October 18, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike react to NFL legend Troy Aikman’s comments on the Cowboys wide receivers. The guys debate Dennis Allen will be the next NFL HC to be fired. And congrats to Tony Bennett on an incredible career!
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the Mets seven to two. Mets batting in the bottom
of the seventh inning, one on one out. Meanwhile, we're
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just really waiting for this Thursday night football game to end.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Throw a damn towel. Spencer Rattler has hit.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
As he throws, the ball kind of flutters out of
his hands and it turns into a pick six for
the Broncos. Uh, they now lead by thirty Cliff Barton
ran Man Barton in the right place at the right time. Uh,
thirty three to three is the score right now, four
minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Look, it has been a very.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Triumphant night for Sean Payton coming back to New Orleans
and the Saints honoring Drew Brees of the game tonight,
he was in the boot honoring him by not scoring
a touchdowns. I congratulate New Orleans. That's that's absolutely fantastic.
Congratulates in New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Congratulates Yeah, Cody Barton obviously with the play, I went
for Hawkeye and tried to bring Clinton. But just a
miserable game and halftime. Richard Sherman assessed it, Dusty. Uh,
they look like they've quit and they want their coach fired,
referring to Dennis Allen. Second half has been more of
the same. Now they've got a number of injuries. But wait,
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but wait, I remember after the second week and the season,
the Saints were great and people told me they were great,
and I said, no, they still stink. And maybe the
Cowboys just stink, but no, no, the Saints were so
good and the receivers were so fast, everything was so great. No,
the Saints stink. We told you they stink. Yes, they
have injuries, but the Saints stink. And when you're at
this point, now you're talking about, Hey, is the coach
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gonna get fired?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
What's going on? I told you they stunk.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
They were closer to picking first overall, but they beat
the Cowboy They beat the cowbt.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
No, we told you the Cowboys might stink, and boy,
how right were we? And now the Saints you realize
they just think they've Boy, how bad are the Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Then if you if you see how bad the Saints.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Wow, transferring that property between teams. But yeah, this is
an abject failure. I mean, he saw Kamara a couple
times on the sidelines demonstrative because at one point he
had five carries for two yards, five catches for eleven yards. So,
at least from a PPR standpoint for fantasy purposes, you're
gonna ended up with a with an okay night in
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what should have been a plus situation passing game. Obviously
bereft of playmakers. Noah Lave, no Shaheed, he's done for
the year. And Derek Carr they're saying he's closer day
by day whatever. But Rattler's been awful. The offensive line
has been pathetic in holding back. And this is what
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you get to do sometimes pulling the string against a
rookie quarterback, but normally you find some way offensively to
at least slow it down. This is just a giant
flood at this point, coming after Rattler.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Look, this is the Broncos have a really good defense.
You could tell this was kind of made to order it.
I thought we get some sort of creativity, some different
way for the Saints to try to move the football.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Instead, it's just they're done right and advance. Joseph's having
his way with anything they want to put out there.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And yes, and is it tough. Yes, a lave is out.
Rashid Shaheed is now out for the season. We found
it out earlier today.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah, but in theory, these are all the guys you
were playing with on the second unit that has been
elevated to play with you, so you should have some
level of familiarity.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Come on, what means I picked him up in fantasy?
He's got three catches?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Come on, man, but Sir Tan's not playing on the
other side, right to take on one of their big playmakers.
I think part of it goes back to that missed opportunity.
Nicks throws an awful pass. He ends up looking like
a wizard in a thirty three three blowout situation. But
he throws what would have been an easy pick to
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the honey Badger, who just flat out drops it because
he sees green field in front of him.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I don't know that he.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Returns it for a score, but you might have had
a chance to put seven on at the end of
the half. Instead, you end up with a Broncos possession
that continues for another field goal. Will lutt having a
huge day against his former squad.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
If you lose like this to the Broncos, right in
the Broncos stink four and three now, I mean on
the go, if you lose like this to the Broncos,
what are the odds? Like, no, I would think about
this going to Vegas. I want to bet that, And
we'll have Todd Furmot next the show.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
The Saints go from winning the.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
First two games and they lose the last fifteen, Like,
what kind of.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Odds would you give me on that?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Because that certainly looks like how this is skidding because
they have no playmakers. You know, Alvin Kamara, he's a
he was a good player, but he's older now, he's
almost thirty, and he's just not the same dynamic guy. Again,
we told you the Saints were bad coming into the season,
but they beat the Carolina Panthers, who are the worst
team in the NFL up until you know, they made
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the quarterback change, and now there's still one of the
worst two or three teams. But the Saints are right there. Man,
the Saints are just right there. And yes, you could
talk about the injuries all you want, but this is
still a really, really bad football team. The fanig gaffort
at home and again, Drew Brees would have loved to
see him put on a Superman cape and try to
play the second half.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
You guys, want to know how bad this game is,
how upset al Michael is Ben now co hosting. I'm
going to give you a real discussion that him and
Kirk Herbstreet are having on the air.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Okay, go ahead, what game is so bad?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Okay that they're discussing if Connor McDavid is the best
NHL player of all time.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Of all time, of all time, a milestone, right, and.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Michaels went Gretzky. Of course, Gretzky is the greatest of
all time. Really, Brand says it was Drew Dowdy.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, all right, very good, all right, all right, I
want to hear what Ben has to say that that.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well, that's that.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
No, Milwaukee doesn't have a hockey team, all right, So
that's the conversation there, hav.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
And Michaels is getting paid a million dollars for this?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
What do you know about something else? Now, let's talk
about it. Let's talk about a great player somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Exit out about a Fransca exit swallen down the Jason
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Speaker 3 (06:45):
Now, as bad as things look for the Cowboys, right come?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
How bad the Cowboys look coming off this game with
the Saints getting fasted like this? Uh, they are catching
straight from everywhere because earlier today Troy Aikman, he does
a weekly radio hit in Dallas as well. Jerry Jones
does it. But who knows them? For how much longer
I'll get somebody else? I heard the Smith kid say
he had a dream about interviewing me. If he's going
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to do my impression about me to my face. I
don't need to talk, so we can just got he
can talk like me. And that's the interview. Troy Aikman
not happy with the Dallas efforts, specifically CD Lamb and
the wide receivers. Now Dak Prescott may say, I love
my guys. I love CD. They're so talented. Troy Aikman
had a different take on the Cowboys white outs.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I think the routes are terrible. I think they run
terrible routes, and I thought that beyond this year. And
I think CD's got to improve and his route running.
And as a quarterback, if you're not certain where guys
are going to be consistently, it's hard, it's hard to
play the position. And so that's that's what I see.
I see guys lazy coming off the line of scrimmage.
Sometimes they sometimes they run. Usually if they do, it's
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because they're anticipating they're going to get the football in
that play. But if they're not, they don't, and it
all ties together, and so I'm not impressed with that
part of it. I just finished watching the Baltimore Ravens
because I have them this week. You put on a
film of theirs and watch their receivers run routes and
they come off the football and so to San Francisco's
and Green Bays and others. But it's hard to play
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the position if you're not certain how guys are going
to run routes or where they're going to be. And
I'm not speaking for Dak. Dak may say, hey, I
think everything's amazing, but as a former quarterback watching it,
it's got to get a lot better.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Ninety six to seven the ticket in Dallas, Troy Aikman
just completely torching.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Let's go al boys.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Why was it mentioning cd lamby name? And look, let
me throw something out there too. Let me throw something
out there, right because we talked about a guy. If
he did, let me talk about this, Troy Aikman, Cowboys
head coach, I'd be great. Troy Aikman, new Cowboys head coach,
that would be fantastic right now.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Throughout his time with the Cup, people don't know this,
but throughout his time with the Cowboys, he was always
someone who would call out his teammates on the sideline.
He would call out bad blocking, he would call out
when something's not being done right.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Like that was Troy.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
He wasn't this hey man, great, great, No, he was like, hey,
you're blocking is for crap and it's bladety blanke and
it sucks and it's this, and it's that he was
that kind of guy. And you see Troy and and
and you see him say and talk about the Cowboys
like to say, listen, you're all lazy getting off the line.
Anywhere you look today, Hey, let's see if Troy Aikman
is right. Oh boy, guess what he is right. You
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can see any number of plays from the past couple
of weeks where hey, if I'm not getting the ball
just coming off the line and not doing anything, and
and it makes sense that, you know, look, you think
about a guy like Troy Aikman, who's who would be
such a big deal in Dallas obviously, And it's it's
kind of weird that an age where you go from
the broadcast booth to being head coaches now without a
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lot of experience, we've seen that I wouldn't be surprised
if in the offseason Troy Aikman becomes a candidate to
be the next head coach of the Cowboys, Because you
think about Jerry Jones and Jerry Jones is someone who doesn'
like when the spotlight is away from him, right, It's
why he's always hired for the most part head coaches.
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Who hey, I I handpicked you and you're the head coach.
But really it's about me. But he is so rattled
right now with saying this team is me.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
This team is me.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's my picking, it's my players, it's my this. He
does the interview where they go, Jerry, do you think
they stink? Because you didn't anybody this offseason. He gets
all mad, has a big hissy fit on the radio,
threatens to fire people. Jerry Jones does not whoever it is.
He does not want the Dallas Cowboys to be bad.
He does not want the Dallas Cowboys to be irrelevant.
So that's the that's the thing. Teams like the Cowboys
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and the Lakers, when they know they're not gonna win
a championship, well, we got to go out for relevancy,
which is why the Lakers drafted Brownie James, which is
why Jerry Jones kept Dack and gave Ceedee Lamb money.
If we're not gonna win a championship, we're gonna buy
relevancy and they will keep us good. But he doesn't
want to get blamed, okay, because he's been all this
in my team, it's my, it's my, it's my, it's my,
it's mine, it's mine. But now, okay, Jerry, it's yours.
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It's your fault.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Whoaah, whoa.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I need a little bit of misdirection here. We tell
the potential of Bill Belichick at Thanksgiving. If things go
really sideways for the Cowboys, there's only three and three,
so it wouldn't happen for a little bit. But Thanksgiving,
if the Cowboys are out of it, he's gonna do
something big. And while the attention has been on Belichick,
I would not be surprised if the tires are kicked
on Troy Aikman because he is And when I thought
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about this today, I said, I'm really surprised no one
has maybe, you know, try to take a run at
him before, because he is someone that's a student of
the game. He is someone that has a lot of respect.
He is someone that can walk into a locker room
and people would understand he has that relationship with people
in the game. And when that's become like a fertile ground. Now, hey, broadcasters,
who have been involved in the game that no things
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and understand that football and sports now is it's about
relationships and optics and what you do and hiring great
coaches to help. I'm really surprised that Aikman hasn't been
approached before. But really, I think about the offseason now
and think, wouldn't that be a home run from Jerry Jones.
He's got Troy. Troy would get a lot of the attention,
but Jerry would high Troy, remember you were my quarterback
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when he won championships, and if the Cowboys won, Jerry
still would have no problem taking all the success of it. Now,
Ken Troy and Jerry co exist. Could they work together
becauld they actually do that? That's the big question. But man,
if you called Troy Aikman and said, hey, man, I
know you're making a lot of money here, I know
you're doing well everything else head coach of the Dallas Cowboys,
I wonder what he would say.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
One of the things I've always loved, you know, from
his time at Fox and then obviously thereafter, is that
Aikman's always been pretty honest in his broadcasting. You know,
I'm almost critical to where people were like, wow, he's
actually going in because most former players don't. Right, It's
one of those things that we always wait to see.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
All right, where are.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
You gonna draw the line? Well, he's far enough re
moved from playing the game that it doesn't matter. He's
gonna call out bad play, sloppy play, lazy play in
this case that it would be interesting. I always wondered
why he wasn't in a front office and whether that
interested him at some point in terms of the valuation
process and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But coaching.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Look, McCarthy's walking the plank. It's just a matter of
how far he's out at this point, right, Because I
don't think McCarthy gets the same love and extended grace
that Jason Garrett did. I don't think he ever adopted
Mike McCarthy quite the same way. No, Right, so to
that if this season does continue to slide as it has,
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and look, they didn't address the run game, and every
once in a while, Rico Dude will do something like,
all right, you see some shades, but it's not there.
Zeke's complaining about his role. Dalvin Cook's not a non
factor at this point, and beyond Cede Lamb, it's a
lot of wishing and hoping. They're on their bye week
this week, so maybe they figure something out. It's just
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them and the Bears on buy this week.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But I don't know. I like the I like the idea, Troy,
I'd floated to him.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Cowboys head coach Troy Aikman had this to say following
another three interception day but Dak Prescott. Cowboys head coach
Troyigman had this, you know what, I never had any
interception days. I was efficient with the football. You know,
the most popular thing would be Cowboys head coach Troy
Aikman said this when comparing the current Dallas team to
his Super Bowl team of nineteen ninety six and then
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nineteen ninety four. Every nineteen ninety he kept rolling up
the name big old Nate Newton every.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Chance he got.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Jason, you just gave Mary like seven heart attacks. She
just thought every time you were going to a piece
of audio.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Treyigman had this to say when I asked about I
only had that one cut.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I genuinely was scared too. It's all right, it's a
it's all good. My job is on the line, by
the way. Yeah, just like Mike McCarthy. It's all good.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, it's like all the Mets players. Yeah. Speaking of
Mets and the Dodgers, a two run double by the
Dodgers has pushed the lead out to nine to two.
As the Dodgers bat in the top of the eighth inning,
the Mets had a couple of runners on in the
bottom of the seventh, they could not convert. They get
a fly out to right. Blake Trining comes into and
the inning. Now it is nine to two. Dodgers runner
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at second. Nobody out in the top of the eighth inning.
Dodgers will most likely leave this game in about a
half hour or so with a three games to one
lead in the NLC.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And then they get right back to it tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, well, indeed, flush that one, Flush that one, get
back to it. I I'm to have to wear I
can flush just one and get ready for the game tomorrow,
you know. And again, maybe you're gonna make it ten
to two. No base it to right. Fie runner stops
at third, Keky Hernanda stopping at third. So first and
third with nobody out in the top of the eighth inning,
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Mets fans not happy. Coming up next, we got more
big stories out of the NFL and a big time
hot take that's coming your way next right here, Jason
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Speaker 2 (15:51):
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Speaker 1 (16:02):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. May it a ten to two lead
for the Dodgers over the Mets show. Tani batting with
two outs and the bases loaded, hit him in the
top of the eighth inning. It's those Hollywood nights.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
At least the Mets got Max Munsey out. Finally they
did end the streak. The worst thing, yeah, right after
the game. No, they do it for tomorrow to get
to get them back into some kind of possible.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
The Temptations are singing.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Before before reach out.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
The toughest thing for Otani this series has been foul
balls off his body.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That has been the most difficult thing because he has
done that seemingly in every act bat. He just gets
punched out looking on the ball that looked to be
way outside. Maybe the umpire is just feeling sorry for
the Mets. Ten to two.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Dodge with the lead. Now is the Mets come to
bat in the bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Looked a bit low as well, but we've been seeing
the low strike in this series.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
That's low and outside.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
You're like, really, now, that's like it's like in all
the youth league games I have where it's like, Okay,
the strike zone's gonna expand when you're up, don't don't
look for walks.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Swing the bat, all right, you're winning fifteen to two.
Swing the bat, all right, that's what we'll do.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I once had a game where we're bludgeoning the opponent
and I'm up at the plate, and for whatever reason,
my uncle had to umpire the game, right, just one
of those desperation things.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Guy literally bounced one eight feet in front of the plane.
He called me out. It's like, come on, man, how
much money did he have on the game? I know
how much? How much money did he have?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
One?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
We won convincingly. I think he was in the spirit
of we're moving this along. I'm like, he's still gotta
get it at least pass the plate, doesn't he Just
what are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Just let him throw it?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
So again, that's kind of what that play looked like. Oh,
Tani just shook his head like, come on, I mean
it really looked to be outside. Didn't look it was
in the box. But again, hey, come on, swing the bat.
It's ten to two. Come on, swing the bat. I
want to everybody wants to go home. It's four thirty
on a Saturday. The next game is starting in a
half hour. We don't want to run over. Let's go
just swing the bat.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Well, this is completely it, right because now you're at
eleven thirty Eastern time and they've got to play again
tomorrow after an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Let's go do meanwhile, So again, barring an incredible miracle,
this is gonna be a three games to one lead
for the Dodgers, which we'll have more on coming up
in a bit.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But it's all right, there's brownies coming. Uh. The NFL
game tonight is over.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What's the best thing I can say? The game is over.
The Broncos beat the Saints. They beat up on the
Saints thirty three to ten, a game that was never close.
The Broncos just kind of built their lead out on
a night where the Saints honor Drew Breese and he
was able to lead them out and lead the crowd
in a big chap. It didn't matter. The Saints look
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absolutely abysmal. They get they.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Get a touchdown at the they get a touchdown at the.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
End, although it's Jake Hayner who comes in to throw it,
not Spencer Rattler. But the Broncos all over the Saints
thirty three to ten. And when you see this game,
and I'll give you a big hot take that you're
gonna say, oh boy, I don't know how hot that is.
This is a game which the Broncos have one of
the worst offenses in the NFL. They don't have a
lot of playmakers. Their quarterback is not very good. Bonnicks
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threw for one hundred and sixty four yards to night.
He ran for seventy five, had a big scramble. But
this is a night where the Broncos ran for two
twenty five against New Orleans. Javonte Williams goes for eighty
eight and a couple of touchdowns. Gelul McLoughlin had thirty
five yards rushing. It was they did anything they wanted to.
It was a lot of bad tackling from the Saints.
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There was no life on offense. And it's hard for
me to not think Dennis Allen is gonna be the
next head coach to be fired in the NFL. Not
the Richard Sherman hot take of hey, they're playing to
get him fired, but certain losses. Yes, anything that happens
on national television there, it's a big deal. And you know, hey,
look maybe that was one of the reasons why Robert
Sala got let go. Hey everybody got to see it
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because it was on everywhere an NFL network against the
Vikings and how badly they failed again. But this this
was a Saints team that in the last month has
shown that with injuries and ineffectiveness, they just don't have
anything going on for them. They don't they don't have
any jump on offense. Defense is bad. You can't allow
the Broncos to run for two twenty five anyone. They
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can't throw the football. And still that's what happened, and
the Saints still showing another game where they can't tackle, right,
I mean, we want, we want, we watched last week.
I mean it was a big viral sensation last week
for the Saints with their tackling against Tampa Bay when
Sewn Tucker Syracuse runs for like one hundred and fifty
yards and they they can't they can't bring him down
when three guys are on him. This isn't and this
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isn't an example of effort. It's it's an example of
a lack of urgency.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And that's when a coach gets fired.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Like when a team stops put out that that that
effort that you need to put in to compete in
every game, that's when coaches get let go. And that's
clearly what we're seeing right now. There's other coaches that
are going on the chopping block, and there's a lot
of you know, you don't know. Brian Dable is still
up and down. That looks like the Giants with no playmakers,
they're at least competing. But this is this is a
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Saints team that has lost everything. And I wouldn't be
surprised they lost every game the rest of the way.
They were a bad team coming in and now it
seems like they have lost life and that's when that's
when a coach gets fired. I don't know if it'll
be tomorrow, but it really is tough for me to
think that Dennis Allen is still going to be the
head coach in the next couple of weeks, and he'll
be the next guy to let go behind Robert Sola.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, and look at it as you've got a month
of tape now since those early breakouts, right, adding motion
all those things, because we had to ask the question, right,
the difference in play calling.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Uh, it's sure today.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
You know, part of this is the Sean Payton revenge game,
even if he'd been away from it for a bit,
it's an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
To venge game and will yeah, yeah, game.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
He had four field goals thirty eight. Now, evidently they
want to take away our fifty yard field goals and
change rules on that bags anyway, but the idea that
Sean Payton wanted to come in and run them over
and he did. You know, they haven't had a massive
running attack. I mean, coming into the game, Javantia Williams
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was averaging three point six yards to carry. He had
a bust out tonight with his eighty eight yards two scores.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Was active. They're not a good team. They're not a
good They're not a good team. Right.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Courtland Sutton was a guy that like, all right, you
got one receiver, but he's what a two two A
on most squads at this point, bo Nicks makes more
plays with his legs than anything. He gave up a
couple of ducks. He got away with the one we've
talked about, the Honey Badger, a couple others where it
might have been big games and you had the receiver
scrambling back to crawl back towards the football to where
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it was thrown. But you get a big win here,
you're four and three. Somehow you're still four and three.
Now on the other side for the Saints, they get
run over here.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
They got the Chargers next. Hell do you think hardballs and.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
That defense is just as good. Right, we'll talk about
the Chargers. Maybe maybe Derek Carr.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Is back, right, they've been saying day to day that
potentially he's back on the fields soon.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That's not enough to save it.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I mean O Lave is banged up in concussion protocol,
so we we assume he comes back in a week
or two weeks time. Uh, you've now got the long
week before the next game. But shakeeed, who is the
guy that was completely changing that offense is done for
the year.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
This is I mean, really, it's hard for me to
see any way forward. For Dennis Allen, it's it's if
you're just losing, I get it, But when you start
to lose the team, that's gonna be a thing. I
mentioned to see what the players are gonna say following
the game tonight, because looking, what did it for Robert Sola?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Right go back a week ago.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You had talk about, hey, there needs to be more accountability, right,
Quincy Williams stepped up and talked about it. There was
a lot of chatter about how, hey, we keep making
the same mistakes and there's no accountability. And then you
know what, that's on the coaches, all right, and that's
been on Robert Sola for three years. There's no accountability.
They still commit so many bad penalties, they're undisciplined, and
you know, Woody Johnson had enough, and everybody gets to
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a breaking point, right, And I think Woody Johnson's breaking
point was Robert Salace saying it is Monday press conference.
Nobody's panicked. Okay, you know what, that's it, We're done done.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I saw a.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Story today, what was it Drew Brees that said, I
think maybe something happened on the flight back from London
to New York and that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
He still did his press conference on Monday, everything was
still as it was. But I think that's what when
you when Robert Sala said, hey, and no one's panicked
in here, I think that was the final straw. We
had all this stuff go wrong and still wait, everything
is still fine. No, things are not fine. So they
needed a big change and and now is where they're chain.
He is gonna be when you see a lack of
effort and a lack of production. Look, look the Saints.
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They're leading rusher. They have rushed for more than forty
yards and in the last three weeks, right Kamara has
been the leading rusher of forty thirty six thirty five yards.
They have nothing going on. They have absolutely So when
you have nothing going on and you know you're gonna
move on from our coach, hey some way to try
to spark the season, because you can't just say, well,
we're gonna tank, like it's one thing for the Browns
with Kevin Stefanski, who's a great head coach. Yeah, we'll
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tank for next year because clearly we're not going anywhere
and the only day we're gonna get a new quarterback
in is if we're terrible, because we still got to
pay to Shawn Watson the next couple of years. So hey,
we're just gonna tank, continue to throw DeShawn Watson out there,
and we'll fit our new quarterback in and then we're
not bad.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Then it's not bad. We're paying to Shawn Watson to
be our backup.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
And we have as the fall guy, and we are
taking on all the incoming for the bad decisions made
by Haslo.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And we'll love sha Dura Sanders or Carson Beck coming
in and that's gonna be our guy because we'll fit
them in because of the rookie salary cap, so we'll
be able to do that. But it's it's when when
you're at a point where hey, bad head lines and
bad optics and a lack of effort are coming, then
that's when you have to make a change. And I
don't know that there's I can think of anybody in
the NFL on a hotter seat than Dennis Allen after
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what what's gone on the last month.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I don't think there's anybody. No, it looks like a
bit of quit.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I mean I won't go full Richard Sherman hot taker,
but you're not getting anything on either side of the ball,
and when you're dropping sure interceptions like where's your concentration?
Like where's like it's almost like, well, this play is
not gonna really matter. And that's a sad way to
be in Week seven of an NFL season. There's a
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lot of football left to be played, and you're already
in self preservation mode in some of these circumstances, and
now you're gonna have the infighting because Kamara had another
bad game, right The only thing he's he was good
for last year was the fact that he piled up
receptions and I'm not talking just fantasy like that was
his contribution to the team because they couldn't run the
football for anything last year either. So you add this
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and look, come again, you didn't expect a score fest.
I know the uh over under on this one was
thirty seven and a half, So you got that going
for you.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well, I told you last that I liked the over,
and I squeaked that out at the end with the
Saints got that Oh by the way, touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I liked the over.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I was like, oh man, we're not gonna get there. Well,
Saints got to score at least one touchdown.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Hey, all right, they got.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Hay comes in, you get the touchdown and we move on.
But you know the Broncos came in only giving up
what sixteen eighteen points a game. I don't have the
stat in front of me, and I know it was
in the teams. So you knew you were going to
get a good effort on that side of the ball.
Just thought you'd have a player too, and maybe your
own kicker would get answered to.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Along the way.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Instead, you got a no show effort at home, celebrating
Drew Brees and the juggernaut that was was there with
the architect of all of that in town kicking your ass.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And that's and that's the hard part.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
That's that's the other part of this conversation, when you
want to wind it out, is that you had this
kind of effort when the coach who left and look
there was all good relations. Look I left and now
I'm coming back. When that coach comes in with a
team that's not any good and kicks your ass like this, that's.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
There's no emotion that you're able to run.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
That's the over the top moment where it suddenly is okay,
we need to change because our old coach came in
here and did this and we were dead from the
neck up in this game. You know what, we're gonna
make it. Maybe it's tomorrow, maybe it's actor this week.
And I do have the long time now this is
when a move like that would happen. But really, if
Dennis Allen's still the coach in two weeks, I'm really surprised.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I really am exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
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Speaker 3 (28:44):
Now in the ninth thing? Oh, I really know. The
records just keep getting set.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Now.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
It's most walks drawn first four games of a postseason series.
In fact, most walks drawn in any four game span
in any postseason series. It's over thirty walks by the
Dodger batters so far.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It's top of the ninth.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Don't tell me anything's drawn. I know what they look like.
Just say walks. Seven walks in every game so far.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
He's drawing a sketch of what a walk looks like
right now, like we're playing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Picture, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
But here's the thing, just really quick, just really quick
about this is that you'd like to say, oh, hey,
this is the Dodgers, this is the at bats, but
this is this has been the Mets achilles heel pitching
all season. They walk way too many batters, and the
Dodgers in the postseason, hey, all right, let's be a
little bit more discerning. And the Mets just can't find
the strikes on me. How are you gonna win a
series when you walk seven guys in every game?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
You can't do it.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
How many times have we seen the Dodgers have a
playoff rally after a two hot walk? And you've got
Max Munsey, who's superb at drawing walks anyway, although his
streak is finally over striking out recently after reaching basie in.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Twelve, slashing the pan quitter here, splashing the pan overrated?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Uh show, hey, Otani became the first player in Major
League history with not only a leadoff home run, but
then three walks in a playoff game. In fact, he
has scored four times and the Dodgers lead ten to
two top of the ninth at New York. It's a turnaround,
let's say, for Game five on Friday in New York,
also on FS one, It'll be a five pm Eastern
(30:16):
time start. Mookie Betts is four for five this evening
with four RBIs. That includes a two run double in
the fourth and a two run homer for him in
the sixth. The Dodgers are three defensive outs away from
taking a three games to one lead in this NL
Championship Series, and Freddie Freeman of LA was out tonight
with the ankle injury as one RBI this postseason, and
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second baseman Gavin Lux with the hip injury, did not start.
The American League Championship Series had quite a game at Cleveland.
The Yankees were this close to going up three games
to none. Instead it's two games to one because the
Guardians hit in the bottom of the ninth with two outs,
the tying two run homer from a pinch hitter John
Kenzie noel and it came out off the Yankees closer
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who's been so great the last month and a half
since he got that role, Luke Weaver, allowed that and
then a two run homer in the tenth to win
for Cleveland's David Fry, a guy who at homered a
week ago at Detroit in a playoff game that they won.
So seven to five Cleveland over the Yankees the final,
and the Guardians will be hosting again on Friday night,
and then we know there will be a Saturday night
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game there as well for game number five. And then
there's the NFL game tonight. You know, the Saints offense
was just killing people the first couple of weeks this year.
Nowhere to be seen. Now Denver won at New Orleans
thirty three to ten. Saints have lost five games in
a row. Spencer Rattler was Tonight's quarterback, sacked six times,
he had two fumbles. Derek Carr could miss another few
(31:42):
weeks with an oblique injury, Taysom Hill out with injury,
Chris Olave out with injury. Saints wide receiver Rashid Shaheed
out for the year after knee surgery. Today, the Broncos
as a team on the ground two hundred and twenty
five yards rushing. Quarterback Bo Nicks had ten carries seventy
five yards. Giants wide receiver Malik Neighbors cleared concussion protocol,
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so he's expected to play Sunday against the Eagles. Neighbors
practice fully today. Giants running back Devin Singletary was limited
in practice with his groin injury, and Giants punter Jamie
Gillen miss practice due to a bad hamstring. For the Eagles,
tight end Dallas Goddard at miss practice with a hamstring injury,
and the Titans released safety Jamal Adams as he'd requested
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back to you.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
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Dodgers lead the Mets ten to two. Mets have two
on two out in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Dodgers about to take a three games to one lead
in the nlcsluft more on this game coming up in
a few minutes. However, a shocking retirement that we saw
today right before you and I came in. Tony Bennett,
Virginia head basketball coach, is retiring effective immediately. Going to
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make the official announcement tomorrow. Bennett's only fifty five was
set to begin his sixteenth year with Virginia. First game
was coming up against Campbell in the beginning of November.
And what we've heard right away, which is good news,
it is not health related, so that is good. But
Tony Bennet, I mean, three weeks before the season starts
he decides to retire. Won the national championship in twenty nineteen.
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That was his last NCAA tournament win. They have lost
their first game the rest of the way, but still
national championship in twenty nineteen and a shocking decision to
retire today three weeks before the season starting. There's video
of him from the big scrimmage. They had looked like
he was energetic, ready to go. And you know, the
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first thing you think of his health and I go okay.
So if it's not health, it's is good. You know
the other part of it is it gonna be? What
is this going to be? We're gonna hopefully get the
story tomorrow, but your mind is going in a bunch
of different directions. Okay, health is always the first thing.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
It's not health, that's great, hopefully it's health for his family.
Everybody else is fine there too. But when you hear
what ESPN saying the decision is not health related, yeah,
everybody's okay. Why you're stepping down three weeks before the season,
Like if you're done and you're done with the nil
part of things, and that's gonna be a big popular
push for this. Like you retire after the season's over,
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you don't wait to come back for another year and
a way to go wait, and I don't like there's
gonna be a big shoot to drop tomorrow. We're gonna
get some kind of reason that that that we're not
thinking of right now.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
As to why he retired.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah, he was actually asked about that at ACC media
Day a week ago, whether he might be the next
Jay Wright.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Coach k keep going on.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Down that line, and he, you know, said, hey, I
gotta call Jay write and see what he says.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I've always said when you're doing this, you're in this profession,
whether you agree how it's going or not, you have
to be true to yourself and really look at and say, quote,
who am I? Can I operate how I want? And
can I be successful enough? And you get to choose
if you want to be a part of it or not. Evidently,
something in the offing of the players he's recruiting, has
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recruited or returning.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Something in that equation.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Suddenly went south with three weeks before a season begins.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Maybe it's this. I'm gonna kill you with this.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Okay, let's go all right now, maybe it's this right,
because maybe maybe right this is really close to the season.
You would think that if he was going to retire,
we'd have got it a while ago.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Maybe because Virginia plays at the very slow pace. Yeah,
you know, we're just finding out about the decision.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
No very, I mean that has come back to bite
them in the Ass's come on.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
In five points a game. I mean they win every
game forty five to twenty five. But it's like playing
bullpen game. That's not gonna work. I meant to get
to it. I meant to tell you, but you know,
the slow pace, everything is a little bit slower. So
it's coming out now instead of, you know, maybe a
few months ago.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
We start talking.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
About molasses while we're at it and have some food
analogies of you know, some some fixed syrup or something.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
It's whenever we get one of these announcements last minute,
like your brain goes to a couple of places, right,
it's either the the health is first, so the fact
that that's being pushed to the side. Okay, good glad,
everybody's okay now, we start talking about nil considerations recruiting,
whether there's battles between administration and what they're trying to
(37:25):
do or what they're trying to force him to do
in terms of future recruits players that might have been
part of the Tony Bennett system in the past, Like
we need a little more flash, we need a little
more possessed, we need to change this up. And you're
trying to say, well, that's not how we coach, that's
not you know, how our program runs. And then you
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go even further and then it becomes a is there
some kind of scandal that suddenly pops up, which I
don't think just the way this got framed, here's what
I'm you know, here, here's what I'm hoping it is,
and and and and because we've now seen coaches do
this where oh there's gonna be some kind of thing
what I'm hoping it is.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
But I mean, it's weird. You know, it's not helped
anything else.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Is that there's moments when when players and coaches know, hey,
I'm done, or my battery isn't empty. I need to
recharge now. Maybe a recharge thing for him, because being
fifty five, certainly he is young enough to coach for
another couple of decades and wants to take a year
or two off. But sometimes coaches just know it at
odd times, you know what, I'm done. I don't have
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the energy needed, I don't have the the the will
to get out and do what needs to happen now.
It doesn't usually happen this close to the season because
the game days are always the best days and everything else.
It's usually the off season putting in the work and
doing all the recruiting and the nil. But every coach
has a different reason. It could be, Hey, you know what,
it just hit me. I just don't have it in me.
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I'm just mentally worn down and I'm tired. And whether
it's a retirement or a resignation, certainly it is. You know,
That's what I'm hoping it is. You know what, I
just I hit something, something happened to me, or I
had a revelation of some kind of epiphany that hit
me that I'm not ready to put in the effort
that I need to do this for the kids. Because
three for the season starts. Man, that's like, Hey, what
(39:10):
do you mean you're leaving coach? What do you mean
You're leaving.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, I mean, because look, now we're in that age.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Look, we got a bunch of twenty somethings that don't
want to show up to work five days a week.
Guy fifty five, he's grinding. He've been grinding for a
long time. He just said, Hey, what this is gonna
take to get through another season?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I just don't have it. He would.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Look, he's a head coach, very young, Washington State, moved
on his way up. So I mean, really, I mean,
fifty five is tough to say I'm retired when you're
when this is what you do, all these guys running
themselves into the seventies and whatever. Yeah that maybe maybe
that's enough to where we're at anymore.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Oh man, But I'll tell you where we're gonna. We're
gonna get the story. Likely we'll get it tomorrow. I'm
hoping that's what it is. My battery is on empty,
and I'm resigning, slash retiring. Talk to me in a
year or two see where I'm at.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
But the way he attacked with the enthusiasm only rivaled
by Harbor, I mean, maybe your battery needs a recharge.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Maybe it's a TV Jason, Yeah, I got something that'll
cheer you up. Next segment, you do Oh, that's great,
Thanks Justin.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
It's like seven things I don't trust him.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Coming up next one, we'll have more on why the
Dodgers look like they're heading to the World Series.
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the Mets seven to two. Mets batting in the bottom
of the seventh inning, one on one out. Meanwhile, we're
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just really waiting for this Thursday night football game to end.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Throw a damn towel. Spencer Rattler has hit.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
As he throws, the ball kind of flutters out of
his hands and it turns into a pick six for
the Broncos. Uh, they now lead by thirty Cliff Barton
ran Man Barton in the right place at the right time. Uh,
thirty three to three is the score right now, four
minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Look, it has been a very.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Triumphant night for Sean Payton coming back to New Orleans
and the Saints honoring Drew Brees of the game tonight,
he was in the boot honoring him by not scoring
a touchdowns. I congratulate New Orleans. That's that's absolutely fantastic.
Congratulates in New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Congratulates Yeah, Cody Barton obviously with the play, I went
for Hawkeye and tried to bring Clinton. But just a
miserable game and halftime. Richard Sherman assessed it, Dusty. Uh,
they look like they've quit and they want their coach fired,
referring to Dennis Allen. Second half has been more of
the same. Now they've got a number of injuries. But wait,
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but wait, I remember after the second week and the season,
the Saints were great and people told me they were great,
and I said, no, they still stink. And maybe the
Cowboys just stink, but no, no, the Saints were so
good and the receivers were so fast, everything was so great. No,
the Saints stink. We told you they stink. Yes, they
have injuries, but the Saints stink. And when you're at
this point, now you're talking about, Hey, is the coach
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gonna get fired?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
What's going on? I told you they stunk.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
They were closer to picking first overall, but they beat
the Cowboy They beat the cowbt.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
No, we told you the Cowboys might stink, and boy,
how right were we? And now the Saints you realize
they just think they've Boy, how bad are the Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Then if you if you see how bad the Saints.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Wow, transferring that property between teams. But yeah, this is
an abject failure. I mean, he saw Kamara a couple
times on the sidelines demonstrative because at one point he
had five carries for two yards, five catches for eleven yards. So,
at least from a PPR standpoint for fantasy purposes, you're
gonna ended up with a with an okay night in
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what should have been a plus situation passing game. Obviously
bereft of playmakers. Noah Lave, no Shaheed, he's done for
the year. And Derek Carr they're saying he's closer day
by day whatever. But Rattler's been awful. The offensive line
has been pathetic in holding back. And this is what
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you get to do sometimes pulling the string against a
rookie quarterback, but normally you find some way offensively to
at least slow it down. This is just a giant
flood at this point, coming after Rattler.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Look, this is the Broncos have a really good defense.
You could tell this was kind of made to order it.
I thought we get some sort of creativity, some different
way for the Saints to try to move the football.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Instead, it's just they're done right and advance. Joseph's having
his way with anything they want to put out there.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And yes, and is it tough. Yes, a lave is out.
Rashid Shaheed is now out for the season. We found
it out earlier today.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah, but in theory, these are all the guys you
were playing with on the second unit that has been
elevated to play with you, so you should have some
level of familiarity.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Come on, what means I picked him up in fantasy?
He's got three catches?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Come on, man, but Sir Tan's not playing on the
other side, right to take on one of their big playmakers.
I think part of it goes back to that missed opportunity.
Nicks throws an awful pass. He ends up looking like
a wizard in a thirty three three blowout situation. But
he throws what would have been an easy pick to
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the honey Badger, who just flat out drops it because
he sees green field in front of him.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I don't know that he.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Returns it for a score, but you might have had
a chance to put seven on at the end of
the half. Instead, you end up with a Broncos possession
that continues for another field goal. Will lutt having a
huge day against his former squad.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
If you lose like this to the Broncos, right in
the Broncos stink four and three now, I mean on
the go, if you lose like this to the Broncos,
what are the odds? Like, no, I would think about
this going to Vegas. I want to bet that, And
we'll have Todd Furmot next the show.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
The Saints go from winning the.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
First two games and they lose the last fifteen, Like,
what kind of.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Odds would you give me on that?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Because that certainly looks like how this is skidding because
they have no playmakers. You know, Alvin Kamara, he's a
he was a good player, but he's older now, he's
almost thirty, and he's just not the same dynamic guy. Again,
we told you the Saints were bad coming into the season,
but they beat the Carolina Panthers, who are the worst
team in the NFL up until you know, they made
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the quarterback change, and now there's still one of the
worst two or three teams. But the Saints are right there. Man,
the Saints are just right there. And yes, you could
talk about the injuries all you want, but this is
still a really, really bad football team. The fanig gaffort
at home and again, Drew Brees would have loved to
see him put on a Superman cape and try to
play the second half.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
You guys, want to know how bad this game is,
how upset al Michael is Ben now co hosting. I'm
going to give you a real discussion that him and
Kirk Herbstreet are having on the air.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Okay, go ahead, what game is so bad?
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Okay that they're discussing if Connor McDavid is the best
NHL player of all time.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Of all time, of all time, a milestone, right, and.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Michaels went Gretzky. Of course, Gretzky is the greatest of
all time. Really, Brand says it was Drew Dowdy.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, all right, very good, all right, all right, I
want to hear what Ben has to say that that.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well, that's that.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
No, Milwaukee doesn't have a hockey team, all right, So
that's the conversation there, hav.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
And Michaels is getting paid a million dollars for this?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
What do you know about something else? Now, let's talk
about it. Let's talk about a great player somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Exit out about a Fransca exit swallen down the Jason
smithser with Mike Carman, Live from the TIREC dot Com studios.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Now, as bad as things look for the Cowboys, right come?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
How bad the Cowboys look coming off this game with
the Saints getting fasted like this? Uh, they are catching
straight from everywhere because earlier today Troy Aikman, he does
a weekly radio hit in Dallas as well. Jerry Jones
does it. But who knows them? For how much longer
I'll get somebody else? I heard the Smith kid say
he had a dream about interviewing me. If he's going
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to do my impression about me to my face. I
don't need to talk, so we can just got he
can talk like me. And that's the interview. Troy Aikman
not happy with the Dallas efforts, specifically CD Lamb and
the wide receivers. Now Dak Prescott may say, I love
my guys. I love CD. They're so talented. Troy Aikman
had a different take on the Cowboys white outs.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
I think the routes are terrible. I think they run
terrible routes, and I thought that beyond this year. And
I think CD's got to improve and his route running.
And as a quarterback, if you're not certain where guys
are going to be consistently, it's hard, it's hard to
play the position. And so that's that's what I see.
I see guys lazy coming off the line of scrimmage.
Sometimes they sometimes they run. Usually if they do, it's
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because they're anticipating they're going to get the football in
that play. But if they're not, they don't, and it
all ties together, and so I'm not impressed with that
part of it. I just finished watching the Baltimore Ravens
because I have them this week. You put on a
film of theirs and watch their receivers run routes and
they come off the football and so to San Francisco's
and Green Bays and others. But it's hard to play
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the position if you're not certain how guys are going
to run routes or where they're going to be. And
I'm not speaking for Dak. Dak may say, hey, I
think everything's amazing, but as a former quarterback watching it,
it's got to get a lot better.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Ninety six to seven the ticket in Dallas, Troy Aikman
just completely torching.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Let's go al boys.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Why was it mentioning cd lamby name? And look, let
me throw something out there too. Let me throw something
out there, right because we talked about a guy. If
he did, let me talk about this, Troy Aikman, Cowboys
head coach, I'd be great. Troy Aikman, new Cowboys head coach,
that would be fantastic right now.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Throughout his time with the Cup, people don't know this,
but throughout his time with the Cowboys, he was always
someone who would call out his teammates on the sideline.
He would call out bad blocking, he would call out
when something's not being done right.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Like that was Troy.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
He wasn't this hey man, great, great, No, he was like, hey,
you're blocking is for crap and it's bladety blanke and
it sucks and it's this, and it's that he was
that kind of guy. And you see Troy and and
and you see him say and talk about the Cowboys
like to say, listen, you're all lazy getting off the line.
Anywhere you look today, Hey, let's see if Troy Aikman
is right. Oh boy, guess what he is right. You
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can see any number of plays from the past couple
of weeks where hey, if I'm not getting the ball
just coming off the line and not doing anything, and
and it makes sense that, you know, look, you think
about a guy like Troy Aikman, who's who would be
such a big deal in Dallas obviously, And it's it's
kind of weird that an age where you go from
the broadcast booth to being head coaches now without a
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lot of experience, we've seen that I wouldn't be surprised
if in the offseason Troy Aikman becomes a candidate to
be the next head coach of the Cowboys, Because you
think about Jerry Jones and Jerry Jones is someone who doesn'
like when the spotlight is away from him, right, It's
why he's always hired for the most part head coaches.
(10:04):
Who hey, I I handpicked you and you're the head coach.
But really it's about me. But he is so rattled
right now with saying this team is me.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
This team is me.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's my picking, it's my players, it's my this. He
does the interview where they go, Jerry, do you think
they stink? Because you didn't anybody this offseason. He gets
all mad, has a big hissy fit on the radio,
threatens to fire people. Jerry Jones does not whoever it is.
He does not want the Dallas Cowboys to be bad.
He does not want the Dallas Cowboys to be irrelevant.
So that's the that's the thing. Teams like the Cowboys
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and the Lakers, when they know they're not gonna win
a championship, well, we got to go out for relevancy,
which is why the Lakers drafted Brownie James, which is
why Jerry Jones kept Dack and gave Ceedee Lamb money.
If we're not gonna win a championship, we're gonna buy
relevancy and they will keep us good. But he doesn't
want to get blamed, okay, because he's been all this
in my team, it's my, it's my, it's my, it's my,
it's mine, it's mine. But now, okay, Jerry, it's yours.
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It's your fault.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Whoaah, whoa.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I need a little bit of misdirection here. We tell
the potential of Bill Belichick at Thanksgiving. If things go
really sideways for the Cowboys, there's only three and three,
so it wouldn't happen for a little bit. But Thanksgiving,
if the Cowboys are out of it, he's gonna do
something big. And while the attention has been on Belichick,
I would not be surprised if the tires are kicked
on Troy Aikman because he is And when I thought
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about this today, I said, I'm really surprised no one
has maybe, you know, try to take a run at
him before, because he is someone that's a student of
the game. He is someone that has a lot of respect.
He is someone that can walk into a locker room
and people would understand he has that relationship with people
in the game. And when that's become like a fertile ground. Now, hey, broadcasters,
who have been involved in the game that no things
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and understand that football and sports now is it's about
relationships and optics and what you do and hiring great
coaches to help. I'm really surprised that Aikman hasn't been
approached before. But really, I think about the offseason now
and think, wouldn't that be a home run from Jerry Jones.
He's got Troy. Troy would get a lot of the attention,
but Jerry would high Troy, remember you were my quarterback
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when he won championships, and if the Cowboys won, Jerry
still would have no problem taking all the success of it. Now,
Ken Troy and Jerry co exist. Could they work together
becauld they actually do that? That's the big question. But man,
if you called Troy Aikman and said, hey, man, I
know you're making a lot of money here, I know
you're doing well everything else head coach of the Dallas Cowboys,
I wonder what he would say.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
One of the things I've always loved, you know, from
his time at Fox and then obviously thereafter, is that
Aikman's always been pretty honest in his broadcasting. You know,
I'm almost critical to where people were like, wow, he's
actually going in because most former players don't. Right, It's
one of those things that we always wait to see.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
All right, where are.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
You gonna draw the line? Well, he's far enough re
moved from playing the game that it doesn't matter. He's
gonna call out bad play, sloppy play, lazy play in
this case that it would be interesting. I always wondered
why he wasn't in a front office and whether that
interested him at some point in terms of the valuation
process and everything.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But coaching.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Look, McCarthy's walking the plank. It's just a matter of
how far he's out at this point, right, Because I
don't think McCarthy gets the same love and extended grace
that Jason Garrett did. I don't think he ever adopted
Mike McCarthy quite the same way. No, Right, so to
that if this season does continue to slide as it has,
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and look, they didn't address the run game, and every
once in a while, Rico Dude will do something like,
all right, you see some shades, but it's not there.
Zeke's complaining about his role. Dalvin Cook's not a non
factor at this point, and beyond Cede Lamb, it's a
lot of wishing and hoping. They're on their bye week
this week, so maybe they figure something out. It's just
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them and the Bears on buy this week.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
But I don't know. I like the I like the idea, Troy,
I'd floated to him.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Cowboys head coach Troy Aikman had this to say following
another three interception day but Dak Prescott. Cowboys head coach
Troyigman had this, you know what, I never had any
interception days. I was efficient with the football. You know,
the most popular thing would be Cowboys head coach Troy
Aikman said this when comparing the current Dallas team to
his Super Bowl team of nineteen ninety six and then
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nineteen ninety four. Every nineteen ninety he kept rolling up
the name big old Nate Newton every.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Chance he got.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Jason, you just gave Mary like seven heart attacks. She
just thought every time you were going to a piece
of audio.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Treyigman had this to say when I asked about I
only had that one cut.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I genuinely was scared too. It's all right, it's a
it's all good. My job is on the line, by
the way. Yeah, just like Mike McCarthy. It's all good.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, it's like all the Mets players. Yeah. Speaking of
Mets and the Dodgers, a two run double by the
Dodgers has pushed the lead out to nine to two.
As the Dodgers bat in the top of the eighth inning,
the Mets had a couple of runners on in the
bottom of the seventh, they could not convert. They get
a fly out to right. Blake Trining comes into and
the inning. Now it is nine to two. Dodgers runner
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at second. Nobody out in the top of the eighth inning.
Dodgers will most likely leave this game in about a
half hour or so with a three games to one
lead in the NLC.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And then they get right back to it tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah, well, indeed, flush that one, Flush that one, get
back to it. I I'm to have to wear I
can flush just one and get ready for the game tomorrow,
you know. And again, maybe you're gonna make it ten
to two. No base it to right. Fie runner stops
at third, Keky Hernanda stopping at third. So first and
third with nobody out in the top of the eighth inning,
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Mets fans not happy. Coming up next, we got more
big stories out of the NFL and a big time
hot take that's coming your way next right here, Jason
and Mike, This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
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 (16:02):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. May it a ten to two lead
for the Dodgers over the Mets show. Tani batting with
two outs and the bases loaded, hit him in the
top of the eighth inning. It's those Hollywood nights.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
At least the Mets got Max Munsey out. Finally they
did end the streak. The worst thing, yeah, right after
the game. No, they do it for tomorrow to get
to get them back into some kind of possible.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
The Temptations are singing.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Before before reach out.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
The toughest thing for Otani this series has been foul
balls off his body.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
That has been the most difficult thing because he has
done that seemingly in every act bat. He just gets
punched out looking on the ball that looked to be
way outside. Maybe the umpire is just feeling sorry for
the Mets. Ten to two.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Dodge with the lead. Now is the Mets come to
bat in the bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Looked a bit low as well, but we've been seeing
the low strike in this series.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
That's low and outside.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
You're like, really, now, that's like it's like in all
the youth league games I have where it's like, Okay,
the strike zone's gonna expand when you're up, don't don't
look for walks.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Swing the bat, all right, you're winning fifteen to two.
Swing the bat, all right, that's what we'll do.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I once had a game where we're bludgeoning the opponent
and I'm up at the plate, and for whatever reason,
my uncle had to umpire the game, right, just one
of those desperation things.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Guy literally bounced one eight feet in front of the plane.
He called me out. It's like, come on, man, how
much money did he have on the game? I know
how much? How much money did he have?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
One?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
We won convincingly. I think he was in the spirit
of we're moving this along. I'm like, he's still gotta
get it at least pass the plate, doesn't he Just
what are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Just let him throw it?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
So again, that's kind of what that play looked like. Oh,
Tani just shook his head like, come on, I mean
it really looked to be outside. Didn't look it was
in the box. But again, hey, come on, swing the bat.
It's ten to two. Come on, swing the bat. I
want to everybody wants to go home. It's four thirty
on a Saturday. The next game is starting in a
half hour. We don't want to run over. Let's go
just swing the bat.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Well, this is completely it, right because now you're at
eleven thirty Eastern time and they've got to play again
tomorrow after an hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Let's go do meanwhile, So again, barring an incredible miracle,
this is gonna be a three games to one lead
for the Dodgers, which we'll have more on coming up
in a bit.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But it's all right, there's brownies coming. Uh. The NFL
game tonight is over.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What's the best thing I can say? The game is over.
The Broncos beat the Saints. They beat up on the
Saints thirty three to ten, a game that was never close.
The Broncos just kind of built their lead out on
a night where the Saints honor Drew Breese and he
was able to lead them out and lead the crowd
in a big chap. It didn't matter. The Saints look
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absolutely abysmal. They get they.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Get a touchdown at the they get a touchdown at the.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
End, although it's Jake Hayner who comes in to throw it,
not Spencer Rattler. But the Broncos all over the Saints
thirty three to ten. And when you see this game,
and I'll give you a big hot take that you're
gonna say, oh boy, I don't know how hot that is.
This is a game which the Broncos have one of
the worst offenses in the NFL. They don't have a
lot of playmakers. Their quarterback is not very good. Bonnicks
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threw for one hundred and sixty four yards to night.
He ran for seventy five, had a big scramble. But
this is a night where the Broncos ran for two
twenty five against New Orleans. Javonte Williams goes for eighty
eight and a couple of touchdowns. Gelul McLoughlin had thirty
five yards rushing. It was they did anything they wanted to.
It was a lot of bad tackling from the Saints.
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There was no life on offense. And it's hard for
me to not think Dennis Allen is gonna be the
next head coach to be fired in the NFL. Not
the Richard Sherman hot take of hey, they're playing to
get him fired, but certain losses. Yes, anything that happens
on national television there, it's a big deal. And you know, hey,
look maybe that was one of the reasons why Robert
Sala got let go. Hey everybody got to see it
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because it was on everywhere an NFL network against the
Vikings and how badly they failed again. But this this
was a Saints team that in the last month has
shown that with injuries and ineffectiveness, they just don't have
anything going on for them. They don't they don't have
any jump on offense. Defense is bad. You can't allow
the Broncos to run for two twenty five anyone. They
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can't throw the football. And still that's what happened, and
the Saints still showing another game where they can't tackle, right,
I mean, we want, we want, we watched last week.
I mean it was a big viral sensation last week
for the Saints with their tackling against Tampa Bay when
Sewn Tucker Syracuse runs for like one hundred and fifty
yards and they they can't they can't bring him down
when three guys are on him. This isn't and this
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isn't an example of effort. It's it's an example of
a lack of urgency.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
And that's when a coach gets fired.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Like when a team stops put out that that that
effort that you need to put in to compete in
every game, that's when coaches get let go. And that's
clearly what we're seeing right now. There's other coaches that
are going on the chopping block, and there's a lot
of you know, you don't know. Brian Dable is still
up and down. That looks like the Giants with no playmakers,
they're at least competing. But this is this is a
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Saints team that has lost everything. And I wouldn't be
surprised they lost every game the rest of the way.
They were a bad team coming in and now it
seems like they have lost life and that's when that's
when a coach gets fired. I don't know if it'll
be tomorrow, but it really is tough for me to
think that Dennis Allen is still going to be the
head coach in the next couple of weeks, and he'll
be the next guy to let go behind Robert Sola.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, and look at it as you've got a month
of tape now since those early breakouts, right, adding motion
all those things, because we had to ask the question, right,
the difference in play calling.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Uh, it's sure today.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
You know, part of this is the Sean Payton revenge game,
even if he'd been away from it for a bit,
it's an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
To venge game and will yeah, yeah, game.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
He had four field goals thirty eight. Now, evidently they
want to take away our fifty yard field goals and
change rules on that bags anyway, but the idea that
Sean Payton wanted to come in and run them over
and he did. You know, they haven't had a massive
running attack. I mean, coming into the game, Javantia Williams
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was averaging three point six yards to carry. He had
a bust out tonight with his eighty eight yards two scores.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Was active. They're not a good team. They're not a
good They're not a good team. Right.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Courtland Sutton was a guy that like, all right, you
got one receiver, but he's what a two two A
on most squads at this point, bo Nicks makes more
plays with his legs than anything. He gave up a
couple of ducks. He got away with the one we've
talked about, the Honey Badger, a couple others where it
might have been big games and you had the receiver
scrambling back to crawl back towards the football to where
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it was thrown. But you get a big win here,
you're four and three. Somehow you're still four and three.
Now on the other side for the Saints, they get
run over here.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
They got the Chargers next. Hell do you think hardballs and.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
That defense is just as good. Right, we'll talk about
the Chargers. Maybe maybe Derek Carr.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Is back, right, they've been saying day to day that
potentially he's back on the fields soon.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That's not enough to save it.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
I mean O Lave is banged up in concussion protocol,
so we we assume he comes back in a week
or two weeks time. Uh, you've now got the long
week before the next game. But shakeeed, who is the
guy that was completely changing that offense is done for
the year.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
This is I mean, really, it's hard for me to
see any way forward. For Dennis Allen, it's it's if
you're just losing, I get it, But when you start
to lose the team, that's gonna be a thing. I
mentioned to see what the players are gonna say following
the game tonight, because looking, what did it for Robert Sola?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Right go back a week ago.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You had talk about, hey, there needs to be more accountability, right,
Quincy Williams stepped up and talked about it. There was
a lot of chatter about how, hey, we keep making
the same mistakes and there's no accountability. And then you
know what, that's on the coaches, all right, and that's
been on Robert Sola for three years. There's no accountability.
They still commit so many bad penalties, they're undisciplined, and
you know, Woody Johnson had enough, and everybody gets to
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a breaking point, right, And I think Woody Johnson's breaking
point was Robert Salace saying it is Monday press conference.
Nobody's panicked. Okay, you know what, that's it, We're done done.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I saw a.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Story today, what was it Drew Brees that said, I
think maybe something happened on the flight back from London
to New York and that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
He still did his press conference on Monday, everything was
still as it was. But I think that's what when
you when Robert Sala said, hey, and no one's panicked
in here, I think that was the final straw. We
had all this stuff go wrong and still wait, everything
is still fine. No, things are not fine. So they
needed a big change and and now is where they're chain.
He is gonna be when you see a lack of
effort and a lack of production. Look, look the Saints.
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They're leading rusher. They have rushed for more than forty
yards and in the last three weeks, right Kamara has
been the leading rusher of forty thirty six thirty five yards.
They have nothing going on. They have absolutely So when
you have nothing going on and you know you're gonna
move on from our coach, hey some way to try
to spark the season, because you can't just say, well,
we're gonna tank, like it's one thing for the Browns
with Kevin Stefanski, who's a great head coach. Yeah, we'll
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tank for next year because clearly we're not going anywhere
and the only day we're gonna get a new quarterback
in is if we're terrible, because we still got to
pay to Shawn Watson the next couple of years. So hey,
we're just gonna tank, continue to throw DeShawn Watson out there,
and we'll fit our new quarterback in and then we're
not bad.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Then it's not bad. We're paying to Shawn Watson to
be our backup.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
And we have as the fall guy, and we are
taking on all the incoming for the bad decisions made
by Haslo.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And we'll love sha Dura Sanders or Carson Beck coming
in and that's gonna be our guy because we'll fit
them in because of the rookie salary cap, so we'll
be able to do that. But it's it's when when
you're at a point where hey, bad head lines and
bad optics and a lack of effort are coming, then
that's when you have to make a change. And I
don't know that there's I can think of anybody in
the NFL on a hotter seat than Dennis Allen after
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what what's gone on the last month.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I don't think there's anybody. No, it looks like a
bit of quit.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I mean I won't go full Richard Sherman hot taker,
but you're not getting anything on either side of the ball,
and when you're dropping sure interceptions like where's your concentration?
Like where's like it's almost like, well, this play is
not gonna really matter. And that's a sad way to
be in Week seven of an NFL season. There's a
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lot of football left to be played, and you're already
in self preservation mode in some of these circumstances, and
now you're gonna have the infighting because Kamara had another
bad game, right The only thing he's he was good
for last year was the fact that he piled up
receptions and I'm not talking just fantasy like that was
his contribution to the team because they couldn't run the
football for anything last year either. So you add this
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and look, come again, you didn't expect a score fest.
I know the uh over under on this one was
thirty seven and a half, So you got that going
for you.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well, I told you last that I liked the over,
and I squeaked that out at the end with the
Saints got that Oh by the way, touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I liked the over.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I was like, oh man, we're not gonna get there. Well,
Saints got to score at least one touchdown.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Hey, all right, they got.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Hay comes in, you get the touchdown and we move on.
But you know the Broncos came in only giving up
what sixteen eighteen points a game. I don't have the
stat in front of me, and I know it was
in the teams. So you knew you were going to
get a good effort on that side of the ball.
Just thought you'd have a player too, and maybe your
own kicker would get answered to.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Along the way.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Instead, you got a no show effort at home, celebrating
Drew Brees and the juggernaut that was was there with
the architect of all of that in town kicking your ass.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And that's and that's the hard part.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
That's that's the other part of this conversation, when you
want to wind it out, is that you had this
kind of effort when the coach who left and look
there was all good relations. Look I left and now
I'm coming back. When that coach comes in with a
team that's not any good and kicks your ass like this, that's.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
There's no emotion that you're able to run.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
That's the over the top moment where it suddenly is okay,
we need to change because our old coach came in
here and did this and we were dead from the
neck up in this game. You know what, we're gonna
make it. Maybe it's tomorrow, maybe it's actor this week.
And I do have the long time now this is
when a move like that would happen. But really, if
Dennis Allen's still the coach in two weeks, I'm really surprised.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I really am exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
The Jason Smithzer with Mike Carmon, Live from the tirec
dot Com studios. Time to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. Special delivery Steve the Sega
has the latest Mets and Dodgers now tied to Ted Whoa.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Now in the ninth thing? Oh, I really know. The
records just keep getting set.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Now.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
It's most walks drawn first four games of a postseason series.
In fact, most walks drawn in any four game span
in any postseason series. It's over thirty walks by the
Dodger batters so far.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It's top of the ninth.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Don't tell me anything's drawn. I know what they look like.
Just say walks. Seven walks in every game so far.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
He's drawing a sketch of what a walk looks like
right now, like we're playing.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Picture, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
But here's the thing, just really quick, just really quick
about this is that you'd like to say, oh, hey,
this is the Dodgers, this is the at bats, but
this is this has been the Mets achilles heel pitching
all season. They walk way too many batters, and the
Dodgers in the postseason, hey, all right, let's be a
little bit more discerning. And the Mets just can't find
the strikes on me. How are you gonna win a
series when you walk seven guys in every game?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
You can't do it.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
How many times have we seen the Dodgers have a
playoff rally after a two hot walk? And you've got
Max Munsey, who's superb at drawing walks anyway, although his
streak is finally over striking out recently after reaching basie in.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Twelve, slashing the pan quitter here, splashing the pan overrated?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Uh show, hey, Otani became the first player in Major
League history with not only a leadoff home run, but
then three walks in a playoff game. In fact, he
has scored four times and the Dodgers lead ten to
two top of the ninth at New York. It's a turnaround,
let's say, for Game five on Friday in New York,
also on FS one, It'll be a five pm Eastern
(30:16):
time start. Mookie Betts is four for five this evening
with four RBIs. That includes a two run double in
the fourth and a two run homer for him in
the sixth. The Dodgers are three defensive outs away from
taking a three games to one lead in this NL
Championship Series, and Freddie Freeman of LA was out tonight
with the ankle injury as one RBI this postseason, and
(30:39):
second baseman Gavin Lux with the hip injury, did not start.
The American League Championship Series had quite a game at Cleveland.
The Yankees were this close to going up three games
to none. Instead it's two games to one because the
Guardians hit in the bottom of the ninth with two outs,
the tying two run homer from a pinch hitter John
Kenzie noel and it came out off the Yankees closer
(31:01):
who's been so great the last month and a half
since he got that role, Luke Weaver, allowed that and
then a two run homer in the tenth to win
for Cleveland's David Fry, a guy who at homered a
week ago at Detroit in a playoff game that they won.
So seven to five Cleveland over the Yankees the final,
and the Guardians will be hosting again on Friday night,
and then we know there will be a Saturday night
(31:22):
game there as well for game number five. And then
there's the NFL game tonight. You know, the Saints offense
was just killing people the first couple of weeks this year.
Nowhere to be seen. Now Denver won at New Orleans
thirty three to ten. Saints have lost five games in
a row. Spencer Rattler was Tonight's quarterback, sacked six times,
he had two fumbles. Derek Carr could miss another few
(31:42):
weeks with an oblique injury, Taysom Hill out with injury,
Chris Olave out with injury. Saints wide receiver Rashid Shaheed
out for the year after knee surgery. Today, the Broncos
as a team on the ground two hundred and twenty
five yards rushing. Quarterback Bo Nicks had ten carries seventy
five yards. Giants wide receiver Malik Neighbors cleared concussion protocol,
(32:03):
so he's expected to play Sunday against the Eagles. Neighbors
practice fully today. Giants running back Devin Singletary was limited
in practice with his groin injury, and Giants punter Jamie
Gillen miss practice due to a bad hamstring. For the Eagles,
tight end Dallas Goddard at miss practice with a hamstring injury,
and the Titans released safety Jamal Adams as he'd requested
(32:23):
back to you.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
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Speaker 2 (33:10):
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Speaker 3 (33:18):
It is the Dodgers. They know how to party. They
keep on in.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
In the Mets can hit the Fox Sports Radio The
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Speaker 1 (33:32):
Dodgers lead the Mets ten to two. Mets have two
on two out in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Dodgers about to take a three games to one lead
in the nlcsluft more on this game coming up in
a few minutes. However, a shocking retirement that we saw
today right before you and I came in. Tony Bennett,
Virginia head basketball coach, is retiring effective immediately. Going to
(33:58):
make the official announcement tomorrow. Bennett's only fifty five was
set to begin his sixteenth year with Virginia. First game
was coming up against Campbell in the beginning of November.
And what we've heard right away, which is good news,
it is not health related, so that is good. But
Tony Bennet, I mean, three weeks before the season starts
he decides to retire. Won the national championship in twenty nineteen.
(34:21):
That was his last NCAA tournament win. They have lost
their first game the rest of the way, but still
national championship in twenty nineteen and a shocking decision to
retire today three weeks before the season starting. There's video
of him from the big scrimmage. They had looked like
he was energetic, ready to go. And you know, the
(34:42):
first thing you think of his health and I go okay.
So if it's not health, it's is good. You know
the other part of it is it gonna be? What
is this going to be? We're gonna hopefully get the
story tomorrow, but your mind is going in a bunch
of different directions. Okay, health is always the first thing.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
It's not health, that's great, hopefully it's health for his family.
Everybody else is fine there too. But when you hear
what ESPN saying the decision is not health related, yeah,
everybody's okay. Why you're stepping down three weeks before the season,
Like if you're done and you're done with the nil
part of things, and that's gonna be a big popular
push for this. Like you retire after the season's over,
(35:19):
you don't wait to come back for another year and
a way to go wait, and I don't like there's
gonna be a big shoot to drop tomorrow. We're gonna
get some kind of reason that that that we're not
thinking of right now.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
As to why he retired.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah, he was actually asked about that at ACC media
Day a week ago, whether he might be the next
Jay Wright.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Coach k keep going on.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Down that line, and he, you know, said, hey, I
gotta call Jay write and see what he says.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I've always said when you're doing this, you're in this profession,
whether you agree how it's going or not, you have
to be true to yourself and really look at and say, quote,
who am I? Can I operate how I want? And
can I be successful enough? And you get to choose
if you want to be a part of it or not. Evidently,
something in the offing of the players he's recruiting, has
(36:07):
recruited or returning.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Something in that equation.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Suddenly went south with three weeks before a season begins.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Maybe it's this. I'm gonna kill you with this.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Okay, let's go all right now, maybe it's this right,
because maybe maybe right this is really close to the season.
You would think that if he was going to retire,
we'd have got it a while ago.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Maybe because Virginia plays at the very slow pace. Yeah,
you know, we're just finding out about the decision.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
No very, I mean that has come back to bite
them in the Ass's come on.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
In five points a game. I mean they win every
game forty five to twenty five. But it's like playing
bullpen game. That's not gonna work. I meant to get
to it. I meant to tell you, but you know,
the slow pace, everything is a little bit slower. So
it's coming out now instead of, you know, maybe a
few months ago.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
We start talking.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
About molasses while we're at it and have some food
analogies of you know, some some fixed syrup or something.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
It's whenever we get one of these announcements last minute,
like your brain goes to a couple of places, right,
it's either the the health is first, so the fact
that that's being pushed to the side. Okay, good glad,
everybody's okay now, we start talking about nil considerations recruiting,
whether there's battles between administration and what they're trying to
(37:25):
do or what they're trying to force him to do
in terms of future recruits players that might have been
part of the Tony Bennett system in the past, Like
we need a little more flash, we need a little
more possessed, we need to change this up. And you're
trying to say, well, that's not how we coach, that's
not you know, how our program runs. And then you
(37:46):
go even further and then it becomes a is there
some kind of scandal that suddenly pops up, which I
don't think just the way this got framed, here's what
I'm you know, here, here's what I'm hoping it is,
and and and and because we've now seen coaches do
this where oh there's gonna be some kind of thing
what I'm hoping it is.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
But I mean, it's weird. You know, it's not helped
anything else.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Is that there's moments when when players and coaches know, hey,
I'm done, or my battery isn't empty. I need to
recharge now. Maybe a recharge thing for him, because being
fifty five, certainly he is young enough to coach for
another couple of decades and wants to take a year
or two off. But sometimes coaches just know it at
odd times, you know what, I'm done. I don't have
(38:26):
the energy needed, I don't have the the the will
to get out and do what needs to happen now.
It doesn't usually happen this close to the season because
the game days are always the best days and everything else.
It's usually the off season putting in the work and
doing all the recruiting and the nil. But every coach
has a different reason. It could be, Hey, you know what,
it just hit me. I just don't have it in me.
(38:48):
I'm just mentally worn down and I'm tired. And whether
it's a retirement or a resignation, certainly it is. You know,
That's what I'm hoping it is. You know what, I
just I hit something, something happened to me, or I
had a revelation of some kind of epiphany that hit
me that I'm not ready to put in the effort
that I need to do this for the kids. Because
three for the season starts. Man, that's like, Hey, what
(39:10):
do you mean you're leaving coach? What do you mean
You're leaving.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, I mean, because look, now we're in that age.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Look, we got a bunch of twenty somethings that don't
want to show up to work five days a week.
Guy fifty five, he's grinding. He've been grinding for a
long time. He just said, Hey, what this is gonna
take to get through another season?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I just don't have it. He would.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
Look, he's a head coach, very young, Washington State, moved
on his way up. So I mean, really, I mean,
fifty five is tough to say I'm retired when you're
when this is what you do, all these guys running
themselves into the seventies and whatever. Yeah that maybe maybe
that's enough to where we're at anymore.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Oh man, But I'll tell you where we're gonna. We're
gonna get the story. Likely we'll get it tomorrow. I'm
hoping that's what it is. My battery is on empty,
and I'm resigning, slash retiring. Talk to me in a
year or two see where I'm at.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
But the way he attacked with the enthusiasm only rivaled
by Harbor, I mean, maybe your battery needs a recharge.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Maybe it's a TV Jason, Yeah, I got something that'll
cheer you up. Next segment, you do Oh, that's great,
Thanks Justin.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
It's like seven things I don't trust him.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Coming up next one, we'll have more on why the
Dodgers look like they're heading to the World Series.
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