May 8, 2025 • 40 mins
New York Knicks Insider John Schmeelk joins the knuckleheads to recap the Knicks stealing another game against the Celtics. Did Jokic fouled out on purpose? The guys react to the Steelers trading George Pickens to the Cowboys. And Jason gives his PR advice to Tom Brady!
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we are hoping against hope that maybe Denver can start
getting some MTV rockin jock points, because if that doesn't happen,
the home team is going to win its first playoff
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game of the second round, the Nuggets trail the Thunder
one to ninety four with about four and a half
left to go. Nikola Yukich, I'm pretty sure foul out
of this game on purpose. I didn't want to play
the last ten minutes. So now the Nuggets will take
this one game split and head back home.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
How disgusting.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The big game of the night and the story of
the NBA Playoffs is just two words.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It's go New York and then it's go New York,
Go New York, Go New York.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Go.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Second straight game, mccal bridges snatches the ball away from
a Celtic star to go up two games to none
in the second round of the playoffs. With us now
in the hotline, I think the only man who can
match my Knick's energy. Nick's insider Giants insider in New
York John Schmilk, longtime friend of the show. He is
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on Twitter at smelk. What's happening?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Man?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You bounce off the walls like me.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
We are the New York Nick.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
This is my nightmare.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Celebration.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You know when I when I texted you like an
hour and a half ago, say hey, you want to
come on at nine o'clock right away said yes, got it,
I'm up.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
I'll be up. I'm ready, I'm up. Let's go Smith,
come on.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No New York.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
An hour and a half ago and I would have said, yes, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Man, Well I did say one thing we started the show.
I said, Okay, the one thing I really need to do,
I got apologize to the cal Bridges.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Okay, these last.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Whatever, whatever disappointment he has been offensively throughout the season
and into the playoffs. Okay, I'll give another five first
round picks for him. After the plays he's made the
last couple of games.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Yeah, I was just you know, don't watch in the
first three quarters of these games, and I think you
will even be happier. It's amazing. Like I'm like monitoring
Nick fans like on social media, and like they're like, oh,
Calton Nets, give him more picks. They didn't take enough picks.
And then talking about a player that shot six and
eighteen from the field and had zero points heading into
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the fourth quarter. That's talent saved. This is It's crazy
the guys. May I think now in the playoffs, three
game closing defensive plays like Brunt is the clutch player
of the year. Because of his offense, Bridges has been
the Cutch defensive player of this postseason. He's been unbelievable
in the biggest spot. And then you know, somehow with
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Brunson on the bench, he starts to come back in
the fourth quarter. It was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yeah, I've been trying to deal with Smith's relentless enthusiasm
all night, Jock, as you go through it by look
not aesthetically pleasing.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But we watched the squad and you're trying to.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Quantify it, right, no, no, no, but but you're down twenty
points and it's.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Like, I don't know what the is that?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
What has happened to flip the switch and play reasonably
good basketball? I mean, it wasn't exceptional basketball, but it
was far better than what the Celtics put out for
the final Stanza.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I think.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
If you want to describe Anick play a basketball even
going back to the nineties, when when I started watching
not aesthetically pleasing my TV post a test that it
should have founded exploited why basketball? But I think, you know,
I think you embrace that, and I think, to be
serious for a second, I think the interesting question you
have to ask here is that which team kind of
feels better about themselves right now the score of the series,
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you know, regardless, right, the Celtics are probably sitting there thinking,
we can't hit a three of our lives dependent on it.
We've lost two games by a total three points, right,
But the nick you're sitting there saying, we haven't played
near a complete game. Our offense has been terrible. You know,
in one game, Kat was awful. In the next game,
Og couldn't score, Bridges couldn't score for three quarters, Brunton
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didn't even play well until the final six minutes of
the game, and we stare up to oh so it's weird.
Neither team has I don't think played particularly well in
the series. I think, you know, the defensive both teams
have something to do with that, honestly, but I don't,
you know, to your point, this is an ugly basketball
like neither team has played well here. So I don't
know what the hell these final you know, five games,
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hopefully only two games are going to look like in
this series.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You know, the thing I take away is, as we
talked about this about the Celtics had twenty point leads
in these games. But it's not like they played well.
It's just the Knicks peed worse. Right, So okay, it's
not like if they were playing well with a twenty
point lead. Okay, they're up to zip. But when I
watch the Celtics, I don't see the desire and the
fire to close games.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I see a lot they almost like they're sleepwalking through
these games a bit. I don't see any there's no
timeouts by Joe Mizzula saying, hey guys, let's let let
let's get to the hoop. Let's not get too three
happy here. The next couple of let's figure something. I
just don't see it. I feel like the Celtics almost
playing at three quarter speed, where they feel, hey, we
beat these guys in the regular season, we're gonna beat
him again. We know what it's like to win a championship.
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We don't want to, you know, burn out too early.
So that's kind of the effort we've gotten from them
the first couple of games.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
And look, I think you could tell to start this
game right. Jalen Brown especially had it in his head,
I'm going to get to the paint now, I'm going
to score close to the basket. But I think as
the game went along. You know, teams tend to forget
about what they talked about heading into the game and
pregame stuff, right, and they just kind of slowly slide
into their tendencies, and the Celtic tendencies a they're gonna
shoot a ton of threes and over a large sample size,
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that's generally going to work. The math tells you that's
what you should do. The problem, though, is that in
these individual games, when your threes don't fall, strategy can backfire.
The question is will the three point shooting come back
for them in the final five games. If it does,
the Celtis can still very easily win the series. Guys,
if the celticsue thirty forty percent from the three from
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three in the final five game, they're probably gonna win
the series. But you know, I don't know if they're
going to do that. You know, it's just going to
get mental for them now. And I do think Tom Thibodeaux,
who who Nick fans have won and fired for like
the last four months, deserves a lot of credit here.
He has fundamentally changed the way the Knicks have played
defense in this series compared to what he did all
season long. He's actually switching everything against this team, which
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is what a lot of Nick fans have asked for,
and he's doing it and it's a complete switch in
what he's doing in the regular season. So I think
Thibodeau has really out coached Missoula so far in this series,
and I think people should be, you know, ready to
admit that.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
There you go, there was the TIBs question, how about
kat He looks like he's actually moving his feet on
defense the.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Last two years.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Analysis.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yeah, I mean, it's better. It's better, you know, it
isn't I mean, I think Mitchell Robinson right now, guys,
is a plus thirty two in this series over two
games plus minus he leaves the team and it's not close, but.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
He's on thirty two from the free throw line.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Know that only counts so far.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah, the fact that he's doing it with the whole
Hack and Mitch thing happening is even crazier. But I
think it one shows, you know, the help of having
a defensive center out there, but it also shows the
weakness of Towns. And you know, there were still some
moments in the third quarter of this game where where
Towns didn't step up, and that's how the Celtic's kind
of expanded that what was it a twelve point half time,
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ten point half time late to twenty in that third quarter.
But look, especially lad in games quantity Towns cannot stay
focused on defense for forty eight minutes. He's just incapable
of it. We've seen that over the course of his career.
But he can give you spurts, and we've seen some
spurt at the end of these games where he's grabbed
a couple of big offensive rebounds. He's had a couple
of putbacks in the last two games and in the
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final few minutes that have been key, and he's stepped
up and played defense on certain possessions that have been critical.
Is he gonna give us you the whole game? No,
But get Kat credit tonight man. Without that burst of
scoring in the second quarter, I think he scored three
or four straight post plays. He hit a couple of
and ones in there too on Corford. If he doesn't
do that in the second quarter, the Knicks might be
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down thirty instead of twenty. So I think, you know,
give him credit too. And Josh Horpe, by the way,
who's probably been the second best player in the series
after Mitchell Robinson was just flying around like a lunatic
and actually had some threes to night too, lend the
Nixon scorn, which is insane. Give him credit to So
they've had little guy, They've had guys contributing on different nights,
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But to me, Kat was the key to the series
in the beginning, Right, that's the guy They're gonna put
a guard on him or a small floor to wing
and he's gonna have to dominate that matchup. And he
did for points in the second quarter in this game,
and he's going to have to keep that up. That
Knick's gonna want to win this series.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Nicks inside of John Shmield with US, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon Lot from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. I'll tell
you what really gets me, And this is where I've
gone to just like just say, okay, I'm done and
I'm accepting it. Like you watch the Knicks offense and
at the end of games, at the end of games,
it bogs down, right, it completely bogs down, and it
and and during the season it was okay, it's bruntson
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and whatever is gonna happen is gonna happen. And it's
iso ball and it doesn't feel like there's any play
that's drawn up, and okay, and I see where they
fail and there's a turnover, and then we get to
the playoffs and Brunson hits everything.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
So why is the clutch player of the year?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And I've decided, Okay, I don't care anymore. He's got
every game, is gonna end every possession of the final
two minutes. He's gonna have the ball, dribble the shot
clock down, find a way to get a shot off,
And I am okay living with the results because generally
it's gonna go win. He's gonna find a way to
get those points. But even if he doesn't, I'm like
not gonna sit back and say, oh, why didn't they
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move the ball to get it to Cat or I don't.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Nobi has been a bit a big night for three.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's like, Hey, whatever you're gonna do at the end
of a game with Brunston with the ball, I'm fine
with it. I'm fine and it's been working.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
And by the way that the other teams at star players,
they did the same thing on the Celtics final two possessions.
What do they do They gave it to Tatum on
a high picking roll and they told him to go
out there and score. He scored on one, couldn't score
on the other one. That's what teams do. But I
will point this out. At the end of game one
against Boston, Tims actually grew up, grew up a really
nice play. They kind of faked edgible handoff and Towns
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threw the nice pass the Brunson off the ball and
he just missed that little photo lamp. I thought that
was a really good play. And then remember Brunton did
not score in the overtime of Game one. He had
your points Bridges at the three, an nob had the
N one dunk and then Towns at the put back
and the nixt won that game scoring no points over
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So so give them credit for that. But yes, you
put the ball in the hands of your best player,
win the game's on the line, and Brunson's proven all
year that he's going to more or less do the
right thing and win those games in those situations. So yeah,
look is the reason he's the clust player of the Year.
And in the final three minutes of pretty much every
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single playoff game this year that they took played except
for the one where Brunson at the leave the game
with the angle injury against the trony was it in there?
They have won the final three minutes of every single
playoff game and that's because of Jay One Broughtson.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
He's on Twitter at Schmilk, that is at sh Milk.
John Smildnis Insider podcast hosts.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
For the Giants.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
All right, so really quick, let you I'm gonna put
you on the spot for a bold prediction.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Oh god, no, don't make me do it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What happens, First, the Celtics win a game this series,
or a Giants legend gives out Dual Carter their number.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I don't think a Giant legends given out Dual Carter
a number. I'm gonna go to Nick with another game
in the series.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
All right, very good, take it, easy money, we'll talk
to this series goes on. All right, there goes John Schield.
Always always a fun visit with him. I mean he's like, hey,
you could have said anything to me an hour and
a half ago. I would have said yes, yeah, yeah, no,
I was completely there with you, same thing.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
I was trying to encapsulate the elation of the knick
S because I didn't want to make it, you know,
completely Nicks the oriented, but I mean, that's where we're going.
But you've got the other side of the coin, what
the Celtics had been. And as he gave his answer
and got deeper into Thibadeau maybe a little bit of
an appreciation of his management styled the bog things down
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and change in the second half or whatever, you know,
credits he's got.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
With the the good man or woman upstairs.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
However you believe that, you know, the the lid was
going to be on the baskets continually for the Celtics
on three point shots. You call it what it is,
defensive adjustments, divine intervention.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Exit al about a Fresco swollen dome. Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
We'll have more NBA on the way.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And yes, it is a final runaway victory for the
Oklahoma City Fund.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
The home team has finally won a game in the playoffs. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But coming up next, not one but two big NFL
stories from today, one big trade and one big piece
of advice. That's next right here. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
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Speaker 1 (14:19):
I wouldn't say the Knicker heroes, but boy, you want
to look up to some people in blue and orange tonight. Yes,
it could be the Mets and Juan Soto at two
home runs, but it's more than likely Jalen Brunson, Michal Bridges,
or if you want to wear a black sweatsuit with
no other color in it, it's Tom Thibodeaux. The night
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in the NBA is mercifully over. The Thunder finished there
one nine, one oh six win over the Nuggets. They
set a playoff record with eighty seven points in the
first half. This game was absolutely never close, and I'm
pretty sure Nikola Jokic got thrown out on purpose, fouled
out of the game on purpose because you didn't want
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to play anymore. With about twelve minutes left to go
in the game fourth quarter, comes two quick fouls.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
He's out.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Don't you just call David Adam and say, dude, take
me out. I mean you're the coach anyway, aren't you. Hey,
I'm coming out. Did you get somebody else, I'm coming,
I'm coming out of the game.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Don't you do that?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Well, that's what we've been led to believe, right, the
demonstrated Nicola jokicch he's the guy calling the shots. At
this point, you throw the damn towel, you go put
a suit on, and then you coach up the rest
of the game. I guess, just ridiculous. And right now
the you know, the soul searching kind of thing. Gordon
goes three for twelve, but Michael Porter Junior is an
absolute no show once again. He was terrible in game one.
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He's terrible here and gives them nothing. And if you're watching,
the most interesting thing was watching like it was a
stock ticker, the live betting markets with five to eight
point swinging like it got out the plus forty three
and a half finishes and that was the last I
saw it because I even had to turn that off.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
It was so laughable.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
But it was in plus thirty. If you took the
Nuggets in the middle of the second half and plus
thirty two, you didn't come close.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, no, the game.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
The game was minus ten before tip off, and then
you're just watching it the whole way. It's like whoa,
this is really escalating. And you watched just down. Look
at how many guys get in in the box score.
You have what eight players for the thunder and double
digits trivia?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Yeah, what do you got, frostbar gohead? The Nuggets scored
one hundred and six points tonight, right? Yes? Is that
more or less than Rockies runs all year? Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Whoa?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Oh? More?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
More?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Absolutely more? Yes, the answer is way more, is it?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I don't know that fact.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I just know it's true. I just know.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I just know it just feels true. So who's happier,
You Smith or Ben Stiller?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Oh, I'm way happier than Ben Stiller.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Ben Steeler did a podcast that he was upset saying that,
you know, Jalen Brunson like hugs Marishka Hargan after every game,
like she's become like the big Knicks fan that He's like, yeah,
it doesn't say and Brunson said, yeah, I see him
at most games, but I don't seem risko hardtey a lot.
And he grew up watching SVU and he's a huge fan.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
So I'm like, yeah, no, okay, I think I think
I think it's me.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
I think that's the SVU films on location in the city.
What is it, you're twenty six, twenty seven, whatever it is.
At this point, she's an institution Ben Stiller. Maybe he
doesn't like or doesn't have Apple so he can't watch severings.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
That could be right. Maybe she'll arrest in next for
stealing Doom Doom Doom Dune Michel Bridges and Special on SVU.
He was arrested for stealing twice.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
So I haven't had a w NBA head in the
case like two weeks ago on Oh Orders, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Was it everybody jealous of this one new star that
comes into the league and except you know, because it's
a TV show.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Someone took it.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Over the top.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
It hit some of that stuff. Okay, all right, some
elements getting down.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I have an answer with Frostburg's Rockies or Nuggets question
six points from the Nuggets.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Oh, I said, I don't know as the fact. I
just know it's true. You know I have the right answer. No,
I have the answer now, so I would do what
what what do you guys want to take? Dude?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
The Rockies have more runs this season than the Nuggets
scored points.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I just know it's true. Okay, Okay, I'm going.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
I'm gonna say that Frostburg put it out and it's
actually fact without him knowing it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay, the Rockies have scored the fewest runs in Major
League Baseball. Okay, just so we know going in, they
have scored the fewest runs in Major League Baseball. Final
score Nuggets one oh six, Rockies one twelve. The six
they scored tonight, they they needed the sixth tonight to book. Yes,
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they get two threes at the end to break that
one o six one oh six high. That's what happened.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Are they're playing the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh, I get to watch White Sox. Marlins on, I
know you're jealous.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Even though White White Sox have like one hundred and
thirty runs score they that looks like the Dodgers offense
compared to the Rockey double digit wins.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I mean, come on, let's go, Mike.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
That could be a twenty innings zero zero game and I.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Will be drunk as hell, no throwing up by the fifteenth.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
They say, listen, we just start with the bases loaded.
Teams still aren't scoring runs. We don't know what's asw
long is your cupsnake going to be Mike.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
With the people. I'm gonna be at the game with that.
That could get extensive.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yeah, that might have to get one of those special
milkshakes that they advertise the hell out of every year.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
We got milkshakes.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
It does bring everybody to the yard. That's Jets. Ye absolutely,
if it's better than yours. So a big trade in
the NFL today is the.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Dallas Cowboys search for number two wide receiver is over
because they landed George Pickens from the Steelers. Twenty twenty
six third round pick goes to the Steelers. Cowboys also
going to send a fifth round pick and get back
a sixth round pick. So it's basically George Pickens and
a sixth round pick for a third and a fifth
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round pick. All right, So now let's look at this
story from both sides. First of all, again I ask
you do you think Jerry Jones thinks he traded for
Carl Pickens.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Who's a hell of a receiver back in the dad.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
It's really he's really athletic.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Watching with the back would have been now he begles
a lot.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
He's he was good.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'll tell you bat Carl Pickens, he's really let's let's
go get him, Let's go.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
But that would have been that's right about the time
where Jerry really did think he knew everything right, because
that was about the time he was getting rid of
Jimmy Johnson.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Oh, you're probably right, okay, right.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I mean, look, Pickets comes into the league in ninety two.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh that pick.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
And then he has three straight years ninety four to
ninety six where he's over one thousand yards and over
that period he scores a total of forty touchdowns. Yeah,
I could believe that it was Carl Pinins so out
of Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Look, this is the quintessential Cowboys move to make right,
the high risk, high reward move that has really defined
you talk about what what's defined Jerry Jones as an
owner of the last decade plus, it's been We're going
all in on the high risk, high reward moves. We're
gonna draft players high. We're gonna go draft guys that
are hurt but they would normally project to be first
(21:16):
round picks. We're gonna go do this because this is
how the Cowboys have.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Because when you spend money badly, and the Cowboys have
spent money badly for going up well going on thirty years,
but really the last ten years, with the end, with
the increase in the in the in the in the
salary cap every year, and how and how much room
teams have, Uh, the Cowboys still find a way to
not have money. So this is a quintessential high risk,
high reward move where Okay, it's George Pickens who is
(21:41):
incredibly talented, but boy, the guy really can't get out
of his own way right now. I'll be honest with you,
I like this move for the Cowboys now.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Not because I think.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
George Pickens is suddenly gonna be unbelievably awesome and realize
all his potential and you know, catch a hundred balls.
But the cow Sometimes when you when you need to be,
you need to fill a position. Needed that net second
wide receiver, right, you need a running back to but okay,
you needed that second wide receiver, another weapon for Dak Prescott.
Sometimes you can only do what's the best possible outcome,
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not reach for the stars. Let's go get a super
let's go get Jamar Chase, like okay, not all you
can't always do that, but sometimes it's what's the best
guy out there? We can go get all right, it's
George Pickens because he's available, because he's a knucklehead, he's
available for us, and we're got to trade a third
round pick to go get him. So this is what's
out there. It's a quintessential Cowboy move, and honestly, it's
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worth the risk, right because you're outside of that. What
we're gonna do, Go sign Allen Lazard. It's gonna come
play wide receiver. You know, there was no other solution
out there for the Cowboys, right. They wanted to take
tedor Roa McMillan at the number twelve spot, but he
was already gone, so they didn't take a receiver in
the draft. Okay, at this point you still need something. Okay, Yes,
it's high risk, but there was no other better move
(22:57):
to make. So you went out there and took a risk. Okay,
Maybe George Pickens winds up straightening up and with the
star on the side of his helmet, he turns it.
He needed to get away from Mike tolland whatever reason,
he gets out of there and maybe it works out.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Now maybe it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
But before that happens, I'll first guess this and tell
you that, Yeah, sometimes the risks are worth it. Is
the risk worth it for the Cowboys for a third
round pick, all right, bet, you know, exchanging the fifth
and sixth, that's fine, but you're exchanging George Pickens, who
is incredibly talented and could be a difference maker for
a third round pick, because if this pick hits, the
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Cowboys become a playoff team. If this pick hits, if
this move hits, they become a playoff team because good
luck stop and both of these guys up and down
the field Ceedee Lamb is as good as they come.
Right at the worst, he's the second best receiver in
the NFL. And now you add George Pickens, who ay
if he straightens up and flies right and can find
a way here fresh start with Dallas, they're a playoff team.
(23:52):
So yes, I like the guts and I like the
move for the Cowboys, even though it's something we've seen
and you can dismiss it and say, yeah, he's the
Cowboys do this. No, there's no other risks out there,
there's no other receivers you can get out there and get.
So you go get the guy that has great upside,
and maybe it works because the alternative is you don't
get anybody and then the offense is terrible. So all right, then,
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so at least they went out and got somebody that
maybe can come through. So honestly, I like the gamble.
I like the risk on this.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
You are pot committed to a massive contract for Dak Prescott.
Dak Prescott went on the field as an accurate passer, right,
that is not disputed. Whether he actually delivers the football
before taking a bad sack and some of that is
a whole other discussion point and his availability. But all
of that, to say, George Pickens, part of the knuckleheadedness
(24:43):
and frustration is that there was no chance in hell
he was getting a catchable ball, oftentimes down the field, right,
how many routes did you run? And when you'd get
the overhead shot right, you go to the all twenty
two when they'd start doing game and film review, it's like, wow,
he was wide open. They never looked his way.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Maybe some of.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
That gets fixed, right because of the attention on CD
LAMB that you only you know the safety is going
the opposite way and you're getting single man coverage to
where you're gonna be able to make some big plays.
So part of that is there and the guy behind
the scenes right a locker room, You're gonna get a
lot of noise and trying to discern what's true and false.
(25:24):
I don't know. We talked with Jason Cole about it earlier.
He said he wouldn't touch him. I say, you've got
you've got to go for broke at this point. For
Jerry Jones, right, we keep talking about, you know, your
football mortality, mortality in general, and the opportunity to make
a splash. Well, the only way he tops this is
if he signs that running back who's out there squat
and eight hundred pounds and saying, hey, I'm ready to
(25:46):
go and brings in Nick Chubb because Javonte Williams ain't
getting it done. So that's the other bold move he
can make over the top. But for George Pickens, it's
a modest cost. You take the shot and if it fails,
no harm done, because as of now he is not
on some massive deal that's going to prohibit and limit
you from doing other moves down the stretch. He's got
(26:07):
to prove it year with Dak Prescott in that offense,
Let's see if he can.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, I mean, look if there was a better I
mean I get that it's easy to jump up and
down on Jerry Jones and the Cowboys and say what
do you do? But like what else is out there?
Like real, what else were you gonna do? Who else
are you gonna go get? Yeah, at this point, because
of the way you manage the team, you have to
go get risky and there's risks that are worth it
and there's risks that are not worth it. And a
third man, I get a third round pick now, giving
(26:33):
up a fourth round pick for Trey Lance boy not good, right,
fourth round pick for Jonathan Mingo boy not good? But
third round pick for George Pickens, who is really talented.
I mean, you can't deny how talented the guy is.
He just has to get his head on right. And
and yeah, you're crossing your fingers and hoping that it's
gonna happen. But you know what, we've seen Jerry Jones
do this right. I didn't like the Amari Cooper tray
(26:54):
when they made it. Guess what, Amari Cooper was terrific.
There's some guys that brought it and said, yeah, I
don't know, and it works. Now, not all the guys
work and not all the guys have worked enough to
make them into a really good team.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
But here's your.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
One move, and the one move you have to make
offensively is to bring in someone really talented. So yeah,
all right, third round pick for him, that's worth the risk.
Because you're always saying, Okay, risk reward, risk reward. If
you're not really risking a lot, it's not that big
of a risk. It's almost like it's a freebie. Hey,
we brought George Pickens in and and if he hits,
boy boy, things are gonna be absolutely fantastic. And if not, okay,
(27:28):
we move on and we try to do something else different.
Or if you come the same thing, but we go
on to do something else the next time, we can.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
But that's just it.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
I mean, the only option is the other football news
was the release out of Jacksonville?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Right, is that gonna do it? No? I mean, is
this the uh? Do you go back and get Amari Cooper?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Hi? Gabe?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Right?
Speaker 5 (27:51):
And right?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Davis, this is just a guy.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
He is just But that's what I mean, Like you
look at the rest Keenan Allen, he's not a difference.
Make Yeah, he'll move some move the chains, but He's
not a guy that's that's taken due to the promised land.
He's a nice piece and and he'll be signed at
some point. I don't buy a squad that decides they
need that veteran presence, uh and a guy that will
just keep the offense on the field to protect a
(28:16):
shell of a defense somewhere. But otherwise there's nobody the
rest of the remaining You brought Allen Lazar, right, because
he's the guy that becomes the obviously, well, Aaron Rodg'
is gonna go to the Pittsburgh A slide in there, Like, what.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Are we doing.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Here's a guy that's clearly a proven talent. Whether you
can figure out what's in his head to get him
to play seventeen quality games and go to the playoffs, well,
I think it's worth the risk, because, as we've seen,
draft picks, even in the first round, are no sure
things for any squad, and sure as hell not in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Exit Albouta Fresca, Exit Swelling Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Time now to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports
from some one who hit two home runs today except one.
Soto's not available, so MACI belongs. We'll tell us what's trending.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Ah, that was good.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
That was good.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I made me laugh.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Thank you. I woke me up because everything's now I
feel like I was. I put so much energy and
excitement into that NIXT game, right, and then the OKC
game was so boring. Yeah, and now I'm just like,
oh I today, have some tea. I'm ready to take
a little nap. And also everything is wrapped up in sports. Yes,
the thunder blew out the Nuggets one forty nine to
one oh six. That series is now tied at one apiece.
(29:33):
OKC scored eighty seven points in the first half, which
was an NBA postseason record for the most points in
any half. Shake Gildas Alexander thirty four points and eight
assists in the win. Nicola Jokic absolutely fouled out on
purpose with one minute to go in the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Scott Foster.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Back to back really offensive fouls were called on Jokic,
but I think he did it on purpose.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Hey, Hey, do you want to get out of the game. Yes, sorry,
I got thank got got going.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I got you, I got.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
You I'm near the play, I'm raising my hand.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Scott Foster is like, I'm really good at this.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Don't worry.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
The Knicks are down twenty and once again came back
to defeat the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
No, no, no, I'm telling you I found.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
It.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
No, I'm really good at this.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
I'm saying Nick's edge.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
The Celtics ninety one to ninety, once again, down twenty.
Once again, it did not matter. Jalen Brunson hits the
go ahead shot late in the fourth quarter. Ends with
seventeen points and seven assists. Carl Anthony Towns twenty one point,
seventeen rebounds, Josh Cartt twenty three points. The Celtics have
missed to combine seventy five to three point attempts in
their first two games. There are twenty five out of
one hundred. Jason Tatum five of nineteen from the field,
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thirteen points and fourteen rebounds.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Go on New York, Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
In the NHL playoffs. Two games also have wrapped up.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
The Maple Leaves top the Panthers forty three to take
a two zero series lead. The Stars just edged the
Jets three to two. Miko Rantonen had a back to
back hat trick. He had one in games seven against
the Avalanche. Dallas now leads that series one zero. In baseball,
the last game has wrapped up yes Hore Solaire with
the three RBI double as the Angels walk it off
against the Blue Jays. Five to four was the final score.
(31:13):
The Philly shout out the race seven zero. The Tigers
had an eight to six win over the Rockies in
ten innings, and the Red Sox took down the Rangers
sixty four. Alex Bregman hit his two hundredth career homer
in that one, and the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Walked it off against the Padres.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Four to three in ten innings, while Juan Soto homer
twice and the Mets outscored the Diamondbacks seven to one.
And yes, the Dodgers crushed the Marlins ten one. Freddy
Freeman three or four with four RBIs in that one.
Back to you guys, thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Did you bet that game?
Speaker 6 (31:41):
I did not?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
I should yeah, I should have should have, all right,
because they lost yesterday.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
So you know, like you if you would expect the
Dodgers to win today after losing yesterday in ten innings,
I should have, just so.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
You know next step four.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
If the Knicks get down twenty in game, bet them
in game.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Yes, right, the safest.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Bet right there, there is safest bet.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Well, they're not gonna quit, They're gonna get.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Yeah, they did frost.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
If you know that they lost twenty, I know, go
New York, Go New York.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
God did they really?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I've created monsters here on the show, Mike Carmon, Yes,
what's your final score?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Move down? And suddenly everybody lost their mind.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
That's how it goes lots.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
He's still recovering from the Clippers loss. Anybody that's ever
hurt the Lakers, he's mad.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
So we got more NBA on the way, but coming
up next, nobody needs my advice more than Tom Brady
after what he said today. That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Listen, Fox Sports Radio Radio.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. How about live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios. We got more NBA coming up in a
few minutes. But there is nobody who needs my pr
advice more Ben Raiders owner Tom Brady and broadcaster Tom Brady.
(33:10):
So Brady, who of course has been advising the Raiders,
you know, since he helped buy into the team and
they go to him for a lot of decisions. I
did a podcast with Logan Paul that's starting to gain
a lot of attention, which they ask him about the
situation with Shador Sanders. Now, I remember Shador Sanders is
a player that Tom Brady has been mentoring. In fact,
(33:31):
Shador Sanders is wearing twelve in the NFL because of
Brady's mentoring. So the question was, hey, you know Shador
Sanders fell to the fifth round. What did you guys
have on him? What was the discussion, like, you know,
why didn't you guys draft him? And here's Tom Brady's
answer from the podcast.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Should or Sanders? What happened? Tom? Why why did he
go so late in the draft? It's a good question.
I was.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
I wouldn't have part of any evaluation process or I know, well,
everyone's got every you know, that's a problem with media
is everyone can just say whatever want. I actually texted
Shador because I'm know him very well, and I said, dude, like,
whatever happens wherever you go, like that's your first day
Day two matters more than the draft.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
I was one ninety nine. Yeah, so who could speak
on it better than me?
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Like, what that really means?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Use it as motivation.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
You're gonna get your chances, Go take advantage of it.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Okay, first of all, let's say this.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Uh, there's no way Tom Brady was not involved in
any sort.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Of decision on your door standards.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
There's just just the way the question was phrased. Yeah,
what how I wait out immediately?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, well I wasn't in the ro I wasn't. Really,
you're not in the room. A guy you are mentoring
who is free falling through the draft and the question
on everybody's draft board is what's wrong with him? Why
should should we take him? What's going on? You're telling
me that a guy who you have been leaning on,
right that John Spytech even said the GS, Hey he
helps us with everything, right, Pete Carroll, he helps with everything?
(35:02):
Oh no, No, Suddenly now a guy that he was
mentoring wasn't in the room and they didn't ask him
his opinion on it. That's a load of crap. That's
an absolute load of crape. There's no way. But secondly,
I want to say this because he went on to
get med and talk about broadcast because skip Bayless put
out a tweet saying that, oh, you know, Brady wasn't
They didn't like she door Sanders, Okay, And so now
(35:24):
Brady is upset that that's going out there on social
media that oh, you know, Skip Bayless says, you didn't
want you door Sanders. Brady's got to understand this that
you're a broadcaster to Fox is paying Tom Brady a
lot of money, right, And he had a very uneven
first year. He had some moments where and I really,
I'm I'm I'm the most surprised guy in the world.
I thought he was gonna be great right away, but
(35:45):
he wasn't. And the thing is is, Tom Brady, you
have to realize you are in the media. You gotta
bring it.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Doesn't mean you have to say things that are outlandish,
but you have to bring it, and you have to
act like you're in the media.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
You can't hold back or think about relationships with players
or social media feuds. You have to say what you think.
And if it's critical of a player, it's critical.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Of a player.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
If it's not, it's not. And Brady, you know, just
seeing him this year and seeing him talk and you
hear him in this podcast, you're like, yeah, he seems
very outspoken, but he's very reticent and very hesitant to
say things very critical of players, which I'm sorry, that's
what you have to do. Fox didn't pay you thirty
seven and a half million dollars a year to say, Eh,
that block could have been better.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Oh that's great, Okay, Ah.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
You know that.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
No, you have to bring it.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
That's something that in this in this area, in this
era of sports, has always been true. Whether you like
hot takes or not, it doesn't matter, but you need
to be strong with your opinions and not be afraid
to be critical. You're in the media now, you are.
You are getting paid more money to be a media
member than you're doing to doing anything else. And it's
a thirty seven and a half million dollars a year
(36:54):
contra it's got another nine more years. So once you
understand you are in the media, things will be better
for you because I can't tell you how many the
graveyard of former players who Hey, when they do their
auditions for networks or they get they get they do
a couple of podcasts and suddenly they sound great, and
then they get big jobs and suddenly they drive right
(37:15):
to the middle. Well, I don't want to turn on
my phone after and get a text from this guy
saying this I don't want it, and all of a sudden, Hey,
guess what they do a year in there? Let go
because hey, we can't have you on if you're not
gonna say anything. And that's what Brady's got to realize.
You are part of the media now, and you need
to be strong with what you say. You criticize media
for everything. Oh, you can say whatever they want to. Yeah,
(37:36):
well you could say what you want to and you
can back it up with the experience of being the
best quarterback that any of us have ever seen. Yet
you are hesitant to do that. That's my advice for
him is, dude, you just got to bring it and
understand you're in the media too.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
I mean, look, he didn't sideswipe the other stuff with
skip if he could have gone down a whole other rabbit,
oh sure on it, sure, but just left it as
a everybody's got it a pay Well, that's your being
paid for. And that's why you know where you're trying
to have one foot uh in the media world and
one foot in the business of running a football business. Uh,
(38:12):
you're you're you're in dangerous waters because you can't really
do every either job with everything you've got right, because
you're not going to be hypercritical of players because you
need to sign free agents retain the ones you have.
If you're recently retired, you still have a lot of
connections within the league. That's why it's the best when
guys who who have been able to establish their lives
(38:34):
post playing career and then come back to it, they're
not beholden to it right. It's it's a fun check.
It's a fun job, but they're doing it because they
want to versus uh, they're beholden uh to not being
overly critical. So that that's where you're the best, or
you you're around long enough to where you can send
blank you to everybody like.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Barkley and company.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
But for Tom Brady, you're just in in that that
terrible space where now you you're talking about nothing.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Look, I we either want to be loved or hated.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
The worst thing people to go go nah And as
a broadcaster like that, take nobody believes you and they're
gonna shrug and go eah yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Yeah, But what can you do yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Right right, we're gonna do right, You're gonna say, I
don't believe you.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
You're disingenuous. You sidestepped the question about shad Or Sanders.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah, I mean look here, because.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
The question should have been directly you had six bites
at the apple or seven bites before he was drafted.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Why didn't you guys take him?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
You gotta be able to answer that. Right again, if
he wasn't in the media, I would understand, but he
wants to be critical of the media and he's also
in it. But yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna die. I
wasn't in the room, Like, I don't don't give that's
a load of crap, man, Just stop. They didn't ask me,
Like yeah, oh hey, we went to ask Tom, but
I didn't have his number so we couldn't call him.
So yeah, it wasn't ntil after the draft, So yeah, yeah,
(39:51):
we'll talk to Tom at some point.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I mean, really, that's what he wants us to believe,
is online one, Tom, I just work here.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Man, exit out out of Fresco at Swollen Dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Carmon Coming up next, we get back into the
biggest story of the night and I issue one of
my biggest apologies.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
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we are hoping against hope that maybe Denver can start
getting some MTV rockin jock points, because if that doesn't happen,
the home team is going to win its first playoff
(01:13):
game of the second round, the Nuggets trail the Thunder
one to ninety four with about four and a half
left to go. Nikola Yukich, I'm pretty sure foul out
of this game on purpose. I didn't want to play
the last ten minutes. So now the Nuggets will take
this one game split and head back home.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
How disgusting.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The big game of the night and the story of
the NBA Playoffs is just two words.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
It's go New York and then it's go New York,
Go New York, Go New York.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Go.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Second straight game, mccal bridges snatches the ball away from
a Celtic star to go up two games to none
in the second round of the playoffs. With us now
in the hotline, I think the only man who can
match my Knick's energy. Nick's insider Giants insider in New
York John Schmilk, longtime friend of the show. He is
(02:09):
on Twitter at smelk. What's happening?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Man?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You bounce off the walls like me.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
We are the New York Nick.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
This is my nightmare.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Celebration.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You know when I when I texted you like an
hour and a half ago, say hey, you want to
come on at nine o'clock right away said yes, got it,
I'm up.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
I'll be up. I'm ready, I'm up. Let's go Smith,
come on.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No New York.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
An hour and a half ago and I would have said, yes, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Man, Well I did say one thing we started the show.
I said, Okay, the one thing I really need to do,
I got apologize to the cal Bridges.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Okay, these last.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Whatever, whatever disappointment he has been offensively throughout the season
and into the playoffs. Okay, I'll give another five first
round picks for him. After the plays he's made the
last couple of games.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Yeah, I was just you know, don't watch in the
first three quarters of these games, and I think you
will even be happier. It's amazing. Like I'm like monitoring
Nick fans like on social media, and like they're like, oh,
Calton Nets, give him more picks. They didn't take enough picks.
And then talking about a player that shot six and
eighteen from the field and had zero points heading into
(03:25):
the fourth quarter. That's talent saved. This is It's crazy
the guys. May I think now in the playoffs, three
game closing defensive plays like Brunt is the clutch player
of the year. Because of his offense, Bridges has been
the Cutch defensive player of this postseason. He's been unbelievable
in the biggest spot. And then you know, somehow with
(03:46):
Brunson on the bench, he starts to come back in
the fourth quarter. It was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Yeah, I've been trying to deal with Smith's relentless enthusiasm
all night, Jock, as you go through it by look
not aesthetically pleasing.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
But we watched the squad and you're trying to.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Quantify it, right, no, no, no, but but you're down twenty
points and it's.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Like, I don't know what the is that?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
What has happened to flip the switch and play reasonably
good basketball? I mean, it wasn't exceptional basketball, but it
was far better than what the Celtics put out for
the final Stanza.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I think.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
If you want to describe Anick play a basketball even
going back to the nineties, when when I started watching
not aesthetically pleasing my TV post a test that it
should have founded exploited why basketball? But I think, you know,
I think you embrace that, and I think, to be
serious for a second, I think the interesting question you
have to ask here is that which team kind of
feels better about themselves right now the score of the series,
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you know, regardless, right, the Celtics are probably sitting there thinking,
we can't hit a three of our lives dependent on it.
We've lost two games by a total three points, right,
But the nick you're sitting there saying, we haven't played
near a complete game. Our offense has been terrible. You know,
in one game, Kat was awful. In the next game,
Og couldn't score, Bridges couldn't score for three quarters, Brunton
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didn't even play well until the final six minutes of
the game, and we stare up to oh so it's weird.
Neither team has I don't think played particularly well in
the series. I think, you know, the defensive both teams
have something to do with that, honestly, but I don't,
you know, to your point, this is an ugly basketball
like neither team has played well here. So I don't
know what the hell these final you know, five games,
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hopefully only two games are going to look like in
this series.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You know, the thing I take away is, as we
talked about this about the Celtics had twenty point leads
in these games. But it's not like they played well.
It's just the Knicks peed worse. Right, So okay, it's
not like if they were playing well with a twenty
point lead. Okay, they're up to zip. But when I
watch the Celtics, I don't see the desire and the
fire to close games.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And I don't see it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
I see a lot they almost like they're sleepwalking through
these games a bit. I don't see any there's no
timeouts by Joe Mizzula saying, hey guys, let's let let
let's get to the hoop. Let's not get too three
happy here. The next couple of let's figure something. I
just don't see it. I feel like the Celtics almost
playing at three quarter speed, where they feel, hey, we
beat these guys in the regular season, we're gonna beat
him again. We know what it's like to win a championship.
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We don't want to, you know, burn out too early.
So that's kind of the effort we've gotten from them
the first couple of games.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
And look, I think you could tell to start this
game right. Jalen Brown especially had it in his head,
I'm going to get to the paint now, I'm going
to score close to the basket. But I think as
the game went along. You know, teams tend to forget
about what they talked about heading into the game and
pregame stuff, right, and they just kind of slowly slide
into their tendencies, and the Celtic tendencies a they're gonna
shoot a ton of threes and over a large sample size,
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that's generally going to work. The math tells you that's
what you should do. The problem, though, is that in
these individual games, when your threes don't fall, strategy can backfire.
The question is will the three point shooting come back
for them in the final five games. If it does,
the Celtis can still very easily win the series. Guys,
if the celticsue thirty forty percent from the three from
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three in the final five game, they're probably gonna win
the series. But you know, I don't know if they're
going to do that. You know, it's just going to
get mental for them now. And I do think Tom Thibodeaux,
who who Nick fans have won and fired for like
the last four months, deserves a lot of credit here.
He has fundamentally changed the way the Knicks have played
defense in this series compared to what he did all
season long. He's actually switching everything against this team, which
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is what a lot of Nick fans have asked for,
and he's doing it and it's a complete switch in
what he's doing in the regular season. So I think
Thibodeau has really out coached Missoula so far in this series,
and I think people should be, you know, ready to
admit that.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
There you go, there was the TIBs question, how about
kat He looks like he's actually moving his feet on
defense the.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Last two years.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Analysis.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Yeah, I mean, it's better. It's better, you know, it
isn't I mean, I think Mitchell Robinson right now, guys,
is a plus thirty two in this series over two
games plus minus he leaves the team and it's not close, but.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
He's on thirty two from the free throw line.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Definitely.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Know that only counts so far.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Yeah, the fact that he's doing it with the whole
Hack and Mitch thing happening is even crazier. But I
think it one shows, you know, the help of having
a defensive center out there, but it also shows the
weakness of Towns. And you know, there were still some
moments in the third quarter of this game where where
Towns didn't step up, and that's how the Celtic's kind
of expanded that what was it a twelve point half time,
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ten point half time late to twenty in that third quarter.
But look, especially lad in games quantity Towns cannot stay
focused on defense for forty eight minutes. He's just incapable
of it. We've seen that over the course of his career.
But he can give you spurts, and we've seen some
spurt at the end of these games where he's grabbed
a couple of big offensive rebounds. He's had a couple
of putbacks in the last two games and in the
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final few minutes that have been key, and he's stepped
up and played defense on certain possessions that have been critical.
Is he gonna give us you the whole game? No,
But get Kat credit tonight man. Without that burst of
scoring in the second quarter, I think he scored three
or four straight post plays. He hit a couple of
and ones in there too on Corford. If he doesn't
do that in the second quarter, the Knicks might be
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down thirty instead of twenty. So I think, you know,
give him credit too. And Josh Horpe, by the way,
who's probably been the second best player in the series
after Mitchell Robinson was just flying around like a lunatic
and actually had some threes to night too, lend the
Nixon scorn, which is insane. Give him credit to So
they've had little guy, They've had guys contributing on different nights,
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But to me, Kat was the key to the series
in the beginning, Right, that's the guy They're gonna put
a guard on him or a small floor to wing
and he's gonna have to dominate that matchup. And he
did for points in the second quarter in this game,
and he's going to have to keep that up. That
Knick's gonna want to win this series.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Nicks inside of John Shmield with US, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon Lot from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. I'll tell
you what really gets me, And this is where I've
gone to just like just say, okay, I'm done and
I'm accepting it. Like you watch the Knicks offense and
at the end of games, at the end of games,
it bogs down, right, it completely bogs down, and it
and and during the season it was okay, it's bruntson
(10:13):
and whatever is gonna happen is gonna happen. And it's
iso ball and it doesn't feel like there's any play
that's drawn up, and okay, and I see where they
fail and there's a turnover, and then we get to
the playoffs and Brunson hits everything.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
So why is the clutch player of the year?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
And I've decided, Okay, I don't care anymore. He's got
every game, is gonna end every possession of the final
two minutes. He's gonna have the ball, dribble the shot
clock down, find a way to get a shot off,
And I am okay living with the results because generally
it's gonna go win. He's gonna find a way to
get those points. But even if he doesn't, I'm like
not gonna sit back and say, oh, why didn't they
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move the ball to get it to Cat or I don't.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Nobi has been a bit a big night for three.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
It's like, Hey, whatever you're gonna do at the end
of a game with Brunston with the ball, I'm fine
with it. I'm fine and it's been working.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
And by the way that the other teams at star players,
they did the same thing on the Celtics final two possessions.
What do they do They gave it to Tatum on
a high picking roll and they told him to go
out there and score. He scored on one, couldn't score
on the other one. That's what teams do. But I
will point this out. At the end of game one
against Boston, Tims actually grew up, grew up a really
nice play. They kind of faked edgible handoff and Towns
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threw the nice pass the Brunson off the ball and
he just missed that little photo lamp. I thought that
was a really good play. And then remember Brunton did
not score in the overtime of Game one. He had
your points Bridges at the three, an nob had the
N one dunk and then Towns at the put back
and the nixt won that game scoring no points over
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So so give them credit for that. But yes, you
put the ball in the hands of your best player,
win the game's on the line, and Brunson's proven all
year that he's going to more or less do the
right thing and win those games in those situations. So yeah,
look is the reason he's the clust player of the Year.
And in the final three minutes of pretty much every
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single playoff game this year that they took played except
for the one where Brunson at the leave the game
with the angle injury against the trony was it in there?
They have won the final three minutes of every single
playoff game and that's because of Jay One Broughtson.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
He's on Twitter at Schmilk, that is at sh Milk.
John Smildnis Insider podcast hosts.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
For the Giants.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
All right, so really quick, let you I'm gonna put
you on the spot for a bold prediction.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Oh god, no, don't make me do it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What happens, First, the Celtics win a game this series,
or a Giants legend gives out Dual Carter their number.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I don't think a Giant legends given out Dual Carter
a number. I'm gonna go to Nick with another game
in the series.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
All right, very good, take it, easy money, we'll talk
to this series goes on. All right, there goes John Schield.
Always always a fun visit with him. I mean he's like, hey,
you could have said anything to me an hour and
a half ago. I would have said yes, yeah, yeah, no,
I was completely there with you, same thing.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
I was trying to encapsulate the elation of the knick
S because I didn't want to make it, you know,
completely Nicks the oriented, but I mean, that's where we're going.
But you've got the other side of the coin, what
the Celtics had been. And as he gave his answer
and got deeper into Thibadeau maybe a little bit of
an appreciation of his management styled the bog things down
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and change in the second half or whatever, you know,
credits he's got.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
With the the good man or woman upstairs.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
However you believe that, you know, the the lid was
going to be on the baskets continually for the Celtics
on three point shots. You call it what it is,
defensive adjustments, divine intervention.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Exit al about a Fresco swollen dome. Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
We'll have more NBA on the way.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And yes, it is a final runaway victory for the
Oklahoma City Fund.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
The home team has finally won a game in the playoffs. Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
But coming up next, not one but two big NFL
stories from today, one big trade and one big piece
of advice. That's next right here. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
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Speaker 1 (14:19):
I wouldn't say the Knicker heroes, but boy, you want
to look up to some people in blue and orange tonight. Yes,
it could be the Mets and Juan Soto at two
home runs, but it's more than likely Jalen Brunson, Michal Bridges,
or if you want to wear a black sweatsuit with
no other color in it, it's Tom Thibodeaux. The night
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in the NBA is mercifully over. The Thunder finished there
one nine, one oh six win over the Nuggets. They
set a playoff record with eighty seven points in the
first half. This game was absolutely never close, and I'm
pretty sure Nikola Jokic got thrown out on purpose, fouled
out of the game on purpose because you didn't want
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to play anymore. With about twelve minutes left to go
in the game fourth quarter, comes two quick fouls.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
He's out.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Don't you just call David Adam and say, dude, take
me out. I mean you're the coach anyway, aren't you. Hey,
I'm coming out. Did you get somebody else, I'm coming,
I'm coming out of the game.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Don't you do that?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Well, that's what we've been led to believe, right, the
demonstrated Nicola jokicch he's the guy calling the shots. At
this point, you throw the damn towel, you go put
a suit on, and then you coach up the rest
of the game. I guess, just ridiculous. And right now
the you know, the soul searching kind of thing. Gordon
goes three for twelve, but Michael Porter Junior is an
absolute no show once again. He was terrible in game one.
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He's terrible here and gives them nothing. And if you're watching,
the most interesting thing was watching like it was a
stock ticker, the live betting markets with five to eight
point swinging like it got out the plus forty three
and a half finishes and that was the last I
saw it because I even had to turn that off.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
It was so laughable.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
But it was in plus thirty. If you took the
Nuggets in the middle of the second half and plus
thirty two, you didn't come close.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, no, the game.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
The game was minus ten before tip off, and then
you're just watching it the whole way. It's like whoa,
this is really escalating. And you watched just down. Look
at how many guys get in in the box score.
You have what eight players for the thunder and double
digits trivia?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Yeah, what do you got, frostbar gohead? The Nuggets scored
one hundred and six points tonight, right? Yes? Is that
more or less than Rockies runs all year? Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Whoa?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Oh? More?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
More?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Absolutely more? Yes, the answer is way more, is it?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I don't know that fact.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I just know it's true. I just know.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I just know it just feels true. So who's happier,
You Smith or Ben Stiller?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Oh, I'm way happier than Ben Stiller.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Ben Steeler did a podcast that he was upset saying that,
you know, Jalen Brunson like hugs Marishka Hargan after every game,
like she's become like the big Knicks fan that He's like, yeah,
it doesn't say and Brunson said, yeah, I see him
at most games, but I don't seem risko hardtey a lot.
And he grew up watching SVU and he's a huge fan.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
So I'm like, yeah, no, okay, I think I think
I think it's me.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
I think that's the SVU films on location in the city.
What is it, you're twenty six, twenty seven, whatever it is.
At this point, she's an institution Ben Stiller. Maybe he
doesn't like or doesn't have Apple so he can't watch severings.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
That could be right. Maybe she'll arrest in next for
stealing Doom Doom Doom Dune Michel Bridges and Special on SVU.
He was arrested for stealing twice.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
So I haven't had a w NBA head in the
case like two weeks ago on Oh Orders, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Was it everybody jealous of this one new star that
comes into the league and except you know, because it's
a TV show.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Someone took it.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Over the top.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
It hit some of that stuff. Okay, all right, some
elements getting down.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I have an answer with Frostburg's Rockies or Nuggets question
six points from the Nuggets.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Oh, I said, I don't know as the fact. I
just know it's true. You know I have the right answer. No,
I have the answer now, so I would do what
what what do you guys want to take? Dude?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
The Rockies have more runs this season than the Nuggets
scored points.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I just know it's true. Okay, Okay, I'm going.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
I'm gonna say that Frostburg put it out and it's
actually fact without him knowing it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Okay, the Rockies have scored the fewest runs in Major
League Baseball. Okay, just so we know going in, they
have scored the fewest runs in Major League Baseball. Final
score Nuggets one oh six, Rockies one twelve. The six
they scored tonight, they they needed the sixth tonight to book. Yes,
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they get two threes at the end to break that
one o six one oh six high. That's what happened.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Are they're playing the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Oh, I get to watch White Sox. Marlins on, I
know you're jealous.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Even though White White Sox have like one hundred and
thirty runs score they that looks like the Dodgers offense
compared to the Rockey double digit wins.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I mean, come on, let's go, Mike.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
That could be a twenty innings zero zero game and I.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Will be drunk as hell, no throwing up by the fifteenth.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
They say, listen, we just start with the bases loaded.
Teams still aren't scoring runs. We don't know what's asw
long is your cupsnake going to be Mike.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
With the people. I'm gonna be at the game with that.
That could get extensive.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yeah, that might have to get one of those special
milkshakes that they advertise the hell out of every year.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
We got milkshakes.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
It does bring everybody to the yard. That's Jets. Ye absolutely,
if it's better than yours. So a big trade in
the NFL today is the.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Dallas Cowboys search for number two wide receiver is over
because they landed George Pickens from the Steelers. Twenty twenty
six third round pick goes to the Steelers. Cowboys also
going to send a fifth round pick and get back
a sixth round pick. So it's basically George Pickens and
a sixth round pick for a third and a fifth
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round pick. All right, So now let's look at this
story from both sides. First of all, again I ask
you do you think Jerry Jones thinks he traded for
Carl Pickens.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Who's a hell of a receiver back in the dad.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
It's really he's really athletic.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Watching with the back would have been now he begles
a lot.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
He's he was good.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'll tell you bat Carl Pickens, he's really let's let's
go get him, Let's go.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
But that would have been that's right about the time
where Jerry really did think he knew everything right, because
that was about the time he was getting rid of
Jimmy Johnson.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Oh, you're probably right, okay, right.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
I mean, look, Pickets comes into the league in ninety two.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Yeah, oh yeah, oh that pick.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
And then he has three straight years ninety four to
ninety six where he's over one thousand yards and over
that period he scores a total of forty touchdowns. Yeah,
I could believe that it was Carl Pinins so out
of Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Look, this is the quintessential Cowboys move to make right,
the high risk, high reward move that has really defined
you talk about what what's defined Jerry Jones as an
owner of the last decade plus, it's been We're going
all in on the high risk, high reward moves. We're
gonna draft players high. We're gonna go draft guys that
are hurt but they would normally project to be first
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round picks. We're gonna go do this because this is
how the Cowboys have.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Because when you spend money badly, and the Cowboys have
spent money badly for going up well going on thirty years,
but really the last ten years, with the end, with
the increase in the in the in the in the
salary cap every year, and how and how much room
teams have, Uh, the Cowboys still find a way to
not have money. So this is a quintessential high risk,
high reward move where Okay, it's George Pickens who is
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incredibly talented, but boy, the guy really can't get out
of his own way right now. I'll be honest with you,
I like this move for the Cowboys now.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Not because I think.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
George Pickens is suddenly gonna be unbelievably awesome and realize
all his potential and you know, catch a hundred balls.
But the cow Sometimes when you when you need to be,
you need to fill a position. Needed that net second
wide receiver, right, you need a running back to but okay,
you needed that second wide receiver, another weapon for Dak Prescott.
Sometimes you can only do what's the best possible outcome,
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not reach for the stars. Let's go get a super
let's go get Jamar Chase, like okay, not all you
can't always do that, but sometimes it's what's the best
guy out there? We can go get all right, it's
George Pickens because he's available, because he's a knucklehead, he's
available for us, and we're got to trade a third
round pick to go get him. So this is what's
out there. It's a quintessential Cowboy move, and honestly, it's
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worth the risk, right because you're outside of that. What
we're gonna do, Go sign Allen Lazard. It's gonna come
play wide receiver. You know, there was no other solution
out there for the Cowboys, right. They wanted to take
tedor Roa McMillan at the number twelve spot, but he
was already gone, so they didn't take a receiver in
the draft. Okay, at this point you still need something. Okay, Yes,
it's high risk, but there was no other better move
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to make. So you went out there and took a risk. Okay,
Maybe George Pickens winds up straightening up and with the
star on the side of his helmet, he turns it.
He needed to get away from Mike tolland whatever reason,
he gets out of there and maybe it works out.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Now maybe it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
But before that happens, I'll first guess this and tell
you that, Yeah, sometimes the risks are worth it. Is
the risk worth it for the Cowboys for a third
round pick, all right, bet, you know, exchanging the fifth
and sixth, that's fine, but you're exchanging George Pickens, who
is incredibly talented and could be a difference maker for
a third round pick, because if this pick hits, the
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Cowboys become a playoff team. If this pick hits, if
this move hits, they become a playoff team because good
luck stop and both of these guys up and down
the field Ceedee Lamb is as good as they come.
Right at the worst, he's the second best receiver in
the NFL. And now you add George Pickens, who ay
if he straightens up and flies right and can find
a way here fresh start with Dallas, they're a playoff team.
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So yes, I like the guts and I like the
move for the Cowboys, even though it's something we've seen
and you can dismiss it and say, yeah, he's the
Cowboys do this. No, there's no other risks out there,
there's no other receivers you can get out there and get.
So you go get the guy that has great upside,
and maybe it works because the alternative is you don't
get anybody and then the offense is terrible. So all right, then,
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so at least they went out and got somebody that
maybe can come through. So honestly, I like the gamble.
I like the risk on this.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
You are pot committed to a massive contract for Dak Prescott.
Dak Prescott went on the field as an accurate passer, right,
that is not disputed. Whether he actually delivers the football
before taking a bad sack and some of that is
a whole other discussion point and his availability. But all
of that, to say, George Pickens, part of the knuckleheadedness
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and frustration is that there was no chance in hell
he was getting a catchable ball, oftentimes down the field, right,
how many routes did you run? And when you'd get
the overhead shot right, you go to the all twenty
two when they'd start doing game and film review, it's like, wow,
he was wide open. They never looked his way.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Maybe some of.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
That gets fixed, right because of the attention on CD
LAMB that you only you know the safety is going
the opposite way and you're getting single man coverage to
where you're gonna be able to make some big plays.
So part of that is there and the guy behind
the scenes right a locker room, You're gonna get a
lot of noise and trying to discern what's true and false.
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I don't know. We talked with Jason Cole about it earlier.
He said he wouldn't touch him. I say, you've got
you've got to go for broke at this point. For
Jerry Jones, right, we keep talking about, you know, your
football mortality, mortality in general, and the opportunity to make
a splash. Well, the only way he tops this is
if he signs that running back who's out there squat
and eight hundred pounds and saying, hey, I'm ready to
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go and brings in Nick Chubb because Javonte Williams ain't
getting it done. So that's the other bold move he
can make over the top. But for George Pickens, it's
a modest cost. You take the shot and if it fails,
no harm done, because as of now he is not
on some massive deal that's going to prohibit and limit
you from doing other moves down the stretch. He's got
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to prove it year with Dak Prescott in that offense,
Let's see if he can.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah, I mean, look if there was a better I
mean I get that it's easy to jump up and
down on Jerry Jones and the Cowboys and say what
do you do? But like what else is out there?
Like real, what else were you gonna do? Who else
are you gonna go get? Yeah, at this point, because
of the way you manage the team, you have to
go get risky and there's risks that are worth it
and there's risks that are not worth it. And a
third man, I get a third round pick now, giving
(26:33):
up a fourth round pick for Trey Lance boy not good, right,
fourth round pick for Jonathan Mingo boy not good? But
third round pick for George Pickens, who is really talented.
I mean, you can't deny how talented the guy is.
He just has to get his head on right. And
and yeah, you're crossing your fingers and hoping that it's
gonna happen. But you know what, we've seen Jerry Jones
do this right. I didn't like the Amari Cooper tray
(26:54):
when they made it. Guess what, Amari Cooper was terrific.
There's some guys that brought it and said, yeah, I
don't know, and it works. Now, not all the guys
work and not all the guys have worked enough to
make them into a really good team.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
But here's your.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
One move, and the one move you have to make
offensively is to bring in someone really talented. So yeah,
all right, third round pick for him, that's worth the risk.
Because you're always saying, Okay, risk reward, risk reward. If
you're not really risking a lot, it's not that big
of a risk. It's almost like it's a freebie. Hey,
we brought George Pickens in and and if he hits,
boy boy, things are gonna be absolutely fantastic. And if not, okay,
(27:28):
we move on and we try to do something else different.
Or if you come the same thing, but we go
on to do something else the next time, we can.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
But that's just it.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
I mean, the only option is the other football news
was the release out of Jacksonville?
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Right, is that gonna do it? No? I mean, is
this the uh? Do you go back and get Amari Cooper?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Hi? Gabe?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Right?
Speaker 5 (27:51):
And right?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Davis, this is just a guy.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
He is just But that's what I mean, Like you
look at the rest Keenan Allen, he's not a difference.
Make Yeah, he'll move some move the chains, but He's
not a guy that's that's taken due to the promised land.
He's a nice piece and and he'll be signed at
some point. I don't buy a squad that decides they
need that veteran presence, uh and a guy that will
just keep the offense on the field to protect a
(28:16):
shell of a defense somewhere. But otherwise there's nobody the
rest of the remaining You brought Allen Lazar, right, because
he's the guy that becomes the obviously, well, Aaron Rodg'
is gonna go to the Pittsburgh A slide in there, Like, what.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Are we doing.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Here's a guy that's clearly a proven talent. Whether you
can figure out what's in his head to get him
to play seventeen quality games and go to the playoffs, well,
I think it's worth the risk, because, as we've seen,
draft picks, even in the first round, are no sure
things for any squad, and sure as hell not in Dallas.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Exit Albouta Fresca, Exit Swelling Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Time now to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports
from some one who hit two home runs today except one.
Soto's not available, so MACI belongs. We'll tell us what's trending.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Ah, that was good.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
That was good.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I made me laugh.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Thank you. I woke me up because everything's now I
feel like I was. I put so much energy and
excitement into that NIXT game, right, and then the OKC
game was so boring. Yeah, and now I'm just like,
oh I today, have some tea. I'm ready to take
a little nap. And also everything is wrapped up in sports. Yes,
the thunder blew out the Nuggets one forty nine to
one oh six. That series is now tied at one apiece.
(29:33):
OKC scored eighty seven points in the first half, which
was an NBA postseason record for the most points in
any half. Shake Gildas Alexander thirty four points and eight
assists in the win. Nicola Jokic absolutely fouled out on
purpose with one minute to go in the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Scott Foster.
Speaker 7 (29:51):
Back to back really offensive fouls were called on Jokic,
but I think he did it on purpose.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Hey, Hey, do you want to get out of the game. Yes, sorry,
I got thank got got going.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I got you, I got.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
You I'm near the play, I'm raising my hand.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Scott Foster is like, I'm really good at this.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Don't worry.
Speaker 7 (30:08):
The Knicks are down twenty and once again came back
to defeat the Celtics.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
No, no, no, I'm telling you I found.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
It.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
No, I'm really good at this.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
I'm saying Nick's edge.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
The Celtics ninety one to ninety, once again, down twenty.
Once again, it did not matter. Jalen Brunson hits the
go ahead shot late in the fourth quarter. Ends with
seventeen points and seven assists. Carl Anthony Towns twenty one point,
seventeen rebounds, Josh Cartt twenty three points. The Celtics have
missed to combine seventy five to three point attempts in
their first two games. There are twenty five out of
one hundred. Jason Tatum five of nineteen from the field,
(30:43):
thirteen points and fourteen rebounds.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Go on New York, Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
In the NHL playoffs. Two games also have wrapped up.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
The Maple Leaves top the Panthers forty three to take
a two zero series lead. The Stars just edged the
Jets three to two. Miko Rantonen had a back to
back hat trick. He had one in games seven against
the Avalanche. Dallas now leads that series one zero. In baseball,
the last game has wrapped up yes Hore Solaire with
the three RBI double as the Angels walk it off
against the Blue Jays. Five to four was the final score.
(31:13):
The Philly shout out the race seven zero. The Tigers
had an eight to six win over the Rockies in
ten innings, and the Red Sox took down the Rangers
sixty four. Alex Bregman hit his two hundredth career homer
in that one, and the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Walked it off against the Padres.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Four to three in ten innings, while Juan Soto homer
twice and the Mets outscored the Diamondbacks seven to one.
And yes, the Dodgers crushed the Marlins ten one. Freddy
Freeman three or four with four RBIs in that one.
Back to you guys, thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Did you bet that game?
Speaker 6 (31:41):
I did not?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
I should yeah, I should have should have, all right,
because they lost yesterday.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
So you know, like you if you would expect the
Dodgers to win today after losing yesterday in ten innings,
I should have, just so.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
You know next step four.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
If the Knicks get down twenty in game, bet them
in game.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Yes, right, the safest.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Bet right there, there is safest bet.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Well, they're not gonna quit, They're gonna get.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Yeah, they did frost.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
If you know that they lost twenty, I know, go
New York, Go New York.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
God did they really?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I've created monsters here on the show, Mike Carmon, Yes,
what's your final score?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Move down? And suddenly everybody lost their mind.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
That's how it goes lots.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
He's still recovering from the Clippers loss. Anybody that's ever
hurt the Lakers, he's mad.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
So we got more NBA on the way, but coming
up next, nobody needs my advice more than Tom Brady
after what he said today. That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Listen, Fox Sports Radio Radio.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. How about live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios. We got more NBA coming up in a
few minutes. But there is nobody who needs my pr
advice more Ben Raiders owner Tom Brady and broadcaster Tom Brady.
(33:10):
So Brady, who of course has been advising the Raiders,
you know, since he helped buy into the team and
they go to him for a lot of decisions. I
did a podcast with Logan Paul that's starting to gain
a lot of attention, which they ask him about the
situation with Shador Sanders. Now, I remember Shador Sanders is
a player that Tom Brady has been mentoring. In fact,
(33:31):
Shador Sanders is wearing twelve in the NFL because of
Brady's mentoring. So the question was, hey, you know Shador
Sanders fell to the fifth round. What did you guys
have on him? What was the discussion, like, you know,
why didn't you guys draft him? And here's Tom Brady's
answer from the podcast.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Should or Sanders? What happened? Tom? Why why did he
go so late in the draft? It's a good question.
I was.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
I wouldn't have part of any evaluation process or I know, well,
everyone's got every you know, that's a problem with media
is everyone can just say whatever want. I actually texted
Shador because I'm know him very well, and I said, dude, like,
whatever happens wherever you go, like that's your first day
Day two matters more than the draft.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
I was one ninety nine. Yeah, so who could speak
on it better than me?
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Like, what that really means?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Use it as motivation.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
You're gonna get your chances, Go take advantage of it.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Okay, first of all, let's say this.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Uh, there's no way Tom Brady was not involved in
any sort.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Of decision on your door standards.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
There's just just the way the question was phrased. Yeah,
what how I wait out immediately?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, well I wasn't in the ro I wasn't. Really,
you're not in the room. A guy you are mentoring
who is free falling through the draft and the question
on everybody's draft board is what's wrong with him? Why
should should we take him? What's going on? You're telling
me that a guy who you have been leaning on,
right that John Spytech even said the GS, Hey he
helps us with everything, right, Pete Carroll, he helps with everything?
(35:02):
Oh no, No, Suddenly now a guy that he was
mentoring wasn't in the room and they didn't ask him
his opinion on it. That's a load of crap. That's
an absolute load of crape. There's no way. But secondly,
I want to say this because he went on to
get med and talk about broadcast because skip Bayless put
out a tweet saying that, oh, you know, Brady wasn't
They didn't like she door Sanders, Okay, And so now
(35:24):
Brady is upset that that's going out there on social
media that oh, you know, Skip Bayless says, you didn't
want you door Sanders. Brady's got to understand this that
you're a broadcaster to Fox is paying Tom Brady a
lot of money, right, And he had a very uneven
first year. He had some moments where and I really,
I'm I'm I'm the most surprised guy in the world.
I thought he was gonna be great right away, but
(35:45):
he wasn't. And the thing is is, Tom Brady, you
have to realize you are in the media. You gotta
bring it.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Doesn't mean you have to say things that are outlandish,
but you have to bring it, and you have to
act like you're in the media.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
You can't hold back or think about relationships with players
or social media feuds. You have to say what you think.
And if it's critical of a player, it's critical.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Of a player.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
If it's not, it's not. And Brady, you know, just
seeing him this year and seeing him talk and you
hear him in this podcast, you're like, yeah, he seems
very outspoken, but he's very reticent and very hesitant to
say things very critical of players, which I'm sorry, that's
what you have to do. Fox didn't pay you thirty
seven and a half million dollars a year to say, Eh,
that block could have been better.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Oh that's great, Okay, Ah.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
You know that.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
No, you have to bring it.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
That's something that in this in this area, in this
era of sports, has always been true. Whether you like
hot takes or not, it doesn't matter, but you need
to be strong with your opinions and not be afraid
to be critical. You're in the media now, you are.
You are getting paid more money to be a media
member than you're doing to doing anything else. And it's
a thirty seven and a half million dollars a year
(36:54):
contra it's got another nine more years. So once you
understand you are in the media, things will be better
for you because I can't tell you how many the
graveyard of former players who Hey, when they do their
auditions for networks or they get they get they do
a couple of podcasts and suddenly they sound great, and
then they get big jobs and suddenly they drive right
(37:15):
to the middle. Well, I don't want to turn on
my phone after and get a text from this guy
saying this I don't want it, and all of a sudden, Hey,
guess what they do a year in there? Let go
because hey, we can't have you on if you're not
gonna say anything. And that's what Brady's got to realize.
You are part of the media now, and you need
to be strong with what you say. You criticize media
for everything. Oh, you can say whatever they want to. Yeah,
(37:36):
well you could say what you want to and you
can back it up with the experience of being the
best quarterback that any of us have ever seen. Yet
you are hesitant to do that. That's my advice for
him is, dude, you just got to bring it and
understand you're in the media too.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
I mean, look, he didn't sideswipe the other stuff with
skip if he could have gone down a whole other rabbit,
oh sure on it, sure, but just left it as
a everybody's got it a pay Well, that's your being
paid for. And that's why you know where you're trying
to have one foot uh in the media world and
one foot in the business of running a football business. Uh,
(38:12):
you're you're you're in dangerous waters because you can't really
do every either job with everything you've got right, because
you're not going to be hypercritical of players because you
need to sign free agents retain the ones you have.
If you're recently retired, you still have a lot of
connections within the league. That's why it's the best when
guys who who have been able to establish their lives
(38:34):
post playing career and then come back to it, they're
not beholden to it right. It's it's a fun check.
It's a fun job, but they're doing it because they
want to versus uh, they're beholden uh to not being
overly critical. So that that's where you're the best, or
you you're around long enough to where you can send
blank you to everybody like.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Barkley and company.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
But for Tom Brady, you're just in in that that
terrible space where now you you're talking about nothing.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Look, I we either want to be loved or hated.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
The worst thing people to go go nah And as
a broadcaster like that, take nobody believes you and they're
gonna shrug and go eah yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Yeah, But what can you do yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Right right, we're gonna do right, You're gonna say, I
don't believe you.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
You're disingenuous. You sidestepped the question about shad Or Sanders.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah, I mean look here, because.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
The question should have been directly you had six bites
at the apple or seven bites before he was drafted.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Why didn't you guys take him?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
You gotta be able to answer that. Right again, if
he wasn't in the media, I would understand, but he
wants to be critical of the media and he's also
in it. But yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna die. I
wasn't in the room, Like, I don't don't give that's
a load of crap, man, Just stop. They didn't ask me,
Like yeah, oh hey, we went to ask Tom, but
I didn't have his number so we couldn't call him.
So yeah, it wasn't ntil after the draft, So yeah, yeah,
(39:51):
we'll talk to Tom at some point.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I mean, really, that's what he wants us to believe,
is online one, Tom, I just work here.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Man, exit out out of Fresco at Swollen Dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Carmon Coming up next, we get back into the
biggest story of the night and I issue one of
my biggest apologies.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
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