December 8, 2023 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon recap Thursday Night Football between the Patriots and Steelers and debate if you want Bill Belichick coaching your team. Plus, longtime NBA Insider Mark Medina swings by to talk Lakers and the In-Season Tournament.
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to the Patriots. At least the overhit twenty one to
eighteen is the final. And we're gonna have more of
the Bill Belichick aspect of this in a few minutes.
Thanks to Jay Glazer for Stop and Buy a few
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But for the Steelers' aspect of this, first, Mike, because
I don't think anybody committed this game tonight thinking Okay,
the Steelers aren't going to win, right, the Patriots are done.
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They're two and ten, they have no quarterback, they have nothing,
and they came out in the first half and just
took it to the Steelers. Sure, the Steelers now have
lost in consecutive weeks to the two and ten Cardinals
and the two and ten Patriots.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And this shows you what.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It's been like for the Steelers for the last you know,
I don't know, three decades, but this has to be
the worst two week stretch for the Steelers maybe in
thirty years.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And I'm not lying.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I mean that because they're over five hundred every year
they've had. This is as bad a two week stretch
that I can ever remember them having, just because here's
two teams who were terrible, who have given up, and
they're trying to work towards next year. And still the
Steelers have a pretty good defense and a pretty good
run game. Can't find a way to get.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
By iestimating the run game. This is I think they've
had a couple of instances where the run game worked,
but for the most part it's been suspect just slightly
better than what Green Bay has been putting out in
the run game.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Jalen Warren has been good. They every time he's been
a good.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Well, they keeps well.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He keeps sticking it to Naji Harris, which in his
three point nine yards count. But Harris has been better
in the last few weeks, and that running look something's kept.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
That's what's kept going like that from where they were
yet because.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm comparing it to the because I'm comparing it to
the passing game, and the offense has been awful because
Kenny Picking is bad and Mitchell Trubisky is worse. So
the running game and what the running back's be able
to do has been able to keep them afloat offensively.
But now looking at this is as embarrassing as it gets.
I mean, these are two games you're expecting the steel
I'm sitting here, going, man, the Steelers just gonna sit
here and suck all the way to like an eleven
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win season. And you know there are seven and you
know that here they are sitting at seven and four.
They're gonna beat the Patriots, They're gonna beat this Cardinals.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
They're gonna be nine and four and it's gonna be
all my goodness. But no, here they're.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Losing the two of the worst teams in the NFL.
And if the playoffs started today, the Steelers are out
of it.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Eventually the Chickens come home to roost. You can't put
points on the board. Look, moving the ball between the twenties,
don't care, Right, that's great? You know, the defense holding
up in the red zone, fantastic offense needing to settle
for long field goal attempts. Hey, or here's come super
toe from fifty six, which is what they did today,
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and that's how I got on the board.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, fifty six yard field goal, let's go.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And then Trabisky made a couple of plays right, that
throw to Johnson was great, got into the end zone.
But there's like but some of the other decision making,
some of the other play calling asinine. You know, the
old hey, let's run a yard and a half short of.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
The sticks on a pass route.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Like just basic things that we've seen the Patriots beat
themselves this year. Uncharacteristically, you're seeing the same thing in
Pittsburgh and the run game. You got two guys that
are coming into tonight's game had six hundred yards rushing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yay, over four yards of carry.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
That's fine, and I like Jalen Warren the explosiveness, but
there's been no ability to create any kind of action
with a play action pass because your run game has
been an emic and not giving you that option to
where it's a constant threat. Tonight we watched in the
first half, you didn't take any shots downfield and all
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George Pickens, how many times do you see a shot
of him? Look, he's generally salty to him sitting on
the bench. Did you have where he just you know,
he's got the thousand yards stare right of all right?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
What am I part of here? Once again?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
So that's another week that they're gonna have to deal
with that in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Johnson got his touchdown, so maybe he's quiet this week.
But you couldn't even get Friarmouth involved a ton the
pass game, short, intermediate, just nothing, crisp, and then you
could just sit on routes, which is what the Patriots did.
You got the huge first half from Bailey Zappi. I mean,
you got to give the Steelers credit on the defensive side.
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They held him to forty four passing yards in the
second half, buddy, problem is he'd thrown for one hundred
and ninety six and three score.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So yeah, those three score, those that first half counts, buddy,
I mean that first half, gut.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It's the problem of it runs though exactly. Football is
a sixty minute game. That first half counts. Yeah, now
he's you're the Jets and yeah, yeah, yeah, then I
wish none of it counted.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Now for the Belichick aspect of this, this has been
the best Patriots game of the year, right, I mean,
I don't think I don't think that's a hot take.
This has been the Patriots' best game of the year.
They beat the Jets earlier this season, But you saw
how bad the Jets are. They absolutely stink right. They
beat Buffalo that was big, twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
To twenty five.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, but here you are on Thursday night beating the
Steelers when it looks like all was lost in the
middle of the year when you could have just quit.
But your quarterback change works. And you know, it was
interesting talking to Jay Glaize. It's always great talking to Jay,
but talking to him earlier last hour when he said,
you know, trying to get Belichick and if he goes
someplace else after this year, which which Jay believes he
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is and a lot of people think he is. We
told you last summer this is gonna be it for
Belichick in New England. Is that the way he coaches
and coaching with the negativity and the and and the
iron fist type, it doesn't connect with players like it
used to. And there's other places people can go, players
can go that are happier, especially now they know they're
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gonna win other places because you know, he had the
monopoly on it when it was Yeah, I a certain way,
but we have Brady and you know every other year
you're gonna go to the super Bowl, Like that's a
big thing. Like Brady was the drawing card. You know, hey,
it's okay, come here, and other players you've heard stories
of them telling free agents, no, come here. Tom's there.
It's gonna be great. It's not gonna be the greatest experience,
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you know, but it's gonna be good enough where you're
gonna win, you're gonna get, you're gonna have, you're gonna
play great, and you could win a super Bowl and
win a ring. So that was always a thing, but
now it's not and it's not a place where you
can where you can go, and especially when you look
at the way that he coaches and it doesn't resonate
with players anymore. And you know, that's something, honestly that
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is more of a universal statement than just NFL players
who don't respond to negativity anymore. And then this this
could be part of it's the new generation or whether
it's Generation Z players versus others. But I'll tell you
what in the last few years that I spent coaching
soccer and softball is that you know, it's it's funny
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because one of the things that that I get that
that people say about me as a coaches, boy, you know,
your your positivity is is great, you know, you know,
the potivity I have the girls are so great, and
it's sometimes I take it a bit of it. It's
a bit of a backhanded compliment they give me because
sometimes they don't see what I do with the girls
all the time as far as getting them better and
making them the best version of themselves they can be.
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You know, I don't always do some kind of here's
some crazy drill with a with cones and a net,
and and here's you know, a guy throwing you know,
hot clam chowder on you. You know, I don't do that,
you know, So it's different things all but the positiviy positivity.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, all is negativity here on the air within that's
that is not the.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Uh And and it's like, oh you're positively and sometimes
it goes some people see it and some people don't.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
And and it's kind of a backhanded thing. But that's coaching.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And and you can't motivate players negative negatively anymore, at
least I've seen. And this is you know, I'm just
going on, you know, seven or eight years of two
sports and how and how players respond and how girls respond.
You know, you and I grew up you know, we're
in our early fifties now, and it has always been, well,
the coach was hard on you, and he turned you
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into and made you mature and turned you into a
better player, and you learned responsibility and all these.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Other times in jail, and that's.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Hey, let me take your helmet and slam you into
the guy next to you. Yeah, I mean coach in
the back of the helmet with a whistle.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Or no water break. What do you mean, no water break,
no water breaking at none other.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Until somebody throws up.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
No, no, no, that's the coach. The coach can't do
that anymore. Coach can't do But that's how you and I,
you know, came up. And that's still how a lot
of coaches coach. Because they're all coaches that are in
their fifties, sixties, seventies. They've coached one way the entire time. Well,
every generation is different, and every generation of players are
just a little bit more. And there's no I could
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just tell just by all the girls that I've coached
last few years, there's no way that in a few
years there's gonna be any quote negative coaches left where
any more. My way or the highway. Guys are left.
You have to have some kind of way to find
a way to individually connect with each of your players
to turn them into the best version of themselves they
can be, because you know, seeing it, if you just yet,
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people are just gonna unplug this guy yelling at me,
and you know who the ones are only gonna be
the ones that step.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
In the way and say otherwise are the parents.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
No, No, that's how I grew up, and that's how coach,
and this coach cares about. You know, there's more than
one way to coach, and this way that the way
Belichick does it, it's a dinosaur way, and that's gonna be
completely out of practice in a few years when these
coaches that have been doing it this way are all
gone and they've all retired, or they've moved on, or
they stopped coaching, and it's gonna be the coaches like
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Danny Hurley who loves his players more than anything, and
Yukon wins the national championship mainly because of that. It's
gonna be coaches that you see like Dan Campbell who
love his guys and put them in the great space
place to succeed. And Jared Goff is such a great
place mentally, he can wind up being a quarter back
playing in the Super Bowl this year with the Lions. Right,
you see that way of coaching, that's the way it's
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gonna be done now. And the way of Belichick. Yeah,
that's a that's a bye, that's a that's like a
relic of a bygone era. No coaches are gonna come
out that you're gonna see make legends of themselves over
the next few years that are gonna be Boy, this
is an old school guy, a throwback guy to you know,
Bear Bryant and and all the ways things were done
in the seventies and how horrible camps were and how
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they treated you. That that is just not gonna happen anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, but to be.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Fair, have we ever really heard that Bill Belichick treated
anybody really badly?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
He just had expectations that you came in and did
your job. Right, He's say, it's no fun.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You heard, no.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
No, there's a difference between fun and.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Being a you know, a bad coach, the kind that
we're describing like that, There's there's still a gap there, right.
Would you rather have them be like Sean Payton or
Kirby Smart?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, we had that freshman linebacker and he got lost,
and you know it's his fault.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
We lost that game like he did the other day.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Or Sean Payton going out of his way without saying
Russell Wilson's name to basically take a baseball back to him.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, Jerry Judy was open a bunch. You know, we
just you know what he what.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
He you know, hey, he didn't well, well, there's a
difference between butter to blaming a guy for a play
for a game and a general way that you coach.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
No, no, but but that's what I'm saying, though you know,
it's all on a on a continuum here. Belichick's never
gone to a podium and verbally undressed a guy.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Tell me one time he's ever gone to talk about
how well a guy's played.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But but you but.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
My point is you you're going to the all right,
you gotta kiss the guy's ass kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
He just talks about team and that doesn't make him
a bad guy or or a couch type of coach
that needs to be outdated. Like let's go to Lincoln Riley. Hey, Caleb,
you don't feel like it, I don't go meet the media.
Is that good coaching? Is that what he's been charged
to do? Meanwhile, throwing everybody else under the bus every
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chance he gets. I'm just trying to get where we're
at on the continuing you're here because I don't see that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Coach, right, Belichick is a good coach.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
There's Blair's Blair he was a good coach. I don't
think he's a good coach. He hasn't been a good
coach in three and a half years he's been. This
has been his team, and look how bad it is.
I mean it's bad on the field, it's it's and
and now his night, this is a game and his
soul telling you, man, it's this this way, his way
of doing things. It's a dinosaur's way. Brady could throw
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for five touchdowns? Again, how did Tom play?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Mat? Tom was fine? Tom Brady could do that.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
We're moving on to next week.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
No, what what's he gonna do? Come out and start
throwing confetti up tonight? So you want a game, We're
onto the next one.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
How about how.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
About you talk about how the guy the guys worked
hard in practice all week and he put out a
great game for you, And to give him five seconds
of saying, Hey, that's a great effort by him, and
the eyes need to learn and you know, and he's
a great leader. And watch Jason, that's what it used
to work that way. It doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That does not Just wait, is he talking about Belichick
or me? Smith?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Oh? I could be both, It could be. I'm gonna
put a poll of that up on X.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Hey is Frostburg calling Belichick or Harmon.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
An ass hat?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hang on? Look at that and said, uh, look, we'll
keep continue to break this down throughout the rest of
the hour with Belichick in this situation.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Because now you know, hey, going some place after this year.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
But straight ahead we go to Vegas and get the
latest on the NBA In Season Tournament? Are we only
going to see Lebron from one more game and then
not until after the All Star Break? Wait a minute,
how big a deal is the NBA In Season Tournament?
Are we going to see big changes to it? Keep
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
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till they're dead.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Whoa shove?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
That's what he did.
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Come on, admitted Tysher.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
You're listening to the song like in your car driving
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Speaker 7 (16:17):
I'm turning on that scene with Anakin and the young Lings.
Every night you're.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Driving, you see you see a cute woman next to
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along in this in point of the radio. She's looking
at you, and you know, rolls her window up and
just takes something.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
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Speaker 3 (16:32):
She's like, Christopher.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Lee, Well that's you know who to marry.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
That's just.
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Boom or she.
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Goes, Christopher Lee killed the youngs, You son of a
such and so forth, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He didn't do it, No, he didn't. He didn't do
any of the wet work.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh come on, come on, man, he made Anakin do it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Sure he may have ordered the cold code red, but
he didn't followed through with it.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Oh no, look, I'm not saying Anakin's not guilty too,
this is part but I mean, come.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
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Speaker 1 (17:02):
Duke who's not a good guy? Man' stop Duke who's
not a good guys?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Not a good guy.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Even when he recorded that Crisp he killed all these
sound engineers after they recorded the album, got it out there,
and he killed them all.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
With They played bad drops and they wanted to be
on air all the time.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
So though.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
We now know who is going to be playing for
the first ever NBA in season tournament champion ship, you're close.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You're in the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
The Indiana Pacers and the Los Angeles Lakers go out
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I mean, can you feel the excitement through the television,
through everything as we get ready for the first in
season turn a championship.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
I can certainly feel the excitement, even if I feel
blinded by the courts, I feel deaf with all the
shouts and the stands. I just feel like, now, you know,
not to get ahead of ourselves, but it seems inevitable
the Lakers are going to beat the Pacers in the
final here and it's a ripple effect. We got Lebron
James being able to add to his resume that he's
an NBA n Season Tournament champion. Now the Lebron Michael
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Jordan debate has finally put to rest, and next season
we see Lebron or Michael Jordan come back even at
age sixty to prove that he can win in the
nd season tournament. And then the third thing is you're
beloved New York Knicks. After losing the Bucks in the quarterfinals,
do they blow it up now before the trade headline
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so they're ready for next season? In season tournament? Do
they wait till the offseason?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Tell you it's what happens when you lose. Winning and
losing in the nd season tournament forces people to make moves. Mark,
I'm telling you, I just wonder if the Lakers wait
until Christmas Day to hoist the banner at the Crypt.
Do they wait that long they do it at the
beginning of the year to do it next year? When
do they raise that banner? When they went on Saturday?
Speaker 8 (19:06):
You know what I think? You know, in light of
the fact they're going to have a Christmas Day game
against the Boston Celtics. I mean host of Christmas Parade,
have Santa on his sleigh. They're just playing the banner
outside and then they am veil it before they play
on the holiday?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Did that is Saturday night? The last time we see
Lebron James in uniform before Christmas Day?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
You know what that is. That's an interesting point you
bring up. I think the answer is no. I think
that he will still play. He's still being really healthy
and playing dominant. But I think, in all seriousness, I
have been thinking about this that we've seen such great
basketball and none of this load management nonsense, and you know,
some blowout games for ever since Opening Night. But this
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is correl ad from Opening night excitement jumping an in
season tournament. Now it's going to carry over to the
Christmas Day marquee games. What's going to happen in January?
Only as the year's resolutions will be You know what,
I gotta be healthy. All of a sudden, I'm heard
on on load management. These quality games in January when
there's no un season tournament might take a those.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Do you know.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And that's the thing, is that as good as it's been,
because the NBA n season tournament's been pretty good for
the NBA, is that having at the beginning of the year,
when the first month is overall excitement for the league
in general. I don't get why they didn't just hey,
let's just have it after the holidays, Let's have it
in January. Let's play a solid two and a half
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three weeks.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Whatever it is. We play all the game.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Everybody plays the same games at all, and they count
for the standings everything else. But it becomes a clear tournament.
We spend two and a half weeks playing this tournament
from beginning to end, and we crown a winner, we
give them the trophy, and it's an easier thing to
digest and watch and it cuts through the clutter rather
than just say it's tonight a tournament game. I look
at the floor. Oh, the floor is crazy. It's an
nd season tournament game. So I don't know why they decided, Hey,
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we'll do it right off to jump, with the games
interspersed with other regular season games. I mean, I know
there's going to be some fixing to it, but you
know that's the first thing I would do to change
it for next year.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Well, it is a very fair question. Here's where the
NBA came down upon this, because we talked to you know,
I did, and so did a few other media members
talked to some NBA officials during the season when they
announced the details about the m season tournament. The reason
why they didn't do it until after Christmas is they felt, uh,
there's no way they can compete with you know, actual
(21:29):
ball games, you know, the real ones, you know in
the New Year and the NFL playoffs, And it would
also get in the way of kind of the ramp
up and promotional efforts for the All Star Game. And
if you look at the calendar here, all Star weekends
February sixteenth to the eighteenth. So in the NBA's mind,
they felt by doing it to the beginning of the season,
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it would reduce, you know, the likelihood of what we've
seen in the past that after Opening Night, Opening week,
things kind of lolligag until Christmas Day, and it want
to interfere into you know, players really trying to uh,
you know, have good performances so they make the All
Star Game and the talk around that. So they felt
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like they have that to take care of. But I
do think that at least you know, for two weeks
in January, we'll see some walls and then it'll pack
up as pick up as guys are trying to state
their case to make the All Star Game and not
be snubbed, and that'll be snub season where everyone feels
like they should have gotten on the on the ballot.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
How many these guys have already dropped their bonuses with
markers at the tables.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
At the fair. Question I'm wondering is, you know, like
Clark Riswold and Christmas Vacation, where you know, they think, hey,
I'm going to buy the family a pool, and all
of a sudden, you know why, you have to win
a game and get your Christmas bonus first. Here here's
the thing, it might not be a bad decision if
they already did that, because if you get the final itself,
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you already win money. You got two hundred thousand each,
so it's not like zero or nothing. And I believe
if you made the semifinals but lost, you got one
hundred thousand and hey, just to you know, ease your
mind and frustration. Jalen Brunson, Julius Randall, everyone on the Knicks.
They got fifty thousand dollars for getting the quarterfinals, so
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they could throw some money down to here.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, that's like after taxes, that's like five bucks a piece.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
In New York. They got a nice sandwich from the bodega.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Hey, you know what exactly, they got a nice sandwich.
They got a nice coffee at the hotel. You know
that stuff's expensive, so at least they got a free
meal out of.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
That, especially if Jimmy Butler's stalking around with big Head
coffee and talking twenty bucks a pop minimum. All Right,
So it's been a success. We can say that the
intensity of it has certainly come through.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Mark.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I think I like the lighting, you know, club atmosphere.
We have no idea how many people are in the stands,
particularly be sitting here in the Fox Sports Radio students,
because I can't hear it. So it's all just about
the gameplay and everything else. But I think you take
a victory lap if you're the NBA, at least for
this point, because we got past the initial jokes about
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the courts and actually saw some really good basketball.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Yeah, I think it's solved more problems than created. And
I think, like with everything in the world, you don't
want perfection to get in the way of good, right,
So it at least addressed the things that we've often
griped about in recent seasons of games not being competitive
and guy sing out because of injuries both real and
you know, I don't want to say exaggerated, but you know,
(24:42):
just being very overly cautious, whether it's by management or
player or combination of both. And you know, we've resisted
Lebron MJ debates, all right, I mean clearly now we
can put a rest of that because of what Lebron's
about to do on Saturday. But in all seriousness, it
it has been about the games and the quality of
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competition and everything there. And from what I've seen, most games,
they've been competitive. You know, it's not like it always
comes down to a game winner or things like that,
but you can tell that teams are trying a lot
harder and it means something. And maybe that's you know,
obviously an indictment and an acknowledgment that guys weren't always
(25:25):
bringing their a game before. But at least it's reducing
the severity of that. So I think it's win win.
I think that they'll still make tweaks. Maybe they reduce
the point differential so we don't see guys, you know,
going crazy over it, like you know, hacking guys that
are poor free throw shooters even though they're up by
twenty already. Maybe they change the court so you don't
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get blinded by it. But I think as far as
the idea of itself of having a tournament having cash incentives.
It's great and look like I love transparency, so I
have no problem when players have just openly acknowledged them
when they've said, yeah, we we care about the tournament
because we want to make some extra money here. So
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I think it's good.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
NBA insider Mark Medina our guest the Jason smithser with
Mike Harmon, live from the tirec dot com studios.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Is it just the money? Like, is it just the money?
Is it?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Is it? Is?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Is it? Hey?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's something new because I watched Lebron and I go
Lebron's got a lot of money, you know, I mean
I get it, But he's playing I mean for so much.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
For ay, I've been traded off for a little playoffs.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I mean, this is I mean, this is Lebron playing
at peak Lebron, NBA Finals type Lebron. I mean, is
it just, Hey, I want to win an in season
turn it's a different championship, Like, what's behind it other
than the money for him?
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Well for Lebron specifically. Yeah, I mean, look, he's already
in the billionaire club. But people who are in the
billionaire club like to get extra money regardless. I think
in fairness, you know the good Samaritan had in the season,
You know of the holidays spirit here when you're looking
to the NBA end of roster. Look, it's first world,
(27:03):
so it's not like the every man can relate. But
their contracts are more tenuous. Their earnings are a lot
less than their career life stands, a lot less. So
this money is a lot more significant. So I think
that Lebron and other star players are aware of that,
of how significantly helpful it will be for young guys
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on non guarantee contracts. I think the other thing is
because it wasn't with exception the championship game, everything that
we've seen so far, it's not an extra game. It
counts in the regular season standings. It still means something.
And I think, specifically about Lebron, there's two things. He's
a lot healthier than he was when we saw him
(27:47):
and the Lakers gaining swept by the Denver Nuggets in
the Western Conference Finals last playoff run. I think secondly,
I don't want to overstate it because we've been like
kind of tongue in cheek about his resume, but I
do think that there is something going to be said
about the idea that he's part of the first NBA
Cup and with an unknown of how much the next
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generation is going to care about this, I think that
he wants to make sure that he has this, you know,
with his name attached to it. That's not to say
it's going to change anything, whether it's you know, player
debates or his resume itself. But why not, Right, it's
a nice It's a nice Sunday topping on top of
many other toppings that he already has.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, it might be the last time he gets to
hoist a trophy too.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
But well, I mean I had to say it look
last one for me Mark to take it outside the tournament.
You know, we're twenty to twenty three games in for
all these squads. We can talk about the Pistons and
Spurs and what dumpster fires they are. What's the best
story out of this this first part of the season
for you?
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Yeah, it's interesting because everything, all the all the balls
are juggling up in the air. There's I think a
division of things going on. Where in the East. We
clearly know that Boston and Milwaukee they're they're the front runners,
some of them show some growing pains more probably more
Milwaukee than Boston. But you know, teams like Indiana as
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we've seen with them getting to the finals here and
Philadelphia and even Orlando, like those are teams to be
reckoned with them you have to take seriously. And I
didn't see that coming. I thought that Orlando would be
like a sneaky, cool playoff team. But they're young. The Sixers,
hey addition by subtraction without James Harden, but still a
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transition phase. You know, I'm not trolling here like include
the next they're good too, you have to keep them serious.
And the West it kind of applies the same way.
Like we know that the Nuggets are going to be
there at the end of the day. We know that
the Lakers and the Suns, if they're healthy, can be there.
But I didn't see Minnesota or Oklahoma City being one
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and two right now, and that could very well be
subject to change. But I think that it illustrates that
they have the right combination of young talent that you
have to take them seriously. So with all that, I
think that that's made for a lot of good competition
because while there are going to be teams like the
Spurs that lose a lot of games, even though Victor
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Wan Binyama's intriguing, or the Detroit Pistons, which is just
unwatchable from top to bottom for the most part. The
rest of the league itself offers compelling basketball, and as
an NBA fan, like, that's what you should want that
on any given night, any team has a chance and
the quality of the product's going to be good, and
I suspect that that's going to play out. You borrowing
(30:44):
significant injuries on certain teams to be a theme through
the rest of the season.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
He's on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina, longtime NBA
inside in front of the show Mark as always, buddy,
appreciate your time, and we'll talk to you next for
the Lakers banner raising, which could be next.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
Week, Yes, sir, and we'll see the Knicks rule retoin
for next tournament.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Take it easy, buddy, have fun. Here goes.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Mark madeena great stuff for the NBA In Season Tournament
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
We'll have more in the NBA In Season Tournament coming
up in a little bit. We'll get into the big,
wide ranging impact because what They've done this year is
not just gonna affect the NBA, It's gonna affect other
sports as well. But straight ahead, we get back to
the big debate coming off of Thursday Night football. Do
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you really want Bill Belichick coaching your team next year?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Speaker 2 (31:55):
Car Jason, you don't sound pumped enough. I'm sorry, Why
do you hate this? Is? This guy's singing his songs.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
It's a good song.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I don't know if there's anybody more excited for the
Drader than this guy.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
He dre hacked up about it.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well, I mean they're taking just the lines from Salt
plus South Park and put it Drade, old dred, old Trade.
Oh I made you all right?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Uh wait? Wait, Happy Night one, knuckleheads. Yeah, The Jason Show.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
With Mike Carmon live the tirag dot Com Studios. Yes,
Happy Night one of honikkah Uh. We got Jay Glazer
coming up in about a half hour. Great stuff coming
off of the Thursday night matchup between the Steelers and
the Patriots, won surprisingly by the Patriots twenty one to eighteen. Now,
despite all this, Mike plus six, look, we talked earlier
(32:53):
this hour about Belichick and his style of coaching, which
is a negative style which doesn't really uh reflect and
inspire the younger players. Now, the other part of it
is this is the report came out today that a
few executives around the league expect Bill Belichick to have
suitors in the offseason and there could be some sort
(33:15):
of transaction, not quite a trade, but some sort of Hey,
Belichick leaves the Patriots, he goes to coach another team,
and some executives say the compensation could be as high
as a first round pick. All right, now, let's take
his style of coaching out of it for a little bit.
Let's just be honest right here. I get that you
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look at Bill Belichick and his resume and think, Okay,
we're getting a great dude lord the Super Bowls. You're
not getting that, Bill Belichick. I'm sorry me And look,
and I know I need a new head coach. Every
time I watch the Robert Solid brushing his teeth commercial.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Like go we stink.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I don't want Belichick.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
It's a Bill Belichick for the last three plus years
who has just guided the Patriots into disrepair. All the
moves that have been made were his. None of them
have worked. This team is bereft of talent, they're bereft
of stars. They have no future. They're an absolute tear
down at every single position. After this year, whoever winds
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up coming in succeeding Belichick, they're a tear down. This
is the Belichick you're getting, the guy coming off these
three and a half years of personnel moves and record
of a lack of success that just would get anybody
fired before they got to year three. And here he is.
This is the guy you're getting. So I'm sorry this
Bill Belichick. You tell me, first of all, I don't
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want him. I sure is all gonna give a first
round pick to go get him.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Well, I'll take him as a coach. He has no
personnel decisions.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
And he's gonna be okay with that. No, I don't
hire him. Yeah, I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I can't see him being not okay no with making
these decisions.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
But look it at least needs to be collaborative and
not just a guy who's an empty suit, right, And
that's something. And you'll hear from Jay Glazer, who he
had a chance to talk to you a little bit earlier,
and that that's probably the ideal scenario, right, is that
you have a situation whereby hey, Bill, you're coaching, here's
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the groceries go to work, and I know you always want.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
To pick them.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
I would just say the last three years, I've made
the distinction each and every season. The guy that coaches
him up coaches him up pretty well. The guy that
picks him, yeah, not so much. Unfortunately, they happened to
inhabit the same brain that.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
The guy for twenty minutes. You're working under a guy
after twenty years of calling the shots.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You know what, maybe you're tired of it.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah, I'm tired of all because shot calls now, shot
callers want to keep calling shots.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Man, that's how it works.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Yeah, I'm just I had a thought, but I'll let
it slip into the ether.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Look, I get it. It's the change and he you
adapt or die.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
In all business, something we've been talking about behind the
scenes here, right, how you look at your business, how
you look at your relationships and everything you've got to
change with the times, and for Belichick, I gotta think,
at least from a coaching perspective, there's some learning that's
been done with the next generation of players. Now from
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a personnel standpoint, we've watched it right. You're not getting
saved by the superior quarterback right now, if you had
average quarterback play like say Bailey Zappi gave you tonight,
you're winning a bunch of games. You haven't seen that.
And you've picked every wide receiver wrong time and time
and time again, all those first round bus so you
don't get to pick the groceries.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
You get to go coach them up again.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
He's gonna be after being someone who's been made all
the decisions.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I'm okay with somebody.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
You're saying he won't be okay with it. I'm saying
that's the only way it works. I don't see why
those are both wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
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But for the Steelers' aspect of this, first, Mike, because
I don't think anybody committed this game tonight thinking Okay,
the Steelers aren't going to win, right, the Patriots are done.
(01:35):
They're two and ten, they have no quarterback, they have nothing,
and they came out in the first half and just
took it to the Steelers. Sure, the Steelers now have
lost in consecutive weeks to the two and ten Cardinals
and the two and ten Patriots.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
And this shows you what.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It's been like for the Steelers for the last you know,
I don't know, three decades, but this has to be
the worst two week stretch for the Steelers maybe in
thirty years.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
And I'm not lying.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I mean that because they're over five hundred every year
they've had. This is as bad a two week stretch
that I can ever remember them having, just because here's
two teams who were terrible, who have given up, and
they're trying to work towards next year. And still the
Steelers have a pretty good defense and a pretty good
run game. Can't find a way to get.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
By iestimating the run game. This is I think they've
had a couple of instances where the run game worked,
but for the most part it's been suspect just slightly
better than what Green Bay has been putting out in
the run game.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Jalen Warren has been good. They every time he's been
a good.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Well, they keeps well.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
He keeps sticking it to Naji Harris, which in his
three point nine yards count. But Harris has been better
in the last few weeks, and that running look something's kept.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
That's what's kept going like that from where they were
yet because.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm comparing it to the because I'm comparing it to
the passing game, and the offense has been awful because
Kenny Picking is bad and Mitchell Trubisky is worse. So
the running game and what the running back's be able
to do has been able to keep them afloat offensively.
But now looking at this is as embarrassing as it gets.
I mean, these are two games you're expecting the steel
I'm sitting here, going, man, the Steelers just gonna sit
here and suck all the way to like an eleven
(03:14):
win season. And you know there are seven and you
know that here they are sitting at seven and four.
They're gonna beat the Patriots, They're gonna beat this Cardinals.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
They're gonna be nine and four and it's gonna be
all my goodness. But no, here they're.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Losing the two of the worst teams in the NFL.
And if the playoffs started today, the Steelers are out
of it.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Eventually the Chickens come home to roost. You can't put
points on the board. Look, moving the ball between the twenties,
don't care, Right, that's great? You know, the defense holding
up in the red zone, fantastic offense needing to settle
for long field goal attempts. Hey, or here's come super
toe from fifty six, which is what they did today,
(03:54):
and that's how I got on the board.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, fifty six yard field goal, let's go.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And then Trabisky made a couple of plays right, that
throw to Johnson was great, got into the end zone.
But there's like but some of the other decision making,
some of the other play calling asinine. You know, the
old hey, let's run a yard and a half short of.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
The sticks on a pass route.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Like just basic things that we've seen the Patriots beat
themselves this year. Uncharacteristically, you're seeing the same thing in
Pittsburgh and the run game. You got two guys that
are coming into tonight's game had six hundred yards rushing.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yay, over four yards of carry.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
That's fine, and I like Jalen Warren the explosiveness, but
there's been no ability to create any kind of action
with a play action pass because your run game has
been an emic and not giving you that option to
where it's a constant threat. Tonight we watched in the
first half, you didn't take any shots downfield and all
(04:55):
George Pickens, how many times do you see a shot
of him? Look, he's generally salty to him sitting on
the bench. Did you have where he just you know,
he's got the thousand yards stare right of all right?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
What am I part of here? Once again?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
So that's another week that they're gonna have to deal
with that in the locker room.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Johnson got his touchdown, so maybe he's quiet this week.
But you couldn't even get Friarmouth involved a ton the
pass game, short, intermediate, just nothing, crisp, and then you
could just sit on routes, which is what the Patriots did.
You got the huge first half from Bailey Zappi. I mean,
you got to give the Steelers credit on the defensive side.
(05:34):
They held him to forty four passing yards in the
second half, buddy, problem is he'd thrown for one hundred
and ninety six and three score.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So yeah, those three score, those that first half counts, buddy,
I mean that first half, gut.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
It's the problem of it runs though exactly. Football is
a sixty minute game. That first half counts. Yeah, now
he's you're the Jets and yeah, yeah, yeah, then I
wish none of it counted.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Now for the Belichick aspect of this, this has been
the best Patriots game of the year, right, I mean,
I don't think I don't think that's a hot take.
This has been the Patriots' best game of the year.
They beat the Jets earlier this season, But you saw
how bad the Jets are. They absolutely stink right. They
beat Buffalo that was big, twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
To twenty five.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, but here you are on Thursday night beating the
Steelers when it looks like all was lost in the
middle of the year when you could have just quit.
But your quarterback change works. And you know, it was
interesting talking to Jay Glaize. It's always great talking to Jay,
but talking to him earlier last hour when he said,
you know, trying to get Belichick and if he goes
someplace else after this year, which which Jay believes he
(06:34):
is and a lot of people think he is. We
told you last summer this is gonna be it for
Belichick in New England. Is that the way he coaches
and coaching with the negativity and the and and the
iron fist type, it doesn't connect with players like it
used to. And there's other places people can go, players
can go that are happier, especially now they know they're
(06:54):
gonna win other places because you know, he had the
monopoly on it when it was Yeah, I a certain way,
but we have Brady and you know every other year
you're gonna go to the super Bowl, Like that's a
big thing. Like Brady was the drawing card. You know, hey,
it's okay, come here, and other players you've heard stories
of them telling free agents, no, come here. Tom's there.
It's gonna be great. It's not gonna be the greatest experience,
(07:16):
you know, but it's gonna be good enough where you're
gonna win, you're gonna get, you're gonna have, you're gonna
play great, and you could win a super Bowl and
win a ring. So that was always a thing, but
now it's not and it's not a place where you
can where you can go, and especially when you look
at the way that he coaches and it doesn't resonate
with players anymore. And you know, that's something, honestly that
(07:37):
is more of a universal statement than just NFL players
who don't respond to negativity anymore. And then this this
could be part of it's the new generation or whether
it's Generation Z players versus others. But I'll tell you
what in the last few years that I spent coaching
soccer and softball is that you know, it's it's funny
(07:57):
because one of the things that that I get that
that people say about me as a coaches, boy, you know,
your your positivity is is great, you know, you know,
the potivity I have the girls are so great, and
it's sometimes I take it a bit of it. It's
a bit of a backhanded compliment they give me because
sometimes they don't see what I do with the girls
all the time as far as getting them better and
making them the best version of themselves they can be.
(08:18):
You know, I don't always do some kind of here's
some crazy drill with a with cones and a net,
and and here's you know, a guy throwing you know,
hot clam chowder on you. You know, I don't do that,
you know, So it's different things all but the positiviy positivity.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, all is negativity here on the air within that's
that is not the.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Uh And and it's like, oh you're positively and sometimes
it goes some people see it and some people don't.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
And and it's kind of a backhanded thing. But that's coaching.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And and you can't motivate players negative negatively anymore, at
least I've seen. And this is you know, I'm just
going on, you know, seven or eight years of two
sports and how and how players respond and how girls respond.
You know, you and I grew up you know, we're
in our early fifties now, and it has always been, well,
the coach was hard on you, and he turned you
(09:10):
into and made you mature and turned you into a
better player, and you learned responsibility and all these.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Other times in jail, and that's.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Hey, let me take your helmet and slam you into
the guy next to you. Yeah, I mean coach in
the back of the helmet with a whistle.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Or no water break. What do you mean, no water break,
no water breaking at none other.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Until somebody throws up.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
No, no, no, that's the coach. The coach can't do
that anymore. Coach can't do But that's how you and I,
you know, came up. And that's still how a lot
of coaches coach. Because they're all coaches that are in
their fifties, sixties, seventies. They've coached one way the entire time. Well,
every generation is different, and every generation of players are
just a little bit more. And there's no I could
(09:52):
just tell just by all the girls that I've coached
last few years, there's no way that in a few
years there's gonna be any quote negative coaches left where
any more. My way or the highway. Guys are left.
You have to have some kind of way to find
a way to individually connect with each of your players
to turn them into the best version of themselves they
can be, because you know, seeing it, if you just yet,
(10:15):
people are just gonna unplug this guy yelling at me,
and you know who the ones are only gonna be
the ones that step.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
In the way and say otherwise are the parents.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
No, No, that's how I grew up, and that's how coach,
and this coach cares about. You know, there's more than
one way to coach, and this way that the way
Belichick does it, it's a dinosaur way, and that's gonna be
completely out of practice in a few years when these
coaches that have been doing it this way are all
gone and they've all retired, or they've moved on, or
they stopped coaching, and it's gonna be the coaches like
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Danny Hurley who loves his players more than anything, and
Yukon wins the national championship mainly because of that. It's
gonna be coaches that you see like Dan Campbell who
love his guys and put them in the great space
place to succeed. And Jared Goff is such a great
place mentally, he can wind up being a quarter back
playing in the Super Bowl this year with the Lions. Right,
you see that way of coaching, that's the way it's
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gonna be done now. And the way of Belichick. Yeah,
that's a that's a bye, that's a that's like a
relic of a bygone era. No coaches are gonna come
out that you're gonna see make legends of themselves over
the next few years that are gonna be Boy, this
is an old school guy, a throwback guy to you know,
Bear Bryant and and all the ways things were done
in the seventies and how horrible camps were and how
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they treated you. That that is just not gonna happen anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well, but to be.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Fair, have we ever really heard that Bill Belichick treated
anybody really badly?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
He just had expectations that you came in and did
your job. Right, He's say, it's no fun.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You heard, no.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
No, there's a difference between fun and.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Being a you know, a bad coach, the kind that
we're describing like that, There's there's still a gap there, right.
Would you rather have them be like Sean Payton or
Kirby Smart?
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, we had that freshman linebacker and he got lost,
and you know it's his fault.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
We lost that game like he did the other day.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Or Sean Payton going out of his way without saying
Russell Wilson's name to basically take a baseball back to him.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, Jerry Judy was open a bunch. You know, we
just you know what he what.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
He you know, hey, he didn't well, well, there's a
difference between butter to blaming a guy for a play
for a game and a general way that you coach.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
No, no, but but that's what I'm saying, though you know,
it's all on a on a continuum here. Belichick's never
gone to a podium and verbally undressed a guy.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Tell me one time he's ever gone to talk about
how well a guy's played.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
But but you but.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
My point is you you're going to the all right,
you gotta kiss the guy's ass kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
He just talks about team and that doesn't make him
a bad guy or or a couch type of coach
that needs to be outdated. Like let's go to Lincoln Riley. Hey, Caleb,
you don't feel like it, I don't go meet the media.
Is that good coaching? Is that what he's been charged
to do? Meanwhile, throwing everybody else under the bus every
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chance he gets. I'm just trying to get where we're
at on the continuing you're here because I don't see that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Coach, right, Belichick is a good coach.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
There's Blair's Blair he was a good coach. I don't
think he's a good coach. He hasn't been a good
coach in three and a half years he's been. This
has been his team, and look how bad it is.
I mean it's bad on the field, it's it's and
and now his night, this is a game and his
soul telling you, man, it's this this way, his way
of doing things. It's a dinosaur's way. Brady could throw
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for five touchdowns? Again, how did Tom play?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Mat? Tom was fine? Tom Brady could do that.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
We're moving on to next week.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
No, what what's he gonna do? Come out and start
throwing confetti up tonight? So you want a game, We're
onto the next one.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
How about how.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
About you talk about how the guy the guys worked
hard in practice all week and he put out a
great game for you, And to give him five seconds
of saying, Hey, that's a great effort by him, and
the eyes need to learn and you know, and he's
a great leader. And watch Jason, that's what it used
to work that way. It doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That does not Just wait, is he talking about Belichick
or me? Smith?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Oh? I could be both, It could be. I'm gonna
put a poll of that up on X.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Hey is Frostburg calling Belichick or Harmon.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
An ass hat?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hang on? Look at that and said, uh, look, we'll
keep continue to break this down throughout the rest of
the hour with Belichick in this situation.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Because now you know, hey, going some place after this year.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
But straight ahead we go to Vegas and get the
latest on the NBA In Season Tournament? Are we only
going to see Lebron from one more game and then
not until after the All Star Break? Wait a minute,
how big a deal is the NBA In Season Tournament?
Are we going to see big changes to it? Keep
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Alex Tysher really running the Christopher Lee Christmas album into
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Speaker 4 (15:51):
To me, it's Dooku, not douf and Schmertz because I
really don't like Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Oh Anakin, kill all those young links, kill them all
till they're dead.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Whoa shove?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
That's what he did.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Come on, admitted Tysher.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
You're listening to the song like in your car driving
back and forth.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
I'm turning on that scene with Anakin and the young Lings.
Every night you're.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Driving, you see you see a cute woman next to
you in the car. You're rolling down the window, singing
along in this in point of the radio. She's looking
at you, and you know, rolls her window up and
just takes something.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Now she looks at me.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
She's like, Christopher.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Lee, Well that's you know who to marry.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
That's just.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Boom or she.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Goes, Christopher Lee killed the youngs, You son of a
such and so forth, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He didn't do it, No, he didn't. He didn't do
any of the wet work.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh come on, come on, man, he made Anakin do it.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Sure he may have ordered the cold code red, but
he didn't followed through with it.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Oh no, look, I'm not saying Anakin's not guilty too,
this is part but I mean, come.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
On, make he's again.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Duke who's not a good guy? Man' stop Duke who's
not a good guys?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Not a good guy.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Even when he recorded that Crisp he killed all these
sound engineers after they recorded the album, got it out there,
and he killed them all.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
With They played bad drops and they wanted to be
on air all the time.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
So though.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
We now know who is going to be playing for
the first ever NBA in season tournament champion ship, you're close.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You're in the Midwest.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
The Indiana Pacers and the Los Angeles Lakers go out
on Saturday for the Pad O'Brien Trophy, joining us now
in the hot line.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
No body better.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Longtime NBA insider check them out on Twitter at Mark
g Underscore Medina. That's at Mark g Underscore Medina.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Mark.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I mean, can you feel the excitement through the television,
through everything as we get ready for the first in
season turn a championship.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
I can certainly feel the excitement, even if I feel
blinded by the courts, I feel deaf with all the
shouts and the stands. I just feel like, now, you know,
not to get ahead of ourselves, but it seems inevitable
the Lakers are going to beat the Pacers in the
final here and it's a ripple effect. We got Lebron
James being able to add to his resume that he's
an NBA n Season Tournament champion. Now the Lebron Michael
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Jordan debate has finally put to rest, and next season
we see Lebron or Michael Jordan come back even at
age sixty to prove that he can win in the
nd season tournament. And then the third thing is you're
beloved New York Knicks. After losing the Bucks in the quarterfinals,
do they blow it up now before the trade headline
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so they're ready for next season? In season tournament? Do
they wait till the offseason?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Tell you it's what happens when you lose. Winning and
losing in the nd season tournament forces people to make moves. Mark,
I'm telling you, I just wonder if the Lakers wait
until Christmas Day to hoist the banner at the Crypt.
Do they wait that long they do it at the
beginning of the year to do it next year? When
do they raise that banner? When they went on Saturday?
Speaker 8 (19:06):
You know what I think? You know, in light of
the fact they're going to have a Christmas Day game
against the Boston Celtics. I mean host of Christmas Parade,
have Santa on his sleigh. They're just playing the banner
outside and then they am veil it before they play
on the holiday?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Did that is Saturday night? The last time we see
Lebron James in uniform before Christmas Day?
Speaker 8 (19:27):
You know what that is. That's an interesting point you
bring up. I think the answer is no. I think
that he will still play. He's still being really healthy
and playing dominant. But I think, in all seriousness, I
have been thinking about this that we've seen such great
basketball and none of this load management nonsense, and you know,
some blowout games for ever since Opening Night. But this
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is correl ad from Opening night excitement jumping an in
season tournament. Now it's going to carry over to the
Christmas Day marquee games. What's going to happen in January?
Only as the year's resolutions will be You know what,
I gotta be healthy. All of a sudden, I'm heard
on on load management. These quality games in January when
there's no un season tournament might take a those.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Do you know.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And that's the thing, is that as good as it's been,
because the NBA n season tournament's been pretty good for
the NBA, is that having at the beginning of the year,
when the first month is overall excitement for the league
in general. I don't get why they didn't just hey,
let's just have it after the holidays, Let's have it
in January. Let's play a solid two and a half
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three weeks.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Whatever it is. We play all the game.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Everybody plays the same games at all, and they count
for the standings everything else. But it becomes a clear tournament.
We spend two and a half weeks playing this tournament
from beginning to end, and we crown a winner, we
give them the trophy, and it's an easier thing to
digest and watch and it cuts through the clutter rather
than just say it's tonight a tournament game. I look
at the floor. Oh, the floor is crazy. It's an
nd season tournament game. So I don't know why they decided, Hey,
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we'll do it right off to jump, with the games
interspersed with other regular season games. I mean, I know
there's going to be some fixing to it, but you
know that's the first thing I would do to change
it for next year.
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Well, it is a very fair question. Here's where the
NBA came down upon this, because we talked to you know,
I did, and so did a few other media members
talked to some NBA officials during the season when they
announced the details about the m season tournament. The reason
why they didn't do it until after Christmas is they felt, uh,
there's no way they can compete with you know, actual
(21:29):
ball games, you know, the real ones, you know in
the New Year and the NFL playoffs, And it would
also get in the way of kind of the ramp
up and promotional efforts for the All Star Game. And
if you look at the calendar here, all Star weekends
February sixteenth to the eighteenth. So in the NBA's mind,
they felt by doing it to the beginning of the season,
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it would reduce, you know, the likelihood of what we've
seen in the past that after Opening Night, Opening week,
things kind of lolligag until Christmas Day, and it want
to interfere into you know, players really trying to uh,
you know, have good performances so they make the All
Star Game and the talk around that. So they felt
(22:10):
like they have that to take care of. But I
do think that at least you know, for two weeks
in January, we'll see some walls and then it'll pack
up as pick up as guys are trying to state
their case to make the All Star Game and not
be snubbed, and that'll be snub season where everyone feels
like they should have gotten on the on the ballot.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
How many these guys have already dropped their bonuses with
markers at the tables.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
At the fair. Question I'm wondering is, you know, like
Clark Riswold and Christmas Vacation, where you know, they think, hey,
I'm going to buy the family a pool, and all
of a sudden, you know why, you have to win
a game and get your Christmas bonus first. Here here's
the thing, it might not be a bad decision if
they already did that, because if you get the final itself,
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you already win money. You got two hundred thousand each,
so it's not like zero or nothing. And I believe
if you made the semifinals but lost, you got one
hundred thousand and hey, just to you know, ease your
mind and frustration. Jalen Brunson, Julius Randall, everyone on the Knicks.
They got fifty thousand dollars for getting the quarterfinals, so
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they could throw some money down to here.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, that's like after taxes, that's like five bucks a piece.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
In New York. They got a nice sandwich from the bodega.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
Hey, you know what exactly, they got a nice sandwich.
They got a nice coffee at the hotel. You know
that stuff's expensive, so at least they got a free
meal out of.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
That, especially if Jimmy Butler's stalking around with big Head
coffee and talking twenty bucks a pop minimum. All Right,
So it's been a success. We can say that the
intensity of it has certainly come through.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Mark.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I think I like the lighting, you know, club atmosphere.
We have no idea how many people are in the stands,
particularly be sitting here in the Fox Sports Radio students,
because I can't hear it. So it's all just about
the gameplay and everything else. But I think you take
a victory lap if you're the NBA, at least for
this point, because we got past the initial jokes about
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the courts and actually saw some really good basketball.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Yeah, I think it's solved more problems than created. And
I think, like with everything in the world, you don't
want perfection to get in the way of good, right,
So it at least addressed the things that we've often
griped about in recent seasons of games not being competitive
and guy sing out because of injuries both real and
you know, I don't want to say exaggerated, but you know,
(24:42):
just being very overly cautious, whether it's by management or
player or combination of both. And you know, we've resisted
Lebron MJ debates, all right, I mean clearly now we
can put a rest of that because of what Lebron's
about to do on Saturday. But in all seriousness, it
it has been about the games and the quality of
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competition and everything there. And from what I've seen, most games,
they've been competitive. You know, it's not like it always
comes down to a game winner or things like that,
but you can tell that teams are trying a lot
harder and it means something. And maybe that's you know,
obviously an indictment and an acknowledgment that guys weren't always
(25:25):
bringing their a game before. But at least it's reducing
the severity of that. So I think it's win win.
I think that they'll still make tweaks. Maybe they reduce
the point differential so we don't see guys, you know,
going crazy over it, like you know, hacking guys that
are poor free throw shooters even though they're up by
twenty already. Maybe they change the court so you don't
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get blinded by it. But I think as far as
the idea of itself of having a tournament having cash incentives.
It's great and look like I love transparency, so I
have no problem when players have just openly acknowledged them
when they've said, yeah, we we care about the tournament
because we want to make some extra money here. So
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I think it's good.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
NBA insider Mark Medina our guest the Jason smithser with
Mike Harmon, live from the tirec dot com studios.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Is it just the money? Like, is it just the money?
Is it?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Is it? Is?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
It?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Is it? Hey?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's something new because I watched Lebron and I go
Lebron's got a lot of money, you know, I mean
I get it, But he's playing I mean for so much.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
For ay, I've been traded off for a little playoffs.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I mean, this is I mean, this is Lebron playing
at peak Lebron, NBA Finals type Lebron. I mean, is
it just, Hey, I want to win an in season
turn it's a different championship, Like, what's behind it other
than the money for him?
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Well for Lebron specifically. Yeah, I mean, look, he's already
in the billionaire club. But people who are in the
billionaire club like to get extra money regardless. I think
in fairness, you know the good Samaritan had in the season,
You know of the holidays spirit here when you're looking
to the NBA end of roster. Look, it's first world,
(27:03):
so it's not like the every man can relate. But
their contracts are more tenuous. Their earnings are a lot
less than their career life stands, a lot less. So
this money is a lot more significant. So I think
that Lebron and other star players are aware of that,
of how significantly helpful it will be for young guys
(27:24):
on non guarantee contracts. I think the other thing is
because it wasn't with exception the championship game, everything that
we've seen so far, it's not an extra game. It
counts in the regular season standings. It still means something.
And I think, specifically about Lebron, there's two things. He's
a lot healthier than he was when we saw him
(27:47):
and the Lakers gaining swept by the Denver Nuggets in
the Western Conference Finals last playoff run. I think secondly,
I don't want to overstate it because we've been like
kind of tongue in cheek about his resume, but I
do think that there is something going to be said
about the idea that he's part of the first NBA
Cup and with an unknown of how much the next
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generation is going to care about this, I think that
he wants to make sure that he has this, you know,
with his name attached to it. That's not to say
it's going to change anything, whether it's you know, player
debates or his resume itself. But why not, Right, it's
a nice It's a nice Sunday topping on top of
many other toppings that he already has.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, it might be the last time he gets to
hoist a trophy too.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
But well, I mean I had to say it look
last one for me Mark to take it outside the tournament.
You know, we're twenty to twenty three games in for
all these squads. We can talk about the Pistons and
Spurs and what dumpster fires they are. What's the best
story out of this this first part of the season
for you?
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Yeah, it's interesting because everything, all the all the balls
are juggling up in the air. There's I think a
division of things going on. Where in the East. We
clearly know that Boston and Milwaukee they're they're the front runners,
some of them show some growing pains more probably more
Milwaukee than Boston. But you know, teams like Indiana as
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we've seen with them getting to the finals here and
Philadelphia and even Orlando, like those are teams to be
reckoned with them you have to take seriously. And I
didn't see that coming. I thought that Orlando would be
like a sneaky, cool playoff team. But they're young. The Sixers,
hey addition by subtraction without James Harden, but still a
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transition phase. You know, I'm not trolling here like include
the next they're good too, you have to keep them serious.
And the West it kind of applies the same way.
Like we know that the Nuggets are going to be
there at the end of the day. We know that
the Lakers and the Suns, if they're healthy, can be there.
But I didn't see Minnesota or Oklahoma City being one
(30:01):
and two right now, and that could very well be
subject to change. But I think that it illustrates that
they have the right combination of young talent that you
have to take them seriously. So with all that, I
think that that's made for a lot of good competition
because while there are going to be teams like the
Spurs that lose a lot of games, even though Victor
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Wan Binyama's intriguing, or the Detroit Pistons, which is just
unwatchable from top to bottom for the most part. The
rest of the league itself offers compelling basketball, and as
an NBA fan, like, that's what you should want that
on any given night, any team has a chance and
the quality of the product's going to be good, and
I suspect that that's going to play out. You borrowing
(30:44):
significant injuries on certain teams to be a theme through
the rest of the season.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
He's on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina, longtime NBA
inside in front of the show Mark as always, buddy,
appreciate your time, and we'll talk to you next for
the Lakers banner raising, which could be next.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
Week, Yes, sir, and we'll see the Knicks rule retoin
for next tournament.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Take it easy, buddy, have fun. Here goes.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Mark madeena great stuff for the NBA In Season Tournament
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
We'll have more in the NBA In Season Tournament coming
up in a little bit. We'll get into the big,
wide ranging impact because what They've done this year is
not just gonna affect the NBA, It's gonna affect other
sports as well. But straight ahead, we get back to
the big debate coming off of Thursday Night football. Do
(31:34):
you really want Bill Belichick coaching your team next year?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith's Show with my best friend Mike.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Car Jason, you don't sound pumped enough. I'm sorry, Why
do you hate this? Is? This guy's singing his songs.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
It's a good song.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I don't know if there's anybody more excited for the
Drader than this guy.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
He dre hacked up about it.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Well, I mean they're taking just the lines from Salt
plus South Park and put it Drade, old dred, old Trade.
Oh I made you all right?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Uh wait? Wait, Happy Night one, knuckleheads. Yeah, The Jason Show.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
With Mike Carmon live the tirag dot Com Studios. Yes,
Happy Night one of honikkah Uh. We got Jay Glazer
coming up in about a half hour. Great stuff coming
off of the Thursday night matchup between the Steelers and
the Patriots, won surprisingly by the Patriots twenty one to eighteen. Now,
despite all this, Mike plus six, look, we talked earlier
(32:53):
this hour about Belichick and his style of coaching, which
is a negative style which doesn't really uh reflect and
inspire the younger players. Now, the other part of it
is this is the report came out today that a
few executives around the league expect Bill Belichick to have
suitors in the offseason and there could be some sort
(33:15):
of transaction, not quite a trade, but some sort of Hey,
Belichick leaves the Patriots, he goes to coach another team,
and some executives say the compensation could be as high
as a first round pick. All right, now, let's take
his style of coaching out of it for a little bit.
Let's just be honest right here. I get that you
(33:37):
look at Bill Belichick and his resume and think, Okay,
we're getting a great dude lord the Super Bowls. You're
not getting that, Bill Belichick. I'm sorry me And look,
and I know I need a new head coach. Every
time I watch the Robert Solid brushing his teeth commercial.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Like go we stink.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I don't want Belichick.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
It's a Bill Belichick for the last three plus years
who has just guided the Patriots into disrepair. All the
moves that have been made were his. None of them
have worked. This team is bereft of talent, they're bereft
of stars. They have no future. They're an absolute tear
down at every single position. After this year, whoever winds
(34:14):
up coming in succeeding Belichick, they're a tear down. This
is the Belichick you're getting, the guy coming off these
three and a half years of personnel moves and record
of a lack of success that just would get anybody
fired before they got to year three. And here he is.
This is the guy you're getting. So I'm sorry this
Bill Belichick. You tell me, first of all, I don't
(34:35):
want him. I sure is all gonna give a first
round pick to go get him.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Well, I'll take him as a coach. He has no
personnel decisions.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
And he's gonna be okay with that. No, I don't
hire him. Yeah, I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I can't see him being not okay no with making
these decisions.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
But look it at least needs to be collaborative and
not just a guy who's an empty suit, right, And
that's something. And you'll hear from Jay Glazer, who he
had a chance to talk to you a little bit earlier,
and that that's probably the ideal scenario, right, is that
you have a situation whereby hey, Bill, you're coaching, here's
(35:15):
the groceries go to work, and I know you always want.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
To pick them.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
I would just say the last three years, I've made
the distinction each and every season. The guy that coaches
him up coaches him up pretty well. The guy that
picks him, yeah, not so much. Unfortunately, they happened to
inhabit the same brain that.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
The guy for twenty minutes. You're working under a guy
after twenty years of calling the shots.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You know what, maybe you're tired of it.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah, I'm tired of all because shot calls now, shot
callers want to keep calling shots.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Man, that's how it works.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Yeah, I'm just I had a thought, but I'll let
it slip into the ether.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Look, I get it. It's the change and he you
adapt or die.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
In all business, something we've been talking about behind the
scenes here, right, how you look at your business, how
you look at your relationships and everything you've got to
change with the times, and for Belichick, I gotta think,
at least from a coaching perspective, there's some learning that's
been done with the next generation of players. Now from
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a personnel standpoint, we've watched it right. You're not getting
saved by the superior quarterback right now, if you had
average quarterback play like say Bailey Zappi gave you tonight,
you're winning a bunch of games. You haven't seen that.
And you've picked every wide receiver wrong time and time
and time again, all those first round bus so you
don't get to pick the groceries.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
You get to go coach them up again.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
He's gonna be after being someone who's been made all
the decisions.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
I'm okay with somebody.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
You're saying he won't be okay with it. I'm saying
that's the only way it works. I don't see why
those are both wrong.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
More on this coming up next, right,
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