November 2, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon talk about Heisman candidate Ashton Jeanty and how good he looked for Boise State.
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the night and the NBA coming up in a couple
of minutes. But you know, it's always fun on a
Friday when you get a piece of video or something
(00:57):
you see that you go, man, I just know this
is gonna be everywhere tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
MLS playoffs tonights.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Look, the La Galaxy has had an incredible transformation in
the last year to become one of the best teams
in all of MLS. They had a final night meltdown,
or they would have won the Western Conference. They knock
out tonight. They knocked the Rapids out of the playoffs.
They win their first round pretty easy. They outscore the
Rapids nine to one in two games. But their first
goal tonight was just absolutely incredible. There's a play and
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you're gonna see it and you're gonna go, oh my god,
that's awful.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Zach Stefan's the keeper.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
For Colorado and the Galaxy try a big entry pass
that just goes too far. Right to the entry pass
from well on their side of midfield, and it just
goes too far. But it's outside the eighteen, outside the
goalie box. Though, Stephan goes, I'm just gonna get there.
I'm gonna kick it, you know, deep down the field.
I can't play with my hands. Well, Peck comes running
in at him, and you know, he scored a bunch
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of goals. Look, that's who they were trying to get
the ball to. And Stephan just decides, Okay, I'm just
gonna kick it in his art as I can't down
the field except pet just gets right in front of
him and puts his body in front.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Now he's outside the eighteen.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
He's outside the eighteen, and the ball bounces off of
his knee and Ben goes into the net. It's at
a perfect angle and it goes flying into the net
from outside the goalie box.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I have never seen a goal like that. And look,
look the Galaxy. We're good. Look the galaxy or terrific.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Puigue had two goals laid hashtag Pieg your friend Ricky
Puege is fantastic. The Galaxy are loaded. But to see
a goal like that, I go, I have never seen that.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I'm just gonna come in and let you kick it
off me and the deflection goes in that like that's
a youth soccer goal like that. I've probably seen happen
a couple of times in my life.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I saw one a couple of weeks ago, bounced off
someone's ass and went about twenty yards in the air
to the back of the net. So, uh yeah, just
an odd convergence of circumstance. But you know, you want
to get to an exciting Uh look, La, we've had
so much going on, right with all all these teams
swirling the title for the Dodgers and the estimated two million.
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Uh you listen to that crowd after a big goal
like that, that's that is some insanity, no question about.
I've watched it like twenty times, and it's.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Just it just takes like it's a It's.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Almost like a pool shot, the way it rolls towards
the back the net, like I really something.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's not like he deflects it and any any and
he aims it right, he just it just hits off
of him and bounce his hallway.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
To the net.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It goes outside from outside the goalie batch from outside
the eighteen, and it just dribbles, dribbles, dribbles into the net.
It was, oh my goodness, that's awful.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But when you watch the video and you see the
defender sprinting, like hell yeah, they're gonna be able to
get it that maybe there's just enough of a slow down.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
No, yep, oh yeah, chance No, And then that's where moralizing.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You asked the defender after the game, Hey, what's going
through your head at that moment? And everybody's gonna give
you the same answer. I thought, oh blank, Like that's
everybody that oh blank.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You see a defender on the dead sprint straight, the
look on his.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Face as the ball hits the net, that's the goal
the same. That's absolutely absolute dumb luck man.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Man is the the football God's messing with you there?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And and after you know, like I said, Ricky Puege
had two goals tonight, and look the galaxy here, they're
gonna motor through the playoff. It's gonna be a great
final four playoff. Probably be LA Galaxy in l A
f C. And you got a messy over in the East.
I mean, it's gonna be a fantastic playoffs we get
down to it, we'll be talking.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
A lot about this.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But like after Puige scored his first goal, he did
a Dodger celebration, Like he pretended to be a batter
and one of his teammates was the catcher and the
ball came and he swung it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So they did it. They did a Dodger celebration.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Hey, look the LA is the is everything Dodgers right now,
it's bleeding over at MLS.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Pretty nice.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You know, should have pointed to the back of the
net like he was Garrett Cole and watching it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh, that'd have been great.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You'll be Rizzo and I'll be Garrett Call and I'll
point to you and you just stand there. The Jason
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I mean, I mean find that it is absolutely unbelievable.
You know, I've never seen a goal like that. I've
never have Meanwhile, Game of the Night in the NBA
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will tell you where we're at right now, t Wolves
and the Nuggets. It was the Nuggets in control until
they weren't. Anthony Edwards now with twenty nine, Julius Randall
of twenty three, seven and six with twenty five seconds ago,
the t Wolves have come all the way back. They
have a one seventeen, one sixteen lead over the Nuggets.
Uh for Yokichi's one rebound away from a triple double
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twenty six, thirteen and nine. Gordon's having a big night
with thirty one and nine. But the big thing from
this was a few moments ago, who knew the Nuggets
were waiting for the Christian Braun breakout? Right third year
out of Kansas, the guy that's only average about seven
points a game his first couple of years, averaging fourteen
a game, right, now for the Nuggets. He has been
an incredible surprise. He posterizes Rudy Gobert, the forty five
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time NBA Defensive Player of the Year. He goes six
to six and he goes into the lane and Go
Bear tries to go up and Christian Braun just slams
it over his head and he comes down and he
screams and he yells, and he doesn't yell into Rudy
Gobert's face, but he yells at the crowd kind of
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close enough to Go Bear. Rudy Gobert doesn't like it,
and no matter what if you just dunked on me,
I still have you by about six or seven inches
and a lot of weight. And he puts his arm
and he kind of hits him in the side of
the neck like a roundhouse punch, but he does it
with the inside of his arm. The bench is kind
of empty, and it looks like there's gonna be a brawl,
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and orders got to be restored. It was a really
crazy ass one. You thought there was gonna be a
big fight because Go Bear really just takes a swing
at him, like, you know, he looks like he's pushing
him out of the way a little bit, but then
he kind of takes a swing at him, and after
order is restored, Rudy Gobert gets his revenge on a
play in which the Nuggets were looking to try to
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get the lead back. Rudy Gobar great defensive play. Braun
goes in for the hoop, he misses. Go Bear is
able to play good straight up defense. He gets the rebound.
He's going to the free throw line to shoot with
ten seconds left to go to try to give the
Taels a three point lead. So posterized five minutes ago,
Go Bear is back out for the revenge right.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Now and somehow still in the game and able to
make this.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, because that's the next part of this is that
we after that swing. I'm really surprised he is still
he was still in the game. I realize if you.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Do a little pushing and shoving and you start mfing
each other and whatever else. But like he goes up
to the neck, man, he's up in his head as
he pushes him away, and I think everybody would have
reacted the same way because you're ticked off in the moment.
But how he's still on the court in the final
ten seconds is beyond me, man.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I mean it was double technicals, which okay, I get it,
but this got physical. Like this this guy like he
he like brings that brings an arm in and gets
him in the neck. I mean, this is this is
shocking to me that that's how it's going. Like I really,
I can't believe that's what we saw.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I can't wait for the the officials report and the
you know from the pool reporter.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Answer a hard question tonight, Yeah, the two minute report
after this, go Bear hits both free throws. Nikola Jokic
has a contested three at the end, he misses from
the corner with an airball. Minnesota beats Denver one nineteen
to one. Sixteen. Jokic had the big step back three
but did not even draw iron and the Tea Wolves
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get a big win. Two teams have started out kind
of slow this year, and it did happens when you know,
you go as far as the Nuggets have the last
couple of years, a little bit of hangover, but it's early.
But you can see there's a lot of concern for
the Nuggets, and I think that's a little misplaced. I
really look for the Nuggets. It's been a two years ago.
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It's all the way to the to the championship, and
and and they win last year.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's a run.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
They get upset. It's been long runs in the playoffs
the last couple of years. And I've seen a lot
of hay then, Like there's a big ESPN article about
how much more prime does Nicola Jokic have and can
the Nuggets waste it? And I'm like, guys, gotta take
it easy, man. I mean, when you go really far
in the playoffs a couple of years, you know what
you're playing for, You're.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Gonna start out a little slow.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's gonna happen, right, It happened this year with the
forty nine ers in the NFL. You know, as far
as they've gone, there's there's nothing wrong with them, that
that that getting players back isn't gonna help, and that
as the season continues to go on and and and
get closer and close December and January. But that's kind
of what I see with the Nuggets so far. Look
watching a couple of their games. Yeah, everybody's gonna come
at them, you know. You know, Yokich is a guy
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that everybody views him, no matter who actually gets the votes.
He's the MVP every year. No, the Nuggets are just fine.
And if Christian Braun this is who he's gonna be
at fourteen points tonight, he's a huge find for them
as well. I am not that concerned about the Nuggets.
They will wind up being there. They may not be
one of the top two or three teams in the
Western Conference. They may sit around the four or five seed,
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which is kind of what happens. So I'm not that
worried about the Nuggets right now, even though other people
more more than seem to be about them.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Well, I think part of it just comes down to
baseball's over. We don't get to wring our hands over
what the Mets, Yankees, and Dodgers are doing with bullpen management,
lackadaisical plays in the field, or how much money Cohen's
gonna spend this offseason. All of those things are gone.
How much we love missus met or Haktua, all of
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those things to the ether, and it becomes NBA season,
which means, all right, where can we get some hot
takes out to jump? Notice how everybody who's worked tirelessly
to get a friend, relative, or someone they met at
a coffee shop. At some point a job in the
media world jumped up and down on the Lakers every
chance they got. Why because it was fresh, new content. Uh,
(11:23):
that's exactly what's happening here with the Nuggets. Doesn't matter.
It's November one, man, It's like it's November one if
we're still talking about this as a problem in March. Dude, yeah,
many way killing these guys off?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Good god, how many people.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Wanted to kill off the Knicks after opening night against
the Celtics.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Come on, man, look how the mccal bridges.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Everything is absolutely fine. The Celtics are the champions, and
they won it home on ring night and they hit
twenty nine threes. Okay, I'm pretty sure I'm okay with
everything going on with that.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
It's just unbelievable, man Like, and I get it. I
love a good hot take nonsense. And let's take what
is an issue and try to magnif put the magnifying
glass on it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
This ain't it, This ain't it.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I mean, Yo, Kitsch talks about and he's been very
candid about it, you know, in terms of, you know,
do they have enough shooters, natural shooters, rhythm shooters, all
of that and and spoke to that. So maybe he
blew a little bit of air into this this whatever
hot air balloon.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Since Wicked's coming out, let's get the hot air balloon in.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Uh, you know all of that that we we get
with the the Nuggets, the expectations being so high. This
guy loves his horses. Maybe he doesn't care as much
what hed he do this offseason.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
All of that.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
They're two and three, which means there are seventy seven
regularly seven and just like your Nickson opening night, it's falling.
They're never gonna be able to contend.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
With these guys.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Okay, if if they shoot twenty nine threes, then yeah,
we're just gonna nod our heads, tip our caps and
go home. That's the way it works. But yeah, I
calm down, calm down. Let's channel more energy back into
the Cowboys than there woos.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
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Speaker 3 (13:25):
We'll got more basketball coming up next.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Hey, the two biggest takeaways from two of the biggest
games tonight. Plus we get back into our big preview
weekend for all the big matchups in college football in
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
We picked the biggest of the big games.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
All that more coming up next right here, Jason and
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Speaker 1 (13:55):
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Speaker 3 (14:02):
Now we're gonna have more on the NBA.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We'll take a look at that big college football game
tomorrow coming up in a few minutes. But something to
be said. You know, I thinking about this tonight. You know,
we talked to Pete Futak last hour on the show,
and you know he mentioned really quick heisman wise and
you know he says that, you know, Dylan Gabriel, you know,
might win this and you know it doesn't seem right
now to be that great of a heisman chase. But
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I got news for you, man, It's just starting because
you know now it's it's November.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Winning time. Ya in every sense of the word.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And hopes that well, Hi in the heat of September
can wilt and die in the chill of November.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
He didn't get into the hall, according to some reports.
I know, come on, it's it's tough.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
All the guy did was read some stuff, you know
before he did the news in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I mean it's sending in. Yeah, there's iconic.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, the guys that gave their bodies and and you
know to the game, and they had a bad av
the broadcasters and John w winz Win, John Facenda went
into a room and he read stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
That's I mean, that's kind of tough. Man.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Hey man, guys get paid millions and millions of dollars
every day in our business to do that very thing.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But I'll tell you this, this is going to be
the best Heisman chase in a long time.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Because what we love we love debates, and it's just
starting to heat up now. Certain players we thought were
gonna be at the top of the list, you know,
might not be there.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
And oh who's gonna win? You know? But you look
right now.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
There is gonna be a three way chase and it
is gonna be an incredible debate. And I'll tell you
who the three guys are gonna be h Tonight we
watched Boise State beat San Diego State fifty six twenty four.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
They're rolling through everybody, likely Boise State.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
As long as they win their last couple of games,
they'll be a playoff team. And Ashton Genty is a
guy that is on the heels of Backry Sanders for
his all time rushing record. Every week it's at least
one hundred and fifty yards for this guy. Tonight he
was one forty nine and two touchdowns. And as you
can see, how things go right and I know how
sports goes as time goes on every game, where is
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he compared to Barry Sanders?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Where is he here?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Can he break Barry Sanders record for yards rushing in
a season? How much more does he need?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
What is he need to go?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And that's been a that's going to be a big storyline, Bud.
He's a running back for Boise State. Who are the
other guys? Travis Hunter who goes on podcasts every week
and talks about it. He is having a better than
Charles Woodson type season. When Woodson won the Heisman in
nineteen ninety seven, Woodson had a handful of plays offensively, right,
and he wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
He's the best, he was the best player in college football.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But really for a defensive player to win the Heisman,
you know, he wins it over Peyton Manning because he
made a couple of plays offensively.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I mean, Travis Hunter's doing.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Every He's you know, he's fourteen catches for one hundred
and thirty yards and two touchdowns every week and playing
every snap on defense. It's what about this two way player?
And then you have Dylan Gabriel, who, oh, by the way,
is now I think twelve touchdown shy of the all
time record for touchdowns in a career. And yes, he's
the quarterback of the number one team in the country.
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So you think about that debate where it's a record
setting quarterback for number one team in the country, the
best two way star we've seen in college football in
twenty some odd years, and a running back who may
set an all time record that is from a small school.
You wonderful guy from Boise State can win the Heisman Trophy.
This is going to be some kind of debate because
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now we're getting into Heisman season, we're seeing big games,
people rise, people fall.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
This debate, these three guys.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Even people who never saw Ashton Genty play a down,
people who don't watch Dylan Gabriel throw at all, they
know where.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
He goes to school. He's changed schools like eleven times.
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
The Gabriel Hunter Genty thing, that's going to be a
huge thing coming up for the next month and a half.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yeah, the Travis Hunter part of it. Obviously, Colorado needs
to keep winning. One of the great stories of the
twenty four season after the collapse last year. He was
before the season, can you believe this? He was thirty
five to one, thirty five to one, which is just
ridiculous when you ponder that going up and looking at
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the odds. As we sit here now, Gabriel is the
leader plus two forty, Hunter right behind him at plus
two fifty, cam Ward Genti now at plus four fifty,
and then you get to Cade Club Nick Carson, Beck,
Shador Sanders fifty to one and go on from there.
So it's yeah, it's it's crazy, It's it's going to
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be a fun final month. And for the first time
in a while, I mean since COVID, the Heisman hasn't
had the same juice right as to when it's when
it's given out and everything else, it's kind of gone
into the shadows. So an opportunity for it to get
back to the forefront.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, I mean it's go.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And the thing is is that this has everything you
would want. Does it have the big star power names
outside of Travis Hunter. No, Like there's no crazy sexy
quarterback like a cam Ward or you know, Shadur Sanders
is overshadowed by Travis Hunter, and rightfully so because of
what he does.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
But it's so different.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And that's the thing is that it's a different storyline
for the Heisman Trophy than we've ever seen. It's not
two quarterbacks that are up for. It's not a quarterback
and a wide receiver. Is it's one quarterback that maybe
you have a couple questions about it's a two way
player that, well, what's his you know, what kind of impact?
Can we get past the fact that his stats aren't
gonna blow anybody away? And then a running back to
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place for a smaller school and a smaller conference, and
you have all kinds of arguments to make four and
against all three of these guys. And that's what's gonna
make it great because it's not like I can say, well,
this guy should win in the end. No, because I
can give you a great case why Travis Hunter could
be a slam dunk winner of the Heisman Trophy, slam
dunk winner. But then I can give you a case
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where I could say, you know what, yeah, maybe no,
maybe he doesn't affect the game as much as atching
Genty did. Because what I mean there's you can go
either way on all of this, and the debate is
what's gonna make it great? And it's gonna come down
to all three of these guys. I don't see. There's
nothing that Genty can do now other than continue on
the path he is on. There's nothing that Gabriel can
do then continue on the path he's on. There's nothing
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that Travis Hunter can do. Then continue on the path
he's on. As you said, if Colorado keeps winning, the
only thing that could derail it is if you get
a guy that you know, the last month of the year,
a big time quarterback that just comes out of nowhere
and puts up all kinds of numbers and and and
their team is in the top five and has a
big Heisman moment on a big November Day somewhere.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I mean, that's the only thing.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Like, you know, if Alabama really catches fire and Jaln
Milroe suddenly looks like he's absolutely unstoppable. Yeah, he'll have
Heisman moments because he'll be on big games on over
the course next month and a half. But right now,
these guys like that, like that's the debate, man, and
that's gonna be a fun thing man for a month
and a half to talk about.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yeah, I mean, you look at him, you look at
Carson Back. Guys that got a lot of ink coming
into the season still have a chance to make some
noise in this process. And it's curious right as you
know you're breaking down the candidacies for Dylan Gabriel, it's
the fact that we've got to think about it. The
career mark for him is interesting, right, because it's true
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it will be. It's kind of like all those oscars
that everybody gets mad about every year.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's okay. Lifetime achievement awards happen in many, many ways,
sometimes just in a golden parachute as you move into retirement.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Sometimes you get a nice award and you get to
dance on the stage and thank everybody who you need
to and Dylan Gabriel right now, he's the favorite to
have that. The fun thing is at the running back position.
You know, he was off the board to start the year.
Wasn't even in the opening oys. He was in the
others receiving votes. Situation like yeah you want to you
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know the field, that's where he was. And now we're
talking about perhaps an all time record setting season at
the running back position, and both at the collegiate level
and at the pros. It's always good, you know, and
does my heart good being the Midwestern boy that I am.
And you know, the Bears three yards at a cloud of
dusk because we sure as held it. It never had a
quarterback that let lit the world on fire. So having
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a running back even discussed as can he get it done? Can?
And can they look past the logo on the side
of the helmet and recognized great.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
We'll find out Exit out bout a Fresca Exit Swallen Dome.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Live from the
Tirech dot Com Studios, we take a look at the
biggest game of the week in college football tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It's the game of November.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I mean We're only one day in the year, but
it's the game of November.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But first, especially delivery. Steve de Saga has what's trending.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
He said to me, if I had a Heisman vote,
I would never vote for a two way player because
why can he play three ways?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
So maybe that's the guys he's waiting for.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
To be So you were big on Gordi Lockbaum.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
This is all from that.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
If he could kick extra points too, I'll vote for him.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Speaking of kicking extra points, did you see the video
from the Columbia home game tonight? They tried to distract
the opposing kicker and they'd put on the video board
behind the goalposts a picture of the new Dwayne Wade
statue that alone, of course, would scare anybody. Nice try.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Boise State running back Ashton genty and company a winner
again tonight. This was on FS one this evening at
fifteenth ryng Boise State Broncos over San Diego State fifty
six twenty four. Home team led twenty eight nothing in
the second quarter. Genti's up to twenty rushing touchdowns this year.
He had thirty one carries one hundred and forty nine yards,
two tds, tonight. He's over fifteen hundred yards rushing for
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the season in eight games. In September at Oregon, he
had almost two hundred yards rushing in three scores that game,
and that was his team's only loss, thirty seven to
thirty four Yukon at South Florida with wins and Saturday
on Fox Noon Eastern Time, Number three Penn State hosting
number four Ohio State. Penn State quarterback Drew Allar is
(24:07):
expected to play after last week's leg injury to the NFL.
Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love was limited at practice again
with a groin injury. He's a game time decision. Packers
hosts the Lions in the Big Game Sunday on Fox TV.
Packer's running back Josh Jacobs is questionable with an ankle injury.
Patriots quarterback Drake may is still in concussion protocol and
limited at practice. He's listed as questionable. Titans QB Will
(24:30):
levis questionable with the bad shoulder. Mason Rudolph has been starting.
Titans running back Tony Pollard questionable with a foot injury.
Washington quarterback Jaden Daniels has no injury designation after a
rib injury and quarterback Lamar Jackson of the Ravens was
cleared to play Sunday. Saints QB Derek Carr will return
from injury Sunday. Vikings tight end TJ. Howkinson is set
(24:52):
to make his season debut Sunday night after last year's
knee injuries. Giants running back Tyrone Tracy cleared concussion protocol,
but the Giants are missing this weekend kicker Greg Joseph
and punter Jamie Gillen. The late NBA game went to
Oklahoma City now five and oh after a win at
Portland one thirty seven to one fourteen thirty points for
Shay gil Jose Alexander. At Minnesota, the Timberwolves edge Denver
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one nineteen one sixteen Anthony Edwards twenty nine points Minnesota
with a ten to oh run in the last two
and a half minutes of the game. Pelicans guard CJ.
McCollum is out two to three weeks with a strained deductor.
New Orleans did win at home tonight against Indiana Zion
Williamson thirty four points, ten assists. Lakers got thirty eight
points from Anthony Davison. A win at Toronto victories for
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New York Brooklyn and Sacramento Boston five and one, after
winning at Charlotte Cleveland six and oh after a win
over Orlando. Orlando star Polo Bancaro, as we mentioned last night,
is out with a torn o bleak. He'll be reevaluated
in four to six weeks. The new WNBA coach for
Indiana is Stephanie White, a former player and coach there.
Among the six NHL games wins for the Rangers and Winnipeg,
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which is ten and one, and today in Finland, Florida
defeated Dallas six to four. They'll play again there tomorrow.
And the San Francisco Giants promoted Zach Manacion to general manager.
His brother is the Angels. GM Giants pitcher Blake Snell
opt out of his deal today.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Back to you, can I get you?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You're my brother and I love you. Remember when I
remember when I helped you out with mom and dad. Okay,
I need you to take Anthony Rendon's contract.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Please, all right? Then we're even you take that contract.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
We're even all right the everything of what I'll host Thanksgiving, everything,
but where even if you take his contract, how about.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Any Angels contract we've given anyone in the last decade.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You know, real quick note on Stephanie White, the new
head coach of the Indiana Fever at Caitlin Clark's new
head coach. We had seen this coming as soon as
Christy Sides got let go the rumors where you look.
She had been there for a while. She's incredibly successful
the last couple of years. Coach of the Year with
the Sun a year ago, so we thought this was
gonna happen. But wow, you know what's kind of weird
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and kind of I kind of looked at that and
go man. Over half the league in the WNBA fired
their head coaches at the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I mean seven out of the twelve teams, we're looking
for new head coaches.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
It's like the NBA they've realized, Okay, we're not get well,
we need new head coaches in this is over half
the league is bringing in new head.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Coaches, new level of attention, new level of money and
processing and all that through. I thought it was funny
because I turn on the game earlier, right the Cleveland
game against the Magic, and they're Stephanie White as one
of the announcers. Yeah, yeah, sure, today you announced the coach,
you have the press conference talking about you know, what
Caitlin Clark's done and all the expectations and everything else,
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and then you get to talk on it for two
and a half hours in a bad basketball game. Let's
keep talking about your new job. Let's talk about Kaitlyn more.
How much have you talked her?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
How many time you think her? In her analysis? Tonight
they said, what do you think of that play? Oh,
Caitlyn would have made that play. Caitlyn would have done that.
Kitlyn would have got that. Caitly would have done that. Look,
this is a great moment now for the w because
they have a time to reset this offseason, coming off
the greatest season they've ever had with the greatest star
they've ever had.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
In the league in Caitlin Clark. And I just hope
you listen. Take some time.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Let's have less off court divisiveness. Let everybody get on
the same page. Understand the stars that are going to
push the league.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Take that.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You had a season to be bitter about Caitlin Clark
coming in and other players not getting whatever credit they want.
It's over now, handle your success. I get everything moved
too fast for you. It was at a lightning pace.
I don't think anybody saw it. Well, we told you
what was gonna be, but hey, they should have listened
to us. You have some time now before the season
gets going coming up late next spring. Just be able
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to handle your success and get where you're at and
be less divisive when it comes to how players and
coaches feel about their star players in the league. No
league that is out they're in sports. No league rips
its own superstars that help pay the bills. It doesn't
matter what you feel about Lebron or Mahomes that nobody doesn't.
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We don't want this. We don't want her in the league.
We don't want to and we don't want You have
to you have to handle bill. You have to understand
that this is where you're at. It is a it
is a big time situation you have going on right now.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
And let's just understand that.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Okay, certain players are gonna get more publicity and we
don't have time for jealousy or any any sorts of
silliness like that. They've got to go play basketball and
keep growing the league.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
But that's the thing. The league grew.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
How many different commercials endorsements did you see flow through
shoe deals that were already in progress that got announced
and came to fruition, and the dollars started flowing today.
On my timeline, I can't tell you the number of
times I saw retweets of Angel Reese's Reese's serial that
came out today, plus the shoes plus you.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Know, Hey, she's living beyond her means. Though doesn't make
any money, She's living beyond her means. She has, she said,
lives in a place she can't afford, despite the fact
she has a shoe line in Cereal and owns a
soccer teams.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
He's living beyond her means, beyonder means.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Yeah, well, you know that's only if you're on the
Jay Leno thing of you don't touch your actual salary
and you only work, you know, and live off of
the endorsements and stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
In this case, she's reversed it and she's only working living.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
All the other money is actually getting banks Like you know,
you into that a little bit. Yeah, I must have
talked Sani, but no, I.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Tell you a great you want a great story about that.
So my, my, my cousin, I laugh. I always say,
but when you're sixty five, you're gonna be a millionaire.
So my cousin's a fireman in New York and his dad,
my uncle Jimmy. I've talked about him on the Showay
he retired, Give me a little Jimmy, Big Jimmy, Little Jimmy. Right,
So big Jimmy retired as a fire chief in Staten Island,
and he went through the entire you know, his entire
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life of the best thing to do with your money,
how to invest it, what to do, what percentage of
your salary to keep, what to put in your forward,
just because you know it's different, you know, in fire department.
So he did a certain thing with his money. And
so he told, you know, little Jimmy says, listen, we're
gonna do the same thing with your money that we
did with me. Trust me on this. I didn't become
a fireman until I was thirty. My cousin became a fireman.
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He's like twenty two to twenty three. And he says, listen,
trust me on this.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Let's do this. Let's do this. Un let's all right.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
And I remember talking little Jimmy, and I said, so,
how's that going, by the way with your sal He
goes my Dad's got all my money.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I can't touch it. I can't do anything.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
But but but he says, when I retire, I'll have
like a million dollars and I go so in thirty
some odd years, you, yeah, I'm gonna have a lot
of money. But I have no money now, Jay Jay
got no money.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
But that happens right between pensions, fire, police, teachers and
administrators and other jobs. Yeah, people live a bit cash
poor because the payout at the end, either because in
the retirement plan or because of the pension. I can
(32:05):
see because he's got his pension, but he's probably also
doing the you know, maxing out is his four oh
one k and ira contributions to where it's like, wait,
wait dad, dad'd like to go to a ball game?
You don't like to gone to Dodger Stadium to watch.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
The trophy ceremony. They got no money.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I want to drive into I want to drive into
Churse and have enough gas to put money to get gas.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
To put in my car. I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
I want to say so, But yeah, I mean, you
see see the growth and everything that's rolling through.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I think everybody calmerheads prevailed because you got several months
to kind of let it just state at this point.
It's not in the moment with a bunch of microphones
in your face.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Now to the game of the week. We talked about
this a couple of minutes. Obviously, the big nude kickoff
tomorrow is Ohio State and Penn State, and you're talking
about the number three and four team in the country.
I would love to be able to pick Penn State,
right I'd love to be able to pick Penn State
in this game. But I can't because I haven't seen
Penn State win a game like this in eight years, right, Like, oh.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
James Franklin has done it before.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
He's one big g Yeah, in twenty seventeen, it's twenty
twenty four. Right now, they haven't done anything. They can't
beat big teams. And I'm not gonna pick Penn State
to win a game until they show me they can
do it. I have seen Ohio State win games like
this in the Ryan Day era, and before Ryan Days,
problems come against Michigan, and when they have to play
in the playoff, they don't have a lot of problems.
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If they should have beat Oregon a couple of weeks ago. Look,
your quarterback makes a different decision, you probably win the game.
They win games like this. It's not gonna be pretty
because both teams defenses are really good and not gonna
be a lot of points scored in this game. But
you're also see an Ohio State team that needs this
game way more than Penn State does. Penn State is undefeated.
Ohio State's got one loss, two losses. Yeah, you can
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still make the playoff, but you have tough games coming up.
You got Indiana, you have the Big Ten Championship a theory,
you can't really afford to lose many more games, whereas
Penn State can stub their toe once all that going
into it, Penn State's got to show me they can
do it. Doesn't matter if Aler plays quarterback or not.
Ohio State's gonna have enough. I'm gonna take them in
a close one in this game, but defense is enough
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for them to win this game. I'll take Ohio State
and the under which I love just as much as
Ohio State. Give me Ohio State seventeen sixteen.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Nice look at you. The narrow victory. What three or
three and a half depending on where you're shopping right now.
Ohio State the road favorite to your point about big games,
James Franklin just doesn't do it three and seventeen against
top ten squads. And I know past performance not indicative
of future success, but we've seen Penn State struggle with
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a couple of also ran teams through this, and for
Ohio State this is Ryan David from The Fox.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Just a huge.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Spot because they still have so much including a likely
rematch with Oregon at the end of things, They've got
a lot of winning left to do.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
So there's no look aheads.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Here, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon, Live from the Tirec
dot Com Studios. I got more football on the way,
but straight ahead, it's been a huge night in the NBA.
The two biggest takeaways and one hot take coming your
way next.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, This is Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
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Speaker 3 (35:38):
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Speaker 1 (35:40):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Yes, Sir, Live from the Tirec
dot Com Studios. We've got more football coming up next,
all big Power Hour, big biggest NFL games of the week,
but a big night in the NBA tonight. And there's
two big takeaways that we have to get to for
a couple minutes here. The Tea Wolves beat the Nuggets tonight.
(36:03):
They come from behind to win a big game. And yeah,
phenomenal come back by the Timberwolves to win. But the
play that everybody's gonna be talking about after Christian Braun
posterizes Rudy Gobert with a dunk, and oh, by the way,
the Christian Braun breakout is happening. He gets really chesty
and thumpy and Braun comes down after the dunk. I
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mean it, Rudy Gobert just gets posterized and he comes
down and he yells. He doesn't yell at Rudy Gobert,
but he yells enough near him. And you know we've
seen that in the NBA. And Rudy Gobert decides, I
don't like it, so I'm gonna grab you around the
neck and try to throw you down.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Two things from this one.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
First of all, I really I can't believe Gobert didn't
get ejected from this. The more you watch you go,
how does Gobert get to stay in the game. That's
a fail by officials ed you the postgame interview. Yeah,
I know, right, Hey, Rudy, how do you feel we
didn't think he'd beat here, because yo, we get tossed
with the game. But all right, we got Rudy Gobert like,
I don't know how he stays in the game. And
what's also crazy is that Russell Westbrook goes running at
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him and Rudy Gobar sees him and backs away like
he gets scared of Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
He's got Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
By like I don't know a foot and maybe and
maybe seventy five pounds, and Russell Westbrook's running at him,
and Rudy Gobert backs up like hey, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Hey man? He starts running at you. You start hearing the
beginning of the Heart song gonna go crazy, So he.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Got a little bit nervous, like, oh, guy's got a
full run on me. And you saw both benches like
they did a good job on the telecast to show
you the reaction from both benches, like, oh my god,
what the hell's happening down there? So yeah, just what
could have been a pretty ugly moment. Instead, Yeah, double technical.
(37:53):
Nothing to see here, move on.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I'm crazy. I can't believe he was allowed to stay
in the game.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
We've seen guys ejected for looking at a referee the
wrong way, right, for just saying, you know, what are
you doing? And this you get a full shove to
the neck and head and you get to stay in
for the final minutes and be a difference maker. It's
absolutely bewildering.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
So the other thing tonight and look, I realize I'm
gonna be out on a limb here, but we watch
the Lakers win tonight. They beat Toronto. Look, Toronto's not great,
but here are the Lakers. What's more about the start
they're having, because we haven't seen the Lakers start like
this in a while.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
They're four and.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Two, big night from Ad Davis goes for thirty eight points,
eleven rebounds. Look, Lebron has twenty seven and Tennis says, right,
but being four and two, this is a pretty good start.
We're used to the Lakers starting badly, you know, then
they pick it up when the ist comes up. But
I'm gonna tell you this, after watching them play in
the early part of the season. Again, we're six games in.
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I am very very tepidly cautiously optimistic about the Lakers
this seasons.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I am, I am, I am.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I am very very tepidly experimentally cautiously optimistic about the
Lakers this season.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
That that's a that's where that's where I'll go with this.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
That's as far as I can go, right because I know, look,
the end of the season's gonna come and Ad is
gonna be exhausted and Lebron's gonna be exhausted. It's gonna
be tough to get through the younger teams in the West.
But for right now, hey, I like what I'm seeing.
But again, again, very very tepidly cautiously optimistic about the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Oh I love your word choices.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
It's like you had a giant board in front of
you and you were able to just have going to
pluck that one day.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
So Christmas, I got a vocabulary a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
He nicely done.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
But the idea is again, you know we were talking
about the Nuggets earlier in the hour. It's the all right,
it's an eighty two games slug. So the one thing
for the Lakers great performance from the starting five tonight
even got a minute from Browny off the bench minus two. Uh,
but he you're looking at trying to make sure you're
monitoring those minutes. Yeah, he won't play back to backs,
(40:15):
I understand that. But other than the ISD you're playing
for April, so you've gotta try to do whatever you can.
After the heavy load that both Davis and James took
on last year, can their bodies do that again, because
it would be more proof towards that they're cyber words
if they do.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason
Smiths with Mike Carmon lifrom the Tirec dot Com studios. Look,
it's not that they're suddenly gonna fall at the face
of the earth. It's just gonna be. They're gonna get tired.
It's how it goes. The NBA players are too long.
It's not made for older players. Man, The NBA is
not made for that. You gotta be You got to
be young and play great defense, game win.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Man can't win that way. I I'll be the biggest
guy in the world. Something. Lebron is holding up the
Larry O'Brien Trophy. Then my goodness, I don't know. The
Chiefs won, the Dodgers won.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Yeah, but it's basketball, it's different and JJ Reddick's elite.
Coming up next, the NFL Power Hour begins. We take
a look at the biggest games of the week and
why Jerry Jones has everybody talking.
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the night and the NBA coming up in a couple
of minutes. But you know, it's always fun on a
Friday when you get a piece of video or something
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you see that you go, man, I just know this
is gonna be everywhere tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
MLS playoffs tonights.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Look, the La Galaxy has had an incredible transformation in
the last year to become one of the best teams
in all of MLS. They had a final night meltdown,
or they would have won the Western Conference. They knock
out tonight. They knocked the Rapids out of the playoffs.
They win their first round pretty easy. They outscore the
Rapids nine to one in two games. But their first
goal tonight was just absolutely incredible. There's a play and
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you're gonna see it and you're gonna go, oh my god,
that's awful.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Zach Stefan's the keeper.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
For Colorado and the Galaxy try a big entry pass
that just goes too far. Right to the entry pass
from well on their side of midfield, and it just
goes too far. But it's outside the eighteen, outside the
goalie box. Though, Stephan goes, I'm just gonna get there.
I'm gonna kick it, you know, deep down the field.
I can't play with my hands. Well, Peck comes running
in at him, and you know, he scored a bunch
(01:57):
of goals. Look, that's who they were trying to get
the ball to. And Stephan just decides, Okay, I'm just
gonna kick it in his art as I can't down
the field except pet just gets right in front of
him and puts his body in front.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Now he's outside the eighteen.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
He's outside the eighteen, and the ball bounces off of
his knee and Ben goes into the net. It's at
a perfect angle and it goes flying into the net
from outside the goalie box.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I have never seen a goal like that. And look,
look the Galaxy. We're good. Look the galaxy or terrific.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Puigue had two goals laid hashtag Pieg your friend Ricky
Puege is fantastic. The Galaxy are loaded. But to see
a goal like that, I go, I have never seen that.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I'm just gonna come in and let you kick it
off me and the deflection goes in that like that's
a youth soccer goal like that. I've probably seen happen
a couple of times in my life.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I saw one a couple of weeks ago, bounced off
someone's ass and went about twenty yards in the air
to the back of the net. So, uh yeah, just
an odd convergence of circumstance. But you know, you want
to get to an exciting Uh look, La, we've had
so much going on, right with all all these teams
swirling the title for the Dodgers and the estimated two million.
(03:07):
Uh you listen to that crowd after a big goal
like that, that's that is some insanity, no question about.
I've watched it like twenty times, and it's.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Just it just takes like it's a It's.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Almost like a pool shot, the way it rolls towards
the back the net, like I really something.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's not like he deflects it and any any and
he aims it right, he just it just hits off
of him and bounce his hallway.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
To the net.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It goes outside from outside the goalie batch from outside
the eighteen, and it just dribbles, dribbles, dribbles into the net.
It was, oh my goodness, that's awful.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
But when you watch the video and you see the
defender sprinting, like hell yeah, they're gonna be able to
get it that maybe there's just enough of a slow down.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
No, yep, oh yeah, chance No, And then that's where moralizing.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
You asked the defender after the game, Hey, what's going
through your head at that moment? And everybody's gonna give
you the same answer. I thought, oh blank, Like that's
everybody that oh blank.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You see a defender on the dead sprint straight, the
look on his.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Face as the ball hits the net, that's the goal
the same. That's absolutely absolute dumb luck man.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Man is the the football God's messing with you there?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And and after you know, like I said, Ricky Puege
had two goals tonight, and look the galaxy here, they're
gonna motor through the playoff. It's gonna be a great
final four playoff. Probably be LA Galaxy in l A
f C. And you got a messy over in the East.
I mean, it's gonna be a fantastic playoffs we get
down to it, we'll be talking.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
A lot about this.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But like after Puige scored his first goal, he did
a Dodger celebration, Like he pretended to be a batter
and one of his teammates was the catcher and the
ball came and he swung it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
So they did it. They did a Dodger celebration.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Hey, look the LA is the is everything Dodgers right now,
it's bleeding over at MLS.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Pretty nice.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You know, should have pointed to the back of the
net like he was Garrett Cole and watching it.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh, that'd have been great.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
You'll be Rizzo and I'll be Garrett Call and I'll
point to you and you just stand there. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon lock Tirec dot Com Studios.
I mean, I mean find that it is absolutely unbelievable.
You know, I've never seen a goal like that. I've
never have Meanwhile, Game of the Night in the NBA
(05:30):
will tell you where we're at right now, t Wolves
and the Nuggets. It was the Nuggets in control until
they weren't. Anthony Edwards now with twenty nine, Julius Randall
of twenty three, seven and six with twenty five seconds ago,
the t Wolves have come all the way back. They
have a one seventeen, one sixteen lead over the Nuggets.
Uh for Yokichi's one rebound away from a triple double
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twenty six, thirteen and nine. Gordon's having a big night
with thirty one and nine. But the big thing from
this was a few moments ago, who knew the Nuggets
were waiting for the Christian Braun breakout? Right third year
out of Kansas, the guy that's only average about seven
points a game his first couple of years, averaging fourteen
a game, right, now for the Nuggets. He has been
an incredible surprise. He posterizes Rudy Gobert, the forty five
(06:19):
time NBA Defensive Player of the Year. He goes six
to six and he goes into the lane and Go
Bear tries to go up and Christian Braun just slams
it over his head and he comes down and he
screams and he yells, and he doesn't yell into Rudy
Gobert's face, but he yells at the crowd kind of
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close enough to Go Bear. Rudy Gobert doesn't like it,
and no matter what if you just dunked on me,
I still have you by about six or seven inches
and a lot of weight. And he puts his arm
and he kind of hits him in the side of
the neck like a roundhouse punch, but he does it
with the inside of his arm. The bench is kind
of empty, and it looks like there's gonna be a brawl,
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and orders got to be restored. It was a really
crazy ass one. You thought there was gonna be a
big fight because Go Bear really just takes a swing
at him, like, you know, he looks like he's pushing
him out of the way a little bit, but then
he kind of takes a swing at him, and after
order is restored, Rudy Gobert gets his revenge on a
play in which the Nuggets were looking to try to
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get the lead back. Rudy Gobar great defensive play. Braun
goes in for the hoop, he misses. Go Bear is
able to play good straight up defense. He gets the rebound.
He's going to the free throw line to shoot with
ten seconds left to go to try to give the
Taels a three point lead. So posterized five minutes ago,
Go Bear is back out for the revenge right.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Now and somehow still in the game and able to
make this.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, because that's the next part of this is that
we after that swing. I'm really surprised he is still
he was still in the game. I realize if you.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Do a little pushing and shoving and you start mfing
each other and whatever else. But like he goes up
to the neck, man, he's up in his head as
he pushes him away, and I think everybody would have
reacted the same way because you're ticked off in the moment.
But how he's still on the court in the final
ten seconds is beyond me, man.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I mean it was double technicals, which okay, I get it,
but this got physical. Like this this guy like he
he like brings that brings an arm in and gets
him in the neck. I mean, this is this is
shocking to me that that's how it's going. Like I really,
I can't believe that's what we saw.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I can't wait for the the officials report and the
you know from the pool reporter.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Answer a hard question tonight, Yeah, the two minute report
after this, go Bear hits both free throws. Nikola Jokic
has a contested three at the end, he misses from
the corner with an airball. Minnesota beats Denver one nineteen
to one. Sixteen. Jokic had the big step back three
but did not even draw iron and the Tea Wolves
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get a big win. Two teams have started out kind
of slow this year, and it did happens when you know,
you go as far as the Nuggets have the last
couple of years, a little bit of hangover, but it's early.
But you can see there's a lot of concern for
the Nuggets, and I think that's a little misplaced. I
really look for the Nuggets. It's been a two years ago.
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It's all the way to the to the championship, and
and and they win last year.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
It's a run.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
They get upset. It's been long runs in the playoffs
the last couple of years. And I've seen a lot
of hay then, Like there's a big ESPN article about
how much more prime does Nicola Jokic have and can
the Nuggets waste it? And I'm like, guys, gotta take
it easy, man. I mean, when you go really far
in the playoffs a couple of years, you know what
you're playing for, You're.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Gonna start out a little slow.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's gonna happen, right, It happened this year with the
forty nine ers in the NFL. You know, as far
as they've gone, there's there's nothing wrong with them, that
that that getting players back isn't gonna help, and that
as the season continues to go on and and and
get closer and close December and January. But that's kind
of what I see with the Nuggets so far. Look
watching a couple of their games. Yeah, everybody's gonna come
at them, you know. You know, Yokich is a guy
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that everybody views him, no matter who actually gets the votes.
He's the MVP every year. No, the Nuggets are just fine.
And if Christian Braun this is who he's gonna be
at fourteen points tonight, he's a huge find for them
as well. I am not that concerned about the Nuggets.
They will wind up being there. They may not be
one of the top two or three teams in the
Western Conference. They may sit around the four or five seed,
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which is kind of what happens. So I'm not that
worried about the Nuggets right now, even though other people
more more than seem to be about them.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Well, I think part of it just comes down to
baseball's over. We don't get to wring our hands over
what the Mets, Yankees, and Dodgers are doing with bullpen management,
lackadaisical plays in the field, or how much money Cohen's
gonna spend this offseason. All of those things are gone.
How much we love missus met or Haktua, all of
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those things to the ether, and it becomes NBA season,
which means, all right, where can we get some hot
takes out to jump? Notice how everybody who's worked tirelessly
to get a friend, relative, or someone they met at
a coffee shop. At some point a job in the
media world jumped up and down on the Lakers every
chance they got. Why because it was fresh, new content. Uh,
(11:23):
that's exactly what's happening here with the Nuggets. Doesn't matter.
It's November one, man, It's like it's November one if
we're still talking about this as a problem in March. Dude, yeah,
many way killing these guys off?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Good god, how many people.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Wanted to kill off the Knicks after opening night against
the Celtics.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Come on, man, look how the mccal bridges.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Everything is absolutely fine. The Celtics are the champions, and
they won it home on ring night and they hit
twenty nine threes. Okay, I'm pretty sure I'm okay with
everything going on with that.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
It's just unbelievable, man Like, and I get it. I
love a good hot take nonsense. And let's take what
is an issue and try to magnif put the magnifying
glass on it.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
This ain't it, This ain't it.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I mean, Yo, Kitsch talks about and he's been very
candid about it, you know, in terms of, you know,
do they have enough shooters, natural shooters, rhythm shooters, all
of that and and spoke to that. So maybe he
blew a little bit of air into this this whatever
hot air balloon.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Since Wicked's coming out, let's get the hot air balloon in.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Uh, you know all of that that we we get
with the the Nuggets, the expectations being so high. This
guy loves his horses. Maybe he doesn't care as much
what hed he do this offseason.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
All of that.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
They're two and three, which means there are seventy seven
regularly seven and just like your Nickson opening night, it's falling.
They're never gonna be able to contend.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
With these guys.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Okay, if if they shoot twenty nine threes, then yeah,
we're just gonna nod our heads, tip our caps and
go home. That's the way it works. But yeah, I
calm down, calm down. Let's channel more energy back into
the Cowboys than there woos.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
Live from the Tireck dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
We'll got more basketball coming up next.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Hey, the two biggest takeaways from two of the biggest
games tonight. Plus we get back into our big preview
weekend for all the big matchups in college football in
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
We picked the biggest of the big games.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
All that more coming up next right here, Jason and
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Speaker 2 (13:43):
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 (13:55):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the IRAQ dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Now we're gonna have more on the NBA.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
We'll take a look at that big college football game
tomorrow coming up in a few minutes. But something to
be said. You know, I thinking about this tonight. You know,
we talked to Pete Futak last hour on the show,
and you know he mentioned really quick heisman wise and
you know he says that, you know, Dylan Gabriel, you know,
might win this and you know it doesn't seem right
now to be that great of a heisman chase. But
(14:27):
I got news for you, man, It's just starting because
you know now it's it's November.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Winning time. Ya in every sense of the word.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And hopes that well, Hi in the heat of September
can wilt and die in the chill of November.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
He didn't get into the hall, according to some reports.
I know, come on, it's it's tough.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
All the guy did was read some stuff, you know
before he did the news in Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I mean it's sending in. Yeah, there's iconic.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, the guys that gave their bodies and and you
know to the game, and they had a bad av
the broadcasters and John w winz Win, John Facenda went
into a room and he read stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
That's I mean, that's kind of tough. Man.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Hey man, guys get paid millions and millions of dollars
every day in our business to do that very thing.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
But I'll tell you this, this is going to be
the best Heisman chase in a long time.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Because what we love we love debates, and it's just
starting to heat up now. Certain players we thought were
gonna be at the top of the list, you know,
might not be there.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
And oh who's gonna win? You know? But you look
right now.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
There is gonna be a three way chase and it
is gonna be an incredible debate. And I'll tell you
who the three guys are gonna be h Tonight we
watched Boise State beat San Diego State fifty six twenty four.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
They're rolling through everybody, likely Boise State.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
As long as they win their last couple of games,
they'll be a playoff team. And Ashton Genty is a
guy that is on the heels of Backry Sanders for
his all time rushing record. Every week it's at least
one hundred and fifty yards for this guy. Tonight he
was one forty nine and two touchdowns. And as you
can see, how things go right and I know how
sports goes as time goes on every game, where is
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he compared to Barry Sanders?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Where is he here?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Can he break Barry Sanders record for yards rushing in
a season? How much more does he need?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
What is he need to go?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And that's been a that's going to be a big storyline, Bud.
He's a running back for Boise State. Who are the
other guys? Travis Hunter who goes on podcasts every week
and talks about it. He is having a better than
Charles Woodson type season. When Woodson won the Heisman in
nineteen ninety seven, Woodson had a handful of plays offensively, right,
and he wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
He's the best, he was the best player in college football.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But really for a defensive player to win the Heisman,
you know, he wins it over Peyton Manning because he
made a couple of plays offensively.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I mean, Travis Hunter's doing.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Every He's you know, he's fourteen catches for one hundred
and thirty yards and two touchdowns every week and playing
every snap on defense. It's what about this two way player?
And then you have Dylan Gabriel, who, oh, by the way,
is now I think twelve touchdown shy of the all
time record for touchdowns in a career. And yes, he's
the quarterback of the number one team in the country.
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So you think about that debate where it's a record
setting quarterback for number one team in the country, the
best two way star we've seen in college football in
twenty some odd years, and a running back who may
set an all time record that is from a small school.
You wonderful guy from Boise State can win the Heisman Trophy.
This is going to be some kind of debate because
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now we're getting into Heisman season, we're seeing big games,
people rise, people fall.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
This debate, these three guys.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Even people who never saw Ashton Genty play a down,
people who don't watch Dylan Gabriel throw at all, they
know where.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
He goes to school. He's changed schools like eleven times.
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
The Gabriel Hunter Genty thing, that's going to be a
huge thing coming up for the next month and a half.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yeah, the Travis Hunter part of it. Obviously, Colorado needs
to keep winning. One of the great stories of the
twenty four season after the collapse last year. He was
before the season, can you believe this? He was thirty
five to one, thirty five to one, which is just
ridiculous when you ponder that going up and looking at
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the odds. As we sit here now, Gabriel is the
leader plus two forty, Hunter right behind him at plus
two fifty, cam Ward Genti now at plus four fifty,
and then you get to Cade Club Nick Carson, Beck,
Shador Sanders fifty to one and go on from there.
So it's yeah, it's it's crazy, It's it's going to
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be a fun final month. And for the first time
in a while, I mean since COVID, the Heisman hasn't
had the same juice right as to when it's when
it's given out and everything else, it's kind of gone
into the shadows. So an opportunity for it to get
back to the forefront.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, I mean it's go.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And the thing is is that this has everything you
would want. Does it have the big star power names
outside of Travis Hunter. No, Like there's no crazy sexy
quarterback like a cam Ward or you know, Shadur Sanders
is overshadowed by Travis Hunter, and rightfully so because of
what he does.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
But it's so different.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
And that's the thing is that it's a different storyline
for the Heisman Trophy than we've ever seen. It's not
two quarterbacks that are up for. It's not a quarterback
and a wide receiver. Is it's one quarterback that maybe
you have a couple questions about it's a two way
player that, well, what's his you know, what kind of impact?
Can we get past the fact that his stats aren't
gonna blow anybody away? And then a running back to
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place for a smaller school and a smaller conference, and
you have all kinds of arguments to make four and
against all three of these guys. And that's what's gonna
make it great because it's not like I can say, well,
this guy should win in the end. No, because I
can give you a great case why Travis Hunter could
be a slam dunk winner of the Heisman Trophy, slam
dunk winner. But then I can give you a case
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where I could say, you know what, yeah, maybe no,
maybe he doesn't affect the game as much as atching
Genty did. Because what I mean there's you can go
either way on all of this, and the debate is
what's gonna make it great? And it's gonna come down
to all three of these guys. I don't see. There's
nothing that Genty can do now other than continue on
the path he is on. There's nothing that Gabriel can
do then continue on the path he's on. There's nothing
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that Travis Hunter can do. Then continue on the path
he's on. As you said, if Colorado keeps winning, the
only thing that could derail it is if you get
a guy that you know, the last month of the year,
a big time quarterback that just comes out of nowhere
and puts up all kinds of numbers and and and
their team is in the top five and has a
big Heisman moment on a big November Day somewhere.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I mean, that's the only thing.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Like, you know, if Alabama really catches fire and Jaln
Milroe suddenly looks like he's absolutely unstoppable. Yeah, he'll have
Heisman moments because he'll be on big games on over
the course next month and a half. But right now,
these guys like that, like that's the debate, man, and
that's gonna be a fun thing man for a month
and a half to talk about.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yeah, I mean, you look at him, you look at
Carson Back. Guys that got a lot of ink coming
into the season still have a chance to make some
noise in this process. And it's curious right as you
know you're breaking down the candidacies for Dylan Gabriel, it's
the fact that we've got to think about it. The
career mark for him is interesting, right, because it's true
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it will be. It's kind of like all those oscars
that everybody gets mad about every year.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's okay. Lifetime achievement awards happen in many, many ways,
sometimes just in a golden parachute as you move into retirement.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Sometimes you get a nice award and you get to
dance on the stage and thank everybody who you need
to and Dylan Gabriel right now, he's the favorite to
have that. The fun thing is at the running back position.
You know, he was off the board to start the year.
Wasn't even in the opening oys. He was in the
others receiving votes. Situation like yeah you want to you
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know the field, that's where he was. And now we're
talking about perhaps an all time record setting season at
the running back position, and both at the collegiate level
and at the pros. It's always good, you know, and
does my heart good being the Midwestern boy that I am.
And you know, the Bears three yards at a cloud of
dusk because we sure as held it. It never had a
quarterback that let lit the world on fire. So having
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a running back even discussed as can he get it done? Can?
And can they look past the logo on the side
of the helmet and recognized great.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
We'll find out Exit out bout a Fresca Exit Swallen Dome.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Live from the
Tirech dot Com Studios, we take a look at the
biggest game of the week in college football tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It's the game of November.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I mean We're only one day in the year, but
it's the game of November.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But first, especially delivery. Steve de Saga has what's trending.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
He said to me, if I had a Heisman vote,
I would never vote for a two way player because
why can he play three ways?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
So maybe that's the guys he's waiting for.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
To be So you were big on Gordi Lockbaum.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
This is all from that.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
If he could kick extra points too, I'll vote for him.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Speaking of kicking extra points, did you see the video
from the Columbia home game tonight? They tried to distract
the opposing kicker and they'd put on the video board
behind the goalposts a picture of the new Dwayne Wade
statue that alone, of course, would scare anybody. Nice try.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Boise State running back Ashton genty and company a winner
again tonight. This was on FS one this evening at
fifteenth ryng Boise State Broncos over San Diego State fifty
six twenty four. Home team led twenty eight nothing in
the second quarter. Genti's up to twenty rushing touchdowns this year.
He had thirty one carries one hundred and forty nine yards,
two tds, tonight. He's over fifteen hundred yards rushing for
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the season in eight games. In September at Oregon, he
had almost two hundred yards rushing in three scores that game,
and that was his team's only loss, thirty seven to
thirty four Yukon at South Florida with wins and Saturday
on Fox Noon Eastern Time, Number three Penn State hosting
number four Ohio State. Penn State quarterback Drew Allar is
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expected to play after last week's leg injury to the NFL.
Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love was limited at practice again
with a groin injury. He's a game time decision. Packers
hosts the Lions in the Big Game Sunday on Fox TV.
Packer's running back Josh Jacobs is questionable with an ankle injury.
Patriots quarterback Drake may is still in concussion protocol and
limited at practice. He's listed as questionable. Titans QB Will
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levis questionable with the bad shoulder. Mason Rudolph has been starting.
Titans running back Tony Pollard questionable with a foot injury.
Washington quarterback Jaden Daniels has no injury designation after a
rib injury and quarterback Lamar Jackson of the Ravens was
cleared to play Sunday. Saints QB Derek Carr will return
from injury Sunday. Vikings tight end TJ. Howkinson is set
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to make his season debut Sunday night after last year's
knee injuries. Giants running back Tyrone Tracy cleared concussion protocol,
but the Giants are missing this weekend kicker Greg Joseph
and punter Jamie Gillen. The late NBA game went to
Oklahoma City now five and oh after a win at
Portland one thirty seven to one fourteen thirty points for
Shay gil Jose Alexander. At Minnesota, the Timberwolves edge Denver
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one nineteen one sixteen Anthony Edwards twenty nine points Minnesota
with a ten to oh run in the last two
and a half minutes of the game. Pelicans guard CJ.
McCollum is out two to three weeks with a strained deductor.
New Orleans did win at home tonight against Indiana Zion
Williamson thirty four points, ten assists. Lakers got thirty eight
points from Anthony Davison. A win at Toronto victories for
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New York Brooklyn and Sacramento Boston five and one, after
winning at Charlotte Cleveland six and oh after a win
over Orlando. Orlando star Polo Bancaro, as we mentioned last night,
is out with a torn o bleak. He'll be reevaluated
in four to six weeks. The new WNBA coach for
Indiana is Stephanie White, a former player and coach there.
Among the six NHL games wins for the Rangers and Winnipeg,
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which is ten and one, and today in Finland, Florida
defeated Dallas six to four. They'll play again there tomorrow.
And the San Francisco Giants promoted Zach Manacion to general manager.
His brother is the Angels. GM Giants pitcher Blake Snell
opt out of his deal today.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Back to you, can I get you?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You're my brother and I love you. Remember when I
remember when I helped you out with mom and dad. Okay,
I need you to take Anthony Rendon's contract.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Please, all right? Then we're even you take that contract.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
We're even all right the everything of what I'll host Thanksgiving, everything,
but where even if you take his contract, how about.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Any Angels contract we've given anyone in the last decade.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You know, real quick note on Stephanie White, the new
head coach of the Indiana Fever at Caitlin Clark's new
head coach. We had seen this coming as soon as
Christy Sides got let go the rumors where you look.
She had been there for a while. She's incredibly successful
the last couple of years. Coach of the Year with
the Sun a year ago, so we thought this was
gonna happen. But wow, you know what's kind of weird
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and kind of I kind of looked at that and
go man. Over half the league in the WNBA fired
their head coaches at the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I mean seven out of the twelve teams, we're looking
for new head coaches.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
It's like the NBA they've realized, Okay, we're not get well,
we need new head coaches in this is over half
the league is bringing in new head.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Coaches, new level of attention, new level of money and
processing and all that through. I thought it was funny
because I turn on the game earlier, right the Cleveland
game against the Magic, and they're Stephanie White as one
of the announcers. Yeah, yeah, sure, today you announced the coach,
you have the press conference talking about you know, what
Caitlin Clark's done and all the expectations and everything else,
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and then you get to talk on it for two
and a half hours in a bad basketball game. Let's
keep talking about your new job. Let's talk about Kaitlyn more.
How much have you talked her?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
How many time you think her? In her analysis? Tonight
they said, what do you think of that play? Oh,
Caitlyn would have made that play. Caitlyn would have done that.
Kitlyn would have got that. Caitly would have done that. Look,
this is a great moment now for the w because
they have a time to reset this offseason, coming off
the greatest season they've ever had with the greatest star
they've ever had.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
In the league in Caitlin Clark. And I just hope
you listen. Take some time.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Let's have less off court divisiveness. Let everybody get on
the same page. Understand the stars that are going to
push the league.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Take that.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You had a season to be bitter about Caitlin Clark
coming in and other players not getting whatever credit they want.
It's over now, handle your success. I get everything moved
too fast for you. It was at a lightning pace.
I don't think anybody saw it. Well, we told you
what was gonna be, but hey, they should have listened
to us. You have some time now before the season
gets going coming up late next spring. Just be able
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to handle your success and get where you're at and
be less divisive when it comes to how players and
coaches feel about their star players in the league. No
league that is out they're in sports. No league rips
its own superstars that help pay the bills. It doesn't
matter what you feel about Lebron or Mahomes that nobody doesn't.
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We don't want this. We don't want her in the league.
We don't want to and we don't want You have
to you have to handle bill. You have to understand
that this is where you're at. It is a it
is a big time situation you have going on right now.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
And let's just understand that.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Okay, certain players are gonna get more publicity and we
don't have time for jealousy or any any sorts of
silliness like that. They've got to go play basketball and
keep growing the league.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
But that's the thing. The league grew.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
How many different commercials endorsements did you see flow through
shoe deals that were already in progress that got announced
and came to fruition, and the dollars started flowing today.
On my timeline, I can't tell you the number of
times I saw retweets of Angel Reese's Reese's serial that
came out today, plus the shoes plus you.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Know, Hey, she's living beyond her means. Though doesn't make
any money, She's living beyond her means. She has, she said,
lives in a place she can't afford, despite the fact
she has a shoe line in Cereal and owns a
soccer teams.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
He's living beyond her means, beyonder means.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Yeah, well, you know that's only if you're on the
Jay Leno thing of you don't touch your actual salary
and you only work, you know, and live off of
the endorsements and stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
In this case, she's reversed it and she's only working living.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
All the other money is actually getting banks Like you know,
you into that a little bit. Yeah, I must have
talked Sani, but no, I.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Tell you a great you want a great story about that.
So my, my, my cousin, I laugh. I always say,
but when you're sixty five, you're gonna be a millionaire.
So my cousin's a fireman in New York and his dad,
my uncle Jimmy. I've talked about him on the Showay
he retired, Give me a little Jimmy, Big Jimmy, Little Jimmy. Right,
So big Jimmy retired as a fire chief in Staten Island,
and he went through the entire you know, his entire
(30:57):
life of the best thing to do with your money,
how to invest it, what to do, what percentage of
your salary to keep, what to put in your forward,
just because you know it's different, you know, in fire department.
So he did a certain thing with his money. And
so he told, you know, little Jimmy says, listen, we're
gonna do the same thing with your money that we
did with me. Trust me on this. I didn't become
a fireman until I was thirty. My cousin became a fireman.
(31:18):
He's like twenty two to twenty three. And he says, listen,
trust me on this.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Let's do this. Let's do this. Un let's all right.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
And I remember talking little Jimmy, and I said, so,
how's that going, by the way with your sal He
goes my Dad's got all my money.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
I can't touch it. I can't do anything.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
But but but he says, when I retire, I'll have
like a million dollars and I go so in thirty
some odd years, you, yeah, I'm gonna have a lot
of money. But I have no money now, Jay Jay
got no money.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
But that happens right between pensions, fire, police, teachers and
administrators and other jobs. Yeah, people live a bit cash
poor because the payout at the end, either because in
the retirement plan or because of the pension. I can
(32:05):
see because he's got his pension, but he's probably also
doing the you know, maxing out is his four oh
one k and ira contributions to where it's like, wait,
wait dad, dad'd like to go to a ball game?
You don't like to gone to Dodger Stadium to watch.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
The trophy ceremony. They got no money.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I want to drive into I want to drive into
Churse and have enough gas to put money to get gas.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
To put in my car. I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
I want to say so, But yeah, I mean, you
see see the growth and everything that's rolling through.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I think everybody calmerheads prevailed because you got several months
to kind of let it just state at this point.
It's not in the moment with a bunch of microphones
in your face.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Now to the game of the week. We talked about
this a couple of minutes. Obviously, the big nude kickoff
tomorrow is Ohio State and Penn State, and you're talking
about the number three and four team in the country.
I would love to be able to pick Penn State,
right I'd love to be able to pick Penn State
in this game. But I can't because I haven't seen
Penn State win a game like this in eight years, right, Like, oh.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
James Franklin has done it before.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
He's one big g Yeah, in twenty seventeen, it's twenty
twenty four. Right now, they haven't done anything. They can't
beat big teams. And I'm not gonna pick Penn State
to win a game until they show me they can
do it. I have seen Ohio State win games like
this in the Ryan Day era, and before Ryan Days,
problems come against Michigan, and when they have to play
in the playoff, they don't have a lot of problems.
(33:33):
If they should have beat Oregon a couple of weeks ago. Look,
your quarterback makes a different decision, you probably win the game.
They win games like this. It's not gonna be pretty
because both teams defenses are really good and not gonna
be a lot of points scored in this game. But
you're also see an Ohio State team that needs this
game way more than Penn State does. Penn State is undefeated.
Ohio State's got one loss, two losses. Yeah, you can
(33:55):
still make the playoff, but you have tough games coming up.
You got Indiana, you have the Big Ten Championship a theory,
you can't really afford to lose many more games, whereas
Penn State can stub their toe once all that going
into it, Penn State's got to show me they can
do it. Doesn't matter if Aler plays quarterback or not.
Ohio State's gonna have enough. I'm gonna take them in
a close one in this game, but defense is enough
(34:18):
for them to win this game. I'll take Ohio State
and the under which I love just as much as
Ohio State. Give me Ohio State seventeen sixteen.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Nice look at you. The narrow victory. What three or
three and a half depending on where you're shopping right now.
Ohio State the road favorite to your point about big games,
James Franklin just doesn't do it three and seventeen against
top ten squads. And I know past performance not indicative
of future success, but we've seen Penn State struggle with
(34:47):
a couple of also ran teams through this, and for
Ohio State this is Ryan David from The Fox.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Just a huge.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
Spot because they still have so much including a likely
rematch with Oregon at the end of things, They've got
a lot of winning left to do.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
So there's no look aheads.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Here, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon, Live from the Tirec
dot Com Studios. I got more football on the way,
but straight ahead, it's been a huge night in the NBA.
The two biggest takeaways and one hot take coming your
way next.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, This is Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
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 3 (35:38):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Yes, Sir, Live from the Tirec
dot Com Studios. We've got more football coming up next,
all big Power Hour, big biggest NFL games of the week,
but a big night in the NBA tonight. And there's
two big takeaways that we have to get to for
a couple minutes here. The Tea Wolves beat the Nuggets tonight.
(36:03):
They come from behind to win a big game. And yeah,
phenomenal come back by the Timberwolves to win. But the
play that everybody's gonna be talking about after Christian Braun
posterizes Rudy Gobert with a dunk, and oh, by the way,
the Christian Braun breakout is happening. He gets really chesty
and thumpy and Braun comes down after the dunk. I
(36:25):
mean it, Rudy Gobert just gets posterized and he comes
down and he yells. He doesn't yell at Rudy Gobert,
but he yells enough near him. And you know we've
seen that in the NBA. And Rudy Gobert decides, I
don't like it, so I'm gonna grab you around the
neck and try to throw you down.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Two things from this one.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
First of all, I really I can't believe Gobert didn't
get ejected from this. The more you watch you go,
how does Gobert get to stay in the game. That's
a fail by officials ed you the postgame interview. Yeah,
I know, right, Hey, Rudy, how do you feel we
didn't think he'd beat here, because yo, we get tossed
with the game. But all right, we got Rudy Gobert like,
I don't know how he stays in the game. And
what's also crazy is that Russell Westbrook goes running at
(37:07):
him and Rudy Gobar sees him and backs away like
he gets scared of Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
He's got Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
By like I don't know a foot and maybe and
maybe seventy five pounds, and Russell Westbrook's running at him,
and Rudy Gobert backs up like hey, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Hey man? He starts running at you. You start hearing the
beginning of the Heart song gonna go crazy, So he.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Got a little bit nervous, like, oh, guy's got a
full run on me. And you saw both benches like
they did a good job on the telecast to show
you the reaction from both benches, like, oh my god,
what the hell's happening down there? So yeah, just what
could have been a pretty ugly moment. Instead, Yeah, double technical.
(37:53):
Nothing to see here, move on.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I'm crazy. I can't believe he was allowed to stay
in the game.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
We've seen guys ejected for looking at a referee the
wrong way, right, for just saying, you know, what are
you doing? And this you get a full shove to
the neck and head and you get to stay in
for the final minutes and be a difference maker. It's
absolutely bewildering.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
So the other thing tonight and look, I realize I'm
gonna be out on a limb here, but we watch
the Lakers win tonight. They beat Toronto. Look, Toronto's not great,
but here are the Lakers. What's more about the start
they're having, because we haven't seen the Lakers start like
this in a while.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
They're four and.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Two, big night from Ad Davis goes for thirty eight points,
eleven rebounds. Look, Lebron has twenty seven and Tennis says, right,
but being four and two, this is a pretty good start.
We're used to the Lakers starting badly, you know, then
they pick it up when the ist comes up. But
I'm gonna tell you this, after watching them play in
the early part of the season. Again, we're six games in.
(38:58):
I am very very tepidly cautiously optimistic about the Lakers
this seasons.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
I am, I am, I am.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
I am very very tepidly experimentally cautiously optimistic about the
Lakers this season.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
That that's a that's where that's where I'll go with this.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
That's as far as I can go, right because I know, look,
the end of the season's gonna come and Ad is
gonna be exhausted and Lebron's gonna be exhausted. It's gonna
be tough to get through the younger teams in the West.
But for right now, hey, I like what I'm seeing.
But again, again, very very tepidly cautiously optimistic about the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Oh I love your word choices.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
It's like you had a giant board in front of
you and you were able to just have going to
pluck that one day.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
So Christmas, I got a vocabulary a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
He nicely done.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
But the idea is again, you know we were talking
about the Nuggets earlier in the hour. It's the all right,
it's an eighty two games slug. So the one thing
for the Lakers great performance from the starting five tonight
even got a minute from Browny off the bench minus two. Uh,
but he you're looking at trying to make sure you're
monitoring those minutes. Yeah, he won't play back to backs,
(40:15):
I understand that. But other than the ISD you're playing
for April, so you've gotta try to do whatever you can.
After the heavy load that both Davis and James took
on last year, can their bodies do that again, because
it would be more proof towards that they're cyber words
if they do.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason
Smiths with Mike Carmon lifrom the Tirec dot Com studios. Look,
it's not that they're suddenly gonna fall at the face
of the earth. It's just gonna be. They're gonna get tired.
It's how it goes. The NBA players are too long.
It's not made for older players. Man, The NBA is
not made for that. You gotta be You got to
be young and play great defense, game win.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Man can't win that way. I I'll be the biggest
guy in the world. Something. Lebron is holding up the
Larry O'Brien Trophy. Then my goodness, I don't know. The
Chiefs won, the Dodgers won.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Yeah, but it's basketball, it's different and JJ Reddick's elite.
Coming up next, the NFL Power Hour begins. We take
a look at the biggest games of the week and
why Jerry Jones has everybody talking.
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