January 14, 2026 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike debate if it’s worth calling Marcus Freeman one more time if you’re the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jason throws out some great examples of how the Eagles are their own worst enemy. Plus, the NFL team that by far had the worst weekend!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in side hour to The Jason Smith Show
with my bass friend Mike Harmon. Bears Live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios, where Mike Harmon is still drunk
over the Bears win this past weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, I mean not really.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
When I didn't hear from you, I thought you were dead.
I said, okay, this bear, the Bears game killed him. Well,
it's been a cardiac kind of season. I'm gonna time
after time. I'm gonna have to fly to Boise and
get Ellie off to college and take your body back.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
And body, what's that. It's a great thing. You have
nine lives, that's it. I think I'm up to number seven.
I thought, okay, he I mean that he has this
game killed him. I can't say that. Probably this game
killed him. I gotta say, you know, as the clock
struck zero and the ball falls harmlessly and complete, I
(01:18):
did one of the ray Leota Goodfellas things. Yeah, not
banging on the hood of the car. I like, yeah,
I probably just hit something wrong on this rental and
it's gonna cost me thousands of dollars, but I don't care.
Blank the packers.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, Well that's that's the thing, right, Blank the packers.
Blank the packers. Who knew Ben Johnson was this uh,
this chesty all the time?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, I mean you gotta be uh to call games
like he does.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
That is true. That is true.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Also, I mean there's still the underlying issue that needs
to be addressed. Is it a chess match you're playing
when you can't really get anything going in the first half.
Are you playing a rope of dope kind of.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Growing darts and hoping to warm up at some point?
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I can't die there, it is. I'm warmed up now.
How thought you just come out and play tembo like
it's the final two minutes right off the jump?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Who's stopping pooka. Here's what we're doing. We are going
to uh hypnotize the Bears into thinking that every minute
of this game is the final two minutes of the
four I.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Think that's the only way to operate. Just like life.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Man, guys, you're.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Always in a two minute jriill lived in the fullest
be Bears are up sixty seven and nothing. I can't
believe they're They're playing every minute like it's the Latin Ah.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Now, I see, now I want to know today. Baby,
let's go, h hey, game of the week, right, that's
the uh Sunday Friday night game. Man, everybody is leading.
That's the the point spread or the weather. It's actually
the temperature of the sausages.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
This sausage, you know, the Wieners circle offering hot dogs
for life if the Bears win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, that's a that's a that's a bit of a
risk right now, this number number two in the AFC. Man,
you're you're one night, cold weather game away from the
NFC Championship game. I mean that's where you are. And
you play Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, take down the Rams. Then you go get Sam
Donald and you're the most opportunistic defense in the game.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Doors open, man, Doors open for the Bears. I mean really,
doors open for the Bears. This may be their tough
We will.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Have by Al Franken remote helmet on right with my
satellite dish, reporting live from the mead streets of San
Francisco during Super Bowl week when that happens.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I heard this may be, this may be their toughest game.
We get past the Rams, We're going to the super Bowl.
Just think about that. How fantastic is this? Now I'm
living in the high life while that's happening, I know,
by the way, congratulations. Steve Winwood was trending earlier today
on social media speaking of being back in the high life.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Give us some eleven uh.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The Steelers now looking for a new head coach after
Mike Tomlin resigned earlier today. Last hour, we talk about
the Steelers' aspect of it, what's next for Tomlin, Why
it's good news for Pittsburgh that they can now get
a head coach who is much more modern and can
is okay with opening things up offensively, understanding you to
push the ball down the field. You can't just run
(04:14):
an offense like it was nineteen eighty seven, which has
been the big year for the show. Tonight, whenever we
play La Guns on the show, it's nineteen eighty seven,
so the guy to go after, right, and I know
that this is It's weird because I can kind of
see tomorrow playing out like the end of Iron Man,
when Tony Stark's gonna go out that has to explain
(04:36):
what happened and who the flying thing was and what
that flying being was, and they all tell him, hey,
don't say anything. You know it was it was you know,
one of your one of your jets that was out
there and it was an exercise. Just don't say anything.
Don't blow the lid off this.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
He's got that big prepared statement. He walks after the
press conference. Everything's we're gonna get some sort of cover up,
and he goes, I am Ironman, So okay. I kind
of feel like we could be on the cusp of
that tomorrow because Marcus Freeman set to have a press
conference where he is going to announce he's staying as
head coach with Notre Dame. He had the legal issues
over the course of the past few days at his
(05:14):
son's wrestling event, and Notre Dame put out video that
they say exonerates him. It shows him and his son
leaving the event just been a really ridiculous headline, and
I know that the overtures for the NFL not quite there.
Would I leave Notre Dame for the Falcons, probably not.
Would I eave Notre Dame for any other job that's open,
probably not. Would I leave for the Giants, but they
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seem to be down the road with John Harbaugh. The
Steelers is a job where you say, hey, sorry, Notre Dame,
I have to go to the Steelers because what the
Steelers offer you more than any other job in the
entire National Football League is you know I'm gonna get
years to get it right. I'm not leaving Notre Dame
(05:55):
for a job where I'm going to get fired after
two years. Where if by Falter they stick with guys
right now, they've had success, and you wonder are things
gonna change if if suddenly they start out three and fourteen,
four and thirteen. But you know this is a team
that went Chuck Noll, Bill Kawer, Mike Tomlin, like, you know,
they don't have a lot of guys right this is
(06:17):
their entire runs NFL at coach. That's the one job
you leave anywhere for because you know you're getting a
chance to succeed. They do it differently, which is good
for the head coaches. And Freeman is young, energetic, he
relates to the players. Now. Now he's a defensive head coach,
which doesn't lay in with the vision that the Steelers
need an offensive mind. But the Steelers have shown what
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we want to do over the course of the last
sixty years of our playing is that we want to
hire a young head coach that is well versed everywhere
in the NFL, and the team is going to grow
with him, and we're going to be able to win
because of it. And we get the right guy. And
they're more concerned with getting the right guy. Bill Cower
was the right guy. Mike Tomlin was the right guy.
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Marcus Freeman checks all the boxes at being that next
young head coach that his team believes in. He's achieved
great everything you want in the resume so far, being
able to get to the National Championship Game in the
NIL era. Yes, would he be smart enough to bring
an offense corner to sa Hey, we got to throw
the football up and down the field. You know. CJ.
Carr is gonna be a Heisman Trophy finalist next year.
Just so you know, the odds came out for the
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Heisman Trophy this year. He's number two. So Notre Dame
doesn't have a problem being dynamic offensively.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's not just hey, we're gonna run Jeremiah Love because
he's great. We know we gotta throw the football. So
it's not that he's got to come in with some
crazy offensive system that works. Doesn't have to be Mike
March showing up with the greatest show on turf, but
he needs to be open to we're gonna bring into
the modern NFL. We're gonna run a great offense. We're
gonna be able to spray the ball all across the
field because this is what wins. I know. Marcus free Hey,
(07:48):
I'm stam staying, but this is a job where I
think both sides say, let's make one more run before
we go. And there had been internal talk with the
Steelers about Freeman before when Tomlin was still the if
he ever leaves, who would our next guy be? And
so knowing that, knowing that for Freeman, yeah, I think
it's worth one more phone call, one more situation. Hey,
(08:09):
at a really dicey situation at Notre Dame. Here, Yes,
it looks like he's getting past that the wrestling the
wrestling thing, and everything looks great for him going forward.
But man, I think you need that phone call because
this is the job you leave anywhere for.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, the wrestling thing is more kind of a what
happened here and the Superti film comes out and whatever,
and they were quick to jump on that. The larger
issue is there are very few times that we see
the outlier team pop into the cycle. Right, you'll have
a coach step down, Right, that's been theorized in the
(08:45):
next year or two. That might happen with Andy Reid
with the Chiefs. But all the other times that we
get into the coaching cycle, what are we looking at
eighty ninety percent of those teams. Do you're going there
because it's one of thirty two or because you have
the hubris and the idea that I can figure this out. Right,
(09:05):
it's like picking that quarterback off the scrap heap. Say
he was wounded mortally by the Jets as in his
first couple of years, and that after a couple of
rehab assignments, you can turn them into a pro bowler. Right,
you could do that, But for the most part, we're
cycling these same damn jobs every year, Like all right, hey,
(09:26):
Cleveland's available, Okay, cool, Yeah, that makes sense. And there's
the Raiders. They're always out there for you. Your guy
staved off his short term execution there with the Jets,
so they'll get a second bite at the apple. But
all of that to say, it's usually the same squads
that we're talking about in this coach at Karasel. All
of a sudden, Pittsburgh becomes open. Wait a minute, hold on,
(09:49):
hold on to your point. Yeah, you're gonna get a
chance to build essentially the college program. You're also going
to a division so as long as they are abolished
the divisional systems, you're going into a place where you
can go and continue this run and win. Right, two
of your competitors have announced that they're getting rid of
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the coaches.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Baltimore has the luxuries and they do have a quarterback.
Cincinnati doesn't have anybody on defense, although maybe Stewart actually
plays well as second year remains to be seen. Hendrickson'll
be gone and Joe Burrow still could put a flare
up in the sky saying I want out. But and
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then Cleveland can't get out of its own way, good defense,
but still myriad questions on what they do offensively and
their next coaching higher. So all of a sudden, you
look at Pittsburgh. It's a model of stability because they're
going to give you everything you can to win for Tomlin. Again,
all those years we watched it with Roethlisberger, and I
would have loved to be a fly on the wall
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when they were discussing what they were doing with the
quarterback position the next year. So if your Marcus Freeman like,
that's what I get to help pick that part of
the set, right, omar Con, that's not just you. We
have to be an agreement that we're pushing this thing
ahead because you do have some components yet, right, there's
a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Obviously they're okay with that because Tomlin wanted this kind
of offense and this is the offense omark on game. Okay, great,
you want Russell Wilson, justin fields and Aaron Rodgers. Okay,
all right, great, go run it. I mean, I can't
believe that's the preferred way they wanted to do things,
but this is what Tomlin wants. Tomlin's been pretty successful. Okay,
we give him what he wants. Now it's completely outdated.
And you know why they haven't won a playoff game
(11:30):
in ten years because they stuck with Roethlisberger too long
when he couldn't throw the football anymore, went to other
quarterbacks that couldn't throw the football, tried to get by
with guys that weren't any good. So, yeah, you need
a change, You need a change for that to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
No, but that again, that goes to the difficult part
of trying to put yourself in that Pittsburgh bubble against
the rest of the NFL because all of us, all
of you listening across wherever you are across the globe
on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you're listening to the show,
like you're looking at your fan the man, I'd kill
for that stability. I'd kill for the idea that I'm between.
(12:05):
You know, eight and a half and eleven wins every
year as opposed to, Wow, we really suck again. Yeah,
and then you get one year of kind of a
hope of Hey, on paper, this line's up. Think about
how many times we talked about Baltimore even this year. Right, Hey,
this roster looks like it's assembled to be a world beating. No,
they couldn't even get away started at all. He gets
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traded the Chargers, he finishes with what nine sacks total
when you add the playoff run, like like what happened.
But in Pittsburgh it's been status quo and you've been
just good enough to stay above that line and stay
competitive and play meaningful football in December. So that's the standard, right,
that is the baseline that Marcus Freeman or whoever ends
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up in the job. Some of the guys that are
in the heads of some of the betting odds, I
just scratched my head, going, really this these are these
are the guys that rise up. But Marcus Freeman with
a press scheduled, I mean, does he go Leo DiCaprio
and just I'm not bleeping leaving or is it something
far more?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Uh? Other bigger on the line here, Other jobs I get.
But the steel because you want it, boy, The Steelers
give you what every coach wants. I want years and
years and years to succeed. I know, I don't know.
I gotta prove, I gotta build, but I want years
and years. The Steelers is the only program that gives
that to you, right, I mean the Cowboys do a
little bit because Jerry Jones, when he hires somebody doesn't
want to hit a mistake, so I'll stick with a
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guy longer than I have to. So there is that,
but that comes with its own set of problems. The
Steelers like, yeah, come stay, you win, We'll give you time.
We like being relevant, we like winning games. I mean,
it's it's it's absolute paradise for an NFL coach. I
gotta go there and be there for eighteen years. Not
that you can't go other places and be there a
long time with John Harball's with the Ravens that long.
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But but it's only because hey, I've been able to succeed.
We want a super Bowl. But you know, going in
if my first couple of years a bed, they're gonna say, no, sweat,
keep building. Okay, great, that's what I want. I mean,
that's that's what anybody wants. That's like, that's the job
you leave Notre Dame for, that's the gig. Can't wait
for that attention to viewing. Maybe you'll call out his
ad and everybody on the way out.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And you you were whining too much. I couldn't take it.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
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fresca at Swollen Dome? Coming up next, we got more
from the NFL. Two teams that had incredibly disappointing playoff
weekends made big changes. Are they the right ones? That's next?
Right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Subscribe, hit that thumbs up icon and comment away. Thirty
six years ago today, we got this from mc Hammer.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
You still have the pants I do?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I said Hammer pants were great, and they were so comfortable.
I felt like a sultan walking around, like, ah, yeah,
how many pockets? I used to, Oh, dude, the pockets
they go all the way down to your ankles. You
just put like I put a pair of keys instead
of keys. It's like I gotta go all the way
down here. And how many sandwiches did you stuff in them?
Oh dude, you could put like one hundred in there.
When he used to go to the dining hall, fit.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I used to be able to do the the MC
when he would put his hands on his hips and
would just do the side to side. I used to
be able to do that. Swear to God, I used
to be able to do that. I can't do it anymore,
but I used to be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You peeked to Sager's interests. Oh yeah, his head popped
up like he was a mirror cat.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I used to when he doesn't when he goes when
he goes side to side, I used to. I can't anymore,
but I could do that up until probably it was
about forty I could do that. People were people They're like,
I can't believe you could do I'm like, oh yeah,
I could do that now, not anymore. I used to
be able to show you side quick feet. I can't
do it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You're going side to side like you run around base
paths like Babe Ruth in those.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Who maybe a few years ago I could have showed
you something, but uh, you know, not anymore. And you
get a hat and you get at.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
The whole sleeve of hats down me.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I'd go all the way to one side the start
and the clap, and then go all the way to
the other side of you like your leg was broken. Yeah. No,
it's just you have your feet wide and you kind
of tap and move, and I just could always burgers
on each side. Suddenly I'm wimpy walking around in a
pop Eye car too, so like it's the wrong thing
I do that. I could do that, and I could
do the David Lee Wroth from the Jump video when
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he jumped off the stage and he touched his hands
to his to his feet. I used to be able
to I don't believe. I'll get my wife to call
and she goes, yeah, no, I could do that. I
used to be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, but that just means she'd be a liar on that.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Many people knew I could do that. I could do both.
People my friends would say, no, I've did that for years.
Bow up dolls, don't care. It's a big party trick. Hey,
do the do the jump. Okay, I'll do the jump.
And I could do the jump and do the David
ly Roth touch my hand to my feet. It was great.
And then the hammer dance?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Who carries in tune better these days?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You were David?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Oh, well, okay, well that's that's a little that's a
little different. But God never no. But if I could
do it again, I would.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I'd give anything.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I would. I he at this point my life am
a fall risk. He I don't know that I could
still do it and still be healthy at the end.
Now that the mc hammer thing, I could try to
do it, and that's not gonna hurt. The davidly Roth thing,
I could hurt myself, like if I don't land right
like that, that could that could go really bad.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well, the penguin walk, you can do it, you go bad.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
But I could the mc hammer thing. I used to
be able to do it, but now but now I
can't anymore. I don't know that he could do it anymore.
He's older than I am no.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I get after it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Of course he can do it, you can.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Still do it. I don't know. He's still on tour
at least a few dates. He can't do that movie.
He ain't getting out of stage. I just I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I just judge when I go, because every time he
comes into town, I go see Morris Day, and I'm like, boy,
and Morris Day is getting old, like you know, he
doesn't quite do the whole moves and Jerome with the
mirror doesn't come out like it mirror out there. Yeah,
there was one point when I went to see Morris
Day the last time, which is I think was a
year ago, and uh, like he were doing a song
and then they got to point where there was like
guitar solo and stuff, and like our seats were so
(18:59):
much that I could see him walk off stage and
like he just walks off stage, just stands there and
it's just like exhausted drinking water. I going, that's not
even you know, it's not even close to what he
used to be able to do. So I could see
he look rock and roll would slow down earlier. There's
an extension of never meet your heroes.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, make sure your vantage point is that you can't
see the side of the stage. You don't want to
see him. The magic is done under the stage.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Like I remember going to see him, going to see
like like twenty twenty five years ago, and.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Jerome would come out. He would be he would walk
with that mirror and he would just side to side.
He would pound it down and dance while And now
Jerome kind of holds the mirror and brings it out
and kind of just kind of just lays it on
the growd, holds it up for.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Morris to look into. And Morris used to do the
dance and his hair. Now he just looks into the
mirror and does his hair. So it's a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Now, that's pretty good to have that kind of job
long Jevity. It's kind of like being a coach in
Baltimore Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, I mean, nobody else can, but Jerome can bring
out the mirror. I mean there's nobody that's not like
you could say, hey, Paul Atte, bring out my mirror.
That doesn't wan, But.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's job security. Man. You are the mirror guy.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Hey Jerry, bring out my mirror. No, it's Jerome. Where's
my mirror? That's really you have that, you have that
whole thing. It's Jerome got a job. I think he does. Okay,
he doesn't. I went to what was it six months
(20:25):
ago for my wife's birthday. I took her. They had
a screening for Purple Rain and and Jerome was the moderator.
Like they had this whole big panel there that people
for actors from the movie, you know, and uh no, no, no, dude,
it was you kidding. It was packed the prince gear
that people were wearing. I was like, I want all
of it, like T shirts that went to the floor
that had rhinestones on them, and and it was they
(20:47):
they showed Purple Rain, and they had like a like
a moderator like a stage, and Jerome was the moderator
and and he's so he's coming out to the to
the to the crowd and he's asking people questions and everything,
and it was really good. And I'm like, I should
say something, Fish, don't you say a word. Don't like
she thought I'm an embarrasser, or say something like, hey, Jerome,
come on, Like I just I should say something. It'll
(21:07):
be fun. She just don't say you speak enough on
the radio. Don't say it. I was like, okay, I
don't say anything. I won't say anything. It's fine. That's terrible. Yeah,
that was that was your chance. She was where, that
was your opportunity. We go, we go see Morris and
Jerome every time. I'm gonna have other opportunities. No, no,
I'll have other opportunities. But at some point they might
say I got enough. Adjason spits money, I don't need
to be back out there. By the way, did Nick
(21:30):
Cage show up? No? Nick kg should not show up. No,
but frostburg my face. Actually, my my favorite line from
uh uh from Morris day concert was I think it
was two years ago when we went Yeah when when? When? Uh?
It was the same night the Lakers eliminated the Warriors
from the playoffs, and his concert was right across the
street from when it was Staples Center. So we go in,
(21:51):
we're in the con the concert's big, everybody's happy. Look
of course, it's a big scene outside with everybody running around,
and he comes out and he goes everybody, be honest
with me, how many all of here? Because we couldn't
get tickets to the Lakers. Every hand went in.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Did he start the show late?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Because the Lakers. He said, Hey, if you guys want
to watch the end of the game, we'll wait another
ten minutes for the game to end and then we'll start.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
We saw that the other day. Bill Murray's out on tour.
He sings and he's got a backing band.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
They were playing a show and behind them they were
playing the Bears game, and when he got into the
final two minutes, they just stopped playing and got out
of the way and.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Just walk vacation. We have to watch the end of this.
We have to.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, we're gonna watch the other of the game. Game
goes final and the guy immediately back out of the art. Alright,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
So today we had a couple of teams make big
decisions that had really bad weekends. Right, let's deal with
the Eagles first. Nobody surprised that offensive corner Kevin Patulo
has been reassigned within the organization. Head coach Nick Sirianni
making that announcement today today after after big conversations with
(23:00):
Kevin Pittullo replacing him as offensive coordinator. We've aarre from
position to stay with the team. Maybe could be Big
Dom's assistant, you know, maybe that's what you're gonna help
Big Dom out of it. Now. He needs some help, right,
we need Big Dom to get some help. You're the
assistant to the traveling security assistant to the traveling security guy.
So obviously they needed a move. But the thing about
(23:21):
the Eagles right now, I'm gonna give you a hot
take about the Eagles now, them getting knocked out this weekend.
So now they've had a run in the Nick Sirianni
Jalen Hurts era that has seen them win a Super Bowl.
I'm saying this in the era that they have won
a super Bowl. But when we look back at this
when it's all said and done in a couple of years,
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when Syrianni's gone or Jalen Hurts is gone he's on
another team. When in three weeks, when aj Brown is gone,
when this era of the Eagles is done, right when
it hurts and Barkley is finished playing because he's too old,
we're gonna look back and say that era was a failure,
even though they won a super Bowl. Right now, honestly,
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they should have two super Bowls and be steaming towards
a third. But they can't get out of their own way,
whether it's the quarterback and the head coach can't get
on the same page. The players don't like the quarterback.
The quarterback then the main receiver don't get along. Nobody
likes the receiver. They bathe in controversy, and they were
able to succeed at and it was awesome to watch, right,
it was really impressive. But now what happened at the
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end of this year. They fell apart, just like they
did two years ago at the end where it was
we really can't wait for the season to end. They
have so much talent on this team. This is the
most talented roster in the NFL, top to bottom, and
we're gonna go out to this and say, well, they
won a Super Bowl, but overall the era is going
to be a failure because what they should have been
able to accomplish while this is look at some of
these teams that are left. Man, the Seahawks aren't great,
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the forty nine ers are pretenders. The Bills aren't great, right,
the Denver Broncos aren't great. The Patriots are pretenders. But
one of these teams is gonna win the Super Bowl,
and it should be the Eagles. It should be the Eagles.
Like that, you win the suit. It's hard to say that.
It sounds I sound insane when I say that. But
when you look back at this era, this six seven, eight, whatever,
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it's gonna wide it beating, it's how do we not
win more? What a failure that was? Red Like you,
like you look back at the Seahawks era when uh
with Pete Carroll, and you're gonna say, boy, they won
the Super Bowl, but that was kind of a failure
because they should have had two maybe three. But Pete
Carroll throws his way into losing a Super Bowl there.
It should have been different, it should have been better.
Seattle should have won more and they didn't. And and
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as much as you're a Seahawks fan, you would have
been wake up every morning and you think, boy, is
Sam Darnold gonna suck? You think, okay, uh, we got
the game coming up. But man, if we had just
given the ball to Marshall Lintz would have won the Super Bowl,
right Like that's every Seal. You think that every single day.
If you're a Seahawks when you think about the Seahawks,
that thought gets into your head every day. So when
you look at what the what it's gonna be for
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the Eagles where it's gonna they're gonna say, how could
we knock it out of our own way? How can
we have so many problems with our quarterback, head, coach,
wide receiver. How can we have this happen? How do
we have this go on? How do we not able
to figure things out better going forward? Other teams not
everybody gets along. They figure out a way to get
it happened, right. No, No, not everybody's going to the
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going to the movies together or going out to the
bar together at the end. But they still find a
way to get it done and win football games. But
the Eagles simply find a way to be their own
worst enemy. And this is yet another situation. Is replacing
Patulo going to be the right call? Yeah, you have
to do something on offense and you're not saying about it.
Jalen hurts this year. You're probably moving on from aj
Brown and you're not moving on from Nick Sirianni yet.
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But you know there's all kinds of tension. Something has
to happen there. So will that help? Yeah? But is
it gonna be enough? This is a lost year this year,
or the Eagle should have been the overwhelming favorite when
you see who's left in the play A Super Bowl
playoffs and say, well, I'm not gonna bet against the
champs until they lose because they still have the best team.
And yet you're gonna look back at the end of
this and say, man, that was an underachieving for the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I certainly have some questions. You can go into the
final possession in the twenty three to nineteen loss to
San Francisco this week, you are first and ten from
the San Francisco twenty with a minute twenty eight remaining.
You have all of your timeouts. Guess who's been running well,
Sakuon Barkley. Guess who doesn't see the ball? A lah
shades of Derrick Henry out there in Baltimore. Yes, Saquon
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Barkley doesn't see it again, despite starting to run for
chunk yardage and getting a lean against the depleted, battered, bruised, outgunned,
out manned, as our guy Kevin Burkhart said on the
Fox broadcast forty nine or defense. But yeah, you have
a Super Bowl loss, you have a Super Bowl win
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and a bunch of wild card exits along the way,
and you look at his overall record for Sirianni. It's insane, right,
fifty nine and twenty six in his five years there,
and yet this year was every week, what's going to
be the thing to fell them? Right early on, you
couldn't get the run game started, and Barkley was a
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full yard and a half or thereabouts lower than his
rushing average from a year ago. Okay, some injuries on
the offensive line, you overcome it. But even in this game,
AJ Brown, you just just highlight a couple of the
would be catches to what we're easy throws and Jalen
Hurts takes a lot of incoming. But while on these guys'
hands repeatedly, Barkley had a big drop that would have
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been a first down to extend a drive as well.
That overall, you know you're looking at down distance. You
gotta have a fall guy, and it's uneven and unfortunately
for Petullo. Also, you know you have the claims of well,
that's his friend. Guy's got a long career. I mean, yes,
he wants coach with the Jets, but he's been around
a while. This is not a fresh faced new guy
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that it was his first bite at the apple of
really coaching on a grand scale he's been with the organization,
So now you go to that next phase and try
to figure out how you keep your offensive line healthy.
But for Nick Siriani, I mean, the sort of Damocles
is certainly swinging right they we saw it a few
years ago. Doug Peterson. It's like, how do they get
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rid of him so fast? How do you all these
coaches of the years get fired the next year? It's
a very short cycle. And in Philadelphia the poison pens
are out.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I mean, just think about that, They've won the Super
Bowl all that, and it's gonna wind up being looked
at as a failure. That that's that only in Philadelphia.
Only the Eagles man, only Eagles tim now to find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports. But
guy's been called the AJ Brown of Fox Sports Radio.
Sometimes when I expect him to do an update, he's
reading a book instead. It's Steve Disager.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Back Off got two books.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Tonight.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
In the NBA's late games, we got a Golden State
home game at a Lakers home game. Lakers was still
over a minute to go till halftime, lead Atlanta seventy
seven fifty four or sixty two percent shooting for the Lakers,
Luca don Said's twenty three p points in the first
half at Golden State their late first quarter.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh, aren't we still waiting for that game to tip
off on NBAC. They're still holding the tip right because
the script tipped off about twenty minutes ago. They're in
the final minute of the first quarter. Golden State thirty
six to twenty over Portland. Oklahoma City had been zero
and three against the Spurs. Beat San Antonio Tonight one
nineteen ninety eight, Shay Giljess Alexander thirty four points. Minnesota
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shot sixty percent from the floor and one at Milwaukee
won thirty nine to one oh six, even though the
Timberwolves Anthony Edwards was out with a foot injury and
Rudy Gobert was out after another flagrant foul. Houston and
Denver each one Miami as well. Anthony Davis of the
MAVs will be reevaluated in six weeks after his second
opinion surgery is not required on his injured left hand,
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there is ligaman damage. Davis has averaged twenty points per
game this season, but he's only played twenty games. All
Star voting continues through Wednesday, then the starters will be
announced on Monday. Luca don Chichabelle led the fan voting
four next month's All Star Game, which will be held
in La but at the Clippers Arena. In mid February, the.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Diamondbacks acquired third baseman Nolan Arenado and cash from Saint Louis.
He batted two thirty seven last year and has two
seasons left on his nine year deal. The Cardinals now
have no players under contract after this coming season.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
They're disbanding after this year. You're not going to be
a team. Best fans in baseball just gonna.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Say, hey, what about the best fans in baseball?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Although they'll go to an empty ballpark rams game.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker reportedly as offers from the
Mets and the Blue Jays. The Yankees are acquiring lefty
pitcher Ryan Weathers from Miami. The Royals are moving most
to the outfield fences in ten feet at their stadium.
Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman wold a news conference
on Wednesday. ESPN said he is not expected to leave
for an NFL job. Steelers have an opening head coach
(31:51):
Mike Tomlin stepped down today, the Eagles removed Kevin Tulo
as offensive coordinator. The Chargers fired offensive coordinator Greg Roman.
In college basketball, Hansas upset number two Iowa State eighty
four sixty three number three Yuka and one at sixty
nine sixty four at number twenty five Seaton Hall, Virginia,
one at Louisville, Tennessee, and two overtimes defeated Texas A
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and M to the NHL Tampa Bay one it's eleven
straight game, a shootout victory at Pittsburgh two to one,
Washington at home, one in overtime against Montreal three two
wins for Saint Louis and Boston. And in women's college hoops,
a Big East game at Georgetown went to the Hoyas
fifty nine thirty four over Saint John's, which from three
point range was two of twenty three attendance, three hundred
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and twenty one in DC. And I got to get
schooled on the whole Sunny system here.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, sure, I'm aware.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
There must be fifty campuses of the Universities of New.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
York eighty nine Sunny campuses. Now, are you serious? No, no, no, no,
I know there are so many.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
I wouldn't doubt that it's more than fifty. But there's
one that I'm completely unfamiliar with. It played in Women's
Hoops tonight. It was Sonny Delhi at Cornell.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, Sunny Della. Yeah, no there No, Honestly,
I think they're in India, right, I think, yes, it's long,
it's a long roadcheck of our roadtrick. No, I want
to say, I think there's like sixty Sunni schools technically,
because they just had a they did something in the
last five years where a bunch of schools became Sunny Sea.
Isn't Syracuse one of them? Serious? No, Syracuse, unfortunately, is
private and it's a lot more money to go there
than go to Sunny schools. Like when I was going
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to college applying there, like Sunny Binghamton was the big one.
It was like a you know, the Sunny Ivy League school.
There was about fifteen or sixteen. Now, I really I
think there's like sixty. I looked this up on the map.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Apparently it's roughly halfway between Syracuse and New York City.
But the Broncos of Sunny Delhi, Yeah, shot nineteen percent
from the floor tonight.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Well, that's what happens when you leave sandwiches before the
game and a half time you're Sunny Delhi.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
You know what's going on in h in Delhi. Here
it's one oh six to twenty seven Cornell. The final
attendance one hundred eleven. There were more people in my
aunt's driveway last week the game back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Thank you, Steeve up. That's going on your driveway man,
every Saturday. One hundred people at Steve vance house.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Everyone's welcome, okay, all right?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
A party we gain?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, yeah, and you're hosting a game against Sunny Delhi
right that was happening in the dew driveway then there
would not.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
So that's how That's how rough it is for the
Eagles right now. But they made a big change offensive coordinator.
Another team who actually had the worst weekend of any
team in the NFL playoffs made a big change today.
Will it help? That's next right here, Jason and Mike
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
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Speaker 1 (34:44):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike harmon
Lakers are back. Uh yeah, when I said earlier tonight, boy,
if the Lakers loseing the Hawks, it's like Defcon five. Yeah, no, no,
it's not happening. They're up by twenty two. It's still
the first quarter. It's eighty two to sixty. Boring. The
Warriors haven't tipped yet. No, I still waiting for a
(35:05):
tip between the Warriors and Portland Apple holding this one back,
NBC holding this one back, rather waiting.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
You'll want it and enjoy one of the other shows
on Peacock. Here's another medical drama.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
So we got into the Eagles a few minutes ago
and they changed out offensive coordinators today. Kevin Petullo will
be replaced by Jason Derulo. No, Kevin Petulo being replaced
by well, Kevin Petulo. Uh, he's getting replaced. You're gonna
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look back at this Eagles era as being a failure
because they didn't win enough.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Were you doing that as an oprah, Kevin Petulo?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Man, Whenever Jason rule gets introduced here, it's Jason Derulo.
Like that's how they say it's Kevin Patula. I'm not
familiar with the man's process. Well, it's not like you got.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I mean, you could give me more of the Hey
Jerome mirror.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Get that this Tom gets introduced more than Kevin Patula,
who's not getting introduced anymore. But today, also the Chargers
wave goodbye to their offensive coordinator Greg Roman. And there
is no team in the as bad as things. I'm
telling you, the Eagles won a Super Bowl in this era,
We're gonna look back at it and say it was
a failure because they should have won more than their
own worst enemy. No team had a worse weekend than
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the Chargers, because what you saw was a team that
you thought was this close, one step away, and now
they look like they're further away than when the season began.
Justin Herbert spend most of the season running for his life.
You have to upgrade the offensive line. I get it right.
You lost Joe Walt, who probably is the MVP of
the league. But Justin Herbert had chances on Sunday. Yes,
(36:45):
he got sacked, but he missed some plays, he missed
some open receivers. This was not a big game from him.
And now he still hasn't won a playoff game. And
you have to come around to the fact that, Okay,
maybe this is Justin Herbert. He's a very good core
and this is just who he is. And that's the
worst part for the Chargers because it tells you that
(37:06):
if this is who Justin Herbert is, it means he
needs better weapons around him to succeed. Like most quarterbacks
that are really that that are good, they're better with
great weapons around them. We thought Herbert was someone who
raised the level around him, but look, Lad McConkie barely
saw the football this year. He was upset at the
end of the game.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, his postgame comments and exit comments were not. Yeah,
we're pretty damning of what was going on with a
lot of You might as well have just been pointing
at Keenan Allen the entire time.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I mean, really get it, because you know he and
Keenan Allen are gonna run the same routes and catch
the same passes. Okay, that doesn't help your offense, right.
And and McConkie as great a year he had last year,
he's terrific. He was not a weapon at all. This year.
He'd have games with with two catches in it, which
probably is why they fired Greg Roman, because dude, Lad
McConkie is fantastic man. He's like Wes Welker, get him
the bleep in football. But you saw, you saw the
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way they played against the Patriots, which was awful. Then
you heard the reports after some pay players said Chargers
players talked him after the game and said, we had
no idea what defense you guys were in all game.
You guys did a great job. And it's like, whoa,
that's true, Like you had no idea what defense the
other team was in. Now that's a story the Patriots
are telling. But watching the Chargers play that game was
there for them, Like this wasn't a game where ah,
(38:17):
you know, things went it was. It was negative thirty
degrees and all their players were hurt, Like Herbert still
had a chance to make some plays. They still had
a chance to win. And what they had out there
was not nearly good enough. Man, you're not nearly good
enough for your first playoff game. You're not as close
as we thought. Nobody had a worse week in the
Charge and getting a new OCN, Yeah that's gonna be great.
(38:39):
But all of a sudden, now I look back and go, man,
are the weapons still really that good? Can you still
get by with McConkey as your one Quinton Johnson Gasden,
the running back situation you have, can you still get by?
Is that still good enough? Like nobody had a worse
weekend than the Chargers did.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Oh, you come away from that game and it was gettable.
You know, we watched all three days of a playoff
football and even last night the Pittsburgh Houston game. Defense
was good enough to keep them in it until it
wasn't right. Fourteen points off of the Aaron Rodgers turnovers,
the fumble that shouldn't have ever been, and the pick
(39:14):
six to end it all. But you go back to
that Charger game, defense did great. They had a couple
of chunk plays. They're at the Stevenson catch and run
from this shadow of their own end zone and all
of that stuff. But for the most part, they gave
every chance to Herbritt and that offense to find some spark.
Still curious as to what went down with Hampton, why
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he was up and then wasn't available because they couldn't
get anything going in the run game, so there's no
play action. Keenan Allen with a couple of drops and
some lackadaisical in and out off the sideline, not getting
McConkey involved. They were just a lot of questions for
an offense that they cobbled together. What was it twenty
(39:55):
nine different line combinations. I think what Steve said, I mean,
you got to that point, but in the biggest moment
in a gattible game, you had nothing. And Herbert's gonna
wear more of it because as more of the All
twenty two comes out, you'll go back to the first
half because he finished giving it, taken six sacks. Those
weren't on the offensive line necessarily.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Nobody had a worse weekend of the Chargers. I mean
that that they they went from hey, they're they're this
close to now maybe they've taken steps back.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I want to know how the line coach gets fired
that you get screwed
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Hello, Welcome in side hour to The Jason Smith Show
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Fox Sports Radio studios, where Mike Harmon is still drunk
over the Bears win this past weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, I mean not really.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
When I didn't hear from you, I thought you were dead.
I said, okay, this bear, the Bears game killed him. Well,
it's been a cardiac kind of season. I'm gonna time
after time. I'm gonna have to fly to Boise and
get Ellie off to college and take your body back.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
And body, what's that. It's a great thing. You have
nine lives, that's it. I think I'm up to number seven.
I thought, okay, he I mean that he has this
game killed him. I can't say that. Probably this game
killed him. I gotta say, you know, as the clock
struck zero and the ball falls harmlessly and complete, I
(01:18):
did one of the ray Leota Goodfellas things. Yeah, not
banging on the hood of the car. I like, yeah,
I probably just hit something wrong on this rental and
it's gonna cost me thousands of dollars, but I don't care.
Blank the packers.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, Well that's that's the thing, right, Blank the packers.
Blank the packers. Who knew Ben Johnson was this uh,
this chesty all the time?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Well, I mean you gotta be uh to call games
like he does.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
That is true. That is true.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Also, I mean there's still the underlying issue that needs
to be addressed. Is it a chess match you're playing
when you can't really get anything going in the first half.
Are you playing a rope of dope kind of.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Growing darts and hoping to warm up at some point?
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I can't die there, it is. I'm warmed up now.
How thought you just come out and play tembo like
it's the final two minutes right off the jump?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Who's stopping pooka. Here's what we're doing. We are going
to uh hypnotize the Bears into thinking that every minute
of this game is the final two minutes of the
four I.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Think that's the only way to operate. Just like life.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Man, guys, you're.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Always in a two minute jriill lived in the fullest
be Bears are up sixty seven and nothing. I can't
believe they're They're playing every minute like it's the Latin Ah.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Now, I see, now I want to know today. Baby,
let's go, h hey, game of the week, right, that's
the uh Sunday Friday night game. Man, everybody is leading.
That's the the point spread or the weather. It's actually
the temperature of the sausages.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
This sausage, you know, the Wieners circle offering hot dogs
for life if the Bears win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, that's a that's a that's a bit of a
risk right now, this number number two in the AFC. Man,
you're you're one night, cold weather game away from the
NFC Championship game. I mean that's where you are. And
you play Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, take down the Rams. Then you go get Sam
Donald and you're the most opportunistic defense in the game.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Doors open, man, Doors open for the Bears. I mean really,
doors open for the Bears. This may be their tough
We will.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Have by Al Franken remote helmet on right with my
satellite dish, reporting live from the mead streets of San
Francisco during Super Bowl week when that happens.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I heard this may be, this may be their toughest game.
We get past the Rams, We're going to the super Bowl.
Just think about that. How fantastic is this? Now I'm
living in the high life while that's happening, I know,
by the way, congratulations. Steve Winwood was trending earlier today
on social media speaking of being back in the high life.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Give us some eleven uh.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
The Steelers now looking for a new head coach after
Mike Tomlin resigned earlier today. Last hour, we talk about
the Steelers' aspect of it, what's next for Tomlin, Why
it's good news for Pittsburgh that they can now get
a head coach who is much more modern and can
is okay with opening things up offensively, understanding you to
push the ball down the field. You can't just run
(04:14):
an offense like it was nineteen eighty seven, which has
been the big year for the show. Tonight, whenever we
play La Guns on the show, it's nineteen eighty seven,
so the guy to go after, right, and I know
that this is It's weird because I can kind of
see tomorrow playing out like the end of Iron Man,
when Tony Stark's gonna go out that has to explain
(04:36):
what happened and who the flying thing was and what
that flying being was, and they all tell him, hey,
don't say anything. You know it was it was you know,
one of your one of your jets that was out
there and it was an exercise. Just don't say anything.
Don't blow the lid off this.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
He's got that big prepared statement. He walks after the
press conference. Everything's we're gonna get some sort of cover up,
and he goes, I am Ironman, So okay. I kind
of feel like we could be on the cusp of
that tomorrow because Marcus Freeman set to have a press
conference where he is going to announce he's staying as
head coach with Notre Dame. He had the legal issues
over the course of the past few days at his
(05:14):
son's wrestling event, and Notre Dame put out video that
they say exonerates him. It shows him and his son
leaving the event just been a really ridiculous headline, and
I know that the overtures for the NFL not quite there.
Would I leave Notre Dame for the Falcons, probably not.
Would I eave Notre Dame for any other job that's open,
probably not. Would I leave for the Giants, but they
(05:35):
seem to be down the road with John Harbaugh. The
Steelers is a job where you say, hey, sorry, Notre Dame,
I have to go to the Steelers because what the
Steelers offer you more than any other job in the
entire National Football League is you know I'm gonna get
years to get it right. I'm not leaving Notre Dame
(05:55):
for a job where I'm going to get fired after
two years. Where if by Falter they stick with guys
right now, they've had success, and you wonder are things
gonna change if if suddenly they start out three and fourteen,
four and thirteen. But you know this is a team
that went Chuck Noll, Bill Kawer, Mike Tomlin, like, you know,
they don't have a lot of guys right this is
(06:17):
their entire runs NFL at coach. That's the one job
you leave anywhere for because you know you're getting a
chance to succeed. They do it differently, which is good
for the head coaches. And Freeman is young, energetic, he
relates to the players. Now. Now he's a defensive head coach,
which doesn't lay in with the vision that the Steelers
need an offensive mind. But the Steelers have shown what
(06:38):
we want to do over the course of the last
sixty years of our playing is that we want to
hire a young head coach that is well versed everywhere
in the NFL, and the team is going to grow
with him, and we're going to be able to win
because of it. And we get the right guy. And
they're more concerned with getting the right guy. Bill Cower
was the right guy. Mike Tomlin was the right guy.
(07:00):
Marcus Freeman checks all the boxes at being that next
young head coach that his team believes in. He's achieved
great everything you want in the resume so far, being
able to get to the National Championship Game in the
NIL era. Yes, would he be smart enough to bring
an offense corner to sa Hey, we got to throw
the football up and down the field. You know. CJ.
Carr is gonna be a Heisman Trophy finalist next year.
Just so you know, the odds came out for the
(07:21):
Heisman Trophy this year. He's number two. So Notre Dame
doesn't have a problem being dynamic offensively.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's not just hey, we're gonna run Jeremiah Love because
he's great. We know we gotta throw the football. So
it's not that he's got to come in with some
crazy offensive system that works. Doesn't have to be Mike
March showing up with the greatest show on turf, but
he needs to be open to we're gonna bring into
the modern NFL. We're gonna run a great offense. We're
gonna be able to spray the ball all across the
field because this is what wins. I know. Marcus free Hey,
(07:48):
I'm stam staying, but this is a job where I
think both sides say, let's make one more run before
we go. And there had been internal talk with the
Steelers about Freeman before when Tomlin was still the if
he ever leaves, who would our next guy be? And
so knowing that, knowing that for Freeman, yeah, I think
it's worth one more phone call, one more situation. Hey,
(08:09):
at a really dicey situation at Notre Dame. Here, Yes,
it looks like he's getting past that the wrestling the
wrestling thing, and everything looks great for him going forward.
But man, I think you need that phone call because
this is the job you leave anywhere for.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, the wrestling thing is more kind of a what
happened here and the Superti film comes out and whatever,
and they were quick to jump on that. The larger
issue is there are very few times that we see
the outlier team pop into the cycle. Right, you'll have
a coach step down, Right, that's been theorized in the
(08:45):
next year or two. That might happen with Andy Reid
with the Chiefs. But all the other times that we
get into the coaching cycle, what are we looking at
eighty ninety percent of those teams. Do you're going there
because it's one of thirty two or because you have
the hubris and the idea that I can figure this out. Right,
(09:05):
it's like picking that quarterback off the scrap heap. Say
he was wounded mortally by the Jets as in his
first couple of years, and that after a couple of
rehab assignments, you can turn them into a pro bowler. Right,
you could do that, But for the most part, we're
cycling these same damn jobs every year, Like all right, hey,
(09:26):
Cleveland's available, Okay, cool, Yeah, that makes sense. And there's
the Raiders. They're always out there for you. Your guy
staved off his short term execution there with the Jets,
so they'll get a second bite at the apple. But
all of that to say, it's usually the same squads
that we're talking about in this coach at Karasel. All
of a sudden, Pittsburgh becomes open. Wait a minute, hold on,
(09:49):
hold on to your point. Yeah, you're gonna get a
chance to build essentially the college program. You're also going
to a division so as long as they are abolished
the divisional systems, you're going into a place where you
can go and continue this run and win. Right, two
of your competitors have announced that they're getting rid of
(10:11):
the coaches.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Baltimore has the luxuries and they do have a quarterback.
Cincinnati doesn't have anybody on defense, although maybe Stewart actually
plays well as second year remains to be seen. Hendrickson'll
be gone and Joe Burrow still could put a flare
up in the sky saying I want out. But and
(10:32):
then Cleveland can't get out of its own way, good defense,
but still myriad questions on what they do offensively and
their next coaching higher. So all of a sudden, you
look at Pittsburgh. It's a model of stability because they're
going to give you everything you can to win for Tomlin. Again,
all those years we watched it with Roethlisberger, and I
would have loved to be a fly on the wall
(10:52):
when they were discussing what they were doing with the
quarterback position the next year. So if your Marcus Freeman like,
that's what I get to help pick that part of
the set, right, omar Con, that's not just you. We
have to be an agreement that we're pushing this thing
ahead because you do have some components yet, right, there's
a lot.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Obviously they're okay with that because Tomlin wanted this kind
of offense and this is the offense omark on game. Okay, great,
you want Russell Wilson, justin fields and Aaron Rodgers. Okay,
all right, great, go run it. I mean, I can't
believe that's the preferred way they wanted to do things,
but this is what Tomlin wants. Tomlin's been pretty successful. Okay,
we give him what he wants. Now it's completely outdated.
And you know why they haven't won a playoff game
(11:30):
in ten years because they stuck with Roethlisberger too long
when he couldn't throw the football anymore, went to other
quarterbacks that couldn't throw the football, tried to get by
with guys that weren't any good. So, yeah, you need
a change, You need a change for that to happen.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
No, but that again, that goes to the difficult part
of trying to put yourself in that Pittsburgh bubble against
the rest of the NFL because all of us, all
of you listening across wherever you are across the globe
on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you're listening to the show,
like you're looking at your fan the man, I'd kill
for that stability. I'd kill for the idea that I'm between.
(12:05):
You know, eight and a half and eleven wins every
year as opposed to, Wow, we really suck again. Yeah,
and then you get one year of kind of a
hope of Hey, on paper, this line's up. Think about
how many times we talked about Baltimore even this year. Right, Hey,
this roster looks like it's assembled to be a world beating. No,
they couldn't even get away started at all. He gets
(12:27):
traded the Chargers, he finishes with what nine sacks total
when you add the playoff run, like like what happened.
But in Pittsburgh it's been status quo and you've been
just good enough to stay above that line and stay
competitive and play meaningful football in December. So that's the standard, right,
that is the baseline that Marcus Freeman or whoever ends
(12:48):
up in the job. Some of the guys that are
in the heads of some of the betting odds, I
just scratched my head, going, really this these are these
are the guys that rise up. But Marcus Freeman with
a press scheduled, I mean, does he go Leo DiCaprio
and just I'm not bleeping leaving or is it something
far more?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Uh? Other bigger on the line here, Other jobs I get.
But the steel because you want it, boy, The Steelers
give you what every coach wants. I want years and
years and years to succeed. I know, I don't know.
I gotta prove, I gotta build, but I want years
and years. The Steelers is the only program that gives
that to you, right, I mean the Cowboys do a
little bit because Jerry Jones, when he hires somebody doesn't
want to hit a mistake, so I'll stick with a
(13:29):
guy longer than I have to. So there is that,
but that comes with its own set of problems. The
Steelers like, yeah, come stay, you win, We'll give you time.
We like being relevant, we like winning games. I mean,
it's it's it's absolute paradise for an NFL coach. I
gotta go there and be there for eighteen years. Not
that you can't go other places and be there a
long time with John Harball's with the Ravens that long.
(13:50):
But but it's only because hey, I've been able to succeed.
We want a super Bowl. But you know, going in
if my first couple of years a bed, they're gonna say, no, sweat,
keep building. Okay, great, that's what I want. I mean,
that's that's what anybody wants. That's like, that's the job
you leave Notre Dame for, that's the gig. Can't wait
for that attention to viewing. Maybe you'll call out his
ad and everybody on the way out.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
And you you were whining too much. I couldn't take it.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
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Right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Speaker 1 (15:15):
Subscribe, hit that thumbs up icon and comment away. Thirty
six years ago today, we got this from mc Hammer.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
You still have the pants I do?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I said Hammer pants were great, and they were so comfortable.
I felt like a sultan walking around, like, ah, yeah,
how many pockets? I used to, Oh, dude, the pockets
they go all the way down to your ankles. You
just put like I put a pair of keys instead
of keys. It's like I gotta go all the way
down here. And how many sandwiches did you stuff in them?
Oh dude, you could put like one hundred in there.
When he used to go to the dining hall, fit.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
I used to be able to do the the MC
when he would put his hands on his hips and
would just do the side to side. I used to
be able to do that. Swear to God, I used
to be able to do that. I can't do it anymore,
but I used to be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You peeked to Sager's interests. Oh yeah, his head popped
up like he was a mirror cat.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I used to when he doesn't when he goes when
he goes side to side, I used to. I can't anymore,
but I could do that up until probably it was
about forty I could do that. People were people They're like,
I can't believe you could do I'm like, oh yeah,
I could do that now, not anymore. I used to
be able to show you side quick feet. I can't
do it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You're going side to side like you run around base
paths like Babe Ruth in those.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Who maybe a few years ago I could have showed
you something, but uh, you know, not anymore. And you
get a hat and you get at.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
The whole sleeve of hats down me.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I'd go all the way to one side the start
and the clap, and then go all the way to
the other side of you like your leg was broken. Yeah. No,
it's just you have your feet wide and you kind
of tap and move, and I just could always burgers
on each side. Suddenly I'm wimpy walking around in a
pop Eye car too, so like it's the wrong thing
I do that. I could do that, and I could
do the David Lee Wroth from the Jump video when
(17:03):
he jumped off the stage and he touched his hands
to his to his feet. I used to be able
to I don't believe. I'll get my wife to call
and she goes, yeah, no, I could do that. I
used to be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, but that just means she'd be a liar on that.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Many people knew I could do that. I could do both.
People my friends would say, no, I've did that for years.
Bow up dolls, don't care. It's a big party trick. Hey,
do the do the jump. Okay, I'll do the jump.
And I could do the jump and do the David
ly Roth touch my hand to my feet. It was great.
And then the hammer dance?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Who carries in tune better these days?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You were David?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Oh, well, okay, well that's that's a little that's a
little different. But God never no. But if I could
do it again, I would.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I'd give anything.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I would. I he at this point my life am
a fall risk. He I don't know that I could
still do it and still be healthy at the end.
Now that the mc hammer thing, I could try to
do it, and that's not gonna hurt. The davidly Roth thing,
I could hurt myself, like if I don't land right
like that, that could that could go really bad.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well, the penguin walk, you can do it, you go bad.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
But I could the mc hammer thing. I used to
be able to do it, but now but now I
can't anymore. I don't know that he could do it anymore.
He's older than I am no.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I get after it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Of course he can do it, you can.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Still do it. I don't know. He's still on tour
at least a few dates. He can't do that movie.
He ain't getting out of stage. I just I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I just judge when I go, because every time he
comes into town, I go see Morris Day, and I'm like, boy,
and Morris Day is getting old, like you know, he
doesn't quite do the whole moves and Jerome with the
mirror doesn't come out like it mirror out there. Yeah,
there was one point when I went to see Morris
Day the last time, which is I think was a
year ago, and uh, like he were doing a song
and then they got to point where there was like
guitar solo and stuff, and like our seats were so
(18:59):
much that I could see him walk off stage and
like he just walks off stage, just stands there and
it's just like exhausted drinking water. I going, that's not
even you know, it's not even close to what he
used to be able to do. So I could see
he look rock and roll would slow down earlier. There's
an extension of never meet your heroes.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, make sure your vantage point is that you can't
see the side of the stage. You don't want to
see him. The magic is done under the stage.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Like I remember going to see him, going to see
like like twenty twenty five years ago, and.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Jerome would come out. He would be he would walk
with that mirror and he would just side to side.
He would pound it down and dance while And now
Jerome kind of holds the mirror and brings it out
and kind of just kind of just lays it on
the growd, holds it up for.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Morris to look into. And Morris used to do the
dance and his hair. Now he just looks into the
mirror and does his hair. So it's a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Now, that's pretty good to have that kind of job
long Jevity. It's kind of like being a coach in
Baltimore Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Well, I mean, nobody else can, but Jerome can bring
out the mirror. I mean there's nobody that's not like
you could say, hey, Paul Atte, bring out my mirror.
That doesn't wan, But.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
That's job security. Man. You are the mirror guy.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Hey Jerry, bring out my mirror. No, it's Jerome. Where's
my mirror? That's really you have that, you have that
whole thing. It's Jerome got a job. I think he does. Okay,
he doesn't. I went to what was it six months
(20:25):
ago for my wife's birthday. I took her. They had
a screening for Purple Rain and and Jerome was the moderator.
Like they had this whole big panel there that people
for actors from the movie, you know, and uh no, no, no, dude,
it was you kidding. It was packed the prince gear
that people were wearing. I was like, I want all
of it, like T shirts that went to the floor
that had rhinestones on them, and and it was they
(20:47):
they showed Purple Rain, and they had like a like
a moderator like a stage, and Jerome was the moderator
and and he's so he's coming out to the to
the to the crowd and he's asking people questions and everything,
and it was really good. And I'm like, I should
say something, Fish, don't you say a word. Don't like
she thought I'm an embarrasser, or say something like, hey, Jerome,
come on, Like I just I should say something. It'll
(21:07):
be fun. She just don't say you speak enough on
the radio. Don't say it. I was like, okay, I
don't say anything. I won't say anything. It's fine. That's terrible. Yeah,
that was that was your chance. She was where, that
was your opportunity. We go, we go see Morris and
Jerome every time. I'm gonna have other opportunities. No, no,
I'll have other opportunities. But at some point they might
say I got enough. Adjason spits money, I don't need
to be back out there. By the way, did Nick
(21:30):
Cage show up? No? Nick kg should not show up. No,
but frostburg my face. Actually, my my favorite line from
uh uh from Morris day concert was I think it
was two years ago when we went Yeah when when? When? Uh?
It was the same night the Lakers eliminated the Warriors
from the playoffs, and his concert was right across the
street from when it was Staples Center. So we go in,
(21:51):
we're in the con the concert's big, everybody's happy. Look
of course, it's a big scene outside with everybody running around,
and he comes out and he goes everybody, be honest
with me, how many all of here? Because we couldn't
get tickets to the Lakers. Every hand went in.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Did he start the show late?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Because the Lakers. He said, Hey, if you guys want
to watch the end of the game, we'll wait another
ten minutes for the game to end and then we'll start.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
We saw that the other day. Bill Murray's out on tour.
He sings and he's got a backing band.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
They were playing a show and behind them they were
playing the Bears game, and when he got into the
final two minutes, they just stopped playing and got out
of the way and.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Just walk vacation. We have to watch the end of this.
We have to.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, we're gonna watch the other of the game. Game
goes final and the guy immediately back out of the art. Alright,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
So today we had a couple of teams make big
decisions that had really bad weekends. Right, let's deal with
the Eagles first. Nobody surprised that offensive corner Kevin Patulo
has been reassigned within the organization. Head coach Nick Sirianni
making that announcement today today after after big conversations with
(23:00):
Kevin Pittullo replacing him as offensive coordinator. We've aarre from
position to stay with the team. Maybe could be Big
Dom's assistant, you know, maybe that's what you're gonna help
Big Dom out of it. Now. He needs some help, right,
we need Big Dom to get some help. You're the
assistant to the traveling security assistant to the traveling security guy.
So obviously they needed a move. But the thing about
(23:21):
the Eagles right now, I'm gonna give you a hot
take about the Eagles now, them getting knocked out this weekend.
So now they've had a run in the Nick Sirianni
Jalen Hurts era that has seen them win a Super Bowl.
I'm saying this in the era that they have won
a super Bowl. But when we look back at this
when it's all said and done in a couple of years,
(23:42):
when Syrianni's gone or Jalen Hurts is gone he's on
another team. When in three weeks, when aj Brown is gone,
when this era of the Eagles is done, right when
it hurts and Barkley is finished playing because he's too old,
we're gonna look back and say that era was a failure,
even though they won a super Bowl. Right now, honestly,
(24:06):
they should have two super Bowls and be steaming towards
a third. But they can't get out of their own way,
whether it's the quarterback and the head coach can't get
on the same page. The players don't like the quarterback.
The quarterback then the main receiver don't get along. Nobody
likes the receiver. They bathe in controversy, and they were
able to succeed at and it was awesome to watch, right,
it was really impressive. But now what happened at the
(24:28):
end of this year. They fell apart, just like they
did two years ago at the end where it was
we really can't wait for the season to end. They
have so much talent on this team. This is the
most talented roster in the NFL, top to bottom, and
we're gonna go out to this and say, well, they
won a Super Bowl, but overall the era is going
to be a failure because what they should have been
able to accomplish while this is look at some of
these teams that are left. Man, the Seahawks aren't great,
(24:51):
the forty nine ers are pretenders. The Bills aren't great, right,
the Denver Broncos aren't great. The Patriots are pretenders. But
one of these teams is gonna win the Super Bowl,
and it should be the Eagles. It should be the Eagles.
Like that, you win the suit. It's hard to say that.
It sounds I sound insane when I say that. But
when you look back at this era, this six seven, eight, whatever,
(25:13):
it's gonna wide it beating, it's how do we not
win more? What a failure that was? Red Like you,
like you look back at the Seahawks era when uh
with Pete Carroll, and you're gonna say, boy, they won
the Super Bowl, but that was kind of a failure
because they should have had two maybe three. But Pete
Carroll throws his way into losing a Super Bowl there.
It should have been different, it should have been better.
Seattle should have won more and they didn't. And and
(25:34):
as much as you're a Seahawks fan, you would have
been wake up every morning and you think, boy, is
Sam Darnold gonna suck? You think, okay, uh, we got
the game coming up. But man, if we had just
given the ball to Marshall Lintz would have won the Super Bowl,
right Like that's every Seal. You think that every single day.
If you're a Seahawks when you think about the Seahawks,
that thought gets into your head every day. So when
you look at what the what it's gonna be for
(25:55):
the Eagles where it's gonna they're gonna say, how could
we knock it out of our own way? How can
we have so many problems with our quarterback, head, coach,
wide receiver. How can we have this happen? How do
we have this go on? How do we not able
to figure things out better going forward? Other teams not
everybody gets along. They figure out a way to get
it happened, right. No, No, not everybody's going to the
(26:17):
going to the movies together or going out to the
bar together at the end. But they still find a
way to get it done and win football games. But
the Eagles simply find a way to be their own
worst enemy. And this is yet another situation. Is replacing
Patulo going to be the right call? Yeah, you have
to do something on offense and you're not saying about it.
Jalen hurts this year. You're probably moving on from aj
Brown and you're not moving on from Nick Sirianni yet.
(26:37):
But you know there's all kinds of tension. Something has
to happen there. So will that help? Yeah? But is
it gonna be enough? This is a lost year this year,
or the Eagle should have been the overwhelming favorite when
you see who's left in the play A Super Bowl
playoffs and say, well, I'm not gonna bet against the
champs until they lose because they still have the best team.
And yet you're gonna look back at the end of
this and say, man, that was an underachieving for the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
I certainly have some questions. You can go into the
final possession in the twenty three to nineteen loss to
San Francisco this week, you are first and ten from
the San Francisco twenty with a minute twenty eight remaining.
You have all of your timeouts. Guess who's been running well,
Sakuon Barkley. Guess who doesn't see the ball? A lah
shades of Derrick Henry out there in Baltimore. Yes, Saquon
(27:24):
Barkley doesn't see it again, despite starting to run for
chunk yardage and getting a lean against the depleted, battered, bruised, outgunned,
out manned, as our guy Kevin Burkhart said on the
Fox broadcast forty nine or defense. But yeah, you have
a Super Bowl loss, you have a Super Bowl win
(27:45):
and a bunch of wild card exits along the way,
and you look at his overall record for Sirianni. It's insane, right,
fifty nine and twenty six in his five years there,
and yet this year was every week, what's going to
be the thing to fell them? Right early on, you
couldn't get the run game started, and Barkley was a
(28:06):
full yard and a half or thereabouts lower than his
rushing average from a year ago. Okay, some injuries on
the offensive line, you overcome it. But even in this game,
AJ Brown, you just just highlight a couple of the
would be catches to what we're easy throws and Jalen
Hurts takes a lot of incoming. But while on these guys'
hands repeatedly, Barkley had a big drop that would have
(28:29):
been a first down to extend a drive as well.
That overall, you know you're looking at down distance. You
gotta have a fall guy, and it's uneven and unfortunately
for Petullo. Also, you know you have the claims of well,
that's his friend. Guy's got a long career. I mean, yes,
he wants coach with the Jets, but he's been around
a while. This is not a fresh faced new guy
(28:52):
that it was his first bite at the apple of
really coaching on a grand scale he's been with the organization,
So now you go to that next phase and try
to figure out how you keep your offensive line healthy.
But for Nick Siriani, I mean, the sort of Damocles
is certainly swinging right they we saw it a few
years ago. Doug Peterson. It's like, how do they get
(29:14):
rid of him so fast? How do you all these
coaches of the years get fired the next year? It's
a very short cycle. And in Philadelphia the poison pens
are out.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I mean, just think about that, They've won the Super
Bowl all that, and it's gonna wind up being looked
at as a failure. That that's that only in Philadelphia.
Only the Eagles man, only Eagles tim now to find
out what's trending in the wide world of sports. But
guy's been called the AJ Brown of Fox Sports Radio.
Sometimes when I expect him to do an update, he's
reading a book instead. It's Steve Disager.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Back Off got two books.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Tonight.
Speaker 6 (29:45):
In the NBA's late games, we got a Golden State
home game at a Lakers home game. Lakers was still
over a minute to go till halftime, lead Atlanta seventy
seven fifty four or sixty two percent shooting for the Lakers,
Luca don Said's twenty three p points in the first
half at Golden State their late first quarter.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Oh, aren't we still waiting for that game to tip
off on NBAC. They're still holding the tip right because
the script tipped off about twenty minutes ago. They're in
the final minute of the first quarter. Golden State thirty
six to twenty over Portland. Oklahoma City had been zero
and three against the Spurs. Beat San Antonio Tonight one
nineteen ninety eight, Shay Giljess Alexander thirty four points. Minnesota
(30:26):
shot sixty percent from the floor and one at Milwaukee
won thirty nine to one oh six, even though the
Timberwolves Anthony Edwards was out with a foot injury and
Rudy Gobert was out after another flagrant foul. Houston and
Denver each one Miami as well. Anthony Davis of the
MAVs will be reevaluated in six weeks after his second
opinion surgery is not required on his injured left hand,
(30:47):
there is ligaman damage. Davis has averaged twenty points per
game this season, but he's only played twenty games. All
Star voting continues through Wednesday, then the starters will be
announced on Monday. Luca don Chichabelle led the fan voting
four next month's All Star Game, which will be held
in La but at the Clippers Arena. In mid February, the.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Diamondbacks acquired third baseman Nolan Arenado and cash from Saint Louis.
He batted two thirty seven last year and has two
seasons left on his nine year deal. The Cardinals now
have no players under contract after this coming season.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
They're disbanding after this year. You're not going to be
a team. Best fans in baseball just gonna.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Say, hey, what about the best fans in baseball?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Although they'll go to an empty ballpark rams game.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker reportedly as offers from the
Mets and the Blue Jays. The Yankees are acquiring lefty
pitcher Ryan Weathers from Miami. The Royals are moving most
to the outfield fences in ten feet at their stadium.
Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman wold a news conference
on Wednesday. ESPN said he is not expected to leave
for an NFL job. Steelers have an opening head coach
(31:51):
Mike Tomlin stepped down today, the Eagles removed Kevin Tulo
as offensive coordinator. The Chargers fired offensive coordinator Greg Roman.
In college basketball, Hansas upset number two Iowa State eighty
four sixty three number three Yuka and one at sixty
nine sixty four at number twenty five Seaton Hall, Virginia,
one at Louisville, Tennessee, and two overtimes defeated Texas A
(32:14):
and M to the NHL Tampa Bay one it's eleven
straight game, a shootout victory at Pittsburgh two to one,
Washington at home, one in overtime against Montreal three two
wins for Saint Louis and Boston. And in women's college hoops,
a Big East game at Georgetown went to the Hoyas
fifty nine thirty four over Saint John's, which from three
point range was two of twenty three attendance, three hundred
(32:36):
and twenty one in DC. And I got to get
schooled on the whole Sunny system here.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, sure, I'm aware.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
There must be fifty campuses of the Universities of New.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
York eighty nine Sunny campuses. Now, are you serious? No, no, no, no,
I know there are so many.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
I wouldn't doubt that it's more than fifty. But there's
one that I'm completely unfamiliar with. It played in Women's
Hoops tonight. It was Sonny Delhi at Cornell.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, Sunny Della. Yeah, no there No, Honestly,
I think they're in India, right, I think, yes, it's long,
it's a long roadcheck of our roadtrick. No, I want
to say, I think there's like sixty Sunni schools technically,
because they just had a they did something in the
last five years where a bunch of schools became Sunny Sea.
Isn't Syracuse one of them? Serious? No, Syracuse, unfortunately, is
private and it's a lot more money to go there
than go to Sunny schools. Like when I was going
(33:22):
to college applying there, like Sunny Binghamton was the big one.
It was like a you know, the Sunny Ivy League school.
There was about fifteen or sixteen. Now, I really I
think there's like sixty. I looked this up on the map.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Apparently it's roughly halfway between Syracuse and New York City.
But the Broncos of Sunny Delhi, Yeah, shot nineteen percent
from the floor tonight.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Well, that's what happens when you leave sandwiches before the
game and a half time you're Sunny Delhi.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
You know what's going on in h in Delhi. Here
it's one oh six to twenty seven Cornell. The final
attendance one hundred eleven. There were more people in my
aunt's driveway last week the game back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Thank you, Steeve up. That's going on your driveway man,
every Saturday. One hundred people at Steve vance house.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Everyone's welcome, okay, all right?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
A party we gain?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, yeah, and you're hosting a game against Sunny Delhi
right that was happening in the dew driveway then there
would not.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
So that's how That's how rough it is for the
Eagles right now. But they made a big change offensive coordinator.
Another team who actually had the worst weekend of any
team in the NFL playoffs made a big change today.
Will it help? That's next right here, Jason and Mike
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:44):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike harmon
Lakers are back. Uh yeah, when I said earlier tonight, boy,
if the Lakers loseing the Hawks, it's like Defcon five. Yeah, no, no,
it's not happening. They're up by twenty two. It's still
the first quarter. It's eighty two to sixty. Boring. The
Warriors haven't tipped yet. No, I still waiting for a
(35:05):
tip between the Warriors and Portland Apple holding this one back,
NBC holding this one back, rather waiting.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
You'll want it and enjoy one of the other shows
on Peacock. Here's another medical drama.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
So we got into the Eagles a few minutes ago
and they changed out offensive coordinators today. Kevin Petullo will
be replaced by Jason Derulo. No, Kevin Petulo being replaced
by well, Kevin Petulo. Uh, he's getting replaced. You're gonna
(35:39):
look back at this Eagles era as being a failure
because they didn't win enough.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Were you doing that as an oprah, Kevin Petulo?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Man, Whenever Jason rule gets introduced here, it's Jason Derulo.
Like that's how they say it's Kevin Patula. I'm not
familiar with the man's process. Well, it's not like you got.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I mean, you could give me more of the Hey
Jerome mirror.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Get that this Tom gets introduced more than Kevin Patula,
who's not getting introduced anymore. But today, also the Chargers
wave goodbye to their offensive coordinator Greg Roman. And there
is no team in the as bad as things. I'm
telling you, the Eagles won a Super Bowl in this era,
We're gonna look back at it and say it was
a failure because they should have won more than their
own worst enemy. No team had a worse weekend than
(36:21):
the Chargers, because what you saw was a team that
you thought was this close, one step away, and now
they look like they're further away than when the season began.
Justin Herbert spend most of the season running for his life.
You have to upgrade the offensive line. I get it right.
You lost Joe Walt, who probably is the MVP of
the league. But Justin Herbert had chances on Sunday. Yes,
(36:45):
he got sacked, but he missed some plays, he missed
some open receivers. This was not a big game from him.
And now he still hasn't won a playoff game. And
you have to come around to the fact that, Okay,
maybe this is Justin Herbert. He's a very good core
and this is just who he is. And that's the
worst part for the Chargers because it tells you that
(37:06):
if this is who Justin Herbert is, it means he
needs better weapons around him to succeed. Like most quarterbacks
that are really that that are good, they're better with
great weapons around them. We thought Herbert was someone who
raised the level around him, but look, Lad McConkie barely
saw the football this year. He was upset at the
end of the game.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, his postgame comments and exit comments were not. Yeah,
we're pretty damning of what was going on with a
lot of You might as well have just been pointing
at Keenan Allen the entire time.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I mean, really get it, because you know he and
Keenan Allen are gonna run the same routes and catch
the same passes. Okay, that doesn't help your offense, right.
And and McConkie as great a year he had last year,
he's terrific. He was not a weapon at all. This year.
He'd have games with with two catches in it, which
probably is why they fired Greg Roman, because dude, Lad
McConkie is fantastic man. He's like Wes Welker, get him
the bleep in football. But you saw, you saw the
(37:55):
way they played against the Patriots, which was awful. Then
you heard the reports after some pay players said Chargers
players talked him after the game and said, we had
no idea what defense you guys were in all game.
You guys did a great job. And it's like, whoa,
that's true, Like you had no idea what defense the
other team was in. Now that's a story the Patriots
are telling. But watching the Chargers play that game was
there for them, Like this wasn't a game where ah,
(38:17):
you know, things went it was. It was negative thirty
degrees and all their players were hurt, Like Herbert still
had a chance to make some plays. They still had
a chance to win. And what they had out there
was not nearly good enough. Man, you're not nearly good
enough for your first playoff game. You're not as close
as we thought. Nobody had a worse week in the
Charge and getting a new OCN, Yeah that's gonna be great.
(38:39):
But all of a sudden, now I look back and go, man,
are the weapons still really that good? Can you still
get by with McConkey as your one Quinton Johnson Gasden,
the running back situation you have, can you still get by?
Is that still good enough? Like nobody had a worse
weekend than the Chargers did.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Oh, you come away from that game and it was gettable.
You know, we watched all three days of a playoff
football and even last night the Pittsburgh Houston game. Defense
was good enough to keep them in it until it
wasn't right. Fourteen points off of the Aaron Rodgers turnovers,
the fumble that shouldn't have ever been, and the pick
(39:14):
six to end it all. But you go back to
that Charger game, defense did great. They had a couple
of chunk plays. They're at the Stevenson catch and run
from this shadow of their own end zone and all
of that stuff. But for the most part, they gave
every chance to Herbritt and that offense to find some spark.
Still curious as to what went down with Hampton, why
(39:34):
he was up and then wasn't available because they couldn't
get anything going in the run game, so there's no
play action. Keenan Allen with a couple of drops and
some lackadaisical in and out off the sideline, not getting
McConkey involved. They were just a lot of questions for
an offense that they cobbled together. What was it twenty
(39:55):
nine different line combinations. I think what Steve said, I mean,
you got to that point, but in the biggest moment
in a gattible game, you had nothing. And Herbert's gonna
wear more of it because as more of the All
twenty two comes out, you'll go back to the first
half because he finished giving it, taken six sacks. Those
weren't on the offensive line necessarily.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Nobody had a worse weekend of the Chargers. I mean
that that they they went from hey, they're they're this
close to now maybe they've taken steps back.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I want to know how the line coach gets fired
that you get screwed
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