February 1, 2022 • 37 mins
Jason and Mike talk about Tom Brady’s impending retirement (or will he)? Brian Daboll makes an impression in his introductory press conference, and more!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Armen. Hey,
everybody's gearing up for the Super Bowl. I'll tell just
walk around every time someone says harm like say oh
yeah yeah with harm in this, or I'll say the harmon.
I'll just think, Hobo just popping. It's okay, hobo. Look
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right now, I'm I'm wearing a Arrive Raise Hell, Leave
Stone Cold, Steve Aosta shirts and probably fifteen years ago,
uh watching with Kevin getting after it. So yeah, let's
let's go. Ronda Rousey was back tonight, right Yeah, no,
she yeah, she she won the rumble. She and uh
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and the the animal. You're looking at Lesner getting after it.
Obviously Dave Bautista went by that moniker, but you're looking
at you know, the next which means go back to
bring folks that are popular to the forefront on the
road to WrestleMania. But it's all good to me. Hey, positivity,
and we've got less than two weeks to the chaos
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of the super Bowl and all the tailgating that you
could possibly withstand. Rhonda Rousy going, yeah, I don't think
I'm gonna be starring in movies and all that kind
of stuff, so maybe I should go back to the
w doub I don't know that I really wanted to,
but hey, yeah, of course I'd love to come back. Well,
she still had she still had a contract that was
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in kind of limbos because she she was away and
then had a baby. Congratulations. Uh. Former guests the show,
Travis Brown and she had had their kids in September.
And now she's back and we'll see the one big
thing that I wanted to see from her in the
first round with the w w E because coming off
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a championship Sunday, this is I mean, this is a
championship too. It's all all plays together. I wanted her
to work on Mike skills. So hopefully there's a lot
of time, you know, in downtime while taking care of
the newborn to really work on that part of the game,
because she was great in interviews right when we talked
to her, a lot of fun. But yeah, now that's
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that's a whole other, you know, skill set. If you've
ever seen fighting with my family, that was one of
the big points of emphasis. I gotta get good at it.
If you're not good at the mike, you're not going
to have a successful career. That's how it goes. Just
flame out. Wow, We're on Rhonda Rousey watch. Uh. So,
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we got a lot of watches going on. I don't
know that we're gonna be able to keep track of all.
We may need different yeah, we may need different sounders. No, no, no,
that's what that tells you. A watch is coming. You
know what watches coming? Right now, we're on Tom Brady watch. Wow?
Wow wow? Uh is Tom Brady retiring? Ask yourself? Is
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this good for the coup? We had it on Saturday
right with Jeff Darlington Adam Schefter both reporting Tom Brady
is retiring from the NFL. Now before we get to
all the shenanigans following and then what Tom Brady said today,
I really was happy Mike, I really because I said,
oh my god, this is so awesome. Brady's retiring. Now
I don't have to devote an entire show to this
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guy that I've watched just kill my team for the
past twenty years. This is gonna be so awesome. You
and I do not have to do this. We do
not have to spend time talking about Brady, because by
the time it gets to Monday, we'll be talking about
the a f C and NFC championship games. We have
Brady retired, We've talked about it. We're moving on, right,
We're moving on to the no no, no, no no.
Now we get it. Well, I don't know, and now
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it's gonna be a story we have to talk about
because we're definitely gonna get an announcement. At some point,
I thought he was done doing this to me, Mike.
I think, honestly, Brady is now showing a little bit
of I don't know, because he wants he wants us
to have to talk. He wants me to have to
say good things about him, at least one more night.
For a few hours, when I thought I had, I
thought he escaped it. I thought it's I thought, no
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one I would just be doing the conference title games
in that ship. But no, no, no, no, no, Brady
couldn't have got away. There's plenty of stuff to talk about,
whining about tickets and everything else that go on, players
trolling other players about their wives asking for sales of tickets.
I mean, there's a lot going on and to pull
back from. But with the Brady story, I mean on Saturday,
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I was out and about and I mean, like part
of me got really sad about it. I mean, one
anybody walking away from the top, like I would never
tell anybody to retire, to not retire, he teach their
own right. Some people always want to rip the jerseys
off the backs of guys. We've talked about it here,
you know, for every year we've been on the air together.
It's you know, retirements a long, long process, and it
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takes years before you settle into what's next, particularly if
you think you left something on the table. And that's
one of the questions that I'm sure is nagging this
whole thing with Tom Brady is look at the year
I just had. We had all sorts of blankety blank
happened throughout the year. Injuries and the Antonio Brown stuff,
and had so much going on for Nett was hurt uh,
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and Godwin got hurt all and Evans missed time and
then he wasn't just go on down the line. Uh.
And we still had this and look what I put
up at forty four. So part of it is all right,
how how far can I push the envelopes? Uh? And
I'd really love to know, like when we get into
the sources between Jason Lock and fa who was talking
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with us about this last Monday and then doubled down
in an article for CBS on Friday before it hits Saturday,
because you know, you when as soon as you have
the piling on effect of darl Ington and Schefter and
then later Rappaport, it became a all right, the only
guy that hasn't weighted in his glazer, what's he got
over here? So just waiting for him to finally just say, fine,
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it's it's done. So like that's the thing that leaves
me to go. Maybe it's not just quite done yet,
But I would love to know the conversations right with
people in the camp, what what were the wording was
it kind of a hey, he doesn't know what he's
gonna do, and then you follow with the do you
get an inkling, it's like, well, he's talking about this
or this project, or the family or whatever, and so
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you you lead them down. You're leading the witness, you know,
to get you to kind of say, well, he's you know,
probably leading the other way because you start adding a
laundry list of all the other things he could be
doing instead of playing football and you know, transitioning to
that next phase which gets us there. Or did he
legitimately think you know, as he legitimately told somebody, you know,
because I kept waiting for it to be revealed that
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Gronk was the one that revealed this um that that
he's done told sorry, I mean I don't know. Well,
but now you got the report that maybe maybe he
decides to continue. Right and even in his words last
week as we parched it out, like you said, if
I had to decide right now, I'm gonna retire. But
there's time, there's a lot of decisions that have to
go on. Like he kind of opened that door. And
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you know when you there was a report today, you know,
talking about maybe him linking up and and going back
to to New York and playing with the Bills, think
about teaming him with Dawson Knox for my guy Josh Allen.
How crazy would that be? Gabriel Davis and Stefon Diggs
and now Devin Singletary. It's explosive, It's cannot be contained.
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And if you thought anybody would embrace falling through a table,
Rob Gronkowski coming to town takes the next level. But
with Brady and Yeah, I didn't think it was be
gonna be done because other than the montage, which really
got creepy after a while, it started with all the
Concave chess pictures going all the way back to the
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onmbine and and maybe you know, they mixed in a
little bit from time at Michigan and maybe some high
school clips and whatever else. But all the way through,
I'm like, all right, hey, he's not dead. B he
hasn't confirmed this. Tommy Senior got in touch with um
kron four up in San Francisco, is like, he's made
no decision, right, it's the agent comes out and well,
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the cops got him or they don't. He's alive or dead.
I mean that's kind of what he said in the process.
And so we enter a new week talking about well
because This is perfect because we got a week before
the Pro Bowl and then another week before the Super Bowl.
Stop stop trying to make the Pro Bowl happen. Okay,
no one, eight to nine million people are gonna watch nobody.
It goes on the resumes of these quarterbacks like pro
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bowler Matt Jones. No no, you know what Jones is?
A pro bowler Smith? No, no, no, stop stop side
you know you know why that you know why people
watch the Pro Bowl? This is why people watch browle
is you know on our cable. We have Spectrum. We
have Spectrum cable. And what it does is if you
don't set it up, every time you turn on the television,
it defaults to the Spectrum News channel. Right, So you
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can do so you have to set up the TV
like every time it turns on, it doesn't turn on
the station, It turns onto the spect because they want
you to watch the TV. Now, you can obviously set
it up to make it not do that. But if
you don't do that, that's what happens. This is what
the NFL has done to all our televisions. They set
up the default to the Pro Bowl. So some people
that are turning on their television that's for the first time.
Next week you oh, just turning right onto the Pro Bowl.
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I guess I'll watch this for a few minutes. That's
the only reason people watch the Pro Bowl. It's the
only reason I am television. Away from it. The NFL
has broken into everything you own. I have not having Wow,
that's do you want to You want to talk about
this or watch me hit a few gingers. That's kind
of the speech you just did. Bring it. It all
still circle to gascons, baseball comments and work stoppages and
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well p e. D s and Hall of Fames and
whatever else. But you know, I've always wanted to attend
to Pro Bowl. I really wanted to do. It was
an in Hawaii. But I don't think they ever. No
one's ever there. There's no one stopping you. It's not
like I can't get tickets. No, no, no, no, no no,
I've not done it. Ergo, that's still on the list.
I've been to a Super Bowl. I think I'm heading
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to another. All of those fun things are cool, but
the Pro Bowl, you know, it seems like it could
be a pretty good party. We've got some pretty good
stories about hanging around the pool and and and Jack Asstree.
That ensues there. So you can go coach the game
if you want to, just say, I'll be in with
veg don't get Yes, they'll be very least you'll be that.
He'll be the get back coach, like the guy the
other every get backet back and back, or the person
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that I can I talk about adjustments when there's a
three man front. They can get how we try to
try to exploit that. Of course, dude, you can. You
can be on them. You can call plays if you
want to. It's the Pro Bowl's like if you want
to come down, come down, come down, you can. You
can do anything you want to because it's the Pro Bowl.
Don't worry about it. I kind of dig this, and
we'd be in Vegas. Yes, of course, yeah, you can
go and look, you can wind up being the m
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v P. They may say, listen, we don't want hardball
anymore for the Vikings. We want you and come and
suddenly it's Mike Harmon. You're the head coach of the Vikings.
People are asking you are you turning your back on
the Bears, And they would say, why are you wearing
a Bear's hat to your Vikings press conference introduction, you
would say, oh, I don't know, I probably shouldn't have
done that. You're gonna take your hat off and then
put on another. That's gonna be your life. Now, everybody's
got a price for the million dollar man. But look,
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let's listen to a little bit of Brady for a
second before I tell you just just where that. I
always say, follow the clues, right, So all of this
happening this weekend, the reports that Brady was going to retire,
and then you got nose from Tom's dad, his agent,
Don Ye, and then tonight we get this from Tom
Brady on his Let's Go podcast with Larry Fitzgerald and
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Jim Gray. You know, it's a good week for me.
I'm just still going through the process that I said
I was going through. So sometimes it takes some time
to really evaluate how you feel and what you want
to do. And uh, I think when the time's right,
I'll be ready to make a decision one way or another.
Just like I said last week, all right, again, follow
the clues. He's not saying I am not retiring. I
have not made a decision. It's I'm going to think
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about it and then I'll let you know He also said,
trust the process. Yes, follow the clues. I've said it
all along. Follow the clues that Brady is telling us
he's retiring, the clues we got coming off of the
the final weekend of the NFL season for him in
the in the Bucks, not being surprised that he was,
uh that that there's talk of him retiring, you know
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what's been around them for a while. Rob Gronkowski saying,
if I had decide right now, I'd retire. Why would
you say that when you haven't even known, supposedly what
Tom Brady is doing, unless you've talked to him and
you know what Brady. But but I really, I really
thought that though was more about the I'm beat up
and I'm sure and if you ask me, you know,
I do I want to come back. But that's not
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but no, but that's not bread. That's that, that's Brett
far If that's not Brady said no, but I'm saying no,
that's that was But I mean, that was the Gronkowski
part of it to me, of the if I had
to decide right now, and then he meandered in the
decision making in everything happened, how would you say, yeah,
if you had to ask me, now i'd retire saying
I'm not gonna retire. I'm not gonna play with somebody
else other than Tom. Why would you not say, I
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haven't made that decision yet, uncause he's grown coy and
he opened the door right. But then he opened the
door right because it was one thing, you know, to
say in the moment, Well, if I had to do
it right now, I'd say no. And then it started
to talk about well, you know, and then there's decisions
like sometimes you just answer with the three words. That
doesn't matter if the guy or girl that's interviewing you
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is leaning in wanting you to say more follows, give
to two words and move on. Man, Brady didn't say
I'm retiring. Nobody else said he's. You know, Tom is
not retiring. Tom didn't say it. He had every chance
to just say today it's like, no, I'm not going anywhere.
He didn't. He's he's. He just didn't happen on his timeline.
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It got out before he was ready to get out.
Because look, Brady retiring is a big deal. He's got
a lot of he's got a lot of Team Brady
that's got to get on the same page as TV twelve.
He's got his new clothing line, he's got his crypto exchange,
he's got everybody else got to get on the same
page and want to do it. This just got out
before he was ready for it. He will retire maybe
after he gets that big signing bonus on February four,
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which is gonna be another sixteen million dollars, which I
can hang on five days for sixteen million dollars and
not make that announcement. It just got out a little
too early, and that's why Brady's now and he wants
to control the message and say this is when I'm retiring,
this is how I'm doing it, and doesn't want it
to be well, here's Adam Schefter and Jeff Darling did
have it. No, when I'm retiring, I'm gonna tell you.
So it just got out a little bit early. So
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he'll it'll be sometimes shortly. Maybe it's this weekend, maybe
it's right after the super Bowl, but Brady's going to retire.
I wouldn't be surprised. It was this weekend, the big
down week before the super Bowl, and this is when
he's doing it, or he does it right, but it's
gonna be sometime the next couple of has he officially
withdrawn from the Pro Bowl yet they're unfinished business. I
don't have an m v P in a Pro Bowl.
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I don't have a Pro Bowl. There's a better shot
again of you playing quarterback in the Pearl Bowling, Brady,
better chance. Find it out, baby, Let's get it ont.
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It's our privilege to be able to put that stuff
out there for you. Tell your friends Valentine's Day is coming,
you know, especially if you're gonna get the day off
this after the super Bowl, then you might as well
give it there and they can listen to us all
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day long and do something productive with their dad. Dude,
you gotta stop complaining about that. Man. The city of
Cincinnati decided they're gonna give the kids off from school
the day after the super Bowl. That story broke today,
and you seem so you're so upset about this. Man.
First of all, it doesn't affect you. This is in Cincinnati.
And why would I would want my kid. If I
was a kid, I would want to have off. You know.
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I remember when I was little listening to the radio,
waking up in the morning, listen to Desperate Dave in
the a M. Saying and the following schools are closed
for today and the pause PS thirty five Public School sixteen,
Thomas Jefferson Middle School, PST. You know what. We always
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had it on, but my high school was so far
away that I had to be on a bus because
if if there was inclement weather, I was gonna end
up being late. And I think in my whole four
years there, we had two days that we started like
forty minutes later. We were never closed, ever closed, So
it was it was fruitless. It's like, yeah, it would
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be out in the background and like out of hell
with it. Watch the Bozo show. What what episode of
Transformers are Batman the cartoon or they showed me this week? Oh,
I used to love that. It was done on no
no no, no no no no no no no no no, no
no no no Batman. The DJ just sounded like he
was reading lottery numbers. The way he would do it.
His voice would echo with so that pause between each
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school George Washington Elementary, Abraham Lincoln Crossroads Middle School, because
that McKey is though you may have multiple schools that
had the same base right, the same root. So George
Washington Middle School, like oh, he didn't say elementary, dude, dude,
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we're oh no McKee high School. We'll start three hours later. Yeah,
I go, I can sleep another couple of hours. I'm
not going in. I mean, it really was like the
greatest thing I ever have to listen. You'd have to
listen to two guys make that, and it was just insane.
I'm really I'm a little kid of going. I'm not
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putting that in my future plans. What if you don't say,
But the thing is, what if you don't say my
school just at that time, I'm gonna get dressed, go
to school and find out it's closed. Oh, because I
wasn't listening to the radio at eight forty to hear
the guy read off the last the last ten schools
that happened. You gotta ge gotta find a way to know, right.
I don't want to believe there's some more efficiency now,
but that's one of the old school things. That was
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one of the greats. I don't want to Chicago or
you in New York, I mean out here in California. Yeah, yeah,
we're up, We're up, and we're up. Hey, frost warning
in effect. Temperatures could be as low as forty They
were doing that. Hey you know what, later on I
could get into the forties overnight. Oh that's it. That's
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what I always say to friends when they call me
from from the East coast. Oh my god, we get
all the snow or it's so cold whatever, it's like,
Oh yeah, I mean we had a frost warning last night.
They go, what's that? I go, like, in the temperature
is gonna get below fifty? I mean they warn us that,
you know, roads could be slick, and certain things that
we get frost warns are all like the son of
a blankety blanket. I don't have as many friends as
I used to. I think maybe there's something that goes like, oh,
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you're an agitator and living in California's you know, if
you're posting pictures of the weather, the food you're eating,
you know, outside with the sun shining and maybe sand
in the fourth ground, I mean, there's gonna become problem
with all of that. But in Cincinnati, they have canceled
school the day after the Super Bowl, as Cincinnati Public
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Schools say, in anticipation of our super Bowl victory. Okay,
I guess because you know, one team's gotta win and
it's either gonna be you or they're saying Matthew Stafford's
not gonna beat us. Uh So I I get it,
and and I think it's kind of cool. I think
it's cool that they decided to do that. I just
don't want to have debates on should dub should we
wind up making the day after the Super Bowl and
(21:31):
national holiday? Should that be? It's like the most tied,
the tired debates I have no time for, and that's
one of them. It's like, you know, should should college
athletes be paid? We're done, We're done with these. You know,
we're done. Either either gonna make the day after the
super Bowl and national holiday? And people are gonna go,
why isn't the day? Why is an opening day in baseball?
And national holiday? Why is an opening day in the
NBA and national holiday? Why isn't the day of the
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National Championship Game and college basketball and national holiday? Either
do it or don't do it? Or don't? But I mean,
I realized, I'm not gonna see here. We shoud have Look,
why don't just go to a four day work week?
But I think we can do that. In fact, if
I was president, that's the first thing I would do
is I would say, you know what, we don't need
to work five days, four day work week. We can
get all kinds of stuff done because I've worked in
offices before. And I know there's so much grab bass
going on in offices that you don't need to be
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there for eight hours a day, especially now we know
with COVID you can work from home and be around
four day work week. Four day work week. That I
would win in a landslide, I would walk. I would
have my opponent. My opponent says he's gonna lower taxes,
he's gonna increase uh, schools, he's going to uh, you know,
give teachers more money. He's going to improve all the roads. Uh,
he's going to uh, he's gonna give kickbacks to everybody
(22:37):
for money that that's just gonna come out of me.
Can't You can't use the term kick back. But I
don't mean you're imploying, Like, hey, we're gonna kick start
the economy by giving you all a thousand dollars let's
say kick start. And I would say that's great. Hey,
who wants a four day work week? Yeah, and I
would win. I would win. Four day work week, that's
all you need. And I'm deciding whether it's gonna be
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Monday or Friday to be the the the day that's off.
But we'll we'll, we'll figure that out, but it'll be
four day work week. Everybody would They would say, I,
I I want to go vote right now. I go
vote right now for Jason. He's gonna do that for me.
Four day work I think one of the things found,
depending on the industry, the productivity is is dropped. You
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know those Challenger and Christmas things that we always see
those surveys that come out about lost productivity due to
major events. And I wasn't even trying to get into this.
I just made it as an offhand come kind of
a joke, figuring you'd laugh and we'd move on. But
now since we're here, how about that? Uh? Is that?
Why do they never really reflect how long a quote
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unquote coffee break is or someone going outside for a smoke,
because people still do it and they disappear for an
inordinate amount of time to do such. Uh, yet still
clock out after their eight hours. And if you go
to the four day work week, does it now become
a you know, forty our day over those four right?
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Because some some industries have those they call it a
nine eighties schedule, right, work ten hours day to ten
hour days and then every other friday or off like
there that's that's the principle that you can get behind.
But but all in all, you know, you're trying to
shake it up, trying to shake out the inefficiencies in
our modern world. I dig that. I dig that about you.
(24:25):
I don't know that i'd vote for you, but I
dig that about I'm trying. I'm trying. Hey, my absolute
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this is my best story because this is something where
a person I wasn't ready to embrace actually addressed a
really big pet peeve of mine and I'm digging it.
Oh cool. Brian Dable was introduced as head coach of
the New York Giants today, had a press conference and
talked about what he sees for the team. Talked about
Daniel Jones. He's excited to work with him because you know,
the Giants think well. Brian Dable turned Josh Allen into
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a superstar and Daniel Jones is kind of a really
poor man's version of Josh Allen. So, hey, Daniel Jones
is gonna be that guy. But in answering those questions,
Brian Dable got asked a question by a reporter and
his eagle eye pointed something out and then made a
reference that I completely agree with. Brian met Bombardo from fanside.
How's it going, Hey, Matt, how are you doing? Congratulations? Um,
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you know you walk in late. God, here as quick
as I come. With the traffic, You're gonna make excuses already.
I'm gonna remember that now, Okay, I did that. I
am so first of all that he had the you know,
he realized that this is a guy that walked in late,
Like how do you know? Like you don't even see
what this guy walked in late to my press conference.
I like that, But I love the fact that he
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called him out for traffic because that's my biggest pet
peeves when we have to figure something out and we
have to get there and look, I've dealt with this
now for years, whether it's for a soccer tournament or
a softball tournament or something else or something going on, Hey,
make sure you get there for this time. Leave time
for traffic. All right, it's it's good traffic. It is
gonna be difficult because of this and parking. Leave time
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for traffic. And then people show up fifteen twenty minutes late,
half hour late, and I go hey, and they go, oh,
traffic was bad, and I want to just punch through
the wall, like guess that's why I said leave time
for traffic. Like, oh, I'm surprised there was traffic. You
have to allow for traffic wherever you leave to go someplace. Now, Oh,
I should be there in fifteen minutes. You know you
should do before you go, check traffic. Make sure it's
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fifteen minutes where you get there. Otherwise leave a little
bit sooner. I'm so, I'm so. I get so mad.
People go, oh, yes, sorry, I'm late. Man, traffic was
really bad. I'm like no, no, no, no, no no no.
You had a chance. You had chance to go look it.
Don't see here, tell me, because what it really was
is you probably were taking a nap and you woke
up late. You decided this, or you decided to get
on your phone, or you were playing word a little
bit too much, and then you decided to say, oh, well,
(26:59):
let's leave now a couple of slate It's not gonna
be that big a deal, and then say, oh, it's traffic. No,
don't give me that traffic crap. Don't give me that.
If there's a big signalert or something happens, there's an
overturned big rig rig on the four oh five, yeah,
then I understand. I can find it. Look, I didn't
know that was gonna happen. But just to give you
the whole I got here as much as I could
with traffic. You knew you were there for the Brian
Dable press conference. Did it suddenly jump on you as Oh,
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I didn't know I had to be. I got here
as fast as traffic would allow me. No, no, no, no, No,
A lot bad Brian Dable. So now we're making excuses already.
I dig that out of him, and I'm ready to
not like him because he's the Giants, and the Giants
start winning, it's just gonna depress me. I gotta love
that between the entry, the video of him showing up
and going in the front door shaking hands uh put
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to the music of the People's Court was about as funny. Uh.
They've agreed to settle their differences here in front of us. Uh,
so you had that going for you. Uh. The argument
about traffic kind of goes in with all of those
that you mentioned as far as sports talk radio and
teeth the properties. And while I like you, I don't
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really have a lot of use from Clearly they've built
people empires and made very steady jobs and comfortable living
for them. So I may embrace those uh tenants and
debate points in the future a little bit more and
try to just jam them into conversations for our best
podcasts to keep those numbers staring now. As related to
hear for Brian Dable, I I dig that right. What
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was the old coughlin if you're five minutes early, year late,
and that that was, you know, the mantra and the
you know not shoes on tied or cleats in hand
or pads and hands where it's like, no, you're ready
to go to work. If you're supposed to be in
a meeting room, you're you're there and ready. You've had
your coffee, energy drink, whatever the hell's getting you going
(28:47):
that morning, and you're ready to go. And I think
Brian Dable, at least coming out of that little exchange
that's what you're gonna expect, and you're gonna clean up
the edges there for the Gilliants and if the look,
if you're gonna have a bunch of reporters that are
gonna skewer you in the New York media at every opportunity,
why don't you, why don't you set the first you know,
(29:09):
first shot, right, first volley, just saying, look, I I
know what my job is going to be, so I'm
holding you accountable too, So let's all be fair to
each other. So I kind of dig that and it
makes for a great sound bite and he sounds like
a boss. Twitter At how about a frescup? Mike gets
swollen don the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
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Mike Harmon. Now, I mean, I'm digging Brian, Damn the
excuses already. I'll remember that. Like now this guy's going,
I'm not getting a question of the press conference again.
He's not gonna He's gonna look at me and up
that's the guy that was late right there. Well, now,
or if you or if you're gonna do something where
you're starting to get into schimmatics and play calling or
a clock management or whatever, it's like, remember that time
you were late getting here? Remember that clock management? Right,
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four day work week. And I would also ensure that
wordal would be free to everybody forever, because you know
New York Times bought wordal today and they said, oh,
it's gonna be free for now, but eventually they could
put it behind the pay wall to they're gonna try
to monetize me. Mind. I would keep wordle free, and
I would make sure everybody could keep their stats too,
because people are crazy about the stats. I mean, I'm
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not that guy, but people are crazy about the stats.
I'm gonna post on Facebook and Twitter how many tries
it took me to get the word today, and oh look,
how good a damn I'm having a good day because
it took me three guests. I'm gonna bad day. It
took me five guests. But Wordle is great, and I
would make sure it stayed free. That's my other platform.
I would run on four day work week and Wordle
is free. Boom. Well, it's a private company, so they're
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gonna wave at you and tell you to beat it. Otherwise,
very subtly, they're gonna take shots at your campaigns, so
you gotta be careful. Uh, and maybe they'll show up
as the Wordle of the day to go after you.
But put the like you know, it's capitalism at its
finest right now, it's free al right, sell some ads, paper,
(31:40):
click all of those things, like wait, New York Times
came in right because they bought the Athletic. Now they
buy Wordle. Trying to pump up their their services and
recognizing there's dollars to be made. Because if you could
then take Wordle into a timed event, how quickly do
you actually solve it. Now we're taught about getting into
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maybe some sponsorships and partnerships with the gambling communities, about
these or other entities that want to give out cash
and prizes so that pay for a model can can
really balloon into something special pretty fast. Smith. I'll tell
you there, there's a lot there. So I know you
want to You want everything free. You like to be
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handed stuff. We all do. Uh World is gonna be
a pay for give it a year, sorry, buddy, you
know what that's gonna mean, though somebody else is gonna
laugh at say, you know what, I've got a six
letter word game that's free over there, gotta six what's
gonna be? But I forget about a year when they
say it's gonna be free for now that it's saying.
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But on March one is what it's gonna go behind
the paywall. It's it's like, you know, once upon a
time when I was up and run things over at Yahoo,
uh for the sports and fantasy sports stuff, right, we
had it built critical mass because our game was still
free while the opposition, the competitors had had all gone
to the pay for model. We eventually added you know,
(33:07):
Fantasy Plus and it had some extra bells and whistles
and research or whatever you can get, and it's it's
still one of the top products out there, but at
the time it was you know, had the big meeting
of all right, how do we figure out how do
we monetize some of this? Like everybody they loves our
loves our stat tracker, right, the Java app, And so
they like, well, what do we do? And then I'm like, well,
you could do it as a league, you could do
(33:28):
it individually. And we we tease it in week one,
you know, and I used the drug dealer analogy and
they thought I was a little too comfortable throwing it
out there. Um, but I'm like, hey, and here's your
first taste is free and then you want that live
real time scoring, you're gonna pay for it, especially if
it's a nominal fee of just for the year. And
(33:51):
guess what we sold hundreds of thousands of stat trackers.
Uh well, we'd as up said as I would be
for word. Um, I don't know who is happier Rams
and Rams fans or my family and the people of Detroit, Michigan.
For Matthew Stafford. Because today was another day of getting
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texts from my entire wife's family. Hey, how about Matthew
Stafford how he said, It's like, I don't know that
he I think he has more fans in Michigan still
than he has in California. It's it's he's like I said,
he's like the he's like everybody's son or or a
nephew who took a big job out of town. And
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they're kind of watching his success from afar, like, oh,
he finally got out. You know, he got out and
he made his own way, and look how great this is.
And he's doing really well in California right now. And
either I mean, the love for him is awesome because
the media is still giving him no love. I mean,
clearly everything is still Matthew Stafford's fault. Had he played better,
it would have been fifty eight nothing instead of, you know,
having to escape against the nine who said of three
(34:55):
or thirty yards passing yesterday. I mean, the the love
from the fans and all the hatred from the media
is just baffling to me. And he's gonna you know,
and if the Rams win the Super Bowl, it's gonna
be well, they would have won with anybody right, they
would and clearly say no, no, no, because they could
would have been there with Jared Goff. They had won
like four games and kids, but that's gonna be the narrative.
They would have won with anybody. Matthew Stafford. I mean
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the discrepancy between the fan love and the media skepticism
and just general dislike because he's a line, not a lie.
I've never seen that before. I've never seen someone can
be so liked by one group and so treated with
distaste by another. There's just so many splinters off the
Stafford tree. The Hey, this is who he was supposed
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to be. Okay, it didn't work in Detroit. Did they
have the same level of you know, star power that
the Rams currently have. Remember this is all being done.
Robert Woods, who was supposed to be your one A
or two went out. Oh and Odell Beckham Jr. Who
was done is suddenly making clutch catch after clutch catch
(36:00):
and Cooper cup it must do nothing but run routes
in his offseason watching T What are you done? Watch
TV and doing footwork? Uh, and can't be caught right
no matter what he does or where you put him
on the field. Ingenuity as it were. But yeah, for
Matthew Stafford, all that energy, all that negative stuff is
still there, and the All Star Team will will be
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one of the things that even if they win thirty
eight three will still be. Well, Look, they added all
these guys. You already had Aaron Donald, you already had
this big ransom you paid to bring in Jalen Ramsey. Look,
I'm writing articles and making arguments for arguments shows right
now of how they can do this and spin this
and and villainize it. Um Man, bad job by me?
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Uh so, yeah, cut and print that bow that that'll
be and just say that as if I did it
and I passioned rant. But yeah, matt Stafford can't win,
but people are starting to embrace him, at least for
the fans. Twitter and how about a Fresca Mike gets
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Armen. Hey,
everybody's gearing up for the Super Bowl. I'll tell just
walk around every time someone says harm like say oh
yeah yeah with harm in this, or I'll say the harmon.
I'll just think, Hobo just popping. It's okay, hobo. Look
(00:48):
right now, I'm I'm wearing a Arrive Raise Hell, Leave
Stone Cold, Steve Aosta shirts and probably fifteen years ago,
uh watching with Kevin getting after it. So yeah, let's
let's go. Ronda Rousey was back tonight, right Yeah, no,
she yeah, she she won the rumble. She and uh
(01:11):
and the the animal. You're looking at Lesner getting after it.
Obviously Dave Bautista went by that moniker, but you're looking
at you know, the next which means go back to
bring folks that are popular to the forefront on the
road to WrestleMania. But it's all good to me. Hey, positivity,
and we've got less than two weeks to the chaos
(01:31):
of the super Bowl and all the tailgating that you
could possibly withstand. Rhonda Rousy going, yeah, I don't think
I'm gonna be starring in movies and all that kind
of stuff, so maybe I should go back to the
w doub I don't know that I really wanted to,
but hey, yeah, of course I'd love to come back. Well,
she still had she still had a contract that was
(01:52):
in kind of limbos because she she was away and
then had a baby. Congratulations. Uh. Former guests the show,
Travis Brown and she had had their kids in September.
And now she's back and we'll see the one big
thing that I wanted to see from her in the
first round with the w w E because coming off
(02:13):
a championship Sunday, this is I mean, this is a
championship too. It's all all plays together. I wanted her
to work on Mike skills. So hopefully there's a lot
of time, you know, in downtime while taking care of
the newborn to really work on that part of the game,
because she was great in interviews right when we talked
to her, a lot of fun. But yeah, now that's
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that's a whole other, you know, skill set. If you've
ever seen fighting with my family, that was one of
the big points of emphasis. I gotta get good at it.
If you're not good at the mike, you're not going
to have a successful career. That's how it goes. Just
flame out. Wow, We're on Rhonda Rousey watch. Uh. So,
(02:55):
we got a lot of watches going on. I don't
know that we're gonna be able to keep track of all.
We may need different yeah, we may need different sounders. No, no, no,
that's what that tells you. A watch is coming. You
know what watches coming? Right now, we're on Tom Brady watch. Wow?
Wow wow? Uh is Tom Brady retiring? Ask yourself? Is
(03:15):
this good for the coup? We had it on Saturday
right with Jeff Darlington Adam Schefter both reporting Tom Brady
is retiring from the NFL. Now before we get to
all the shenanigans following and then what Tom Brady said today,
I really was happy Mike, I really because I said,
oh my god, this is so awesome. Brady's retiring. Now
I don't have to devote an entire show to this
(03:38):
guy that I've watched just kill my team for the
past twenty years. This is gonna be so awesome. You
and I do not have to do this. We do
not have to spend time talking about Brady, because by
the time it gets to Monday, we'll be talking about
the a f C and NFC championship games. We have
Brady retired, We've talked about it. We're moving on, right,
We're moving on to the no no, no, no no.
Now we get it. Well, I don't know, and now
(04:00):
it's gonna be a story we have to talk about
because we're definitely gonna get an announcement. At some point,
I thought he was done doing this to me, Mike.
I think, honestly, Brady is now showing a little bit
of I don't know, because he wants he wants us
to have to talk. He wants me to have to
say good things about him, at least one more night.
For a few hours, when I thought I had, I
thought he escaped it. I thought it's I thought, no
(04:22):
one I would just be doing the conference title games
in that ship. But no, no, no, no, no, Brady
couldn't have got away. There's plenty of stuff to talk about,
whining about tickets and everything else that go on, players
trolling other players about their wives asking for sales of tickets.
I mean, there's a lot going on and to pull
back from. But with the Brady story, I mean on Saturday,
(04:42):
I was out and about and I mean, like part
of me got really sad about it. I mean, one
anybody walking away from the top, like I would never
tell anybody to retire, to not retire, he teach their
own right. Some people always want to rip the jerseys
off the backs of guys. We've talked about it here,
you know, for every year we've been on the air together.
It's you know, retirements a long, long process, and it
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takes years before you settle into what's next, particularly if
you think you left something on the table. And that's
one of the questions that I'm sure is nagging this
whole thing with Tom Brady is look at the year
I just had. We had all sorts of blankety blank
happened throughout the year. Injuries and the Antonio Brown stuff,
and had so much going on for Nett was hurt uh,
(05:29):
and Godwin got hurt all and Evans missed time and
then he wasn't just go on down the line. Uh.
And we still had this and look what I put
up at forty four. So part of it is all right,
how how far can I push the envelopes? Uh? And
I'd really love to know, like when we get into
the sources between Jason Lock and fa who was talking
(05:49):
with us about this last Monday and then doubled down
in an article for CBS on Friday before it hits Saturday,
because you know, you when as soon as you have
the piling on effect of darl Ington and Schefter and
then later Rappaport, it became a all right, the only
guy that hasn't weighted in his glazer, what's he got
over here? So just waiting for him to finally just say, fine,
(06:11):
it's it's done. So like that's the thing that leaves
me to go. Maybe it's not just quite done yet,
But I would love to know the conversations right with
people in the camp, what what were the wording was
it kind of a hey, he doesn't know what he's
gonna do, and then you follow with the do you
get an inkling, it's like, well, he's talking about this
or this project, or the family or whatever, and so
(06:32):
you you lead them down. You're leading the witness, you know,
to get you to kind of say, well, he's you know,
probably leading the other way because you start adding a
laundry list of all the other things he could be
doing instead of playing football and you know, transitioning to
that next phase which gets us there. Or did he
legitimately think you know, as he legitimately told somebody, you know,
because I kept waiting for it to be revealed that
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Gronk was the one that revealed this um that that
he's done told sorry, I mean I don't know. Well,
but now you got the report that maybe maybe he
decides to continue. Right and even in his words last
week as we parched it out, like you said, if
I had to decide right now, I'm gonna retire. But
there's time, there's a lot of decisions that have to
go on. Like he kind of opened that door. And
(07:17):
you know when you there was a report today, you know,
talking about maybe him linking up and and going back
to to New York and playing with the Bills, think
about teaming him with Dawson Knox for my guy Josh Allen.
How crazy would that be? Gabriel Davis and Stefon Diggs
and now Devin Singletary. It's explosive, It's cannot be contained.
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And if you thought anybody would embrace falling through a table,
Rob Gronkowski coming to town takes the next level. But
with Brady and Yeah, I didn't think it was be
gonna be done because other than the montage, which really
got creepy after a while, it started with all the
Concave chess pictures going all the way back to the
(08:00):
onmbine and and maybe you know, they mixed in a
little bit from time at Michigan and maybe some high
school clips and whatever else. But all the way through,
I'm like, all right, hey, he's not dead. B he
hasn't confirmed this. Tommy Senior got in touch with um
kron four up in San Francisco, is like, he's made
no decision, right, it's the agent comes out and well,
(08:23):
the cops got him or they don't. He's alive or dead.
I mean that's kind of what he said in the process.
And so we enter a new week talking about well
because This is perfect because we got a week before
the Pro Bowl and then another week before the Super Bowl.
Stop stop trying to make the Pro Bowl happen. Okay,
no one, eight to nine million people are gonna watch nobody.
It goes on the resumes of these quarterbacks like pro
(08:45):
bowler Matt Jones. No no, you know what Jones is?
A pro bowler Smith? No, no, no, stop stop side
you know you know why that you know why people
watch the Pro Bowl? This is why people watch browle
is you know on our cable. We have Spectrum. We
have Spectrum cable. And what it does is if you
don't set it up, every time you turn on the television,
it defaults to the Spectrum News channel. Right, So you
(09:05):
can do so you have to set up the TV
like every time it turns on, it doesn't turn on
the station, It turns onto the spect because they want
you to watch the TV. Now, you can obviously set
it up to make it not do that. But if
you don't do that, that's what happens. This is what
the NFL has done to all our televisions. They set
up the default to the Pro Bowl. So some people
that are turning on their television that's for the first time.
Next week you oh, just turning right onto the Pro Bowl.
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I guess I'll watch this for a few minutes. That's
the only reason people watch the Pro Bowl. It's the
only reason I am television. Away from it. The NFL
has broken into everything you own. I have not having Wow,
that's do you want to You want to talk about
this or watch me hit a few gingers. That's kind
of the speech you just did. Bring it. It all
still circle to gascons, baseball comments and work stoppages and
(09:51):
well p e. D s and Hall of Fames and
whatever else. But you know, I've always wanted to attend
to Pro Bowl. I really wanted to do. It was
an in Hawaii. But I don't think they ever. No
one's ever there. There's no one stopping you. It's not
like I can't get tickets. No, no, no, no, no no,
I've not done it. Ergo, that's still on the list.
I've been to a Super Bowl. I think I'm heading
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to another. All of those fun things are cool, but
the Pro Bowl, you know, it seems like it could
be a pretty good party. We've got some pretty good
stories about hanging around the pool and and and Jack Asstree.
That ensues there. So you can go coach the game
if you want to, just say, I'll be in with
veg don't get Yes, they'll be very least you'll be that.
He'll be the get back coach, like the guy the
other every get backet back and back, or the person
(10:35):
that I can I talk about adjustments when there's a
three man front. They can get how we try to
try to exploit that. Of course, dude, you can. You
can be on them. You can call plays if you
want to. It's the Pro Bowl's like if you want
to come down, come down, come down, you can. You
can do anything you want to because it's the Pro Bowl.
Don't worry about it. I kind of dig this, and
we'd be in Vegas. Yes, of course, yeah, you can
go and look, you can wind up being the m
(10:57):
v P. They may say, listen, we don't want hardball
anymore for the Vikings. We want you and come and
suddenly it's Mike Harmon. You're the head coach of the Vikings.
People are asking you are you turning your back on
the Bears, And they would say, why are you wearing
a Bear's hat to your Vikings press conference introduction, you
would say, oh, I don't know, I probably shouldn't have
done that. You're gonna take your hat off and then
put on another. That's gonna be your life. Now, everybody's
got a price for the million dollar man. But look,
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let's listen to a little bit of Brady for a
second before I tell you just just where that. I
always say, follow the clues, right, So all of this
happening this weekend, the reports that Brady was going to retire,
and then you got nose from Tom's dad, his agent,
Don Ye, and then tonight we get this from Tom
Brady on his Let's Go podcast with Larry Fitzgerald and
(11:44):
Jim Gray. You know, it's a good week for me.
I'm just still going through the process that I said
I was going through. So sometimes it takes some time
to really evaluate how you feel and what you want
to do. And uh, I think when the time's right,
I'll be ready to make a decision one way or another.
Just like I said last week, all right, again, follow
the clues. He's not saying I am not retiring. I
have not made a decision. It's I'm going to think
(12:05):
about it and then I'll let you know He also said,
trust the process. Yes, follow the clues. I've said it
all along. Follow the clues that Brady is telling us
he's retiring, the clues we got coming off of the
the final weekend of the NFL season for him in
the in the Bucks, not being surprised that he was,
uh that that there's talk of him retiring, you know
(12:25):
what's been around them for a while. Rob Gronkowski saying,
if I had decide right now, I'd retire. Why would
you say that when you haven't even known, supposedly what
Tom Brady is doing, unless you've talked to him and
you know what Brady. But but I really, I really
thought that though was more about the I'm beat up
and I'm sure and if you ask me, you know,
I do I want to come back. But that's not
(12:48):
but no, but that's not bread. That's that, that's Brett
far If that's not Brady said no, but I'm saying no,
that's that was But I mean, that was the Gronkowski
part of it to me, of the if I had
to decide right now, and then he meandered in the
decision making in everything happened, how would you say, yeah,
if you had to ask me, now i'd retire saying
I'm not gonna retire. I'm not gonna play with somebody
else other than Tom. Why would you not say, I
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haven't made that decision yet, uncause he's grown coy and
he opened the door right. But then he opened the
door right because it was one thing, you know, to
say in the moment, Well, if I had to do
it right now, I'd say no. And then it started
to talk about well, you know, and then there's decisions
like sometimes you just answer with the three words. That
doesn't matter if the guy or girl that's interviewing you
(13:30):
is leaning in wanting you to say more follows, give
to two words and move on. Man, Brady didn't say
I'm retiring. Nobody else said he's. You know, Tom is
not retiring. Tom didn't say it. He had every chance
to just say today it's like, no, I'm not going anywhere.
He didn't. He's he's. He just didn't happen on his timeline.
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It got out before he was ready to get out.
Because look, Brady retiring is a big deal. He's got
a lot of he's got a lot of Team Brady
that's got to get on the same page as TV twelve.
He's got his new clothing line, he's got his crypto exchange,
he's got everybody else got to get on the same
page and want to do it. This just got out
before he was ready for it. He will retire maybe
after he gets that big signing bonus on February four,
(14:15):
which is gonna be another sixteen million dollars, which I
can hang on five days for sixteen million dollars and
not make that announcement. It just got out a little
too early, and that's why Brady's now and he wants
to control the message and say this is when I'm retiring,
this is how I'm doing it, and doesn't want it
to be well, here's Adam Schefter and Jeff Darling did
have it. No, when I'm retiring, I'm gonna tell you.
So it just got out a little bit early. So
(14:36):
he'll it'll be sometimes shortly. Maybe it's this weekend, maybe
it's right after the super Bowl, but Brady's going to retire.
I wouldn't be surprised. It was this weekend, the big
down week before the super Bowl, and this is when
he's doing it, or he does it right, but it's
gonna be sometime the next couple of has he officially
withdrawn from the Pro Bowl yet they're unfinished business. I
don't have an m v P in a Pro Bowl.
(14:57):
I don't have a Pro Bowl. There's a better shot
again of you playing quarterback in the Pearl Bowling, Brady,
better chance. Find it out, baby, Let's get it ont.
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It's our privilege to be able to put that stuff
out there for you. Tell your friends Valentine's Day is coming,
you know, especially if you're gonna get the day off
this after the super Bowl, then you might as well
give it there and they can listen to us all
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day long and do something productive with their dad. Dude,
you gotta stop complaining about that. Man. The city of
Cincinnati decided they're gonna give the kids off from school
the day after the super Bowl. That story broke today,
and you seem so you're so upset about this. Man.
First of all, it doesn't affect you. This is in Cincinnati.
And why would I would want my kid. If I
was a kid, I would want to have off. You know.
(17:46):
I remember when I was little listening to the radio,
waking up in the morning, listen to Desperate Dave in
the a M. Saying and the following schools are closed
for today and the pause PS thirty five Public School sixteen,
Thomas Jefferson Middle School, PST. You know what. We always
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had it on, but my high school was so far
away that I had to be on a bus because
if if there was inclement weather, I was gonna end
up being late. And I think in my whole four
years there, we had two days that we started like
forty minutes later. We were never closed, ever closed, So
it was it was fruitless. It's like, yeah, it would
(18:34):
be out in the background and like out of hell
with it. Watch the Bozo show. What what episode of
Transformers are Batman the cartoon or they showed me this week? Oh,
I used to love that. It was done on no
no no, no no no no no no no no no, no
no no no Batman. The DJ just sounded like he
was reading lottery numbers. The way he would do it.
His voice would echo with so that pause between each
(18:57):
school George Washington Elementary, Abraham Lincoln Crossroads Middle School, because
that McKey is though you may have multiple schools that
had the same base right, the same root. So George
Washington Middle School, like oh, he didn't say elementary, dude, dude,
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we're oh no McKee high School. We'll start three hours later. Yeah,
I go, I can sleep another couple of hours. I'm
not going in. I mean, it really was like the
greatest thing I ever have to listen. You'd have to
listen to two guys make that, and it was just insane.
I'm really I'm a little kid of going. I'm not
(19:44):
putting that in my future plans. What if you don't say,
But the thing is, what if you don't say my
school just at that time, I'm gonna get dressed, go
to school and find out it's closed. Oh, because I
wasn't listening to the radio at eight forty to hear
the guy read off the last the last ten schools
that happened. You gotta ge gotta find a way to know, right.
I don't want to believe there's some more efficiency now,
but that's one of the old school things. That was
(20:05):
one of the greats. I don't want to Chicago or
you in New York, I mean out here in California. Yeah, yeah,
we're up, We're up, and we're up. Hey, frost warning
in effect. Temperatures could be as low as forty They
were doing that. Hey you know what, later on I
could get into the forties overnight. Oh that's it. That's
(20:28):
what I always say to friends when they call me
from from the East coast. Oh my god, we get
all the snow or it's so cold whatever, it's like,
Oh yeah, I mean we had a frost warning last night.
They go, what's that? I go, like, in the temperature
is gonna get below fifty? I mean they warn us that,
you know, roads could be slick, and certain things that
we get frost warns are all like the son of
a blankety blanket. I don't have as many friends as
I used to. I think maybe there's something that goes like, oh,
(20:48):
you're an agitator and living in California's you know, if
you're posting pictures of the weather, the food you're eating,
you know, outside with the sun shining and maybe sand
in the fourth ground, I mean, there's gonna become problem
with all of that. But in Cincinnati, they have canceled
school the day after the Super Bowl, as Cincinnati Public
(21:09):
Schools say, in anticipation of our super Bowl victory. Okay,
I guess because you know, one team's gotta win and
it's either gonna be you or they're saying Matthew Stafford's
not gonna beat us. Uh So I I get it,
and and I think it's kind of cool. I think
it's cool that they decided to do that. I just
don't want to have debates on should dub should we
wind up making the day after the Super Bowl and
(21:31):
national holiday? Should that be? It's like the most tied,
the tired debates I have no time for, and that's
one of them. It's like, you know, should should college
athletes be paid? We're done, We're done with these. You know,
we're done. Either either gonna make the day after the
super Bowl and national holiday? And people are gonna go,
why isn't the day? Why is an opening day in baseball?
And national holiday? Why is an opening day in the
NBA and national holiday? Why isn't the day of the
(21:53):
National Championship Game and college basketball and national holiday? Either
do it or don't do it? Or don't? But I mean,
I realized, I'm not gonna see here. We shoud have Look,
why don't just go to a four day work week?
But I think we can do that. In fact, if
I was president, that's the first thing I would do
is I would say, you know what, we don't need
to work five days, four day work week. We can
get all kinds of stuff done because I've worked in
offices before. And I know there's so much grab bass
going on in offices that you don't need to be
(22:14):
there for eight hours a day, especially now we know
with COVID you can work from home and be around
four day work week. Four day work week. That I
would win in a landslide, I would walk. I would
have my opponent. My opponent says he's gonna lower taxes,
he's gonna increase uh, schools, he's going to uh, you know,
give teachers more money. He's going to improve all the roads. Uh,
he's going to uh, he's gonna give kickbacks to everybody
(22:37):
for money that that's just gonna come out of me.
Can't You can't use the term kick back. But I
don't mean you're imploying, Like, hey, we're gonna kick start
the economy by giving you all a thousand dollars let's
say kick start. And I would say that's great. Hey,
who wants a four day work week? Yeah, and I
would win. I would win. Four day work week, that's
all you need. And I'm deciding whether it's gonna be
(22:58):
Monday or Friday to be the the the day that's off.
But we'll we'll, we'll figure that out, but it'll be
four day work week. Everybody would They would say, I,
I I want to go vote right now. I go
vote right now for Jason. He's gonna do that for me.
Four day work I think one of the things found,
depending on the industry, the productivity is is dropped. You
(23:18):
know those Challenger and Christmas things that we always see
those surveys that come out about lost productivity due to
major events. And I wasn't even trying to get into this.
I just made it as an offhand come kind of
a joke, figuring you'd laugh and we'd move on. But
now since we're here, how about that? Uh? Is that?
Why do they never really reflect how long a quote
(23:40):
unquote coffee break is or someone going outside for a smoke,
because people still do it and they disappear for an
inordinate amount of time to do such. Uh, yet still
clock out after their eight hours. And if you go
to the four day work week, does it now become
a you know, forty our day over those four right?
(24:03):
Because some some industries have those they call it a
nine eighties schedule, right, work ten hours day to ten
hour days and then every other friday or off like
there that's that's the principle that you can get behind.
But but all in all, you know, you're trying to
shake it up, trying to shake out the inefficiencies in
our modern world. I dig that. I dig that about you.
(24:25):
I don't know that i'd vote for you, but I
dig that about I'm trying. I'm trying. Hey, my absolute
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this is my best story because this is something where
a person I wasn't ready to embrace actually addressed a
really big pet peeve of mine and I'm digging it.
Oh cool. Brian Dable was introduced as head coach of
the New York Giants today, had a press conference and
talked about what he sees for the team. Talked about
Daniel Jones. He's excited to work with him because you know,
the Giants think well. Brian Dable turned Josh Allen into
(25:07):
a superstar and Daniel Jones is kind of a really
poor man's version of Josh Allen. So, hey, Daniel Jones
is gonna be that guy. But in answering those questions,
Brian Dable got asked a question by a reporter and
his eagle eye pointed something out and then made a
reference that I completely agree with. Brian met Bombardo from fanside.
How's it going, Hey, Matt, how are you doing? Congratulations? Um,
(25:31):
you know you walk in late. God, here as quick
as I come. With the traffic, You're gonna make excuses already.
I'm gonna remember that now, Okay, I did that. I
am so first of all that he had the you know,
he realized that this is a guy that walked in late,
Like how do you know? Like you don't even see
what this guy walked in late to my press conference.
I like that, But I love the fact that he
(25:52):
called him out for traffic because that's my biggest pet
peeves when we have to figure something out and we
have to get there and look, I've dealt with this
now for years, whether it's for a soccer tournament or
a softball tournament or something else or something going on, Hey,
make sure you get there for this time. Leave time
for traffic. All right, it's it's good traffic. It is
gonna be difficult because of this and parking. Leave time
(26:15):
for traffic. And then people show up fifteen twenty minutes late,
half hour late, and I go hey, and they go, oh,
traffic was bad, and I want to just punch through
the wall, like guess that's why I said leave time
for traffic. Like, oh, I'm surprised there was traffic. You
have to allow for traffic wherever you leave to go someplace. Now, Oh,
I should be there in fifteen minutes. You know you
should do before you go, check traffic. Make sure it's
(26:37):
fifteen minutes where you get there. Otherwise leave a little
bit sooner. I'm so, I'm so. I get so mad.
People go, oh, yes, sorry, I'm late. Man, traffic was
really bad. I'm like no, no, no, no, no no no.
You had a chance. You had chance to go look it.
Don't see here, tell me, because what it really was
is you probably were taking a nap and you woke
up late. You decided this, or you decided to get
on your phone, or you were playing word a little
bit too much, and then you decided to say, oh, well,
(26:59):
let's leave now a couple of slate It's not gonna
be that big a deal, and then say, oh, it's traffic. No,
don't give me that traffic crap. Don't give me that.
If there's a big signalert or something happens, there's an
overturned big rig rig on the four oh five, yeah,
then I understand. I can find it. Look, I didn't
know that was gonna happen. But just to give you
the whole I got here as much as I could
with traffic. You knew you were there for the Brian
Dable press conference. Did it suddenly jump on you as Oh,
(27:22):
I didn't know I had to be. I got here
as fast as traffic would allow me. No, no, no, no, No,
A lot bad Brian Dable. So now we're making excuses already.
I dig that out of him, and I'm ready to
not like him because he's the Giants, and the Giants
start winning, it's just gonna depress me. I gotta love
that between the entry, the video of him showing up
and going in the front door shaking hands uh put
(27:43):
to the music of the People's Court was about as funny. Uh.
They've agreed to settle their differences here in front of us. Uh,
so you had that going for you. Uh. The argument
about traffic kind of goes in with all of those
that you mentioned as far as sports talk radio and
teeth the properties. And while I like you, I don't
(28:03):
really have a lot of use from Clearly they've built
people empires and made very steady jobs and comfortable living
for them. So I may embrace those uh tenants and
debate points in the future a little bit more and
try to just jam them into conversations for our best
podcasts to keep those numbers staring now. As related to
hear for Brian Dable, I I dig that right. What
(28:26):
was the old coughlin if you're five minutes early, year late,
and that that was, you know, the mantra and the
you know not shoes on tied or cleats in hand
or pads and hands where it's like, no, you're ready
to go to work. If you're supposed to be in
a meeting room, you're you're there and ready. You've had
your coffee, energy drink, whatever the hell's getting you going
(28:47):
that morning, and you're ready to go. And I think
Brian Dable, at least coming out of that little exchange
that's what you're gonna expect, and you're gonna clean up
the edges there for the Gilliants and if the look,
if you're gonna have a bunch of reporters that are
gonna skewer you in the New York media at every opportunity,
why don't you, why don't you set the first you know,
(29:09):
first shot, right, first volley, just saying, look, I I
know what my job is going to be, so I'm
holding you accountable too, So let's all be fair to
each other. So I kind of dig that and it
makes for a great sound bite and he sounds like
a boss. Twitter At how about a frescup? Mike gets
swollen don the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
(29:29):
Mike Harmon. Now, I mean, I'm digging Brian, Damn the
excuses already. I'll remember that. Like now this guy's going,
I'm not getting a question of the press conference again.
He's not gonna He's gonna look at me and up
that's the guy that was late right there. Well, now,
or if you or if you're gonna do something where
you're starting to get into schimmatics and play calling or
a clock management or whatever, it's like, remember that time
you were late getting here? Remember that clock management? Right,
(29:54):
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and I do have to amend one thing, but before
we we get into a big NFL story. If I
was running for president, yes, I would go to a
(30:35):
four day work week. And I would also ensure that
wordal would be free to everybody forever, because you know
New York Times bought wordal today and they said, oh,
it's gonna be free for now, but eventually they could
put it behind the pay wall to they're gonna try
to monetize me. Mind. I would keep wordle free, and
I would make sure everybody could keep their stats too,
because people are crazy about the stats. I mean, I'm
(30:56):
not that guy, but people are crazy about the stats.
I'm gonna post on Facebook and Twitter how many tries
it took me to get the word today, and oh look,
how good a damn I'm having a good day because
it took me three guests. I'm gonna bad day. It
took me five guests. But Wordle is great, and I
would make sure it stayed free. That's my other platform.
I would run on four day work week and Wordle
is free. Boom. Well, it's a private company, so they're
(31:18):
gonna wave at you and tell you to beat it. Otherwise,
very subtly, they're gonna take shots at your campaigns, so
you gotta be careful. Uh, and maybe they'll show up
as the Wordle of the day to go after you.
But put the like you know, it's capitalism at its
finest right now, it's free al right, sell some ads, paper,
(31:40):
click all of those things, like wait, New York Times
came in right because they bought the Athletic. Now they
buy Wordle. Trying to pump up their their services and
recognizing there's dollars to be made. Because if you could
then take Wordle into a timed event, how quickly do
you actually solve it. Now we're taught about getting into
(32:01):
maybe some sponsorships and partnerships with the gambling communities, about
these or other entities that want to give out cash
and prizes so that pay for a model can can
really balloon into something special pretty fast. Smith. I'll tell
you there, there's a lot there. So I know you
want to You want everything free. You like to be
(32:23):
handed stuff. We all do. Uh World is gonna be
a pay for give it a year, sorry, buddy, you
know what that's gonna mean, though somebody else is gonna
laugh at say, you know what, I've got a six
letter word game that's free over there, gotta six what's
gonna be? But I forget about a year when they
say it's gonna be free for now that it's saying.
(32:44):
But on March one is what it's gonna go behind
the paywall. It's it's like, you know, once upon a
time when I was up and run things over at Yahoo,
uh for the sports and fantasy sports stuff, right, we
had it built critical mass because our game was still
free while the opposition, the competitors had had all gone
to the pay for model. We eventually added you know,
(33:07):
Fantasy Plus and it had some extra bells and whistles
and research or whatever you can get, and it's it's
still one of the top products out there, but at
the time it was you know, had the big meeting
of all right, how do we figure out how do
we monetize some of this? Like everybody they loves our
loves our stat tracker, right, the Java app, And so
they like, well, what do we do? And then I'm like, well,
you could do it as a league, you could do
(33:28):
it individually. And we we tease it in week one,
you know, and I used the drug dealer analogy and
they thought I was a little too comfortable throwing it
out there. Um, but I'm like, hey, and here's your
first taste is free and then you want that live
real time scoring, you're gonna pay for it, especially if
it's a nominal fee of just for the year. And
(33:51):
guess what we sold hundreds of thousands of stat trackers.
Uh well, we'd as up said as I would be
for word. Um, I don't know who is happier Rams
and Rams fans or my family and the people of Detroit, Michigan.
For Matthew Stafford. Because today was another day of getting
(34:13):
texts from my entire wife's family. Hey, how about Matthew
Stafford how he said, It's like, I don't know that
he I think he has more fans in Michigan still
than he has in California. It's it's he's like I said,
he's like the he's like everybody's son or or a
nephew who took a big job out of town. And
(34:33):
they're kind of watching his success from afar, like, oh,
he finally got out. You know, he got out and
he made his own way, and look how great this is.
And he's doing really well in California right now. And
either I mean, the love for him is awesome because
the media is still giving him no love. I mean,
clearly everything is still Matthew Stafford's fault. Had he played better,
it would have been fifty eight nothing instead of, you know,
having to escape against the nine who said of three
(34:55):
or thirty yards passing yesterday. I mean, the the love
from the fans and all the hatred from the media
is just baffling to me. And he's gonna you know,
and if the Rams win the Super Bowl, it's gonna
be well, they would have won with anybody right, they
would and clearly say no, no, no, because they could
would have been there with Jared Goff. They had won
like four games and kids, but that's gonna be the narrative.
They would have won with anybody. Matthew Stafford. I mean
(35:18):
the discrepancy between the fan love and the media skepticism
and just general dislike because he's a line, not a lie.
I've never seen that before. I've never seen someone can
be so liked by one group and so treated with
distaste by another. There's just so many splinters off the
Stafford tree. The Hey, this is who he was supposed
(35:40):
to be. Okay, it didn't work in Detroit. Did they
have the same level of you know, star power that
the Rams currently have. Remember this is all being done.
Robert Woods, who was supposed to be your one A
or two went out. Oh and Odell Beckham Jr. Who
was done is suddenly making clutch catch after clutch catch
(36:00):
and Cooper cup it must do nothing but run routes
in his offseason watching T What are you done? Watch
TV and doing footwork? Uh, and can't be caught right
no matter what he does or where you put him
on the field. Ingenuity as it were. But yeah, for
Matthew Stafford, all that energy, all that negative stuff is
still there, and the All Star Team will will be
(36:23):
one of the things that even if they win thirty
eight three will still be. Well, Look, they added all
these guys. You already had Aaron Donald, you already had
this big ransom you paid to bring in Jalen Ramsey. Look,
I'm writing articles and making arguments for arguments shows right
now of how they can do this and spin this
and and villainize it. Um Man, bad job by me?
(36:46):
Uh so, yeah, cut and print that bow that that'll
be and just say that as if I did it
and I passioned rant. But yeah, matt Stafford can't win,
but people are starting to embrace him, at least for
the fans. Twitter and how about a Fresca Mike gets
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