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single night. So the final home start for Clayton Kershaw,
and really the best thing we can say is we
don't know when he's going to pitch again. He's scheduled
to pitch in Seattle next week. But who knows is
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he gonna start in the playoffs. Who knows is he
gonna relieve in the playoffs. Maybe, But where we sit
right now, Kershaw has been in trouble in every inning
for the Dodgers, and the Giants lead it right now
two to one, so he's been able to limit the
damage two to one. Middle of thirty eight Dodgers coming
up again. This the final at least regular season start
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in the career of Clayton Kershaw. It is Joe Davis
Bobblehead Night at the stadium tonight, and it will be
Clayton Kershaw Bobblehead Day tomorrow. They couldn't flip them. They
couldn't say, hey, take the Kershaw once. I mean, really,
just we're gonna give you this instead, we'll give Joe
Davis tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I think you do that.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Could you have given them just a coupon for a
future Clayton Kershaw bobblehead so.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Kind of like I'm glad you pay you tuesday for
a Hamburger today.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Well, I mean, just if you want to go down
that road, because I mean, look, you can't give the
people the ones from tomorrow like, you just can't do it.
Now you're chaos. Nah, you can't. What if you had
a bunch of people that came because it was Joe
Davis bobblehead Day, Now they're pissed you really?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Outside of Joe Davis to play by play guy for
the Dodgers, outside of Joe Davis's family, who we could
probably get bobbleheads for if he really wanted to. Who
was coming to that game for a Joe Davis bubblehead.
Wait a minute, I don't want the Kershaw. No, I
don't want that. No, No, I want the Joe Davis one.
And I'm not leaving until you go get me a
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Joe Davis bobblehead.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, I mean I bought part of my ticket package
or maybe for this individual date. I cleared my schedule
and I was like, it's Joe Davis bobblehead. I like
listening to Joe Davis call a game.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I have all forty bobbleheads. I want the forty eighth
and final one I got. I got all of them.
Now come back on Saturday. It'll be there for you.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Or you do a thing where it's like, all right,
here's a coupon for a special Clayton Kershok commemorative item,
and then you have a giveaway and a parking lot
after the season's over. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Hey, it fell off a truck. Yeah, it fell off
a truck.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Whoa, whoa, whoa?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
How dare you you follow this truck to the end
of the road. Then I get out the back and
maybe I hand you something and you hand me something
and you walk away, and that's how it works.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Hey, we have had promotional items go missing in the past.
There's no question about there.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, man, maybe mon you.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Really give away forty maybe maybe once you'll bring us
in all these different bobbleheads. Next week, she would suddenly
there's a giant palette that she comes walking in with.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Which one you need?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Everybody, Here you go, Here you go, Here you go.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I still got all those leftover kik hernandez ones, right,
we got a ton of those leftover.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
No, No, he's a popular guy.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
He did very well.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, that's just secondary market value, at least in the
city of Los Angeles, holds up quite well to Clayton Kershaw's, okay,
because there's going to be fewer of those than the
Clinton Kershaw bobble hits. I don't think they've had like
forty seven Key k Hernandez bobblehead dates.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
To tell me, to tell do me a favor, to
be a favorite, because you always talk about monetizing it.
Tell me what the difference is on eBay if I
want to buy a Key k Hernandez bobblehead tall but
if I want to buy a Clayton Kershaw bobblehead.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Doll, tell me what the difference is on that one.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
But that's again the difference between I don't think there's
just a lot of general issue. Hey, these guys have
a license for you know, making a bobblehead, foco or
whatever the company may be, to where you you have,
you know, just hey, here's your major League goll stars
and here's a Clayton Kershaw. Whereas Key Hernandez. Pretty sure
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most of what you're getting are the stadium giveaways. So
there's a limited note from them. Let's see sixty five
bucks for Key k Hernandez for the one that was
given away just what a week or two ago, and
now looking up our guy Clayton Kershaw. Listen, there's gonna
be many because here's one right now. There's fifty bucks.
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There's the three thousand strikeout one. There's a picture of
some guys trying to get like two hundred and fifty dollars. Yeah,
it's just crazy. There's another SGA new in box, forty
five dollars of.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Those I don't want. I don't want an SGA one.
We're talking, I mean, I'll get no one. But I
mean that's the company. SGA is actually the company, not
I know it as Alexander.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
All the points you just made, we had.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
We had to dump you when you said foco because
I don't know that you could say that.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So all those points you made, no one hurt it.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, but that's where I got my cool chef's hat
that we're gonna do bits with.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, I got my chef's thatt up.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah. I mean, here's a twenty seventeen Clayton Kershaw bobblehead
where he's hitting, and it was from twenty seventeen. It's
thirty dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, but he's hitting. I mean, come on, he's head.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
There's another one it's forty. I mean, there's a lot
of Clayton kershop.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
On the market is flooded with Kershaw babble it so
again to to one Kershaw on the short end of
this one so far but still bottle of the third
ning Dodgers Giants. This game huge playoff ramifications for the
Giants trying to stay in striking distance of that final wildcard.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So as we get said, it is football Friday.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Looking ahead, we'll preview to a couple of the biggest
college football games coming up later on this hour and
then next hour.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Pete feu Tac stops by two teams.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Right now going into big games this weekend on Sunday
that I'm out on. Okay, I'm just out on and
the first team I'm out on. I'm out on the Steelers.
I'm out the Steelers. You know, for all this talk,
oh the Steelers, the Steelers might be awful.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, just think about sure, the Steelers might be awful.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
They're just escaping over the Jets last week after watching
what the Bills did to the Jets on Sunday when
they ran five plays offensively and stayed in a base
defense for all four quarters.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Because the Jets are.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Just inept like suddenly, the Steelers escaping in that game
because I got a sixty yard field goal on the road,
like that might be Aaron Rodgers big highlight with the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
That might be the best thing.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Hey, at least I got revenge over the Jets before
he realized, oh man, we're really really bad, Like they
really might not be good. They might be terrible this year.
I'm out on them. They got worked by Justin Fields,
who completed two passes and had one hundred yards of
offense last week before he got hurt. Sam Darnold worked them.
I really the Steelers. They just don't strike me as Hey,
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we're gonna be able to be dynamic and do what
we need to do. And honestly, the Steelers should have
lost the Jets if they could catch a pick six
when Rogers going back to pass trying to throw it
into the flat, and you had Brandon Stevens dropping a
shore pick six, which is you can't have that happen.
Like they should have lost that game too. This should
be an zero to two Steelers team. They might stink.
I'm out on the Steelers. They're gonna go into this
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game in New England and you think, okay, well, the
Pages they have some problems here. No Patriots won last
week in Miami in a thousand degree heat. They get
the win over the Steelers. This week they dropped to
one and two. I'm not in on Jalen Warren. I'm
not in on the offense.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
The Steelers may be really bad this season.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
They might stink. And just because of the difference between
Week one with the Jets and week two what you
saw of common opponents, Man, I mean, it's hard for
me to see the.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Steelers are gonna be really good.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, it's it's difficult in that you don't really see
anything in terms of creating balance because the run game's
futrid to this point, Warren and gain Well with two
carries from Caleb Johnson, who probably doesn't see the field
this week, they're averaging three yards to carry at this point.
It's a dismal effort that way. The defense for all
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of the high priced talking and you know, the hold
in and all that other nonsense. Ah, here's some extra
millions for you. They look like they got old overnight.
So already had anticipated this was gonna be a rough
ride to get to a nine and eight season to
keep that streak alive for Mike Tomlin. But it looks
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even worse right as we look at the way this
squad shakes out. DK metcalf A lot of his work
is done with the deep ball. Can Aaron Rodgers deliver anymore?
Tight ends? Are?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I mean John news Smith and Pat Fryermouth are gonna
have to become your your biggest receiving options out of
this your current leader in terms of yardage the aforementioned
Jalen Warren hot route. And see what you can do.
That's not winning football as much as if you can
keep it close. Yeah, you got a guy that's got
super toe. But eventually the winds start swirling and things
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start happening in those stadiums that we're talking about in
the AFC North, so that margin for error just isn't there.
But it'll be a fun fun watch. I mean to
see people melt down over time. And and if Aaron
Rodgers struggles, whether you call for you know, replacements, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Mean, look, what did I tell you?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Aaron Rodgers has to understand the possibility is real that
in December he's watching Will Howard quarterback this team right
like that that because because here's the thing, Rogers will
be okay enough for a while, but he'll run out
of steam. And then it's gonna be, oh, man, i
don't know what we have left.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It'll be kind of the reversal last year.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Or it took him a while to have that one
last run the last half of the season when he
looked like a halfway decent quarterback.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
But now at this point, I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Really, he'll He'll have some games where he looks okay.
The Jets made him look like a star. It was
more in line with what he was last week against
the team's defenses. Okay, And that's just gonna be the
way it is, Like, he'll look okay sometimes, but as
a season goes on, it's gonna be Man, this is
it for Rogers. He's done after this season, and in December,
we may want to get a look at Will Howard
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right like that. That's the big question is does Mike
Tomlin say, no, we can't let we can't let Aaron
Rodgers end his career on the bench. I'm not gonna
be that coach if we're not going to the playoffs.
I'm gonna go out with him. Or does he say, hey,
let's see what the kid has, because who knows if
he winds up having a place to this next season,
like that's gonna wind up being the big thing for
the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, I mean, what's he gonna worry about him coming
back and having a revenge game because he hates you.
Who's gonna pick him up?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Go get it?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Howard currently on ir with that broken finger, But he'll
be back. He'll be back strength to schedule, Pittsburgh tied
for the ninth hardest schedule remaining them and the Panthers.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
The other team I'm out on right now.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And it's weird because I had such great because I
had ha ha hopes for I had such high hopes
for them coming into this season, but now they're gonna
fall to zero to three.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I'm out on the Texans. I'm out on them right now.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You're finally listening to me. Two tough games to start
the season.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know, I can't sit here and say, oh my goodness,
they lost to the Jets and the Raiders, two tough
games to start the season.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I get that. But this offense has mega problems. Mega.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
They're not nearly the team they used to be. They
don't have anybody that really scares you wide receiver wise,
outside of Nico Collins and He's not someone that's gonna
suddenly demand all the attention and still dominate. He's not
justin Jefferson. They have a lot of question marks. How
long Nick Chubb has run the football? Okay, so far,
he had one touchdown run, He's had one highlight run,
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and that's been it.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
This is an offense.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
This is not the same team they were when they
were on the cusp of being a great breakthrough team
a couple of years ago. And the other thing is
the Jaguars have really figured out their identity.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
They make the big they trade Tank Bigsby, which was
wait a minute, well how do you trade this guy?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
We don't you know? He could be your number one
running back?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Uh Ah?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Between Ettn and Tooton, they know what they're doing and
they can run the football really, really well. Right. The
fact that you make that trade so soon after the
season begins tells you we know what we want our
running back room to be. We know we can run
the football, and the Jaguars do it terrifically. Yes, offensively,
throwing the football. It's still a working but Trevor Lawrence
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has been a work in progress for five years now.
This is kind of who he is, Oh, we can't
get the ball to Travis Hunter as much got to
get the ball to Brian Thomas Moore. Yes, yes, Parker
Washington is suddenly seventy five yards.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But they have now changed their identity a bit too.
This is a sledgehammer team. They run the football great,
their offensive line is really good. They made moves there
in the offseason to make it better. This is their identity,
what they want to be. They run all over the
Texans and they send them to a shocking zero to
three start.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Oh look at that.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Now you turned on their defense. I'm all, you even
gave me a little coach beard excited. Well, noise down there. Yeah,
making the deal to get rid of Bigsby Howie Roseman
getting ahead of the market in the running back slot.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I dig that.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
But the fact that you trusted that toot and he's
at four point eight yards per carrying limited work and
etn who's been most of the time. I think he
would go into that disappointment category, would he not? In
terms of what he's been to this point, even with
a couple of thousand yard seasons in his back pocket,
never truly the breakthrough, but taking advantage of the schedule.
(14:15):
And this is where I turn it back, at least
for a moment with the Jaguars. So the Panthers in
the Bengals, and you have lost to the Bengals, lost
to Jack Browning. So you got that with Let's go
back to the Texas for a second. Love the defensive front,
Love the secondary. We talked about, all right, can you
cover pass catchers over the middle of the linebackers. There
(14:39):
a little bit of struggle there, a little longer in
the tooth as we watch that happen. So we've got
that concern. Eventually, you'll get Joe Mixon back a couple
more weeks for him, the offensive line will continue to
be a problem. And now you're still waiting whether it's
Higgins or someone else gonna take a step forward alongside
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Nico Collins in that wide receiving corps, Dalton Schultz right
now your second most available back wide receiver for you.
Thinking about the running backs, though, Nick Chubb that touchdown
was much debated late in that game. It's like, did
they let him score? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, it looked really yeah. Yeah, they say they let
him score, right, they say, ah.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Because otherwise he'd basically been falling forward. He's about six
feet tall. Yeah, maybe one little bounce, so six feet plus.
Maybe add the seventh So there you go two point
something yards per carry, So maybe we get a little
bit back in balance for there. For Houston, they get
no favors though they have the third hardest schedule remaining.
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And I know we're only going into week three, but
you look at what's their easiest opponent. You've got two
against the Titans. The other team that's listed as easy
opponent as the Chiefs. To tell you where their schedule
is for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They're only two. Oh yeah, but the Chief said, Dad,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
That doesn't matter. It's the Chiefs. It's the Chiefs.
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Right now, Mike, didn't you tell me tonight? Hey, Iowa
Rutgers take the under? Both these defenses are phenomenal. You
tell me you said take the under?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Well, I thought it was gonna be a field goal game.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Big Well, yeah, Iowa, you figure that. But Iowa has
thirty eight points. They have more points tonight than they
have in the last two and a half seasons. Combine
that sounds about right. Thirty eight to twenty eight day
lead Rutgers right now, game on Big Fox. Meanwhile, Clayton
Kershaw what could be the final start of his MLB career.
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He scheduled to start next week in Seattle, but who knows,
Maybe he starts in the playoffs, maybe he doesn't. But
his final night, at least at Dodger Stadium, he trails
the Giants. Right now, Dodgers trail two to one. Dodgers
batting in the bottom of the fourth inning, Kershaw already
up to eight six pitches, So likely because look, he's good, Mike.
(19:04):
He's gonna pitch again right somewhere in the playoffs. Is
he gonna start, We don't know, but you know he's
gonna pitch. Maybe one more inning for Clayton Kershaw coming
out to get through five against the Giants and that'll
be it. But again, still trailing the Giants right now.
Two to one is a Dodger's bat in the bottom
of the fourth inning.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Looks really humid there at Dodger Stadium. A lot of
sweat pouring from the brows of these hurlers as they're
out there. Look he's battled through, I mean, only giving
up two runs, the spar and the leadoff home run
that we talked about right off the jump to Ramos.
So the fact that he's battled to this point a
tip of the cap but looking for a little bit
of run support, get those rally caps out, find a
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rally monkey or an animal if you're choosing well.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
And you know also too, Kershaw's very very emotional tonight
as well, so you know he's gonna get that adrenaline
burst early. That's gonna hit you of course later. So
you wonder now at eighty six pitches and you know
end with that, you know, the the end of that
adrenaline rush. I really I feel next inning, next inning
could be the last time you see Clayton Kershaw ever
(20:07):
pitch at Dodger Stadium, Like maybe it's the last time
he pitches until the he comes into relief in the playoffs, mates,
the last time he comes off the mount as a.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Starter, Like all these lasts are out there for him. Man,
that could absolutely happen.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, Freddie Freeman just struck out. And this side view
camera they had of this crew right behind the maybe
the third row there. Their reaction was like it was
a game ender. I don't know if they had had
a wager on dude to come up with a big hit.
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Everybody else like, oh, that's too bad, he's.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Got exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the
Jason Smiths with Mike Carmons again, we'll lot more baseball
on the way tonight again, this game meaning everything for
the Giants is they're chase for the final playoff spot
in the National League.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
They absolutely need to win here tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Look these teams, Let I gotta say this, these teams
chasing the Mets. Now, if the Mets go, the Mets
have eight games left. If they go four and four,
everybody else has to go eight and two, you know,
the last these last ten games, less nine to ten
games to make the playoffs, which tells you just where
you're at.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
So every game, you know, the.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Giants, the Diamondbacks, they lose like every game could be
one of those. Hey, that's a fork in our season
because not only do we have to go eight and
two most likely, but we have to overcome three teams, right,
So it's hard to leap frog all of that. So
that's why these games tonight, tonight tomorrow, especially Giants and
the d Backs, are such huge games in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Fortunately, you'll be able to watch all those games on
services other than one proprietary spot.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh come on, man, listen, apple Ty, we have more
tog No.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I was just saying, people have wide availability for the
final stretch run, what with all the greatness that you
just talked about in every game meaning something. But I
wasn't trying to be sarcastic and show that's not unbranded
at all.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
No, that's not you at all. No, no, no, you
are absolutely non snarky and not know positivity.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I know, yes, yes, always the children, what about the children?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
All the children?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Now, three big games in the NFL this week, Like, look,
a lot of big games, a lot of stuff to
get you. You are upset. Special picks coming up in
a bit. But we talked about two of the most
high profile games last hour. The third one Rams and
the Eagles. Right here you are this big rematch where
the Rams clearly were the team that came the closest
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to beating the Eagles in the playoffs last year, and
here they are now. And I'll tell you what, I'll
take the Rams in this one because the Eagles so
far they haven't looked great. And it's not anything that
I think the Eagles are suddenly bad. This is the
Eagles have to find their way after you win the
Super Bowl, right that this is, this is what happens,
(22:57):
not that they're bored, but you come off of that,
you have to find your They've done enough to win,
you know, look that Dallas gave him a little bit
of a scare, and look at that game. Would have
been different if Jalen Carter doesn't spit at Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But this is how it went. And they're doing enough.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
They beat the Chiefs. They do enough to beat the Chiefs.
They've had a couple of nice wins. The Rams are
finding ways. And I don't care how the Rams win
early in the season. They just have to win because
the last couple of years has been the same thing. Boy,
they look terrible the first half of the season. Maybe
they fall out of it and they're gonna start over
next year, and then staffing in the offense catch fire,
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and all of a sudden, the Rams are the best
team in the NFC the back half of the year.
The fact they are stacking wins, now, that's all they
need to do. Find ways, stack wins. Right, because you
want to play those playoff games at home.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Right Left.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I'm sure Sean McVay goes to bed every night going, man,
we had to play that game in Philadelphia, the end
of the year. Last year we had that last drive.
It was too tough. We want to play at home.
Every win they can stack at the beginning of the
season is awesome for them. I have them in the
NFC Championship game again. It's a big revenge game for them.
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I'll take the Rams, I'll take the under and a
late defensive stand for them to win because the Rams
defense is one of the top three units in the NFL. Yes,
the Broncos get a lot of attention. We talked about
how good the Texans and front defensive line defensive backs are,
but this Rams defense is absolutely legit. It's one of
the NFL's best. They've been great so far. They continue
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on here with the Eagles offense that's still trying to
get out of its own way. And I'll give you
this Bowl prediction, Mike Harmon, less than sixty yards rushing
for Saquon Barkley twenty five has already been harder sledding.
And when you come off of six hundred and seventy
five touches last year, like Barkley did, you're.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Gonna get a bit of a downtick.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It's always the case for any running back coming off
a heavy usage year like that of four hundred touches
when you count the playoffs in, it's gonna be harder sledding.
It's been tough sledding so far for Barkley. That's going
to continue. The Rams continue that tough sledding for Barkley
under sixty yards or him, the RAMS and the under
and the RAMS suddenly look like we're talking.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Wait a minute, maybe we.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Get a RAMS charge of Super Bowl coming up this winter.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh maybe.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Well, see, this is where it gets really fun, right,
is that we go back to Week one, the Houston Texans,
a lot of expectations and hey, they're gonna go and
win the division. Well maybe they're not great, but we
expected a slug fest and that one and that's exactly
what we got. What fourteen to nine your final?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Fine, Then they go to Tennessee. No grade shakes, but
it takes a while before they shake free and eventually win.
Going away, this one the big tests for this defense
to get after it. What I've been trying to find
is a prop bet as to whether a penalty will
get called on a toush push. I have not whether
it be over under is out of half, Like, what
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kind of odds I could get, so calls and texts
out to all of our luminaries. Eagles with three and
a half point favorites at home forty four and a
half the toe on this one. I agree with you.
I think points will be at a premium. The big
question for me is for the Eagles trying to re
establish an identity.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Right.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
We talked about it a lot yesterday related to the
Buffalo Bills spreading the ball around right, Allen completing passes
to nine different guys, and we talked about it a
little bit earlier in the week. Jalen hurts, Right now,
you've had eight tush push attempts and three passes that
have had more than ten air yards to them. That's
not long term success man, that viability, particularly if the
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tush push becomes a little bit more of the less
of a certainty right where it's been at that ninety
seven percent success rate, where all of a sudden we
start to see that dip because of a penalty, because
of alignment issues and they're not firing the same way.
It'll be curious to see. Not that hurts a skipping
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leg day along the way, but toughslog for Barkley has
certainly shorted some of his fantasy projections for the year,
not only for hurt stealing touchdown totals, but just that
they'd back him off because again, you need him at
his best come January, because you know you're gonna make
the dance Rams on the road. I think the Eagles
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win it, but give me the Rams plus the hook. Yeah,
three and a half's plays here.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
If it was two and a half, would you take
the Eagles?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Okay, all right, all right, you're more in the No.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Actually, if it was two and a half, I would yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Okay, okay, okay, yeah, oh okay. I thought you were
more in on the Rams and you said you are there.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Okay, No, no, No, I am in on the Rams. I
certainly am. There's no question about it. And certainly there's
been a lot of chatter you and I over these
the discord of this offseason. And Matthew Stafford, I mean,
he's gonna be in bold and coming out of his
appearance at this Clayton Kershaw Farewell game, well.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
He has to come up big. He went to high
school with Clayton Kershaw. He's got to come up If
this is Kershaw his last start as a Dodger, I mean,
come on, he's got to come up big on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
If he doesn't, I mean, come on, Wow. Like I
saw him, he was disheveled and you know the gray
Beard and everything's like, look, how old you've become. I
need you to re energize, steal the energy. Kershaw doesn't
need it anymore. He's leaving the game. Go take it
from him.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon Time not
How to find out what's trending right now in the
wide world of sports from the possible Last Clayton Kershaw
Night at Dodger Stadium on the Hill on the top
of the fifth inning, special delivery Steve the Saga has
the latest right now with what's trended.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Huge ovation for Kershaw, just coming off the mound in
LA with the Dodgers down two to one to San
Francisco in the top of the fifth Kershaw right now
in the dugout individually, greeting all his teammates and coaches.
Kershaw went four and a third two runs allowed, including
the leadoff homer tonight, six strikeouts, four walks. They left
him in to face the lefty Rafael Devers to lead
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off the fifth. He got a strikeout and then the
large ovation coming off the mound ending it. This could
be his last start ever in LA. He will retire shortly.
Kershaw and the Dodgers down two to one in the fifth.
The Padres have already lost LA. First place in the
NLS started the day three games over. The Padres. San
Diego was beaten four to three at Chicago by the
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White Sox, who had lost six in a row. And
as we speak, Kershaw coming back out of the dugout
for the curtain call, as everyone is standing at Dodger
Stadium and cheering this soon to be Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I really thought you were gonna say, Kershaw coming back
out of the dugout. He's told Dave Roberts, like Blake Snell,
I'm staying in the game, and he's going back out
to the mound and Henriquez will have to go back
and make that trudge all the way back to the bullpit.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
No, although I didn't hear it, I'm sure Blake Snell's
comment this week was oh so Kevin Cash is not
my manager.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I actually got to stay on the mount.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
In a Dodger game. We do have two other contests
going on. The Marlins in the top of the twelfth
now lead at Texas six to three, and the Phillies
have taken a three to two lead at Arizona in
the top of the seventh Walker Bueller on a relief
for the Phillies. Seattle is alone and first in the
AL West a game over Houston after winning four nothing
against the Stros Ems hit four solo homers. Houston had
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only three hits in the game winning pitcher Brian Woo
fifteen and seven for Seattle. He had five scoreless innings
seven strikeouts, but left with what was called pectoral tightness.
Cleveland has won again. That's eight victories in a row.
After a six to two win at Minnesota. Cleveland's still
a game and a half out of the last AL
wild card behind Boston, which won eleven seven at Tampa Bay.
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But look how close the AL Central standings are now.
The Tigers lead, which week and a half ago, is
nine and a half. It's down to two and a
half games over the Guardians. Detroit was beaten at home
ten to one by the Atlanta Braves. The loss to
Charlie Morton Tigers have lost seven of eight. They'll be
playing at Cleveland starting Tuesday. Yankees lost four two at Baltimore.
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Toronto lost twenty to one at Kansas City Blue Jays,
first in the ALA, still three games up on the Yanks.
Net speed Washington twelve to six. Cincinnati was a seven
to four winner over the Cubs, and Milwaukee was beaten
seven to one at Saint Louis. Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels
is out this weekend with a spray knee. The forty
(31:25):
nine Ers are due to start quarterback Mac Jones again
with Brock Perty injured. Bengals QB Joe Burrow had his
toe surgery. He could miss three months. Reportedly, Minnesota quarterback
JJ McCarthy is officially out with the bad ankle. The
Bengals are at Minnesota this weekend. Jets QB Justin Fields
is officially out with a concussion. The Falcons released kicker
(31:46):
Young Wayku and gave kicker Parker Romo a two year deal.
The two college football games are each finals now tonight
on Fox TV Iowa. With two touchdowns in the last
six minutes won at Rutgers thirty eight twenty eight, and
Tulsa was ahead of Oklahoma State nineteen to three to
start the fourth quarter. Nineteen twelve, the final and the
WNBA Playoffs first round is over. New York is out,
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Phoenix at home beat the New York Liberties seventy nine
seventy three, and the Giants are out. In the top
of the fifth inning, we can update it. It's two to
one San Francisco going to the bottom of the fifth.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I will give you, Mike Harmon a big bold prediction
for next year in the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
You ready for next year?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Next year, I'll give you a big mopen coming off
of tonight, all the series, first round series gonna best
three out of five, gonna be the best five because
you get all the complaints with Indiana winning and and
and the travel and and it's not a big it's
it's not as much of a it's not as big
of a of a benefit to be the higher seed
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in the first round when it's best of three and
now you have your going home, right, you're gonna see
it's gonna be Hey, why not we can sell more
tickets make things better, but it will be best three
out of five next year in the first round of
the POH no guarantee.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
There's no question about it. And when you've got a
situation where the fever are better without Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Exit up about a Fresco exit swollen down. The Jason
Smith Show with my best Fred Mike Harmon coming up next.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
We do it every week.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
We give you our big upset special picks of the
week in the NFL. Who's coming up with a big
w at least by the number that's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
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Speaker 1 (33:41):
App Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My
best friend Mike Carmon. Yeah, we'll have more on the
final Dodger Stadium start for Clayton Kershaw, maybe his last
appearance at Dodger Stadium ever, maybe his last pitching appearance ever.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Coming up.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
He never comes back even for old timers. Damn, I'm
finished and ain't coming back, but.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Just really quick before we get to our upset special picks.
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Uh, Steve de Saga brought us a story. Look, big
upset in WNBA playoffs. The Phoenix Mercury send the New
York Liberty home, and now two of the higher seeded
teams going home in the first round in the best
of three series. And I told you, I guarantee you
two things are gonna happen next year because teams are
really upset about this. You finish with a better record
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during the regular season, and you should get spoils, right,
which is home court advantage. But it's a three game series, right,
And not only that, you have teams traveling crazily across
the country because it's one through eight, Right, New York
had to go to Phoenix and three games. New York
goes to Phoenix and then back to La beat. Two
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things are gonna happen next year because teams are upset.
All the series are gonna be three out of five,
which you can do because there's enough out there for
three out of five. And they'll find some way to
realign the playoffs more geographically, because it's just stupid to
have New York play Phoenix in the front. This is
like going back to the NHL playoffs in the nineteen
seventies and eighties, where it was team one played Team sixteen,
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like the Islanders would have to play the Kings in
the first round ago, Like that was this ridiculous way
to do it. Here's another NBA doing this in twenty
twenty five. So I give you those two Big Bowl
predictions for next season.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Well, the other gets fixed as you expand and you
have more teams and then you eventually separate into conferences
you know, a little a little differently, with a little
realignment and whatever. We'll we'll see that, because what do
you got to the six versus seven in terms of
how it's currently set up. We've got more teams coming on,
and as the cash cow has proven, you'll get to
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a more reasonable schedule and set up to where we
eliminate this. But I get your point, but certainly more
games will be there. I mean, it's cash cow. So
folks want to be salty. You can be salty, but
but you know you play to win the games.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Hello, you play now?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Speaking of right, you still have home court, finish the job.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Now, speaking of playing to win the games, yes, you
play to win the games unless you're playing to cover
the number.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Well.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Time now, Mike and I to give you our upset
special picks this week in the NFL. I'm gonna give
you two teams from the same city getting the same
number of points. Okay, first, Okay, I'm gonna give you
the Jets getting seven over the Bucks. Okay, the Bucks
are banged up. A Buka may Or may not play.
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He's dinged up. You know Mayfield was dinged up this week.
All of a sudden, this high powered Tampa Bay offense
might not be operating at peak efficiency on Sunday. They're
coming off a big Monday Night win. This is a
gut check game for the Jets, playing their first game
away from home, which I think is a good thing
for them. They know that a big effort in this one.
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Aaron Glenn, You're gonna start to see his influence on
the team this game. I think they come out big
early and they stay in this one, and it takes
a late field goal by Tampa Bay and Baker Mayfield
to pull this one out. Again, the Jets are going
to finish with heartache. But it'll take a late field
goal by Tampa to win this game. And the Jets
cover the seven. Give me the Jets getting seven against Tampa.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yeah, you take some solace in the fact that your
team is considered at least a half point better than
when the line opened. How about that somewhere between It
was at seven and a half. Now you're either looking
at six and a half or seven. I'm gonna go
with a little bit of a price shot on the road,
the Las Vegas Raiders going up against the Washington Commanders
with Marcus Mariota, Mariota and company given three forty fours
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to total. I'm encouraged by Chip Kelly talking about load
management and all of that fund stuff with Ashton genty,
which means he's touching the ball forty five times this Yeah, yeah,
absolutely hundred percent. As soon as he starts talking like
that and like, I release the cracking, it's unfortunate. I've
already done the fantasy takes. I'm like, this is not
a great matchup. We're not seeing it. He's been bad
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in pass bro that doesn't matter this time. It's just
tucking into his gut and let him go and keep
Gino from throwing the ball on fourth down like a
dope on a bounce.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
The other upset special getting seven points. Give me the
Giants getting seven over the Chiefs. They'll hang around. The
Giants are good at that, right, you saw them last week.
Maybe they hit on a little bit of something something.
The Chiefs aren't great, and number one, we have seen
the one thing I've seen. No matter how good Chiefs
teams are the last few years, they are good at
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keeping lesser teams in games. Right, it's gonna take a
game where Mahomes does it all by himself and he
scrambles for big yards, which is gonna frustrate the hell out.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Of the Giants.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
It's gonna take a late score by Kansas City. They
will escape, whether it's a defensive stand or a field
goal at the end, or they they're they're killing the
clock at the end. But it's gonna be a one
possession game. Kansas City outlast the Giants for their first win.
But seven points is a lot. I like the Giants.
I like Malik Neighbors to have another big game. Give
me the Giants getting seven.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Oh, I dig the cut of your jim and it'll
be the legs of Mahomes to set up that winning
field goal. Ay, I got a chaos I'm gonna go
a little bit deeper. Let's go, and you've got the
higher points spread, no question, But just in terms of
perception versus reality, I'm gonna take Jake Browning and company
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to go on the road, getting a field goal at
Minnesota and Carson Wentz forty one is your total? Minnesota
banged up right now and waiting to see exactly how
much you're gonna get out of that passing game. Hendrickson
should be able to get home. Some injuries on that
Minnesota front, and we'll see the Bengals continue to fire
the ball down field. So I'm gonna take the high
(39:53):
powered offense to get the job done.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Look at Jake down going, Browning going Browning proud, Nick,
I love all the extra quarterbacks getting into the mix.
Let's just do this early. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean
it could have been. It was supposed to be. Hey,
we got Joe Burrow and JJ McCart.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
No, no, no, no, we don't. We don't have that anymore.
We don't have that anymore.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
It's a good thing. That's a ten am Pacific game.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
No, no, that game has been put on NBA TV.
It's no longer. Yeah, they're not gonna be it's gonna
be an NBA TV now Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Sorry about It's like a Bucks playoff game.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah II honest exit Outvouna Fresca exit swollen dome. Coming
up next, we get back into the biggest story of
the night, Jason and Mike.
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single night. So the final home start for Clayton Kershaw,
and really the best thing we can say is we
don't know when he's going to pitch again. He's scheduled
to pitch in Seattle next week. But who knows is
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he gonna start in the playoffs. Who knows is he
gonna relieve in the playoffs. Maybe, But where we sit
right now, Kershaw has been in trouble in every inning
for the Dodgers, and the Giants lead it right now
two to one, so he's been able to limit the
damage two to one. Middle of thirty eight Dodgers coming
up again. This the final at least regular season start
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in the career of Clayton Kershaw. It is Joe Davis
Bobblehead Night at the stadium tonight, and it will be
Clayton Kershaw Bobblehead Day tomorrow. They couldn't flip them. They
couldn't say, hey, take the Kershaw once. I mean, really,
just we're gonna give you this instead, we'll give Joe
Davis tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I think you do that.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Could you have given them just a coupon for a
future Clayton Kershaw bobblehead so.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Kind of like I'm glad you pay you tuesday for
a Hamburger today.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Well, I mean, just if you want to go down
that road, because I mean, look, you can't give the
people the ones from tomorrow like, you just can't do it.
Now you're chaos. Nah, you can't. What if you had
a bunch of people that came because it was Joe
Davis bobblehead Day, Now they're pissed you really?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Outside of Joe Davis to play by play guy for
the Dodgers, outside of Joe Davis's family, who we could
probably get bobbleheads for if he really wanted to. Who
was coming to that game for a Joe Davis bubblehead.
Wait a minute, I don't want the Kershaw. No, I
don't want that. No, No, I want the Joe Davis one.
And I'm not leaving until you go get me a
(02:39):
Joe Davis bobblehead.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, I mean I bought part of my ticket package
or maybe for this individual date. I cleared my schedule
and I was like, it's Joe Davis bobblehead. I like
listening to Joe Davis call a game.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I have all forty bobbleheads. I want the forty eighth
and final one I got. I got all of them.
Now come back on Saturday. It'll be there for you.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Or you do a thing where it's like, all right,
here's a coupon for a special Clayton Kershok commemorative item,
and then you have a giveaway and a parking lot
after the season's over. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Hey, it fell off a truck. Yeah, it fell off
a truck.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Whoa, whoa, whoa?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
How dare you you follow this truck to the end
of the road. Then I get out the back and
maybe I hand you something and you hand me something
and you walk away, and that's how it works.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Hey, we have had promotional items go missing in the past.
There's no question about there.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, man, maybe mon you.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Really give away forty maybe maybe once you'll bring us
in all these different bobbleheads. Next week, she would suddenly
there's a giant palette that she comes walking in with.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Which one you need?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Everybody, Here you go, Here you go, Here you go.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I still got all those leftover kik hernandez ones, right,
we got a ton of those leftover.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
No, No, he's a popular guy.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
He did very well.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, that's just secondary market value, at least in the
city of Los Angeles, holds up quite well to Clayton Kershaw's, okay,
because there's going to be fewer of those than the
Clinton Kershaw bobble hits. I don't think they've had like
forty seven Key k Hernandez bobblehead dates.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
To tell me, to tell do me a favor, to
be a favorite, because you always talk about monetizing it.
Tell me what the difference is on eBay if I
want to buy a Key k Hernandez bobblehead tall but
if I want to buy a Clayton Kershaw bobblehead.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Doll, tell me what the difference is on that one.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
But that's again the difference between I don't think there's
just a lot of general issue. Hey, these guys have
a license for you know, making a bobblehead, foco or
whatever the company may be, to where you you have,
you know, just hey, here's your major League goll stars
and here's a Clayton Kershaw. Whereas Key Hernandez. Pretty sure
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most of what you're getting are the stadium giveaways. So
there's a limited note from them. Let's see sixty five
bucks for Key k Hernandez for the one that was
given away just what a week or two ago, and
now looking up our guy Clayton Kershaw. Listen, there's gonna
be many because here's one right now. There's fifty bucks.
(05:12):
There's the three thousand strikeout one. There's a picture of
some guys trying to get like two hundred and fifty dollars. Yeah,
it's just crazy. There's another SGA new in box, forty
five dollars of.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Those I don't want. I don't want an SGA one.
We're talking, I mean, I'll get no one. But I
mean that's the company. SGA is actually the company, not
I know it as Alexander.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
All the points you just made, we had.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
We had to dump you when you said foco because
I don't know that you could say that.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So all those points you made, no one hurt it.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, but that's where I got my cool chef's hat
that we're gonna do bits with.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, I got my chef's thatt up.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Yeah. I mean, here's a twenty seventeen Clayton Kershaw bobblehead
where he's hitting, and it was from twenty seventeen. It's
thirty dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, but he's hitting. I mean, come on, he's head.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
There's another one it's forty. I mean, there's a lot
of Clayton kershop.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
On the market is flooded with Kershaw babble it so
again to to one Kershaw on the short end of
this one so far but still bottle of the third
ning Dodgers Giants. This game huge playoff ramifications for the
Giants trying to stay in striking distance of that final wildcard.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So as we get said, it is football Friday.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Looking ahead, we'll preview to a couple of the biggest
college football games coming up later on this hour and
then next hour.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Pete feu Tac stops by two teams.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Right now going into big games this weekend on Sunday
that I'm out on. Okay, I'm just out on and
the first team I'm out on. I'm out on the Steelers.
I'm out the Steelers. You know, for all this talk,
oh the Steelers, the Steelers might be awful.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, just think about sure, the Steelers might be awful.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
They're just escaping over the Jets last week after watching
what the Bills did to the Jets on Sunday when
they ran five plays offensively and stayed in a base
defense for all four quarters.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Because the Jets are.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Just inept like suddenly, the Steelers escaping in that game
because I got a sixty yard field goal on the road,
like that might be Aaron Rodgers big highlight with the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
That might be the best thing.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Hey, at least I got revenge over the Jets before
he realized, oh man, we're really really bad, Like they
really might not be good. They might be terrible this year.
I'm out on them. They got worked by Justin Fields,
who completed two passes and had one hundred yards of
offense last week before he got hurt. Sam Darnold worked them.
I really the Steelers. They just don't strike me as Hey,
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we're gonna be able to be dynamic and do what
we need to do. And honestly, the Steelers should have
lost the Jets if they could catch a pick six
when Rogers going back to pass trying to throw it
into the flat, and you had Brandon Stevens dropping a
shore pick six, which is you can't have that happen.
Like they should have lost that game too. This should
be an zero to two Steelers team. They might stink.
I'm out on the Steelers. They're gonna go into this
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game in New England and you think, okay, well, the
Pages they have some problems here. No Patriots won last
week in Miami in a thousand degree heat. They get
the win over the Steelers. This week they dropped to
one and two. I'm not in on Jalen Warren. I'm
not in on the offense.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
The Steelers may be really bad this season.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
They might stink. And just because of the difference between
Week one with the Jets and week two what you
saw of common opponents, Man, I mean, it's hard for
me to see the.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Steelers are gonna be really good.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, it's it's difficult in that you don't really see
anything in terms of creating balance because the run game's
futrid to this point, Warren and gain Well with two
carries from Caleb Johnson, who probably doesn't see the field
this week, they're averaging three yards to carry at this point.
It's a dismal effort that way. The defense for all
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of the high priced talking and you know, the hold
in and all that other nonsense. Ah, here's some extra
millions for you. They look like they got old overnight.
So already had anticipated this was gonna be a rough
ride to get to a nine and eight season to
keep that streak alive for Mike Tomlin. But it looks
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even worse right as we look at the way this
squad shakes out. DK metcalf A lot of his work
is done with the deep ball. Can Aaron Rodgers deliver anymore?
Tight ends? Are?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I mean John news Smith and Pat Fryermouth are gonna
have to become your your biggest receiving options out of
this your current leader in terms of yardage the aforementioned
Jalen Warren hot route. And see what you can do.
That's not winning football as much as if you can
keep it close. Yeah, you got a guy that's got
super toe. But eventually the winds start swirling and things
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start happening in those stadiums that we're talking about in
the AFC North, so that margin for error just isn't there.
But it'll be a fun fun watch. I mean to
see people melt down over time. And and if Aaron
Rodgers struggles, whether you call for you know, replacements, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Mean, look, what did I tell you?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Aaron Rodgers has to understand the possibility is real that
in December he's watching Will Howard quarterback this team right
like that that because because here's the thing, Rogers will
be okay enough for a while, but he'll run out
of steam. And then it's gonna be, oh, man, i
don't know what we have left.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It'll be kind of the reversal last year.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Or it took him a while to have that one
last run the last half of the season when he
looked like a halfway decent quarterback.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
But now at this point, I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Really, he'll He'll have some games where he looks okay.
The Jets made him look like a star. It was
more in line with what he was last week against
the team's defenses. Okay, And that's just gonna be the
way it is, Like, he'll look okay sometimes, but as
a season goes on, it's gonna be Man, this is
it for Rogers. He's done after this season, and in December,
we may want to get a look at Will Howard
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right like that. That's the big question is does Mike
Tomlin say, no, we can't let we can't let Aaron
Rodgers end his career on the bench. I'm not gonna
be that coach if we're not going to the playoffs.
I'm gonna go out with him. Or does he say, hey,
let's see what the kid has, because who knows if
he winds up having a place to this next season,
like that's gonna wind up being the big thing for
the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, I mean, what's he gonna worry about him coming
back and having a revenge game because he hates you.
Who's gonna pick him up?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Go get it?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Howard currently on ir with that broken finger, But he'll
be back. He'll be back strength to schedule, Pittsburgh tied
for the ninth hardest schedule remaining them and the Panthers.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
The other team I'm out on right now.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And it's weird because I had such great because I
had ha ha hopes for I had such high hopes
for them coming into this season, but now they're gonna
fall to zero to three.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I'm out on the Texans. I'm out on them right now.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You're finally listening to me. Two tough games to start
the season.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know, I can't sit here and say, oh my goodness,
they lost to the Jets and the Raiders, two tough
games to start the season.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I get that. But this offense has mega problems. Mega.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
They're not nearly the team they used to be. They
don't have anybody that really scares you wide receiver wise,
outside of Nico Collins and He's not someone that's gonna
suddenly demand all the attention and still dominate. He's not
justin Jefferson. They have a lot of question marks. How
long Nick Chubb has run the football? Okay, so far,
he had one touchdown run, He's had one highlight run,
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and that's been it.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
This is an offense.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
This is not the same team they were when they
were on the cusp of being a great breakthrough team
a couple of years ago. And the other thing is
the Jaguars have really figured out their identity.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
They make the big they trade Tank Bigsby, which was
wait a minute, well how do you trade this guy?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
We don't you know? He could be your number one
running back?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Uh Ah?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Between Ettn and Tooton, they know what they're doing and
they can run the football really, really well. Right. The
fact that you make that trade so soon after the
season begins tells you we know what we want our
running back room to be. We know we can run
the football, and the Jaguars do it terrifically. Yes, offensively,
throwing the football. It's still a working but Trevor Lawrence
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has been a work in progress for five years now.
This is kind of who he is, Oh, we can't
get the ball to Travis Hunter as much got to
get the ball to Brian Thomas Moore. Yes, yes, Parker
Washington is suddenly seventy five yards.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
But they have now changed their identity a bit too.
This is a sledgehammer team. They run the football great,
their offensive line is really good. They made moves there
in the offseason to make it better. This is their identity,
what they want to be. They run all over the
Texans and they send them to a shocking zero to
three start.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Oh look at that.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Now you turned on their defense. I'm all, you even
gave me a little coach beard excited. Well, noise down there. Yeah,
making the deal to get rid of Bigsby Howie Roseman
getting ahead of the market in the running back slot.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I dig that.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
But the fact that you trusted that toot and he's
at four point eight yards per carrying limited work and
etn who's been most of the time. I think he
would go into that disappointment category, would he not? In
terms of what he's been to this point, even with
a couple of thousand yard seasons in his back pocket,
never truly the breakthrough, but taking advantage of the schedule.
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And this is where I turn it back, at least
for a moment with the Jaguars. So the Panthers in
the Bengals, and you have lost to the Bengals, lost
to Jack Browning. So you got that with Let's go
back to the Texas for a second. Love the defensive front,
Love the secondary. We talked about, all right, can you
cover pass catchers over the middle of the linebackers. There
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a little bit of struggle there, a little longer in
the tooth as we watch that happen. So we've got
that concern. Eventually, you'll get Joe Mixon back a couple
more weeks for him, the offensive line will continue to
be a problem. And now you're still waiting whether it's
Higgins or someone else gonna take a step forward alongside
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Nico Collins in that wide receiving corps, Dalton Schultz right
now your second most available back wide receiver for you.
Thinking about the running backs, though, Nick Chubb that touchdown
was much debated late in that game. It's like, did
they let him score? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, it looked really yeah. Yeah, they say they let
him score, right, they say, ah.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Because otherwise he'd basically been falling forward. He's about six
feet tall. Yeah, maybe one little bounce, so six feet plus.
Maybe add the seventh So there you go two point
something yards per carry, So maybe we get a little
bit back in balance for there. For Houston, they get
no favors though they have the third hardest schedule remaining.
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And I know we're only going into week three, but
you look at what's their easiest opponent. You've got two
against the Titans. The other team that's listed as easy
opponent as the Chiefs. To tell you where their schedule
is for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They're only two. Oh yeah, but the Chief said, Dad,
doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
That doesn't matter. It's the Chiefs. It's the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
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Right now, Mike, didn't you tell me tonight? Hey, Iowa
Rutgers take the under? Both these defenses are phenomenal. You
tell me you said take the under?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Well, I thought it was gonna be a field goal game.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Big Well, yeah, Iowa, you figure that. But Iowa has
thirty eight points. They have more points tonight than they
have in the last two and a half seasons. Combine
that sounds about right. Thirty eight to twenty eight day
lead Rutgers right now, game on Big Fox. Meanwhile, Clayton
Kershaw what could be the final start of his MLB career.
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He scheduled to start next week in Seattle, but who knows,
Maybe he starts in the playoffs, maybe he doesn't. But
his final night, at least at Dodger Stadium, he trails
the Giants. Right now, Dodgers trail two to one. Dodgers
batting in the bottom of the fourth inning, Kershaw already
up to eight six pitches, So likely because look, he's good, Mike.
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He's gonna pitch again right somewhere in the playoffs. Is
he gonna start, We don't know, but you know he's
gonna pitch. Maybe one more inning for Clayton Kershaw coming
out to get through five against the Giants and that'll
be it. But again, still trailing the Giants right now.
Two to one is a Dodger's bat in the bottom
of the fourth inning.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Looks really humid there at Dodger Stadium. A lot of
sweat pouring from the brows of these hurlers as they're
out there. Look he's battled through, I mean, only giving
up two runs, the spar and the leadoff home run
that we talked about right off the jump to Ramos.
So the fact that he's battled to this point a
tip of the cap but looking for a little bit
of run support, get those rally caps out, find a
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rally monkey or an animal if you're choosing well.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
And you know also too, Kershaw's very very emotional tonight
as well, so you know he's gonna get that adrenaline
burst early. That's gonna hit you of course later. So
you wonder now at eighty six pitches and you know
end with that, you know, the the end of that
adrenaline rush. I really I feel next inning, next inning
could be the last time you see Clayton Kershaw ever
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pitch at Dodger Stadium, Like maybe it's the last time
he pitches until the he comes into relief in the playoffs, mates,
the last time he comes off the mount as a.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Starter, Like all these lasts are out there for him. Man,
that could absolutely happen.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, Freddie Freeman just struck out. And this side view
camera they had of this crew right behind the maybe
the third row there. Their reaction was like it was
a game ender. I don't know if they had had
a wager on dude to come up with a big hit.
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Everybody else like, oh, that's too bad, he's.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Got exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the
Jason Smiths with Mike Carmons again, we'll lot more baseball
on the way tonight again, this game meaning everything for
the Giants is they're chase for the final playoff spot
in the National League.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
They absolutely need to win here tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Look these teams, Let I gotta say this, these teams
chasing the Mets. Now, if the Mets go, the Mets
have eight games left. If they go four and four,
everybody else has to go eight and two, you know,
the last these last ten games, less nine to ten
games to make the playoffs, which tells you just where
you're at.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
So every game, you know, the.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Giants, the Diamondbacks, they lose like every game could be
one of those. Hey, that's a fork in our season
because not only do we have to go eight and
two most likely, but we have to overcome three teams, right,
So it's hard to leap frog all of that. So
that's why these games tonight, tonight tomorrow, especially Giants and
the d Backs, are such huge games in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Fortunately, you'll be able to watch all those games on
services other than one proprietary spot.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh come on, man, listen, apple Ty, we have more
tog No.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I was just saying, people have wide availability for the
final stretch run, what with all the greatness that you
just talked about in every game meaning something. But I
wasn't trying to be sarcastic and show that's not unbranded
at all.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
No, that's not you at all. No, no, no, you
are absolutely non snarky and not know positivity.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I know, yes, yes, always the children, what about the children?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
All the children?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Now, three big games in the NFL this week, Like, look,
a lot of big games, a lot of stuff to
get you. You are upset. Special picks coming up in
a bit. But we talked about two of the most
high profile games last hour. The third one Rams and
the Eagles. Right here you are this big rematch where
the Rams clearly were the team that came the closest
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to beating the Eagles in the playoffs last year, and
here they are now. And I'll tell you what, I'll
take the Rams in this one because the Eagles so
far they haven't looked great. And it's not anything that
I think the Eagles are suddenly bad. This is the
Eagles have to find their way after you win the
Super Bowl, right that this is, this is what happens,
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not that they're bored, but you come off of that,
you have to find your They've done enough to win,
you know, look that Dallas gave him a little bit
of a scare, and look at that game. Would have
been different if Jalen Carter doesn't spit at Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But this is how it went. And they're doing enough.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
They beat the Chiefs. They do enough to beat the Chiefs.
They've had a couple of nice wins. The Rams are
finding ways. And I don't care how the Rams win
early in the season. They just have to win because
the last couple of years has been the same thing. Boy,
they look terrible the first half of the season. Maybe
they fall out of it and they're gonna start over
next year, and then staffing in the offense catch fire,
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and all of a sudden, the Rams are the best
team in the NFC the back half of the year.
The fact they are stacking wins, now, that's all they
need to do. Find ways, stack wins. Right, because you
want to play those playoff games at home.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Right Left.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I'm sure Sean McVay goes to bed every night going, man,
we had to play that game in Philadelphia, the end
of the year. Last year we had that last drive.
It was too tough. We want to play at home.
Every win they can stack at the beginning of the
season is awesome for them. I have them in the
NFC Championship game again. It's a big revenge game for them.
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I'll take the Rams, I'll take the under and a
late defensive stand for them to win because the Rams
defense is one of the top three units in the NFL. Yes,
the Broncos get a lot of attention. We talked about
how good the Texans and front defensive line defensive backs are,
but this Rams defense is absolutely legit. It's one of
the NFL's best. They've been great so far. They continue
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on here with the Eagles offense that's still trying to
get out of its own way. And I'll give you
this Bowl prediction, Mike Harmon, less than sixty yards rushing
for Saquon Barkley twenty five has already been harder sledding.
And when you come off of six hundred and seventy
five touches last year, like Barkley did, you're.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Gonna get a bit of a downtick.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It's always the case for any running back coming off
a heavy usage year like that of four hundred touches
when you count the playoffs in, it's gonna be harder sledding.
It's been tough sledding so far for Barkley. That's going
to continue. The Rams continue that tough sledding for Barkley
under sixty yards or him, the RAMS and the under
and the RAMS suddenly look like we're talking.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Wait a minute, maybe we.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Get a RAMS charge of Super Bowl coming up this winter.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh maybe.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Well, see, this is where it gets really fun, right,
is that we go back to Week one, the Houston Texans,
a lot of expectations and hey, they're gonna go and
win the division. Well maybe they're not great, but we
expected a slug fest and that one and that's exactly
what we got. What fourteen to nine your final?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Fine, Then they go to Tennessee. No grade shakes, but
it takes a while before they shake free and eventually win.
Going away, this one the big tests for this defense
to get after it. What I've been trying to find
is a prop bet as to whether a penalty will
get called on a toush push. I have not whether
it be over under is out of half, Like, what
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kind of odds I could get, so calls and texts
out to all of our luminaries. Eagles with three and
a half point favorites at home forty four and a
half the toe on this one. I agree with you.
I think points will be at a premium. The big
question for me is for the Eagles trying to re
establish an identity.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Right.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
We talked about it a lot yesterday related to the
Buffalo Bills spreading the ball around right, Allen completing passes
to nine different guys, and we talked about it a
little bit earlier in the week. Jalen hurts, Right now,
you've had eight tush push attempts and three passes that
have had more than ten air yards to them. That's
not long term success man, that viability, particularly if the
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tush push becomes a little bit more of the less
of a certainty right where it's been at that ninety
seven percent success rate, where all of a sudden we
start to see that dip because of a penalty, because
of alignment issues and they're not firing the same way.
It'll be curious to see. Not that hurts a skipping
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leg day along the way, but toughslog for Barkley has
certainly shorted some of his fantasy projections for the year,
not only for hurt stealing touchdown totals, but just that
they'd back him off because again, you need him at
his best come January, because you know you're gonna make
the dance Rams on the road. I think the Eagles
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win it, but give me the Rams plus the hook. Yeah,
three and a half's plays here.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
If it was two and a half, would you take
the Eagles?
Speaker 4 (27:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Okay, all right, all right, you're more in the No.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Actually, if it was two and a half, I would yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Okay, okay, okay, yeah, oh okay. I thought you were
more in on the Rams and you said you are there.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Okay, No, no, No, I am in on the Rams. I
certainly am. There's no question about it. And certainly there's
been a lot of chatter you and I over these
the discord of this offseason. And Matthew Stafford, I mean,
he's gonna be in bold and coming out of his
appearance at this Clayton Kershaw Farewell game, well.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
He has to come up big. He went to high
school with Clayton Kershaw. He's got to come up If
this is Kershaw his last start as a Dodger, I mean,
come on, he's got to come up big on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
If he doesn't, I mean, come on, Wow. Like I
saw him, he was disheveled and you know the gray
Beard and everything's like, look, how old you've become. I
need you to re energize, steal the energy. Kershaw doesn't
need it anymore. He's leaving the game. Go take it
from him.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
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Speaker 5 (28:37):
Huge ovation for Kershaw, just coming off the mound in
LA with the Dodgers down two to one to San
Francisco in the top of the fifth Kershaw right now
in the dugout individually, greeting all his teammates and coaches.
Kershaw went four and a third two runs allowed, including
the leadoff homer tonight, six strikeouts, four walks. They left
him in to face the lefty Rafael Devers to lead
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off the fifth. He got a strikeout and then the
large ovation coming off the mound ending it. This could
be his last start ever in LA. He will retire shortly.
Kershaw and the Dodgers down two to one in the fifth.
The Padres have already lost LA. First place in the
NLS started the day three games over. The Padres. San
Diego was beaten four to three at Chicago by the
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White Sox, who had lost six in a row. And
as we speak, Kershaw coming back out of the dugout
for the curtain call, as everyone is standing at Dodger
Stadium and cheering this soon to be Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I really thought you were gonna say, Kershaw coming back
out of the dugout. He's told Dave Roberts, like Blake Snell,
I'm staying in the game, and he's going back out
to the mound and Henriquez will have to go back
and make that trudge all the way back to the bullpit.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
No, although I didn't hear it, I'm sure Blake Snell's
comment this week was oh so Kevin Cash is not
my manager.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
I actually got to stay on the mount.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
In a Dodger game. We do have two other contests
going on. The Marlins in the top of the twelfth
now lead at Texas six to three, and the Phillies
have taken a three to two lead at Arizona in
the top of the seventh Walker Bueller on a relief
for the Phillies. Seattle is alone and first in the
AL West a game over Houston after winning four nothing
against the Stros Ems hit four solo homers. Houston had
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only three hits in the game winning pitcher Brian Woo
fifteen and seven for Seattle. He had five scoreless innings
seven strikeouts, but left with what was called pectoral tightness.
Cleveland has won again. That's eight victories in a row.
After a six to two win at Minnesota. Cleveland's still
a game and a half out of the last AL
wild card behind Boston, which won eleven seven at Tampa Bay.
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But look how close the AL Central standings are now.
The Tigers lead, which week and a half ago, is
nine and a half. It's down to two and a
half games over the Guardians. Detroit was beaten at home
ten to one by the Atlanta Braves. The loss to
Charlie Morton Tigers have lost seven of eight. They'll be
playing at Cleveland starting Tuesday. Yankees lost four two at Baltimore.
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Toronto lost twenty to one at Kansas City Blue Jays,
first in the ALA, still three games up on the Yanks.
Net speed Washington twelve to six. Cincinnati was a seven
to four winner over the Cubs, and Milwaukee was beaten
seven to one at Saint Louis. Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels
is out this weekend with a spray knee. The forty
(31:25):
nine Ers are due to start quarterback Mac Jones again
with Brock Perty injured. Bengals QB Joe Burrow had his
toe surgery. He could miss three months. Reportedly, Minnesota quarterback
JJ McCarthy is officially out with the bad ankle. The
Bengals are at Minnesota this weekend. Jets QB Justin Fields
is officially out with a concussion. The Falcons released kicker
(31:46):
Young Wayku and gave kicker Parker Romo a two year deal.
The two college football games are each finals now tonight
on Fox TV Iowa. With two touchdowns in the last
six minutes won at Rutgers thirty eight twenty eight, and
Tulsa was ahead of Oklahoma State nineteen to three to
start the fourth quarter. Nineteen twelve, the final and the
WNBA Playoffs first round is over. New York is out,
(32:07):
Phoenix at home beat the New York Liberties seventy nine
seventy three, and the Giants are out. In the top
of the fifth inning, we can update it. It's two to
one San Francisco going to the bottom of the fifth.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
I will give you, Mike Harmon a big bold prediction
for next year in the WNBA.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
You ready for next year?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Next year, I'll give you a big mopen coming off
of tonight, all the series, first round series gonna best
three out of five, gonna be the best five because
you get all the complaints with Indiana winning and and
and the travel and and it's not a big it's
it's not as much of a it's not as big
of a of a benefit to be the higher seed
(32:50):
in the first round when it's best of three and
now you have your going home, right, you're gonna see
it's gonna be Hey, why not we can sell more
tickets make things better, but it will be best three
out of five next year in the first round of
the POH no guarantee.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
There's no question about it. And when you've got a
situation where the fever are better without Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Exit up about a Fresco exit swollen down. The Jason
Smith Show with my best Fred Mike Harmon coming up next.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
We do it every week.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
We give you our big upset special picks of the
week in the NFL. Who's coming up with a big
w at least by the number that's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
App Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My
best friend Mike Carmon. Yeah, we'll have more on the
final Dodger Stadium start for Clayton Kershaw, maybe his last
appearance at Dodger Stadium ever, maybe his last pitching appearance ever.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Coming up.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
He never comes back even for old timers. Damn, I'm
finished and ain't coming back, but.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Just really quick before we get to our upset special picks.
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Uh, Steve de Saga brought us a story. Look, big
upset in WNBA playoffs. The Phoenix Mercury send the New
York Liberty home, and now two of the higher seeded
teams going home in the first round in the best
of three series. And I told you, I guarantee you
two things are gonna happen next year because teams are
really upset about this. You finish with a better record
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during the regular season, and you should get spoils, right,
which is home court advantage. But it's a three game series, right,
And not only that, you have teams traveling crazily across
the country because it's one through eight, Right, New York
had to go to Phoenix and three games. New York
goes to Phoenix and then back to La beat. Two
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things are gonna happen next year because teams are upset.
All the series are gonna be three out of five,
which you can do because there's enough out there for
three out of five. And they'll find some way to
realign the playoffs more geographically, because it's just stupid to
have New York play Phoenix in the front. This is
like going back to the NHL playoffs in the nineteen
seventies and eighties, where it was team one played Team sixteen,
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like the Islanders would have to play the Kings in
the first round ago, Like that was this ridiculous way
to do it. Here's another NBA doing this in twenty
twenty five. So I give you those two Big Bowl
predictions for next season.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Well, the other gets fixed as you expand and you
have more teams and then you eventually separate into conferences
you know, a little a little differently, with a little
realignment and whatever. We'll we'll see that, because what do
you got to the six versus seven in terms of
how it's currently set up. We've got more teams coming on,
and as the cash cow has proven, you'll get to
(35:47):
a more reasonable schedule and set up to where we
eliminate this. But I get your point, but certainly more
games will be there. I mean, it's cash cow. So
folks want to be salty. You can be salty, but
but you know you play to win the games.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Hello, you play now?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Speaking of right, you still have home court, finish the job.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Now, speaking of playing to win the games, yes, you
play to win the games unless you're playing to cover
the number.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Well.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Time now, Mike and I to give you our upset
special picks this week in the NFL. I'm gonna give
you two teams from the same city getting the same
number of points. Okay, first, Okay, I'm gonna give you
the Jets getting seven over the Bucks. Okay, the Bucks
are banged up. A Buka may Or may not play.
(36:40):
He's dinged up. You know Mayfield was dinged up this week.
All of a sudden, this high powered Tampa Bay offense
might not be operating at peak efficiency on Sunday. They're
coming off a big Monday Night win. This is a
gut check game for the Jets, playing their first game
away from home, which I think is a good thing
for them. They know that a big effort in this one.
(37:02):
Aaron Glenn, You're gonna start to see his influence on
the team this game. I think they come out big
early and they stay in this one, and it takes
a late field goal by Tampa Bay and Baker Mayfield
to pull this one out. Again, the Jets are going
to finish with heartache. But it'll take a late field
goal by Tampa to win this game. And the Jets
cover the seven. Give me the Jets getting seven against Tampa.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yeah, you take some solace in the fact that your
team is considered at least a half point better than
when the line opened. How about that somewhere between It
was at seven and a half. Now you're either looking
at six and a half or seven. I'm gonna go
with a little bit of a price shot on the road,
the Las Vegas Raiders going up against the Washington Commanders
with Marcus Mariota, Mariota and company given three forty fours
(37:48):
to total. I'm encouraged by Chip Kelly talking about load
management and all of that fund stuff with Ashton genty,
which means he's touching the ball forty five times this Yeah, yeah,
absolutely hundred percent. As soon as he starts talking like
that and like, I release the cracking, it's unfortunate. I've
already done the fantasy takes. I'm like, this is not
a great matchup. We're not seeing it. He's been bad
(38:09):
in pass bro that doesn't matter this time. It's just
tucking into his gut and let him go and keep
Gino from throwing the ball on fourth down like a
dope on a bounce.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
The other upset special getting seven points. Give me the
Giants getting seven over the Chiefs. They'll hang around. The
Giants are good at that, right, you saw them last week.
Maybe they hit on a little bit of something something.
The Chiefs aren't great, and number one, we have seen
the one thing I've seen. No matter how good Chiefs
teams are the last few years, they are good at
(38:39):
keeping lesser teams in games. Right, it's gonna take a
game where Mahomes does it all by himself and he
scrambles for big yards, which is gonna frustrate the hell out.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Of the Giants.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
It's gonna take a late score by Kansas City. They
will escape, whether it's a defensive stand or a field
goal at the end, or they they're they're killing the
clock at the end. But it's gonna be a one
possession game. Kansas City outlast the Giants for their first win.
But seven points is a lot. I like the Giants.
I like Malik Neighbors to have another big game. Give
me the Giants getting seven.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Oh, I dig the cut of your jim and it'll
be the legs of Mahomes to set up that winning
field goal. Ay, I got a chaos I'm gonna go
a little bit deeper. Let's go, and you've got the
higher points spread, no question, But just in terms of
perception versus reality, I'm gonna take Jake Browning and company
(39:31):
to go on the road, getting a field goal at
Minnesota and Carson Wentz forty one is your total? Minnesota
banged up right now and waiting to see exactly how
much you're gonna get out of that passing game. Hendrickson
should be able to get home. Some injuries on that
Minnesota front, and we'll see the Bengals continue to fire
the ball down field. So I'm gonna take the high
(39:53):
powered offense to get the job done.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Look at Jake down going, Browning going Browning proud, Nick,
I love all the extra quarterbacks getting into the mix.
Let's just do this early. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean
it could have been. It was supposed to be. Hey,
we got Joe Burrow and JJ McCart.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
No, no, no, no, we don't. We don't have that anymore.
We don't have that anymore.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
It's a good thing. That's a ten am Pacific game.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
No, no, that game has been put on NBA TV.
It's no longer. Yeah, they're not gonna be it's gonna
be an NBA TV now Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Sorry about It's like a Bucks playoff game.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Yeah II honest exit Outvouna Fresca exit swollen dome. Coming
up next, we get back into the biggest story of
the night, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
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