October 24, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike react to Robert Saleh working with the Packers, contributing to the offensive side of the ball by using his strong defensive knowledge. General parking at the Intuit Dome for Clippers Opening Night was $70. Vikings-Rams will be the biggest TNF game of the year. And MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said automated balls & strikes are coming to MLB in next four years!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio
dot com, or stream us live every night on the
iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this part you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome in side hour two The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon live Fromthtirack dot com
Studios Direct dot com help you get there. An unmatched selection,
fast free shipping, free road has a protection and over
ten thousand recommended installers. Tirac dot com is the way
tire buying should be. Well, we'll get to the big
(00:49):
trade by the Chiefs in a second, make the big
move of the day today. But first, you know, I've
been waiting because this is my absolute favorite story of
the day, and it's just it's typical. How can the
Jets still be the Jets when the Jets aren't involved?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Robert Sala, former Jets head coach who has fired a
couple of weeks ago now has somewhat of a new gig.
He was spotted at Packers practice earlier today. He and
Lafleur have been friends for a long time. Lafleur credits
Sala with him getting his break in the NFL, and
you know they were friends for a long time. Look,
Jony loves Jachi and you know these guys have been
(01:29):
buddies and and so much so that when the trade
with Aaron Rodgers to the Jets is being worked out,
and they said, listen, let's not get involved.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
With the general manager's handle it. We don't want to
get involved here. So it was great. These guys have
been friends. Sala is it practice?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Well? What is he doing well? And Lafloora said, to
practice that. Lflora said to practice today. After practice today, He's.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Kind of coming in to be a roaming.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Consultant type coach, very fluid situation.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Now, obviously he's not high going to be his defensive coordinator.
He said, hey, is he going to.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Be with the defense? No, no, no, no, I love
the job. The defense is doing. Everything is fine. So
he's an offensive coach. You know, he knows nothing about offense. No, no, no,
what he's doing is he is coaching. He was at
the offense's practice, and he's going to coach how the
defense would react by watching the offense.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's what he's say.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's so it's so ridiculous, Like Jet's not a guy.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
He's going to watch the offense and help the offense
by letting them know, this is what the defense is.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
This is how I would counter. Yes, exactly, you know,
and you know and as he's sitting in the cerebro
chare like Picard.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I mean, you know, mister x X. Here's the thing
in theory, I get it in theory. When I saw that,
I said, oh, I understand it. It's stupid, but I
understand it because you know, one of the things, you know,
coaching coaching softballs I've done for so long is even
though I wasn't a pitcher, the one thing I was
able to do. I was always really good with coaching
(03:07):
the pitchers, and not about developing pitches, but in the game,
in the flow of the game, when to visit them,
when to tell them to lay up, when to tell
them to keep throwing certain pitches, when to not. Because
I always looked at it from a perspective of as
a hitter, What would I be looking for from you
at this point? What would I really be having trouble with?
What would I not have trouble? What would I be
looking for? What would I not when do I know
(03:29):
that I have an advantage and I should go out
and talk to you or something else like that. And
I always looked at it from that. I always felt
that was good. Other coaches who were pitchers, you know
the way they want you know, they all want the
pitchers to throw throw this pitch. I'll I'm calling all
the pitches and throw this because that's why I would throw.
This is what I would throw. And like, okay, sometimes
that works for other times. You can't ever keep throwing
a curveball if the curves not breaking, right, can't keep
(03:50):
throwing a curveball if it's not breaking. But you know,
so I get it. But then I think about it,
like this is the NFL where it's like, yeah, I
kind of like all the coaches we have, but Rob,
you're one of my friends. So what if I invent
this position of I want you to coach the offense
from the perspective of how you would stop them as
a defensive coach, but we don't have guys like that.
(04:12):
Apparently have guys like that on the note.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
But that's the thing, right, is that you've got the
staff i'd love to be have set in the meeting
before he shows up, Right, all right, we're gonna try
something a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Why is there an empty chair?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Well, come on in and here comes Robert Salin's like, well,
we kind of do this already, don't we, coach, Not
this way, We're gonna take it into why are we
getting paid?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Then? Like what do we doing? Am I losing my job?
Is he losing his job?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Like that?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Like we always talk about stirring up a locker room
and losing guys, and I get it. Coaches put the
head down because you never know when the firing's gonna
happen to the head coach and send everybody shuffling. We've
talked about the lives of coaches from the high school
to the collegiate to the professional levels forever. But how
(05:04):
good do you feel if you're in that room? We're
all of a sudden, this joker comes walking in. Hey
you're all coach slah, that's great. Hey, I got a
question I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I have questions for you. I'm like stuttering John when
he would go, oh who are you? Oh good?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I have questions for you, Oh, coach, I have questions
for you. How is your outdated defensive system going to
help us stop the run here in Green Bay?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
That's first question.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Second question is we don't have sixteen defensive linemen. How
are we going to continue to play?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Next? Next? Next question? Right here? Does Aaron Rodgers really
hate you?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Okay? Next question right here? How do you feel about
them getting Devonte Adams after you got fired? All right?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Wait? Next question here? Is Gire better than Sauce? I
mean really?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I mean I get you know, he wants to be
around and that's awesome. But I'm like, woh, you got
a good thing going on in green Bay right now.
First of all, when I heard Solo is with the offense,
I'm like, oh my god, that's that's like putting me
in a chocolate factory. All he's gonna do is eat
all the chocolate.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
What do you do? We can't put it in now,
you gotta put him in a cabbage factory. Not gonna
eat that. Let's put Sola with the offe here's.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
A picture Matt Patricia with a pencil behind his ear.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
He knows nothing about Uh had that didn't work out
really well for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, the worst offense in the NFL its entire run.
No matter who the quarterback was, it didn't matter. You
have him with the off I wouldn't want him near
by offensive players.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Hey, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You could get real close and like breathe on Jordan
Love and then I don't want that. May stay over here,
don't give anybody any advice. You give me your notes
and that's it. Then we're done.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
But it goes back to and as we've talked about
for as long as you and I have been on
the air together. I like it in theory, right, in
terms of I mean, the guy's a great defensive mind.
It sounds great, right, he's a great defensive mind. But
your personnel is not the same. You're not being able,
You're you're not coming in to change up scheme, you're
not working with the same same players. So now it's
(06:55):
the all right, well.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
What do we have? How long does it take you
to ascertain and really get up to speed with what
the packers have been doing?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
All Right, we're talking about trades everything else. Let's talk
about coaches showing up like now you're a consultant. It's like, wow,
this is the way we do it, Robert, we just
wasted two hours on your idea.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You helped us with nothing. Thank you? Did we really
do waste two hours on that idea? Here's how I
would do this.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Dal Hey like no, no, no no, But we don't
have the depth that line to do it the way
you want to do it. As to how you'd counter this.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
He just has to go to all says coaches and
going I know, I know, it's I'll talk to him.
I'll talk to him. I'll talk to him. It's fine,
it's fine, I'll talk to him. I'll talk He's a
friend of mine. I'm doing a favor. You know that
he went in with the Jets, which you understand is
not going to be success. I'm just trying to I know,
I know. I said, I'll talk to him. Okay, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
But the way this works in practice, how is he
not now the de facto defensive coordinator because his whole job,
his whole job, as I understand it, is, each week
he's gonna look at what the imposing defense's strengths are
and what their tendencies are, and he's gonna look at
it as to how your offense can best exploit that defense,
(08:10):
which means he's on board every week.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Uh, here's here's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Here. Here, here's what's gonna happen, is that they're gonna season.
Go hey, so here are my notes on this week.
Give him the defensive coach. I go, hey, thanks, Rob appreciated.
All right, great, and they're gonna wait. And then he
closed the door to leave, and they're gonna go all right,
all right, let's don't worry about it, just say we
read him.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Let's starts walking down the hallway and you hear someone.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And then and then he comes back and it's like,
oh wait, wait, wait, hang on, hang on, let me
smooth this paper around, let me smooth them back out.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So it looked like I didn't crumple it up and
throw it away again. I was like, what was it?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Hustle and flow And when he gives the uh, he
gives the tape to Ludacris and uh, and Ludacris is
flushing it down the toilet. You grab the sticks in
his mouth. Yeah, thank you, thanks to the tape. Brad's great.
I think you're right this whole thing.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
It's just curious, Like I get it. Your guy, he's
got time to his brain.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
But how does it not undermine the staff you've already assembled.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I know Jet Jet's gonna jet man je Jets have
found their way to Green Bay. Hey wait a minute,
but this week got this is like contagion now like, hey,
we thought we got rid of it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Instead now here it is that the you know, suddenly
everybody's gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Start going over the wall break I'm gonna have dust
it off and walking around and it has no Where
were they when they were playing the music and then
because the and the zombies kept hearing, so they.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Climbed over the wall. Turn the music off.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That stopped Robert solid here it's where we are. Turn
the music off. Uh so yeah, again, Jet's gonna find
their way into every situation possible. Meanwhile, the big trade
of the day, DeAndre Hopkins goes to the chief and
we talked about the Chiefs getting a wide receiver. They
get it for a fourth round pick and look Hopkins
(09:57):
with the Titans. He had a thousand yard year last
but you watch him play, he's not quite the same
guy he was in his heyday. Now he's still good, right,
he's still good. Didn't have great quarterback play this year.
But is he still a borderline thousand ish type yard receiver.
He's maybe a little bit less than that, not the
big threat that he was. But this move, let's just
(10:20):
put this in perspective, okay, because you know this move
comes out today and the knee jerk reaction is, oh,
they get DeAndre Hopkins out.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Look at is their offense is gonna be back though.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
First of all, those days are gone for the Chiefs,
the days of the electric offense and how incredibly pressure
filled it was on the defense. Those days are gone.
The Chiefs don't play that way anymore. Patrick Mahomes is
a game manager. Been telling you that for the last
month and a half. He is a game manager. They
don't throw the football up and down the field. They
(10:50):
may clutch plays, they score enough points. It is a
different team. The Chiefs are a team that is good
with a good defense and a clutch as hell quarterback. Right,
That's kind of what they've turned into. And Andy Reid
is sort of saying, well, maybe we'll be more like
the latter day Patriots than the old Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
That's kind of how the team has built the way
it looks right now with Mahomes kind of playing the
role of Brady. We have a really good defense, guys
like Bruce Ki and Vrabel when he was playing, and all, okay, great,
but this move, what it's going to do, honestly, is
going to help just keep the Chiefs where they were
because they just had absolutely nobody to throw the football too.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I mean, Xavier Worthy's exciting, but he's limited, and they
have nobody. I mean it, there's nobody else. Justin Watson
has hurt, all the big injuries everybody has done. He's
going to help keep them where they were, and that's
at a middle of the pack offense that you're hoping
will still come through in the fourth quarter and make plays.
But it's not going to be any more than that
because Hopkins, look, he's a little bit diminished from what
(11:49):
he was. He's still good, he's still good. But this
is not one of those over the top moves. This
is a move the Chiefs had to make to keep
pace with everybody else they saw the Bills load up
with the Mary Cooper and watch what happens with the Bills, right,
the Jets led up with Davante Adams, and who knows
how that's gonna go. Right, You're gonna see potentially Cooper
Cup has traded other players. Hey, we don't have the
big draft capital, but let's go get DeAndre Hopkins. And
(12:12):
this also tells you how the Chiefs realize they can win.
They make the move now knowing full well that guys
like Cooper Cup and Deontay Johnson might be might be
on the block. But no, we're gonna go and we're
gonna have a fourth round pick for DeAndre Hopkins because
this is what the Chiefs feel we.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Need to continue what we're going on.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Right, we can win this way by getting a guy
that's passed his prime but is still a good wide receiver.
This is all the Chiefs did was we are trying
to keep even though they're undefeated and things look great,
the Chiefs are trying to keep up with the other
big teams in the NFL. That's what this is a move.
To keep them where they were. It's not over the top.
It's not gonna get them past anybody. It's not this
unbelievable move. No, it's gonna try to keep them where
(12:49):
they'd try to keep them afloat where they were trying
to win game.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I think the big thing for Hopkins last year was
his best yards per catch average since twenty seventeen. You
go back injuries and effectiveness of his quarterbacks, et cetera.
But the idea that you now have a guy you
can trust other than Travis Kelcey in let's get a
makeable third down, right, let's move the chains, let's be consistent,
(13:16):
and it's not a move you're making for right now,
like you could take weeks. We talked with Jason Gold last.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Hour, like he's not a game breaker.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
He's not that guy, right, He was that guy once
upon a time, and even then his best yards per
reception was like fifteen. It's not like he's taken the
cover off of defenses and that's what they need him to.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
What they need is.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Someone who's going to give a better route, a better
window for Patrick Mahomes to not have to try to
stick the ball into a guy that he can't trust,
which is where the interceptions and turnovers are coming. The
margin of error is much larger for Patrick Mahomes this year.
The idea is that Hopkins comes in and maybe shrinks
that coefficient, and then by December and January they're on
(14:00):
the same page.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Exit out out a Fresco Exit Swollen Dome, the Jason
Smith's or with Mike Carmon Live the Tyreck dot Com Studios.
They'll keep it status quote. Don't expect it to be great.
It's kind of a hey, all right, sometimes it moves alive.
They're not always great, they're not always terrible. It's okay,
we're keeping up with the Jones.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
What if they could have gotten the rams to pay
a bunch of Cooper cup salary, they would have had Cooper.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Cump like, that's the fight with him.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Hey, don't forget after our show, our podcast is gonna
go up if you miss any today's show, our takes
on the DeAndre Hopkins Trade, Robert Sala, the Night two
of the NBA. Just search Jason Smith and Mike Harmon
wherever you get your podcasts and be sure to follow,
rate and review it as well. Again, just search Jason
Smith and Mike Harmon wherever you get your podcasts. You'll
see today's show posted right after we get off the air.
(14:48):
Coming up next, we stay in the NFL. Why Tomorrow
night is the biggest Thursday night football game of the
year till this point? That's next, Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Be sure to catch live edition of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon
Livethtirec dot com studios. Hey, thanks to Rapid Radios, the
official communication device of Fox Sports Radio. Rapid Radios are
instant push to talk walkie talkies offering national lt coverage,
no subscription a monthly fee. Business owners can keep in
touch with up to two hundred staff at a time,
and it's a great alternative for to mobile phones for
(15:31):
your kids. For a limited time you go to rapid
Radios dot Com you'll get up to sixty percent off,
free ups shipping and a free protection bag Head Code
Radio get an extra five percent off. Well before we
get to why Tomorrow Night's the biggest Thursday night football
game of the year so far? The Intuit Dome. Oh yeah,
let's go the home of the Clippers, Clippers and Suns
going at it right now and starting to gain a
(15:54):
lot of attention the price of parking add the into
it Dome for Opening Night. Now, let me tell you this.
When I went to game two in Game six of
the NLCS, I knew it was going to be more
money parking at Dodgers Stadum, I get it. Sixty bucks.
That wasn't bad park No. I thought it'd be up
near one hundred, which is what it's probably gonna be
(16:14):
normally forty. It's usually forty on normal nights.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
So the fact that you didn't, you weren't already at
triple digits, was shocking to me.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I would have squeezed every dime. NLCS. Okay, Mets Dodgers
Big Series sixty bucks.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I'm like, okay, all right, it's wow, it's expensive, but okay, fine, right, No,
that's what they charged you because they felt bad for you.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You're a Mets, Mets fan. Oh you were in a
Mets at sixty bucks. But it's also fans Los Angeles
one hundred and sixty dollars.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
But it's like parking in general, if you go anywhere,
it's like it's flat rate right, there's no longer hourly
parking if you go to any kind of event, no
matter where you're at in the city, So you're usually
in for thirty forty bucks, even if you're just gonna
go out for a bite to eat.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So I get the pad tree of the NLCS that
it's a bigger deal. The tickets are much more tougher
to get sixty bucks. Okay, opening night at the Intuit Dome.
Now I'm hoping it's an opening night thing. Hey, I'm
there for the very first game parking at the Clippers
seventy dollars, So ten dollars more to park it opening
(17:20):
night of the Clippers than it was to park Dodger
Stadium for Game two in Game six of the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, that's gonn probably be nightly. I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Steve Balmer is worth one hundred and twenty five billion dollars.
Huh with a B with a B get to be
worth one hundred and twenty Now.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Would you stop with a tight argument of oh, you
always have.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
To save your money. How many people are going to
be able to afford this is not Yes, it's a
it's a thing to go to a game seventy bucks.
Seventy that's more than the tickets that are gonna wind
people probably.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, I mean that's insane. That's insane. If it's a
special Life, if it's playoffs, if.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Do they have other events in that complex?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Tonight?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Man?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
But I mean tonight because I mean, you've got a
bunch of stuff. Right, Is Taylor Swift in concert tonight?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Because you got the YouTube theater right so far right,
So you've got a bunch there. So is there another
event that put a premium on space? I don't know,
but yeah, I just get to the it's the cost
of doing business. Does it mean you like it?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
But generally, you know, rich folks, how do you get rich?
You let for let other people pull out their wallets.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But I mean, this is but this is this is
going to be met with a big backlash because look,
you're you're pricing out a lot of people. Because it's
one thing to say, hey, sixty bucks to park at
a Dodger. Get dude, this is this is the NLCS.
You could see us bleep and celebrate to go to
the World Series. Oh well, okay, I understand that this
is opening night for the Clippers in the Suns. It
(19:00):
is opening night for the Clippers and the Suns, and
it's seventy dollars. Come on, man, I mean, how again,
tickets are gonna be less than this. You'll be able
to get tickets. Hey, I got two tickets for less
it is to.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Park at the intwodum. Well, what's the normal cost for
Dodger Stadium parking? Usually it's about forty If I want
to say four fifty four thousand seats and a very
large parking area, this is and it all goes to
the the x owner.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Right then, that was part of the settlement was to
keep the lots. I'm gonna keep the parking lot.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Sure, fine, well, hey, it's a great turnkey business, right
if you can get a plot of land and do that.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It's like right now, if.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I had the start a capital to do it in
certain cities and states, I'd be figuring out how to
open up facilities whereby people could come play soccer and
baseball because that's a burgeoning as Ah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
No, no, I know, I would.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I would completely just want to buy a parking lot.
Why there's no upkeep, there's no aney.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
That's because I had family members that parking lot forever
and then the city you know, did the whole eminent
domain thing and it got weird. But but just the
idea that you're you're going into the area where it's
built in Inglewood to where it's eighteen thousand, eighteen thousand
plus right, eighteen to nineteen thousand, and I don't I
(20:18):
don't know how much parking you got there, right based
on everything. I don't know if there's other events tonight,
I haven't haven't looked at the calendar.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
But yeah, it's the.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Dollars, seventy dollars. I mean, the Clippers supposed to be
the people's team. We're the team of lass. Hey, street
lights over spotlights, right, yeah, we work hard and everything else.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, but in doing that you also had Kawhi and
Paul George that you paid Megabucket. So the whole thing
didn't make any submitiently like it was a terrible marketing
pitch to begin street.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Lights over spotlights. Ye, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And I forget about the glitz and glamour. We're hard
workers right here, soldworkers.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
I'm just trying to get into the space and the
cost you know, per square foot and whatever else you're
doing there. You're trying to get back the money you
just spent on the multi billion dollar facility, because only
you can only do so many Bruno Mars concerts that
are gonna get you back. And then Billie Eilish did
a couple think Gilmore is gonna do one? I mean,
(21:22):
I don't know how many more events you get to
try to get your money back. As people are joking,
those toilets are not going to pay for them?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
No, no, no, they're not gonna fly. I mean, look they
fleshed well, right, they flesh well apparently so are I mean,
what's the water bill? I mean you got to.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Pay that due? Look, I understand it's a it's a
costly thing. And tickets parking it's not cheap. It's also
you know when people lament what it costs to go
to Disneyland, it's like form most people, it's a once
in a lifetime experience or a once a year experience.
(21:59):
You get a season ticket. I bet you get a
little bit of a discount.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swallowing down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Tirech dot
Com Studios. All right now, Why is tomorrow night's game
between the Vikings and the Rams the biggest Thursday night
football game of the year. It's pretty simple, ay, because
I get to watch Sam Donald in primetime.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Look how good the Vikings are? You so hate Sam Donalds.
Sam Donald's coming back. I told you he's coming back
to Earth.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Let's have conversations week eightish and Sam Donald's coming.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Back to Earth a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
But it's the biggest game of the year because it
is high noon for the Rams as far as what
they're going to do and how the rest of the
season is going to go for them and how their
season is going.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
To affect the rest of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
If the Rams win tomorrow night, right, because the Rams
are playing at home. And if the Rams win Tomorrow
night and go to three and four, Okay, we just
beat a really good team at home with all of
the injuries, Cooper cup is on his way back or here, Hey,
three and four, we're feeling pretty good. This will be
a big statement win for us, and we're gonna keep going.
(23:04):
If they lose to Fallow two and five, that's it.
It's you know what, we gotta reload on the fly.
We talked about it last night. No one reloads on
the fly better than the Rams too. But it might
not be just Cooper Cup that gets traded. Cooper Cupp
certainly will get delt, they'll free up from his money,
they'll get a second round pick because he is that good.
He's the one guy that could flip a team, joining
(23:26):
them middle of the season and suddenly turn them into
something different. But maybe it's Matthew Stafford that gets dealt
as well as they would start over a quarterback. After
you might see some other players get dealt as well
and get traded away. Like this is high noon for
the Ram Like the season comes down to tomorrow night.
Win three and four, we're still in it. The NFC
West is not great, right, NFC West is not great?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
The Niners, Niners are under five hundred, right, The Cardinals
are the Cardinals. Hey maybe it's a but you fallow
two and five and that's gonna be okay. Really, what
kind of year we're gonna have. We can't be in anybody.
We're struggling. We can't win at home in a short week.
So everything is at stake for the Rams. Tomorrow night
they win, they'll keep going with what they have they lose.
(24:10):
Maybe it's Cooper Cup. Maybe it's Cooper Cup.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And Matthew Stafford. Maybe it's some other player.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
But that's absolutely going to happen, and you'll see the
Rams try to retool on the fly and get ready
with a focus on twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, it's curious, right, because Matthew Stafford during their bye week,
he did a nice audition on the NFL on Fox
Fox NFL Sunday, hanging out with the Vellas. Eventually looked
pretty good there, and then they had Ai Tom Brady
this week. Everybody got mad at Ai Tom Brady a hologram.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Really, I don't know why. People just know Brady is.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Brady has hit the point in his life now after
football where it's like, yeah, no, I don't like anything
he does.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
What is I know? I don't like it? Okay, all right, fine.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Just the oversaturation thing. But again it's the you don't
like it, don't watch and why you got be so mad?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Why It's like I'm doing with the parking thing, either
you go or you don't. But with Cooper Cup, you know,
part of it is the salary. I mean, he is
coming off a pretty big injury. So the second round
pick is you're not going to tread you know, enter
that lightly.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, he doesn't have an injury designation, and he is
young enough where he's not going to be a player.
He's still at the very top of his game. I mean,
you just watched him his recent route running and it's
still fish the field. He's thirty thirty one. He's not
someone that's going to suddenly lose it. I think he
can be really good for the three years as long
as he stays healthy. And it's a gamble, right, it's
(25:35):
his second round three years. That's why it's the second
round pick, and it's and it's what it is. But
the guy still you remember his Super Bowl, Remember how
good he is when he's healthy, and he's going to
be a player who really brings a lot of interest
level And when the Rams can look at their team
and say, well, Okay, if we're winning, let's stick with it.
(25:58):
But if we're losing, Poka Nakua is gonna come back soon.
We like two to two at well, they like Jordan Wittington, right,
they like these three young receivers. Sure, these are the
guys that need playing time. We have to go forward
with them and I'm sorry, you know, we hey, we
have great stuff out of Cooper Cup, but we have
to reload and move on. So that's going to be
the case. They will have to they will have to
move on to trade him. And because it's a second
(26:19):
round pick, you know, maybe you'll get some teams going ooh,
I don't know, but you will get enough teams interesting
because there's enough teams going okay, we could be a
Cooper Cup away from when he let's go do it,
and if something happens, we don't do it this year,
we have another couple of years with him to still
be an elite level player.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yeah, Parkinson's shown up as a pretty good tight end
for them. He's a pretty consistent option. So you got
that rolling obviously. Kyron Williams is outperformed expectations really good
in the Red Zone to date.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
So you've got a number.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Of pieces to where you can you can flip this
thing pretty fast. And the Cup contract, while there are
two more years left on it, it's not break the
bank money, right, We're talking mid teams.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
It's so.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
It seems like if you really work to it, it's
just a question of what's the combination right in terms
of is it a second or is it a third
conditional because again, he just missed a chunk of time.
So I need some assurances here. You're either picking up
a bunch of the money or you're gonna give me
a better pick if he's not able to finish the
run with us here. But yeah, a player that they
(27:26):
they've certainly got depth at the position. They have a
lot of other needs as we've watched, you know, between
their offensive line and some other things. But yeah, to
flip Cooper cup certainly is there. I mean we've got
how many suitors. I mean, Tampa Bay is not gonna
stand pat with what they have.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
No, there's a lot of problems out there that will.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Go with the Yeah, there's there's a number of players
that and some of these teams that have already dealt
part one, maybe they go and wide receiver two still
has value to some teams.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
The Stafford thing is just more curious to me. Well,
well here's that that's the one are you gonna happen here?
Because in first he was rumored with the Vikings.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Right, but I thought Sam Donald was so good. But
maybe look other teams with quarterback injuries. Maybe this is
something that could happen. He's still playing. It's somewhat of
a high level, but there is a money thing that's
got to be worked out. But I mean, this is
high noon for the round, like they are. It's it's
done and we're onto twenty twenty five, or hey, we're
still in it, and I'll tell you this, I'll say
(28:24):
tomorrow because they have way more at stake. The Vikings
are asking themselves a little bit questions after blowing the
game to the Lions on Sunday. The Rams come up
with a big effort. They continue to bring Sam Donald
back to earth a little bit like he has the
last couple of weeks, and the Rams offense can do
enough against a really good Vikings defense.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
They'll run the ball.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Well, They'll have a really big night across the board,
and I'll take the Rams in a tight one twenty
seven to twenty four tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
You hate Sam Donald, but just to have this discussion
for thirty seconds here, it's not an indictment on Sam
Darnold to say that Matthew Stafford's a better quarterback. That
doesn't mean he necessarily stinks. So when you do the
but Sam Darnald's so good. It's like, yes, Matthew Stafford
is better even at an advance, but.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
They're not gonna trade him to come play. But I'm
playing so well. Yeah, sorry, we're gonna We're gonna get
somebody else. But it's like Justin Fields was playing pretty well,
but Matthews.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Then they went and grabbed Old Russ said he hey,
go eat. But Stafford's not going in Georgia quarterback. No. No,
one's gonna take that money on him to not playing.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
No no.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
But the point is you have a guy, You've established
that you've got a guy. But if I could go
and maybe juice this thing and make it that much better,
if I can make the money work. Sorry, Sam, I
love you, but you're gone even really good Sam.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Can you imagine if they do that? But Sam was
so good?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
H Exit Out Out of Fresca, Exit Swollen down the
Jason Smithson with Mike Carmon live from the tire rack
dot Com studios, time not to find out what's trending
in the wide world of sports and what Manci Belagio
says in game betting has been like between the cli
Apers and the Suns in the last half hour Monzi.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Oh, it's just dandy over here, Bree. Did you see that?
Did you see that?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Bree?
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Did you see the score?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Now?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
That's ried.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
It's a tie game between the Clippers and the Suns
at into it Dome, fifty one each halfway through the
third quarter. Norman Powell eleven points leading the way for
the Clippers, Bradley Beal ten points for the Sun.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Still going on in.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Portland, Trailblazers losing to the Warriors seventy to fifty seven
early in the third Steph Curry eleven points, six rebounds
and the Grizzlies and Jazz. This is a tight one,
but the Grizzlies are on top one twenty to one
point eighteen less than two.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Minutes to go in the game.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Jah Morant twenty points and ten assists so far. Earlier today,
the Hornets top the Rockets one ten to one oh five.
Lamello Ball thirty four points, eight rebounds and eleven assists.
The Pelicans had a one twenty three to one eleven
win over the Bulls and this just came in not
long ago. Pelicans guard to Jean Say Murray is feared
to have fractured his left hand he did fourteen points,
(31:01):
ten assists, eight rebounds.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
In their season opening victory. So this sucks. ESPN with
the story.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
First, the Hawks held on to beat the Nets one
twenty to one sixteen, while the Magic defeated the Heat
won sixteen to ninety seven, and the Bucks took down
the seventy six ers, who were playing without Joe al
Embiid and without Paul George.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
One twenty four to one oh nine.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Damian Lillard thirty points, nine rebound, six assists, including six
three pointers, while the Cavs crushed the Raptors one thirty
six to one oh six, and the Pacers took down
the Pistons one fifteen to one oh nine.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
A little NFL news for you, fellas.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Forty nine Ers head coach Kyle Shanahan says wide receiver
Deebo Samuel has a chance to play Sunday night against
the Cowboys after he was hospitalized with pneumonia earlier this week.
Good news for Colts fans because uh Jonathan Taylor back
at practice.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
They think he may be able to play this weekend
against the Texans. And how about this.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey mus practiced today because.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Of jury duty.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
He has been picked to serve on a twelve person
jury for a felony case, and he could miss other practices.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Brandon, let me just tell you.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You take that notice in, you crumple it up and
throw it away. Okay, just so you know, Dallas Cowboys
is the most important thing in the world. Who do
I got to make a phone call to do. I
gotta show up and talk to a judge. I'll get
down there and tell them, get you off the case.
Say you're our best player. I know I gave Dack
a lot of money, but yeah, you're our best player,
and we'll figure it out.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
I mean, listen, I hate dry Dudie.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Right.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Nobody wants to do it because part of it is
you're not paying the money I would make at work.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
You're giving me a fraction of it. But if I'm
a millionaire or like I'm well off, I would.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Love to be part of a jury and just kind
of sit through the whole process. But it's just like
you're paying me cents on the dollar to be here.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
That's hard.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
We have one holdout. Is it Monsey? Yes, it's Monsey.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
She just loves coming down here. She loves the sandwich
shop next door to just what else?
Speaker 6 (32:48):
All about it? Crime junkie over here.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Okay, you know what, Monsey, you win mis trial.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Let's go, Thanks much, Jess Jason Smithson with Mike Carmon
live from the Tireck dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Why what MLB Commissioner Rob Manford said today? And the
Dan Patrick Show is a really really big deal. That's next,
Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Puts in the bag for Shark or something a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
More NFL coming up at about ten minutes. But Baseball
Commissioner Rob Manford had a huge bombshell that he dropped
earlier today on The Dan Patrick Show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Where apparently coming to Major League Baseball to
a stadium near you in the next couple of years,
automated balls and strikes.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
I think you will see some version of the automated
strikes on in the big leagues in the next four years.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Now, what does that mean? Why is such a version.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, because is it gonna be Is it going to
replace the umpires entirely? Is it going to where you
don't need the umpire standing behind home plate anymore? Is
it going to be a system where that is a mall?
I am sorry, you're out of here.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
And then we go and argue that his head might
have been a skew, so his angle of what was
a ball or a strike was wrong, or.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
You just get a better voice of the strike zone.
Is the letters to the knees as was commissioned by
Albert dumbled Elvis Dunblan, Did you put your.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Name in a govern of fire? Did you put your fire?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
You know exactly what's happening. Oh man, look, why is
this a big deal? Here's my advice for every MLB team.
It's coming in the next four years some way, shape
or form. Don't sign anybody who's a starting pitcher to
a long term contract.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Don't do it now. It's a good move because.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
You don't know how many guys, how many stars get
balls and strike calls. Because of reputation, the best pitchers
in the game, whether it's Garrett Cole or Scooble or
whoever it is, Hey, these guys are great pictures, but
maybe sometimes they get the benefit of the down on
a ball or strike because they're a great star pitcher.
(35:21):
And that's not going to be the case anymorecause you're
seeing an automated kind of strike zone. It's either a
strike or it's not, and suddenly.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Set to every game is the same. Or do we
input based on the way a guy.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Throws pitching tonight? Is a jag? That is just a guy.
The strike zone will be very small. You are a jag?
Why do you sound like the guy from Grandma's Boy.
That's my robot voice. I am JP, that's my sixties
robots voice. I am a robot.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I am sorry, Alonzo, that is a strike on you.
Stop complaining? Nah, do you miss the Mets Matt so
because that clearly could be a thing. Now it doesn't
mean for every pitcher, but do you want to be
on the hook for a guy for an eight year
deal and all of a sudden, man, my era is
five and a half because that curveball over for a
strike is not over for a strike anymore. Or if
(36:15):
I have to get a little bit more of the
plate because I'm not getting that call anymore. If my
curveball gets a little bit more of the plate, it's
gonna get a little bit more of somebody's back, and
it's gonna go a little bit further.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Than it did before.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Have they ever gone retroactively with what the strike zone
was supposed to be and say Greg Maddox overlay of
what would constitute a ball versus a strike and how
those sequences would be different, And he would.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Say, I just wanted to win. I wanted the three
side to the three inches on either side of the plate.
I didn't want anything else. It's it could be a thing,
and you don't want to be the team on the
hook for Well, we signed Corbyn Burns. I'm just using
him a sample because he's up for you know, he'll
be a big guy this year. Like, hey, he's got
an eight year deal, And suddenly the last six of
those years looked terrible because the era is five and
(36:59):
a half, because you can't get anybody out because he
doesn't get the reputation calls anymore that he used to get,
because players do get those, and you know, I always
I just keep thinking back to when when Guy Fieri
started his UH Tournament of Champions, like four years ago
where he had all the best chefs from UH Food
Network on in an NCAA tournament type setting and they cook.
(37:21):
Two people cook against each other and then the judges judge.
Now usually on cooking shows, the judges know who the
who the chefs are and like you hand him a dish,
and like when Alex Juana Shelley is one of the
best chefs in the world. She had the reputation of
she you know, she's the I c A g right,
she was the she's the best chef on Food Network.
So whenever she was competing, well, this is Alex's dish, So, boy,
(37:44):
how are you gonna have Alex Louke?
Speaker 3 (37:46):
How do I fight against her palate? My palette must
not be good. No, no, Alex is the best.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
But then when they did this tournament, she was the
number one seed and she cooked against someone who was
like an eight seed and it was blind judging, and
because it was blind judging, she lost. She's never done
that tournament since four years now, one of the biggest
darge Food Network. She's never done it again. Quitter because
why she got nothing. I got nothing again game, I
got nothing to gain by it. So you think about
(38:13):
that think about the element of no longer. Hey, the
umpire knows you're a great picture. You're here, you're doing this.
That may not happen.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
The last thing you want is to be on the
hook for a guy for well, we're paying them five
more years and his era is five. That's not good.
That when a length on a contract match an era,
that is not good.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Now if they call it letter to ease, as is
currently in the rule book and they actually enforce it
that way, well, now you've got the giant hitting zone
that opens up as well. So that's that's the whole
other thing. Forget about the margins, just the fact that
you've got that much more of the plate that you're
working with. I mean, the picture gets some of that
(38:53):
back because now they get to work you up, up
and down the zone a little bit more frequently. So,
you know, on the margins go away, but maybe they
gain the other I don't know who gets the ultimate advantage.
But you know, robots showing up is good.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Here comes a fastball. Oh wait, was I not supposed
to say that that's.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
A home run? I am sorry. That is my fault.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
The instant analysis of the umpire robot who's now identifying
it and tipping pitches.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
How did you feel about that, Clay Holmes?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
That was for Walter Smith, Jason Smith, Dad, the iterations.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Of the AI would be able to catch how he's
gripping the.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Baseball at any slight changes in motions, like, well, he's
done this seventy five percent of the time.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
When he throws a fastball, and this looks.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Like a splitter, it is going to come and dropping
a seventy nine degree angle. It will end outside this
drag zone. Swing at your own risk. Nah, nah, telling
you don't sign guys along.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Better announcer than most of the guys I hear as
I sample Major League Baseball coming up next?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Boy, do we have a big fun story out of
the NFL. Well, it's actually fun for a couple of people,
not so much for one guy.
Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio
dot com, or stream us live every night on the
iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this part you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome in side hour two The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon live Fromthtirack dot com
Studios Direct dot com help you get there. An unmatched selection,
fast free shipping, free road has a protection and over
ten thousand recommended installers. Tirac dot com is the way
tire buying should be. Well, we'll get to the big
(00:49):
trade by the Chiefs in a second, make the big
move of the day today. But first, you know, I've
been waiting because this is my absolute favorite story of
the day, and it's just it's typical. How can the
Jets still be the Jets when the Jets aren't involved?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Robert Sala, former Jets head coach who has fired a
couple of weeks ago now has somewhat of a new gig.
He was spotted at Packers practice earlier today. He and
Lafleur have been friends for a long time. Lafleur credits
Sala with him getting his break in the NFL, and
you know they were friends for a long time. Look,
Jony loves Jachi and you know these guys have been
(01:29):
buddies and and so much so that when the trade
with Aaron Rodgers to the Jets is being worked out,
and they said, listen, let's not get involved.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
With the general manager's handle it. We don't want to
get involved here. So it was great. These guys have
been friends. Sala is it practice?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Well? What is he doing well? And Lafloora said, to
practice that. Lflora said to practice today. After practice today, He's.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Kind of coming in to be a roaming.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Consultant type coach, very fluid situation.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Now, obviously he's not high going to be his defensive coordinator.
He said, hey, is he going to.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Be with the defense? No, no, no, no, I love
the job. The defense is doing. Everything is fine. So
he's an offensive coach. You know, he knows nothing about offense. No, no, no,
what he's doing is he is coaching. He was at
the offense's practice, and he's going to coach how the
defense would react by watching the offense.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
That's what he's say.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's so it's so ridiculous, Like Jet's not a guy.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
He's going to watch the offense and help the offense
by letting them know, this is what the defense is.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
This is how I would counter. Yes, exactly, you know,
and you know and as he's sitting in the cerebro
chare like Picard.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I mean, you know, mister x X. Here's the thing
in theory, I get it in theory. When I saw that,
I said, oh, I understand it. It's stupid, but I
understand it because you know, one of the things, you know,
coaching coaching softballs I've done for so long is even
though I wasn't a pitcher, the one thing I was
able to do. I was always really good with coaching
(03:07):
the pitchers, and not about developing pitches, but in the game,
in the flow of the game, when to visit them,
when to tell them to lay up, when to tell
them to keep throwing certain pitches, when to not. Because
I always looked at it from a perspective of as
a hitter, What would I be looking for from you
at this point? What would I really be having trouble with?
What would I not have trouble? What would I be
looking for? What would I not when do I know
(03:29):
that I have an advantage and I should go out
and talk to you or something else like that. And
I always looked at it from that. I always felt
that was good. Other coaches who were pitchers, you know
the way they want you know, they all want the
pitchers to throw throw this pitch. I'll I'm calling all
the pitches and throw this because that's why I would throw.
This is what I would throw. And like, okay, sometimes
that works for other times. You can't ever keep throwing
a curveball if the curves not breaking, right, can't keep
(03:50):
throwing a curveball if it's not breaking. But you know,
so I get it. But then I think about it,
like this is the NFL where it's like, yeah, I
kind of like all the coaches we have, but Rob,
you're one of my friends. So what if I invent
this position of I want you to coach the offense
from the perspective of how you would stop them as
a defensive coach, but we don't have guys like that.
(04:12):
Apparently have guys like that on the note.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
But that's the thing, right, is that you've got the
staff i'd love to be have set in the meeting
before he shows up, Right, all right, we're gonna try
something a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Why is there an empty chair?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Well, come on in and here comes Robert Salin's like, well,
we kind of do this already, don't we, coach, Not
this way, We're gonna take it into why are we
getting paid?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Then? Like what do we doing? Am I losing my job?
Is he losing his job?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Like that?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Like we always talk about stirring up a locker room
and losing guys, and I get it. Coaches put the
head down because you never know when the firing's gonna
happen to the head coach and send everybody shuffling. We've
talked about the lives of coaches from the high school
to the collegiate to the professional levels forever. But how
(05:04):
good do you feel if you're in that room? We're
all of a sudden, this joker comes walking in. Hey
you're all coach slah, that's great. Hey, I got a
question I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I have questions for you. I'm like stuttering John when
he would go, oh who are you? Oh good?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I have questions for you, Oh, coach, I have questions
for you. How is your outdated defensive system going to
help us stop the run here in Green Bay?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
That's first question.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Second question is we don't have sixteen defensive linemen. How
are we going to continue to play?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Next? Next? Next question? Right here? Does Aaron Rodgers really
hate you?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Okay? Next question right here? How do you feel about
them getting Devonte Adams after you got fired? All right?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Wait? Next question here? Is Gire better than Sauce? I
mean really?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I mean I get you know, he wants to be
around and that's awesome. But I'm like, woh, you got
a good thing going on in green Bay right now.
First of all, when I heard Solo is with the offense,
I'm like, oh my god, that's that's like putting me
in a chocolate factory. All he's gonna do is eat
all the chocolate.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
What do you do? We can't put it in now,
you gotta put him in a cabbage factory. Not gonna
eat that. Let's put Sola with the offe here's.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
A picture Matt Patricia with a pencil behind his ear.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
He knows nothing about Uh had that didn't work out
really well for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, the worst offense in the NFL its entire run.
No matter who the quarterback was, it didn't matter. You
have him with the off I wouldn't want him near
by offensive players.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Hey, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You could get real close and like breathe on Jordan
Love and then I don't want that. May stay over here,
don't give anybody any advice. You give me your notes
and that's it. Then we're done.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
But it goes back to and as we've talked about
for as long as you and I have been on
the air together. I like it in theory, right, in
terms of I mean, the guy's a great defensive mind.
It sounds great, right, he's a great defensive mind. But
your personnel is not the same. You're not being able,
You're you're not coming in to change up scheme, you're
not working with the same same players. So now it's
(06:55):
the all right, well.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
What do we have? How long does it take you
to ascertain and really get up to speed with what
the packers have been doing?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
All Right, we're talking about trades everything else. Let's talk
about coaches showing up like now you're a consultant. It's like, wow,
this is the way we do it, Robert, we just
wasted two hours on your idea.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
You helped us with nothing. Thank you? Did we really
do waste two hours on that idea? Here's how I
would do this.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Dal Hey like no, no, no no, But we don't
have the depth that line to do it the way
you want to do it. As to how you'd counter this.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
He just has to go to all says coaches and
going I know, I know, it's I'll talk to him.
I'll talk to him. I'll talk to him. It's fine,
it's fine, I'll talk to him. I'll talk He's a
friend of mine. I'm doing a favor. You know that
he went in with the Jets, which you understand is
not going to be success. I'm just trying to I know,
I know. I said, I'll talk to him. Okay, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
But the way this works in practice, how is he
not now the de facto defensive coordinator because his whole job,
his whole job, as I understand it, is, each week
he's gonna look at what the imposing defense's strengths are
and what their tendencies are, and he's gonna look at
it as to how your offense can best exploit that defense,
(08:10):
which means he's on board every week.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Uh, here's here's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Here. Here, here's what's gonna happen, is that they're gonna season.
Go hey, so here are my notes on this week.
Give him the defensive coach. I go, hey, thanks, Rob appreciated.
All right, great, and they're gonna wait. And then he
closed the door to leave, and they're gonna go all right,
all right, let's don't worry about it, just say we
read him.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Let's starts walking down the hallway and you hear someone.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And then and then he comes back and it's like,
oh wait, wait, wait, hang on, hang on, let me
smooth this paper around, let me smooth them back out.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So it looked like I didn't crumple it up and
throw it away again. I was like, what was it?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Hustle and flow And when he gives the uh, he
gives the tape to Ludacris and uh, and Ludacris is
flushing it down the toilet. You grab the sticks in
his mouth. Yeah, thank you, thanks to the tape. Brad's great.
I think you're right this whole thing.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
It's just curious, Like I get it. Your guy, he's
got time to his brain.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
But how does it not undermine the staff you've already assembled.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I know Jet Jet's gonna jet man je Jets have
found their way to Green Bay. Hey wait a minute,
but this week got this is like contagion now like, hey,
we thought we got rid of it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Instead now here it is that the you know, suddenly
everybody's gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Start going over the wall break I'm gonna have dust
it off and walking around and it has no Where
were they when they were playing the music and then
because the and the zombies kept hearing, so they.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Climbed over the wall. Turn the music off.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That stopped Robert solid here it's where we are. Turn
the music off. Uh so yeah, again, Jet's gonna find
their way into every situation possible. Meanwhile, the big trade
of the day, DeAndre Hopkins goes to the chief and
we talked about the Chiefs getting a wide receiver. They
get it for a fourth round pick and look Hopkins
(09:57):
with the Titans. He had a thousand yard year last
but you watch him play, he's not quite the same
guy he was in his heyday. Now he's still good, right,
he's still good. Didn't have great quarterback play this year.
But is he still a borderline thousand ish type yard receiver.
He's maybe a little bit less than that, not the
big threat that he was. But this move, let's just
(10:20):
put this in perspective, okay, because you know this move
comes out today and the knee jerk reaction is, oh,
they get DeAndre Hopkins out.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Look at is their offense is gonna be back though.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
First of all, those days are gone for the Chiefs,
the days of the electric offense and how incredibly pressure
filled it was on the defense. Those days are gone.
The Chiefs don't play that way anymore. Patrick Mahomes is
a game manager. Been telling you that for the last
month and a half. He is a game manager. They
don't throw the football up and down the field. They
(10:50):
may clutch plays, they score enough points. It is a
different team. The Chiefs are a team that is good
with a good defense and a clutch as hell quarterback. Right,
That's kind of what they've turned into. And Andy Reid
is sort of saying, well, maybe we'll be more like
the latter day Patriots than the old Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
That's kind of how the team has built the way
it looks right now with Mahomes kind of playing the
role of Brady. We have a really good defense, guys
like Bruce Ki and Vrabel when he was playing, and all, okay, great,
but this move, what it's going to do, honestly, is
going to help just keep the Chiefs where they were
because they just had absolutely nobody to throw the football too.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I mean, Xavier Worthy's exciting, but he's limited, and they
have nobody. I mean it, there's nobody else. Justin Watson
has hurt, all the big injuries everybody has done. He's
going to help keep them where they were, and that's
at a middle of the pack offense that you're hoping
will still come through in the fourth quarter and make plays.
But it's not going to be any more than that
because Hopkins, look, he's a little bit diminished from what
(11:49):
he was. He's still good, he's still good. But this
is not one of those over the top moves. This
is a move the Chiefs had to make to keep
pace with everybody else they saw the Bills load up
with the Mary Cooper and watch what happens with the Bills, right,
the Jets led up with Davante Adams, and who knows
how that's gonna go. Right, You're gonna see potentially Cooper
Cup has traded other players. Hey, we don't have the
big draft capital, but let's go get DeAndre Hopkins. And
(12:12):
this also tells you how the Chiefs realize they can win.
They make the move now knowing full well that guys
like Cooper Cup and Deontay Johnson might be might be
on the block. But no, we're gonna go and we're
gonna have a fourth round pick for DeAndre Hopkins because
this is what the Chiefs feel we.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Need to continue what we're going on.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Right, we can win this way by getting a guy
that's passed his prime but is still a good wide receiver.
This is all the Chiefs did was we are trying
to keep even though they're undefeated and things look great,
the Chiefs are trying to keep up with the other
big teams in the NFL. That's what this is a move.
To keep them where they were. It's not over the top.
It's not gonna get them past anybody. It's not this
unbelievable move. No, it's gonna try to keep them where
(12:49):
they'd try to keep them afloat where they were trying
to win game.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I think the big thing for Hopkins last year was
his best yards per catch average since twenty seventeen. You
go back injuries and effectiveness of his quarterbacks, et cetera.
But the idea that you now have a guy you
can trust other than Travis Kelcey in let's get a
makeable third down, right, let's move the chains, let's be consistent,
(13:16):
and it's not a move you're making for right now,
like you could take weeks. We talked with Jason Gold last.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Hour, like he's not a game breaker.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
He's not that guy, right, He was that guy once
upon a time, and even then his best yards per
reception was like fifteen. It's not like he's taken the
cover off of defenses and that's what they need him to.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
What they need is.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Someone who's going to give a better route, a better
window for Patrick Mahomes to not have to try to
stick the ball into a guy that he can't trust,
which is where the interceptions and turnovers are coming. The
margin of error is much larger for Patrick Mahomes this year.
The idea is that Hopkins comes in and maybe shrinks
that coefficient, and then by December and January they're on
(14:00):
the same page.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Exit out out a Fresco Exit Swollen Dome, the Jason
Smith's or with Mike Carmon Live the Tyreck dot Com Studios.
They'll keep it status quote. Don't expect it to be great.
It's kind of a hey, all right, sometimes it moves alive.
They're not always great, they're not always terrible. It's okay,
we're keeping up with the Jones.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
What if they could have gotten the rams to pay
a bunch of Cooper cup salary, they would have had Cooper.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Cump like, that's the fight with him.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Hey, don't forget after our show, our podcast is gonna
go up if you miss any today's show, our takes
on the DeAndre Hopkins Trade, Robert Sala, the Night two
of the NBA. Just search Jason Smith and Mike Harmon
wherever you get your podcasts and be sure to follow,
rate and review it as well. Again, just search Jason
Smith and Mike Harmon wherever you get your podcasts. You'll
see today's show posted right after we get off the air.
(14:48):
Coming up next, we stay in the NFL. Why Tomorrow
night is the biggest Thursday night football game of the
year till this point? That's next, Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Be sure to catch live edition of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon
Livethtirec dot com studios. Hey, thanks to Rapid Radios, the
official communication device of Fox Sports Radio. Rapid Radios are
instant push to talk walkie talkies offering national lt coverage,
no subscription a monthly fee. Business owners can keep in
touch with up to two hundred staff at a time,
and it's a great alternative for to mobile phones for
(15:31):
your kids. For a limited time you go to rapid
Radios dot Com you'll get up to sixty percent off,
free ups shipping and a free protection bag Head Code
Radio get an extra five percent off. Well before we
get to why Tomorrow Night's the biggest Thursday night football
game of the year so far? The Intuit Dome. Oh yeah,
let's go the home of the Clippers, Clippers and Suns
going at it right now and starting to gain a
(15:54):
lot of attention the price of parking add the into
it Dome for Opening Night. Now, let me tell you this.
When I went to game two in Game six of
the NLCS, I knew it was going to be more
money parking at Dodgers Stadum, I get it. Sixty bucks.
That wasn't bad park No. I thought it'd be up
near one hundred, which is what it's probably gonna be
(16:14):
normally forty. It's usually forty on normal nights.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
So the fact that you didn't, you weren't already at
triple digits, was shocking to me.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I would have squeezed every dime. NLCS. Okay, Mets Dodgers
Big Series sixty bucks.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I'm like, okay, all right, it's wow, it's expensive, but okay, fine, right, No,
that's what they charged you because they felt bad for you.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You're a Mets, Mets fan. Oh you were in a
Mets at sixty bucks. But it's also fans Los Angeles
one hundred and sixty dollars.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
But it's like parking in general, if you go anywhere,
it's like it's flat rate right, there's no longer hourly
parking if you go to any kind of event, no
matter where you're at in the city, So you're usually
in for thirty forty bucks, even if you're just gonna
go out for a bite to eat.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
So I get the pad tree of the NLCS that
it's a bigger deal. The tickets are much more tougher
to get sixty bucks. Okay, opening night at the Intuit Dome.
Now I'm hoping it's an opening night thing. Hey, I'm
there for the very first game parking at the Clippers
seventy dollars, So ten dollars more to park it opening
(17:20):
night of the Clippers than it was to park Dodger
Stadium for Game two in Game six of the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, that's gonn probably be nightly. I'm curious.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Steve Balmer is worth one hundred and twenty five billion dollars.
Huh with a B with a B get to be
worth one hundred and twenty Now.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Would you stop with a tight argument of oh, you
always have.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
To save your money. How many people are going to
be able to afford this is not Yes, it's a
it's a thing to go to a game seventy bucks.
Seventy that's more than the tickets that are gonna wind
people probably.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, I mean that's insane. That's insane. If it's a
special Life, if it's playoffs, if.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Do they have other events in that complex?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Tonight?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Man?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
But I mean tonight because I mean, you've got a
bunch of stuff. Right, Is Taylor Swift in concert tonight?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Because you got the YouTube theater right so far right,
So you've got a bunch there. So is there another
event that put a premium on space? I don't know,
but yeah, I just get to the it's the cost
of doing business. Does it mean you like it?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
But generally, you know, rich folks, how do you get rich?
You let for let other people pull out their wallets.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But I mean, this is but this is this is
going to be met with a big backlash because look,
you're you're pricing out a lot of people. Because it's
one thing to say, hey, sixty bucks to park at
a Dodger. Get dude, this is this is the NLCS.
You could see us bleep and celebrate to go to
the World Series. Oh well, okay, I understand that this
is opening night for the Clippers in the Suns. It
(19:00):
is opening night for the Clippers and the Suns, and
it's seventy dollars. Come on, man, I mean, how again,
tickets are gonna be less than this. You'll be able
to get tickets. Hey, I got two tickets for less
it is to.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Park at the intwodum. Well, what's the normal cost for
Dodger Stadium parking? Usually it's about forty If I want
to say four fifty four thousand seats and a very
large parking area, this is and it all goes to
the the x owner.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Right then, that was part of the settlement was to
keep the lots. I'm gonna keep the parking lot.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Sure, fine, well, hey, it's a great turnkey business, right
if you can get a plot of land and do that.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It's like right now, if.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I had the start a capital to do it in
certain cities and states, I'd be figuring out how to
open up facilities whereby people could come play soccer and
baseball because that's a burgeoning as Ah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
No, no, I know, I would.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I would completely just want to buy a parking lot.
Why there's no upkeep, there's no aney.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
That's because I had family members that parking lot forever
and then the city you know, did the whole eminent
domain thing and it got weird. But but just the
idea that you're you're going into the area where it's
built in Inglewood to where it's eighteen thousand, eighteen thousand
plus right, eighteen to nineteen thousand, and I don't I
(20:18):
don't know how much parking you got there, right based
on everything. I don't know if there's other events tonight,
I haven't haven't looked at the calendar.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
But yeah, it's the.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Dollars, seventy dollars. I mean, the Clippers supposed to be
the people's team. We're the team of lass. Hey, street
lights over spotlights, right, yeah, we work hard and everything else.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, but in doing that you also had Kawhi and
Paul George that you paid Megabucket. So the whole thing
didn't make any submitiently like it was a terrible marketing
pitch to begin street.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Lights over spotlights. Ye, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And I forget about the glitz and glamour. We're hard
workers right here, soldworkers.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
I'm just trying to get into the space and the
cost you know, per square foot and whatever else you're
doing there. You're trying to get back the money you
just spent on the multi billion dollar facility, because only
you can only do so many Bruno Mars concerts that
are gonna get you back. And then Billie Eilish did
a couple think Gilmore is gonna do one? I mean,
(21:22):
I don't know how many more events you get to
try to get your money back. As people are joking,
those toilets are not going to pay for them?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
No, no, no, they're not gonna fly. I mean, look they
fleshed well, right, they flesh well apparently so are I mean,
what's the water bill? I mean you got to.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Pay that due? Look, I understand it's a it's a
costly thing. And tickets parking it's not cheap. It's also
you know when people lament what it costs to go
to Disneyland, it's like form most people, it's a once
in a lifetime experience or a once a year experience.
(21:59):
You get a season ticket. I bet you get a
little bit of a discount.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swallowing down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Tirech dot
Com Studios. All right now, Why is tomorrow night's game
between the Vikings and the Rams the biggest Thursday night
football game of the year. It's pretty simple, ay, because
I get to watch Sam Donald in primetime.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Look how good the Vikings are? You so hate Sam Donalds.
Sam Donald's coming back. I told you he's coming back
to Earth.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Let's have conversations week eightish and Sam Donald's coming.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Back to Earth a little bit.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
But it's the biggest game of the year because it
is high noon for the Rams as far as what
they're going to do and how the rest of the
season is going to go for them and how their
season is going.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
To affect the rest of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
If the Rams win tomorrow night, right, because the Rams
are playing at home. And if the Rams win Tomorrow
night and go to three and four, Okay, we just
beat a really good team at home with all of
the injuries, Cooper cup is on his way back or here, Hey,
three and four, we're feeling pretty good. This will be
a big statement win for us, and we're gonna keep going.
(23:04):
If they lose to Fallow two and five, that's it.
It's you know what, we gotta reload on the fly.
We talked about it last night. No one reloads on
the fly better than the Rams too. But it might
not be just Cooper Cup that gets traded. Cooper Cupp
certainly will get delt, they'll free up from his money,
they'll get a second round pick because he is that good.
He's the one guy that could flip a team, joining
(23:26):
them middle of the season and suddenly turn them into
something different. But maybe it's Matthew Stafford that gets dealt
as well as they would start over a quarterback. After
you might see some other players get dealt as well
and get traded away. Like this is high noon for
the Ram Like the season comes down to tomorrow night.
Win three and four, we're still in it. The NFC
West is not great, right, NFC West is not great?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
The Niners, Niners are under five hundred, right, The Cardinals
are the Cardinals. Hey maybe it's a but you fallow
two and five and that's gonna be okay. Really, what
kind of year we're gonna have. We can't be in anybody.
We're struggling. We can't win at home in a short week.
So everything is at stake for the Rams. Tomorrow night
they win, they'll keep going with what they have they lose.
(24:10):
Maybe it's Cooper Cup. Maybe it's Cooper Cup.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
And Matthew Stafford. Maybe it's some other player.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
But that's absolutely going to happen, and you'll see the
Rams try to retool on the fly and get ready
with a focus on twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, it's curious, right, because Matthew Stafford during their bye week,
he did a nice audition on the NFL on Fox
Fox NFL Sunday, hanging out with the Vellas. Eventually looked
pretty good there, and then they had Ai Tom Brady
this week. Everybody got mad at Ai Tom Brady a hologram.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Really, I don't know why. People just know Brady is.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Brady has hit the point in his life now after
football where it's like, yeah, no, I don't like anything
he does.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
What is I know? I don't like it? Okay, all right, fine.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Just the oversaturation thing. But again it's the you don't
like it, don't watch and why you got be so mad?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Why It's like I'm doing with the parking thing, either
you go or you don't. But with Cooper Cup, you know,
part of it is the salary. I mean, he is
coming off a pretty big injury. So the second round
pick is you're not going to tread you know, enter
that lightly.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, he doesn't have an injury designation, and he is
young enough where he's not going to be a player.
He's still at the very top of his game. I mean,
you just watched him his recent route running and it's
still fish the field. He's thirty thirty one. He's not
someone that's going to suddenly lose it. I think he
can be really good for the three years as long
as he stays healthy. And it's a gamble, right, it's
(25:35):
his second round three years. That's why it's the second
round pick, and it's and it's what it is. But
the guy still you remember his Super Bowl, Remember how
good he is when he's healthy, and he's going to
be a player who really brings a lot of interest
level And when the Rams can look at their team
and say, well, Okay, if we're winning, let's stick with it.
(25:58):
But if we're losing, Poka Nakua is gonna come back soon.
We like two to two at well, they like Jordan Wittington, right,
they like these three young receivers. Sure, these are the
guys that need playing time. We have to go forward
with them and I'm sorry, you know, we hey, we
have great stuff out of Cooper Cup, but we have
to reload and move on. So that's going to be
the case. They will have to they will have to
move on to trade him. And because it's a second
(26:19):
round pick, you know, maybe you'll get some teams going ooh,
I don't know, but you will get enough teams interesting
because there's enough teams going okay, we could be a
Cooper Cup away from when he let's go do it,
and if something happens, we don't do it this year,
we have another couple of years with him to still
be an elite level player.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yeah, Parkinson's shown up as a pretty good tight end
for them. He's a pretty consistent option. So you got
that rolling obviously. Kyron Williams is outperformed expectations really good
in the Red Zone to date.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
So you've got a number.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Of pieces to where you can you can flip this
thing pretty fast. And the Cup contract, while there are
two more years left on it, it's not break the
bank money, right, We're talking mid teams.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
It's so.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
It seems like if you really work to it, it's
just a question of what's the combination right in terms
of is it a second or is it a third
conditional because again, he just missed a chunk of time.
So I need some assurances here. You're either picking up
a bunch of the money or you're gonna give me
a better pick if he's not able to finish the
run with us here. But yeah, a player that they
(27:26):
they've certainly got depth at the position. They have a
lot of other needs as we've watched, you know, between
their offensive line and some other things. But yeah, to
flip Cooper cup certainly is there. I mean we've got
how many suitors. I mean, Tampa Bay is not gonna
stand pat with what they have.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
No, there's a lot of problems out there that will.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Go with the Yeah, there's there's a number of players
that and some of these teams that have already dealt
part one, maybe they go and wide receiver two still
has value to some teams.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
The Stafford thing is just more curious to me. Well,
well here's that that's the one are you gonna happen here?
Because in first he was rumored with the Vikings.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Right, but I thought Sam Donald was so good. But
maybe look other teams with quarterback injuries. Maybe this is
something that could happen. He's still playing. It's somewhat of
a high level, but there is a money thing that's
got to be worked out. But I mean, this is
high noon for the round, like they are. It's it's
done and we're onto twenty twenty five, or hey, we're
still in it, and I'll tell you this, I'll say
(28:24):
tomorrow because they have way more at stake. The Vikings
are asking themselves a little bit questions after blowing the
game to the Lions on Sunday. The Rams come up
with a big effort. They continue to bring Sam Donald
back to earth a little bit like he has the
last couple of weeks, and the Rams offense can do
enough against a really good Vikings defense.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
They'll run the ball.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Well, They'll have a really big night across the board,
and I'll take the Rams in a tight one twenty
seven to twenty four tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
You hate Sam Donald, but just to have this discussion
for thirty seconds here, it's not an indictment on Sam
Darnold to say that Matthew Stafford's a better quarterback. That
doesn't mean he necessarily stinks. So when you do the
but Sam Darnald's so good. It's like, yes, Matthew Stafford
is better even at an advance, but.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
They're not gonna trade him to come play. But I'm
playing so well. Yeah, sorry, we're gonna We're gonna get
somebody else. But it's like Justin Fields was playing pretty well,
but Matthews.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Then they went and grabbed Old Russ said he hey,
go eat. But Stafford's not going in Georgia quarterback. No. No,
one's gonna take that money on him to not playing.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
No no.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
But the point is you have a guy, You've established
that you've got a guy. But if I could go
and maybe juice this thing and make it that much better,
if I can make the money work. Sorry, Sam, I
love you, but you're gone even really good Sam.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Can you imagine if they do that? But Sam was
so good?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
H Exit Out Out of Fresca, Exit Swollen down the
Jason Smithson with Mike Carmon live from the tire rack
dot Com studios, time not to find out what's trending
in the wide world of sports and what Manci Belagio
says in game betting has been like between the cli
Apers and the Suns in the last half hour Monzi.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Oh, it's just dandy over here, Bree. Did you see that?
Did you see that?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Bree?
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Did you see the score?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Now?
Speaker 6 (30:07):
That's ried.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
It's a tie game between the Clippers and the Suns
at into it Dome, fifty one each halfway through the
third quarter. Norman Powell eleven points leading the way for
the Clippers, Bradley Beal ten points for the Sun.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Still going on in.
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Portland, Trailblazers losing to the Warriors seventy to fifty seven
early in the third Steph Curry eleven points, six rebounds
and the Grizzlies and Jazz. This is a tight one,
but the Grizzlies are on top one twenty to one
point eighteen less than two.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
Minutes to go in the game.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Jah Morant twenty points and ten assists so far. Earlier today,
the Hornets top the Rockets one ten to one oh five.
Lamello Ball thirty four points, eight rebounds and eleven assists.
The Pelicans had a one twenty three to one eleven
win over the Bulls and this just came in not
long ago. Pelicans guard to Jean Say Murray is feared
to have fractured his left hand he did fourteen points,
(31:01):
ten assists, eight rebounds.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
In their season opening victory. So this sucks. ESPN with
the story.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
First, the Hawks held on to beat the Nets one
twenty to one sixteen, while the Magic defeated the Heat
won sixteen to ninety seven, and the Bucks took down
the seventy six ers, who were playing without Joe al
Embiid and without Paul George.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
One twenty four to one oh nine.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Damian Lillard thirty points, nine rebound, six assists, including six
three pointers, while the Cavs crushed the Raptors one thirty
six to one oh six, and the Pacers took down
the Pistons one fifteen to one oh nine.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
A little NFL news for you, fellas.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Forty nine Ers head coach Kyle Shanahan says wide receiver
Deebo Samuel has a chance to play Sunday night against
the Cowboys after he was hospitalized with pneumonia earlier this week.
Good news for Colts fans because uh Jonathan Taylor back
at practice.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
They think he may be able to play this weekend
against the Texans. And how about this.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey mus practiced today because.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Of jury duty.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
He has been picked to serve on a twelve person
jury for a felony case, and he could miss other practices.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Brandon, let me just tell you.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You take that notice in, you crumple it up and
throw it away. Okay, just so you know, Dallas Cowboys
is the most important thing in the world. Who do
I got to make a phone call to do. I
gotta show up and talk to a judge. I'll get
down there and tell them, get you off the case.
Say you're our best player. I know I gave Dack
a lot of money, but yeah, you're our best player,
and we'll figure it out.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
I mean, listen, I hate dry Dudie.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Right.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Nobody wants to do it because part of it is
you're not paying the money I would make at work.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
You're giving me a fraction of it. But if I'm
a millionaire or like I'm well off, I would.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Love to be part of a jury and just kind
of sit through the whole process. But it's just like
you're paying me cents on the dollar to be here.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
That's hard.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
We have one holdout. Is it Monsey? Yes, it's Monsey.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
She just loves coming down here. She loves the sandwich
shop next door to just what else?
Speaker 6 (32:48):
All about it? Crime junkie over here.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Okay, you know what, Monsey, you win mis trial.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Let's go, Thanks much, Jess Jason Smithson with Mike Carmon
live from the Tireck dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Why what MLB Commissioner Rob Manford said today? And the
Dan Patrick Show is a really really big deal. That's next,
Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Puts in the bag for Shark or something a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
More NFL coming up at about ten minutes. But Baseball
Commissioner Rob Manford had a huge bombshell that he dropped
earlier today on The Dan Patrick Show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Where apparently coming to Major League Baseball to
a stadium near you in the next couple of years,
automated balls and strikes.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
I think you will see some version of the automated
strikes on in the big leagues in the next four years.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Now, what does that mean? Why is such a version.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, because is it gonna be Is it going to
replace the umpires entirely? Is it going to where you
don't need the umpire standing behind home plate anymore? Is
it going to be a system where that is a mall?
I am sorry, you're out of here.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
And then we go and argue that his head might
have been a skew, so his angle of what was
a ball or a strike was wrong, or.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
You just get a better voice of the strike zone.
Is the letters to the knees as was commissioned by
Albert dumbled Elvis Dunblan, Did you put your.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Name in a govern of fire? Did you put your fire?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
You know exactly what's happening. Oh man, look, why is
this a big deal? Here's my advice for every MLB team.
It's coming in the next four years some way, shape
or form. Don't sign anybody who's a starting pitcher to
a long term contract.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Don't do it now. It's a good move because.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
You don't know how many guys, how many stars get
balls and strike calls. Because of reputation, the best pitchers
in the game, whether it's Garrett Cole or Scooble or
whoever it is, Hey, these guys are great pictures, but
maybe sometimes they get the benefit of the down on
a ball or strike because they're a great star pitcher.
(35:21):
And that's not going to be the case anymorecause you're
seeing an automated kind of strike zone. It's either a
strike or it's not, and suddenly.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Set to every game is the same. Or do we
input based on the way a guy.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Throws pitching tonight? Is a jag? That is just a guy.
The strike zone will be very small. You are a jag?
Why do you sound like the guy from Grandma's Boy.
That's my robot voice. I am JP, that's my sixties
robots voice. I am a robot.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I am sorry, Alonzo, that is a strike on you.
Stop complaining? Nah, do you miss the Mets Matt so
because that clearly could be a thing. Now it doesn't
mean for every pitcher, but do you want to be
on the hook for a guy for an eight year
deal and all of a sudden, man, my era is
five and a half because that curveball over for a
strike is not over for a strike anymore. Or if
(36:15):
I have to get a little bit more of the
plate because I'm not getting that call anymore. If my
curveball gets a little bit more of the plate, it's
gonna get a little bit more of somebody's back, and
it's gonna go a little bit further.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Than it did before.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Have they ever gone retroactively with what the strike zone
was supposed to be and say Greg Maddox overlay of
what would constitute a ball versus a strike and how
those sequences would be different, And he would.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Say, I just wanted to win. I wanted the three
side to the three inches on either side of the plate.
I didn't want anything else. It's it could be a thing,
and you don't want to be the team on the
hook for Well, we signed Corbyn Burns. I'm just using
him a sample because he's up for you know, he'll
be a big guy this year. Like, hey, he's got
an eight year deal, And suddenly the last six of
those years looked terrible because the era is five and
(36:59):
a half, because you can't get anybody out because he
doesn't get the reputation calls anymore that he used to get,
because players do get those, and you know, I always
I just keep thinking back to when when Guy Fieri
started his UH Tournament of Champions, like four years ago
where he had all the best chefs from UH Food
Network on in an NCAA tournament type setting and they cook.
(37:21):
Two people cook against each other and then the judges judge.
Now usually on cooking shows, the judges know who the
who the chefs are and like you hand him a dish,
and like when Alex Juana Shelley is one of the
best chefs in the world. She had the reputation of
she you know, she's the I c A g right,
she was the she's the best chef on Food Network.
So whenever she was competing, well, this is Alex's dish, So, boy,
(37:44):
how are you gonna have Alex Louke?
Speaker 3 (37:46):
How do I fight against her palate? My palette must
not be good. No, no, Alex is the best.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
But then when they did this tournament, she was the
number one seed and she cooked against someone who was
like an eight seed and it was blind judging, and
because it was blind judging, she lost. She's never done
that tournament since four years now, one of the biggest
darge Food Network. She's never done it again. Quitter because
why she got nothing. I got nothing again game, I
got nothing to gain by it. So you think about
(38:13):
that think about the element of no longer. Hey, the
umpire knows you're a great picture. You're here, you're doing this.
That may not happen.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
The last thing you want is to be on the
hook for a guy for well, we're paying them five
more years and his era is five. That's not good.
That when a length on a contract match an era,
that is not good.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Now if they call it letter to ease, as is
currently in the rule book and they actually enforce it
that way, well, now you've got the giant hitting zone
that opens up as well. So that's that's the whole
other thing. Forget about the margins, just the fact that
you've got that much more of the plate that you're
working with. I mean, the picture gets some of that
(38:53):
back because now they get to work you up, up
and down the zone a little bit more frequently. So,
you know, on the margins go away, but maybe they
gain the other I don't know who gets the ultimate advantage.
But you know, robots showing up is good.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Here comes a fastball. Oh wait, was I not supposed
to say that that's.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
A home run? I am sorry. That is my fault.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
The instant analysis of the umpire robot who's now identifying
it and tipping pitches.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
How did you feel about that, Clay Holmes?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
That was for Walter Smith, Jason Smith, Dad, the iterations.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Of the AI would be able to catch how he's
gripping the.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Baseball at any slight changes in motions, like, well, he's
done this seventy five percent of the time.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
When he throws a fastball, and this looks.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Like a splitter, it is going to come and dropping
a seventy nine degree angle. It will end outside this
drag zone. Swing at your own risk. Nah, nah, telling
you don't sign guys along.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Better announcer than most of the guys I hear as
I sample Major League Baseball coming up next?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Boy, do we have a big fun story out of
the NFL. Well, it's actually fun for a couple of people,
not so much for one guy.
Hosts And Creators
Jason Smith
Mike Harmon
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.