Hour 3 - Bold Predictions?!

Jason and Mike discuss some upcoming bold NFL predictions and give some of their bold predictions as well.

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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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a repeat. Mookie Betts is at another home run. He
now has three home runs in his last six at bats.
The Dodgers are pasting the Yankees eight to two right now.
The Dodgers come to bat in the bottom of the
seventh inning, Clayton Kershaw walking off the field going, yeah,
we're all good. I got a feeling that'll be the
last we see of him tonight. And the Dodgers bullpen

(01:10):
will be entrusted to protect what is going to be
at least a six run lead.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Singing, baby, lets cruise away from here here a two
on cruise control. I men pitch it with that kind
of lead capacity crowd and knowing that at my signal
you can unleash more hell on what is a beleaguered
Yankee pitching staff Clayton Kershaw. That's about as relaxed as

(01:37):
you're ever going to see him in a game, right,
just going back out like early on, pacing right, got
his first inning five pitches, right, gave up the hit,
a race with the double play, and then the strikeout
to end the inning. Then they go and spot him
six runs. And we watched and they had the camera
in the dugout showing him pacing like a cat, like

(01:58):
he was ready to get back out there.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
It's just kind of like a right here, we are,
nice easy Friday night. I mean, you want to talk
about taking advantage full on of a series opener and
laying down the gauntlet, That's that's what we have done tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Mookie bleeping beats.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Look, my dad very happy that he's got tickets to
the next two guys and not didn't go to tonight's game.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Is he gonna keep yelling you guys are due tomorrow?
You guys stink. I can't believe I got bun answer.
This game is dumb.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Speaking of stinking, yeah, I thought Aaron Judge was good.
Not tonight, not well.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
But I thought Aaron Judge. I mean people talk about
this guy like he's good.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
He's been really good. He's just not been good tonight.
He's been fantastic. He's just not He's really stung tonight. Yeah,
he's not been good. No, this is not a night
for the Yankees to say, hey, we feel really good
about ourselves as a playoff team.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I feel great, well, but in the end, you don't
play them to the World Series. And if we get it,
we get all of the backdrop. We could see a
lot of Tommy Lasorda flying around, Reggie Jackson, I mean,
that would be fun. Steve Garvey's gonna run for you
know office, Reggie.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Jackson still stuck his hip on his way back in
seventy seven, just.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Stuck that hip out the umpire. Let it happen. But
all of those things, I mean, that would be great,
But you don't have to play this team until the
World Series. Mike, I'm just saying in a cari in theory. Now.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
You know, look, Steve Garvey listens to the show, right,
Steve Garvey's been listening to show for a long time.
And I remember when I interviewed him once, this a
few years ago, and I think it was during the
Final four, like when when when Tom Is because he
went to Michigan State ob Tom Is. It was a
big time and Garvey talked and he was like, yeah,
listen to you driving back and forth, because I does
a lot driving this Arizona and back and everything else.

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And I remember I brought it up with him and
I said, I said, you know, Steve, I said, I'll
tell you my first foray into baseball. Really, what I
knew what the World Series is all about was the
seventy seven seventy eight series. And you know, one of
my most famous plays, because I'm a Met fan, not
a Yankee mans, I still get upset when when Reggie Jackson,
you know, stuck his hip in the way and get
out of the way in the double playball and that was
a big play that flipped the series for the Yankees.

(04:07):
You know Steve Garvey said to me, he said, you
got upset.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's it. You know what I need to do. I
need to dig it out because I have nearly a
full case of seventy eight World Series baseballs. We're gonna
need to add Steve garvey baseball's to our mantle at
some point, or at least throw it back to him.
Let him turn it over to see the logo and
see what the response is.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
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Twitter game a few Yeah. That was a hot because

(04:55):
I mean, really, three hours ago he's tweeting about game
one and saying, hey, the real heroes, the bench players,
Uh they win game one one oh four.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Ninety three, three hours ago.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Really, there's people on Twitter going, you know, I don't
know who won the game last night. Magic just won't
tweet about it. I don't know what to do once
he got I don't know what to say.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
That is kind of an interesting way to go. Is
if you wait for world and sports updates only on
the Magic Johnson Twitter recap, that's your only news like
instead of just facts. Also, that's where you get your
hot opinions. Okay, Magic Johnson.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Okay, Hey, is Denver's length really gonna be a problem
for the Mighty? Whoa, that's a hot take. I haven't
heard that since Jason Smith said it the night before.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Have none of us have said that. None of us
tried to figure out how you mix and match players
with a heat lineup that's bam at a Baio and
a bunch of other guys that don't quite match up.
But thanks for chiming in now.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
I'm being serious here. Yeah, do you think Magic is
worried that? Hey, I don't want to spoil the ending
for someone who doesn't know what so we waited twenty
four hours everybody got to see the game.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Did you start tweeting at him about burying stuff?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
See if he's Hey, Jason and Magic, what do you
think of Ted Lassa? What do you got Frostburg? What
do Barry and Abraham Lincoln.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
You know.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
I went home and I said to my wife, you know,
Frostburg may or may not of rumors you were And
I said, because we watched it after we went I
went home. Oh gotch And I said, he may have rees.
What did he say? Oh? He said what did?

Speaker 4 (06:24):
What?

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Did uh?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
What a Barry and Abraham Lincoln have in common? And
and and she goes, what did you say? I said,
well they were both shot in the theater and and
Frostburg didn't say anything. And she goes, oh, man, if
that happens. I was like, man, if that happened.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
If that happened, you had three days.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
So then I'm watching him going, oh, okay, it didn't
have Okay, good, wow, good. Only I know why because
he screwed it up right, Frostburg. He thought he was
spoiling it, but he wasn't. He was spoiling the fake
ending of the movie. So I was like, okay, I
see you thought you were so smart, Frostburgh. I would
have been really around, but we'll go with what you said.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
But back to Magic Johnson quickly, guys, how many people
do you think actually believed because of his tweets?

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Tonight? That game one or game two happened tonight?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh oh maybe right?

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Like, hey, he probably got a lot of people thinking
there was a game tonight, dude.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
And it was the same score as Game one. The
game score.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
And Aaron Gordon had the same number of points as
he had in Game one, and so did Michael Porter Junior,
and so did Brown. Wow, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
What a script. What are the odds if you had
bet all of those as prop bets? What would tell you?

Speaker 1 (07:30):
I'm really believing that that maybe there is a script
of the NBA season. We don't know. Just think about it.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
In two days from now, He's gonna say Mookie Betts
homeward twice that's true.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Well, I want to say I think he was he
a day late wishing Dave Roberts a happy birthday on Twitter?
Or was it? I want to say it might have been.
I might be wrong about that. I might be wrong
about that.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
That happens.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
But speaking of Game one of the NBA Finals, getting
ready for Game two, Jimmy Butler uh said, Hey, going
into Game two, we have to attack more. All right?
This is there there on the on the heat of
the fewest free throws in an NBA Finals game in
NBA history. They were two for two from the free
throw line. That's it. And there wasn't a lot of

(08:09):
controversy after that. Hey, we tried to take the ball
to the rack and be aggressive and they didn't call
the fouls. There was none of that.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Well, bam Adebio I did kind of get there, and
he wouldn't. He looked at the reporter kind of chuckled
and said, you paying my fine. Bam still had a
pretty good I mean, look, that was not a bit,
but it did. It didn't rise to the level what
that was because you know what that was.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
That was just gamesmanship. That was I got us. We
got to say something about it so we can we
don't make it seem like that's okay for game two.
But there was no outrage of oh all these times,
look at all these fouls that No, there wasn't a
lot said.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
That was the thing, right, settling for jumpers, but even
where there was contact. It's something you and I have
talked about quite a bit on and off air as
related to you know, you coaching your daughter's soccer softball
season and watching me watching my daughter as she goes
through you know, the different levels that she's played. Is

(09:03):
if you're gonna go to the ground right off contact,
you gotta make sure you're damn well ready to jump
back up, and you gotta be ready for the consequences
and for and what that means is, all right, if
you flop, you're not in position for a rebound, you
can't contest a shot, you can't do anything on the
soccer field. You've now given up an awful lot of

(09:23):
space for someone to continue dribbling the ball, work into space,
et cetera. And for the heat, they didn't really do
that yesterday. If there was contact, they didn't flop, they
didn't flail about the ground. They didn't do any of
that stuff. Or go pick up the technical file. Right.
You see coaches every once in a while they're now

(09:44):
thirty feet onto the court berating the official to make sure, hey,
you know, here's our guy, because you go through and
they got up a lot of shots. They were nearly
one hundred shots, and only thirty nine of them were
three pointers, which means even if you're settling for jumpers,
you're still in in and around the basket to a degree,
which would mean on average, you're probably getting bumped enough

(10:07):
to get some foul calls, and you're finding the line
by accident, So only two for two. Yeah, I think
behind the scenes, i'd probably if I were the film
review squad for Miami, I would have found at least
thirty things that they had to and filed the appeal
and review to the league. No appeal obviously of any result,
but just to say, here's thirty instances we think you

(10:30):
could have called a file somewhere or the hook, right,
whatever happened to call in that the hook play getting
around on the baseline. We watched that with great success
by the Denver Nuggets. It was like it was taught
to each man. Right, let's see, let's see how good
your hook is to get around the baseline, no call,
no call? Time it again.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
That's where Adam Silver gets that. What is this you
have for me, Bernice? Oh it's the letter by the
heat about no foul calls in game one. Oh thank
you very much. Yeah that's great, okay, yeah all right,
And then he yelled Toby, thank you. Shot it towards
a bucket in the corner.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Now, look, the big.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Takeaway from this is that, boy, this sounds a lot
like after Game one of the Western Conference Finals where
the Lakers fought all the way back and they had
a couple of chances to hit shots to tie the
game and they didn't, and the Nuggets won Game one,
and where it seemed like, hey, if the Lakers can

(11:24):
do this and this and this, they get Oh, we
feel pretty good. And what happened. The Nuggets put a
clinic on the rest of the series and the Lakers
got swept. This is the same thing the Nuggets can say, Hey,
we have to do this, we have to attack with
It doesn't matter, Denver size is too big for you.
They're not going to get to the hoop. They're not
gonna suddenly be able to say, hey, now we're at
the free throw line forty five times. It's the same

(11:46):
thing as last series. Oh, we think we may have
figured it out. The Nuggets are just better. The Nuggets
are just bigger. It doesn't didn't matter for the Lakers.
Hey we think if we can do this. Yeah, they
saw it pretty fast that oh we're up against it.
That is the best team in the NBA and they
just have too much for us. And then and the
Heat are gonna see the same thing. Hey, we feel

(12:07):
you want to be confident, feel like we know something
going into game two. No, because that was a Game
one that Jokic didn't even try to shoot in the
first half, and still it was a twenty five point lead.
Every game for Denver is gonna be different. But you're
not gonna get past the fact that Denver's size, where
they're not sacrificing speed for it is gonna be too difficult.
And it's great here Jimmy Butler say, hey, we got
an attack, attack attack, attack. Yeah, good luck, good good

(12:30):
luck with the attack. This is still gonna be a
game where the Nuggets that I look at the Nuggets
winning this game. I said to win Game one by twenty,
Game two by twenty. They won by eleven. They were
up by twenty five. I'll take the l there, but
I really didn't. It's gonna be the same kind of
game as it was last night. It's going to be
where maybe the Heat keep it closer for a little
bit longer, but eventually the Nuggets are gonna pull away

(12:52):
and they're gonna win Game two, and the Heat are
gonna say, we gotta figure out something going back home
for Game three. This is how it's gonna go Nuggets
in four, Nuggets in four sticking with it, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
We'll see if we get the alternate universe whereby Jokic
has the big offensive explosion early, right, and then see
how that flows with guys not getting involved early. Are
they still swarming to the same level, because that was
the one thing we pointed out throughout the show last
night as we're watching this thing live and in living color,

(13:25):
was just watching the activity of Gordon and KCP. Michael
Porter Junior, who's I think a guy. As much as
we love Jamal Murray, we kind of knew Jamal Murray
was this guy. We always hoped Michael Porter Junior would
elevate to that one a or you know, solid established too.
But he's a guy. Because of injuries and other things,

(13:46):
he's now accepted this role, which makes him infinitely more
dangerous than he was two years ago before the back
injuries and everything else. So it is a tough rotation.
And then Brown, if he's gonna wear the cowboy hat,
I mean it's you know, the the black great hat hat.
He wore the black hat. Yeah, right, he's ready to
meet the uh.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
The course, of course, that's what the Nuggets are doing.
Nobody wants us to win. No one talks about us.
They just want to talk about the Lakers. I want
to talk about Jimmy Butler. We don't get any respect. Look,
they want to play that cart whatever. Man, right, But
if you need that knock.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
But the hard part is, like you have to accept
that it's not exciting basketball. Just go.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
We kind of boor outed that right there. It is
not the exciting basket there was.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
But to really accentuate my syllables is the idea that
all those years in San Antonio they were born, you
know what, they didn't care. Tim Duncan, the guy that
wins all these titles, gets all these accolades, and what
did he do? He then showed up later on wearing
flip flops, board shorts with a uh, with his uh

(14:53):
hair all twisted and everything else. All of a sudden,
out of the blue, it's like, wait, that's Tim Duncan. Yep, disappeared.
That's and that's where Denver is. They're gonna win and
people will get excited for a moment. They'll try to
figure out where to rank all these guys, and then
it'll move on.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
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Speaker 1 (15:16):
You to Mike Gaams now like the Jason Smith Show
is my best friend, Mike Harmon Dodger's three outs away
from beating the Yankees eight to two. Right now, we're
going to the top of the ninth. Any Freddie Freeman
just lines out to end the eighth going.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
To the fast game. It is about an hour and
a half outside of that bottom of the first.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
I'll tell you many goes. Everything goes fast. Now, sometimes
you tune into a game and if you like, you know,
sometimes when the Mets play a day game, right and
they play on a if they play a getaway day, right,
and they're playing at one thirty and it's ten thirty
in the morning, and you know, I get up whatever time,
if I have to do something right them at school
with Zoe, or I do something and you know, I'm

(15:54):
not around and I check my phone at eleven thirty, going, oh,
let me see the score and it's the sixth inning.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, I got I gotta say though, all right, I'm
still conflicted by it. And right obviously the data through
two months and we go through run scored, production, stolen bases,
time of games, asses and seats, all of that. It's great.
And then I get into my old man thing of

(16:20):
life gets really fast, right in all these different ways.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Right.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
I got a kid graduating from a high school year
this coming week. The younger one's going to be fifteen.
I've aged rapidly sitting along. Oh, I mean yeah, all
of those things. But it's you know, the days are
are long, but the years go by really fast, right,
And and I'm starting to learn and really appreciate what

(16:44):
my grandmother and my parents kind of taught. What you
hear in pop culture whatever, but reality go back to
you know, Cat Stephens showing up and singing to you
in different television shows. But crime, everybody do their best
to nero or I tell crying, I have to go.

(17:08):
But the idea that baseball was always ill at your
own pace, at your own leisure, every fifth day when
the White Sox and we were talking about with Rob
Parker as he was leaving. Once upon a time I
had Chris Saale, who was the antithesis of everything in
Major League baseball. It was a two hour, ten minute game, yep.
When he was an ace for the White Sox every
other game three hours, So every fifth day it was

(17:30):
like cool. And if you planned to go to the
ballpark and it syncd up with the sale night, it
meant you had at least another hour and a half
at the bar, which is great in the post game,
but you were banking on that. But three hour games,
I'm a man, I'm cool with a leisure lease pace
that wasn't bothering me. So like, every once in a
while I look up, it's like wow, literally like two

(17:52):
hours and twenty minutes for a game to finish where
they bludgeoned them.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
You know, you know what I can't. What I like
is that I'll pull the curtain back here is it.
When I used to work at ESPN as production assistant
and a producer, the eleven o'clock Sports Center on Sunday
Night always came on following Sunday Night Baseball, and when
I was doing all night, I always came on Sunday
night because I was that began my week, like you

(18:19):
know it begins Ben Mallor's week. I would come on
after Sunday Night Baseball, And so it's always you hate
not knowing when you're going on, right, you always hate
that you knowing when you're going on, because you want
to know, Okay, we have to get everything done by
eleven o'clock.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
I know I know all about that, believe me. Rap
up videos on Sunday at Fox Sports over on the lot,
same thing, like a caged big cat, wait for your
chance to talk.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
And there were certainly most of the games would go
three hours. Okay, we got three hours, so the eight
o'clock game would end at eleven. If it went late,
we're going on eleven, fifteen, whatever it is. And that's
always fine, and you can tell as the game is going.
But it was the nights where like Greg Maddox was
pitching or somebody else where, the game would be going,

(19:05):
and whoever was there was somebody whose job it was
at ESPN to just go over the intercom every half
inning and give the score. And if the home team
was winning, here's the pace of play, it would say
top of the fourth, uh, top of the fourth, home
team losing three to two, and every the stress level
of everybody when a game was flying like that went

(19:26):
through the roof. Producers are running around yelling, going, we
gonna be going on at nine point thirty. Why has
none of this done, and everybody is just frantic because
we're going slowly game down.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
What the hell?

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Come on, man, it's a double play. The stress level immense.
I can't imagine what it's what it's like now with
you know, what the change is going on when you're
coming on after a game. But there were times where
we're supposed to go on at eleven and we come
on at like ten oh five, and it's.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Like there is everything ready.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
No, the highlights aren't ready, the story's aren't ready, the
package is already.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
What are we gonna do?

Speaker 1 (19:56):
And everybody it's it's so frantic that and everybody's in
a bad mood. Everybody's everybody's just yelling at each other,
you know, everybody. It's it was I can't I can't
get over how that was like. And now it's gonna
be just like that. Hey, the eleven o'clock Sports Center,
we're on here at that nine oh four. All right, Fluinity,
thank you?

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well. I mean that's why you always have to have
the buffer of the random thing, whether it's you know,
Van Pelton, the way he's able to just kind of
make it flow like he's a warm up to because
or something like that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
But that's the thing now is when you have when
you're doing a show where you're talking, that's fine because
you you you can you can talk, but when you
are beholden to we have to have all of these
highlights edited and ready to go. And there's forty five
highlights in a show. You know, you only have so
many rooms and edit rooms to get it done in
and you're waiting for people to go in and you wait,
will come out, come on finish. I'm in the first block.

(20:52):
I haven't edited my highlight yet. And people are just crazy.
And with baseball now it's like, man, you're coming on
after a baseball game. Good luck, But you have the job.
Ever right, you were in charge of Mets highlights and
there were none oh after you after you were there, no, no,
after you were there a while. Once once in a while,
maybe a couple of times a week, the bosses would

(21:14):
allow you to pick the game you wanted, like it
was a full light of baseball. What do you want
to do? Hey, you know, I want to do the
Mets game tonight. Oh great, So I would get to
do the Mets. You know, Sometimes you didn't get to
and it was good because if if you said you
wanted to do the Mets and they're like, no, Jason,
you gotta do something more important than that.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Okay, we'll do it night Like tonight.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
That was easys an easy job.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
But think about it the Knights, if you were able
to do that here with our editings, I mean, we
got guys Lakers who are there in the playoffs. They're
dancing in the hallways like, no, hey, do we have
any work going on it? I don't care.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
I'm so happy the.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Lad shot where's that? Where's that sound from Lebron? No,
I haven't time to edit. That doesn'tdn't matter. I'm watching
it again. I'm doing shots in the hallway. We're adult.
He just did another three saying you're.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Brought in a bottle of schnaps. He's passing it around
to everybody. Oh, what a great night is it? I
like schnops, Goldschlager. Oh no, I had some bad nights
with Goldschlager.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Oh I love gold.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
I had a bad night with Goldschlager. If you remember,
remember the World Series, James and the Phillies, that fifteen
to fourteen game. Oh wow, I had a really bad
Goldschlager night that night, I mean really really bad.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
I'll tell you what. I'm the Mitch Williams night. I
thought I had a friend jump into the into Lake Michigan.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Never go full Goldschlager.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Literally literally we had a kid from Philly who is
just hanging on every pitch And as soon as Williams
served that, like no, and he went sprinting out. We
found him three hours later doing that rocking back and
forth thing on a curb. Bart Simpson with the was
gonna eat me. But we didn't find him, so like
we split up. We had flashlights, were along the rocks.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
It was awful.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
It was about its stressful and be a top ten
stressful thing. And then we find him. It's like, okay, there,
you know it's only a baseball game. Did you have
a bed on it? I mean, like no, just the
Phillies of my life. I have no other life. The film,
but this would be the guy that on Friday nights
we'd all go out and we'd come back and he'd
be telling you how excited he was that he was

(23:23):
able to download three very large graphic pictures in the
three hours we were gone. Based on the speed of
the inner webs at that.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Didn't they burn down Mitch Williams house?

Speaker 1 (23:34):
No, No, come on, no, they didn't do that.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Whoa, No, there was a story about that after you
gave up that home run in the World Series.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
I don't think they burnt.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
No, something happened.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Now you're gonna make the saga look that up for
in five minutes. Now, he's gotta look that up. Now,
he's gonna look that up.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Twitter about it.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Tho, Mike has swollen dome. You ready for a big
bull prediction. I's been saving this this week. You ready
for this?

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
So we've had the big story that's taken a lot
of attention this week. Tom Brady is he gonna play
for the Raiders. He wants to buy the Raiders. Jimmy
Garoppolo is hurt and he had to sign a waiver
or his contract was gonna be no good. He wasn't
gonna pass the physical with the Raiders, so he signed
the waiver and the Raiders are still moving forward. They
say there's no anxiety over Jimmy Garoppolo. They're feeling pretty good. Yeah.

(24:17):
I believe that. So right now they have a quarterback
that they don't know when he's gonna be ready, how
healthy he's going to be. And this is what they
decided to do. Like I said, Raiders gonna Raider, Right,
Raiders gonna Raider. But I'll give you this big prediction
Bowl prediction for this year in the NFL eight and
O'Connell is gonna start at least eight games at quarterback

(24:38):
for the Raiders.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah, I take the over eight game. I think it's
gonna be the battle of eight games. You figure out
what he is and if it works, great and if not,
you're battling Arizona for the rights to Caleb Williams.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yeah, it's it's not gonna work for it, right because
you look at the division.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
You're already doing a big chase job there as it was,
and hoping with duct tape, uh and bandages and everything
that you were going to be able to keep Jimmy
Garoppolo there, and the fact that the Raiders were somehow
going to be able to coax the same level of
success despite obvious roster flaws. Oh and being in the
AFC West that he had when he was in New

(25:19):
England or in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
But here's the thing I don't see it quite from
a tanking perspective. I see it from this is that
Garoppolo's already going into the summer not healthy, and he's
had a trouble stay he's at He's out of trouble.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
He is out of trouble.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
He has had trouble staying healthy his entire career and
trouble in Capital City. How long is he going to go?
Is he even going to be ready for Lilli Aversity?

Speaker 3 (25:40):
That's the other thing. What's the over under egg games
for him? So you're going over eight?

Speaker 1 (25:44):
So Donald, you have Garoppolo, who I can't think is
going to stay healthy, and then the backup right now
is Brian Hoyer, who is going to wind up playing
a little bit and be in effective. O'Connell's not your
normal fourth round pick. Like I saw a lot of it.
I was happy to see a lot of his career
A big he played Syracuse a couple of times. He
is smart. He is one of the smartest quarterbacks in

(26:04):
college football I've seen the last few years. He always
knows where to go with the football. He always pushes
it downfield, he always knows where the progression is. He
is really smart, and eventually the Raiders are going to
say he's.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Had a few weeks. Why not.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
He's going to start at least eight games the last
half of the season for the Raiders this year, and
I'm sure he will do somewhat well. May not make
DeVonta Adams happy that we're already down to the ruck.
But this guy, he's not your He's not like a
fourth round quarterback. He's someone that we draft like maybe
there's something in him. He's a pretty good QB. And
I'm telling you eight games he'll start this year for

(26:40):
the Raiders.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
I like that. That's good. I think that that works.
The curiosity for me is just does Jimmy Garoppolo ever
really see the field? You feel for just a couple
of weeks and he can't get physically, can he get
can he even get out there? And even once he's
out there, I mean you're you're immediately, you know, the

(27:01):
sand in the hour glasses already half run out before
you've even started, because you know, once he got one
complete season in his career and he's been in the
league since what twenty twenty fourteen, I think was his
his rookie year or is it before that? I mean,
it's a long time ago at this point.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah, and he also didn't play a lot like you remember,
you got a lot of rub like the There's something
to be said for getting through the rigors of an
NFL season, and usually it's a running back position or
something I like, because you wear down when you get
to week twelve, week thirteen. But there's somebody said for
a quarterback who doesn't really make it through a whole season,
you still got to be able to make sure that
your arm is bouncing back, your health wise is there

(27:43):
because you know, making it through a season. It doesn't
just to be be position that gets hit all the time.
He'd be a quarterback to and do it. Telling you, man,
Hay O'Connell eight games for the Raiders of season.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
You know, it's really funny how I'm able to trace
back to a guy's rookie season.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
How's that betting?

Speaker 3 (27:56):
In my head? I picture rookie cards. You like the
photographics thing.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Really No Father and Son. After we talked about it
a few minutes ago.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
You were behind the board. You should have pulled it up.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
No fun. I was standing behind the board. Tysher went
out to go it's pretty cool, and I was standing
behind the board trying to figure out how to talk
to you.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
How many buttons saying don't touch this. There is a
button and it's got a picture of you. There's a
button on the board that said there's hundreds of buttons
on the board. There's a button on the board that says,
don't touch. I want to touch it.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Just because it says don't touch, I want to press it.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
We are children. That is the running joke in sports
talk radio. Don't wearing You're wearing pants today, But I
mean you're not wearing sleeves.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
I'm wearing sleeves. There's more sleeves, short sleeves.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, but it's supposed to be a sweatshirt.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, and I made it. I made it a short
sleeve sweatshirt.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah. No, that's stupid.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Well, I had to. I had to do. It was
too big, the sleeves were too big and it was
too long. So I turned it into a shirt the
night where all the time. Now, okay, because I like it,
it's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
I mean, you're not able to show off to try something.
I don't catch Steve would get him excited as friendly did.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
No, I can't.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Earlier in the week, I don't. I don't think he's
getting fired up about your try sell. No, it's it's
it was taking pictures and trying to zoom in. It
got weird, not a tricepstick.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
But you saw the story earlier. Today, Frank Vogel is
back in the NBA. He's gonna be the coach of
the Phoenix Suns, five year, thirty one million dollars.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Welcome back, Frank Vogel. Uh, don't get scapegoating again.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
So now Frank Vogel is gonna be someone who has
coached Lebron, won a championship, got and let go, and
now he's gonna coach Kevin Durant. I ask you, if
you're a head coach, which superstar would you rather coach

(29:53):
Lebron or KD? For your own sanity, for your own success?
Would you rather coach Lebron or KD?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Each each one is going to test my sanity and guests, please.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
But that's right answer. There is a right answer here.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
I would say I would take Kevin Durant all day,
every day.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
That is the right answer.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
I believe that's the way to go. And the Lebron
stands come at me. I don't care.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
That's Lebron James. Lebron James. You need to wake up
every day going Did he tweet something out? Did he
say something.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Pass the doctor Rich Paul?

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Am I gonna have to go in and talk to
Genie bus whoever it is about what's going on with
clutch sports? As he talked about somebody he wanted. Am
I gonna have to deal with the Lebron James fire
that I have to put out? Or am I gonna
have to deal with the Lebron James situation? Which I
have to decide Is this worth me weighing in on?
Or do I just suck it up and ignore it,
knowing full well that addressing it might make it worse.

(30:52):
A right, that's how you have to deal with Lebron James.
Deal with KD. If KD ain't happy, he ain't gonna
be round well made his burner accounts may get you
it is, but the thing is Kat doesn't. Kat doesn't
have I have all my allies where it's me against
the front office or I'm trying to control things. Katie
doesn't have that, and a lot of times he's hurt.

(31:13):
And when he gets upset, does he let you know
or does he do something on social media like a
week later. That's how Kevin Durant does it. He's still difficult, obviously,
sure he is much less of it. In your face,
I want to control things than Lebron is. Doesn't mean
he doesn't want to do that. He but his way
of going about it is much different. You've seen Lebron

(31:34):
the way it's been a push pull? Who's really running
the Lakers organization?

Speaker 3 (31:37):
No, that's Lebron?

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Is it Genie Buss? Is it j Moore? You have
no idea? Right? Then with k D, it's well who's
running the nets? Is it KD? Or is it the nets?

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Right?

Speaker 1 (31:47):
So k it's not like is it KD? And is aid?

Speaker 4 (31:50):
No?

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Is it KD? Or the net wasn't even it was
a KD and Kyrie because Kyrie wound up getting traded.
So KD is more of a lone wolf, and you
can deal more with the lone wolf superstar if you're
an NBA head coach. It's when the star has power
outside of what goes on on the floor. That's what
makes life really difficult. So if I had to choose
a coach who I'd rather coach between Lebron and KD,

(32:11):
I'd pick KD.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Yeah, it doesn't mean that there won't still be some
KD power plays attempt and we saw it in Brooklyn.
We had all those reports, and certainly when you flow
through it with the Lakers the start of this season,
a lot of it was, hey, they're not acquiescing to
what Lebron may want. As related to hey, we did

(32:33):
the Russell Westbrook thing. No, no, no, it was we're running
it back. You made this mess. We're going to run
this out until it was time to say, okay, we're
not doing this anymore. And it wasn't at that point.
It was as much as it might have been Lebron's desire,
they made it clear through all sourcing they could possibly. No, No,
this was a decision by Palinka and Genie Boss at

(32:56):
this time, and then Jmore said why don't we have
a relationship and they tried to. It just got weird.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
But when we go.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
With KD, yeah, you have some roster challenges. You've got
to figure out what DeAndre Eaton is, Chris Paul all
that and trying to keep everybody happy. Devin Booker, who
became you know, we knew what a story was. It's
kind of like Jokic and all these peoples go, I
never knew how Grady was.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Oh, you're a bunch of dopes because they've been doing
this for a long time. Ah, you dopey. But you
know what, I can't fall to good strategy. They're making
a lot of money to not know anything well being
part of the big broadcast. But yes, I think I
would rather have the KD thing, knowing he could ghost
me or that he could get hurt at any time. Lebron.

(33:43):
I usually have a pretty good idea that he's going
to play most games.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Twitter it out about a fresco. Mike gets swollen down
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
It is KD all day, every day over.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Lebron, except when there's operation shut down for twelve there is.
That's true, that's true, that's true. Your father time is creeping.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
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