October 8, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike explain Padres are embracing being the villains the MLB playoffs need. The Chiefs are no longer the rock-star, scoreboard tilting, exciting and intimidating traveling road show. And did the Cowboys suddenly save their season?
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a quick update from the NFL before we get to
this new news coming in now from Major League Baseball
twenty three to thirteen. The Chiefs have the lead over
the Saints with about six and half minutes left to go.
Patrick Mahomes has just scrambled for a first down, so
the Chiefs fresh set of downs about six and a
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half minutes left to go. Meanwhile, the Saints likely are
going to have to play the rest of this one
without Derek Carr. On the fourth down in completion, he
took a big hit. Looked like he got hit somewhere
in the middle body. Uh, because well listen if you're
saying upper body is above the hips, lower body below
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the hips. But it looked like it was definitely a
middle body shot, like somewhere in the in the in
the greater uh, in the solar plexus area, the solar plexus.
Anytime we get a little gorilla on the show, the
lateral collateral area of the back. Sure, yeah, okay, that
thelateral collateral area, Oh yeah, very good. So but he
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looks he walked off under his own power. He was
obviously accompanied by medical personnel, but Derek Carr walking off
seemingly under his own power. So the Saints will have
to navigate this one with our Archie manning at quarterback
the rest of the way again, just under six minutes
left to go, and the Chiefs with a ten point
lead and the foot You couldn't go, Drew Brees, You
had to go all the way to Archie. Well, Drew
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Brees is sitting on hold waiting to talk to us. Yeah,
I mean she will be continuing for years now. I
think Archie Manning was more fun. People going to listen
to the thousand plus shows. I got to get that.
I gotta explain the millennials with Archie Manning. Yeah, Archie was,
I mean, the old man was actually the hell of
a quarterbacks. The team's stunk. Yeah, Archie Manning. Who's Archie Manning? Okay,
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so you know who arch Manning is? Now? Do you
know who Peyton Manning is? Yeah? Okay, Archie Manning is
Peyton Manning and Eli Manning's dad. Oh okay, And arch
Manning is Peyton Manning and Eli Manning's kid, both of No,
he's their nephew. Okay, Yeah, it's all part of the
Manning family. Of Copper. Well, here's the thing. No, Copper
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Manning is the Manning brother we don't talk about. He's
not on the way talking about. He's kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Like like you know how the Jonahs' brothers like Kevin
Nick and then Joe Oh yeah, yeah, then they have
their little brother, Frankie is yeah, Frankie one.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
They don't talk, Yeah, they don't yet. Coppert wasn't a quarterback.
It was we didn't talk about Bruno. No, no, no, Coppert.
When you're not a quarterback, he doesn't get invited to Thanksgiving,
there's no family events. He got to next he's not
a quarterback, but being Arch's dad, maybe this will allow
him back into the family. I'm hoping. I'm a coupper's
had a full decade on Fox and got the road
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to the super Boy. He's not on the Maze. I
don't see him on the man and Cast. It's Peyton
and Eli. What about his other brother, he's on the
other network. Yeah, but i mean, come on, they have
other people on that all the time. They're gonna tell
them Manings, you can't have your brother on. Come on,
get that three guests one of them was always Belichick.
Come on, so you're rotating the other two Tonight was
chief super fan looking young again. Rudd. That's he had
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a haircut and a shave, and oh yeah, every everybody
or something everyone of the Chiefs game tonight wearing wearing
Chiefs jerseys and and and Royals hats, Like look at this,
I'm Rob mclaney, I'm wearing everything. Do you think Chiefs
saholic was watching either one of these games tonight? They
smuggl a. Well, if they smuggle a TV into Oils
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and the chiefs on, Yeah, well I'm sure that's on.
I'm sure they're watching that in the in the community room.
I'm sure that's what you get. Yeah, what else do
you just to a community room? I'm sure they all. Yeah,
of all the TV shows I watched, there's always a
community room, there's always community room. Yeah. You think they
show you what it really looks like on TV? You mean,
that's not what I've seen that the community room they did,
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that was the last great community room. It's away in
Logan Lucky when they you know, they took the room
hostage because they wouldn't show the new the new Game
of Thrones. We want New Game of Thrones books. Uh,
the books haven't been written yet. The TV show has
moved past the books we don't have. George RR. Martin
hasn't written another book yet, So okay, what's next? You're
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gonna tell me he's on fan Duel doing the fifteen
leg Barla, No, no, no. George R. Martin's a big
Jets fan. He's got a lot on his plate right now.
He and I both have a lot of Northwestern Yeah, yeah,
mister Martin. Oh, hey, speaking Northwestern grads, Congratulations to Boo
booie just signed by the He's going to be in
the NBA finals last year. Cheer for the NIX a
little boo booye. Man, my guy, Yeah, don't you there. Yeah,
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it's gonna be hard NBA Finals. Just think about that.
If someone said to Boom Boo when he's getting shut
down in the NCAA tournament, Hey, don't worry about it.
In a few months, you're gonna be on a team
that's going to the NBA finals. Oh, calty, you know what.
They're at least in the nc double. It was good.
That was good. No, was good. You know, for not
making it for like fifty years, you've made it now
like twice in the last ten or something like that. Okay,
that's pretty good, pretty good legacy right there. Uh So, anyway,
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right now the road begins with the first stepshow Chiefs
with the lead and the football. Now three minutes left
to go, they'll be kicking a field goal, most likely
on fourth down, to go up twenty six thirteen if
by Or makes Remember he missed one a few minutes ago.
So this looks like the Chiefs have it in hand,
but we will bring you more on this coming up
in a little bit now. A few minutes ago, we
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talked about the the Padres Dodgers and this big war
going on right now that is just insanely complicated and
for many many a case, it's pretty fun. It's it's
complicated and simple at the same time. Yeah, coming off
of the game last night, you saw there were many
instances where the Padres uh instigated issues with the Dodger crowd.
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Then the Dodger crowded out of control throwing baseballs of
the guys on the field. The Dodgers are upset that
Manny Machado threw a baseball into the dugout between innings
that was thrown at Dave Roberts Uh and the Dodgers
sent this video to Major League Baseball. Now, I want
to say two more things about this. As we know
that the Padres are the villains that the Baseball Playoffs
need right someone, and Angel Reach doesn't want to be
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the villain anymore. And the Yankees they haven't won in
forever and they lost to the Yeah, that's tough. So
oh no, no, no, We're gonna do that. In a
couple of minutes. Yeah, crafting the proper message to me.
But let me just say a couple of things about
the Padres. Hey, yes, they're embracing the role of villains
because this is something that does bring the team together. Hey,
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this is who we are and when you need a
motion in the playoffs, it's been a long season. This works.
But mainly they know what gets under the Dodgers skin.
And now the Dodgers are focused on crazy ass things.
You got Jack Flaherty is throwing at guys and the
Dodgers are complaining, and they sent video of the Machado
throw it a major League baseball and Dave Roberts is
talking about it, saying, oh, we think it was on purpose.
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I mean, this is not what the Dodgers do. But
the Padres get under their skin and this strategy is
working to perfection. Now, two things about this, I'll say
one pro Padres and one and one anti Padres. Country.
You and I have seen the play now because it's
just gotten out there throwing the ball with the doug out.
This is not Manny Machado throwing a laser at Dave Roberts.
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Is this him talking about? Is this? But that's the
way it's gonna be portrayed. He threw a ball at
day out. But what happened was the last warm up
pitch of the inning was in the dirt, So obviously
the pitcher gets a new ball to start the inning,
and Machado's just throwing it off the field. Now, is
he being a little bit of a jerk throwing the
ball to the dugout in the middle of the dugout? Yes,
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he's being a bit of a jerk doing that. Oh, no,
ass hat move, He's no questions. He didn't grab the
ball and slide to his left and look for the
opening at pointed Dave Roberts, and then throw a laser
in there. No, you get Dodger wrench, you get dodge
a ball, Robert. There was. It was more a bit
of gamesmanship than anything else. In disrespect. It was the
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Dodgers are over the top with this now, and they
got to realize, let's just get back to playing baseball
because it's playing into the padres hands. Roberts calling it unset. Yeah,
I know, I know. The Dodgers are insane. He didn't
even notice it. The Dodgers. He threw a ball that
almost hit him didn't. He goes, well, I didn't notice it,
and then he comes right back because I don't know
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if that isn't there and hit him right now right.
But Machado knows that he chadas he's being an instigator. Smart.
I think, well, if he wasn't, I mean, if he was,
if he really gunned win the dugout, then okay, then
you would say, okay, man, he's not smart. No, but
he knows if I just chuck this ball towards them, Doug,
it's a chippy game, and I'm just gonna chuck it
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towards the dugout and just do it to be a
jerk and to get under their skin a little bit.
And it worked. Right. Baseball is not gonna come back
and say, oh, this is awfu. It's the worst thing
many Machadda's spend it. No, it's not. This is gainsmanship
and it's working. There's gonna be a five page missing
based on this game from Major League base I mean,
this game is just I mean, this is it starts.
It's overwhelming the week that was in the NFL. But
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the other part I'm gonna say is this is that.
And let me start off by saying fans should not obviously,
don't throw baseballs of people. Don't throw stuff at fans
at players. Don't do it, right, that's an awful thing.
They should be taken out of the game. They should
be banned from a stadium. Don't do it. But I
but if I was Mike Shilt, this is what I
would tell tell the guys because I I think we're
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being fair. Is like, guys, don't antagonize the fans because
it's something that might not end well for us. Don't
antagonize the fans because you don't know what's going to happen.
It's the same philosophy of if you're if someone's road
raging with you, do you should you go up and
engage them. No, you don't know who they are. You
don't know what they're gonna do. You should be able
to If a guy cuts you off in traffic and
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and and doesn't signal and flips you off, whatever, do
you have every right to confront that person? Yeah, because
they did something to you, But you don't know who
they are. You don't know how that's gonna go, right,
how do you think it's gonna go? If you are
profar and you are doing all kinds of stuff and
and and teasing them with the ball on the on
the home run you saved. What do you think is
gonna happen the next time you go go to the
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wall for a ball, Right, what do you think is
gonna happ People are gonna throw stuff at you? Right?
What do you if you're Fernando to tease Junior and
you're just swiveling your hips and the Dodger fans, what
do you think is gonna happen? Just it's I'm not
saying this excuses anybody, because like what did I say
in begetting fans who do that, you're thrown out of
the stadium. You're not allowed to come back in. Right,
can't do it. But you have to be realistic and
know that if I antagonize these fans, I don't know
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what's gonna happen. So just be smart because you don't
know when a ball is gonna hit you in the
head or a battery is gonnait you. R something's gonna happen.
And it's just not a Dodger I think it's anything else.
If you go into another team's ballpark in the playoffs
and you antagonize the fans that are sitting behind you.
You don't do that. I mean, that's what I would
say is hopefully say, listen, guys, whatever goes on between
the white lines. If we're upset about the Dodgers and
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they throw it to tease and we're upset about what's
going on, we talk about Otania. Okay, that's one thing,
but this is like, guys, just be smart here, Okay,
to just be smart. It goes back to the general
life philosophy. Whatever you're always taught as a kid growing up. Hey,
keep it simple stupid or sweetheart, if they wanted to
be a little nicer about Yeah, keep it simple. Stupid
is bad. Stupid kind of works and certainly more appropriate
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in this situation. Sweetheart's very patronizing. It's very patronized. Just
keep it simple, stupid. It's more insulting, but I get it,
or was determined endearment. It's all a question of where
we're coming from. Are we already a bit of an
antagonism stake stupid? No, it's like, okay, so much stupid.
You're gonna sing it like Alice Cooper and you're gonna
be done with here. Hey, hey, sweetheart, not how the
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song goes. Sure, yeah, change it that way. But it's
the idea of why complicate matters to your point about
road rage or anything you're doing right. You go through
your paces of your every normal, everyday life, like you
have your rhythms, you have your rigination. When you start
adding other elements to what happens, it complicates things. Your
schedule gets thrown out of whack. Now you maybe your
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mood goes, and then you take that into your workplace,
if you take that home, and who knows what extrapolates
from there. Likewise, here I get it, the little little
hip shake whatever, it shouldn't be an issue. But guess
what this was already charged going in. This is a
rivalry if you want to use that term. Some do,
Some think it's it's it's a bad term for where
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we're at. But hey, the Padres won the round a
couple of years ago, so you've got the the little
Brother syndrome, as Dodger fans like to portray it. You
had the idea of, hey, here's the specifications and the
restrictions on buying tickets down at Petgo Park to keep
the unruly Dodger fans out, And what do you got
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all sorts of videos of people fighting in the parking lots,
people chucking baseballs and water bottles. It just exacerbated again,
remove variables from your life and the algorithm as you can. Yeah,
don't and it's not it's not don't be stupid, it's
it's okay. Understand that. I get you're having fun out
there and we're getting under the Dodger skin, but you're
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putting yourself position where something can happen to you and
you can't prevent it. It's almost fifty one thousand people
are there. Yes, it's one bad actor. Oh jerks and
prof running on the field. It's everybody. It's everybody in
the right field stands. It's everybody. And I'm not saying
every Dodger fan is bad, right, but all you need
is one fan to get mad and thright, we had
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a couple of fans. But it paints the whole thing
like I was having a conversation walking my dog with
the neighbor and he'd seen a headline about one of
the conversations with your dog. That's what I thought he
was saying. But he did get neighbor in there, so
it's not him coming the neighbor. We did. The dog
was highly interested, but I said, who do you think
the greatest baseball player is of all time? My dog said,
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ruf bark twice. If it's Griffy at the White Sox
Hall of Famer for the White Sox Ken Griffy Jr. Hey,
who is that guy that played right field for the
Mariners White Sox in the seventies? Phil? What was Phil's
last name? The point is he brought up the story
of the latest NFL player who'd run a buck and
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run a foul of the law, and he goes, how
many guys is that really? I go, it's really actually
a small percentage goes because the way they do it
on the news makes it seem like all three a
bunch of drops, like right, So it's the same thing here.
It becomes a much bigger speech about oh, those Dodger
fans when it's two idiots or five idiots or whatever
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that full number. This was not that game from the
nineties when Lesorda got mad and I think that was
the last ball night in Major League Baseball, when Lesorda
came out to argue a really bad call and the
fans all through the baseballs on the field, and I
think that was the last game that was called. That
was that was it was ended. We're not playing the
rest of the game because everything was out of contus.
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So now when if they want to do a giveaway
like that, you get a slip going in and you
get Remember when they used to give the big bats up, well,
we had full sized bats. I had an Eric Solder
home growing up. It was great. What could possibly go
wrong to give to the South side of Chicago. Let's
go for a long time. It's baseball, you know. For
a long time that was okay. Not anymore. You can't
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even give the mini bats anymore. No, is it a
mini bat? Is a mini back? Men? Back? I mean, Ben, No,
come on, I just say we should come on, give
me a got near nerve, Scott. We're gonna have to
put him in some kind of contraption. I'm gonna leave
and then see what happens after that. Come on, Scott, No,
come on, we can just kill him right nowt go
to my room. I got a gun in my room.
I go get it nearrow Nerve. Scott, Gott, you don't
understand We're not gonna do it that ways. Scott. Uh
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the tire
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to go, and the Chiefs are gonna be kneeling on
the football. They're gonna win this twenty six to thirteen
to improve to five and zero. A real reality discussion
about the Chiefs and where they are right now, coming
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up next right here. It might be a little shocking,
but this is who they are. That's next, Jason and Mike.
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It is the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon, live from the Ti rag dot com studios
where we just watched a Monday night game. We did.
We watched a Monday night football game involving the Chiefs.
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Congratulations on a job done. The Chiefs beat the Saints
twenty six to thirteen. Derek Carr missing the final six
minutes of the second half taking a big hit on
a fourth down play, went to the locker room. We'll
have an update on him as soon as we hear.
But Mahomes and the Chiefs now an eleven game win streak,
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including the playoffs. There now five and zero this season,
tied with the Vikings for the best record in the NFL.
Mahomes a three hundred yard night, no touchdowns, one interception,
Kareem Hunt with one hundred yards on the ground. Yeah,
all twenty seven carries, showing you that maybe I could.
I could not be on a team and show up
and do pretty well. If I'm familiar with the offense,
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I can do that. Look at that. Welcome to the NFL.
You're in shape, ready to go. YEA and a team
gets desperate for some help listen. Hey, fantasy owners needed
to make that Carson Steel trade two weeks ago. You're
two weeks late. No one's gonna take him there. It's
still a problem with that with his family though, like
his sister's scheduling nuptials during a football season. Yeah, it's
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never in your draft year. It's never smart. It's never smart.
It's just some kind we're just respectful. So like, you're
not gonna make it brother of mine in the spring,
married in the spring? Why if to get married in
the fall? Oh, but I want to fall with Okay,
we want people to comerade well, but also you basically
you were betting your brother wasn't going to make a team.
But here's the other part, is it now if you
schedule a wedd now you see you're a I'm from
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no no, no, hang on, I'm from this school. No.
Because this is what helps people out now, is that
the old argument long for a long time with you know,
which you've heard now you know if this is two thousand,
it would be a new argument is that, oh, don't
schedule a wedding during the fall because of football, Like
obviously for fans who I don't want to miss a
game by going to a wedding. I don't want to
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do that. Okay, I get that. But here's the other
part of it is that if you are a football player,
if you have something that that you do for a living,
and you you know, you know, you're busy, then no
one can give you any flag for missing the wedding.
Oh I can't come. I'll send you money. I can't come.
Oh really, like I can't come. I'm sorry. I can't
do it. I may or may not have been able
to use that with the business we're in for a
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long time, because football is is king. I can't come.
Here's money instead. I can't come. I can't. I can't
got my own line of greeting guard surrounding it. I
can't do it now. If it's during football season. I
don't even think you need to send them money. Oh no, no, yeah,
well they're just jackass. I think you're good. I don't
send autograph ten headshots. Here you go. There you go. Hey,
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have a congratulations like the fact that they even wasted
your time and their's sending an invitation during football season. Yeah,
I sent them a free cameo and look for a
long time A Shato throwing the ball at Roberts. It's
just it's just disrespectful. For a long time, when I
worked on Sundays, whether it was for Fantasy Live or
when I worked a Fantasy Zone, it was anytime something
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had Okay, I can't take off? Why not? I can't
because there literally is no one else in the world
that can do this job. I can't take off, and
they know that, and that's where it goes. I'm like, okay,
I like that. Now. There wasn't one person world could
do either of those jobs. There wasn't There absolutely was not.
And so but it also was football. I can't take
off now it's yes, Seacrest couldn't do what I did.
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He there's no way. But now if people want to
get married you un now. I used to see him
studios fantasies on there was nobody. There's nobody in the
world that can do that. I I did it. There's
nobody in the world can do it. Now they don't
do the show anymore. There's nobody world can do that.
I do it. Uh, but let me just say this now,
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if someone wants to get married during football, obviously it's
a case of hey, Monday night's a big night, you know,
so we have to work. Friday night's a big night
because we're going into the weekend. It's not often that
during the football season you and I can get off
on a Friday or Monday. So if anybody has a
wedding on Saturday or Sunday, I'm like, I can't. I can't.
I can't fly out until Saturday morning, which means if
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you're getting married some plays outside of Los Angeles, I'm
not getting there for the wedding. If you get married
on Sunday, I can't because I have to fly back.
I got it back back at work on Monday, and
I can't do it. I just can't. So I'm like, Okay,
if you're getting married a weekend, you know, I can't
come And okay, can't get mad at me, and there's
games on Thursdays. Can't get mad at me. I mean, yeah, no, Sally.
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And now we got match in again starting up. I mean,
come ONCC after dark. We have I mean, we got
all this stuff, the thing h But when it comes
to this, back to the chiefs now way to say
we're important here at Fox Sports Radio, this is this
is I don't know how popular. This is going to be,
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but it's the reality of the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes.
They're not fun anymore. Right, This is not the same
Chiefs team that we watched run rough shot over the
NFL the last seven years up until last year. This
is a Chiefs team that captured all our imagination with
the way Mahomes throws the football, and he comes into
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the league and he's making throws we've never seen anybody make.
And the offense is so unbelievably exciting and it's intimidating.
Nobody wants to play the Chiefs because they're gonna be
up fourteen to nothing before you look. Every game is
forty two to twenty and it's an absolute show. And
the Chiefs were the biggest show in sports for a
long time. Mahomes is throwing thirty five forty touchdowns a year.
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Then what happened, Well, eventually teams catch up a little bit,
and the Chiefs decided we are going to prioritize what
we have and winning over winning, putting up a big
show since the beginning of last year all the way
now we're talking about having one of the third seasons
of proof. The Chiefs have just become another really good
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team in the NFL that has a clutch quarterback and wins.
That's who the Chiefs are. They're not this above the
full team right Suddenly, all we talk about the Chiefs
like the Dallas Cowboys and the interest level. No, Mahomes
is much more of a game manager than he's ever been. Right,
He's not putting up all kinds of crazy numbers. He's
not a must start in fantasy anymore. Now you look
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at the rankings, he's around twelve, thirteen to fourteen. He
just doesn't do it. This is just not the way
the team is assembled. And it doesn't mean they're not
going to keep winning, but that's kind of who they are.
They're just like any other team that can win in
the NFL who's really good, that has a really good defense,
and the Chiefs have realized this is the best defensive
run they have had since Mahomes has been there. This
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last couple of years. Their defense is really good. Offensively,
it's not the same. They still get the ball down
the field, they score what they need to. They're not
scoring thirty five forty points a game. They're scoring between
twenty and thirty points. Mahomes throws a touchdown, maybe two
in a week if it's a great week for him.
But this is a far cry from the three to
four touchdown, three hundred and fifty yard nights that Mahomes
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would have in his sleep. They're not as fun anymore.
They're not as exciting. They're another team that's really good
that wins, and the one side of it that's kind
of a dark side is that they're kind of boring.
They're not nearly as much fun to watch. Last year,
it was the excitement level of Taylor Swift and Travis
Kelce and people tuned into Chiefs games because this was new.
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It was fun, it was exciting. Yes, you had people
I hate all the cutaways to Taylor Swift. Yes, it's
robbing you from enjoying the game. Three seconds shots of
Taylor Swift in between plays like the game, like the
play was actually happening, and instead of the play, we'd
show tailor's that only happens in Major League Baseball when
they go to the dugouse. Come on. But that was
the excitement of the Chiefs last year. But again, they
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were a really good team that found a way to
make the clutch plays at the end right. The Chiefs
clutch jeans are fantastic, and that's something to it to admire,
but overall they're not as exciting. They are a good team,
but it's not like they capture our imagination. That team
is dead, that team is long gone. They're like the Ravens,
except not as exciting because Lamar Jackson's more exciting than
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Patrick mahonks. They're kind of like the Eagles a little bit,
except sometimes Jalen Hurts is more exciting. But that's kind
of where they are now. The Falcons are more exciting
to watch than the Chiefs because every week and they're
living and dying by every place. Cousins will throw for
five hundred yards. Comes down to the final play. It's
passing interfears, it's a long touchdown. There are other teams
that are more fun to watch. Now, doesn't mean they're
as good. No, the Chiefs are still again a really
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good team. They're undefeated. They're five and oh. Has the
schedule been the toughest? No, not really, but it doesn't matter.
You're still five and oh, you're still winning games. You're
making the clutch plays. This is how you're doing it.
It's more of Pittsburgh Steelers' way of things. Hey, we're
gonna win. It's not gonna be exciting, but we're gonna
win games. But that's the Chiefs. That old team that
had our imagination, we loved watching that team is dead
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and and it's place now is what we're getting right now.
It's the difference between the pictures of Travis Kelce last
year with the goatee that he had and the smile
and twinkle, and now it's the real loopy mustache and
he looks a little bit heavier and wearing the crazy
floppy hats. It's like, boy, that's the Chiefs team from
last year, and this is the Chiefs team of this year.
They just don't have that element anymore. Not to be fair,
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he did clean up a little bit today with Taylor
Swift in attendance for this one. I'm not sure if
anybody knew that. I don't think they covered it much
at all. Nine catches, seventy yards. So his role in
the offense the last couple of weeks again rounding back
into shape. Take it by quarters. You're through the first four.
Now we move on. And that's the other thing with
the Chiefs, right they have the luxury given the strength
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of the defense and the trustworthiness of the quarterback. Then
I know we have the streak of turnovers for my Homes.
It's there. But just take the full on team review
of what they did in this game against the Saints.
Two to one, time of possession, twenty eight first downs,
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double the yardage up at four sixty for the games,
both teams, same number of penalties, whatever, but running the
ball one hundred and thirty nine yards the Saints forty six.
So grind it out and then take some shots downfield. Right.
They got the big pass interference call. We can argue
about its merits when they tried to go to Worthy,
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but you're getting reps with these guys now and over
the course of the season, the trust factor will grow.
Juju Smith Schuster, welcome back. Big game tonight. Found is
his comfort Obviously the big off his hands, thick pick
as Harlan was calling it on the radio call. But
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you know that's a touchdown that goes the other way,
but it goes as an interception for Homes, keeping his
streak alive and all those things and taking the touchdown
off the board. Sorry, fantasy owners and people that were
looking maybe for the game to push north of whatever
point total you got in at. But all of that
is to say they're not They're playing for January, so
all of these are Yeah, you need to stack ten
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or eleven or whatever that total is of wins to
secure your place. And look at that, the Broncos are
suddenly interesting. Are they good? I don't know yet because
we know what the Raiders are. They're not okay, they're
just not. And then the Chargers maybe coming out of
the bye week they'll be healthier and can start getting
back on track after that two and oh start. But
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the point being, the division is still there, the path
through can the city is still there, and it's not
gonna be pretty. It's not winging the ball around. It's
forty minutes time of possession. And Harrison butker, I mean,
he missed a fifty one yarder, but he also hit
several others. So play efficient football, don't give it over
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and have the defense come up big. Yeah, that's a
formula first success, whether you like it or not. Sometimes
you have to watch the paint dry. This is the
new Chiefs. This is the new Chiefs. They're not your
old Chiefs. They're not your older brothers chiefs. Is this
costing Andy Reid any endorsement deals though, I'm I go geting.
We're gonna get less than nuggies as more nuggies. Yeah, no,
more nuggies, none of them. Did they take away or
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did they just take away the sauce from the nugs?
Here's it. We want you to do a commercial, but
there's gonna be no sauce involved, just nugs. You know,
guys aren't exciting. If you were exciting, we'd give you this.
There's no sauce. We'd give you the Nuggies with the sauce,
but not spicy at all. It's just gonna be straight
bread and chicken and that. You guys are really bland
right now. You said dry nugs like it's like those
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are a bad things all relatively speaking, he said dry ugs.
He wants to make sure his boots are warm. You know,
you want you want to wet step there, like dry
nugs are. That's a good thing. I don't. I don't
know that. I don't know what you're saying. I don't
I really crank call prank, call prank, call time not
to find out what's trending in the wide world. Of
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Sports from special Delivery Steve to Seger who has the
details on everything the Mets did today on their day off. Wow,
between Game two and Game three, Steve, I don't know that,
but I do know Mooki Bets took batting practice. Did
you get any hits in batting practice? For those that awhere?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Going back about three years in the postseason, Mookie Bets
is three for his last forty four in the playoffs.
At the plate he took he estimates three to four
hundred swings today.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
It'll be on f S one Tomorrow nights Dodgers at
Padres Division series tied at a game apiece nine pm
Eastern Time. Before that, the Mets will host the Phillies
five pm Eastern time on FS one. The Monday night
football matchup at Kansas City went to the five and
oh Chiefs beating New Orleans twenty six to thirteen. But
as you referenced earlier, the highlight really was the defensive
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tackle interception at the goal line for the Saints. Juju
Smith Schuester bobbling a ball, It was picked off by
Kaylin Saunders who ran it back about thirty five yards.
This was the Kevin Harlan call on Westwood one.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The Saints pig Man got it on the rikashe at
the goal line on a pass intended for Smith Schuster.
That was a thin pick.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
The Saints did fall twenty six thirteen and Smith Schuster
had seven catches for one hundred and thirty yards in
this game. Patrick mahomes three hundred and thirty one yards passing.
You know, the Chiefs, including playoffs last season, had won
seventh straight, all by seven points or less. Going into tonight,
an actual thirteen point victory. That streak, by the way,
had tied their NFL record Jeters. The season of Chiefs
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wide receiver Rashi Rice is expected to be over due
to his knee ligament injury. According to NFL media, surgery tomorrow.
The Colt State quarterback Anthony Richardson is still their starter
when healthy. The Raiders say they're still evaluating who their
starting quarterback will be. Yesterday, Gardner Minshew and then Aidan
O'Connell played Titans quarterback Will Levis with his bad shoulder,
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is expected to practice at some point this week. In
the Al Division series, Kansas City was a winner at
Yankee Stadium four to two over New York. That series
tied at a game apiece. Mike hell Garcia had four
hits in this one. Even though Bobby Witt Junior wentzer
for five three strikeouts. The visiting team wins and went Junior,
by the ways zero for five in game number one
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of this series, Royal's offense struck out fifteen.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Times and they've evened up the best of five.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Detroit won at Cleveland three nothing today on a three
run homer top of the ninth off closer Emmanuel classe
By Kerry Carpenter. That series tied at a game apiece.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
And DJ clearly Inspector klass Say bungling his way through
the ninth inning before Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
The show before you, we already had a Carpenter's reference
to you know, I don't know, I don't know, Richard
Carpenter clearly to the plate.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
But Jerry Carpenter on top of the world.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Oh after that home run DJ, by the way, for
the first time ever, all four Division series are tied
at a game apiece.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon Live the Direct dot Com Studios. We'll
have more and the Chiefs win over the Saints coming
up in a few minutes. But straight you like that,
I've got like fifteen Carpenters song just like going through
my head, going all right, more references, but coming up next.
How would you like it if we could tell you
every single game the Cowboys will win and lose the
(33:43):
rest of the season. Let's go, Let's tell you exactly
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Chiefs Double up the Saints. Chiefs double up the Saints
twenty six thirteen. Uh, they win Monday Night football in
a game, not a great game. We celebrate them all here.
It's gonna be it's good in the bottom half. You
remember those weeks when the Saints were good. Right, we'll
get We're gonna get to that long long time. We'll
play my music in a few minutes and we'll hoot
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it be well. I can still remember but look coming
off this week in the NFL, the game of the week, right,
we had Monday night game we're gonna get to in
a few minutes again. But the Cowboys pull out a
win over the Steelers last night in the game that
was delayed by rain for an hour and twenty minutes.
And you know, you never thought you'd see a game
like that, but delayed by rain, they pull out the win.
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And there's generally two schools of thought on this game.
Was this, boy, the Steelers are bad, or hey, look
the Cowboys are jump starting their season. I'll tell you this.
It ain't the Cowboys jump start in their season. Uh.
You watch Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb get into it
on the sidelines. Yes, the Cowboys pulled this game out
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over the Steelers, who have really regressed over the past
couple of weeks. We talked about this with Jason Lockin
for a last hour on the show. It's pretty easy
to tell when the Cowboys are gonna win games this year.
The Cowboys are not great again. They're gonna have trouble.
They're gonna trouble with the Commanders now in the NFC East.
You want to know when the Cowboys are gonna win.
It's pretty easy when you look at a game the
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Cowboys are playing and Dak Prescott is the best player
on the field. When that happens, the Cowboys win. Because
last night, even though he had the bad picks right,
Dak Prescott was the best player on the field. Hopped
on the fumble at the end, through the touchdown pass,
still the big night throwing the foot Just how many
quarterbacks have we seen? Cam Newton? What? Sorry? What? What?
(35:56):
You went straight? What? Newton? Sorry? You know he was
in the news getting shunned by Shador Sanders. When you
say quarterbacks not jumping on the football, that's the first
guy that comes to your mom. Of course, I just
wanted to see your eyes get really wind Cam Newton.
But we've seen many of guys make a business decision.
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They're not diving for that. So for Dak Prescott, yeah,
it answered saying like anybody that might have had some
questions about what the game and him his knowledge of
where he is at in this NFL in twenty twenty four,
he knows damn well that ball laying on the turf,
he better get it. It's easy when when he's the
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best player on the field. The Cowboys will win the
game because he still is a pretty good as much
as you want to say, he doesn't leave the cat
lead the Cowboys as high as they should he He's
still a really good quarterback who can beat you if
you're not careful. Right, what do I say? Hey, the
Cowboys are a tricky team. Now they're not a great team.
That they're a tricky team that, hey, watch out, or
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they'll go up and down the field on you. That's
what happened last night in the rain. He still threw
for three point fifty. Was he the best player on
the field last night? Yes? Was he the best player
on the field the previous week against the Giants? Yes?
Was he the best player on the field against the
Ravens No, Lamar Jackson was. Was he the best player
on the field against the Saints No. Derek Carr and
a host of other Saints offensive players were the best player.
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Was he the best player on the field against the
Browns week one? Yes? No, No, he was not. It
was Brandon Aubrey. Get it right, Okay, sure, so he scored.
It's pretty easy to tell when the Cowboys win because
the Cowboys are limited When Dak Prescott's the best player. Yes,
they will win that game, but now you look at
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the rest of their schedule Detroit, is he gonna be
the best player on the field? There? No San Francisco,
no Atlanta, no Philadelphia, no Houston, no Washington, no the
Giants again, maybe Cincinnati, probably not Carolina, Yes, Tampa Bay. No,
this is not going against the Lions though he is
unless you get to go Voltron style for the against
the Lions. For talking that, and they're five and one,
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now we're in trouble. Here's the thing, dude, Jared Goff
is way more dynamic. He's got way more weapons at
his disposal. Well, but that's the bigger thing. That's he's
a man like. The use of tober was encouraging en
Rico o'dowdell. Yeah, he had a game and again against
the Steelers d and it's like we vacillate and we're
(38:23):
kind of still trying to figure out exactly how good
the Steelers defense was. Well, they're coming back because they
made plays. They're coming back to the past. They made
some plays and obviously you have the turnovers, but yeah,
it's they're they're not getting any help from old Arthur Smith.
On the other side, if if you can again, if
you can walk into a game and say that about
the Cowboys, I feel pretty good about their chances to win.
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But how many more times is that gonna happen? They're
still the Cowboys are still ticketed for eight or nine wins.
They're gonna be entertaining. I'm not saying something. The Cowboy
will be five and twelve, but they're not gonna be
the twelve win juggernaut. Hey, let's get in the playoffs. No,
we know this because the Cowboys didn't build their team
at all in the offseason. Jerry Jones waited and paid
two guys, one who didn't show up to training camp
until the very end, and the other one was a
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quarterback that well, maybe after this year you want to
go on someplace else and get another guy. But that's
what the Cowboys did. So you know, they're not gonna
be as good and and they were passed by a
lot of teams, and they're gonna have a tough time
with some of the big rivalries in the NFC. The
Giants are playing better now. The Washington Commanders are really good.
But those weeks when Dak Prescott's the best player on
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the field. Yeah, and last night with the rain, he
was the best player. And going into the game, he
was the best player on the field. He's better than
justin fields, better than what they have it running back here.
He was the best player and he proved it last night.
But there's not a lot of games like that. They're
still ticket it for eight or nine. This is where
we take the shots. That's the number of snaps that
George Pickens played and the dopey grab a guy by
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the face mask play and whatever else while we're at
it too. Uh so you got that go because he
was supposed to be pretty good too. But if you
if you don't even want them on the field, j
running the problems after three and you already got some issues. Yeah,
because they thought they can win every game sixteen. Everything
is fine now, but for the game, I'd go back
to the guys that just paid the skid. Hey, would
you guys like to win this year too? We can
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go find a wide receiver. There's a couple of guys
that are kind of salty. So there you go. That's
how you know when the Cowboys are gonna win. You're
welcome coming up next, why you never really pay attention
to who's great after the first two weeks of the
NFL season.
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this new news coming in now from Major League Baseball
twenty three to thirteen. The Chiefs have the lead over
the Saints with about six and half minutes left to go.
Patrick Mahomes has just scrambled for a first down, so
the Chiefs fresh set of downs about six and a
(01:06):
half minutes left to go. Meanwhile, the Saints likely are
going to have to play the rest of this one
without Derek Carr. On the fourth down in completion, he
took a big hit. Looked like he got hit somewhere
in the middle body. Uh, because well listen if you're
saying upper body is above the hips, lower body below
(01:27):
the hips. But it looked like it was definitely a
middle body shot, like somewhere in the in the in
the greater uh, in the solar plexus area, the solar plexus.
Anytime we get a little gorilla on the show, the
lateral collateral area of the back. Sure, yeah, okay, that
thelateral collateral area, Oh yeah, very good. So but he
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looks he walked off under his own power. He was
obviously accompanied by medical personnel, but Derek Carr walking off
seemingly under his own power. So the Saints will have
to navigate this one with our Archie manning at quarterback
the rest of the way again, just under six minutes
left to go, and the Chiefs with a ten point
lead and the foot You couldn't go, Drew Brees, You
had to go all the way to Archie. Well, Drew
(02:10):
Brees is sitting on hold waiting to talk to us. Yeah,
I mean she will be continuing for years now. I
think Archie Manning was more fun. People going to listen
to the thousand plus shows. I got to get that.
I gotta explain the millennials with Archie Manning. Yeah, Archie was,
I mean, the old man was actually the hell of
a quarterbacks. The team's stunk. Yeah, Archie Manning. Who's Archie Manning? Okay,
(02:33):
so you know who arch Manning is? Now? Do you
know who Peyton Manning is? Yeah? Okay, Archie Manning is
Peyton Manning and Eli Manning's dad. Oh okay, And arch
Manning is Peyton Manning and Eli Manning's kid, both of No,
he's their nephew. Okay, Yeah, it's all part of the
Manning family. Of Copper. Well, here's the thing. No, Copper
(02:57):
Manning is the Manning brother we don't talk about. He's
not on the way talking about. He's kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Like like you know how the Jonahs' brothers like Kevin
Nick and then Joe Oh yeah, yeah, then they have
their little brother, Frankie is yeah, Frankie one.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
They don't talk, Yeah, they don't yet. Coppert wasn't a quarterback.
It was we didn't talk about Bruno. No, no, no, Coppert.
When you're not a quarterback, he doesn't get invited to Thanksgiving,
there's no family events. He got to next he's not
a quarterback, but being Arch's dad, maybe this will allow
him back into the family. I'm hoping. I'm a coupper's
had a full decade on Fox and got the road
(03:32):
to the super Boy. He's not on the Maze. I
don't see him on the man and Cast. It's Peyton
and Eli. What about his other brother, he's on the
other network. Yeah, but i mean, come on, they have
other people on that all the time. They're gonna tell
them Manings, you can't have your brother on. Come on,
get that three guests one of them was always Belichick.
Come on, so you're rotating the other two Tonight was
chief super fan looking young again. Rudd. That's he had
(03:56):
a haircut and a shave, and oh yeah, every everybody
or something everyone of the Chiefs game tonight wearing wearing
Chiefs jerseys and and and Royals hats, Like look at this,
I'm Rob mclaney, I'm wearing everything. Do you think Chiefs
saholic was watching either one of these games tonight? They
smuggl a. Well, if they smuggle a TV into Oils
(04:18):
and the chiefs on, Yeah, well I'm sure that's on.
I'm sure they're watching that in the in the community room.
I'm sure that's what you get. Yeah, what else do
you just to a community room? I'm sure they all. Yeah,
of all the TV shows I watched, there's always a
community room, there's always community room. Yeah. You think they
show you what it really looks like on TV? You mean,
that's not what I've seen that the community room they did,
(04:40):
that was the last great community room. It's away in
Logan Lucky when they you know, they took the room
hostage because they wouldn't show the new the new Game
of Thrones. We want New Game of Thrones books. Uh,
the books haven't been written yet. The TV show has
moved past the books we don't have. George RR. Martin
hasn't written another book yet, So okay, what's next? You're
(05:01):
gonna tell me he's on fan Duel doing the fifteen
leg Barla, No, no, no. George R. Martin's a big
Jets fan. He's got a lot on his plate right now.
He and I both have a lot of Northwestern Yeah, yeah,
mister Martin. Oh, hey, speaking Northwestern grads, Congratulations to Boo
booie just signed by the He's going to be in
the NBA finals last year. Cheer for the NIX a
little boo booye. Man, my guy, Yeah, don't you there. Yeah,
(05:25):
it's gonna be hard NBA Finals. Just think about that.
If someone said to Boom Boo when he's getting shut
down in the NCAA tournament, Hey, don't worry about it.
In a few months, you're gonna be on a team
that's going to the NBA finals. Oh, calty, you know what.
They're at least in the nc double. It was good.
That was good. No, was good. You know, for not
making it for like fifty years, you've made it now
like twice in the last ten or something like that. Okay,
that's pretty good, pretty good legacy right there. Uh So, anyway,
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right now the road begins with the first stepshow Chiefs
with the lead and the football. Now three minutes left
to go, they'll be kicking a field goal, most likely
on fourth down, to go up twenty six thirteen if
by Or makes Remember he missed one a few minutes ago.
So this looks like the Chiefs have it in hand,
but we will bring you more on this coming up
in a little bit now. A few minutes ago, we
(06:09):
talked about the the Padres Dodgers and this big war
going on right now that is just insanely complicated and
for many many a case, it's pretty fun. It's it's
complicated and simple at the same time. Yeah, coming off
of the game last night, you saw there were many
instances where the Padres uh instigated issues with the Dodger crowd.
(06:29):
Then the Dodger crowded out of control throwing baseballs of
the guys on the field. The Dodgers are upset that
Manny Machado threw a baseball into the dugout between innings
that was thrown at Dave Roberts Uh and the Dodgers
sent this video to Major League Baseball. Now, I want
to say two more things about this. As we know
that the Padres are the villains that the Baseball Playoffs
need right someone, and Angel Reach doesn't want to be
(06:54):
the villain anymore. And the Yankees they haven't won in
forever and they lost to the Yeah, that's tough. So
oh no, no, no, We're gonna do that. In a
couple of minutes. Yeah, crafting the proper message to me.
But let me just say a couple of things about
the Padres. Hey, yes, they're embracing the role of villains
because this is something that does bring the team together. Hey,
(07:14):
this is who we are and when you need a
motion in the playoffs, it's been a long season. This works.
But mainly they know what gets under the Dodgers skin.
And now the Dodgers are focused on crazy ass things.
You got Jack Flaherty is throwing at guys and the
Dodgers are complaining, and they sent video of the Machado
throw it a major League baseball and Dave Roberts is
talking about it, saying, oh, we think it was on purpose.
(07:35):
I mean, this is not what the Dodgers do. But
the Padres get under their skin and this strategy is
working to perfection. Now, two things about this, I'll say
one pro Padres and one and one anti Padres. Country.
You and I have seen the play now because it's
just gotten out there throwing the ball with the doug out.
This is not Manny Machado throwing a laser at Dave Roberts.
(07:55):
Is this him talking about? Is this? But that's the
way it's gonna be portrayed. He threw a ball at
day out. But what happened was the last warm up
pitch of the inning was in the dirt, So obviously
the pitcher gets a new ball to start the inning,
and Machado's just throwing it off the field. Now, is
he being a little bit of a jerk throwing the
ball to the dugout in the middle of the dugout? Yes,
(08:17):
he's being a bit of a jerk doing that. Oh, no,
ass hat move, He's no questions. He didn't grab the
ball and slide to his left and look for the
opening at pointed Dave Roberts, and then throw a laser
in there. No, you get Dodger wrench, you get dodge
a ball, Robert. There was. It was more a bit
of gamesmanship than anything else. In disrespect. It was the
(08:37):
Dodgers are over the top with this now, and they
got to realize, let's just get back to playing baseball
because it's playing into the padres hands. Roberts calling it unset. Yeah,
I know, I know. The Dodgers are insane. He didn't
even notice it. The Dodgers. He threw a ball that
almost hit him didn't. He goes, well, I didn't notice it,
and then he comes right back because I don't know
(08:58):
if that isn't there and hit him right now right.
But Machado knows that he chadas he's being an instigator. Smart.
I think, well, if he wasn't, I mean, if he was,
if he really gunned win the dugout, then okay, then
you would say, okay, man, he's not smart. No, but
he knows if I just chuck this ball towards them, Doug,
it's a chippy game, and I'm just gonna chuck it
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towards the dugout and just do it to be a
jerk and to get under their skin a little bit.
And it worked. Right. Baseball is not gonna come back
and say, oh, this is awfu. It's the worst thing
many Machadda's spend it. No, it's not. This is gainsmanship
and it's working. There's gonna be a five page missing
based on this game from Major League base I mean,
this game is just I mean, this is it starts.
It's overwhelming the week that was in the NFL. But
(09:39):
the other part I'm gonna say is this is that.
And let me start off by saying fans should not obviously,
don't throw baseballs of people. Don't throw stuff at fans
at players. Don't do it, right, that's an awful thing.
They should be taken out of the game. They should
be banned from a stadium. Don't do it. But I
but if I was Mike Shilt, this is what I
would tell tell the guys because I I think we're
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being fair. Is like, guys, don't antagonize the fans because
it's something that might not end well for us. Don't
antagonize the fans because you don't know what's going to happen.
It's the same philosophy of if you're if someone's road
raging with you, do you should you go up and
engage them. No, you don't know who they are. You
don't know what they're gonna do. You should be able
to If a guy cuts you off in traffic and
(10:23):
and and doesn't signal and flips you off, whatever, do
you have every right to confront that person? Yeah, because
they did something to you, But you don't know who
they are. You don't know how that's gonna go, right,
how do you think it's gonna go? If you are
profar and you are doing all kinds of stuff and
and and teasing them with the ball on the on
the home run you saved. What do you think is
gonna happen the next time you go go to the
(10:44):
wall for a ball, Right, what do you think is
gonna happ People are gonna throw stuff at you? Right?
What do you if you're Fernando to tease Junior and
you're just swiveling your hips and the Dodger fans, what
do you think is gonna happen? Just it's I'm not
saying this excuses anybody, because like what did I say
in begetting fans who do that, you're thrown out of
the stadium. You're not allowed to come back in. Right,
can't do it. But you have to be realistic and
know that if I antagonize these fans, I don't know
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what's gonna happen. So just be smart because you don't
know when a ball is gonna hit you in the
head or a battery is gonnait you. R something's gonna happen.
And it's just not a Dodger I think it's anything else.
If you go into another team's ballpark in the playoffs
and you antagonize the fans that are sitting behind you.
You don't do that. I mean, that's what I would
say is hopefully say, listen, guys, whatever goes on between
the white lines. If we're upset about the Dodgers and
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they throw it to tease and we're upset about what's
going on, we talk about Otania. Okay, that's one thing,
but this is like, guys, just be smart here, Okay,
to just be smart. It goes back to the general
life philosophy. Whatever you're always taught as a kid growing up. Hey,
keep it simple stupid or sweetheart, if they wanted to
be a little nicer about Yeah, keep it simple. Stupid
is bad. Stupid kind of works and certainly more appropriate
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in this situation. Sweetheart's very patronizing. It's very patronized. Just
keep it simple, stupid. It's more insulting, but I get it,
or was determined endearment. It's all a question of where
we're coming from. Are we already a bit of an
antagonism stake stupid? No, it's like, okay, so much stupid.
You're gonna sing it like Alice Cooper and you're gonna
be done with here. Hey, hey, sweetheart, not how the
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song goes. Sure, yeah, change it that way. But it's
the idea of why complicate matters to your point about
road rage or anything you're doing right. You go through
your paces of your every normal, everyday life, like you
have your rhythms, you have your rigination. When you start
adding other elements to what happens, it complicates things. Your
schedule gets thrown out of whack. Now you maybe your
(12:38):
mood goes, and then you take that into your workplace,
if you take that home, and who knows what extrapolates
from there. Likewise, here I get it, the little little
hip shake whatever, it shouldn't be an issue. But guess
what this was already charged going in. This is a
rivalry if you want to use that term. Some do,
Some think it's it's it's a bad term for where
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we're at. But hey, the Padres won the round a
couple of years ago, so you've got the the little
Brother syndrome, as Dodger fans like to portray it. You
had the idea of, hey, here's the specifications and the
restrictions on buying tickets down at Petgo Park to keep
the unruly Dodger fans out, And what do you got
(13:24):
all sorts of videos of people fighting in the parking lots,
people chucking baseballs and water bottles. It just exacerbated again,
remove variables from your life and the algorithm as you can. Yeah,
don't and it's not it's not don't be stupid, it's
it's okay. Understand that. I get you're having fun out
there and we're getting under the Dodger skin, but you're
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putting yourself position where something can happen to you and
you can't prevent it. It's almost fifty one thousand people
are there. Yes, it's one bad actor. Oh jerks and
prof running on the field. It's everybody. It's everybody in
the right field stands. It's everybody. And I'm not saying
every Dodger fan is bad, right, but all you need
is one fan to get mad and thright, we had
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a couple of fans. But it paints the whole thing
like I was having a conversation walking my dog with
the neighbor and he'd seen a headline about one of
the conversations with your dog. That's what I thought he
was saying. But he did get neighbor in there, so
it's not him coming the neighbor. We did. The dog
was highly interested, but I said, who do you think
the greatest baseball player is of all time? My dog said,
(14:28):
ruf bark twice. If it's Griffy at the White Sox
Hall of Famer for the White Sox Ken Griffy Jr. Hey,
who is that guy that played right field for the
Mariners White Sox in the seventies? Phil? What was Phil's
last name? The point is he brought up the story
of the latest NFL player who'd run a buck and
(14:50):
run a foul of the law, and he goes, how
many guys is that really? I go, it's really actually
a small percentage goes because the way they do it
on the news makes it seem like all three a
bunch of drops, like right, So it's the same thing here.
It becomes a much bigger speech about oh, those Dodger
fans when it's two idiots or five idiots or whatever
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that full number. This was not that game from the
nineties when Lesorda got mad and I think that was
the last ball night in Major League Baseball, when Lesorda
came out to argue a really bad call and the
fans all through the baseballs on the field, and I
think that was the last game that was called. That
was that was it was ended. We're not playing the
rest of the game because everything was out of contus.
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So now when if they want to do a giveaway
like that, you get a slip going in and you
get Remember when they used to give the big bats up, well,
we had full sized bats. I had an Eric Solder
home growing up. It was great. What could possibly go
wrong to give to the South side of Chicago. Let's
go for a long time. It's baseball, you know. For
a long time that was okay. Not anymore. You can't
(15:54):
even give the mini bats anymore. No, is it a
mini bat? Is a mini back? Men? Back? I mean, Ben, No,
come on, I just say we should come on, give
me a got near nerve, Scott. We're gonna have to
put him in some kind of contraption. I'm gonna leave
and then see what happens after that. Come on, Scott, No,
come on, we can just kill him right nowt go
to my room. I got a gun in my room.
I go get it nearrow Nerve. Scott, Gott, you don't
understand We're not gonna do it that ways. Scott. Uh
(16:18):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the tire
Rack dot com studios. About a buck forty seven left
to go, and the Chiefs are gonna be kneeling on
the football. They're gonna win this twenty six to thirteen
to improve to five and zero. A real reality discussion
about the Chiefs and where they are right now, coming
(16:41):
up next right here. It might be a little shocking,
but this is who they are. That's next, Jason and Mike.
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It is the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon, live from the Ti rag dot com studios
where we just watched a Monday night game. We did.
We watched a Monday night football game involving the Chiefs.
(17:44):
Congratulations on a job done. The Chiefs beat the Saints
twenty six to thirteen. Derek Carr missing the final six
minutes of the second half taking a big hit on
a fourth down play, went to the locker room. We'll
have an update on him as soon as we hear.
But Mahomes and the Chiefs now an eleven game win streak,
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including the playoffs. There now five and zero this season,
tied with the Vikings for the best record in the NFL.
Mahomes a three hundred yard night, no touchdowns, one interception,
Kareem Hunt with one hundred yards on the ground. Yeah,
all twenty seven carries, showing you that maybe I could.
I could not be on a team and show up
and do pretty well. If I'm familiar with the offense,
(18:25):
I can do that. Look at that. Welcome to the NFL.
You're in shape, ready to go. YEA and a team
gets desperate for some help listen. Hey, fantasy owners needed
to make that Carson Steel trade two weeks ago. You're
two weeks late. No one's gonna take him there. It's
still a problem with that with his family though, like
his sister's scheduling nuptials during a football season. Yeah, it's
(18:47):
never in your draft year. It's never smart. It's never smart.
It's just some kind we're just respectful. So like, you're
not gonna make it brother of mine in the spring,
married in the spring? Why if to get married in
the fall? Oh, but I want to fall with Okay,
we want people to comerade well, but also you basically
you were betting your brother wasn't going to make a team.
But here's the other part, is it now if you
schedule a wedd now you see you're a I'm from
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no no, no, hang on, I'm from this school. No.
Because this is what helps people out now, is that
the old argument long for a long time with you know,
which you've heard now you know if this is two thousand,
it would be a new argument is that, oh, don't
schedule a wedding during the fall because of football, Like
obviously for fans who I don't want to miss a
game by going to a wedding. I don't want to
(19:30):
do that. Okay, I get that. But here's the other
part of it is that if you are a football player,
if you have something that that you do for a living,
and you you know, you know, you're busy, then no
one can give you any flag for missing the wedding.
Oh I can't come. I'll send you money. I can't come.
Oh really, like I can't come. I'm sorry. I can't
do it. I may or may not have been able
to use that with the business we're in for a
(19:52):
long time, because football is is king. I can't come.
Here's money instead. I can't come. I can't. I can't
got my own line of greeting guard surrounding it. I
can't do it now. If it's during football season. I
don't even think you need to send them money. Oh no, no, yeah,
well they're just jackass. I think you're good. I don't
send autograph ten headshots. Here you go. There you go. Hey,
(20:17):
have a congratulations like the fact that they even wasted
your time and their's sending an invitation during football season. Yeah,
I sent them a free cameo and look for a
long time A Shato throwing the ball at Roberts. It's
just it's just disrespectful. For a long time, when I
worked on Sundays, whether it was for Fantasy Live or
when I worked a Fantasy Zone, it was anytime something
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had Okay, I can't take off? Why not? I can't
because there literally is no one else in the world
that can do this job. I can't take off, and
they know that, and that's where it goes. I'm like, okay,
I like that. Now. There wasn't one person world could
do either of those jobs. There wasn't There absolutely was not.
And so but it also was football. I can't take
off now it's yes, Seacrest couldn't do what I did.
(20:58):
He there's no way. But now if people want to
get married you un now. I used to see him
studios fantasies on there was nobody. There's nobody in the
world that can do that. I I did it. There's
nobody in the world can do it. Now they don't
do the show anymore. There's nobody world can do that.
I do it. Uh, but let me just say this now,
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if someone wants to get married during football, obviously it's
a case of hey, Monday night's a big night, you know,
so we have to work. Friday night's a big night
because we're going into the weekend. It's not often that
during the football season you and I can get off
on a Friday or Monday. So if anybody has a
wedding on Saturday or Sunday, I'm like, I can't. I can't.
I can't fly out until Saturday morning, which means if
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you're getting married some plays outside of Los Angeles, I'm
not getting there for the wedding. If you get married
on Sunday, I can't because I have to fly back.
I got it back back at work on Monday, and
I can't do it. I just can't. So I'm like, Okay,
if you're getting married a weekend, you know, I can't
come And okay, can't get mad at me, and there's
games on Thursdays. Can't get mad at me. I mean, yeah, no, Sally.
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And now we got match in again starting up. I mean,
come ONCC after dark. We have I mean, we got
all this stuff, the thing h But when it comes
to this, back to the chiefs now way to say
we're important here at Fox Sports Radio, this is this
is I don't know how popular. This is going to be,
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but it's the reality of the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes.
They're not fun anymore. Right, This is not the same
Chiefs team that we watched run rough shot over the
NFL the last seven years up until last year. This
is a Chiefs team that captured all our imagination with
the way Mahomes throws the football, and he comes into
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the league and he's making throws we've never seen anybody make.
And the offense is so unbelievably exciting and it's intimidating.
Nobody wants to play the Chiefs because they're gonna be
up fourteen to nothing before you look. Every game is
forty two to twenty and it's an absolute show. And
the Chiefs were the biggest show in sports for a
long time. Mahomes is throwing thirty five forty touchdowns a year.
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Then what happened, Well, eventually teams catch up a little bit,
and the Chiefs decided we are going to prioritize what
we have and winning over winning, putting up a big
show since the beginning of last year all the way
now we're talking about having one of the third seasons
of proof. The Chiefs have just become another really good
(23:29):
team in the NFL that has a clutch quarterback and wins.
That's who the Chiefs are. They're not this above the
full team right Suddenly, all we talk about the Chiefs
like the Dallas Cowboys and the interest level. No, Mahomes
is much more of a game manager than he's ever been. Right,
He's not putting up all kinds of crazy numbers. He's
not a must start in fantasy anymore. Now you look
(23:50):
at the rankings, he's around twelve, thirteen to fourteen. He
just doesn't do it. This is just not the way
the team is assembled. And it doesn't mean they're not
going to keep winning, but that's kind of who they are.
They're just like any other team that can win in
the NFL who's really good, that has a really good defense,
and the Chiefs have realized this is the best defensive
run they have had since Mahomes has been there. This
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last couple of years. Their defense is really good. Offensively,
it's not the same. They still get the ball down
the field, they score what they need to. They're not
scoring thirty five forty points a game. They're scoring between
twenty and thirty points. Mahomes throws a touchdown, maybe two
in a week if it's a great week for him.
But this is a far cry from the three to
four touchdown, three hundred and fifty yard nights that Mahomes
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would have in his sleep. They're not as fun anymore.
They're not as exciting. They're another team that's really good
that wins, and the one side of it that's kind
of a dark side is that they're kind of boring.
They're not nearly as much fun to watch. Last year,
it was the excitement level of Taylor Swift and Travis
Kelce and people tuned into Chiefs games because this was new.
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It was fun, it was exciting. Yes, you had people
I hate all the cutaways to Taylor Swift. Yes, it's
robbing you from enjoying the game. Three seconds shots of
Taylor Swift in between plays like the game, like the
play was actually happening, and instead of the play, we'd
show tailor's that only happens in Major League Baseball when
they go to the dugouse. Come on. But that was
the excitement of the Chiefs last year. But again, they
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were a really good team that found a way to
make the clutch plays at the end right. The Chiefs
clutch jeans are fantastic, and that's something to it to admire,
but overall they're not as exciting. They are a good team,
but it's not like they capture our imagination. That team
is dead, that team is long gone. They're like the Ravens,
except not as exciting because Lamar Jackson's more exciting than
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Patrick mahonks. They're kind of like the Eagles a little bit,
except sometimes Jalen Hurts is more exciting. But that's kind
of where they are now. The Falcons are more exciting
to watch than the Chiefs because every week and they're
living and dying by every place. Cousins will throw for
five hundred yards. Comes down to the final play. It's
passing interfears, it's a long touchdown. There are other teams
that are more fun to watch. Now, doesn't mean they're
as good. No, the Chiefs are still again a really
(25:59):
good team. They're undefeated. They're five and oh. Has the
schedule been the toughest? No, not really, but it doesn't matter.
You're still five and oh, you're still winning games. You're
making the clutch plays. This is how you're doing it.
It's more of Pittsburgh Steelers' way of things. Hey, we're
gonna win. It's not gonna be exciting, but we're gonna
win games. But that's the Chiefs. That old team that
had our imagination, we loved watching that team is dead
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and and it's place now is what we're getting right now.
It's the difference between the pictures of Travis Kelce last
year with the goatee that he had and the smile
and twinkle, and now it's the real loopy mustache and
he looks a little bit heavier and wearing the crazy
floppy hats. It's like, boy, that's the Chiefs team from
last year, and this is the Chiefs team of this year.
They just don't have that element anymore. Not to be fair,
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he did clean up a little bit today with Taylor
Swift in attendance for this one. I'm not sure if
anybody knew that. I don't think they covered it much
at all. Nine catches, seventy yards. So his role in
the offense the last couple of weeks again rounding back
into shape. Take it by quarters. You're through the first four.
Now we move on. And that's the other thing with
the Chiefs, right they have the luxury given the strength
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of the defense and the trustworthiness of the quarterback. Then
I know we have the streak of turnovers for my Homes.
It's there. But just take the full on team review
of what they did in this game against the Saints.
Two to one, time of possession, twenty eight first downs,
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double the yardage up at four sixty for the games,
both teams, same number of penalties, whatever, but running the
ball one hundred and thirty nine yards the Saints forty six.
So grind it out and then take some shots downfield. Right.
They got the big pass interference call. We can argue
about its merits when they tried to go to Worthy,
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but you're getting reps with these guys now and over
the course of the season, the trust factor will grow.
Juju Smith Schuster, welcome back. Big game tonight. Found is
his comfort Obviously the big off his hands, thick pick
as Harlan was calling it on the radio call. But
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you know that's a touchdown that goes the other way,
but it goes as an interception for Homes, keeping his
streak alive and all those things and taking the touchdown
off the board. Sorry, fantasy owners and people that were
looking maybe for the game to push north of whatever
point total you got in at. But all of that
is to say they're not They're playing for January, so
all of these are Yeah, you need to stack ten
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or eleven or whatever that total is of wins to
secure your place. And look at that, the Broncos are
suddenly interesting. Are they good? I don't know yet because
we know what the Raiders are. They're not okay, they're
just not. And then the Chargers maybe coming out of
the bye week they'll be healthier and can start getting
back on track after that two and oh start. But
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the point being, the division is still there, the path
through can the city is still there, and it's not
gonna be pretty. It's not winging the ball around. It's
forty minutes time of possession. And Harrison butker, I mean,
he missed a fifty one yarder, but he also hit
several others. So play efficient football, don't give it over
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and have the defense come up big. Yeah, that's a
formula first success, whether you like it or not. Sometimes
you have to watch the paint dry. This is the
new Chiefs. This is the new Chiefs. They're not your
old Chiefs. They're not your older brothers chiefs. Is this
costing Andy Reid any endorsement deals though, I'm I go geting.
We're gonna get less than nuggies as more nuggies. Yeah, no,
more nuggies, none of them. Did they take away or
(29:38):
did they just take away the sauce from the nugs?
Here's it. We want you to do a commercial, but
there's gonna be no sauce involved, just nugs. You know,
guys aren't exciting. If you were exciting, we'd give you this.
There's no sauce. We'd give you the Nuggies with the sauce,
but not spicy at all. It's just gonna be straight
bread and chicken and that. You guys are really bland
right now. You said dry nugs like it's like those
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are a bad things all relatively speaking, he said dry ugs.
He wants to make sure his boots are warm. You know,
you want you want to wet step there, like dry
nugs are. That's a good thing. I don't. I don't
know that. I don't know what you're saying. I don't
I really crank call prank, call prank, call time not
to find out what's trending in the wide world. Of
(30:23):
Sports from special Delivery Steve to Seger who has the
details on everything the Mets did today on their day off. Wow,
between Game two and Game three, Steve, I don't know that,
but I do know Mooki Bets took batting practice. Did
you get any hits in batting practice? For those that awhere?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Going back about three years in the postseason, Mookie Bets
is three for his last forty four in the playoffs.
At the plate he took he estimates three to four
hundred swings today.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
It'll be on f S one Tomorrow nights Dodgers at
Padres Division series tied at a game apiece nine pm
Eastern Time. Before that, the Mets will host the Phillies
five pm Eastern time on FS one. The Monday night
football matchup at Kansas City went to the five and
oh Chiefs beating New Orleans twenty six to thirteen. But
as you referenced earlier, the highlight really was the defensive
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tackle interception at the goal line for the Saints. Juju
Smith Schuester bobbling a ball, It was picked off by
Kaylin Saunders who ran it back about thirty five yards.
This was the Kevin Harlan call on Westwood one.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
The Saints pig Man got it on the rikashe at
the goal line on a pass intended for Smith Schuster.
That was a thin pick.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
The Saints did fall twenty six thirteen and Smith Schuster
had seven catches for one hundred and thirty yards in
this game. Patrick mahomes three hundred and thirty one yards passing.
You know, the Chiefs, including playoffs last season, had won
seventh straight, all by seven points or less. Going into tonight,
an actual thirteen point victory. That streak, by the way,
had tied their NFL record Jeters. The season of Chiefs
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wide receiver Rashi Rice is expected to be over due
to his knee ligament injury. According to NFL media, surgery tomorrow.
The Colt State quarterback Anthony Richardson is still their starter
when healthy. The Raiders say they're still evaluating who their
starting quarterback will be. Yesterday, Gardner Minshew and then Aidan
O'Connell played Titans quarterback Will Levis with his bad shoulder,
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is expected to practice at some point this week. In
the Al Division series, Kansas City was a winner at
Yankee Stadium four to two over New York. That series
tied at a game apiece. Mike hell Garcia had four
hits in this one. Even though Bobby Witt Junior wentzer
for five three strikeouts. The visiting team wins and went Junior,
by the ways zero for five in game number one
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of this series, Royal's offense struck out fifteen.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Times and they've evened up the best of five.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Detroit won at Cleveland three nothing today on a three
run homer top of the ninth off closer Emmanuel classe
By Kerry Carpenter. That series tied at a game apiece.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
And DJ clearly Inspector klass Say bungling his way through
the ninth inning before Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
The show before you, we already had a Carpenter's reference
to you know, I don't know, I don't know, Richard
Carpenter clearly to the plate.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
But Jerry Carpenter on top of the world.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Oh after that home run DJ, by the way, for
the first time ever, all four Division series are tied
at a game apiece.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon Live the Direct dot Com Studios. We'll
have more and the Chiefs win over the Saints coming
up in a few minutes. But straight you like that,
I've got like fifteen Carpenters song just like going through
my head, going all right, more references, but coming up next.
How would you like it if we could tell you
every single game the Cowboys will win and lose the
(33:43):
rest of the season. Let's go, Let's tell you exactly
how it's coming up next, Jason and Mike Fox. Now
I want to watch the full Monty. Let's go. Be
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(34:07):
Chiefs Double up the Saints. Chiefs double up the Saints
twenty six thirteen. Uh, they win Monday Night football in
a game, not a great game. We celebrate them all here.
It's gonna be it's good in the bottom half. You
remember those weeks when the Saints were good. Right, we'll
get We're gonna get to that long long time. We'll
play my music in a few minutes and we'll hoot
(34:29):
it be well. I can still remember but look coming
off this week in the NFL, the game of the week, right,
we had Monday night game we're gonna get to in
a few minutes again. But the Cowboys pull out a
win over the Steelers last night in the game that
was delayed by rain for an hour and twenty minutes.
And you know, you never thought you'd see a game
like that, but delayed by rain, they pull out the win.
(34:51):
And there's generally two schools of thought on this game.
Was this, boy, the Steelers are bad, or hey, look
the Cowboys are jump starting their season. I'll tell you this.
It ain't the Cowboys jump start in their season. Uh.
You watch Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb get into it
on the sidelines. Yes, the Cowboys pulled this game out
(35:12):
over the Steelers, who have really regressed over the past
couple of weeks. We talked about this with Jason Lockin
for a last hour on the show. It's pretty easy
to tell when the Cowboys are gonna win games this year.
The Cowboys are not great again. They're gonna have trouble.
They're gonna trouble with the Commanders now in the NFC East.
You want to know when the Cowboys are gonna win.
It's pretty easy when you look at a game the
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Cowboys are playing and Dak Prescott is the best player
on the field. When that happens, the Cowboys win. Because
last night, even though he had the bad picks right,
Dak Prescott was the best player on the field. Hopped
on the fumble at the end, through the touchdown pass,
still the big night throwing the foot Just how many
quarterbacks have we seen? Cam Newton? What? Sorry? What? What?
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You went straight? What? Newton? Sorry? You know he was
in the news getting shunned by Shador Sanders. When you
say quarterbacks not jumping on the football, that's the first
guy that comes to your mom. Of course, I just
wanted to see your eyes get really wind Cam Newton.
But we've seen many of guys make a business decision.
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They're not diving for that. So for Dak Prescott, yeah,
it answered saying like anybody that might have had some
questions about what the game and him his knowledge of
where he is at in this NFL in twenty twenty four,
he knows damn well that ball laying on the turf,
he better get it. It's easy when when he's the
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best player on the field. The Cowboys will win the
game because he still is a pretty good as much
as you want to say, he doesn't leave the cat
lead the Cowboys as high as they should he He's
still a really good quarterback who can beat you if
you're not careful. Right, what do I say? Hey, the
Cowboys are a tricky team. Now they're not a great team.
That they're a tricky team that, hey, watch out, or
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they'll go up and down the field on you. That's
what happened last night in the rain. He still threw
for three point fifty. Was he the best player on
the field last night? Yes? Was he the best player
on the field the previous week against the Giants? Yes?
Was he the best player on the field against the
Ravens No, Lamar Jackson was. Was he the best player
on the field against the Saints No. Derek Carr and
a host of other Saints offensive players were the best player.
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Was he the best player on the field against the
Browns week one? Yes? No, No, he was not. It
was Brandon Aubrey. Get it right, Okay, sure, so he scored.
It's pretty easy to tell when the Cowboys win because
the Cowboys are limited When Dak Prescott's the best player. Yes,
they will win that game, but now you look at
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the rest of their schedule Detroit, is he gonna be
the best player on the field? There? No San Francisco,
no Atlanta, no Philadelphia, no Houston, no Washington, no the
Giants again, maybe Cincinnati, probably not Carolina, Yes, Tampa Bay. No,
this is not going against the Lions though he is
unless you get to go Voltron style for the against
the Lions. For talking that, and they're five and one,
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now we're in trouble. Here's the thing, dude, Jared Goff
is way more dynamic. He's got way more weapons at
his disposal. Well, but that's the bigger thing. That's he's
a man like. The use of tober was encouraging en
Rico o'dowdell. Yeah, he had a game and again against
the Steelers d and it's like we vacillate and we're
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kind of still trying to figure out exactly how good
the Steelers defense was. Well, they're coming back because they
made plays. They're coming back to the past. They made
some plays and obviously you have the turnovers, but yeah,
it's they're they're not getting any help from old Arthur Smith.
On the other side, if if you can again, if
you can walk into a game and say that about
the Cowboys, I feel pretty good about their chances to win.
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But how many more times is that gonna happen? They're
still the Cowboys are still ticketed for eight or nine wins.
They're gonna be entertaining. I'm not saying something. The Cowboy
will be five and twelve, but they're not gonna be
the twelve win juggernaut. Hey, let's get in the playoffs. No,
we know this because the Cowboys didn't build their team
at all in the offseason. Jerry Jones waited and paid
two guys, one who didn't show up to training camp
until the very end, and the other one was a
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quarterback that well, maybe after this year you want to
go on someplace else and get another guy. But that's
what the Cowboys did. So you know, they're not gonna
be as good and and they were passed by a
lot of teams, and they're gonna have a tough time
with some of the big rivalries in the NFC. The
Giants are playing better now. The Washington Commanders are really good.
But those weeks when Dak Prescott's the best player on
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the field. Yeah, and last night with the rain, he
was the best player. And going into the game, he
was the best player on the field. He's better than
justin fields, better than what they have it running back here.
He was the best player and he proved it last night.
But there's not a lot of games like that. They're
still ticket it for eight or nine. This is where
we take the shots. That's the number of snaps that
George Pickens played and the dopey grab a guy by
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the face mask play and whatever else while we're at
it too. Uh so you got that go because he
was supposed to be pretty good too. But if you
if you don't even want them on the field, j
running the problems after three and you already got some issues. Yeah,
because they thought they can win every game sixteen. Everything
is fine now, but for the game, I'd go back
to the guys that just paid the skid. Hey, would
you guys like to win this year too? We can
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go find a wide receiver. There's a couple of guys
that are kind of salty. So there you go. That's
how you know when the Cowboys are gonna win. You're
welcome coming up next, why you never really pay attention
to who's great after the first two weeks of the
NFL season.
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