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Speaker 1 (00:32):
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just search Jason Smith Show. Mike and I love putting
this content out for you every single night. We got
more NFL coming up in about twenty minutes, but big
night in the NBA. Uh Lakers have a four point
lead over the Pelicans right now, I have not seen
any sort of confrontation between Luca and JJ Reddick, but
it is early in the third quarter, so still some time.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, just ahead a halftime, there was a little bit
of a conference between Luca and all the officials.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, but that's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I mean what he does. It was but it was
like he was holding a press conference for them.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
They all know.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I think they all got to like you.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
No, I think they all got together and said, hey,
we're all sick of you whining every single time down
the floor. Dude, We're not going to give you every call.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Okay, it's gonna make the more you want, the more
it's gonna make us not want to blow the whistle
for you. Okay, you're on the same page. You you good, Okay,
let's go. Yeah, I have a good half time.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And while your guy JJ Reddick wasn't in the face
of Luka Doncis, he didn't look particularly happy as he
was going to the locker room given that halftime interview.
H with the narrow lead over the Pelicans. But here
we are now, I do have a bit of a
solution for the biggest problem the NBA is facing.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, the big problem that we can say no the Knicks.
The Knicks and one of the few teams go to
the finals, put some respect on that. We talked about
this the beginning of the show tonight. Tonight was throwback night. Yeah,
the games on NBC, going back and using the NBA
on NBC graphics from the nineties, the salad days of
the NBA. Right, they did it for the first game
(02:21):
between the Spurs and the Sixers. The Spurs went to
the fourth quarter of forty nine on the Sixers. They
won this game.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Please stick around. We created a lot of cool throwback
package just to show you.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Uh, and a game that tipped less than an hour ago,
because you know we're gonna hold it up.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Phoenix and Sacramento is a one point game, forty six,
forty five. This game also using all the graphics and
bells and whistles from the NBN NBC the days in
the nineties.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
A lot of empty seats there in Sacramento. But this
is where I solve problems my car because I my
problem solved. Good for you problems over come on now
solve the next.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Sucking dude, dude, make make it, make it make it
real like everybody knows, like South Carl dude did. Did
you just raise your voice to me? You just raise
And also I don't think Mick Cronin's throw anybody out
of the game yet in you see.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, no, no, we're keeping an eye on that developing.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, you never know. That game is in the second
half now, so it could happen anytime. Steve de Seger
is glued to a television to see if that that
is actually going to happen.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
He is, though, I mean is with rapped attention, no question.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Forty nine point game going to the fourth quarter for
the Spurs and the Sixers. I mean, come on, how
embarrassing it is in the NBA. It's embarrassing now that
and this is why, oh, tanking is so great. I
don't know how much longer the NPA can go on
with nine out of ten games every night on the
slate being blowouts, teams winning by ten, fifteen points or more.
(03:48):
That's the biggest problem the NBA has, right we talk
about tanking. Yes, that's an is, but this is part
of it here. I don't know what you expect or
how much longer you think people are going to watch
or go to games like they are when games or
blowouts like this. This is how and why tanking is
not gonna help anybody, because if you let teams tank
in the open. All these owners that think they're so smart,
(04:09):
What do you think is gonna happen if the games
every if everybody is tanking, doesn't have to worry about anything,
it's gonna be worse than it is right now. And
you look at tonight's games right where I say, you know,
when you have ten games out there, if you have
one game that you can say, hey it's a it's
a ten point game, or it's within five points where
the final couple of minutes it's close, you're lucky. Because
(04:33):
look at some of the games tonight. Hornets won by
twenty seven, right, Cavillers beat the Pistons, close game. Hey,
great game, mark again, that's awesome. Right, Magic won by seventeen,
Heat won by twenty seven, Knicks one by sixteen, Spurs
one by forty, the te Wolves one by seven, Thunder
one by eight. Like, we're not getting close games, and
most of them are absolute blowouts to the point where, hey,
(04:56):
if a team wins by eight to ten, oh that's
a close game, and that's not gonna do it anymore.
That's really not gonna do it. And most of these games,
even though they look close at the end, they're out
of They're out of reach. By the third quarter, they're
twenty twenty five point games. This is this is the
biggest problem in the NBA has. You can't keep going
on like this and expecting the TV ratings are still
gonna be there and people are still gonna go to games. Now,
(05:18):
here's where I solve a problem a little bit, right.
It's like a I can't the going to games thing.
I can't, but I can solve the TV problems because
I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
More throwback graphics.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
If you put the NBN NBC graphics on all of
these games, people would tune in to watch because I
even like seeing how they put Hey, look at the
games going on thursdaynight. Oh, this is a simple graphic
of Hey, the Knicks are playing Thursday night, just to
just to hey, here information you could get anywhere whenever
(05:47):
you wanted it. What's the games on Thursday night?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
But just the fact just seeing the NBC logo in
the court of the screen and making it look like
the nineties, and every graphic that goes up the player's
name is so big, the font is so big on them.
Like I find myself continuing to watch this game just
because I like seeing locos out there. I don't know what.
It's like a calming thing. It's like, you know, hey,
people who do things like balance their checkbook to to
(06:11):
kind of relax at the end of the day. Some
people like to read or do crossword puzzles, like I
find myself watching this game even though what does it matter.
It's the Suns and the Kings. But I consider and
I can hear Marv Albert's voice saying, and here we
are the Sacramento Kings and Vladi Dvots welcoming in Dan
Marley and the Suns, the NBA on NBC, the call
(06:32):
myself and Matt Gucus, like I could just something just
triggers me in my mind where I like that, and
I think a lot of people like that. And maybe
I think if you did some sort of you did
some sort of of of social experiment where you said, okay,
you put a game out there that people watched. It
was a blowout, but you put the same game with
(06:53):
the NBA and NBC graphics even if it's not you know,
NBC but ESPN doesn't matter. Put the graphics out there.
More people would watch just because it's fun to see
the graphics on TA see.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I think this is where we go to Andy's room
or some of those other things we've done for the NFL,
or like they did on Christmas Day where it was
Mickey Mouse and Company on Main Street.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
No, I don't want to turn it into an absolute joke. No,
give me something to say. Okay, let's go back to
the night. I'm telling you nineties.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Look, man, I'm trying to help you out as ninety
nostalgia is there.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Do that?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Or or we do we cut off our nose to
spide our face by putting up a video embargo like
they do for the NHL and they did for the Olympics.
You want to watch put up a stickman graphic, you can,
but you can't use the highlights of the game's over.
That'll that'll learn them get in there and you gotta
watch it live and watch it unfold as it happens. No,
(07:45):
I don't know that you put the genie back in
the bottle. But it is that difficult proposition where the NBA,
while they have all these rights deals and the beauty
of these streamers is there's so many different companies and
entities vying for a piece of that pie. That live action,
add the gambling companies, add all of that that you're
(08:07):
gonna be able to run this for a little while longer,
but eventually you got to get to that next ad bye,
Which is why I think they were so aggressive in
putting out the Hey, look how well our NBA on
NBC games are doing. Look at the ratings to this
point ahead of this historic night where we got the
czar of the Telestrader back with Doug Collins, where we've
(08:30):
got Bob Costas and Jim Gray and everybody assembled, as
well as all the other luminaries through the years, John
Tesh doing his faux bouncing to the ball as we
get that dramatic theme song going. But all of that
to say, you have the Olympics helping to prop you up.
So we'll wait to see what happens in the coming
weeks whether you can keep that without that powerhouse lead
(08:53):
in or back end. You know that sandwich that we've
had going on, how those ratings train late in these
final weeks, where was Peter.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Vess oh on at halftime, Peter Vessi inside the NBA
all the latest on trade rumors, but right now it's
all west fall and Walter Davis about to attack the
Kings and Phil Ford right now on NBC.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
In rewind they just not pick up their phone or no, no,
Madrashad was what will Obey?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Was that the will is not his co host on
the hhow yeah, yeah, yeah, well I think it was
will Obey.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It was, There's no question about it.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But look, but to be honest about this throwback stuff
in the NBA, like we're at this point now, just
think about this for a second. Wouldn't it be great
if the NBA playoffs began right now? Okay, beginning of March.
When you start the playoffs, the last twenty games, as
we've seen, the NBA calendar are useless, right. I've told
you for a long time, fifty five sixty games is
(09:55):
the right number. I thought you could start playing Christmas
Day and go. But okay, you want to start November.
You don't want to be away for too long. I
get that. But just think about the after effects of
the Super Bowl in middle of February now, because now
it's a little bit later because we added the extra
week super Bowl middle of February, coaches getting fired, we
had the Olympics, you have teams reporting to Major League
Baseball camp all of a sudden, back then you're into
(10:17):
the last couple weeks of the NBA regular season. In Bam,
here come the playoffs. I get that March for the
last couple of weeks is the NCAA tournament. But you're
really talking about one week of where you're balancing NBA
action and NCAA action. So okay, it's one week, you
can figure that out. But twenty games here where you're
talking about an era in the NBA now where these
(10:37):
games are all burials. They don't matter. Nothing changes in
the standings more than a team moving up or down
one spot. Maybe a team moves up from the seventh
spot into the top six, or they're out of the
play in games, or one team moves from out of
the playing round into the playing round. But is that's
all the drama you're getting on the last twenty some
odd games of the season. They're useless. You don't need them.
(10:58):
Just if you jumped in to the NBA playoffs right now, okay,
because the NBA players so long, right, NBA playoffs are long.
You got March into April and then May, all of
a sudden, you have a sports calendar that just just
revs up and just goes Super Bowl, into the into
the into the the NBA playoffs beginning of the MLB
regular season. You really don't take any downtime away because
(11:21):
all we're doing now is we're punching time cards in
the NBA waiting for the playoffs. Look, every night's a burial,
every night's a blowout. Again, you get one really good game,
one game coming down to the final, because you don't
even get one game's coming down to the final possession.
I mean, I'm talking about a if you have a
game in the final two minutes, it's a four point game,
that's a close game, that's a really good game. Now
we have watered down the league so much that that
(11:43):
twenty some odd games are really irrelevant. I mean, it's
never gonna happen because the NBA is gonna say, well,
we're losing money, we have X, Y and Z, but
you want to talk about putting a good product out there.
The NBA is gonna continue to sit here and say
we'll lose money, we can't make changes. We can have less.
The NBA is the own sport right now, where less
is more where you can have less of the product
(12:03):
and the product be better. They're gonna sit here and
say we'll lose money. Well, lose money and lose money.
But how long do you have to go to and
tell you say, Okay, you see all the money we've
lost because you won't change anything. That's the money we've
lost that we if we had changed and not had games,
if we had cut the series, the season down twelve games,
fifteen games, started the playoffs here, added a tournament in
the middle. Hey, guess what we'd be reaping the rewards
that making more money. I mean the NBA. Really, you're
(12:26):
at that point now where with teams tanking and all
of this, you got twenty some odd games are really irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
At some point you'll have to pay the piper for now.
You continue down this path with all of these entities
again vying for parts of the broadcast schedule and the
exclusive rights to games here, there, and everywhere. Kind of
like when we start with our true TV or not
true TV game here in short order of where do
(12:52):
I find it on my broadcast schedule? But for the NBA,
I have the other I modest propose we don't cut
games these are now the second in season tournament.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I'd be for something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You want you want that number one pick.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
In Season Tournament one. Now here's in Season Tournament two
I S T one, I S T two, I S
T two ICT one IC one.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
At the end of the year, they vibe for the
Ultimate Fighting champions I.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
SD one and two and the winner of I S
T one plays the winner of I s T two
and have a championship. I mean, you, guy, you have
to do something to make the regular season mean something,
because it's teams have decided we don't care about the
regular season. It's irrelevant. We don't care about our seedings,
we don't care about anything.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, but you know what they the chaos of it
all is when you're doing betting at this point in
the year, trying to do over unders on all right,
Victor webbin Yama today, I'm sure his total points was
far higher than the.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
He played eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
But that's what I mean you that that's another angle
you now have to play. Hey, how how much is
he actually gonna have to play in this game?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Exit up bout a Fresca, Exit swallen home. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio Stutors. Just
look about if the NBA playoffs began, now, how good
that would be?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Next?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, you're kidding, man, Come on, man, we're going We're
one of five teams have a chance to go to
the front.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Day.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Really current leaders in your odds as it will city
right now? Oklahoma City is first, San Antonio and Denver
both at plus seven fifty. You've got the Celtics at
plus nine hundred, followed by Cleveland the Knicks at plus
sixteen hundred. Same odds as your Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh Detroit basketball. Coming up next, we got a big
suspension to break down and tag day in the NFL.
A quarterback gets tagged? Is he gonna stick with his
old teams? He's gonna find a new home. That's next.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, third quarter coming to an end
at the crypt Lakers trail. The Pelicans seventy eight to
seventy five have not seen JJ Redick and Luka Doncic
talk or get mad at each other.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
But it could be coming.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Going to the fourth warner anytime now, tick tick tick tick.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
As JJ Reddick said, it's not a big deal. That's
that we were yelling, no, no, no, we forgot about it.
We're laughing about it. Yeah, okay, yeah, okay yeah, because
that yeah, that's nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That's what they're doing, laughing and lying, laughing and lying.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Luca looked like he wanted to fight Reddick. It looked
like he wanted to fight Reddick when he was when
he's he's yelling at him and he turns a walk away,
and Luca looks like, what did you just say to me?
And he's like, we're gonna He had to look on
his face like, what the hell? What did you you're saying?
You want a piece of me? I could drop you
(16:37):
like a bag of dirt. However you say you are
I am infinity. Ah so, uh again, We'll keep you
updated on this. This would be I did do infinity.
I did do infinity. Infinity? Dude, did you just raise
your voice to me? Raise your voice? Come on man?
Uh so again fourth quarter, Lakers down by two. We'll
(16:58):
see how things go. Things are all sun shine, lollipops
and rainbows, everything but a big suspension in Major League
Baseball today. Before we get to a big story out
of the NFL, Jerks and Profar gets a one hundred
and sixty two game suspension. That is a full season suspension,
because you know, one hundred and sixty two games after
(17:19):
running a foul of the league's drug program. Now, something's
been said about him throughout the day today that has
been completely incorrect. I want, I want, I want to
correct it because this is the way to think about it. Now.
He tested positive. This is the second time in a
year he has tested positive. For performance enhancing drug. Last year,
(17:39):
he tested positive and he was suspended for fifty games.
The Padre said, we stand by him, we look forward
to having him come back okay. But now one hundred
and sixty two games, second positive test in the year,
he's going to forfeit the entirety of his fifteen million
dollars salary. He is ineligible for the postseason. He was
(18:00):
scheduled the bat I think second and be the main
designated hitter for the Padres this year. He has just
taken his major league baseball career and flushed it down
the toilet, right. And these are peds that aren't oh,
I didn't know what These are all things that are
done like to fight stuff like breast enlargement and different
things like oh, that's all this crazy stuff. This is
(18:21):
used for a diabetes and this is what he is
tested positive for. And all day to this is a
big story all day and all I read so many
times was was people, these people with check marks and
stuff saying how stupid do you have to be, How
dumb do you have to be to try to do this?
How dumb? How stupid? This is stupid? You were stupid,
you did this and I want to say, you know,
(18:42):
just think about this for a second. In the very beginning,
when players were testing positive for PEDS, you could say,
you're stupid. You gotta read what's on there. You gotta
know what what you're putting in your body. You have
to understand that that this is something that could wind
up coming back to bite you right very And I'm
going back like fifteen years now. You go back to
(19:02):
the mid two thousands after Juice, when people start, oh, hey,
this stuff I was taking this had this in it.
I didn't know was over the counter, from Whole Foods,
whatever it was. Fifteen twenty years ago, I could say
all right and beginna, yeah, you gotta be sure. But
now it's the wrong thing to say. You're stupid. You're stupid,
You're stupid. This is what happens when you are desperate,
(19:23):
not when you are stupid, when you are so desperate
to continue your career that you believe, either wrongly or rightly,
that I need PEDS to succeed. That if I'm not
doing this, I'm not at my peak level and I
can't hit like I can, I can't play the field
like I can. Whatever it is. Because for guys, like this.
(19:46):
It's either a mental thing where hey, if I'm taking it,
I feel great and I feel better. It's got a
placebo effect on me that I'm taking this, But is
it really helping me? Or it is literally helping you,
because hey, this is helping me. It's helping me my
fast twitch muscles, whatever it is. It's helping me bounce
back from injuries more. But it's not about being stupid.
It's about being so desperate. Everybody knows what they're putting
(20:08):
in their body, but I know how bad it is.
I just got busted for it, and I'm gonna do
it again, and that shows you that you people don't
think rationally when it comes to situations like this anymore.
It's I don't care. I need to do this or
I'm not going to be a major leaguer. I want
to go. I want to make sure I have a
pretty dear. I'm thirty three years old. I want to
(20:29):
make sure I'm getting a contract at thirty four that
I hit pretty well and I get in there for
next year, because this is this is my peak earning years.
I'm not making more money than i'm making right now,
so I got to make sure and I am so
desperate to achieve that that this is what I wind
up doing, that that I'm okay running and riding the lightning,
that maybe this could come up bad and I could
wind up getting suspended, so to say, somebody stupid. Yeah
(20:50):
twenty years ago. Yeah, now it's just boy, how desperate
were they to have them get pulled and get caught
with a positive test?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah? I mean, we know, you know the right, You're
always looking for the way to outrun the system. And
that goes back, however many years, take it to the
greenies in the room. But all those years of fighting
testing and then you have the Mitchell Report and go
on down the line and depending on where you came
(21:18):
in in the process.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And I look at some of the.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Luminaries, guys that made millions of dollars and then became
the strongest. Hey, let me wag my finger at how
terrible this is while I watch guys that look like
something out of my Saturday Morning cartoons and turn the
turned my head and just said they must just be
spending that much more time in the weight room. Look
at how serious there No, no, no, no, no, I watched
it happen. You all got rich and fat from the teams,
(21:42):
to the players, to the broadcasters and everybody else, and
you just kind of shrugged and moved on. But we
look at a guy like Profara at this point, it's
the well they got me last year, Can I can
I figure out a way around it?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Last year it was for a product that produces more testosterone,
and you either physically still need it or you're saying, hey,
I look, I've made a lot of money. I can
make a little more if I can evade the testing
protocols and evade getting caught here, I'm gonna make fifteen millions.
So now the Braves are without a guy. You had
(22:18):
fifteen million.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Dollars per year?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What three year, forty two million dollar deal? Four fits
that can't play in the World Baseball Classic, and you know,
you get the these statements that come out again you
think you can evade the system, and in his case, no,
he got struck down for the second time. And to
your point, yeah, maybe you're desperate that you need it.
(22:41):
Maybe it's just the cavalier of well, I won't get
lightning won't strike twice. There's no way they're gonna test
They tested me again.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
God believe that.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Or you believe whatever you've read. I mean, how many
folks like you did you know back in the day
at Syracuse, Like, well, here's the way I can avoid
the tests that they're gonna give me. Whatever the home
remedies were, right, I know plenty of guys that were
running around drinking gallons of cranberry juice.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
If I eat the poppy seed bagels, I'll get a
false test. I'll say, hey, I didn't do anything, but
I had poppy seed bagels, and they'll have to give
me the test like in a month, right, yeah, okay, right.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
This will get out of my system in this many
days or whatever else. Like there's plenty of that with
profar might have thought he was gonna be in the
clear of that it was all right, I did this.
At this point, it's like, I know if the test
came early, right, because what do we talk about in
the NFL? You knew when you were gonna get tested?
Oh yeah, you got bopped? Yeah, like you were dope.
Not What did Brady Cachuk say? They drug tested him
(23:39):
right after the gold medal game. They walked in and
they drug testing right away. Congraduate here, right here, here's
a bottle. Go ahead, we need something from that, right, Like, guys,
right after big performance, how many kickers? Hey, I just
kicked a couple of fifty plus yard field goals. Hey,
pee in the cup?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, we do it for you right now. So again,
just understand it's it's not about being stupid, it's about
being desperate. Uh. Now, he got more baseball coming up
later on in the show. But today was tag day
in the NFL. Right, we talked about Breise Hall getting
the franchise tag. We talked about Kenneth Walker not getting
a tag at all. God be allowed to hit free agency.
(24:13):
Daniel Jones, quarterback of the Colts, was hit with the
seldom used transition tag. Now what is the transition tag?
You might say, Well, I'll explain it for you. I
feel like I should be doing with like those Jurassic
Park PowerPoint. What is the Creocene era? The tag guarantees
the Colts the right of first refusal for Daniel Jones,
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preserving the right to match any competing offer sheet he
might sign with another team. Okay, so this is what
the transition tag is. If Jones does not sign a
competing offer sheet, like nobody else wants to sign him.
He'll get a one year guaranteed salary of thirty seven
and a half million dollars. Okay, so this is this
is what they've done. The transition tag. It's a little
(24:56):
bit lower, but it's a little bit easier to match.
But this is what the the Colts have decided to do.
So it's right of first refusal for Daniel Jones if
no team signs him one year, thirty seven point eight
million dollars. I got news for the Colts. I got
news for lots of teams. It's great the Colts did this,
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and I know they feel like maybe we were riding
the lightning on this. Nobody was gonna do this for
Daniel Jones. No one is going in like this with
money for Daniel Jones. Nobody is. Daniel Jones is a
quarterback of one, meaning there's one team that thinks he's
really valuable and he is to that team. Because this
is why we say there's a system for everybody. I
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told you last what last offseason, Daniel Jones. Watch out
him and the Colts. He's gonna take over and watch
what he's gonna do with all those offensive weapons. It's
gonna play right into what he does well, and Daniel
Jones is having a Pro Bowl type season before he
wind up getting knocked out. For the other Colts, we're
steaming towards being the number one seed in the AFC.
Daniel Jones gets hurt and they're finishing the season with
Philip Rivers at quarterback. But nobody else is at this
(26:02):
point saying, hey, we want to go spend a lot
of money on Daniel Josh. Minnesota might wanted to bring
him back, but no one's gonna spend that kind of
money on him. Yeah, if Daniel Jones was out there
for free, okay, I can see, you know, because hey,
he clearly showed that, you know what, he restarted his career.
But the money that he would be due, teams are
(26:23):
looking at guys like Kyler Murray and Gino Smith is
gonna be out there and two and they're saying, yeah,
they're gonna be less money and they actually have a
little bit better resume. Daniel Jones would be interesting if
I didn't have to pay anything for him. He's valuable
to the Colts, but that's really it, and there's no
way he's leaving. He wants to have a nice, long
career in the NFL. He's not gonna jump and sign
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someplace else. Say yeah, they want me, I'm going here. No,
he knows. Hey, I went to Indianapolis and I had
the best year of my career. I was fantastic. I
want to go back there. There should be so much
interest in him going back and the Colts having him.
This should be unnett necessary. But I get the Colts
wanting to protect them because you don't know how things
are gonna go. But there was no even in the offseason,
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all of this talk about Daniel Judges. Daniel Jones is
coming back to the Colts. He's gonna heal, He's gonna
get back. They're gonna make him the number one quarterback
again because they saw how good he was. And they'll
bring back Alec Pierce. That's the big one.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You want to bring him back because he's averages, you know,
thirty seven yards of reception. But Daniel Jones, I never
thought there was any situation where he wouldn't be going
back to the Colts.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
No, it's just a question of what type of deal
it was gonna be. On the fact that he used
this transition tag, the estimation is that it's fewer than
two dozen since it was brought in nineteen ninety three.
But you talk about a thirty seven million dollar price
in a row, I line them up dollar bills that
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you're just looking at a huge amount of money and
nobody else is going on to that level like he
would have had interest, no question about it. We talked
about Kyler Murray and the fact that the the Cardinals
still have to pay him nearly that same amount. I mean,
someone's gonna get a bargain because you know they're not
gonna have to pay him that much since he's already
getting that kind of deal. But I guess you would
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wonder if Minnesota would give him a multi year deal
or one of these other squads would decide, hey, that
was we saw enough with Steichen, Hey we like what's
been generated there. But coming back off injury, Anthony Richardson's
already been given permission to go figure out a trade
partner that for the Colts, yeah, you want to keep
building on what was a very successful first half of
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a year. I'm presuming he's healthy and ready to go.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
He is the first quarterback to get the transition tag
since nineteen ninety six. Ninety six Jeff George getting the
transition tag in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I saw his name on the list. I didn't realize
he was last.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Jeff's never did it when like Hackenberg, we know we
the Jet side people on the transition tag. When they
transitioned from being really bad to really really bad. That's
the Jets transition. We go from really bad, We're gonna
go down. We're gonna be really taking it to Kenyon
Drake got the transition tables in twenty twenty, and your
bears gave Kyle Fuller the transition tag in twenty eighteen.
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I remember, and then retired today.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, my center retired today. Yeah, congratulations on that. It's
kind of a big deal. Boy, he was a pro bowler.
He gave him a big contract. Boy, good luck. So
the question here is I have enough money, I'm leaving goodbye.
He will have to pay back potentially four million dollars
in bonuses, not if.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
They can't find him, well, not if they can't find me.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Is this the act of a man saying I wanted
to renegotiate after a really good year and they told
him the pound sand So he said, I'm believing made it.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports with someone who's been called the Daniel
Jones of Fox Sports Radio. They loved him in New York.
They didn't like him in New York. Now they love
men Indie, but not as much as Kurtzignetti or Fernando Mendoza.
It's Steve to say yes, just like that, I am
just like that.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
We have two late games in the NBA in La
Pelicans are leading the Lakers with about seven minutes to go,
ninety four to eighty six, Lakers with twenty turnovers in
counting Luka Donsich with twenty points seven turnovers. And the
really late game it started well after eleven Eastern time.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
The game started at midnight, tip off at twelve thirty man.
As well Don Kirshner's rock concert on NBC.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
And this game nicely done.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Paul Schaeffer with a special appearance.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
They were waving goodbye on SNL. They're all waving at
the end, and then we tipped off this game.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
So who's the special guests? Is it gonna be Casey
in the Sunshine Band? Perhaps, Well, let's see. Well, this
is a throwback game to the nineties. It's the Cat
and they're doing the Graph of the nineties and coming up
on Saturday Night Live. It will be hosted by one
Ona Ryder and musical guest Sponge Wow heyel a point
(31:02):
for even coming up with that.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Sixteen candles down the drain duty to do You Do?
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Do You?
Speaker 6 (31:08):
The Phoenix Suns are leading at Sacramento mid third quarter,
sixty nine to sixty three. There's a late night doubleheader
of college hoops on FS one already at Arizona State,
the sun Devils beat number fourteen Kansas seventy to sixty.
ASU led by twenty at the half, and then the
game at UCLA going on right now. Bruins lead number
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nine Nebraska fifty two to thirty six with eleven minutes
to go. Georgia upsid Alabama. TCU won at number ten
Texas Tech Vanderbilt in overtime win at Ole Miss Saint
John's came back to edge Georgetown. And Miami, Ohio ranked
nineteenth in the country this week, it's highest ranking since
nineteen fifty three. Is now thirty and oh Miami Ohio
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seventy four to seventy two winners against Toledo by the
way I didn't mention in the NBA at Minnesota, forty
one points for Anthony Edwards in a victory against Memphis,
and at Orlando thirty seven points for Polo Bencero in
a victory against Washington, which has lost six in a
row to the NHL. Dallas has won ten straight. Got
a six to one win at Calgary under two minutes
(32:13):
to play. San Jose. Sharks are up six to five
on Montreal victories for Minnesota and Colorado wins for Buffalo
and Boston as well. The New York Jets franchise tagged
running back Bresee Hall. Today was the deadline to do that.
Braves outfielder Jerrekson Profar was handed a one year suspension
after failing at ped test for the second time in
the last year. He served eighty games last season. Among
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the many exhibitions, Toronto got a three run homer bottom
of the eighth to beat the Canadian national team ten
to seven. World Baseball Classic starts this week. Team USA
won its exhibition in Arizona against the San Francisco Giants
fifteen to one. Pitcher Paul Skens at Pittsburgh started four
strikeouts no walks in his three innings of work. Then
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Matthew Boyd to the Cubs with two and two third scoreless,
four strikeouts, no walks, Alex Bregman a solo homer. Tomorrow,
it's the US against the Rockies. Team USA's opponent to
open the tournament Friday night is Brazil in Houston on Fox.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Team That's like in the in the late seventies Rush
against the United States and hockey. We have Team USA
against the Rockies. Like wow, that would be like a
Mike Ruzioni Biblical proportions. Upset for that.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
By the way, Brazil baseball, they just stopped it in
the seventh inning.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
It was that bad.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
They lost fourteen to four to the A's. A's can't
call them. Oakland scored seven times in the first inning,
and we had Kansas City shutting out Cuba for nothing.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Today. Back to you like you, Steve, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. We have
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(34:02):
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Speaker 1 (34:43):
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for what they've been doing.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Are you raising your voice on me?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
You know cameras are on, man, dude, you know cameras
are on right now. Second half, UCLA leads number nine
Nebraska by twelve fifty seven forty five. They have been
on top by between ten and fifteen points for basically
this entire game, and for UCLA coming off that eighty
(35:48):
two point fifty nine loss to Michigan State where Mick
Cronin threw one of his own players out of the game,
melted down with a reporter after you've raised your I
mean this whole thing. It seemed like it was over
for UCLA at that point. Right at that point the season,
they were seventeen to nine, didn't look like they were
(36:09):
doing anything. And Mick Cronin I can't believe he was
still allowed to coach the game of the following Saturday
against Illinois, told you because that was he was. I
the low point for UCLA basketball was hit. Since then,
they beat number ten Illinois, they beat him in overtime,
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they beat usc Now they lost in Minnesota. But if
they hold on to win tonight, this is the third
win over a top ten team that they all have
had in the last month and a half. Because they
already beat number four per Due right they have the
win against Illinois Nebraska, this will be three top ten
wins in the last month. They win this game tonight,
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they are safely not even like bubble because right now
they're bubble. They're projected potentially be able. We got a
ways to go. They are safely into the NCAA Tournament,
which is something considering how this season was teetering on
being absolute anarchy coming off of that loss to a
Michigan State and here they are now just a few
(37:14):
minutes away, holding on to a twelve point lead of
basically guaranteeing they'll be in the tournament.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Well'll be their seventeenth win at home. So as long
as they don't leave the friendly confines of the home court,
they're great to.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Keep playing at Paul. That's dang. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
For the course of the year, they are sixteen and
one entering tonight's play, four and oher against top opponents.
On the road neutral three and nine, zero to three.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Against good teams.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
So yeah, play at home, take care of business, and
they still have what one more game on the road
at USC. I mean they're kicking off the kicking out
the twenty six year old.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah, on the squad, this would be twenty wins, they
would be twelve and seven in conference. They would again
three wins, top ten teams. It's pretty easy. It's probably
gets them into the top twenty five. Win this game
and then you beat USC on Saturday. This will get
you in. They'll they'll be ranked somewhere in the top
between twenty and twenty five. Like this, this should get
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you in and I mean for all teams that say, oh,
look at the chaos we had at the season, how
are we ever gonna do something positive? We just had
to mail it until the end of the year. Like
this shows you that you can come back from something really,
really bad, something that will could derail your season, and
you can still not only survive it, but thrive after it.
(38:35):
Because they were dead in the water after this, I thought,
it's a new head coach knew everything, and Mick Cronin
and UCLA have found a way to not only bounce back,
but here they are again. They are seven minutes away
from being safely into the NCAA tournament. Probably is a
top Probably is a seventh seed, maybe a seven or
eight at worse, I say six to seven, but probably
seven or eight they would be at I would say
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at the end, depending how far they go in the
Big ten tournament.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yeah, it'd be curious to see. I mean, for McK cronin,
it's just these the latest in the line of UCLA
coaches who weren't exactly how should we say, nice and
soft and warm and fuzzy and cuddley. I mean, they're
all bristle at at any criticism and in his case
that extreme didn't think it would cost him, particularly with
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that game against Illinois on the horizon, but they came
out and they get a big win in that spot.
Uh and and in a convincing way, and certainly for
this game as as we've watched this one unfold. Uh,
pretty commanding lead all the way through against uh the
Mayor's squad. Uh and if they finished this off in
(39:41):
fine fashion, yeah, uh you get ready for the tournament
to where they they become a dangerous squad. We've watched
it over the course of the year where they've had
some pretty good runs, but on neutral and away from home,
they're just so much a different squad.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
I mean really, I mean but look, I get the
you talk about home and away and where they are. Okay, yeah,
at home they're great, and away they're not great. But
games run a neutral floor, so okay, yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
They're three and nine, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I feel like this is yeah, it's it's at home.
But I mean, you can't cut up three wins over
top ten team. No, no, no wins seven und good coach.
I can still call him a baby, oh sure, but
to be able to still be that guy to still
have USLA at this point. Uh, it really isn't It
really is incredible. It really is incredible to be where
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they are right now, again, seven minutes away from clinching that.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
But if they put him out on the East coast,
he's gonna complain about the travel again.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Oh yeah, he'll always complain. But where they are now,
look at where they are coming up next. Yes, that great,
big hot take on the biggest NFL story of the day.
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this content out for you every single night. We got
more NFL coming up in about twenty minutes, but big
night in the NBA. Uh Lakers have a four point
lead over the Pelicans right now, I have not seen
any sort of confrontation between Luca and JJ Reddick, but
it is early in the third quarter, so still some time.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, just ahead a halftime, there was a little bit
of a conference between Luca and all the officials.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, but that's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I mean what he does. It was but it was
like he was holding a press conference for them.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
They all know.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I think they all got to like you.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
No, I think they all got together and said, hey,
we're all sick of you whining every single time down
the floor. Dude, We're not going to give you every call.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Okay, it's gonna make the more you want, the more
it's gonna make us not want to blow the whistle
for you. Okay, you're on the same page. You you good, Okay,
let's go. Yeah, I have a good half time.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And while your guy JJ Reddick wasn't in the face
of Luka Doncis, he didn't look particularly happy as he
was going to the locker room given that halftime interview.
H with the narrow lead over the Pelicans. But here
we are now, I do have a bit of a
solution for the biggest problem the NBA is facing.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Okay, the big problem that we can say no the Knicks.
The Knicks and one of the few teams go to
the finals, put some respect on that. We talked about
this the beginning of the show tonight. Tonight was throwback night. Yeah,
the games on NBC, going back and using the NBA
on NBC graphics from the nineties, the salad days of
the NBA. Right, they did it for the first game
(02:21):
between the Spurs and the Sixers. The Spurs went to
the fourth quarter of forty nine on the Sixers. They
won this game.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Please stick around. We created a lot of cool throwback
package just to show you.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Uh, and a game that tipped less than an hour ago,
because you know we're gonna hold it up.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Phoenix and Sacramento is a one point game, forty six,
forty five. This game also using all the graphics and
bells and whistles from the NBN NBC the days in
the nineties.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
A lot of empty seats there in Sacramento. But this
is where I solve problems my car because I my
problem solved. Good for you problems over come on now
solve the next.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Sucking dude, dude, make make it, make it make it
real like everybody knows, like South Carl dude did. Did
you just raise your voice to me? You just raise
And also I don't think Mick Cronin's throw anybody out
of the game yet in you see.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, no, no, we're keeping an eye on that developing.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, you never know. That game is in the second
half now, so it could happen anytime. Steve de Seger
is glued to a television to see if that that
is actually going to happen.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
He is, though, I mean is with rapped attention, no question.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Forty nine point game going to the fourth quarter for
the Spurs and the Sixers. I mean, come on, how
embarrassing it is in the NBA. It's embarrassing now that
and this is why, oh, tanking is so great. I
don't know how much longer the NPA can go on
with nine out of ten games every night on the
slate being blowouts, teams winning by ten, fifteen points or more.
(03:48):
That's the biggest problem the NBA has, right we talk
about tanking. Yes, that's an is, but this is part
of it here. I don't know what you expect or
how much longer you think people are going to watch
or go to games like they are when games or
blowouts like this. This is how and why tanking is
not gonna help anybody, because if you let teams tank
in the open. All these owners that think they're so smart,
(04:09):
What do you think is gonna happen if the games
every if everybody is tanking, doesn't have to worry about anything,
it's gonna be worse than it is right now. And
you look at tonight's games right where I say, you know,
when you have ten games out there, if you have
one game that you can say, hey it's a it's
a ten point game, or it's within five points where
the final couple of minutes it's close, you're lucky. Because
(04:33):
look at some of the games tonight. Hornets won by
twenty seven, right, Cavillers beat the Pistons, close game. Hey,
great game, mark again, that's awesome. Right, Magic won by seventeen,
Heat won by twenty seven, Knicks one by sixteen, Spurs
one by forty, the te Wolves one by seven, Thunder
one by eight. Like, we're not getting close games, and
most of them are absolute blowouts to the point where, hey,
(04:56):
if a team wins by eight to ten, oh that's
a close game, and that's not gonna do it anymore.
That's really not gonna do it. And most of these games,
even though they look close at the end, they're out
of They're out of reach. By the third quarter, they're
twenty twenty five point games. This is this is the
biggest problem in the NBA has. You can't keep going
on like this and expecting the TV ratings are still
gonna be there and people are still gonna go to games. Now,
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here's where I solve a problem a little bit, right.
It's like a I can't the going to games thing.
I can't, but I can solve the TV problems because
I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
More throwback graphics.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
If you put the NBN NBC graphics on all of
these games, people would tune in to watch because I
even like seeing how they put Hey, look at the
games going on thursdaynight. Oh, this is a simple graphic
of Hey, the Knicks are playing Thursday night, just to
just to hey, here information you could get anywhere whenever
(05:47):
you wanted it. What's the games on Thursday night?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
But just the fact just seeing the NBC logo in
the court of the screen and making it look like
the nineties, and every graphic that goes up the player's
name is so big, the font is so big on them.
Like I find myself continuing to watch this game just
because I like seeing locos out there. I don't know what.
It's like a calming thing. It's like, you know, hey,
people who do things like balance their checkbook to to
(06:11):
kind of relax at the end of the day. Some
people like to read or do crossword puzzles, like I
find myself watching this game even though what does it matter.
It's the Suns and the Kings. But I consider and
I can hear Marv Albert's voice saying, and here we
are the Sacramento Kings and Vladi Dvots welcoming in Dan
Marley and the Suns, the NBA on NBC, the call
(06:32):
myself and Matt Gucus, like I could just something just
triggers me in my mind where I like that, and
I think a lot of people like that. And maybe
I think if you did some sort of you did
some sort of of of social experiment where you said, okay,
you put a game out there that people watched. It
was a blowout, but you put the same game with
(06:53):
the NBA and NBC graphics even if it's not you know,
NBC but ESPN doesn't matter. Put the graphics out there.
More people would watch just because it's fun to see
the graphics on TA see.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I think this is where we go to Andy's room
or some of those other things we've done for the NFL,
or like they did on Christmas Day where it was
Mickey Mouse and Company on Main Street.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
No, I don't want to turn it into an absolute joke. No,
give me something to say. Okay, let's go back to
the night. I'm telling you nineties.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Look, man, I'm trying to help you out as ninety
nostalgia is there.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Do that?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Or or we do we cut off our nose to
spide our face by putting up a video embargo like
they do for the NHL and they did for the Olympics.
You want to watch put up a stickman graphic, you can,
but you can't use the highlights of the game's over.
That'll that'll learn them get in there and you gotta
watch it live and watch it unfold as it happens. No,
(07:45):
I don't know that you put the genie back in
the bottle. But it is that difficult proposition where the NBA,
while they have all these rights deals and the beauty
of these streamers is there's so many different companies and
entities vying for a piece of that pie. That live action,
add the gambling companies, add all of that that you're
(08:07):
gonna be able to run this for a little while longer,
but eventually you got to get to that next ad bye,
Which is why I think they were so aggressive in
putting out the Hey, look how well our NBA on
NBC games are doing. Look at the ratings to this
point ahead of this historic night where we got the
czar of the Telestrader back with Doug Collins, where we've
(08:30):
got Bob Costas and Jim Gray and everybody assembled, as
well as all the other luminaries through the years, John
Tesh doing his faux bouncing to the ball as we
get that dramatic theme song going. But all of that
to say, you have the Olympics helping to prop you up.
So we'll wait to see what happens in the coming
weeks whether you can keep that without that powerhouse lead
(08:53):
in or back end. You know that sandwich that we've
had going on, how those ratings train late in these
final weeks, where was Peter.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Vess oh on at halftime, Peter Vessi inside the NBA
all the latest on trade rumors, but right now it's
all west fall and Walter Davis about to attack the
Kings and Phil Ford right now on NBC.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
In rewind they just not pick up their phone or no, no,
Madrashad was what will Obey?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Was that the will is not his co host on
the hhow yeah, yeah, yeah, well I think it was
will Obey.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It was, There's no question about it.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
But look, but to be honest about this throwback stuff
in the NBA, like we're at this point now, just
think about this for a second. Wouldn't it be great
if the NBA playoffs began right now? Okay, beginning of March.
When you start the playoffs, the last twenty games, as
we've seen, the NBA calendar are useless, right. I've told
you for a long time, fifty five sixty games is
(09:55):
the right number. I thought you could start playing Christmas
Day and go. But okay, you want to start November.
You don't want to be away for too long. I
get that. But just think about the after effects of
the Super Bowl in middle of February now, because now
it's a little bit later because we added the extra
week super Bowl middle of February, coaches getting fired, we
had the Olympics, you have teams reporting to Major League
Baseball camp all of a sudden, back then you're into
(10:17):
the last couple weeks of the NBA regular season. In Bam,
here come the playoffs. I get that March for the
last couple of weeks is the NCAA tournament. But you're
really talking about one week of where you're balancing NBA
action and NCAA action. So okay, it's one week, you
can figure that out. But twenty games here where you're
talking about an era in the NBA now where these
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games are all burials. They don't matter. Nothing changes in
the standings more than a team moving up or down
one spot. Maybe a team moves up from the seventh
spot into the top six, or they're out of the
play in games, or one team moves from out of
the playing round into the playing round. But is that's
all the drama you're getting on the last twenty some
odd games of the season. They're useless. You don't need them.
(10:58):
Just if you jumped in to the NBA playoffs right now, okay,
because the NBA players so long, right, NBA playoffs are long.
You got March into April and then May, all of
a sudden, you have a sports calendar that just just
revs up and just goes Super Bowl, into the into
the into the the NBA playoffs beginning of the MLB
regular season. You really don't take any downtime away because
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all we're doing now is we're punching time cards in
the NBA waiting for the playoffs. Look, every night's a burial,
every night's a blowout. Again, you get one really good game,
one game coming down to the final, because you don't
even get one game's coming down to the final possession.
I mean, I'm talking about a if you have a
game in the final two minutes, it's a four point game,
that's a close game, that's a really good game. Now
we have watered down the league so much that that
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twenty some odd games are really irrelevant. I mean, it's
never gonna happen because the NBA is gonna say, well,
we're losing money, we have X, Y and Z, but
you want to talk about putting a good product out there.
The NBA is gonna continue to sit here and say
we'll lose money, we can't make changes. We can have less.
The NBA is the own sport right now, where less
is more where you can have less of the product
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and the product be better. They're gonna sit here and
say we'll lose money. Well, lose money and lose money.
But how long do you have to go to and
tell you say, Okay, you see all the money we've
lost because you won't change anything. That's the money we've
lost that we if we had changed and not had games,
if we had cut the series, the season down twelve games,
fifteen games, started the playoffs here, added a tournament in
the middle. Hey, guess what we'd be reaping the rewards
that making more money. I mean the NBA. Really, you're
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at that point now where with teams tanking and all
of this, you got twenty some odd games are really irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
At some point you'll have to pay the piper for now.
You continue down this path with all of these entities
again vying for parts of the broadcast schedule and the
exclusive rights to games here, there, and everywhere. Kind of
like when we start with our true TV or not
true TV game here in short order of where do
(12:52):
I find it on my broadcast schedule? But for the NBA,
I have the other I modest propose we don't cut
games these are now the second in season tournament.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I'd be for something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
You want you want that number one pick.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
In Season Tournament one. Now here's in Season Tournament two
I S T one, I S T two, I S
T two ICT one IC one.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
At the end of the year, they vibe for the
Ultimate Fighting champions I.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
SD one and two and the winner of I S
T one plays the winner of I s T two
and have a championship. I mean, you, guy, you have
to do something to make the regular season mean something,
because it's teams have decided we don't care about the
regular season. It's irrelevant. We don't care about our seedings,
we don't care about anything.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, but you know what they the chaos of it
all is when you're doing betting at this point in
the year, trying to do over unders on all right,
Victor webbin Yama today, I'm sure his total points was
far higher than the.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
He played eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
But that's what I mean you that that's another angle
you now have to play. Hey, how how much is
he actually gonna have to play in this game?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Exit up bout a Fresca, Exit swallen home. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio Stutors. Just
look about if the NBA playoffs began, now, how good
that would be?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Next?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah, you're kidding, man, Come on, man, we're going We're
one of five teams have a chance to go to
the front.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Day.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Really current leaders in your odds as it will city
right now? Oklahoma City is first, San Antonio and Denver
both at plus seven fifty. You've got the Celtics at
plus nine hundred, followed by Cleveland the Knicks at plus
sixteen hundred. Same odds as your Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Oh Detroit basketball. Coming up next, we got a big
suspension to break down and tag day in the NFL.
A quarterback gets tagged? Is he gonna stick with his
old teams? He's gonna find a new home. That's next.
Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, third quarter coming to an end
at the crypt Lakers trail. The Pelicans seventy eight to
seventy five have not seen JJ Redick and Luka Doncic
talk or get mad at each other.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
But it could be coming.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Going to the fourth warner anytime now, tick tick tick tick.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
As JJ Reddick said, it's not a big deal. That's
that we were yelling, no, no, no, we forgot about it.
We're laughing about it. Yeah, okay, yeah, okay yeah, because
that yeah, that's nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That's what they're doing, laughing and lying, laughing and lying.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Luca looked like he wanted to fight Reddick. It looked
like he wanted to fight Reddick when he was when
he's he's yelling at him and he turns a walk away,
and Luca looks like, what did you just say to me?
And he's like, we're gonna He had to look on
his face like, what the hell? What did you you're saying?
You want a piece of me? I could drop you
(16:37):
like a bag of dirt. However you say you are
I am infinity. Ah so, uh again, We'll keep you
updated on this. This would be I did do infinity.
I did do infinity. Infinity? Dude, did you just raise
your voice to me? Raise your voice? Come on man?
Uh so again fourth quarter, Lakers down by two. We'll
(16:58):
see how things go. Things are all sun shine, lollipops
and rainbows, everything but a big suspension in Major League
Baseball today. Before we get to a big story out
of the NFL, Jerks and Profar gets a one hundred
and sixty two game suspension. That is a full season suspension,
because you know, one hundred and sixty two games after
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running a foul of the league's drug program. Now, something's
been said about him throughout the day today that has
been completely incorrect. I want, I want, I want to
correct it because this is the way to think about it. Now.
He tested positive. This is the second time in a
year he has tested positive. For performance enhancing drug. Last year,
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he tested positive and he was suspended for fifty games.
The Padre said, we stand by him, we look forward
to having him come back okay. But now one hundred
and sixty two games, second positive test in the year,
he's going to forfeit the entirety of his fifteen million
dollars salary. He is ineligible for the postseason. He was
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scheduled the bat I think second and be the main
designated hitter for the Padres this year. He has just
taken his major league baseball career and flushed it down
the toilet, right. And these are peds that aren't oh,
I didn't know what These are all things that are
done like to fight stuff like breast enlargement and different
things like oh, that's all this crazy stuff. This is
(18:21):
used for a diabetes and this is what he is
tested positive for. And all day to this is a
big story all day and all I read so many
times was was people, these people with check marks and
stuff saying how stupid do you have to be, How
dumb do you have to be to try to do this?
How dumb? How stupid? This is stupid? You were stupid,
you did this and I want to say, you know,
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just think about this for a second. In the very beginning,
when players were testing positive for PEDS, you could say,
you're stupid. You gotta read what's on there. You gotta
know what what you're putting in your body. You have
to understand that that this is something that could wind
up coming back to bite you right very And I'm
going back like fifteen years now. You go back to
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the mid two thousands after Juice, when people start, oh, hey,
this stuff I was taking this had this in it.
I didn't know was over the counter, from Whole Foods,
whatever it was. Fifteen twenty years ago, I could say
all right and beginna, yeah, you gotta be sure. But
now it's the wrong thing to say. You're stupid. You're stupid,
You're stupid. This is what happens when you are desperate,
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not when you are stupid, when you are so desperate
to continue your career that you believe, either wrongly or rightly,
that I need PEDS to succeed. That if I'm not
doing this, I'm not at my peak level and I
can't hit like I can, I can't play the field
like I can. Whatever it is. Because for guys, like this.
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It's either a mental thing where hey, if I'm taking it,
I feel great and I feel better. It's got a
placebo effect on me that I'm taking this, But is
it really helping me? Or it is literally helping you,
because hey, this is helping me. It's helping me my
fast twitch muscles, whatever it is. It's helping me bounce
back from injuries more. But it's not about being stupid.
It's about being so desperate. Everybody knows what they're putting
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in their body, but I know how bad it is.
I just got busted for it, and I'm gonna do
it again, and that shows you that you people don't
think rationally when it comes to situations like this anymore.
It's I don't care. I need to do this or
I'm not going to be a major leaguer. I want
to go. I want to make sure I have a
pretty dear. I'm thirty three years old. I want to
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make sure I'm getting a contract at thirty four that
I hit pretty well and I get in there for
next year, because this is this is my peak earning years.
I'm not making more money than i'm making right now,
so I got to make sure and I am so
desperate to achieve that that this is what I wind
up doing, that that I'm okay running and riding the lightning,
that maybe this could come up bad and I could
wind up getting suspended, so to say, somebody stupid. Yeah
(20:50):
twenty years ago. Yeah, now it's just boy, how desperate
were they to have them get pulled and get caught
with a positive test?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah? I mean, we know, you know the right, You're
always looking for the way to outrun the system. And
that goes back, however many years, take it to the
greenies in the room. But all those years of fighting
testing and then you have the Mitchell Report and go
on down the line and depending on where you came
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in in the process.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And I look at some of the.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Luminaries, guys that made millions of dollars and then became
the strongest. Hey, let me wag my finger at how
terrible this is while I watch guys that look like
something out of my Saturday Morning cartoons and turn the
turned my head and just said they must just be
spending that much more time in the weight room. Look
at how serious there No, no, no, no, no, I watched
it happen. You all got rich and fat from the teams,
(21:42):
to the players, to the broadcasters and everybody else, and
you just kind of shrugged and moved on. But we
look at a guy like Profara at this point, it's
the well they got me last year, Can I can
I figure out a way around it?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Right?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Last year it was for a product that produces more testosterone,
and you either physically still need it or you're saying, hey,
I look, I've made a lot of money. I can
make a little more if I can evade the testing
protocols and evade getting caught here, I'm gonna make fifteen millions.
So now the Braves are without a guy. You had
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fifteen million.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Dollars per year?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What three year, forty two million dollar deal? Four fits
that can't play in the World Baseball Classic, and you know,
you get the these statements that come out again you
think you can evade the system, and in his case, no,
he got struck down for the second time. And to
your point, yeah, maybe you're desperate that you need it.
(22:41):
Maybe it's just the cavalier of well, I won't get
lightning won't strike twice. There's no way they're gonna test
They tested me again.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
God believe that.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Or you believe whatever you've read. I mean, how many
folks like you did you know back in the day
at Syracuse, Like, well, here's the way I can avoid
the tests that they're gonna give me. Whatever the home
remedies were, right, I know plenty of guys that were
running around drinking gallons of cranberry juice.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
If I eat the poppy seed bagels, I'll get a
false test. I'll say, hey, I didn't do anything, but
I had poppy seed bagels, and they'll have to give
me the test like in a month, right, yeah, okay, right.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
This will get out of my system in this many
days or whatever else. Like there's plenty of that with
profar might have thought he was gonna be in the
clear of that it was all right, I did this.
At this point, it's like, I know if the test
came early, right, because what do we talk about in
the NFL? You knew when you were gonna get tested?
Oh yeah, you got bopped? Yeah, like you were dope.
Not What did Brady Cachuk say? They drug tested him
(23:39):
right after the gold medal game. They walked in and
they drug testing right away. Congraduate here, right here, here's
a bottle. Go ahead, we need something from that, right, Like, guys,
right after big performance, how many kickers? Hey, I just
kicked a couple of fifty plus yard field goals. Hey,
pee in the cup?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, we do it for you right now. So again,
just understand it's it's not about being stupid, it's about
being desperate. Uh. Now, he got more baseball coming up
later on in the show. But today was tag day
in the NFL. Right, we talked about Breise Hall getting
the franchise tag. We talked about Kenneth Walker not getting
a tag at all. God be allowed to hit free agency.
(24:13):
Daniel Jones, quarterback of the Colts, was hit with the
seldom used transition tag. Now what is the transition tag?
You might say, Well, I'll explain it for you. I
feel like I should be doing with like those Jurassic
Park PowerPoint. What is the Creocene era? The tag guarantees
the Colts the right of first refusal for Daniel Jones,
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preserving the right to match any competing offer sheet he
might sign with another team. Okay, so this is what
the transition tag is. If Jones does not sign a
competing offer sheet, like nobody else wants to sign him.
He'll get a one year guaranteed salary of thirty seven
and a half million dollars. Okay, so this is this
is what they've done. The transition tag. It's a little
(24:56):
bit lower, but it's a little bit easier to match.
But this is what the the Colts have decided to do.
So it's right of first refusal for Daniel Jones if
no team signs him one year, thirty seven point eight
million dollars. I got news for the Colts. I got
news for lots of teams. It's great the Colts did this,
(25:16):
and I know they feel like maybe we were riding
the lightning on this. Nobody was gonna do this for
Daniel Jones. No one is going in like this with
money for Daniel Jones. Nobody is. Daniel Jones is a
quarterback of one, meaning there's one team that thinks he's
really valuable and he is to that team. Because this
is why we say there's a system for everybody. I
(25:39):
told you last what last offseason, Daniel Jones. Watch out
him and the Colts. He's gonna take over and watch
what he's gonna do with all those offensive weapons. It's
gonna play right into what he does well, and Daniel
Jones is having a Pro Bowl type season before he
wind up getting knocked out. For the other Colts, we're
steaming towards being the number one seed in the AFC.
Daniel Jones gets hurt and they're finishing the season with
Philip Rivers at quarterback. But nobody else is at this
(26:02):
point saying, hey, we want to go spend a lot
of money on Daniel Josh. Minnesota might wanted to bring
him back, but no one's gonna spend that kind of
money on him. Yeah, if Daniel Jones was out there
for free, okay, I can see, you know, because hey,
he clearly showed that, you know what, he restarted his career.
But the money that he would be due, teams are
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looking at guys like Kyler Murray and Gino Smith is
gonna be out there and two and they're saying, yeah,
they're gonna be less money and they actually have a
little bit better resume. Daniel Jones would be interesting if
I didn't have to pay anything for him. He's valuable
to the Colts, but that's really it, and there's no
way he's leaving. He wants to have a nice, long
career in the NFL. He's not gonna jump and sign
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someplace else. Say yeah, they want me, I'm going here. No,
he knows. Hey, I went to Indianapolis and I had
the best year of my career. I was fantastic. I
want to go back there. There should be so much
interest in him going back and the Colts having him.
This should be unnett necessary. But I get the Colts
wanting to protect them because you don't know how things
are gonna go. But there was no even in the offseason,
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all of this talk about Daniel Judges. Daniel Jones is
coming back to the Colts. He's gonna heal, He's gonna
get back. They're gonna make him the number one quarterback
again because they saw how good he was. And they'll
bring back Alec Pierce. That's the big one.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You want to bring him back because he's averages, you know,
thirty seven yards of reception. But Daniel Jones, I never
thought there was any situation where he wouldn't be going
back to the Colts.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
No, it's just a question of what type of deal
it was gonna be. On the fact that he used
this transition tag, the estimation is that it's fewer than
two dozen since it was brought in nineteen ninety three.
But you talk about a thirty seven million dollar price
in a row, I line them up dollar bills that
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you're just looking at a huge amount of money and
nobody else is going on to that level like he
would have had interest, no question about it. We talked
about Kyler Murray and the fact that the the Cardinals
still have to pay him nearly that same amount. I mean,
someone's gonna get a bargain because you know they're not
gonna have to pay him that much since he's already
getting that kind of deal. But I guess you would
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wonder if Minnesota would give him a multi year deal
or one of these other squads would decide, hey, that
was we saw enough with Steichen, Hey we like what's
been generated there. But coming back off injury, Anthony Richardson's
already been given permission to go figure out a trade
partner that for the Colts, yeah, you want to keep
building on what was a very successful first half of
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a year. I'm presuming he's healthy and ready to go.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
He is the first quarterback to get the transition tag
since nineteen ninety six. Ninety six Jeff George getting the
transition tag in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I saw his name on the list. I didn't realize
he was last.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Jeff's never did it when like Hackenberg, we know we
the Jet side people on the transition tag. When they
transitioned from being really bad to really really bad. That's
the Jets transition. We go from really bad, We're gonna
go down. We're gonna be really taking it to Kenyon
Drake got the transition tables in twenty twenty, and your
bears gave Kyle Fuller the transition tag in twenty eighteen.
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I remember, and then retired today.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, my center retired today. Yeah, congratulations on that. It's
kind of a big deal. Boy, he was a pro bowler.
He gave him a big contract. Boy, good luck. So
the question here is I have enough money, I'm leaving goodbye.
He will have to pay back potentially four million dollars
in bonuses, not if.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
They can't find him, well, not if they can't find me.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Is this the act of a man saying I wanted
to renegotiate after a really good year and they told
him the pound sand So he said, I'm believing made it.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports with someone who's been called the Daniel
Jones of Fox Sports Radio. They loved him in New York.
They didn't like him in New York. Now they love
men Indie, but not as much as Kurtzignetti or Fernando Mendoza.
It's Steve to say yes, just like that, I am
just like that.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
We have two late games in the NBA in La
Pelicans are leading the Lakers with about seven minutes to go,
ninety four to eighty six, Lakers with twenty turnovers in
counting Luka Donsich with twenty points seven turnovers. And the
really late game it started well after eleven Eastern time.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
The game started at midnight, tip off at twelve thirty man.
As well Don Kirshner's rock concert on NBC.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
And this game nicely done.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Paul Schaeffer with a special appearance.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
They were waving goodbye on SNL. They're all waving at
the end, and then we tipped off this game.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
So who's the special guests? Is it gonna be Casey
in the Sunshine Band? Perhaps, Well, let's see. Well, this
is a throwback game to the nineties. It's the Cat
and they're doing the Graph of the nineties and coming up
on Saturday Night Live. It will be hosted by one
Ona Ryder and musical guest Sponge Wow heyel a point
(31:02):
for even coming up with that.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Sixteen candles down the drain duty to do You Do?
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Do You?
Speaker 6 (31:08):
The Phoenix Suns are leading at Sacramento mid third quarter,
sixty nine to sixty three. There's a late night doubleheader
of college hoops on FS one already at Arizona State,
the sun Devils beat number fourteen Kansas seventy to sixty.
ASU led by twenty at the half, and then the
game at UCLA going on right now. Bruins lead number
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nine Nebraska fifty two to thirty six with eleven minutes
to go. Georgia upsid Alabama. TCU won at number ten
Texas Tech Vanderbilt in overtime win at Ole Miss Saint
John's came back to edge Georgetown. And Miami, Ohio ranked
nineteenth in the country this week, it's highest ranking since
nineteen fifty three. Is now thirty and oh Miami Ohio
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seventy four to seventy two winners against Toledo by the
way I didn't mention in the NBA at Minnesota, forty
one points for Anthony Edwards in a victory against Memphis,
and at Orlando thirty seven points for Polo Bencero in
a victory against Washington, which has lost six in a
row to the NHL. Dallas has won ten straight. Got
a six to one win at Calgary under two minutes
(32:13):
to play. San Jose. Sharks are up six to five
on Montreal victories for Minnesota and Colorado wins for Buffalo
and Boston as well. The New York Jets franchise tagged
running back Bresee Hall. Today was the deadline to do that.
Braves outfielder Jerrekson Profar was handed a one year suspension
after failing at ped test for the second time in
the last year. He served eighty games last season. Among
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the many exhibitions, Toronto got a three run homer bottom
of the eighth to beat the Canadian national team ten
to seven. World Baseball Classic starts this week. Team USA
won its exhibition in Arizona against the San Francisco Giants
fifteen to one. Pitcher Paul Skens at Pittsburgh started four
strikeouts no walks in his three innings of work. Then
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Matthew Boyd to the Cubs with two and two third scoreless,
four strikeouts, no walks, Alex Bregman a solo homer. Tomorrow,
it's the US against the Rockies. Team USA's opponent to
open the tournament Friday night is Brazil in Houston on Fox.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Team That's like in the in the late seventies Rush
against the United States and hockey. We have Team USA
against the Rockies. Like wow, that would be like a
Mike Ruzioni Biblical proportions. Upset for that.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
By the way, Brazil baseball, they just stopped it in
the seventh inning.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
It was that bad.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
They lost fourteen to four to the A's. A's can't
call them. Oakland scored seven times in the first inning,
and we had Kansas City shutting out Cuba for nothing.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Today. Back to you like you, Steve, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. We have
more NFL on the way, but coming up next. We
do this when teams, athletes, coaches deserve it. We have
a big time appreciation moment for a squad that absolutely
(34:02):
deserves it. Coming up next, right here, who is it?
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Speaker 7 (34:11):
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Speaker 1 (34:43):
With a Whoop Whoop, and and it and A and
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big great, fat hot take on Kyler Murray. But you know,
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we like to do this when it merits to have
an appreciation moment. We're pull of positivity here on a
Tuesday night for a team, athlete, coach that deserves recognition
for what they've been doing.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Are you raising your voice on me?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
You know cameras are on, man, dude, you know cameras
are on right now. Second half, UCLA leads number nine
Nebraska by twelve fifty seven forty five. They have been
on top by between ten and fifteen points for basically
this entire game, and for UCLA coming off that eighty
(35:48):
two point fifty nine loss to Michigan State where Mick
Cronin threw one of his own players out of the game,
melted down with a reporter after you've raised your I
mean this whole thing. It seemed like it was over
for UCLA at that point. Right at that point the season,
they were seventeen to nine, didn't look like they were
(36:09):
doing anything. And Mick Cronin I can't believe he was
still allowed to coach the game of the following Saturday
against Illinois, told you because that was he was. I
the low point for UCLA basketball was hit. Since then,
they beat number ten Illinois, they beat him in overtime,
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they beat usc Now they lost in Minnesota. But if
they hold on to win tonight, this is the third
win over a top ten team that they all have
had in the last month and a half. Because they
already beat number four per Due right they have the
win against Illinois Nebraska, this will be three top ten
wins in the last month. They win this game tonight,
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they are safely not even like bubble because right now
they're bubble. They're projected potentially be able. We got a
ways to go. They are safely into the NCAA Tournament,
which is something considering how this season was teetering on
being absolute anarchy coming off of that loss to a
Michigan State and here they are now just a few
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minutes away, holding on to a twelve point lead of
basically guaranteeing they'll be in the tournament.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Well'll be their seventeenth win at home. So as long
as they don't leave the friendly confines of the home court,
they're great to.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Keep playing at Paul. That's dang. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
For the course of the year, they are sixteen and
one entering tonight's play, four and oher against top opponents.
On the road neutral three and nine, zero to three.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Against good teams.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
So yeah, play at home, take care of business, and
they still have what one more game on the road
at USC. I mean they're kicking off the kicking out
the twenty six year old.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah, on the squad, this would be twenty wins, they
would be twelve and seven in conference. They would again
three wins, top ten teams. It's pretty easy. It's probably
gets them into the top twenty five. Win this game
and then you beat USC on Saturday. This will get
you in. They'll they'll be ranked somewhere in the top
between twenty and twenty five. Like this, this should get
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you in and I mean for all teams that say, oh,
look at the chaos we had at the season, how
are we ever gonna do something positive? We just had
to mail it until the end of the year. Like
this shows you that you can come back from something really,
really bad, something that will could derail your season, and
you can still not only survive it, but thrive after it.
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Because they were dead in the water after this, I thought,
it's a new head coach knew everything, and Mick Cronin
and UCLA have found a way to not only bounce back,
but here they are again. They are seven minutes away
from being safely into the NCAA tournament. Probably is a
top Probably is a seventh seed, maybe a seven or
eight at worse, I say six to seven, but probably
seven or eight they would be at I would say
(38:56):
at the end, depending how far they go in the
Big ten tournament.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yeah, it'd be curious to see. I mean, for McK cronin,
it's just these the latest in the line of UCLA
coaches who weren't exactly how should we say, nice and
soft and warm and fuzzy and cuddley. I mean, they're
all bristle at at any criticism and in his case
that extreme didn't think it would cost him, particularly with
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that game against Illinois on the horizon, but they came
out and they get a big win in that spot.
Uh and and in a convincing way, and certainly for
this game as as we've watched this one unfold. Uh,
pretty commanding lead all the way through against uh the
Mayor's squad. Uh and if they finished this off in
(39:41):
fine fashion, yeah, uh you get ready for the tournament
to where they they become a dangerous squad. We've watched
it over the course of the year where they've had
some pretty good runs, but on neutral and away from home,
they're just so much a different squad.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
I mean really, I mean but look, I get the
you talk about home and away and where they are. Okay, yeah,
at home they're great, and away they're not great. But
games run a neutral floor, so okay, yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
They're three and nine, so we'll see.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
I feel like this is yeah, it's it's at home.
But I mean, you can't cut up three wins over
top ten team. No, no, no wins seven und good coach.
I can still call him a baby, oh sure, but
to be able to still be that guy to still
have USLA at this point. Uh, it really isn't It
really is incredible. It really is incredible to be where
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they are right now, again, seven minutes away from clinching that.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
But if they put him out on the East coast,
he's gonna complain about the travel again.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Oh yeah, he'll always complain. But where they are now,
look at where they are coming up next. Yes, that great,
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