugh.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
That's that's gonna happen at some point here. You can
have famous saloons one after that, Oh coming up next?
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Who?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Like, who's that Is that Is that Des Bryant taking
a phone call from Mike Gundy behind him?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Is that that's amazing?
Speaker 5 (36:21):
No, but that's just hey for Northwestern, I'll i'll spearhead it.
H We got Clancy Brown, we got Julia Luis Dreyfus.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
I mean, we could do this all day long.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Man, Hi, this is Julia. Oh hey great, I want
to talk to you about VP. How much would you
like to donate to help us keep our athletes?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Sir? Yeah, but I want to talk.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
About VE donate somebody, I'll do. I'll leave you a
voicemail as mister crabs go ahead.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I couldn't stand Matt Walsh. I couldn't stand the guy
who played Jonah, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
But look like like this sounds great, right, but this
is just such a get off my lawn. I don't
even think Mike Gundy is sixty yet. And you can
tell that he's had enough. And this is gonna be
pretty common that coaches that you don't know what their
breaking point is, and for a lot of them, this
is where they say I've had enough.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
I just I can't.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
This is not the game I love and I just
have Okay, guess what this is. That's why it's time
for the new generation of college football head coaches come
in and make their mark. This is kind of how
it goes out.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I get it. You don't like it. I don't like that.
It's a part of it. This is how it goes
This is the game. If you want to coach, great,
If not, walk away. This is not going to slow down.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Just because you say don't call doesn't mean agents aren't
going to keep trolling.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
And then he probably, you know, he winks to another camera,
call me. Yeah he's fifty he's fifty seven. H So,
but it's it's something we called years ago as this
was starting to open up, right, all the guys that
were very critical of just players in terms of their
(37:52):
celebrations or whatever else tamping down. And you know, Mike Krzyzewski,
if you step foot on this court, by god, I'll
have you taken out.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Kind of thing with rushing the court all those years,
you knew it was not gonna end well for some
of these guys. Tap it out.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
And now it's the business, and it's a matter of
how fast the college that employs you gives you the
personnel and support to take a lot of that or
as much as they can off of your shoulders. But
let's face it, the players and their families, who's their
point of contact still gonna be the coach, Yeah right,
he's the one, and the whoever the assistant coaches that
(38:30):
that's head of the recruiting in whatever region, Those are
gonna be the two touch points, and anybody else is
a suit. So until they get a verbal or a
written or a text message from the coach or the
assistant coach, it's all just gonna be noise. Hey, coach,
this is what they're telling me. It's like that's not
gonna be enough for a lot of kids in their
(38:51):
families because they put their ultimate faith and their futures
into the hands of these coaches, and it's only getting bigger. Eventually,
maybe there'll be some more rails and everything to kind of,
you know, funnel it back into something more streamlined and uniform.
But until then, everybody's got to deal with it the
best they can. But telling agents and representatives not to
(39:14):
call probably ain't gonna keep some of those athletes that
have already decided they're not fans of yours, you know,
And it's it's.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Like I get the old school philosophy, where hey, coach,
I'm entrusting my son to you, and it's you do
whatever coach says, and coach.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Is gonna make you a man.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
I'm gonna give you to him as you're gonna and
then you, I'm gonna give him the boy, and you're
gonna give me the man.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
No, the dads are going what do you What do
you mean he's not taking your phone call. I'm pulling
you out. Then you're gonna do it. I'm gonna call Colorado,
I'm gonna call USC No, they'll take your call. They'll
get you more nil money. You'll be I'll have you
out of that school tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
I'll drive up.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
I'll have you packed up and out of that room
by three point thirty in the afternoon. We can go
like that's parents. Now this is hey, my kid can
make a ton of money and he doesn't have to
make it to the NFL. Hey, guess what, I want
a big part of that pie from my kid. But
think about the rules of engagement, Jason. I mean, you
don't have to sit out the year like you used to. Right,
(40:10):
once upon a time, that was.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
A deterrent of all right, I had leave and then
I've got no guarantees here here here. Now it's like,
all right, they've got a spot for me.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
I can go.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
And you can see some of the starting quarterbacks being announced.
Those aren't sure things either when you transfer, So.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Exit out about a fresca exit swalling down.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
tirec dot com studios. Tell your rage is not to call. Yeah,
what a coach say a practice today? Nothing, don't worry
about whatever, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Didn't he say something?
Speaker 1 (40:42):
But I'm not calling. Yeah, I don't matter. I wasn't
even paying attention. I have about earbuds in. I didn't
even know what he was talking about. I don't even
know he's a man. He's fifty seven, That's what I'm saying. Uh. Now,
that's not the only big college football story. After another
big story today, we will tell you, without a doubt,
who has the most pressure on them this coming season
college football.
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Well, I'll tell you what, Mike mh.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
This Russell Wilson Justin Fields conversation has been. I mean,
I want to say thanks, because whenever it comes down
to NFL in the offseason, you look back and say,
what were the three biggest offseason stories in the NFL?
Like after the NFL Draft was over, after free agency,
and I got to say, we've gotten a lot of
mileage out of Justin Fields, Russell Wilson. I mean even
(01:15):
when nothing was going on, when the teams were, when
the guys are on vacation, and Russell, We've got a
lot of mileage out of this man. I gotta say
thanks because even when even when these guys are just
hanging out, not even throwing footballs, Hey, Justin Fields, Russell Wilson,
it's been that kind of summer. So first I want
to say thank you for.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
This well because you know me with the investment that
I have over the years in Justin Fields and every play,
every criticism, every bit of excitement that you had down
the stretch when they played pretty well and got to
those seven wins, knowing that the writing was on the wall,
you were not coming back that you know, It's it's
(01:52):
been an interesting watch. And from my friends in the
Pittsburgh area that live and die with the squad.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
They're in for a painful fall. It would appear well see.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And here's the thing is that all of this offense,
you figure, Okay, at some point there's when we start
playing the game's gonna be some kind of clarity.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
No, the Steelers offense looks awful.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It looks so bad that Mike Tomlin said after the
game this weekend. I mean every game looks like it's
gonna be nine to three. Uh they they play play
the Bills this weekend. Everything he says, too much JV,
too much junior varsity to our offense. All right, like
this is too much JV to our offense. But now
it's saying.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Right like you might let the defense with TJ.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Watt when he's ready and healthy and everything, and that's
all finding good. Are you scoring twenty points a game?
That's all I have to ask ye score twenty points
a game?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And the answer is.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And look, we've told you for a long time Justin
Field is going to be the guy at some point.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Why he's a better quarterback.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Russell Wilson is washed and and and eventually that's going
to happen. And but now that you get to see
actual results, you see that, oh yeah, it's happening. And
not only do I do I I am I still
on board that Justin Fields is gonna be the starter.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
What did I say? Week five?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Now I'm throwing it out there. He could be the
opening day starter. Justin Fields can be the opening day
starter for two reasons. For one reason, because the Steelers
stake no he can be the opening day starter.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
One reason Russell Wilson, because.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Now I'm saving that from a week when when when
actually he does get named, I can say there's only
run one reason why Justin Fields is named the starting quarterback.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Why because Russell Wilson stinks.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Now, there's two reasons why Justin Fields is gonna wind
up being the quarterbacks through then later and I can
now see him being named the quarterback out of the gate.
The first one is this, you watch them play. You
watch them play like like I have seen the last
two couple of weeks, and what you can take away
even though neither quarterback is able to really you know,
do well, you can't take away Okay, Fields look great,
(03:58):
but but but here's the with Russell Wilson. Now, Week one,
Justin Field's had some moments. He also fumbled twice, so
it was a zero some day for him. Right, all
the good he did, he completely biffed it by fumbling
the ball twice. Now you get to see Russell Wilson
and even though yes it's one preseason game, Russell Wilson's
didn't getting.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
To be in his late thirties. He is now a plotter. Okay,
he's not the same.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Hey, Russell Wilson's gonna run back and escape and drop
back thirty yards and run all around and then run
to the line of scrimmage and throwing to Doug Baldwin like.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
He did in his a day. Well, no, look at
the escapability. No, Wilson has.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Become more of a plotter. And you look at where
his career has been the last couple of years. His
yards per attempt is down in the bottom quarter of
the league.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Like he's not.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
He's not someone you know, eight nine yards per attempt,
he's down under seven, all right, like, and that that
doesn't get it done. You know, if you're not a
dynamic quarterback, you have to be Okay, at least we're
gonna move the team up and down the field. And
Russell Wilson's not been able to do that. You saw
it when he needed to do it last year in Denver.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
He couldn't.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And Denver, who knew him better than anybody else besides
the Seahawks, will already let him go. They said, we're
okay letting you go, and we gave up a lot
of draft.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Picks for you.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
But you can see that he's a plotter and for Fields.
And it's not that Fields has lit the world on fire.
I'm not saying he has. I like Justin Fields little
bit more than than others do. I know you do
as well, But Justin Fields has more dynamism to his game.
He's a little bit more dynamic. He can make a
big play here and there. He's got a little bit
more escapability. Justin Fields is just going to be a
(05:30):
little bit more electric and bring a little bit more
life to that offense. Like the Steelers didn't High didn't
bring in Russell Wilson say Okay, don't make mistakes, go
out and just be no. They need they need a
guy that can make some plays, right. You let Deontay
Johnson go. George Pickens is a guy that could show
up and have a great week one week another week.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Not.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
You're reliant on the running backs, but now you're not.
Jalen Warren gets hurt, who has looked like he was
going to take over the number one role this year,
but now he's hurt. He's out a while. And whenever
you get soft tissue injuries, Jalen went who knows when
he's coming back. You can't give the ball to Naji
Harris twenty five times a game because twenty five rushes
for sixty five yards, which is what Naji Harris gives you,
is not great. So you see, Okay, now we need
(06:11):
a little bit more from Russell Wilson than that, and
that's not what he's gonna give you. He's not as
dynamic as Justin Fields. That's reason number one. Just watching
the game, you can see that Fields brings even if
it's I don't want to say infinitesimal because that's small,
even it's just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Even if he brings twenty.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Five percent more life to the offense than Russell Wilson does,
that's gonna feed into everybody. That's gonna get everybody's juice
is flowing. That's gonna make the offense go. So if
it comes down to this, this is not Russell Wilson
from a bunch of years ago. This is a hey man,
we really gotta get We can't get out of the
gate slow. We gotta get out there and do some things.
So that's number one. Justin Field's even a little bit, Mike,
(06:49):
He's more dynamic than Russell Wilson.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
With the say design runs whatever. But you know, I
put that out with a an asterisk in terms of
that playmaking and the I like the use of the turn.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Dynamism. It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
You like that, right. I looked up to make sure
it was it's dynamism. I'm like, that's a great word.
It is, like, you know what, dynamism.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
That sounds like the name of a failed nineties early
two thousand startup.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Dude. I went to work for Dynamism. It was great.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
We had all the stock options and we went bankrupt. Man,
that ceo fled with all the money. Nothing we could do, man,
But boy, I had a fun time at Dynamism. We
had a ping pong table right outside the office, right,
we all played. We played paper football at lunch. Sometimes
we get like three days off in the middle of
the week.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I love working for Dynamism.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
And then we eventually found out that ceo the thing
he got when he absconded was a light up suit
and he used to sing.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Opera on Fridays like Dynamo. Ah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Look, that's a wow, that's a that's a that's a deep,
deep reference you made there. Buddy.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, that's that's what we do here.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
But it's the idea that Arthur Smith is the guy
pulling the strings, you know, the guy that basically put
Bijon Robinson last year at a box and never let
him play on a team that otherwise had some opportunity. Right,
good offensive line moved the ball, They gave Desmond Ridder
no support, none whatsoever, and then this guy got hired to.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Go fix the Steelers. So to that, I say, I
don't know.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I don't know, but you do have a couple of
weap but you got a guy who's potentially a transcendent,
you know, top five kind of guy. Uh yeah, he
still had some drops issues in maturity issues at times
in George Pickens friarmooth when he's healthy, I know, Warren's
hurt to start things, Harris plods along. I mean, there's
(08:39):
certainly a base from which to work, But is that
the guy to pull the strings.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Regardless of who they pick as the quarterback? Is my fear.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Everybody wrong, Like for the last fifteen years, everybody that
stealers about everybody's right right, Who's the guy that's been
been making the choices?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
And that's why Tomlin. Everybody's wrong.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
All these guys think like all of it comes back
to I want to be able to have an identity
running the football.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Okay, Dream Vedice is not walking back through that Okay,
this is not.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Too Staley and those offensive lines, and.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Eric Pigrim is not walking through that door. Each Walter
Abercrombie is not walking through that door.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yes, very nice.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah you want a little little deeper.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Yeah, I like that though, But it's it's just that
that idea of all right, that's not how you're getting
over on offense in twenty twenty four, and it could
signal your doom because it would appear, you know, going
all uh Indiana Jones and the last crusade.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
You may have chosen poorly now, but here's this is
the other.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
This is reason too why fields canon will start soon,
should be as early as week one.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
And I take you back, and I always think.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
About this because sometimes changes are made a quarterback, not
because of the quarterback, but because who's going to be
in the best position to move this team? Right when
Tony Romo started his career with the Dallas Cowboys, I'm
going back twenty years Romo started his career. You know
out of Eastern Illinois. Who is this guy? Drew Bledsoe's
a starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys and Bill Parcells
(10:17):
as the coach, and hey, Bledsoe's working on his new
team now after Brady takes.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Over, and look, hey, cowboys can be great. And what happened?
The Cowboys struggled?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Why because their offensive line wasn't any good and Drew Bledsoe,
as good a quarterback as he was, was a statue
in the pocket, and he kept getting sacked, and he
got sacked so much. And because there was nothing Bill
Parcells could do about the offensive line, He's like, well,
I gotta go to the backup because Tony Romo can
at least make plays with his legs.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
And what happens.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Tony Romo takes over. The Cowboys take off, and Romo
starts a twelve year career and gets paid all kinds
of money. And now he's getting paid all kinds of
money to do fair work at CBS. The same thing
now for the Steelers, right, you've heard a lot about
their offensive line, the injuries, the ineffectiveness they are having.
If this is the offensive line, you need to put
a quarterback behind center. That can make plays with his legs.
(11:07):
And I've watched Justin Field's run for one thousand yards
in the NFL. I've watched him be the second best
running quarterback I've seen the last fifteen years besides Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
So if that's the skill set that can bail out
the offensive line, don't you have to go to him?
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Don't you have to say, Hey, Fields is the guy?
Hey Russ.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
If this was you know, twenty fifteen and you were
you know, twenty seven and not thirty seven a, it
would be a different story.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
We know you can get outside the pocket, but you
can't do it right.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
They both get sacked, but Russell Wilson get sacked because
Russell Wilson can't get away like like he used to
be able to, whereas Justin Fields with design runs.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
And being able to get outside the pocket and being
able to throw on the run.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, he can make more plays like that, and you
can take the pressure off the offensive line. You can't
if you can't change the offensive line and bring players
in who're suddenly gonna turn it into a Hey, we
got five building blocks of granite and suddenly doesn't matter.
We have back there at quarterback, he's gonna succeed. You
kind of have to make the change of quarterback and
another game and more of these joint practices where the
Steelers offense looks like it's stuck in mud, it's gonna
(12:08):
be We have no choice but to go to Justin
Fields because with the makeup of our offense right now,
we need guys to make more plays. Right, the offensive
line is dinged up, they stink. We don't have Jalen
Warren handing the ball and Naji Harris isn't gonna work.
We need somebody that can do that, and that's Justin Fields.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Well, and that's what was always hoped for in Chicago,
that Luke Getze, the offensive coordinators in Chicago would get
the fact that, hey, you know what, if you design
some rollouts. You've seen it a little bit with Waldron
and Caleb Williams, like, oh wait, he can see the
field as he gets on the run and then he
(12:45):
can make the decision. Now, did fields often make the
decision pretty fast after a quick read? Debrun Yes, so
teaching patients and that next level would certainly be of help.
But yeah, the elusiveness and to extend drives on broken
plays and creating opportunities far more likely than Fields. I mean,
(13:08):
go back and watch some of the last tape of
Russell Wilson in Denver, which is why they ate all
the money they did. You'll find many a play, remember
that electric football game.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
And maybe maybe you got.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
But it would take like nine minutes to set up
the next play, because yeah, you put it back up
and set him back.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
But every once in a while you'd have a guy
that would just start spinning around.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yeah, that was always my quarterback. Why is he spinning around?
He can't go He's gonna get sacked.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Go back and watch some game film of Russell Wilson
last year. He did that quite often. Hey he's out
of the pocket, he's moved to his right. Wait, he
just went right back into into traffic and found himself
at the bottom end of another sack. So, uh, that
being said, I'll trust Fields in those opportunities more than anything.
(13:56):
But I'm looking at Arthur Smith, and I'm staring at
a picture of him right now as I'm thinking about
this offense and what a crime he committed by keeping
p Sean Robinson did great.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
For the next guy, not so much. In twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
No way, No.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I want to ask you, do you think that's what
Sean Payton was doing last year with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
He was.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
He was diagramming plays on that old electric football set
and that's why they fence.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Found so much.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, you going to Sean, what's that noise in Coach
Peyton's office? Just don't go in whenever you hear the.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Scripting some new plays and he wants to see how
it's gonna roll up, that's all he wants to he
You know, he doesn't use the algorithms or the video
games to simulate.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
To hell with that. He goes old school.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Hey, I came up with this new play. What did
you dream it?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It was a play where the quarterback spins around in
the pocket for like thirty five seconds and then all
of a sudden he straightens out and goes up the
middle and it's wide open.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Let's try it.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
It's the old Hey fall down like you're hurt your ankle,
don't forget about you, and they need to get up
and I'll pass you the ball.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
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great story out of college football from today. But you
know me, Mike, I never want to say I told
you so right that this is not me. It's not
who I am, right, you know, I told you so Okay, Yeah,
(17:03):
I'm not that guy.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
It's in the deep dark recesses of the brain. I mean,
it's never at the forefront. It's never never. You know,
you never wear a shirt in blazon with it. I
don't know you've furnished a tattoo yet.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
No, as far as you know, not yet. Yeah, and
I wouldn't show you if I did.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I don't want to know.
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Speaker 4 (17:31):
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Speaker 1 (17:33):
And we talked about Hey, here comes the second half
of the WNBA schedule, and here comes Caitlin Clark on
the middle Finger Tour. Okay, you didn't pick me for
the Olympic team. I had to see all of this
going on. I had to deal with all of this
physical play and all of this hatred and jealousy when
all I'm doing is coming in and playing ball. Okay,
(17:54):
here comes the middle Finger Tour the second half of
the season.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I'm rested.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I've been lifting weights, I've been going a Corey Fairs,
I've been on stage, I met Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And then two games over the weekend we watched Friday night,
she goes for twenty nine, ten and five as they
beat Phoenix. Diana Tarassi check, I got you, hey, Seattle
ninety two seventy five, twenty three, nine and five. Another
check for Caitlyn Clark. The middle Finger Tour is underway.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
And it is glorious.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
It is time for the WNBA to stop being jealous
and just embrace her stardom in talent. And you're still
seeing stuff like like Skyler Diggan Smith who didn't like
the fact that Caitlin Clark was pumping up the home crowd,
wanted to make sure she walked and bumped into her
as she's walking off the court like she's pumping up
the home crowd.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Man.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I mean the hate that she gets is just so insane.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Like at any at any point there is for players
whoever to say, hey, you know what, Kaitlyn Clark, Kaylen Clark,
you still see it right.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You still see officials ridiculously.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Calling a technical foul on Kate Len Clark because she
punched the stanchion after she missed the three, and it was, oh,
you're disrespecting the game.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Officials got to get on board.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Too many they've not officiated her fairly out of the
gate and now you got you're getting it.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Really, you're getting a technical foul because you punched the stick.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Come on, now, I wouldn't say we do it? What
do we do?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
This is professional basketball, man, This isn't a Saturday game
in the gym where hey it's at the YMCNA. We
want to show good sports or hip. This is the
you miss a shot, you can punch the stanchion. If
the stanchion wants to sue, let the stanchion sue. But
I think the stanchion's just fine.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I would say this, Should she have gotten a technical
in that instance?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
No? Could she have gotten a technical fifty other times
during the game, absolutely yelling to the crowd, Yeah these
are the worst. Talking about the officials, Yeah, they're not
very good. So we got all the micd up because
she was miked up for the game. So anybody that
watched it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And
if you didn't, well let me clue in. You got
(19:57):
a lot of cutaways of all the positive notes Caitlin cluck.
And I'm not look denying and pushing it down. I'm
just saying she was she earned a technical. You just
not in that moment like that was not the time,
she said, plenty of things, had plenty of moments of
history onics where you could have called one after a call,
(20:17):
you know, the the giant arms thrown up, yelling ah,
and all those things to where if you're an official,
you may have been able to do it. They did
have that scary moment though, with that inbound play where
the free safety came and took her almost took her
head off and she was down holding her arm for
a minute. So you had one of those moments too,
(20:39):
And for Skyler Diggins, I was gonna I started to
ask if she was actually a referee, because it seemed
like there were a couple of the refs didn't know
what to do and she was able to influence them
into a call by going over and talking to them.
So I was getting ready to add that, and then
the incident you know, happened about pumping up and everything else,
which meant the internets were unleashed and.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
That was the end of that.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I'm like, yeah, I don't need to pile on now.
That's that's that's a minor thing compared to what we
have going on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Now, I'm telling you you watch that and you see
her just hey, pumping up the crowd, and she just
decides to walk briskly, so she makes sure to bump her.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
You get to the hunnel really fast, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And that's and that's the thing, is that like if
Caitlyn Clark came into the league and look, is Caitlyn
Clark a look at me player?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Absolutely, but she's an on the court look at me player.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
If she was someone who came into the league and
she was talking about her greatness and was at odds
with her teammates, at odds with the coaches, at odds
with the opponents, said stuff in the.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Press, uh, you know, got in trouble.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Like I completely get I completely get the Hey, this
rookie is a little too big for her breeches, and
we gotta we we gotta, we gotta, we gotta, we
gotta make sure that she understands what life is a
professional's about.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
If she was doing all that, I get it. I
completely got. Okay, you don't come in here and start
acting like this.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
But all she's on is coming in ball and all
the stuff that players quote don't like, it's all on
the court, which I'm sorry suck it up.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
This is professional basketball and the stuff that she that
she has to go through, it's like, you're real.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I mean, just think about taking a wide angle view
of the lenses that here's a sport that is getting
its best player, it's biggest player that they've ever had,
that's already brought them untold things like like charter travel
and more money and bigger television contracts.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
And it's like, Nope, we still don't like it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
And I don't know what business, what business can can
stay afloat when that's your attitude of a Yeah, here
comes somebody who's great for it, So what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
We don't like her nw we're well upset that she's
coming in getting credit because we have people who are
jealous and not big fans of the fact that, oh,
it's taken twenty years to figure this out. I mean,
I don't know any business where something has come in
that makes it all better and there's a big push
from the people involved in the business that says, yeah, no,
we don't want it. I'd rather go back to the
old ways. I'd rather go here's a machine that can
(23:01):
make your job easier. You're gonna get paid more money.
You're gonna have more time off. You're gonna have a
town Card's gonna pick you up from home and take
you to work every day.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
How great is that? No, I want the old way.
I don't like it. I don't like I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I don't. I don't like the old ways. Maybe coming
for your job, so be careful.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I said they're not.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
So what happened in Iron Man two?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I said they're not. I said, I said they are not.
I said nothing. Your job doesn't affect it. You get
paid more money, you get all these you had luxury rides. No, no, no,
I want where it was before. I want it back
to was Now.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
You're giving theoretical speeches like you're a political candidate, but
the idea that you've got a CBA that ends in
twenty seven, and she's getting her well planted things about
salary and such in uh as she goes through because
you've got players. I mean, look, she's got commercial endorsement,
she got paid plenty of n I l you know,
(23:52):
talking about I'm gonna become the fans of Lexi Hall,
Lexi Hall. Uh.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
That's gonna be all my accounts.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
After she came off the bench with her eight for ten,
uh six for seven from three point performance and everything else.
But you know, says all the right things as all that.
I mean, I guess the she's been a fan of
mine talking about the former record holder for assists. I
don't know, maybe an acquaintance of mine, a friend of mine,
and we've conversed since I was in college.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Probably the better way to say it that she'd been
a fan of mine for a long time.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Oh God, So that say she's perfect, but she doesn't
cause controversy. Oh look at what this. I mean, she's
not that kind of player to do that.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
But certainly again you know, for the technical file bad
in the moment, probably earned one over the course of
the game. So something that you know, she's got to
be a little less emotional when she disagrees with the call,
kind of like you know, parents and and those looking
on at youth the sports games, same thing.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Just let it go, let it go.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
They're doing their best. But it's the watching her play, right.
It was like happy Gilmour when she starts hitting those
little floaters in the lane.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Uh oh, happy learned how to put.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
And you know, get into the drive with the right
hand and and I think they're creating new stat categories
to follow for her in terms of the look ahead
passes and everything else. And you see how much better
the coordination with his her teammates are to expect said
bounce passes, said look ahead passes, all of that is
(25:30):
getting more and more fluid. So those assist totals should
be going up as well. Yeah, you embrace it. Three
years the CBA is up. Everybody will get to play
in the States and not have to take the summer
job or the fall job in Europe.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
No, I don't want to see No, I want to
go to Russia. Well, well, why look at what Katelyn
clay I don't. I don't like it. I don't want
to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
If I know, I want to go back to the
old bye, I want to make it more difficult, just
because I don't like the fact that a good player
has come into the league. Like can you imagine the
NFL if they get a guy coming in who is
going to transform the league? Like there was that was
a combination of Mahomes and Brady and all of this
and everything going on, and all the players did was
hate him. They didn't pick them for the Pro Bowl,
(26:11):
didn't pick them for the All Pro teams.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
He's getting everybody's getting more money.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The TV contracts are going up, and still you have
players saying, yeah, I don't like it now, I don't
like it.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I'd rather go back to the way it was before.
I don't like this new guy that's coming into the league.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Look, there's there's always gonna be growing pains, and everybody
wants their shine, and I get it right, you know,
depending no matter what kind of job you do, you know,
if all of a sudden, your your department gets a
little bit of run, no matter how good a job
you're doing, who who's getting the most attention, If there's
a new manager or there's some new employee or something changed,
(26:48):
you know, the materially that suddenly they could just say, well,
it's obviously got to be that. So Caitlin Clark gets
her run. And in all our jobs, everybody around, no
matter what you do, I've been busting my.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Ass here forever.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Thanks for paying attention now, all right, Lloyd, after the game,
just kind of like, let's talk about our rookies.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
No, we didn't really want to know, we got to
talk about the star of the league. It's like, oh,
don't ask me about Lebron. You're gonna really ask me
about Lebron in the game he played fine. Yes, thirty
nine and seventeen and twelve. Yes, great game for Lebron.
How about one of our rookies were scoring eleven points
off the bench, Ask me about that instead.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
I mean, this is just insane.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
We're continuing to fight against the fact that this is
the best thing for our league.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Nope, nope, don't like it. Don't like it.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
And they got a sold out crowd ratings bonanza once
again on a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
All of these things.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But you know, hey, exit out about a Fresca exit
swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon. Now, to find out
what's trending, we go to the commissioner of our WNBA
fantasy league, Steve to say he's got all the answers
right Steve.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Hello, there, We've got baseball to get to in a minute.
WNBA is off tonight. There are three games tomorrow. It'll
be Dallas six and twenty playing at New York, LA
Sparks six and twenty one at Connecticut, and also tomorrow
Washington six and twenty one. Will be hosting Seattle.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I don't think those are going to be close. I'll
guess not. I think they are.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You have three games tomorrow where the records of the
teams are nineteen and seven against six and twenty one,
twenty three and four against six and twenty.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
They've already clinched a playoff birth New York with a
months to go. This is like the reverse White Sox.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
No, it's like the White Sox are playing three games
tomorrow night.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
And Seattle's decent and they're the only single digit favorite
in this thing.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Yeah, Washington six and twenty one.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
Meanwhile, the PGA playoffs moved to Colorado this week, then
the Tour Championships at the end of this month in Atlanta,
and NASCAR is going to have the four hundred at
Daytona this Saturday night. They finally finished the Cup race
at Michigan today after the rain yesterday. Tyler Reddick the winner.
William Byron was second. Major League Baseball, we've got four
late games Mariners at Dodgers, a pitcher's duel, and scoreless
(29:05):
in the bottom of the sixth inning. In fact, they're
just ending the six with Brian wu as the starter
for the Mariners, having a good season and six scoreless
innings with five strikeouts. Gavin Stone, the Dodgers starting pitcher,
nine strikeouts in his six scoreless innings. Giants lead the
White Sox five to one top of the eighth. White
Sox Center with a record of thirty and ninety five
(29:25):
this year, already mathematically eliminated. Bas are shutting out the
Rays three to nothing in the bottom of the seventh.
Rais closer Pete Fairbanks goes on the injured list with
a lat strain. The Padres are winning again, five to
two over the Twins in the top of the eighth.
The Padres are just three games behind the first place
Dodgers in the NL West. Arizona was four back. The
Dbacks have already won Tonight. Arizona wins nine to six
(29:49):
at Miami. Adrian del Castill, a Miami native, hit a
grand Slam and a two run single, but Diamondbacks all
star second baseman Katel Marte goes on the injured list
with a sprained ankle. The Mets won on a solo
homer bottom of the ninth by Francisco Alvarez four to
three over Baltimore. Houston wins on a solo homer bottom
of the ninth by Jarner Diez off Boston closer Kenley
(30:12):
Jansen five to four, Houston the final, winning the game.
Despite four ers victories for the Reds, the Rangers, and
the Kansas City Royals, who've won five straight, beat the
Angels five to three. Braves third basement Austin Riley will
miss six to eight weeks with a broken hand he
was hit by a pitch yesterday. The Washington Commanders officially
named rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels as their starter. The franchise
(30:34):
will have a new starting quarterback to open the season
for a seventh straight year. LA Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert
resumed practicing today for the first time this month. He
had been in a walking boot with a foot injury.
The team's backup quarterbacks have been unable to lead the
offense to a single touchdown this preseason. Jacksonville wide receiver
Christian Kirk is out this week with a calf injury.
(30:55):
Ravens tight end Mark Andrews mispractice again today after his
car accident last week, but his coach says don't worry.
Quarterback Colt McCoy retired after twelve seasons. Buffalo wide receiver
Mark wez Valdez Scantling will miss multiple weeks with a
spray neck, and so will backup quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with
a knee injury. So Buffalo is reportedly due to sign
quarterback Anthony Brown. Steelers running back Jalen Warren could miss
(31:19):
multiple weeks with hamstring injury. The Raiders yesterday named Gardner
Minshew they're starting QB. Wide receiver DeVante Adams did not
play Saturday due to sordis. He'll be back at practice
tomorrow and Rams.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
But that was sore us at the team. That wasn't
anything to his body. He was just sore that this
is the team he's got to play.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
He was a little sore at the offense last year
as you know, to recall and with good reason. Rams
quarterback Matthew Stafford will be ready for Week one, although
he might miss more practices this week with hamstring tightness.
Just did individual work today.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Back to you, thanks a bunch, Steve.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
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two big stories out of college football. One is just
(32:32):
a little bit sillier than the other, but still both
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Speaker 1 (33:19):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
ti rack dot com studios. Something we haven't seen hardly
at all this year, and now we got to see it.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
We just saw a home run from Gavin Lux.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
My goodness, Gavin Lux, first one of the game. Dodgers
and the Mariners been four hits total in this game.
Lux goes deep drive to left centerfield oppos field to
give the Dodgers a one nothing lead.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Look at the Dodgers getting a well pitched game from
a starting pitcher. Mike who knew, but it absolutely is happening.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Shock and awe. Well, I mean we saw it from
Clayton kershaw Right. He gave you. He gave you a
big run deeper than I think maybe you thought.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
That happens now. Two big stories out of college football.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Actually, the first, let let's do this silly one first,
because I already know the next head coach who is
going to be the next guy to quit because I
can't do it anymore. I don't have the energy for
the nil era, and that is famed Oklahoma State head
coach Mike Gundy, because he's the.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Latest get off my law and look at he's not
that old.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Uh you know, look Ben Gundy's own Van Gundy, Jeff
van Gunnys. Mike Gundy's only you know, you know, when
he was a man, he was forty, he's you know,
he's still he's still a young guy. And he's got
a really good team this year. But he is now
the latest to say, hey, things have to stop. I'm
old and get off my lawn. He is so upset
(34:48):
with all the navigating that has to be done now
and distracted with the transfer portal and name, image and likeness.
He's drawn the line, he said today quote I told
the players there's no negotiating now. Portal's over all negotiations history.
So now we're playing football. We're just coaching and playing football.
It's non negotiable. Now start to get in December. Tell
(35:10):
your agent to quit calling and asking us for more money.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
To go to work.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
That sounds great, Yeah, that sounds great, doesn't what you think?
Of course not, of course it sounds always be closing.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yes, you know, he says that, and you sound like, yes,
these greedy players, you know, I can't believe they're doing this,
and yes, oh look at my Gundhy standing up and
striking a blow. And meanwhile everybody else is like, you know, Cols,
we'll get you more money. Well, we'll get called. This
is how it works. Now, this is college football.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
You were a four star. Yeah, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Come on over now, call you have your guys call me.
I will have people that take your phone calls and
we will figure that out.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Like this is college football now.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Like iaders are standing by, it's like a telethon, and
all the coach it's waiting for the phones to ring,
and there you see him answering them in the background
and they're talking like I mean.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
I get laugh.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
That's that's gonna happen at some point here. You can
have famous saloons one after that, Oh coming up next?
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Who?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Like, who's that Is that Is that Des Bryant taking
a phone call from Mike Gundy behind him?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Is that that's amazing?
Speaker 5 (36:21):
No, but that's just hey for Northwestern, I'll i'll spearhead it.
H We got Clancy Brown, we got Julia Luis Dreyfus.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
I mean, we could do this all day long.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Man, Hi, this is Julia. Oh hey great, I want
to talk to you about VP. How much would you
like to donate to help us keep our athletes?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Sir? Yeah, but I want to talk.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
About VE donate somebody, I'll do. I'll leave you a
voicemail as mister crabs go ahead.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I couldn't stand Matt Walsh. I couldn't stand the guy
who played Jonah, what do you want?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
But look like like this sounds great, right, but this
is just such a get off my lawn. I don't
even think Mike Gundy is sixty yet. And you can
tell that he's had enough. And this is gonna be
pretty common that coaches that you don't know what their
breaking point is, and for a lot of them, this
is where they say I've had enough.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
I just I can't.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
This is not the game I love and I just
have Okay, guess what this is. That's why it's time
for the new generation of college football head coaches come
in and make their mark. This is kind of how
it goes out.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
I get it. You don't like it. I don't like that.
It's a part of it. This is how it goes
This is the game. If you want to coach, great,
If not, walk away. This is not going to slow down.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Just because you say don't call doesn't mean agents aren't
going to keep trolling.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
And then he probably, you know, he winks to another camera,
call me. Yeah he's fifty he's fifty seven. H So,
but it's it's something we called years ago as this
was starting to open up, right, all the guys that
were very critical of just players in terms of their
(37:52):
celebrations or whatever else tamping down. And you know, Mike Krzyzewski,
if you step foot on this court, by god, I'll
have you taken out.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Kind of thing with rushing the court all those years,
you knew it was not gonna end well for some
of these guys. Tap it out.
Speaker 5 (38:07):
And now it's the business, and it's a matter of
how fast the college that employs you gives you the
personnel and support to take a lot of that or
as much as they can off of your shoulders. But
let's face it, the players and their families, who's their
point of contact still gonna be the coach, Yeah right,
he's the one, and the whoever the assistant coaches that
(38:30):
that's head of the recruiting in whatever region, Those are
gonna be the two touch points, and anybody else is
a suit. So until they get a verbal or a
written or a text message from the coach or the
assistant coach, it's all just gonna be noise. Hey, coach,
this is what they're telling me. It's like that's not
gonna be enough for a lot of kids in their
(38:51):
families because they put their ultimate faith and their futures
into the hands of these coaches, and it's only getting bigger. Eventually,
maybe there'll be some more rails and everything to kind of,
you know, funnel it back into something more streamlined and uniform.
But until then, everybody's got to deal with it the
best they can. But telling agents and representatives not to
(39:14):
call probably ain't gonna keep some of those athletes that
have already decided they're not fans of yours, you know,
And it's it's.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Like I get the old school philosophy, where hey, coach,
I'm entrusting my son to you, and it's you do
whatever coach says, and coach.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Is gonna make you a man.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
I'm gonna give you to him as you're gonna and
then you, I'm gonna give him the boy, and you're
gonna give me the man.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
No, the dads are going what do you What do
you mean he's not taking your phone call. I'm pulling
you out. Then you're gonna do it. I'm gonna call Colorado,
I'm gonna call USC No, they'll take your call. They'll
get you more nil money. You'll be I'll have you
out of that school tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
I'll drive up.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
I'll have you packed up and out of that room
by three point thirty in the afternoon. We can go
like that's parents. Now this is hey, my kid can
make a ton of money and he doesn't have to
make it to the NFL. Hey, guess what, I want
a big part of that pie from my kid. But
think about the rules of engagement, Jason. I mean, you
don't have to sit out the year like you used to. Right,
(40:10):
once upon a time, that was.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
A deterrent of all right, I had leave and then
I've got no guarantees here here here. Now it's like,
all right, they've got a spot for me.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
I can go.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
And you can see some of the starting quarterbacks being announced.
Those aren't sure things either when you transfer, So.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Exit out about a fresca exit swalling down.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
tirec dot com studios. Tell your rage is not to call. Yeah,
what a coach say a practice today? Nothing, don't worry
about whatever, don't worry about it.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Didn't he say something?
Speaker 1 (40:42):
But I'm not calling. Yeah, I don't matter. I wasn't
even paying attention. I have about earbuds in. I didn't
even know what he was talking about. I don't even
know he's a man. He's fifty seven, That's what I'm saying. Uh. Now,
that's not the only big college football story. After another
big story today, we will tell you, without a doubt,
who has the most pressure on them this coming season
college football.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
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