September 4, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon react to the hints that Roger Goodell stated about Taylor Swift potentially hosting a Super Bowl Halftime Show!
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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one a little bit more on what we started the
show with last hour, which was the day of the
Great Red Zone, in which Scott Hansen, doing an interview
on ESPN Today, said that there will be commercials on
red Zone this year, full fledged commercials like not like hey,
in the corner of your television, here's an ad for depends.
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And then you're gonna see that no full lower, we
are cutting away. You are gonna see flow from progressive right.
You're gonna see or you're gonna see My favorite commercial,
that Ram commercial. That that where I really thought it
was an onion commercial, like this was a fake commercial.
But it's been so much. Like we watch a lot
of Brooklyn nine to nine now and it's in every
break it's this commercial for Ram where where you hear
the voiceover and it's you know, it's a truck commercial
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and the guy and the guy says, as Americans, we
do what we do great things all the time, but
there's one thing we can't stop doing. We can't stop
being American.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You know who that is? Right? Who is is it real?
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Is that a fake commercial? Stop being Americans? So get
out there and buy a Ram truck. I'm like, no,
that's it. Can't stop being American. No matter what we do,
we can change everything, we can't stop that.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We just intrinsically American.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
If you give me that commercial two or three times
an hour, oh man, that's gonna be like like people
will want to just revolt even more. But like that,
I'm like, that's a real commercial. That's a I thought
it was a fake commercial, like it's one of those
arrested development and oh it's a fake commercial. We just
can't stop being American.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It's funny because I started, uh now become addicted to
I don't know how I missed it. Early on was
Tulsa King. Okay, I keep getting the same head. Yeah, yeah,
you can't stop being American? What does that even mean?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I can't being American?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Like, well, a, you want to say where's my flag?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
So I want to get my two by four my
flag and start saying tough guy.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It is effective advertising because I remember it's a Ram commercial,
so going out there and buy a rent. Hey, I
want to be American. I want to buy a rep.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
If I don't buy a Ram truck, I'm not American.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah. But it's the first commercial of its ilk.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You remember since the late great Toby Keith was singing,
I'm a Ford truck man.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh yeah, that's what I d exactly. At least that
was a that was a jingle he made up. But
he got right after it this is Hey, you're not American.
You don't ever stop being American. Don't ever stop. Don't
ever stop. Don't. Don't you think you can. You can't
stop being American. And it's really hard.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I mean it kind of takes for the old Jim Valvanos.
You could, you could.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Like you would have to go and you would have
to file for citizenship in another country. You'd have to
pass a testing.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I think you just have to pay to leave, Like
yeah that like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
A lot more work than just going out and buying
a ram truck. Oh yeah, I'll stay American. I want
to stay American. I'll go do that. Like it's a
lot more It's not quite the knee jerk reaction. I
no longer want to be American. You can't stop being American.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Remember the first time I heard it, I did the
mere cat thing, just like you did, like, hey, one a.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
My hearings, and then now I look forward to it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's right, that was the absolute best. Can't stop being American.
I slide it into conversations because Zoe hates that commercial
and I slid it in and she go, I go, hey,
what are you got going on in school today?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, after school we have a company meeting, and then
uh all of all the then we have we have
auditions for this. I say, hey, okay, so can I
give you some audition advice? Yeah, okay, you know how
go through the audition? You have to do it all
all the way through, right, She goes, yeah, yeah, of course,
like it's but if something happens in the middle, right,
you have to know what one thing to do. And
she goes, and she goes, she goes, what I go,
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never stop being American?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
And she hung up on me.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
She hung up on me right when I said that,
because I got her she thought, I'm gonna say, hey,
keep going, don't stop and ask to start over all
the time. Just don't stop being American.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
See ours becomes some fastardization of me somehow. Injecting a
couple of song lyrics as sung by Hugh Jackman was
just the running joke of this guy on TikTok and
Twitter who's made a whole cottage industry of if I
do it like Hugh Jackman, where it's the John like
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just the way he's seeing, or logan Hugh Jackman like
like John No, I mean if he get does logan.
Now he's just breathing heavily and you hear the sound
of metal that doesn't quite work.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Never stop being Americans.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now the thing is like, can we adopt that as ever? Show?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah? Uh. The anti ESPN crowd was out right away
today with the story. Now that you know ESPN NFL
network has folded into ESPN, here they are. They're ruining
the red zone already with commercials. Now the ESPN thing
doesn't happen for another year, right like this, So this
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was gonna happen regardless. But this goes to show you,
speaking of products and advertising, that ESPN really needs brand
consultants to come in and go, Hey, the brand recognition,
the brand impression, the brand opinions of ESPN are in
the bleeping toilet right now, Man, they are in the
toilet wherever you were the worldwide leader in sports and
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nobody can stand you right because of what goes on.
And it's not anything that Hey, look, business is business,
and certain things are gonna happen as business evolves. And yes,
for the longest time, ESPN uh served a group of
of of people that were underserved with sports. Now suddenly
here's sports. ESPN becomes a big thing. It's hard to
throw your arms around an empire. But when you come
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out and you see that this is the reaction that
ESPN ruins everything with sports. Wait, if this is our
business and ESPN's ruining everything, they're ruining this already. It
doesn't matter that this merger isn't going to take effect,
this is ESPN. The the confidence level in the opinion
if if they did this, and I don't, I think
they should. And believe me, being at ESPN, they love
doing all that crazy crap like focus groups and and
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and looking into and do it. They love doing. They
loved taking their time looking at spreadsheets and data points
and all kinds of crazy stuff gets bad, Do you
really need some people come in and go, hey, we
have to improve the image of this brand, because no
matter what you do, people now think it's terrible. And
this is the latest of it is that here it's
the people that people doesn't matter that that ESPN is
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not taken over. They think you're ruining this product already.
It's time to change that.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Well, that's the thing though, Like we've watched the slow
erosion and even though the actual acronym is entertainment and
sports Programming network.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Folks don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
They don't know that, Like the entertainment part of it
is is now front and center in a lot of
ways with different partnerships that have come along, and certainly
the big Ja Little Jay journalism fight that we have.
And some former ESPN staffers are waving their hands back
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at Bristol right now, going, we were in the building, right,
Pablo Torre, who's now you know, going, He's going after
Jalen Brunson next by the way, So keep an eye out, okay,
but in them, you know, you've got just some of
that kind of Over the last four or five years, right,
we've seen a lot in the landscape of a little
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bit of an erosion necessarily of trust, but of power.
Maybe trust is another way to say it. But in
terms of expectations and long standing programs and entities that
get cycled out. Now, some of that's the natural life
cycle of what we've chosen to do here. It's sports
and entertainment cross together. But for ESPN in this particular case,
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like you're bringing in a beloved brand and a beloved institution,
and this falls on you just because you're in the subheading, right,
any other change you make, folks are gonna say, Okay, well,
you know, lineups are gonna change, personalities are gonna leave dollars,
cents whatever. But in terms of something the old, if
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it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I think that's
how people look at red Zone, right, is that you've
had this long heralded space that is like, well, you
you could suck that up.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It'll be just fine.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Right, You got plenty of other places on the O
chow and whatever else to put your commercials.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Don't go screw it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Up my ability to see what is a quote unquote
meaningless field goal or touchdown late in a game, which
they probably won't do. But all of that to say,
you know, the the advent of advertisement at all, just
the specter of it without a concrete no, here's where
these blocks will be. People get scared, right, Like you know,
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we have a programming clock here, right, you can you
can kind of set it within a minute or two
maybe three of when things are gonna happen on the show.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But when you're talking live football, you don't know. You
don't know when to break.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
In, the action is gonna come exit out about a
fresca exit swollen, don't see. We'll have more on this
story coming up throughout the show. Look that the reds
on it. Everybody's mad, running through the streets, blood from
people's eyes, Lionona, I mean we did this all.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Thing nically done.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You said that, You said that much better that time.
Now two eight to a super Bowl store. Here we
are in the eve of the regular season and the
super Bowl story. Uh we may now know who is
playing halftime of the super Bowl not playing?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh if they might be playing a halftime.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh yeah, if you had all the quarterbacks, like do
a band or in a band together and they all
take turn singing like they're the best, you got enough
of them for a bolly band, right, yeah, I mean
four or five guys. Joe Chadere, Dylan. Dylan's a good
boy band named uh well, now he's on the now
he's on the Snoop. But he's not he's on the
Ravens roster now, so that doesn't work.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Bailey, Bailey's good too, Bailey.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well, it works out because Bailey is also Bailey from
the w W who's a big forty nine Ers fan.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So she'll already be at Levi Stadium if you.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Say, hey, and the boy band is Joe and Dylan
and Bailey and Shadure, Like oh this sounds like that's
pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh halftime of the
Super Bowl. Maybe we know who it is. NFL Commissioner
Roger Goodell early today was on The Today Show and
was asked, Hey, uh, who do we think it'd be
on the Super Bowl thing this year? Could it potentially
(11:11):
be Travis Kelsey's fiance Is Taylor Swift invited to play
the Super Bowl this year? The halftime show?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
We would always love to have Taylor play. She is
a special, special talent and obviously she would be welcome
in any time. I can't tell you anything about that.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
It's maybe, Okay, Okay, it's a maybe.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
At what point can we expect a decision to be announced?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I'm waiting on my friend jay Z to be able
to it's in his hands. I'm waiting for the smoke
to come out.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Okay, yeah, but you're a Swift team.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Definitely a Swift jay Z is the pope now apparently,
well that was the job that they created a few
years on the College of Cardinals. We're going to come
out with Taylor Swift being so maybe Roger Goodell is
not going to kind of go down that road as
far if it's not gonna be Taylor Swift. I'm sure
there's a lot of things that have to be worked
out for her to play, but clearly she's part of
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the NFL now right and and and and two big
things for this is number one. Like, I'm excited, and
I think it would probably wind up being the most
watched halftime show of all time because me, look, I'm
I'm not a I'm I'm not someone who goes out
and buys Taylor Swift's songs. I'm gonna go buy her albums.
I don't go to her concerts, but I'm really interested
to see, Hey, what does a concert of hers look like? Like,
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I'm interested to see the the the atmosphere and see
what if I know you've been a tailors you make
bracelets for Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Comments bracelets the glitter coat Dublin for.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That, I mean, I mean you've gone right, so so
they have you And I know you'd be excited to
see what she does. But I'm from the perspective of
I don't. I'd like to see the hype. But I
hear about the aristorm people go oh, it's amazing they
did this, they did that, Like I really I'd really
like to see it, right. And the other part of
it is that something changed in the overall acceptance level
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of Taylor Swift. Right, and the main reason is because
we're not an election year, Okay, Taylor Swift and whatever
she was going to do in the election last year,
everything is weaponized. Everything was politics. Oh, I hate Taylor Swift.
I can't stand this. Travis Kelce does the commercials for
the for Getting Vaccinated. I can't stand. I can't stand
It's and and some people love Taylor Swift. I love
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Travis kelceon love. You can see that that. I get
where it was polarizing. But now there's no more election.
Taylor Swift is part of the NFL, and maybe maybe
a good portion of this is just fine. She's here.
I'm never gonna get past her as long as Travis
Kelce is in a bleeping league. All right, Fine, if
we're gonna see it now, because it's probably Kelsey's last
year and Taylor Swift is gonna do it again. Okay,
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you've hit me over the head enough with Taylor Swift.
Fine you win. Okay, the war is over, man, they won. Okay,
you want to hit me with Taylor Swift but I
really see that it's more of an acceptance level from
the NFL for Taylor Swift now, because again we're three
years away from from another election. Everybody's kind of backed
away from all of this, and it seems like the
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way that her engagement was received, it wasn't there wasn't
nearly as much. Oh I can't stand these two. Get
these off my TV. I can't believe that. Like that
seems to have Wayne. So the overall acceptance level of
Taylor Swift is at a much different place than it was. Hear,
but she.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Also became part of the fabric of what was going on.
Like at first, it was a novelty, right because.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I mean, how many people had their betting odds for
when they were going to break up or whether it
was real or a fabricated story of them even being
together or whatever. You believe what you're gonna believe. I
can't tell you how to feel on that. But in
the end, now you've got an engagement, when it's set,
when they actually get married, that becomes, you know, the
next act in this whole story. But you've got an
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album coming out, You've got you know, President Trump just saying, oh,
I love this for track, like all of a sudden,
you know the positivity there, but I think we I
think the cutaways over understarted to drift because it was
no longer like she was just there, like she's just
becomes another fan. Now, if you happen to be in
the skybox next to her, or you're underneath and you're
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looking up and wanting to see how many times she
takes a sip from a cup or how she reacts
to a big play, then then sure you did that.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
But I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I don't think the broadcast necessarily focused the same way
this last year either, because it was assumed, if possible,
she was going to be in the building once that
tour was over. So now we move into this next cycle,
and sure there'll be the excitement we've seen it. I'm
sure I gotta imagine she's in Brazil, I would think so, I.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Would imagine sorr Yeah, yeah, I would think so. Maybe
maybe she'll do the halftime. You don't know, she'd be
a surprised halftime performer.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I wouldn't perform on that field. I don't think you
didn't get the.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah yeah, All of a sudden, she steps down and
twists and ankle and the number of those answers and stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Now, that's too dangerous.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
She's like Axel singing on the throne when he heard
his uh, when he heard his foot before the beginning. Yeah,
nicely done, tay Tail iron throne. But what would that
say if the NFL says, Hey, no, Taylor, we don't
want you on this field. You're putting the Chase and.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
The Chargers on this horrible field.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, but this is tell.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
He's more important.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
We can't have her on the field. Oh man, all right, fine,
but again it will she's been she's much more widely
accepted by fans. That would be a much different experience,
and it already is a different experience.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Well, I went up there, you know, to Levi's last
year and saw the stones Man acoustics are great, good
for a show, and certainly you know we're going to
reach out to all our contacts to get in before
it's announced.
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Speaker 1 (17:55):
We'll get your big NFL story coming up in a
couple minutes. But this Kawhi Leonard story today.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Honestly exactly just like that.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The Clippers and Steve Balmer, owner of the Clippers, reportedly
have been accused of circumventing the salary cap of the
NBA by paying Kawhi Leonard twenty eight million dollars for
a no show job. Okay, Pablo Tory, who now has
become the investigative journalism journalist of the twenties, now, yeah, yes,
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he will find out. Pablo Tory finds out, Wait, all
the insiders are running out opposed. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah,
so he's now investigating his own space. Pablo Tory finds out, hey,
it was a hot take guy on ESPN front. Now
I'm instead, I'm gonna going to be an investigative journalist.
So he has this story today that the Clippers and
Steve Balmer in a way to get Kawhi Leonard more
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money but not having to worry about paying over the
salary cap and getting into luxury taxes and different aprons.
Everything said, Hey, we're gonna get you the twenty eight
million dollars has an endorsement deal for this company that
doesn't exist. So the company is called Aspiration, which, according
to reports, is a tree planning company like Hey and Kawhi.
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Leonard was given twenty eight million dollars to be the
brand ambassador and do things for this company. And as
Pablotoria is reporting, yeah, there was no job. It was
a company that was bankrupt. And know how about this
planning trees? Oh come on, we couldn't have been adopting
puppies and getting little kittens homes and everything.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
That wearing a big mustache's planning to speak for the trees.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So this was a way for the Clippers to get
Kawhi extra money again and getting around the salary cap.
The Clippers say this is false, but Pablo Toori has
found this out. Uh so this what what is it?
This is the extension of college football where you find
out you know, up until nil Era, where uh the
quarterback got five hundred dollars a week for working at
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the local car dealership and all he had to do
was show up and pick up the check on Friday
like that, Like that's what this is. This is a
note showed job. Oh yeah, he works her. He in turnsare
we pay him?
Speaker 8 (20:01):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I show up and I collect a fire hundred dollar
check on Friday night from Pontiac dealership whatever I shouldn't
say names of cars, uh from whatever dealer show. Well,
they make Pontiacs the more because I could say that
I don't think they make ponies. I think Lemon, we've
created the Pontiac Aztec. So uh, this is what this is.
It's a college chop and the Kawhi Leonard just getting
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money for not showing up for And look, the big
thing of it is this is a big deal, not
just because while here's Kawhi Leonard and salary cap money,
but honestly, do you think they're the only team that
dead is doing this? Like how deep does this go
past Kawhi? Like you found out Kawhi Leonard right, And
then apparently Jalen Brunson's the next investigation because he took
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way bless money uh to stay with the Knicks, and
it's like, by you're gonna lose that one hundred and
thirteen million dollars there like Jalen Brunson's now the next
investigation's supposedly gonna get to like Uh, I'll be the
first one to tell you, Yeah, there's no way this
is the only team that does is everybody hears about
business how things are done. Now, anybody that's signs for
some word or maybe you're you're a guy signing for
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the Max and still a way to get you an
extra thirty million dollars. I got a sneaking suspicion that
this is not going to be the only story TJ
that we find out about this. Besides cool, but it's
like a lot of a lot of companies that are
out there right, subsidiaries and everything else, like oh, I
won't support what they do, like you know, they own
they're owned by this company that you hate and whatever.
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In this particular case, you know, you're talking about trying
to add that plausible deniability. It's like, hey, that was
part of a company and what he and the Clippers saying, well,
what his dealings are, we have no control over that,
and okay, fine. You know, trying to figure out that
line of demarcation and separation is interesting. But to your
very point, it's the where's how's the sausage made? Right?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
This is if he showed up for a speaking engagement,
is it always the sneaker appearance that we're gonna go
to or is it funded somewhere? You know at show up,
shake hands, kiss babies, and you get up speaker fee,
nobody questions it. And money laundry, oh yeah, is the
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next level to it?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
This was, But I'm not nobody's surprised, right, it's the
handshake agreements in college going all the way back, and
yes we're in Los Angeles, you know where you have
the famous bag man going back to UCLA and everything else.
All of those are well documented. And to think that
every business deal or signing didn't have something else to it, right,
(22:31):
I mean, go to all your big signings. You could say,
well he took a hometown discount. Dad was on stand.
Well no, you know, the union raises their hand immediately
if a guy that should be top of market signs
for less. Right, Remember how everybody castigated Brady all those
years like it's holding back to the market. It's like, no,
he's the outlier. He chooses to do that because he's
(22:53):
got tons of money. It doesn't matter. But all the
way through now you're looking at all of the different
endorsement deals, all of the do you have to show receipts.
Is this kind of like the nil thing that you
have to submit to some clearinghouse before you actually know.
We have to prove that this company actually exists and
that you actually show up and do some kind I
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want to see a shovel in the dirt man exit
out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. We have that
big NFL story coming up in a few minutes. But
it's a nice thing to segue from Kawhi Leonard to
the biggest Clipper fan we have here from someone who's
been called the Kawhi Leonard of Fox Sports Radio. Yeah,
she's had some no show jobs and she wears new Balance.
(23:35):
It's Monty Belanyas.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I don't wear a lot of new Balance. I also
don't have a big hand like he does.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
If you had a super wide foot like me, you
would wear a new balance, you know I have.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
I have ran in new balances. You're right, and they
are comfy. Yes, you're right now that you say that
I have some I have ran in new balances, but
I don't wear a lot of new Balance.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
But I should go Kawhi.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
It's Kawhi. You're supporting Kawhi.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
I am supporting Kawhi.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
I can't plan are for Kawhi anymore. So you know,
Bia sneakers.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
If I had twenty eight million, I would give it
to him. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
All Right, it's not like it's not like why are
people mad, It's not like we want a championship.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
We got nothing out of it.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
We've gotten nothing out of it except joke after joke
after joke that he's unavailable.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
So he's unavailable for two jobs.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah exactly. Well, yeah, he's a little bit more available
for the Clippers than to plant trees.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
I love it a spitch.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, what I mean?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
It all goes back to Uncle Dennis. Man. Remember all
the stories he did on Uncle Dennis and all the
asks that he had back in the day.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
He wanted a plane, he wanted ownership, I want to
get He wanted to suit up every fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I mean at everything.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I don't care Kawhi.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I could go plant trees.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Were all like here, great, we'll get in planting trees.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Get in there, plant that tree, Plant that tree.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Other NBA news aside from that one, is that the
Mavericks and PJ. Washington agreed to a four year extension
worth ninety million.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
When it comes to the NFL.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Green Bay Packers edge rusher Michael Parsons limited and practice
today because of his back injury. Jets tackle Elijah Vera
Tucker suffered a triceps injury in practice yesterday.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
He could miss the rest of the season. Multiple reports
say that he's going to seek a second opinion.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
The forty nine Ers promoted wide receiver Marquez Valdez scant
Leen to their active roster in advance of their opener
in Seattle, and the forty nine ers a wide receiver
Juwan Jennings reach an agreement on a deal that will
add three million in playtime incentives so he can earn
up to ten point five million this season. In tennis,
at the US Open, Naomi Osaka won her quarterfinals match
(25:30):
in straight sets earlier today. Also on the women's side,
eight seeded American Amanda Anissimova upset number two seed Egosviatek
in straight sets to advance to the semi finals. Right now,
on the men's side, Yonick, center, number one seed, has
won his first two sets of his quarterfinals match. All
the games in baseball have wrapped up fellas the Giants
(25:51):
held on to beat the Rockies ten to eight.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Astros held on. Also, Yankees almost made a comeback.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Cody Bellinger hit a three run shot in the ninth
inning to cut the deficit to one, but the Ashtos
held on eight to seven. Brewers over the Phillies six
to three, Pirates shut out the Dodgers three zero. Orioles
defeated the Padres in San Diego to complete the sweep.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
Seven five was the final score.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Tigers over the Mets early today six to two, and
the Diamondbacks blank the Rangers to zero earlier in the day.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Back to you guys, thank you very much, Moncie. Yes,
the Giants who quit the trade deadline now are the
team closer.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
I know, seriously, they jumped the Reds. I know they
jumped the Reds.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I know, I know, I know, I know. Craft going on.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Her lantern, turned back on the clock and away we go.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I'm gonna go plant a tree and calm down and
calm down.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Take some time.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So with tomorrow being the beginning of the NFL season, right, happy,
happy NFL Eve, we made it. Uh, after this summer
and seeing what the future might hold, it might be
time to end hard knocks. Okay, the Bills Hard Knocks
just end. Did you even know that it was still on? No,
(27:02):
there was not one time, not one time anywhere this
summer was it ever trending on social media? Were there
of her conversations about the Bill's Hard Knocks Nowhere? It
was absolutely invisible. I'll the first one to tell you
I don't know a single thing that happened on it
because there was nothing that made me want to see it.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Now, I'm gonna say an obvious miss here, because you
had a star of one of the biggest movies of
the year that's tangential.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I mean, she's she's.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Married to the star of this bill's show. No vision.
See yeah, still it straight from the script, no vision.
You did nothing to promote this, getting Haley Steinfeld in
or doing anything really with Josh.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Allen to try to push the narrative.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It has been a summer where this got zero attention,
zero buzz zero. And now there's a couple of reasons
for this. Part of it is the overall excitement of
the inside look at NFL teams that's kind of gone
by the wayside now where at this point you can
get any kind of coverage you want of your team,
(28:09):
you get the flavor stories going on. It's no longer hey,
I'm getting something I've never I'm getting a training camp
view of this team. Like we've seen that now for
twenty some addumors. Right, we've seen that from training camp.
But the other part of it, and this is just
a big deal to say, the other part of the
cause of death of for Hard Knocks is the Giants
offseason Hard Knocks last year. Because now that teams are
(28:32):
fighting back, they don't want to be on Hard Knocks.
Teams want to have more control. The NFL wants to
have more control of things. The Hard Knocks in the
offseason was so incredibly embarrassing for the Giants because, Hey,
for the cameras, they sold up the Saquon Barkley angle
of Hey, I don't want Saquon Barkley someplace. I'd want
to go to the Eagles and start running like crazy.
And it was a pretty good offseason hard Knocks, right,
(28:54):
because that became the dominant storyline season. So here comes Saquon.
Not that the Giants would have been great with, say
Kwon Barkley, No, but Barkley goes to division rival, they
win the Super Bowl, and that became a topic of
conversation peppered in throughout the entire season. The Giants are saying,
we're never doing that again, and other teams are saying
we don't want to be to sign up for them.
We're not gonna be that team, no way, And so
(29:16):
you're getting all sorts of vanilla content now because nobody
wants to be the Giants again. So if this is
what you're gonna get, I mean, here's the bills on
hard If you just what you're gonna get, why are
you having it? Because again, there was absolutely zero attention
on it this summer.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Yeah, I had no idea. At some point I was
looking for something to watch and I scrolled past huh
that's the thing. Huh. And I love Josh Allen right
a champion him since he came out out of college
all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I'm curious of what this team is. I had no
inclination to watch it.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Like, what am I gonna learn that we haven't seen
a million snippets on Josh Allen and the stars of
that squad. Go to James Cook, what we're gonna get
a little bit of what his contract situation was before
he signed No we're not getting much of anything Jews wise.
The last two teams were the the uh, the two
teams that didn't want to do it right, the old standouts,
(30:09):
the Bears. They basically said, well, we don't want to
be cursing on the show. Okay, so you lose some
of those fiery moments that have been left indelible marks
because those have become viral moments that people have used
for sound bites and such during during their time.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I mean, for the.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Bears, you had the eber Flus episode where it was
all about him manicuring his beard and getting his haircut
and his wife's saying how hot he looked?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Really?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, that's and then I got DJ Moore and his family,
great little story. Great, then went to an ice cube museum.
I want to go to the ice cream museum. Yeah,
but I didn't need to watch him and his family take.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
There's nothing, there's any others embarrassed so long, like we've
seen that so long. Okay, here they're doing this, here's
the rookies, here's this, here's all that. Right, but all
of these players now do it themselves.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
If they want you in their lives, they're showing it
and every team's got a social media team that's trying
to get you to love the players. So if you're
a Jets fan, you got all sorts of individual Jets
guys that you're gonna know everything about.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's twenty questions.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Okay, but still look for the Jets like that was
it was Rogers first time. It was interesting because it
was Rogers with the Jets. I like stuff like the
mentals even though I knew everything going on, and it
was still fun to see. That's why the combination is Okay,
it's got to be something interesting and the bill's not interesting.
But when you're coming off the Giants, and I think
there's a lot of teams that are saying, whoa not
(31:34):
us man? You saw it had that killed the Giants,
That killed the Giants. Last year we watched.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Joe Shane and we watched Mara and the ownership. We're
gonna hit out because I know sound clips and we're
gonna tell you we're gonna give you zero content. We're
just gonna do fun stuff. We don't want the cameras here.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Well they didn't even want to do the cuts anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, right, Which was always the anticipation because you always
had that build up of two or three players, like, oh,
which guy's gonna get cut? It's like watching one of
the dating reality shows, like oh, who's getting the most
screen time? Yeah, one of those guys getting axed because
they're gonna milk whatever their their angst is as far
as they can go, survivor go on in any of
the series The Traders, I watch a lot of reality
(32:15):
television with my kids, as you can tell. I got
to keep up with what they're watching at times, so
we canna have those conversations and I could slip in
things about schoolwork and jobs and things of that nature.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
But for the Giants, like they became a laughingstock.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
The overall message, as we've talked about since it happened,
like Saquan was worth a half a win maybe one
with that team as constructed, take them behind a great
offensive line with Jalen Hurts with what's set up in Philadelphia,
Tada he has the year he does. You're not doing
that with the Giants. But that becomes because Tracy was
a solid back. He wasn't great, but you had a
(32:53):
couple of components. You had Molik Neighbors with his one
hundred and seventy targets. You had our guy in the
back feel Tracy and a lot of nothing, but you
had two sound bites.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Hey, you'll call us before you sign. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean like no, no, Kim wants to be that
they're not going to give you great content and and
it's just going to be this vanilla stuff. I mean,
hard not the novel that this might be the right
time to end it really might be.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Tap it out or either that or show commercials during
it and see how people.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Respond exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dope. Hey,
we can do a lot of things. One thing we
can't do is stop watching Hard Knocks and not stop
being America America. Coming up next, Mike and I give
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now Monty, Bolanos and Bremuro are having their own dance party.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Oh we need is a disco ball and Strobe lights.
Put that wreck, get that wreck in.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Boy, they're as excited as Kawhi Leonard when he got
that job planning tree.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Twenty eight million dollars today.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
So two NFL games to preview here. One is going
to be the Cowboys Nagles. We'll get to that in
a second. First, the war of words continued on today.
Was yesterday Aaron Jets head coach wouldn't talk about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
No, it's not here altmore.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
As we told you last night, there's something that's got
to be personal there. Why he won't talk about him,
Why he made him fly all the way to New
York so we can say you're fired. You Aaron Rodgers today,
Diddy burn him in coverage and some Aaron Maybe, Well,
I tell you he hasn't played with Maybe. Today, Aaron
Rodgers was asked, Hey, your first game back back at
met Life Stadium after the last two disastrous years you
(36:26):
spent Uh is this personal or just another game? Here's
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Not on Wednesday?
Speaker 8 (36:35):
You know, I mean obviously if you have to have
something otherwise, I mean, speak for myself, I have to
have something otherwise. You know, I'm probably in the wrong profession.
So I'm I'll be definitely excited to come Sunday, but
Wednesday just kind of going through the week of preparation.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah, okay, Yeah, what a liar. Uh Now, I'll give
you my pick for the game on Friday.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
It soon he shuns it.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Well, though, it's turning into the Sunday game of the
week with all the drama with Rogers back in New York.
It's turning into the Sunday game of the week with
everything going on towards it.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
The Sunday game because Monday is clearly the game again.
That's why I said the Sunday.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, and we also have games Thursday and Friday, which
are pretty good Thursday Wednesday. But I'm gonna tell you
want a prediction for Sunday pain. The Jets are gonna
live in the Steelers backfield. Just watch. This is not
gonna be a return to Met Life Stadium, and Rogers
is gonna walk around saying I own you, I own you.
(37:36):
The Jets defensive line, the Jets defense is pretty good.
They do have a lot of defensive tack back. Yeah,
we're gonna play seven at one time. NBA able to
play fourteen on defense. But I have a lot of
confidence the Jets defense is going to be terrific this year. Look,
Aaron Glenn's a great DC. Now he's that obviously being
the head coach. But I know the kind of talent
level they have. They got guys and get after the quarterback.
(37:57):
Rogers is someone who was skittish last year in the pocket,
threw the ball away early, doesn't want to get hit anymore. Yeah,
this isn't gonna be the big triumphant in return for
him personally that he thinks it's gonna be. The Jets
are gonna Jets defense stream the Jets defense.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
If I asked you, uh and I will over under
for his passing yards what would you set it at?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Would I set it at? Well, they don't throw the foot,
what would you anticipate? I would say it would be
at one seventy five two O two under under for
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I don't know that said justin Field's at one seventy three.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I mean under my wait, seventy three or one seventy
there's a one. Wait, let me let me make sure
if it was, Yeah, make sure, let me make sure
that my screen is clean. Uh no, I have that
it's one seventy three. Yeah, I'm going under for that too.
I'm going under for the game. I'm going under for
under for everything.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
About his total rushing yards justin fields forty and a.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Half over that, yeah, way over that, Yeah over that. Yeah,
he may have bore rushing yards and passing yards could happen. Now,
speaking of passing, we're getting set for tomorrow night Cowboys
and the Eagles. Look, if I'd love for there to
be a way that I can say I think the
Cowboys can win this game. Uh, the Eagles are gonna
wind up pulling away and winning this thing big. But
the one thing I will tell you, Dak Prescott is
(39:11):
gonna throw the football the entire game. I think he's
throwing the football now, gathering up stats, getting ready for two.
Way over, way over for Dak. They're gonna throw the
football from the jump to Mart's the only way they
can stay with Philadelphia. They're not gonna run it a lot,
They're not gonna try to control the ground. They are
gonna throw the foot because they know this is their
only way out. The Cowboys only escape this year is
(39:33):
through the air to three pretty good targets, you know,
counting with Ceedee Lamb and George Pickens and Ferguson. They
got some They got some dudes there that can catch
the ball. And remember fergus had a big year twenty
twenty three when Dak was healthy. Their only way out
is for Dak to throw it. You know, Jerry Jones
is gonna say, Dak save us after this disastrous Micah
Parsons trade. So Dak's Dak's passing numbers through the roof.
(39:54):
He will have a big He'll throw for three hundred yards,
a couple of touchdowns. Big night for Dak. They'll still
get blown.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Out, but it pushed that.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Key line of seven, so we're all the way up
to plus eight or plus eight and a half for
the Cowboys. Forty seven and a half is the total.
So looking at the aerial assault, Ferguson got paid, CD's
gotten paid. You wish they had a little bit of
balance in the backfield. Whether Blue My Boy, Come My
(40:22):
Guy and Javonte Williams are enough to give you any
kind of level of balance. I don't think so. I
would expect the Eagles to just run the ball, especially
after Jerry's quotes of Hey, we need to stop the run. Hey,
guess what, it's the Eagles on the other side that
offensive line. You're stopping nothing.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Again.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
It's gonna be big stats wise. Otherwise I think it's
gonna be the year for Dak. Hey, great stature for Dak.
But the Cowboys will be six and eleven. It'll still
be a blowout, but they'll move the football and they
will throw it all night. I'll take the back door
cover exit out about a Fresca exit, swollen dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon come in up next. We get some inside
(41:03):
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one a little bit more on what we started the
show with last hour, which was the day of the
Great Red Zone, in which Scott Hansen, doing an interview
on ESPN Today, said that there will be commercials on
red Zone this year, full fledged commercials like not like hey,
in the corner of your television, here's an ad for depends.
(01:13):
And then you're gonna see that no full lower, we
are cutting away. You are gonna see flow from progressive right.
You're gonna see or you're gonna see My favorite commercial,
that Ram commercial. That that where I really thought it
was an onion commercial, like this was a fake commercial.
But it's been so much. Like we watch a lot
of Brooklyn nine to nine now and it's in every
break it's this commercial for Ram where where you hear
the voiceover and it's you know, it's a truck commercial
(01:35):
and the guy and the guy says, as Americans, we
do what we do great things all the time, but
there's one thing we can't stop doing. We can't stop
being American.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You know who that is? Right? Who is is it real?
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Is that a fake commercial? Stop being Americans? So get
out there and buy a Ram truck. I'm like, no,
that's it. Can't stop being American. No matter what we do,
we can change everything, we can't stop that.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We just intrinsically American.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
If you give me that commercial two or three times
an hour, oh man, that's gonna be like like people
will want to just revolt even more. But like that,
I'm like, that's a real commercial. That's a I thought
it was a fake commercial, like it's one of those
arrested development and oh it's a fake commercial. We just
can't stop being American.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
It's funny because I started, uh now become addicted to
I don't know how I missed it. Early on was
Tulsa King. Okay, I keep getting the same head. Yeah, yeah,
you can't stop being American? What does that even mean?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I can't being American?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Like, well, a, you want to say where's my flag?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
So I want to get my two by four my
flag and start saying tough guy.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It is effective advertising because I remember it's a Ram commercial,
so going out there and buy a rent. Hey, I
want to be American. I want to buy a rep.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
If I don't buy a Ram truck, I'm not American.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah. But it's the first commercial of its ilk.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You remember since the late great Toby Keith was singing,
I'm a Ford truck man.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Oh yeah, that's what I d exactly. At least that
was a that was a jingle he made up. But
he got right after it this is Hey, you're not American.
You don't ever stop being American. Don't ever stop. Don't
ever stop. Don't. Don't you think you can. You can't
stop being American. And it's really hard.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I mean it kind of takes for the old Jim Valvanos.
You could, you could.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Like you would have to go and you would have
to file for citizenship in another country. You'd have to
pass a testing.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I think you just have to pay to leave, Like
yeah that like, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
A lot more work than just going out and buying
a ram truck. Oh yeah, I'll stay American. I want
to stay American. I'll go do that. Like it's a
lot more It's not quite the knee jerk reaction. I
no longer want to be American. You can't stop being American.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Remember the first time I heard it, I did the
mere cat thing, just like you did, like, hey, one a.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
My hearings, and then now I look forward to it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's right, that was the absolute best. Can't stop being American.
I slide it into conversations because Zoe hates that commercial
and I slid it in and she go, I go, hey,
what are you got going on in school today?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, after school we have a company meeting, and then
uh all of all the then we have we have
auditions for this. I say, hey, okay, so can I
give you some audition advice? Yeah, okay, you know how
go through the audition? You have to do it all
all the way through, right, She goes, yeah, yeah, of course,
like it's but if something happens in the middle, right,
you have to know what one thing to do. And
she goes, and she goes, she goes, what I go,
(04:34):
never stop being American?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
And she hung up on me.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
She hung up on me right when I said that,
because I got her she thought, I'm gonna say, hey,
keep going, don't stop and ask to start over all
the time. Just don't stop being American.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
See ours becomes some fastardization of me somehow. Injecting a
couple of song lyrics as sung by Hugh Jackman was
just the running joke of this guy on TikTok and
Twitter who's made a whole cottage industry of if I
do it like Hugh Jackman, where it's the John like
(05:08):
just the way he's seeing, or logan Hugh Jackman like
like John No, I mean if he get does logan.
Now he's just breathing heavily and you hear the sound
of metal that doesn't quite work.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Never stop being Americans.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now the thing is like, can we adopt that as ever? Show?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah? Uh. The anti ESPN crowd was out right away
today with the story. Now that you know ESPN NFL
network has folded into ESPN, here they are. They're ruining
the red zone already with commercials. Now the ESPN thing
doesn't happen for another year, right like this, So this
(05:45):
was gonna happen regardless. But this goes to show you,
speaking of products and advertising, that ESPN really needs brand
consultants to come in and go, Hey, the brand recognition,
the brand impression, the brand opinions of ESPN are in
the bleeping toilet right now, Man, they are in the
toilet wherever you were the worldwide leader in sports and
(06:09):
nobody can stand you right because of what goes on.
And it's not anything that Hey, look, business is business,
and certain things are gonna happen as business evolves. And yes,
for the longest time, ESPN uh served a group of
of of people that were underserved with sports. Now suddenly
here's sports. ESPN becomes a big thing. It's hard to
throw your arms around an empire. But when you come
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out and you see that this is the reaction that
ESPN ruins everything with sports. Wait, if this is our
business and ESPN's ruining everything, they're ruining this already. It
doesn't matter that this merger isn't going to take effect,
this is ESPN. The the confidence level in the opinion
if if they did this, and I don't, I think
they should. And believe me, being at ESPN, they love
doing all that crazy crap like focus groups and and
(06:52):
and looking into and do it. They love doing. They
loved taking their time looking at spreadsheets and data points
and all kinds of crazy stuff gets bad, Do you
really need some people come in and go, hey, we
have to improve the image of this brand, because no
matter what you do, people now think it's terrible. And
this is the latest of it is that here it's
the people that people doesn't matter that that ESPN is
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not taken over. They think you're ruining this product already.
It's time to change that.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Well, that's the thing though, Like we've watched the slow
erosion and even though the actual acronym is entertainment and
sports Programming network.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Folks don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
They don't know that, Like the entertainment part of it
is is now front and center in a lot of
ways with different partnerships that have come along, and certainly
the big Ja Little Jay journalism fight that we have.
And some former ESPN staffers are waving their hands back
(07:49):
at Bristol right now, going, we were in the building, right,
Pablo Torre, who's now you know, going, He's going after
Jalen Brunson next by the way, So keep an eye out, okay,
but in them, you know, you've got just some of
that kind of Over the last four or five years, right,
we've seen a lot in the landscape of a little
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bit of an erosion necessarily of trust, but of power.
Maybe trust is another way to say it. But in
terms of expectations and long standing programs and entities that
get cycled out. Now, some of that's the natural life
cycle of what we've chosen to do here. It's sports
and entertainment cross together. But for ESPN in this particular case,
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like you're bringing in a beloved brand and a beloved institution,
and this falls on you just because you're in the subheading, right,
any other change you make, folks are gonna say, Okay, well,
you know, lineups are gonna change, personalities are gonna leave dollars,
cents whatever. But in terms of something the old, if
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it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I think that's
how people look at red Zone, right, is that you've
had this long heralded space that is like, well, you
you could suck that up.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It'll be just fine.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Right, You got plenty of other places on the O
chow and whatever else to put your commercials.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Don't go screw it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Up my ability to see what is a quote unquote
meaningless field goal or touchdown late in a game, which
they probably won't do. But all of that to say,
you know, the the advent of advertisement at all, just
the specter of it without a concrete no, here's where
these blocks will be. People get scared, right, Like you know,
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we have a programming clock here, right, you can you
can kind of set it within a minute or two
maybe three of when things are gonna happen on the show.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But when you're talking live football, you don't know. You
don't know when to break.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
In, the action is gonna come exit out about a
fresca exit swollen, don't see. We'll have more on this
story coming up throughout the show. Look that the reds
on it. Everybody's mad, running through the streets, blood from
people's eyes, Lionona, I mean we did this all.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Thing nically done.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You said that, You said that much better that time.
Now two eight to a super Bowl store. Here we
are in the eve of the regular season and the
super Bowl story. Uh we may now know who is
playing halftime of the super Bowl not playing?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh if they might be playing a halftime.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Oh yeah, if you had all the quarterbacks, like do
a band or in a band together and they all
take turn singing like they're the best, you got enough
of them for a bolly band, right, yeah, I mean
four or five guys. Joe Chadere, Dylan. Dylan's a good
boy band named uh well, now he's on the now
he's on the Snoop. But he's not he's on the
Ravens roster now, so that doesn't work.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Bailey, Bailey's good too, Bailey.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well, it works out because Bailey is also Bailey from
the w W who's a big forty nine Ers fan.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So she'll already be at Levi Stadium if you.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Say, hey, and the boy band is Joe and Dylan
and Bailey and Shadure, Like oh this sounds like that's
pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh halftime of the
Super Bowl. Maybe we know who it is. NFL Commissioner
Roger Goodell early today was on The Today Show and
was asked, Hey, uh, who do we think it'd be
on the Super Bowl thing this year? Could it potentially
(11:11):
be Travis Kelsey's fiance Is Taylor Swift invited to play
the Super Bowl this year? The halftime show?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
We would always love to have Taylor play. She is
a special, special talent and obviously she would be welcome
in any time. I can't tell you anything about that.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
It's maybe, Okay, Okay, it's a maybe.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
At what point can we expect a decision to be announced?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I'm waiting on my friend jay Z to be able
to it's in his hands. I'm waiting for the smoke
to come out.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Okay, yeah, but you're a Swift team.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Definitely a Swift jay Z is the pope now apparently,
well that was the job that they created a few
years on the College of Cardinals. We're going to come
out with Taylor Swift being so maybe Roger Goodell is
not going to kind of go down that road as
far if it's not gonna be Taylor Swift. I'm sure
there's a lot of things that have to be worked
out for her to play, but clearly she's part of
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the NFL now right and and and and two big
things for this is number one. Like, I'm excited, and
I think it would probably wind up being the most
watched halftime show of all time because me, look, I'm
I'm not a I'm I'm not someone who goes out
and buys Taylor Swift's songs. I'm gonna go buy her albums.
I don't go to her concerts, but I'm really interested
to see, Hey, what does a concert of hers look like? Like,
(12:31):
I'm interested to see the the the atmosphere and see
what if I know you've been a tailors you make
bracelets for Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Comments bracelets the glitter coat Dublin for.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That, I mean, I mean you've gone right, so so
they have you And I know you'd be excited to
see what she does. But I'm from the perspective of
I don't. I'd like to see the hype. But I
hear about the aristorm people go oh, it's amazing they
did this, they did that, Like I really I'd really
like to see it, right. And the other part of
it is that something changed in the overall acceptance level
(13:05):
of Taylor Swift. Right, and the main reason is because
we're not an election year, Okay, Taylor Swift and whatever
she was going to do in the election last year,
everything is weaponized. Everything was politics. Oh, I hate Taylor Swift.
I can't stand this. Travis Kelce does the commercials for
the for Getting Vaccinated. I can't stand. I can't stand
It's and and some people love Taylor Swift. I love
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Travis kelceon love. You can see that that. I get
where it was polarizing. But now there's no more election.
Taylor Swift is part of the NFL, and maybe maybe
a good portion of this is just fine. She's here.
I'm never gonna get past her as long as Travis
Kelce is in a bleeping league. All right, Fine, if
we're gonna see it now, because it's probably Kelsey's last
year and Taylor Swift is gonna do it again. Okay,
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you've hit me over the head enough with Taylor Swift.
Fine you win. Okay, the war is over, man, they won. Okay,
you want to hit me with Taylor Swift but I
really see that it's more of an acceptance level from
the NFL for Taylor Swift now, because again we're three
years away from from another election. Everybody's kind of backed
away from all of this, and it seems like the
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way that her engagement was received, it wasn't there wasn't
nearly as much. Oh I can't stand these two. Get
these off my TV. I can't believe that. Like that
seems to have Wayne. So the overall acceptance level of
Taylor Swift is at a much different place than it was. Hear,
but she.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Also became part of the fabric of what was going on.
Like at first, it was a novelty, right because.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I mean, how many people had their betting odds for
when they were going to break up or whether it
was real or a fabricated story of them even being
together or whatever. You believe what you're gonna believe. I
can't tell you how to feel on that. But in
the end, now you've got an engagement, when it's set,
when they actually get married, that becomes, you know, the
next act in this whole story. But you've got an
(14:48):
album coming out, You've got you know, President Trump just saying, oh,
I love this for track, like all of a sudden,
you know the positivity there, but I think we I
think the cutaways over understarted to drift because it was
no longer like she was just there, like she's just
becomes another fan. Now, if you happen to be in
the skybox next to her, or you're underneath and you're
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looking up and wanting to see how many times she
takes a sip from a cup or how she reacts
to a big play, then then sure you did that.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
But I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I don't think the broadcast necessarily focused the same way
this last year either, because it was assumed, if possible,
she was going to be in the building once that
tour was over. So now we move into this next cycle,
and sure there'll be the excitement we've seen it. I'm
sure I gotta imagine she's in Brazil, I would think so, I.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Would imagine sorr Yeah, yeah, I would think so. Maybe
maybe she'll do the halftime. You don't know, she'd be
a surprised halftime performer.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I wouldn't perform on that field. I don't think you
didn't get the.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah yeah, All of a sudden, she steps down and
twists and ankle and the number of those answers and stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Now, that's too dangerous.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
She's like Axel singing on the throne when he heard
his uh, when he heard his foot before the beginning. Yeah,
nicely done, tay Tail iron throne. But what would that
say if the NFL says, Hey, no, Taylor, we don't
want you on this field. You're putting the Chase and.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
The Chargers on this horrible field.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, but this is tell.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
He's more important.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
We can't have her on the field. Oh man, all right, fine,
but again it will she's been she's much more widely
accepted by fans. That would be a much different experience,
and it already is a different experience.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Well, I went up there, you know, to Levi's last
year and saw the stones Man acoustics are great, good
for a show, and certainly you know we're going to
reach out to all our contacts to get in before
it's announced.
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Speaker 9 (17:54):
Well dressed cobo h.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
We'll get your big NFL story coming up in a
couple minutes. But this Kawhi Leonard story today.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Honestly exactly just like that.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
The Clippers and Steve Balmer, owner of the Clippers, reportedly
have been accused of circumventing the salary cap of the
NBA by paying Kawhi Leonard twenty eight million dollars for
a no show job. Okay, Pablo Tory, who now has
become the investigative journalism journalist of the twenties, now, yeah, yes,
(18:25):
he will find out. Pablo Tory finds out, Wait, all
the insiders are running out opposed. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah,
so he's now investigating his own space. Pablo Tory finds out, hey,
it was a hot take guy on ESPN front. Now
I'm instead, I'm gonna going to be an investigative journalist.
So he has this story today that the Clippers and
Steve Balmer in a way to get Kawhi Leonard more
(18:45):
money but not having to worry about paying over the
salary cap and getting into luxury taxes and different aprons.
Everything said, Hey, we're gonna get you the twenty eight
million dollars has an endorsement deal for this company that
doesn't exist. So the company is called Aspiration, which, according
to reports, is a tree planning company like Hey and Kawhi.
(19:05):
Leonard was given twenty eight million dollars to be the
brand ambassador and do things for this company. And as
Pablotoria is reporting, yeah, there was no job. It was
a company that was bankrupt. And know how about this
planning trees? Oh come on, we couldn't have been adopting
puppies and getting little kittens homes and everything.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
That wearing a big mustache's planning to speak for the trees.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
So this was a way for the Clippers to get
Kawhi extra money again and getting around the salary cap.
The Clippers say this is false, but Pablo Toori has
found this out. Uh so this what what is it?
This is the extension of college football where you find
out you know, up until nil Era, where uh the
quarterback got five hundred dollars a week for working at
(19:53):
the local car dealership and all he had to do
was show up and pick up the check on Friday
like that, Like that's what this is. This is a
note showed job. Oh yeah, he works her. He in turnsare
we pay him?
Speaker 8 (20:01):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I show up and I collect a fire hundred dollar
check on Friday night from Pontiac dealership whatever I shouldn't
say names of cars, uh from whatever dealer show. Well,
they make Pontiacs the more because I could say that
I don't think they make ponies. I think Lemon, we've
created the Pontiac Aztec. So uh, this is what this is.
It's a college chop and the Kawhi Leonard just getting
(20:22):
money for not showing up for And look, the big
thing of it is this is a big deal, not
just because while here's Kawhi Leonard and salary cap money,
but honestly, do you think they're the only team that
dead is doing this? Like how deep does this go
past Kawhi? Like you found out Kawhi Leonard right, And
then apparently Jalen Brunson's the next investigation because he took
(20:42):
way bless money uh to stay with the Knicks, and
it's like, by you're gonna lose that one hundred and
thirteen million dollars there like Jalen Brunson's now the next
investigation's supposedly gonna get to like Uh, I'll be the
first one to tell you, Yeah, there's no way this
is the only team that does is everybody hears about
business how things are done. Now, anybody that's signs for
some word or maybe you're you're a guy signing for
(21:02):
the Max and still a way to get you an
extra thirty million dollars. I got a sneaking suspicion that
this is not going to be the only story TJ
that we find out about this. Besides cool, but it's
like a lot of a lot of companies that are
out there right, subsidiaries and everything else, like oh, I
won't support what they do, like you know, they own
they're owned by this company that you hate and whatever.
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In this particular case, you know, you're talking about trying
to add that plausible deniability. It's like, hey, that was
part of a company and what he and the Clippers saying, well,
what his dealings are, we have no control over that,
and okay, fine. You know, trying to figure out that
line of demarcation and separation is interesting. But to your
very point, it's the where's how's the sausage made? Right?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
This is if he showed up for a speaking engagement,
is it always the sneaker appearance that we're gonna go
to or is it funded somewhere? You know at show up,
shake hands, kiss babies, and you get up speaker fee,
nobody questions it. And money laundry, oh yeah, is the
(22:09):
next level to it?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
This was, But I'm not nobody's surprised, right, it's the
handshake agreements in college going all the way back, and
yes we're in Los Angeles, you know where you have
the famous bag man going back to UCLA and everything else.
All of those are well documented. And to think that
every business deal or signing didn't have something else to it, right,
(22:31):
I mean, go to all your big signings. You could say,
well he took a hometown discount. Dad was on stand.
Well no, you know, the union raises their hand immediately
if a guy that should be top of market signs
for less. Right, Remember how everybody castigated Brady all those
years like it's holding back to the market. It's like, no,
he's the outlier. He chooses to do that because he's
(22:53):
got tons of money. It doesn't matter. But all the
way through now you're looking at all of the different
endorsement deals, all of the do you have to show receipts.
Is this kind of like the nil thing that you
have to submit to some clearinghouse before you actually know.
We have to prove that this company actually exists and
that you actually show up and do some kind I
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want to see a shovel in the dirt man exit
out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. We have that
big NFL story coming up in a few minutes. But
it's a nice thing to segue from Kawhi Leonard to
the biggest Clipper fan we have here from someone who's
been called the Kawhi Leonard of Fox Sports Radio. Yeah,
she's had some no show jobs and she wears new Balance.
(23:35):
It's Monty Belanyas.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
I don't wear a lot of new Balance. I also
don't have a big hand like he does.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
If you had a super wide foot like me, you
would wear a new balance, you know I have.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
I have ran in new balances. You're right, and they
are comfy. Yes, you're right now that you say that
I have some I have ran in new balances, but
I don't wear a lot of new Balance.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
But I should go Kawhi.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
It's Kawhi. You're supporting Kawhi.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
I am supporting Kawhi.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
I can't plan are for Kawhi anymore. So you know,
Bia sneakers.
Speaker 9 (24:02):
If I had twenty eight million, I would give it
to him. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
All Right, it's not like it's not like why are
people mad, It's not like we want a championship.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
We got nothing out of it.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
We've gotten nothing out of it except joke after joke
after joke that he's unavailable.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
So he's unavailable for two jobs.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah exactly. Well, yeah, he's a little bit more available
for the Clippers than to plant trees.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
I love it a spitch.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, what I mean?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
It all goes back to Uncle Dennis. Man. Remember all
the stories he did on Uncle Dennis and all the
asks that he had back in the day.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
He wanted a plane, he wanted ownership, I want to
get He wanted to suit up every fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I mean at everything.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I don't care Kawhi.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I could go plant trees.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Were all like here, great, we'll get in planting trees.
Speaker 9 (24:45):
Get in there, plant that tree, Plant that tree.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Other NBA news aside from that one, is that the
Mavericks and PJ. Washington agreed to a four year extension
worth ninety million.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
When it comes to the NFL.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Green Bay Packers edge rusher Michael Parsons limited and practice
today because of his back injury. Jets tackle Elijah Vera
Tucker suffered a triceps injury in practice yesterday.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
He could miss the rest of the season. Multiple reports
say that he's going to seek a second opinion.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
The forty nine Ers promoted wide receiver Marquez Valdez scant
Leen to their active roster in advance of their opener
in Seattle, and the forty nine ers a wide receiver
Juwan Jennings reach an agreement on a deal that will
add three million in playtime incentives so he can earn
up to ten point five million this season. In tennis,
at the US Open, Naomi Osaka won her quarterfinals match
(25:30):
in straight sets earlier today. Also on the women's side,
eight seeded American Amanda Anissimova upset number two seed Egosviatek
in straight sets to advance to the semi finals. Right now,
on the men's side, Yonick, center, number one seed, has
won his first two sets of his quarterfinals match. All
the games in baseball have wrapped up fellas the Giants
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held on to beat the Rockies ten to eight.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Astros held on. Also, Yankees almost made a comeback.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Cody Bellinger hit a three run shot in the ninth
inning to cut the deficit to one, but the Ashtos
held on eight to seven. Brewers over the Phillies six
to three, Pirates shut out the Dodgers three zero. Orioles
defeated the Padres in San Diego to complete the sweep.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
Seven five was the final score.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Tigers over the Mets early today six to two, and
the Diamondbacks blank the Rangers to zero earlier in the day.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Back to you guys, thank you very much, Moncie. Yes,
the Giants who quit the trade deadline now are the
team closer.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
I know, seriously, they jumped the Reds. I know they
jumped the Reds.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I know, I know, I know, I know. Craft going on.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Her lantern, turned back on the clock and away we go.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I'm gonna go plant a tree and calm down and
calm down.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Take some time.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So with tomorrow being the beginning of the NFL season, right, happy,
happy NFL Eve, we made it. Uh, after this summer
and seeing what the future might hold, it might be
time to end hard knocks. Okay, the Bills Hard Knocks
just end. Did you even know that it was still on? No,
(27:02):
there was not one time, not one time anywhere this
summer was it ever trending on social media? Were there
of her conversations about the Bill's Hard Knocks Nowhere? It
was absolutely invisible. I'll the first one to tell you
I don't know a single thing that happened on it
because there was nothing that made me want to see it.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Now, I'm gonna say an obvious miss here, because you
had a star of one of the biggest movies of
the year that's tangential.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I mean, she's she's.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Married to the star of this bill's show. No vision.
See yeah, still it straight from the script, no vision.
You did nothing to promote this, getting Haley Steinfeld in
or doing anything really with Josh.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Allen to try to push the narrative.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
It has been a summer where this got zero attention,
zero buzz zero. And now there's a couple of reasons
for this. Part of it is the overall excitement of
the inside look at NFL teams that's kind of gone
by the wayside now where at this point you can
get any kind of coverage you want of your team,
(28:09):
you get the flavor stories going on. It's no longer hey,
I'm getting something I've never I'm getting a training camp
view of this team. Like we've seen that now for
twenty some addumors. Right, we've seen that from training camp.
But the other part of it, and this is just
a big deal to say, the other part of the
cause of death of for Hard Knocks is the Giants
offseason Hard Knocks last year. Because now that teams are
(28:32):
fighting back, they don't want to be on Hard Knocks.
Teams want to have more control. The NFL wants to
have more control of things. The Hard Knocks in the
offseason was so incredibly embarrassing for the Giants because, Hey,
for the cameras, they sold up the Saquon Barkley angle
of Hey, I don't want Saquon Barkley someplace. I'd want
to go to the Eagles and start running like crazy.
And it was a pretty good offseason hard Knocks, right,
(28:54):
because that became the dominant storyline season. So here comes Saquon.
Not that the Giants would have been great with, say
Kwon Barkley, No, but Barkley goes to division rival, they
win the Super Bowl, and that became a topic of
conversation peppered in throughout the entire season. The Giants are saying,
we're never doing that again, and other teams are saying
we don't want to be to sign up for them.
We're not gonna be that team, no way, And so
(29:16):
you're getting all sorts of vanilla content now because nobody
wants to be the Giants again. So if this is
what you're gonna get, I mean, here's the bills on
hard If you just what you're gonna get, why are
you having it? Because again, there was absolutely zero attention
on it this summer.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Yeah, I had no idea. At some point I was
looking for something to watch and I scrolled past huh
that's the thing. Huh. And I love Josh Allen right
a champion him since he came out out of college
all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I'm curious of what this team is. I had no
inclination to watch it.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Like, what am I gonna learn that we haven't seen
a million snippets on Josh Allen and the stars of
that squad. Go to James Cook, what we're gonna get
a little bit of what his contract situation was before
he signed No we're not getting much of anything Jews wise.
The last two teams were the the uh, the two
teams that didn't want to do it right, the old standouts,
(30:09):
the Bears. They basically said, well, we don't want to
be cursing on the show. Okay, so you lose some
of those fiery moments that have been left indelible marks
because those have become viral moments that people have used
for sound bites and such during during their time.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I mean, for the.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Bears, you had the eber Flus episode where it was
all about him manicuring his beard and getting his haircut
and his wife's saying how hot he looked?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
Really?
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, that's and then I got DJ Moore and his family,
great little story. Great, then went to an ice cube museum.
I want to go to the ice cream museum. Yeah,
but I didn't need to watch him and his family take.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
There's nothing, there's any others embarrassed so long, like we've
seen that so long. Okay, here they're doing this, here's
the rookies, here's this, here's all that. Right, but all
of these players now do it themselves.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
If they want you in their lives, they're showing it
and every team's got a social media team that's trying
to get you to love the players. So if you're
a Jets fan, you got all sorts of individual Jets
guys that you're gonna know everything about.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's twenty questions.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Okay, but still look for the Jets like that was
it was Rogers first time. It was interesting because it
was Rogers with the Jets. I like stuff like the
mentals even though I knew everything going on, and it
was still fun to see. That's why the combination is Okay,
it's got to be something interesting and the bill's not interesting.
But when you're coming off the Giants, and I think
there's a lot of teams that are saying, whoa not
(31:34):
us man? You saw it had that killed the Giants,
That killed the Giants. Last year we watched.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Joe Shane and we watched Mara and the ownership. We're
gonna hit out because I know sound clips and we're
gonna tell you we're gonna give you zero content. We're
just gonna do fun stuff. We don't want the cameras here.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Well they didn't even want to do the cuts anymore.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, right, Which was always the anticipation because you always
had that build up of two or three players, like, oh,
which guy's gonna get cut? It's like watching one of
the dating reality shows, like oh, who's getting the most
screen time? Yeah, one of those guys getting axed because
they're gonna milk whatever their their angst is as far
as they can go, survivor go on in any of
the series The Traders, I watch a lot of reality
(32:15):
television with my kids, as you can tell. I got
to keep up with what they're watching at times, so
we canna have those conversations and I could slip in
things about schoolwork and jobs and things of that nature.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
But for the Giants, like they became a laughingstock.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
The overall message, as we've talked about since it happened,
like Saquan was worth a half a win maybe one
with that team as constructed, take them behind a great
offensive line with Jalen Hurts with what's set up in Philadelphia,
Tada he has the year he does. You're not doing
that with the Giants. But that becomes because Tracy was
a solid back. He wasn't great, but you had a
(32:53):
couple of components. You had Molik Neighbors with his one
hundred and seventy targets. You had our guy in the
back feel Tracy and a lot of nothing, but you
had two sound bites.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Hey, you'll call us before you sign. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean like no, no, Kim wants to be that
they're not going to give you great content and and
it's just going to be this vanilla stuff. I mean,
hard not the novel that this might be the right
time to end it really might be.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Tap it out or either that or show commercials during
it and see how people.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
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So two NFL games to preview here. One is going
to be the Cowboys Nagles. We'll get to that in
a second. First, the war of words continued on today.
Was yesterday Aaron Jets head coach wouldn't talk about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
No, it's not here altmore.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
As we told you last night, there's something that's got
to be personal there. Why he won't talk about him,
Why he made him fly all the way to New
York so we can say you're fired. You Aaron Rodgers today,
Diddy burn him in coverage and some Aaron Maybe, Well,
I tell you he hasn't played with Maybe. Today, Aaron
Rodgers was asked, Hey, your first game back back at
met Life Stadium after the last two disastrous years you
(36:26):
spent Uh is this personal or just another game? Here's
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Not on Wednesday?
Speaker 8 (36:35):
You know, I mean obviously if you have to have
something otherwise, I mean, speak for myself, I have to
have something otherwise. You know, I'm probably in the wrong profession.
So I'm I'll be definitely excited to come Sunday, but
Wednesday just kind of going through the week of preparation.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Yeah, okay, Yeah, what a liar. Uh Now, I'll give
you my pick for the game on Friday.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
It soon he shuns it.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Well, though, it's turning into the Sunday game of the
week with all the drama with Rogers back in New York.
It's turning into the Sunday game of the week with
everything going on towards it.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
The Sunday game because Monday is clearly the game again.
That's why I said the Sunday.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, and we also have games Thursday and Friday, which
are pretty good Thursday Wednesday. But I'm gonna tell you
want a prediction for Sunday pain. The Jets are gonna
live in the Steelers backfield. Just watch. This is not
gonna be a return to Met Life Stadium, and Rogers
is gonna walk around saying I own you, I own you.
(37:36):
The Jets defensive line, the Jets defense is pretty good.
They do have a lot of defensive tack back. Yeah,
we're gonna play seven at one time. NBA able to
play fourteen on defense. But I have a lot of
confidence the Jets defense is going to be terrific this year. Look,
Aaron Glenn's a great DC. Now he's that obviously being
the head coach. But I know the kind of talent
level they have. They got guys and get after the quarterback.
(37:57):
Rogers is someone who was skittish last year in the pocket,
threw the ball away early, doesn't want to get hit anymore. Yeah,
this isn't gonna be the big triumphant in return for
him personally that he thinks it's gonna be. The Jets
are gonna Jets defense stream the Jets defense.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
If I asked you, uh and I will over under
for his passing yards what would you set it at?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Would I set it at? Well, they don't throw the foot,
what would you anticipate? I would say it would be
at one seventy five two O two under under for
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I don't know that said justin Field's at one seventy three.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I mean under my wait, seventy three or one seventy
there's a one. Wait, let me let me make sure
if it was, Yeah, make sure, let me make sure
that my screen is clean. Uh no, I have that
it's one seventy three. Yeah, I'm going under for that too.
I'm going under for the game. I'm going under for
under for everything.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
About his total rushing yards justin fields forty and a.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Half over that, yeah, way over that, Yeah over that. Yeah,
he may have bore rushing yards and passing yards could happen. Now,
speaking of passing, we're getting set for tomorrow night Cowboys
and the Eagles. Look, if I'd love for there to
be a way that I can say I think the
Cowboys can win this game. Uh, the Eagles are gonna
wind up pulling away and winning this thing big. But
the one thing I will tell you, Dak Prescott is
(39:11):
gonna throw the football the entire game. I think he's
throwing the football now, gathering up stats, getting ready for two.
Way over, way over for Dak. They're gonna throw the
football from the jump to Mart's the only way they
can stay with Philadelphia. They're not gonna run it a lot,
They're not gonna try to control the ground. They are
gonna throw the foot because they know this is their
only way out. The Cowboys only escape this year is
(39:33):
through the air to three pretty good targets, you know,
counting with Ceedee Lamb and George Pickens and Ferguson. They
got some They got some dudes there that can catch
the ball. And remember fergus had a big year twenty
twenty three when Dak was healthy. Their only way out
is for Dak to throw it. You know, Jerry Jones
is gonna say, Dak save us after this disastrous Micah
Parsons trade. So Dak's Dak's passing numbers through the roof.
(39:54):
He will have a big He'll throw for three hundred yards,
a couple of touchdowns. Big night for Dak. They'll still
get blown.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Out, but it pushed that.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Key line of seven, so we're all the way up
to plus eight or plus eight and a half for
the Cowboys. Forty seven and a half is the total.
So looking at the aerial assault, Ferguson got paid, CD's
gotten paid. You wish they had a little bit of
balance in the backfield. Whether Blue My Boy, Come My
(40:22):
Guy and Javonte Williams are enough to give you any
kind of level of balance. I don't think so. I
would expect the Eagles to just run the ball, especially
after Jerry's quotes of Hey, we need to stop the run. Hey,
guess what, it's the Eagles on the other side that
offensive line. You're stopping nothing.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Again.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
It's gonna be big stats wise. Otherwise I think it's
gonna be the year for Dak. Hey, great stature for Dak.
But the Cowboys will be six and eleven. It'll still
be a blowout, but they'll move the football and they
will throw it all night. I'll take the back door
cover exit out about a Fresca exit, swollen dome. Jason Smith,
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