December 9, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon believe the Eagles are trying too hard to hang their gameplan on Jalen Hurts. Could we really see the return of Philip Rivers?? Plus, a brutal night for Justin Herbert in the win.
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you like turnovers and big plays and field goals, Monday
Night was your night. The Chargers beat the Eagles twenty
two to nineteen. LA improves to nine and four, Philadelphia
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drops to eight and five. Jalen Hurts is intercepted for
the fourth time of the night, a ball he tried
to sneak in to Dotson that was better left, not thrown.
And the Eagles go down to defeat, and now you're
wondering can they even hold on to the NFC East?
Now Dallas is going, Man, if we had just able
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to win, if we get a beaten Detroit, but there's
still a lot. You're talking about four games left, man,
and the Eagles are just completely on vapors now, and
it's tough to watch the defending champs, who have such
a talented roster go the way they're going. But luckily,
Mike Harmon, I can solve all the eagles problems right now.
(01:57):
You can solve their problems.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes, you are the figurative Jeff Goldbloom in this situation.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We're off to see the Wizard. Oh, either gonna say
like Life finds Away like Jurassic Park. Oh, we can
do that too, Life finds Away.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
He was he might have actually been construed as a
good guy at a grand scale.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
There, all right, right, let me go otherwise, I you know,
I don't know. Let me go back to the fly
where he was a good guy and a bad guy.
There you go, brundle sides of the Brundle fly fuses
with pod. Oh no, that was kind of like if
Harvey Kaitel was a dinosaur and he was mad.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I'm sorry, I hurts to his teammates. Let through so
many bad pics.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Now sorry, How can I solve the Eagles problems? Welcome
to the Miami Dolphins. Wait what trading with the Dolphins?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
No, no, no, no, no no. The Dolphins hold the
key to what the Eagles need to do. Right. Dolphins.
Yesterday they thumped the Jets right, a game in which
the Jets clearly weren't ready. I don't know if they
practiced all week. It's twenty one to nothing midway through
the first quarter, and suddenly CBS is running the stats.
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When's the last time a team was up this big?
The team scored twenty eight points in the first quarter.
It was absolutely a blow Again. I don't feel like
the Jets knew anything that the Dolphins were trying to do.
And all the Dolphins did was just give the ball
to Devon eight Chan and right a little bit of
Oli Gordon later on, and they just ran the ball
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and ran over the Jets. That's all they did was
run the football. I saw the stop.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
He's already dead. Guy way too. Oh yeah, it was
really early too. I'm like, wait, yeah, eight minutes to
go in the first quarter. Game was over, right, But
this is about the Dolphins. The Dolphins who started out
one and six, it was over. McDaniel was getting fired
to it was going to be on a new team.
It was about as bad as it could be for
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Miami because everything was coming apart. It was going to
be a new regime in next year. Everything was going
to be new. Now what's Miami done? Now they're six
and seven, all right, they have figured out a way
back into the back end of the playoff chase. Now
they've won four in a row and five out of six. Okay,
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what have they done?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
They did exactly what the Eagles need to do. And
it's a tough decision because you know, the Dolphins is
kind of easy because look, we're terrible in one and six,
Eagles are the champs. The Dolphins went from we were
a high octane offense with Waddle and Tyreek Hill and Tua.
We still believe in Tua even though you know they don't. Yeah,
Johnny Smith.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
With eighty eighth.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, once upon a time, you know, and we have
you know, and a Chan is a great running back
and we can you know, he's part of what we
have going on. But we are going to be a
high octane offense going up and down the field. Well
what happened. Tyreek Kill got hurt, and Mike McDaniel, I
give I give the guy credit because now not only
he saved his career at Miami, he saved two his
career in Miami, he saved their season. He decided we
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need to change who we are. We're not gonna win
that way, because they weren't going to win that way anyway.
Before Tyreek Hill got hurt, you could see two of
the Dolphins got figured out as good as they were
fifteen months ago, they got figured out we need to
become a run first football team. And for a Miami
Dolphin team, that the leg you know, their hallmark has
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always been we're throwing the football, right, no matter what
kind of situation, whatever kind of team they have, they're
always a team that throws the football. No, we are
going to become a ball control team. We have the
horses offensively to do this. And two was going to
become a game manager and he can still make plays
once in a while, which he did right. He made
the big throw for a touchdown in the first quarter yesterday,
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made a couple of throws at Jalen Waddle. But this
was a Dolphins team that ran for two hundred and
eighty yards and eight chan before he left. He could
have gone back in the game, but McDaniel said there
was no reason to because you have to worry about it.
If we were running all over the Jets, didn't matter
who was running with us. Ricky Williams could have been
running the football. He's fifty years old, and we would
have been able to have this kind of success against
the Jets. That's all we did, right, Jalen Wrights, you're
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leading Rushia. Yesterday he didn't get a carry until the
second quarter, ran for one hundred yards. Right, He had
eight chan for ninety two you had. Gordon had seventeen
in a touchdown. This is what the Dolphins did. They
turned themselves into a ball control. We're going to run
the football first, and we're taking our identity and we're
changing it and we're changing from the throw first team
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that we are to this hey pinball team. We're gonna
light at the scoreboard and look what it's done. The
Dolphins now have fought their way back in the back
end of contention. Right, they're six and seven. The Eagles
need to do the exact same sixty seven six seven
six seven, right, six seven had to do it, and
now the Eagles need to do the same thing. We
talked about this earlier in the show What's Been, but
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for a different reason. The Eagles coming into this year,
you knew it wasn't going to be a Saquon Barkley
heavy year for most part because Barkley, with all the
carries coming off last year, you just don't have the
same kind of year. And Barkley has not been that guy.
The Eagles have tried for a long time to try
to say, Okay, Jalen Hurts is gonna solve our problems.
We are gonna throw the football up and down the field.
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We have the guys to do it, right. God, it's
a great tight end. We're gonna get aj Brown on track,
DeVante Smith is a great weapon. We're gonna find a
way to do it. Man, I don't care what. We
are gonna find a way to do it. And after
all these weeks into week thirteen, they still can't do
it right. Different reports about how much Jalen Hurts is
liked or not liked on the team, how much they
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don't like or don't like, like or don't like each other,
how much they like or don't like Nick Sirianni, whatever
control Nick Sirianni has with the team, with the with
the offense when they throw the football, maybe or maybe not,
Jalen Hurts is changing plays and and going rogue. We
had that report a couple of weeks ago. However, you
want to shake it, shake it up. Going Jalen Hurts
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driven is not working. They tried to make it work
because you thought you had to. Well, he's our quarterback,
we're paying him, He's won a super Bowl. Now this
is he is. He is that good. But it's not working.
They give plenty of chances to do it. You have
to get back to being Saquon Barkley driven. Now It's okay, Saquon.
We haven't had the same kind of workload we gave
you last year because we've been a different team and
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we know that you're not that guy. But now that
we're into December, that's who you have to be. That's
who we have to be. They have to be Saquon
Barkley driven. And what did they do tonight? They gave
the ball to Saquon Barkley a lot, had the big
touchdown run. If you're Saquon Barkley driven, I can buy
back in on the on the Eagles because their roster
is just that talented. The rest of the offense and defensively.
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If they can become more of a team like the
Dolphins where it Hurtz becomes a game manager, and you're
Saquon Barkley driven, then I can believe in you because
I know I've seen Barkley do it. And after having
not and after having a first twelve or thirteen weeks
where not as many carries, you're as fresh as you're
gonna be at this point, and Barkley running up and
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down the sideline after that big fifty yard touchdown run. Okay,
let's be Saquon Barkley driven. What did the Eagles not
do in the rest of the fourth court in overtime?
Give the ball to Saquon Barkley and what happened? You
have Jalen Hurts coming off a no touchdown for interception
performance and Saquon Barkley running for one hundred yards the
big go ahead touchdown. If this doesn't tell you we
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have to change our philosophy and change who we are,
nothing else does. No scores, four picks for Jalen Hurts,
one hundred yards and a touchdown for Barkley. If they
are Barkley driven the rest of the way, I will
buy back in on the Eagles. I will get back
into them being a team that can cause damage in
the playoffs because there's no great team anywhere, not in
the NFC, not in the AFC. I will buy back in.
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But this is the game that shows you they have
to do it, because you see, Hey, if the Eagles
keep trying to tread this and go on this line
of yeah, we're gonna throw the football a ton and
still try to make it work with Hurts and Brown
and DeVante Smith, you've tried it way too much. It's
not working to be the offense you were last year.
Because Barkley covered a lot of issues last year, covered
a lot of problems with the Eagles. Still had problems
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offensively last year, but Barkley running for two thousand yards,
you're able to cover up a lot usually it's the
quarterback that covers up a lot of ills. Barkley coming
in the personality that he was. Everybody loves Saquon Barkley.
It was a great moment in time. Eagles have to
draw back on that formula, and I'll buy back in.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, we've talked a lot about the continuity, consistency, leadership
in the locker room, all of those things with Jay Glazer,
me and Cosell on Sunday Mornings a little bit, and
you and I certainly have tossed this one back and
forth like a medicine ball in a big workout, oftentimes
trying to figure out exactly what we're doing here because
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you've had the injuries on the offensive line. Obviously you
lose Jason Kelsey. He's hanging out in the podcast land
with his multi million dollar deal and all, and I'm
sure they wish he was back there as an anchor
and a locker room guy and all of that stuff
to kind of solidify. But we haven't seen the same
explosion off the line by the front five, right, so
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we haven't had that. Jalen Hurts is right now in
half his yardage that he had rushing the football last year,
his passing numbers very much in line with what he
put across for a full season and what he played
last year. Last year had eighteen touchdowns against five picks,
basically at that same line at this point. Now he
goes over to the sixth pick with that game sealer.
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But we watched them move the ball and actually commit
to say Kwan Barker, because we watched that. Over the
course of the season as well, you had a number
of games where he didn't get to double digit touches.
It hasn't been as active in the passing game, but
certainly from a rushing perspective, they haven't tried to set
up balance. Hell I would have excused it even if
they brought in Tank Bigsby, who they traded for somebody
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else had tried to run the ball. But they haven't
even done that. Hurts tonight four carries eight yards. Right,
you're not even.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Using what was a big part that helped make him.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Super a little bit more, especially kind of like we're
watching the diminished versions physically of Lamar Jackson and some
of these other quarterbatch Right, you're seeing more scrambles from
Patrick Mahoons, still seeing the Superman cape come out for
Josh Allen, but for Jalen Hurts, we're not seeing that,
and not even the tush push being utilized to the
same level of effectiveness. Remember the bear stole the ball
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from him, but in that final possession, we kept looking
at each other just shrugging our shoulders because he's trying
to push down field. You got that big completion to Smith,
got the big sideline route to Goddard, no calls to
put the ball back in Saquon Barkley's gut. You got
that defense that's been on the field a ton all night,
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and you finally have a little bit of an advantage
where you're winning that trench warfare and you don't go
to that instead pushing the ball down the field. Great
play by the defenders, no question about it. But for
the rest of this season, you're looking at a schedule
that's really advantageous for them. Only the Saints and Giants
have lesser quality of opponents. You've got a game against
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the Bills, and week to week we watched them still
a top ten scoring defense, but other issues. And then
you have the Raiders and two games against the whatever's
left to the Commanders.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Right at this point, I don't even know it.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I guess Marcus Mariona comes back, so they'll be winging
the ball around. But it's that that idea of you've
got a terrible team and whatever. You know, however you
want to describe either of those those squads with Buffalo
as your only plus team still on this and you
can still go get it right. It's still theirs for
the taking in terms of the division. But we're at
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going into week fifteen and still scratching our heads, going
what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Look, and here's the thing, and here's why you can
do it right. Last year, Barkley three hundred and forty
five carries, okay, three or forty five carries, and he
caught thirty three passes, and then what he had in
the playoffs. Right, it's nearly five hundred touches from Barkley
last year. Okay, he needed some time, you know, you
don't bounce back. Took some time to heal, right, and
you tell you, well, you had to take a lot
of time coming off of that. Five hundred touches is
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a lot This season. Right now, with four games left,
he's at one hundred and ninety eight touches, so he
is far behind his pace of last year. So in theory,
he should be fresher. And I gotta tell you tonight,
it didn't look like he was running in mud. It
didn't look like he was someone who he looked like.
He looked like a guy that Okay. Now at Saquon
Barkley time, when he had that fifty two yard touchdown run.
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He splits the defense and goes through and then he's
on the side. Look, you could del that was the
moment where the Eagle said, hey, wait a minute, Saquon
Barkley is back. He's our guy. Now he's had a
lot less carry. You look at his numbers week to week.
This is where he should be. Fresh Right, We're into
early part of December and there's you know, we have
four games left and the divisions there for you. It's
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an easy It's honestly, I think it's an easy call
to make. I mean, really, it's an easy call to make.
And the because the Eagles live in dysfunction. Man, it's
of course, Hey, Jalen, you're gonna be a game manager now,
Saquan Gohdrena, you're gonna get twenty five carries a game. Now,
it's been that we're gonna win games. Now, We're gonna
control the football, We're gonna limit our turnovers. This is
what we're gonna do, right, Like, I mean, I think
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it's a pretty easy decision to.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Make defenses against the run. Let's see, Commanders are twenty ninth,
the Bills are twenty eighth.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Raiders you can do whatever you want on them. So
it's a little balance.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That could be a forfeit though, I mean maybe I
have thought, chuh, that could be a forfeit.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Maybe you kick a field goal late. I don't know,
and Raider fans get.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Mad, Well, you forfeit. I think you win two nothing, right, Yeah,
you can look at that score of ten years now,
going wow, what a game that would have been safety
to nothing. Wow, what the defense must't have been awesome?
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are we about to see the return of a future
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Hall of Fame quarterback four years after he last played
in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
He's got it, said, Hall of Fame. I love it,
tall Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Oh he is at the college Hall of Fame. Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Okay, sure, but he's already okay, in the Pro Football
of Fame. Is he about all right?
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Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yes, Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Mike Harmon we
got more from Monday Night Football coming up in a bit,
but a headline that I gotta say, I like to
think that I can see things coming, you know, certain
things in the world of sports. You can see him
coming right Like like I could see Skip Bayless trying
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to get back together with Stephen A.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Smith.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I can see that, I would. I can see that right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Can see that.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Hey days yelling. I got a lot of more certain
flexing and everything.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I can see certain things I did. I did not
see that due to the Colts quarterback Saga Daniel Jones,
you know, tearing his achilles yesterday. He's out for the year.
Riley Leonard, rookie out of Notre Dame coming in injuring
his knee. He is now week to week. I did
not see that. Tomorrow, the Indianapolis Colts are going to
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bring in Philip Rivers to get a workout, not really
a try, but just to work out to see where
he's at. He hasn't played in the NFL since twenty twenty. Now,
he did finish with the Colts that year. With the Colts,
they've not yet decided whether to sign Philip Rivers, and
he hasn't determined whether or not he wants to play.
But according to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Philip Rivers Happy birthday,
(19:42):
Philip Rivers. Forty four today, Philip Rivers. He's gonna come
in and work out now he's familiar with the system.
He could, in theory, be a guy who slides right
in because he knows Shane Steiken's system. This is one
of those stories. The idea of it, I think, is
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a hell of a lot better than the actual product
you would see on the field. I mean, Rivers was
a great quarterback, and he was even a little bit
better than I thought he was in twenty twenty. But
you could tell at the end of twenty twenty he
was done. Right, he was done. Now four years away,
your body hasn't gone through the pounding. You can still
throw the football, Rivers is if Rivers is going in
(20:26):
to get a workout with the Colts, obviously has kept
himself in shape, can still throw the football right.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He's off coaching. F he's like a human jugs gun
for that. Saint Michael Catholic High School, thirteen and one
state semifinalist.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That oh, that's great. That's great. When you're forty four
and you're coaching. Yeah, you're in your prime, man, You're
starting good. You're starting your coaching prime. I really, I
really would worry about him, about the Colts, about his legacy,
about everything, if he went back out there to play.
I mean again, at the end, he looked like someone
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who was near the end. Right, I can't tell you
where is his arm now? He had a tough enough time,
you know, showing arm strength, you know, five years ago.
I mean you talk the guy played in twenty twenty
Man twenty twenty. Yes, he was there. It sounds like
a great headline, and there would be a I would
want to watch, just like kind of when you have
(21:20):
two hands over your eyes you're watching a horror movie,
but you're kind of peeking through because you want to
see what's happening. Uh. Yeah, I don't think it's gonna
go well for Philip Rivers. I really don't, man. I mean,
you've been away from the game a long time. Look
at guys that are away from the game, that are
in their twenties for a year, and now they come
back and they're able to do it. They look like
they've been away from the game for a decade. Right,
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Deshaun Watson was away from here. He's still never made
it back, right, I mean this is and Rivers is
now in his forties, four years away, dude, father Time.
There's not many tenants in sports where you can say, yeah, blanketly,
father Time is undefeated forty four coming off of this.
I hope that this is just one of those things where, hey,
it sounds kind of fun and in the end, cooler
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heads prevail, because I don't know how this works out.
You can find somebody to hand the ball off to
Jonathan Taylor, you know, thirty eight times a game and
just throw the football couple of times. I understand the
allure of this, but while the reality on the field,
I think that's gonna be a different story.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, this will be a curiosity, certainly. I always celebrate
when guys are a bit older, even the antics of
a Lebron James, the final throes of Tom Brady, Aaron
Rodgers where he's at now in Matthew Stafford, different levels
of brilliant success and odd moments along the way. For
Philip Rivers, he was one of a long line of
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guys who became the the stop gap. They fit the
suit veteran quarterback for the Colts after Andrew Luck abruptly
walked away. Right now, GM of Yours, Stanford Cardinal. But
for Philip Rivers, you go back to his final year,
twenty four touchdowns, eleven picks, air yards were actually higher
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than four or five of his final years with the Chargers,
and he hasn't been thrown as much. I mean, maybe
there's some magic left in that arm. There must have
been some magic well, and you can do that.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It is Christmas. It's Christmas, a time of miracles.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But I mean, look at it.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Five to seven step down, it's not like you're worried
about For Daniel Jones, what happened. He couldn't he couldn't move,
and then he had the broken leg and now he's done.
And that was sad to watch. It was really sad
to see that that end. Very cool that he was
back out on the sideline trying to rally his guys
and talk to them up and see if he couldn't
get them together for the back half of that game
while Riley Leonard was out there. But for Philip Rivers,
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it's not like mobility was every hell. That guy didn't
even do quarterback sneaks. Forget about tush pushes. He didn't
even do a quarterback sneak when he was there. So
I don't need his mobility. I just need to know
his shoulders got one hundred and fifty three.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, that's what I mean. Like it's it sounds great
and that you know, you know like that this is
this is a story.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It's a Christmas miracle, Caryl Brady getting her voice back
when she needed to sing in church.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
So call me when you hit the last lock. I
call this story. This is fun for five minutes, right,
It's fun for five minutes to think about Philip Rivers
and the career he had and how much funny he
was and his trash talking and boy him coming back.
Because we're going back in time, you feel five years
younger because Philip Rivers is still playing quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
It's fun. It's when you walk in the mall and
you're walking by the kiosk which are all filled up
now at holiday time, and you see the guy flying
the helicopter.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Oh yeah, helicopter.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah yeah, it's you know, and you stop and you
watch and you go, man, that'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I always swat it down like I'm king came, No, I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Just whether you have a kid with you and say
it looks like it's fun. It's fun for about five minutes,
and then eventually it's gonna crash your.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Kid into a glass something and something's.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Gonna break and you're never able to use it again,
and it's done right. It's fun for five minutes and
then okay, we're moving on. This is a story that's
fun for five minutes. It's fun to think about and
and and romanticize. But the reality, my good. You talk
about teams pinning their ears back and going. Because Philip
Rivers wasn't wasn't real mobile when he was younger, think
about what it's gonna be now when he's forty four.
(25:23):
He might take the snap twelve yards deep in the shotgun.
Lan's right, I gotta I gotta take it this deep,
So I snap it like we're punting. Yes, yes, but
I'm gonna throw it from here so we're all good.
Don't want a bad move. If it worked, I couldn't
fall a fault the strategy. Yeah, to your point, I
I truly do. Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I just enjoyed the theater of more than anything else.
Just that this is an option, But like what else
is out there? Like in terms of side who's available?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well, you got you got guys on practice squads that
have been in the game for a little bit that
you can find. Hey, what offense? Uh do they run?
That's close to the run. There's you know, there's some thing, man, right,
I mean, Brett Rippen's on me on the practice squad.
He started games in the NFL before, like you know,
and more recently. Not that I'd be that excited about
Brett Rippon, but still I got it. You know, you
have guys out there. That's fine, you know, I mean
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you this is not gonna get the Nate Looking at
the back of Philip Rivers football card doesn't make this
a great story. Boy. If they're getting this Philip right right,
because I can't wait to see that. If the cults
are getting this Philip Rivers, watch out rest of the AFC,
And here's a highlight, like from twenty fourteen of Rivers
just slinging it down the field to Keenan Allen, who's
twenty one. Hey, we're great, man, we're feeling awesome.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
That's not so we can do it in AI. That'd
be kind of fun. Stats for days. No, you got enough.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You got enough great real life Philip Rivers highlights. You
can get that it's not enough. Your timeline is just
is flooded with all the great trash talking that he's
done again. Fun for five minutes, and they go get
Bailey's appy fun for five minutes. Yeah, anybody, Hey, you
get anybody who want to that started games? Okay? Because
the thing is you have pretty good weapons on this team,
like the the The sunny side up part for the
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Colts is that hey, yes, and again I feel bad
now because now my whole you know, hopefully you got
paid out if you took my advice about the Colts
being the dark horse super Bowl team because now the day.
But the fact that Daniel Jones came in when nobody
thought he was any good and he was a backup quarterback,
and I told you he can come in. He can
do pretty well in this offense. They have a lot
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of playmakers. There's some guys out there that I think
can make some place for you that you can bring
in because you still have pretty good guys to throw to, right, Like,
it's not the same. It's not the same as it
was a year and a half ago, where you're your
pecking order was, Hey, Michael Pittman's your a Josh Downs
is your up and coming next great wide receiver. Alec
Pierce is your deep threat, right Okay, now it's okay.
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It's a little bit different where Alec Pearce has come
up the depth chart a bit and maybe he's more
of your go to guy explosive, but he got more
and as your tight end and he's become one of
the best tight ends in the NFL as a rookie. Right, Still,
Pittman still have downs, There are still guys to catch passes,
but you have weapons. So it's just you know, a
warm body that's throwing the football with the young, quick
twitch muscles. That's still a better case than going to
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a guy in forty four. I mean, come on, man,
what's next? Vinie testaverdy Vinnie sixty?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Bet he can still sling it.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh, No one throws a pretty er deep ball than
Vintie Testa.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Final four games for the Indianapolis Colts at Seattle, Oh,
good luck.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Pigna Pinata, whoever that is.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Richard Sherman will come out of retirement just to play
in that game home against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
The Jacksonville Jaguars come out of retirement just to play
in that.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Jaguars, who are twelve and a half point favorites against
your Jets this week, and then you finish the season
against the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Oh oh my, oh, please.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Tell you what I'll come back to weeks fifteen through seventeen.
I'm taking the eighteen now, please no, please not please
the I mean see part of me. I don't want
to see it, but I really want to see that
the pinata effect there. No, I don't need to see that.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
It's gonna every play is gonna be like remember necessary roughness.
They lined up for the first play, right, they were
scrimmaging against the everybody from the prison and it was
you know, Evander Holyfield and Dick Buckis and Jim Kelly
and all that. And the first play the ball was
snapped and everybody defense just tackled the guy on offense
and beat.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
The crash out of beat him up.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That would be every play of the Texans Colts if
Philip Rivers is playing in that game. Evander Holyfield says, God,
that a feel so good. I think I swallowed a finger.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
How long can you keep? Will Anderson? What's the number
of snaps before the first sack?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
It prop that week you get in on. I don't know,
but the first play of the game is a sack.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Can he do the Peyton manning those choice where he
pressed the bottom and their legs fall down so they
can avoid the hit. Has Philip Rivers figured out how
to do that move?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I mean, it's it sounds great, it sounds awesome. It's
just the reality is not going to be what you
think it is.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
It's not gonna.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Could you get Cincinnati to send Joe Flacco back? I mean,
did you release me so i'd go play for them again?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
If the Texans and cults, I don't know if I
really want to see that or if I have no
desire to see it.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Oh, I'm in week eighteen. Oh give me a lot
of teams that are not motivated. Whereas the Houston Texans right.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Now, let's go if Shane Steichen would be holding his
breath every place, every single theater though, Philip Rivers go, Wow,
these guys are a lot faster than norf where'd that
truck come from? Exit out? About a Fresca exit swollen dome?
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live in the Fox Sports Radio studios,
Philip Rivers stay retired man can't preserve that memory that
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we all have of.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Now I want to find a full list of the
practice squad quarterbacks because this could be fun time.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Not to find out what's trending in the wide world sports.
From CP three Chris Purfett, Chris, what do you got
for us?
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Man?
Speaker 7 (30:44):
You know John Kittna is like coaching high school football
right now we can see what he's up to.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That's a close one, Philip Rivers, John Kittna.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
That's close, only separated by I think about eight years,
nine years.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Jake Plummer. Maybe Jake Plummer, he may be still be
in shape. Why not smoking? Jay Cutler, let's go, oh
Jay Cutler. Yeah, now you got me thinking my car
and that's good gas.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
That's all right.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Let's recap what happened in uh Monday night football.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Here.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
Chargers take down the Eagles twenty two to nineteen in overtime.
Four interceptions by Jalen Hurts in this game, the final
one a pick by Tony Jefferson, ceialing the game for
the Chargers winning score coming off a Cameron Dicker fifty
four yard field goal. Eagles fall to eight and five
and have lost three straight while the Chargers improved in
nine and four and the Chiefs are really struggling if
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they want to keep their dreams alive. But the biggest
stat from this game, guys, the Eagles are now ohen
one with a positivity rabbit installed.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Sure, we did talk about the positivity rabbit.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
Yes, work here. It didn't work here now. Maybe it
needs time to charge up.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Hmm.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Interesting, or maybe it's not Easter yet. It does say
Happy Easter. He'sman finalists. We're announced on Monday, Notre Dame
and the field is Notre Dame. Running back Jeremiah I Love,
Indiana's quarterback for Vando Mendoza, Vanderbilts, Diego Pavia, Ohio State
quarterback Julian saying we will decide the winner on Saturday. Earlier,
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Terry Rozier pled not guilty to federal charges of wire
fraud and money laundering stemming from his alleged role in
helping friends with cooking bets on his performance in NBA games.
Orlando Magic's Desmond Baine has been fined thirty five thousand
dollars for throwing a ball at Knick's Ford og Ananobi
on Sunday in an unsportsmanlike manner. I guess you can
call that unsportsman like when you just punted at it
(32:35):
like a volleyball. NBA scoreboard. Pacers defeat the King on
the King's one sixteen one oh five. Spurs power pass
the Pelicans one thirty five, one thirty two. Sons take
down the Timberwolves one oh eight to one oh five.
Back to Jason Smith and Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Thank you very much, Chris.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Coming up next, two absolute heroes from Monday Night football.
One you're gonna understand, the other is gonna stun you.
It's next right here, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Okay, okay, I get it, but we we gotta have
the holiday mashups.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
This is a holidays off.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
No, Hallelujah kind of gets lumped in as as a
potential holiday how holiday holiday?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Hallelujah is not a holiday song.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
It is.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, it's not just because they say hallelujah. Listen to
the lyrics.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Listen matter lyrics.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I mean that's a holiday lyrics. Is that not a
holiday when this happens.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yes, oh, is the only thing you ever learned is
how to shoot somebody who outdrew you. One thing I've
learned that.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Is not John Cena.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
That is a magic Johnson tweet a Fox Sports Radio
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harbon Live from the
Fox Sports Jason, do you know a lot of these
mashups haven't had any Christmas lyrics?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, but you've had some that at least have had
Christmas music that is a Christmas song. Hallelujah, hellly is
not a Christmas song? What it's not a Christmas song?
Then diehards on a Christmas movie? No diary takes place
at christ. No, that doesn't Hallelujah's played during Christmas time. No,
it's not not of Hallelujah. Well, that one's played three
six Cohen's Hallelujah. Christmas is hall big religious holiday for
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a lot of people, just like Hanukah also for religious people.
Is Hallelujah is played during Christmas time? Cohen's Hallelujah, it's
a Christmas song. Christmas song? Here it is, ai says No,
Leonard Cohens, Hallelujah is not a Christmas song. It's about faith,
love and loss with religious imagery woven into its verses.
(34:45):
Tell Tay Shirt, he's full of crap. But at the
holiday holiday holidays, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
You gather around you think of people that you love
and have lost, and you remember them.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Right, you put up the pictures. It talks about love
and sex and failure and brokenness.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
That's not that's humanity. That's the holidays and nuts show.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Did you just trust ai? You learned nothing that is
not John Cena. I'll there you trust the hive, Carol.
We are John Cena. And a few things we want
to tell you. Uh so hey for positivity Monday. Here
couple of things, all right, two players who were absolute
heroes tonight Monday Night football. The Charges went it over
the Eagles twenty two to nineteen. We gave you the
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Eagle side of things a little while ago. Justin Herbert
tonight did not have a great night. Throwing the football
right twelve out of twenty six, a buck thirty nine
a touchdown in the pick. He was sacked seven times,
turned the ball over, fumbled, did run for sixty six yards.
This is a game where I don't care about the
stats because Justin Herbert was the guy that willed this
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team to victory. He got hit on every single play.
The Eagles, they they were they were running and whooping
it up after every play because they hit him every
single time he threw the football. He ran with the football,
and somehow Herbert's able to get them down enough point.
This is one of those nights where it doesn't matter.
(36:08):
There's two columns, a win column, a lost column. Doesn't
matter that you're only twelve out of twenty six for
a buck thirty nine. You got them down, you won
the game, and you got hit every single play. Right.
We'll get to the Chargers side of their imagery and
identity next hour, but this is a tough slog for
the Chargers. No Rashwan Slater, no Joe Alt, who may
(36:29):
wind up being the real MVP of the NFL. This
is what it is for Justin Herbert every single week.
And it doesn't matter because they're nine and four and
they're making noise, and they're making noise. Potentially they still
have an outside shot at the division title, but they're
a big time playoff team. Justin Herbert was outstanding tonight
because one of the things is a quarterback, you do
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what you have to do to win, and all those
hits he took. Man, that ice bath is gonna feel great.
But man, was he something tonight.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I mean you saw the overload and every time he
had a route to escape and over pursuit by the
defensive line, he slipped straight through and made big plays
got to the sideline. There were a couple of anxious
moments we were watching as as a group during one
of the commercial breaks and looking at it, He's like,
you get there, oh, and the guy pulled up. Otherwise
I think it was Cooper Dejeene who could have absolutely
(37:19):
obliterated him and Knockett it tomorrow Rock and instead save
Philadelphia instead let him get out of bounds. But coming
into the night, he had one fewer pressure for the
year than cam Ward. He was coming off a hands surgery.
There were times where it's like, can he even get
a snap from under center? And we talk about the
(37:41):
hits that he's taken over the course of the year.
With those two bookends, Slater and Alt being out, you
get a Hampton back, you got Videll, and you're you're
expecting more of the run game. Instead, the most effective
runner became a Herbert you know, they did a good job.
You know, the aforementioned degene on Lad McConkie did a
great job of neutralizing him over the course of the
(38:01):
night on a couple of balls that they tried to
hit down field. He was up to the task. But
the toughness quotient man, because that was when we talked
about Philip Rivers just a few minutes ago. That was
the one thing about him, right, He kept getting back
up immobile, never part of his game, but he played.
And that's where justin Herbert, you want to talk about
growing your own legend.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Was it a pretty game? No, But it's a w the.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Other guy, And it feels weird to talk about how
tough he was of doing all of this. But we're
going to talk about a kicker, uh, Cameron Dicker. Five
field goals tonight, right, the last one from over fifty
yards and it's enough for the Chargers to win. He's
your number one kicker in fantasy. He's been one of
the best kickers in the NFL the last four years.
But this is something and I can't well, I couldn't
(38:45):
believe this stat when it came out tonight, Like we
don't want to kill you with a lot of stats,
but once in a while when something comes up, Hey,
I want to throw this out the next day with
my friends. Yeah, take this, especially stats about kickers after
tonight Cameron Dicker ninety nine, oh sorry, one hundred out
of one hundred and two in his career field goals
(39:05):
under fifty yards, not under forty yards, not thirty five,
one hundred out of one hundred and two inside of
fifty yards. The guys as automatic as can be from
inside of fifty and oh, by the way, pretty good
from over fifty.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Ye, he's five of six on right.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I mean, you talk about a guy taking the mantles
the next great kicker in the NFL, Like, who's that
guy there? Look, we're we've never been in a better
time now for kickers than we are now. Overall, the
top of the kicker list is just insane. But one
hundred out of one he's missed two field goals from
inside of fifty yards in his entire career. I don't
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know that there's a better, more impressive stat for kickers
than that. I really don't know if there's something more
impressive than one hundred out of one oh two in
your career inside of fifty.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It's better than most guys on their pats. All right,
you're talking around a guy.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Fir his career.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
He's at ninety four plus per Yeah, after tonight's game.
I mean it just insane level of accuracy, including that
acumen beyond fifty yards, like he knows his distance and
something that they've figured out. All right, here's the threshold
and worked accordingly.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
He comes on.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
It's automatic exit up out of Fresca, exit swollen down
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
We have more NFL on the way. You'll hear from
Nick Sirianni meeting the media right now following Jalen Hurts
his four interception night, but coming up next. It was
twenty four hours ago this team was the darling of
(40:36):
the entire football world. Everybody felt bad for them, was sympathetic.
Twenty four hours later, they're the biggest villains in the sport.
How did that happen? We'll tell you next Fox
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you like turnovers and big plays and field goals, Monday
Night was your night. The Chargers beat the Eagles twenty
two to nineteen. LA improves to nine and four, Philadelphia
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drops to eight and five. Jalen Hurts is intercepted for
the fourth time of the night, a ball he tried
to sneak in to Dotson that was better left, not thrown.
And the Eagles go down to defeat, and now you're
wondering can they even hold on to the NFC East?
Now Dallas is going, Man, if we had just able
(01:34):
to win, if we get a beaten Detroit, but there's
still a lot. You're talking about four games left, man,
and the Eagles are just completely on vapors now, and
it's tough to watch the defending champs, who have such
a talented roster go the way they're going. But luckily,
Mike Harmon, I can solve all the eagles problems right now.
(01:57):
You can solve their problems.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes, you are the figurative Jeff Goldbloom in this situation.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
We're off to see the Wizard. Oh, either gonna say
like Life finds Away like Jurassic Park. Oh, we can
do that too, Life finds Away.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
He was he might have actually been construed as a
good guy at a grand scale.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
There, all right, right, let me go otherwise, I you know,
I don't know. Let me go back to the fly
where he was a good guy and a bad guy.
There you go, brundle sides of the Brundle fly fuses
with pod. Oh no, that was kind of like if
Harvey Kaitel was a dinosaur and he was mad.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I'm sorry, I hurts to his teammates. Let through so
many bad pics.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Now sorry, How can I solve the Eagles problems? Welcome
to the Miami Dolphins. Wait what trading with the Dolphins?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
No, no, no, no, no no. The Dolphins hold the
key to what the Eagles need to do. Right. Dolphins.
Yesterday they thumped the Jets right, a game in which
the Jets clearly weren't ready. I don't know if they
practiced all week. It's twenty one to nothing midway through
the first quarter, and suddenly CBS is running the stats.
(03:12):
When's the last time a team was up this big?
The team scored twenty eight points in the first quarter.
It was absolutely a blow Again. I don't feel like
the Jets knew anything that the Dolphins were trying to do.
And all the Dolphins did was just give the ball
to Devon eight Chan and right a little bit of
Oli Gordon later on, and they just ran the ball
(03:33):
and ran over the Jets. That's all they did was
run the football. I saw the stop.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
He's already dead. Guy way too. Oh yeah, it was
really early too. I'm like, wait, yeah, eight minutes to
go in the first quarter. Game was over, right, But
this is about the Dolphins. The Dolphins who started out
one and six, it was over. McDaniel was getting fired
to it was going to be on a new team.
It was about as bad as it could be for
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Miami because everything was coming apart. It was going to
be a new regime in next year. Everything was going
to be new. Now what's Miami done? Now they're six
and seven, all right, they have figured out a way
back into the back end of the playoff chase. Now
they've won four in a row and five out of six. Okay,
(04:21):
what have they done?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
They did exactly what the Eagles need to do. And
it's a tough decision because you know, the Dolphins is
kind of easy because look, we're terrible in one and six,
Eagles are the champs. The Dolphins went from we were
a high octane offense with Waddle and Tyreek Hill and Tua.
We still believe in Tua even though you know they don't. Yeah,
Johnny Smith.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
With eighty eighth.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, once upon a time, you know, and we have
you know, and a Chan is a great running back
and we can you know, he's part of what we
have going on. But we are going to be a
high octane offense going up and down the field. Well
what happened. Tyreek Kill got hurt, and Mike McDaniel, I
give I give the guy credit because now not only
he saved his career at Miami, he saved two his
career in Miami, he saved their season. He decided we
(05:08):
need to change who we are. We're not gonna win
that way, because they weren't going to win that way anyway.
Before Tyreek Hill got hurt, you could see two of
the Dolphins got figured out as good as they were
fifteen months ago, they got figured out we need to
become a run first football team. And for a Miami
Dolphin team, that the leg you know, their hallmark has
(05:29):
always been we're throwing the football, right, no matter what
kind of situation, whatever kind of team they have, they're
always a team that throws the football. No, we are
going to become a ball control team. We have the
horses offensively to do this. And two was going to
become a game manager and he can still make plays
once in a while, which he did right. He made
the big throw for a touchdown in the first quarter yesterday,
(05:50):
made a couple of throws at Jalen Waddle. But this
was a Dolphins team that ran for two hundred and
eighty yards and eight chan before he left. He could
have gone back in the game, but McDaniel said there
was no reason to because you have to worry about it.
If we were running all over the Jets, didn't matter
who was running with us. Ricky Williams could have been
running the football. He's fifty years old, and we would
have been able to have this kind of success against
the Jets. That's all we did, right, Jalen Wrights, you're
(06:11):
leading Rushia. Yesterday he didn't get a carry until the
second quarter, ran for one hundred yards. Right, He had
eight chan for ninety two you had. Gordon had seventeen
in a touchdown. This is what the Dolphins did. They
turned themselves into a ball control. We're going to run
the football first, and we're taking our identity and we're
changing it and we're changing from the throw first team
(06:31):
that we are to this hey pinball team. We're gonna
light at the scoreboard and look what it's done. The
Dolphins now have fought their way back in the back
end of contention. Right, they're six and seven. The Eagles
need to do the exact same sixty seven six seven
six seven, right, six seven had to do it, and
now the Eagles need to do the same thing. We
talked about this earlier in the show What's Been, but
(06:53):
for a different reason. The Eagles coming into this year,
you knew it wasn't going to be a Saquon Barkley
heavy year for most part because Barkley, with all the
carries coming off last year, you just don't have the
same kind of year. And Barkley has not been that guy.
The Eagles have tried for a long time to try
to say, Okay, Jalen Hurts is gonna solve our problems.
We are gonna throw the football up and down the field.
(07:14):
We have the guys to do it, right. God, it's
a great tight end. We're gonna get aj Brown on track,
DeVante Smith is a great weapon. We're gonna find a
way to do it. Man, I don't care what. We
are gonna find a way to do it. And after
all these weeks into week thirteen, they still can't do
it right. Different reports about how much Jalen Hurts is
liked or not liked on the team, how much they
(07:36):
don't like or don't like, like or don't like each other,
how much they like or don't like Nick Sirianni, whatever
control Nick Sirianni has with the team, with the with
the offense when they throw the football, maybe or maybe not,
Jalen Hurts is changing plays and and going rogue. We
had that report a couple of weeks ago. However, you
want to shake it, shake it up. Going Jalen Hurts
(07:58):
driven is not working. They tried to make it work
because you thought you had to. Well, he's our quarterback,
we're paying him, He's won a super Bowl. Now this
is he is. He is that good. But it's not working.
They give plenty of chances to do it. You have
to get back to being Saquon Barkley driven. Now It's okay, Saquon.
We haven't had the same kind of workload we gave
you last year because we've been a different team and
(08:18):
we know that you're not that guy. But now that
we're into December, that's who you have to be. That's
who we have to be. They have to be Saquon
Barkley driven. And what did they do tonight? They gave
the ball to Saquon Barkley a lot, had the big
touchdown run. If you're Saquon Barkley driven, I can buy
back in on the on the Eagles because their roster
is just that talented. The rest of the offense and defensively.
(08:40):
If they can become more of a team like the
Dolphins where it Hurtz becomes a game manager, and you're
Saquon Barkley driven, then I can believe in you because
I know I've seen Barkley do it. And after having
not and after having a first twelve or thirteen weeks
where not as many carries, you're as fresh as you're
gonna be at this point, and Barkley running up and
(09:00):
down the sideline after that big fifty yard touchdown run. Okay,
let's be Saquon Barkley driven. What did the Eagles not
do in the rest of the fourth court in overtime?
Give the ball to Saquon Barkley and what happened? You
have Jalen Hurts coming off a no touchdown for interception
performance and Saquon Barkley running for one hundred yards the
big go ahead touchdown. If this doesn't tell you we
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have to change our philosophy and change who we are,
nothing else does. No scores, four picks for Jalen Hurts,
one hundred yards and a touchdown for Barkley. If they
are Barkley driven the rest of the way, I will
buy back in on the Eagles. I will get back
into them being a team that can cause damage in
the playoffs because there's no great team anywhere, not in
the NFC, not in the AFC. I will buy back in.
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But this is the game that shows you they have
to do it, because you see, Hey, if the Eagles
keep trying to tread this and go on this line
of yeah, we're gonna throw the football a ton and
still try to make it work with Hurts and Brown
and DeVante Smith, you've tried it way too much. It's
not working to be the offense you were last year.
Because Barkley covered a lot of issues last year, covered
a lot of problems with the Eagles. Still had problems
(10:02):
offensively last year, but Barkley running for two thousand yards,
you're able to cover up a lot usually it's the
quarterback that covers up a lot of ills. Barkley coming
in the personality that he was. Everybody loves Saquon Barkley.
It was a great moment in time. Eagles have to
draw back on that formula, and I'll buy back in.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, we've talked a lot about the continuity, consistency, leadership
in the locker room, all of those things with Jay Glazer,
me and Cosell on Sunday Mornings a little bit, and
you and I certainly have tossed this one back and
forth like a medicine ball in a big workout, oftentimes
trying to figure out exactly what we're doing here because
(10:37):
you've had the injuries on the offensive line. Obviously you
lose Jason Kelsey. He's hanging out in the podcast land
with his multi million dollar deal and all, and I'm
sure they wish he was back there as an anchor
and a locker room guy and all of that stuff
to kind of solidify. But we haven't seen the same
explosion off the line by the front five, right, so
(10:58):
we haven't had that. Jalen Hurts is right now in
half his yardage that he had rushing the football last year,
his passing numbers very much in line with what he
put across for a full season and what he played
last year. Last year had eighteen touchdowns against five picks,
basically at that same line at this point. Now he
goes over to the sixth pick with that game sealer.
(11:20):
But we watched them move the ball and actually commit
to say Kwan Barker, because we watched that. Over the
course of the season as well, you had a number
of games where he didn't get to double digit touches.
It hasn't been as active in the passing game, but
certainly from a rushing perspective, they haven't tried to set
up balance. Hell I would have excused it even if
they brought in Tank Bigsby, who they traded for somebody
(11:42):
else had tried to run the ball. But they haven't
even done that. Hurts tonight four carries eight yards. Right,
you're not even.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Using what was a big part that helped make him.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Super a little bit more, especially kind of like we're
watching the diminished versions physically of Lamar Jackson and some
of these other quarterbatch Right, you're seeing more scrambles from
Patrick Mahoons, still seeing the Superman cape come out for
Josh Allen, but for Jalen Hurts, we're not seeing that,
and not even the tush push being utilized to the
same level of effectiveness. Remember the bear stole the ball
(12:14):
from him, but in that final possession, we kept looking
at each other just shrugging our shoulders because he's trying
to push down field. You got that big completion to Smith,
got the big sideline route to Goddard, no calls to
put the ball back in Saquon Barkley's gut. You got
that defense that's been on the field a ton all night,
(12:34):
and you finally have a little bit of an advantage
where you're winning that trench warfare and you don't go
to that instead pushing the ball down the field. Great
play by the defenders, no question about it. But for
the rest of this season, you're looking at a schedule
that's really advantageous for them. Only the Saints and Giants
have lesser quality of opponents. You've got a game against
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the Bills, and week to week we watched them still
a top ten scoring defense, but other issues. And then
you have the Raiders and two games against the whatever's
left to the Commanders.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Right at this point, I don't even know it.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I guess Marcus Mariona comes back, so they'll be winging
the ball around. But it's that that idea of you've
got a terrible team and whatever. You know, however you
want to describe either of those those squads with Buffalo
as your only plus team still on this and you
can still go get it right. It's still theirs for
the taking in terms of the division. But we're at
(13:32):
going into week fifteen and still scratching our heads, going
what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Look, and here's the thing, and here's why you can
do it right. Last year, Barkley three hundred and forty
five carries, okay, three or forty five carries, and he
caught thirty three passes, and then what he had in
the playoffs. Right, it's nearly five hundred touches from Barkley
last year. Okay, he needed some time, you know, you
don't bounce back. Took some time to heal, right, and
you tell you, well, you had to take a lot
of time coming off of that. Five hundred touches is
(13:57):
a lot This season. Right now, with four games left,
he's at one hundred and ninety eight touches, so he
is far behind his pace of last year. So in theory,
he should be fresher. And I gotta tell you tonight,
it didn't look like he was running in mud. It
didn't look like he was someone who he looked like.
He looked like a guy that Okay. Now at Saquon
Barkley time, when he had that fifty two yard touchdown run.
(14:19):
He splits the defense and goes through and then he's
on the side. Look, you could del that was the
moment where the Eagle said, hey, wait a minute, Saquon
Barkley is back. He's our guy. Now he's had a
lot less carry. You look at his numbers week to week.
This is where he should be. Fresh Right, We're into
early part of December and there's you know, we have
four games left and the divisions there for you. It's
(14:39):
an easy It's honestly, I think it's an easy call
to make. I mean, really, it's an easy call to make.
And the because the Eagles live in dysfunction. Man, it's
of course, Hey, Jalen, you're gonna be a game manager now,
Saquan Gohdrena, you're gonna get twenty five carries a game. Now,
it's been that we're gonna win games. Now, We're gonna
control the football, We're gonna limit our turnovers. This is
what we're gonna do, right, Like, I mean, I think
(14:59):
it's a pretty easy decision to.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Make defenses against the run. Let's see, Commanders are twenty ninth,
the Bills are twenty eighth.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Raiders you can do whatever you want on them. So
it's a little balance.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
That could be a forfeit though, I mean maybe I
have thought, chuh, that could be a forfeit.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Maybe you kick a field goal late. I don't know,
and Raider fans get.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Mad, Well, you forfeit. I think you win two nothing, right, Yeah,
you can look at that score of ten years now,
going wow, what a game that would have been safety
to nothing. Wow, what the defense must't have been awesome?
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are we about to see the return of a future
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Hall of Fame quarterback four years after he last played
in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
He's got it, said, Hall of Fame. I love it,
tall Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Oh he is at the college Hall of Fame. Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Okay, sure, but he's already okay, in the Pro Football
of Fame. Is he about all right?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
All right?
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You saw some very disrupting things there, Caro. Uh So again,
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Speaker 3 (18:20):
I should probably start watching that instead of all the
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Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yes, Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Mike Harmon we
got more from Monday Night Football coming up in a bit,
but a headline that I gotta say, I like to
think that I can see things coming, you know, certain
things in the world of sports. You can see him
coming right Like like I could see Skip Bayless trying
(18:47):
to get back together with Stephen A.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Smith.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I can see that, I would. I can see that right, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Can see that.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Hey days yelling. I got a lot of more certain
flexing and everything.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I can see certain things I did. I did not
see that due to the Colts quarterback Saga Daniel Jones,
you know, tearing his achilles yesterday. He's out for the year.
Riley Leonard, rookie out of Notre Dame coming in injuring
his knee. He is now week to week. I did
not see that. Tomorrow, the Indianapolis Colts are going to
(19:19):
bring in Philip Rivers to get a workout, not really
a try, but just to work out to see where
he's at. He hasn't played in the NFL since twenty twenty. Now,
he did finish with the Colts that year. With the Colts,
they've not yet decided whether to sign Philip Rivers, and
he hasn't determined whether or not he wants to play.
But according to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Philip Rivers Happy birthday,
(19:42):
Philip Rivers. Forty four today, Philip Rivers. He's gonna come
in and work out now he's familiar with the system.
He could, in theory, be a guy who slides right
in because he knows Shane Steiken's system. This is one
of those stories. The idea of it, I think, is
(20:04):
a hell of a lot better than the actual product
you would see on the field. I mean, Rivers was
a great quarterback, and he was even a little bit
better than I thought he was in twenty twenty. But
you could tell at the end of twenty twenty he
was done. Right, he was done. Now four years away,
your body hasn't gone through the pounding. You can still
throw the football, Rivers is if Rivers is going in
(20:26):
to get a workout with the Colts, obviously has kept
himself in shape, can still throw the football right.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
He's off coaching. F he's like a human jugs gun
for that. Saint Michael Catholic High School, thirteen and one
state semifinalist.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That oh, that's great. That's great. When you're forty four
and you're coaching. Yeah, you're in your prime, man, You're
starting good. You're starting your coaching prime. I really, I
really would worry about him, about the Colts, about his legacy,
about everything, if he went back out there to play.
I mean again, at the end, he looked like someone
(21:00):
who was near the end. Right, I can't tell you
where is his arm now? He had a tough enough time,
you know, showing arm strength, you know, five years ago.
I mean you talk the guy played in twenty twenty
Man twenty twenty. Yes, he was there. It sounds like
a great headline, and there would be a I would
want to watch, just like kind of when you have
(21:20):
two hands over your eyes you're watching a horror movie,
but you're kind of peeking through because you want to
see what's happening. Uh. Yeah, I don't think it's gonna
go well for Philip Rivers. I really don't, man. I mean,
you've been away from the game a long time. Look
at guys that are away from the game, that are
in their twenties for a year, and now they come
back and they're able to do it. They look like
they've been away from the game for a decade. Right,
(21:41):
Deshaun Watson was away from here. He's still never made
it back, right, I mean this is and Rivers is
now in his forties, four years away, dude, father Time.
There's not many tenants in sports where you can say, yeah, blanketly,
father Time is undefeated forty four coming off of this.
I hope that this is just one of those things where, hey,
it sounds kind of fun and in the end, cooler
(22:04):
heads prevail, because I don't know how this works out.
You can find somebody to hand the ball off to
Jonathan Taylor, you know, thirty eight times a game and
just throw the football couple of times. I understand the
allure of this, but while the reality on the field,
I think that's gonna be a different story.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, this will be a curiosity, certainly. I always celebrate
when guys are a bit older, even the antics of
a Lebron James, the final throes of Tom Brady, Aaron
Rodgers where he's at now in Matthew Stafford, different levels
of brilliant success and odd moments along the way. For
Philip Rivers, he was one of a long line of
(22:46):
guys who became the the stop gap. They fit the
suit veteran quarterback for the Colts after Andrew Luck abruptly
walked away. Right now, GM of Yours, Stanford Cardinal. But
for Philip Rivers, you go back to his final year,
twenty four touchdowns, eleven picks, air yards were actually higher
(23:08):
than four or five of his final years with the Chargers,
and he hasn't been thrown as much. I mean, maybe
there's some magic left in that arm. There must have
been some magic well, and you can do that.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It is Christmas. It's Christmas, a time of miracles.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
But I mean, look at it.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Five to seven step down, it's not like you're worried
about For Daniel Jones, what happened. He couldn't he couldn't move,
and then he had the broken leg and now he's done.
And that was sad to watch. It was really sad
to see that that end. Very cool that he was
back out on the sideline trying to rally his guys
and talk to them up and see if he couldn't
get them together for the back half of that game
while Riley Leonard was out there. But for Philip Rivers,
(23:48):
it's not like mobility was every hell. That guy didn't
even do quarterback sneaks. Forget about tush pushes. He didn't
even do a quarterback sneak when he was there. So
I don't need his mobility. I just need to know
his shoulders got one hundred and fifty three.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, that's what I mean. Like it's it sounds great
and that you know, you know like that this is
this is a story.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It's a Christmas miracle, Caryl Brady getting her voice back
when she needed to sing in church.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
So call me when you hit the last lock. I
call this story. This is fun for five minutes, right,
It's fun for five minutes to think about Philip Rivers
and the career he had and how much funny he
was and his trash talking and boy him coming back.
Because we're going back in time, you feel five years
younger because Philip Rivers is still playing quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
It's fun. It's when you walk in the mall and
you're walking by the kiosk which are all filled up
now at holiday time, and you see the guy flying
the helicopter.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Oh yeah, helicopter.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah yeah, it's you know, and you stop and you
watch and you go, man, that'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I always swat it down like I'm king came, No, I'm.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Just whether you have a kid with you and say
it looks like it's fun. It's fun for about five minutes,
and then eventually it's gonna crash your.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Kid into a glass something and something's.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Gonna break and you're never able to use it again,
and it's done right. It's fun for five minutes and
then okay, we're moving on. This is a story that's
fun for five minutes. It's fun to think about and
and and romanticize. But the reality, my good. You talk
about teams pinning their ears back and going. Because Philip
Rivers wasn't wasn't real mobile when he was younger, think
about what it's gonna be now when he's forty four.
(25:23):
He might take the snap twelve yards deep in the shotgun.
Lan's right, I gotta I gotta take it this deep,
So I snap it like we're punting. Yes, yes, but
I'm gonna throw it from here so we're all good.
Don't want a bad move. If it worked, I couldn't
fall a fault the strategy. Yeah, to your point, I
I truly do. Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I just enjoyed the theater of more than anything else.
Just that this is an option, But like what else
is out there? Like in terms of side who's available?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well, you got you got guys on practice squads that
have been in the game for a little bit that
you can find. Hey, what offense? Uh do they run?
That's close to the run. There's you know, there's some thing, man, right,
I mean, Brett Rippen's on me on the practice squad.
He started games in the NFL before, like you know,
and more recently. Not that I'd be that excited about
Brett Rippon, but still I got it. You know, you
have guys out there. That's fine, you know, I mean
(26:13):
you this is not gonna get the Nate Looking at
the back of Philip Rivers football card doesn't make this
a great story. Boy. If they're getting this Philip right right,
because I can't wait to see that. If the cults
are getting this Philip Rivers, watch out rest of the AFC,
And here's a highlight, like from twenty fourteen of Rivers
just slinging it down the field to Keenan Allen, who's
twenty one. Hey, we're great, man, we're feeling awesome.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
That's not so we can do it in AI. That'd
be kind of fun. Stats for days. No, you got enough.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You got enough great real life Philip Rivers highlights. You
can get that it's not enough. Your timeline is just
is flooded with all the great trash talking that he's
done again. Fun for five minutes, and they go get
Bailey's appy fun for five minutes. Yeah, anybody, Hey, you
get anybody who want to that started games? Okay? Because
the thing is you have pretty good weapons on this team,
like the the The sunny side up part for the
(27:02):
Colts is that hey, yes, and again I feel bad
now because now my whole you know, hopefully you got
paid out if you took my advice about the Colts
being the dark horse super Bowl team because now the day.
But the fact that Daniel Jones came in when nobody
thought he was any good and he was a backup quarterback,
and I told you he can come in. He can
do pretty well in this offense. They have a lot
(27:23):
of playmakers. There's some guys out there that I think
can make some place for you that you can bring
in because you still have pretty good guys to throw to, right, Like,
it's not the same. It's not the same as it
was a year and a half ago, where you're your
pecking order was, Hey, Michael Pittman's your a Josh Downs
is your up and coming next great wide receiver. Alec
Pierce is your deep threat, right Okay, now it's okay.
(27:44):
It's a little bit different where Alec Pearce has come
up the depth chart a bit and maybe he's more
of your go to guy explosive, but he got more
and as your tight end and he's become one of
the best tight ends in the NFL as a rookie. Right, Still,
Pittman still have downs, There are still guys to catch passes,
but you have weapons. So it's just you know, a
warm body that's throwing the football with the young, quick
twitch muscles. That's still a better case than going to
(28:06):
a guy in forty four. I mean, come on, man,
what's next? Vinie testaverdy Vinnie sixty?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Bet he can still sling it.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Oh, No one throws a pretty er deep ball than
Vintie Testa.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Final four games for the Indianapolis Colts at Seattle, Oh,
good luck.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Pigna Pinata, whoever that is.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Richard Sherman will come out of retirement just to play
in that game home against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
The Jacksonville Jaguars come out of retirement just to play
in that.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Jaguars, who are twelve and a half point favorites against
your Jets this week, and then you finish the season
against the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Oh oh my, oh, please.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Tell you what I'll come back to weeks fifteen through seventeen.
I'm taking the eighteen now, please no, please not please
the I mean see part of me. I don't want
to see it, but I really want to see that
the pinata effect there. No, I don't need to see that.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
It's gonna every play is gonna be like remember necessary roughness.
They lined up for the first play, right, they were
scrimmaging against the everybody from the prison and it was
you know, Evander Holyfield and Dick Buckis and Jim Kelly
and all that. And the first play the ball was
snapped and everybody defense just tackled the guy on offense
and beat.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
The crash out of beat him up.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
That would be every play of the Texans Colts if
Philip Rivers is playing in that game. Evander Holyfield says, God,
that a feel so good. I think I swallowed a finger.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
How long can you keep? Will Anderson? What's the number
of snaps before the first sack?
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
It prop that week you get in on. I don't know,
but the first play of the game is a sack.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Can he do the Peyton manning those choice where he
pressed the bottom and their legs fall down so they
can avoid the hit. Has Philip Rivers figured out how
to do that move?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I mean, it's it sounds great, it sounds awesome. It's
just the reality is not going to be what you
think it is.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
It's not gonna.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Could you get Cincinnati to send Joe Flacco back? I mean,
did you release me so i'd go play for them again?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
If the Texans and cults, I don't know if I
really want to see that or if I have no
desire to see it.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Oh, I'm in week eighteen. Oh give me a lot
of teams that are not motivated. Whereas the Houston Texans right.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Now, let's go if Shane Steichen would be holding his
breath every place, every single theater though, Philip Rivers go, Wow,
these guys are a lot faster than norf where'd that
truck come from? Exit out? About a Fresca exit swollen dome?
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live in the Fox Sports Radio studios,
Philip Rivers stay retired man can't preserve that memory that
(30:33):
we all have of.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Now I want to find a full list of the
practice squad quarterbacks because this could be fun time.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Not to find out what's trending in the wide world sports.
From CP three Chris Purfett, Chris, what do you got
for us?
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Man?
Speaker 7 (30:44):
You know John Kittna is like coaching high school football
right now we can see what he's up to.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That's a close one, Philip Rivers, John Kittna.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
That's close, only separated by I think about eight years,
nine years.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Jake Plummer. Maybe Jake Plummer, he may be still be
in shape. Why not smoking? Jay Cutler, let's go, oh
Jay Cutler. Yeah, now you got me thinking my car
and that's good gas.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
That's all right.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Let's recap what happened in uh Monday night football.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Here.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
Chargers take down the Eagles twenty two to nineteen in overtime.
Four interceptions by Jalen Hurts in this game, the final
one a pick by Tony Jefferson, ceialing the game for
the Chargers winning score coming off a Cameron Dicker fifty
four yard field goal. Eagles fall to eight and five
and have lost three straight while the Chargers improved in
nine and four and the Chiefs are really struggling if
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they want to keep their dreams alive. But the biggest
stat from this game, guys, the Eagles are now ohen
one with a positivity rabbit installed.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Sure, we did talk about the positivity rabbit.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
Yes, work here. It didn't work here now. Maybe it
needs time to charge up.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Hmm.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Interesting, or maybe it's not Easter yet. It does say
Happy Easter. He'sman finalists. We're announced on Monday, Notre Dame
and the field is Notre Dame. Running back Jeremiah I Love,
Indiana's quarterback for Vando Mendoza, Vanderbilts, Diego Pavia, Ohio State
quarterback Julian saying we will decide the winner on Saturday. Earlier,
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Terry Rozier pled not guilty to federal charges of wire
fraud and money laundering stemming from his alleged role in
helping friends with cooking bets on his performance in NBA games.
Orlando Magic's Desmond Baine has been fined thirty five thousand
dollars for throwing a ball at Knick's Ford og Ananobi
on Sunday in an unsportsmanlike manner. I guess you can
call that unsportsman like when you just punted at it
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like a volleyball. NBA scoreboard. Pacers defeat the King on
the King's one sixteen one oh five. Spurs power pass
the Pelicans one thirty five, one thirty two. Sons take
down the Timberwolves one oh eight to one oh five.
Back to Jason Smith and Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Thank you very much, Chris.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Coming up next, two absolute heroes from Monday Night football.
One you're gonna understand, the other is gonna stun you.
It's next right here, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Okay, okay, I get it, but we we gotta have
the holiday mashups.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
This is a holidays off.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
No, Hallelujah kind of gets lumped in as as a
potential holiday how holiday holiday?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Hallelujah is not a holiday song.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
It is.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, it's not just because they say hallelujah. Listen to
the lyrics.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Listen matter lyrics.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
I mean that's a holiday lyrics. Is that not a
holiday when this happens.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Yes, oh, is the only thing you ever learned is
how to shoot somebody who outdrew you. One thing I've
learned that.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Is not John Cena.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
That is a magic Johnson tweet a Fox Sports Radio
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harbon Live from the
Fox Sports Jason, do you know a lot of these
mashups haven't had any Christmas lyrics?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, but you've had some that at least have had
Christmas music that is a Christmas song. Hallelujah, hellly is
not a Christmas song? What it's not a Christmas song?
Then diehards on a Christmas movie? No diary takes place
at christ. No, that doesn't Hallelujah's played during Christmas time. No,
it's not not of Hallelujah. Well, that one's played three
six Cohen's Hallelujah. Christmas is hall big religious holiday for
(34:25):
a lot of people, just like Hanukah also for religious people.
Is Hallelujah is played during Christmas time? Cohen's Hallelujah, it's
a Christmas song. Christmas song? Here it is, ai says No,
Leonard Cohens, Hallelujah is not a Christmas song. It's about faith,
love and loss with religious imagery woven into its verses.
(34:45):
Tell Tay Shirt, he's full of crap. But at the
holiday holiday holidays, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (34:49):
You gather around you think of people that you love
and have lost, and you remember them.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Right, you put up the pictures. It talks about love
and sex and failure and brokenness.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
That's not that's humanity. That's the holidays and nuts show.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Did you just trust ai? You learned nothing that is
not John Cena. I'll there you trust the hive, Carol.
We are John Cena. And a few things we want
to tell you. Uh so hey for positivity Monday. Here
couple of things, all right, two players who were absolute
heroes tonight Monday Night football. The Charges went it over
the Eagles twenty two to nineteen. We gave you the
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Eagle side of things a little while ago. Justin Herbert
tonight did not have a great night. Throwing the football
right twelve out of twenty six, a buck thirty nine
a touchdown in the pick. He was sacked seven times,
turned the ball over, fumbled, did run for sixty six yards.
This is a game where I don't care about the
stats because Justin Herbert was the guy that willed this
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team to victory. He got hit on every single play.
The Eagles, they they were they were running and whooping
it up after every play because they hit him every
single time he threw the football. He ran with the football,
and somehow Herbert's able to get them down enough point.
This is one of those nights where it doesn't matter.
(36:08):
There's two columns, a win column, a lost column. Doesn't
matter that you're only twelve out of twenty six for
a buck thirty nine. You got them down, you won
the game, and you got hit every single play. Right.
We'll get to the Chargers side of their imagery and
identity next hour, but this is a tough slog for
the Chargers. No Rashwan Slater, no Joe Alt, who may
(36:29):
wind up being the real MVP of the NFL. This
is what it is for Justin Herbert every single week.
And it doesn't matter because they're nine and four and
they're making noise, and they're making noise. Potentially they still
have an outside shot at the division title, but they're
a big time playoff team. Justin Herbert was outstanding tonight
because one of the things is a quarterback, you do
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what you have to do to win, and all those
hits he took. Man, that ice bath is gonna feel great.
But man, was he something tonight.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I mean you saw the overload and every time he
had a route to escape and over pursuit by the
defensive line, he slipped straight through and made big plays
got to the sideline. There were a couple of anxious
moments we were watching as as a group during one
of the commercial breaks and looking at it, He's like,
you get there, oh, and the guy pulled up. Otherwise
I think it was Cooper Dejeene who could have absolutely
(37:19):
obliterated him and Knockett it tomorrow Rock and instead save
Philadelphia instead let him get out of bounds. But coming
into the night, he had one fewer pressure for the
year than cam Ward. He was coming off a hands surgery.
There were times where it's like, can he even get
a snap from under center? And we talk about the
(37:41):
hits that he's taken over the course of the year.
With those two bookends, Slater and Alt being out, you
get a Hampton back, you got Videll, and you're you're
expecting more of the run game. Instead, the most effective
runner became a Herbert you know, they did a good job.
You know, the aforementioned degene on Lad McConkie did a
great job of neutralizing him over the course of the
(38:01):
night on a couple of balls that they tried to
hit down field. He was up to the task. But
the toughness quotient man, because that was when we talked
about Philip Rivers just a few minutes ago. That was
the one thing about him, right, He kept getting back
up immobile, never part of his game, but he played.
And that's where justin Herbert, you want to talk about
growing your own legend.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Was it a pretty game? No, But it's a w the.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Other guy, And it feels weird to talk about how
tough he was of doing all of this. But we're
going to talk about a kicker, uh, Cameron Dicker. Five
field goals tonight, right, the last one from over fifty
yards and it's enough for the Chargers to win. He's
your number one kicker in fantasy. He's been one of
the best kickers in the NFL the last four years.
But this is something and I can't well, I couldn't
(38:45):
believe this stat when it came out tonight, Like we
don't want to kill you with a lot of stats,
but once in a while when something comes up, Hey,
I want to throw this out the next day with
my friends. Yeah, take this, especially stats about kickers after
tonight Cameron Dicker ninety nine, oh sorry, one hundred out
of one hundred and two in his career field goals
(39:05):
under fifty yards, not under forty yards, not thirty five,
one hundred out of one hundred and two inside of
fifty yards. The guys as automatic as can be from
inside of fifty and oh, by the way, pretty good
from over fifty.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Ye, he's five of six on right.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
I mean, you talk about a guy taking the mantles
the next great kicker in the NFL, Like, who's that
guy there? Look, we're we've never been in a better
time now for kickers than we are now. Overall, the
top of the kicker list is just insane. But one
hundred out of one he's missed two field goals from
inside of fifty yards in his entire career. I don't
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know that there's a better, more impressive stat for kickers
than that. I really don't know if there's something more
impressive than one hundred out of one oh two in
your career inside of fifty.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It's better than most guys on their pats. All right,
you're talking around a guy.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Fir his career.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
He's at ninety four plus per Yeah, after tonight's game.
I mean it just insane level of accuracy, including that
acumen beyond fifty yards, like he knows his distance and
something that they've figured out. All right, here's the threshold
and worked accordingly.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
He comes on.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
It's automatic exit up out of Fresca, exit swollen down
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
We have more NFL on the way. You'll hear from
Nick Sirianni meeting the media right now following Jalen Hurts
his four interception night, but coming up next. It was
twenty four hours ago this team was the darling of
(40:36):
the entire football world. Everybody felt bad for them, was sympathetic.
Twenty four hours later, they're the biggest villains in the sport.
How did that happen? We'll tell you next Fox
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