July 30, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike celebrate Robert Downey Jr’s return to the MCU. John Elway said he regrets not drafting Josh Allen in the 2018 Draft. And Jason dishes out his Olympic Hot Take of the Day!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the big NFL story coming up in a minute, But first,
you know, in a in an error now in which
the last few days we're talking about big trades and
different acquisitions. I don't know that there could be a
if you could tally up all the baseball acquisitions that
have gone on the last few days, and we will
see tomorrow none of them will be bigger than the
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MCU getting Robert Downey Junior to come back, as was
announced over the week, and he's going to be Doctor Doom.
They're rebuilding the New Adventures franchise around his villain, Doctor Doom.
He's back in. As he said, what hey, being a
hero means you can't be around your what you're round
long enough, you'll eventually become the villain. No, it's the
old Batman line. Yeah, kind of what's happening to Robert
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Downey Junior?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
He is back. Well, you had the unfortunate instance where
you had to pivot from your whole Kang dynasty thing
with Majors issues, So what do you do? You back
up the Brinks truck. Robert Downey Junior got his oscar
for Oppenheimer right everything there, and reportedly is going to
make eighty million dollars plus whatever percentage point five or
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a full percentage off of the gross because that's what
he is. Last time. He's gonna get his own compound
of trailers and whatever else private jet to use at
his leisure, and then the Russo's had to come back
to direct it. What we you go?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
This shows you a how desperate the Marvel Cinematic universe
is because you think about the high they were at
coming off of Endgame.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We can do no wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
The multiverse saga, like this is gonna go down in
film history is one of the like the Ishtar and
this is but this is like ten movies you got,
but this is like ten movies we're gonna see where
This is just awful. The the the the multiverse saga
is terrible. Nobody can keep track of it. There's too
many there's too many things going on. It's too convoluted
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and and it's awful. Now, at least I feel confident
that the MCU can make its way back because you're
bringing back the most charismatic person that was ever in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And yeah, he's gonna be a villain. Awesome,
He's gonna be Doctor j Great awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Right, so do the big thing as part of hom
con and Saturday Night saw the ex whale no longer
the Twitter whale. But it broke and then all of
a sudden I came back. I was like, all right, refreshed. Hey,
there's all it's our DJ all over the place. When
I did find funny, right, there's a ton of memes
that go on, but perhaps the best line was proof
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that nobody stays dead in this universe except Uncle ben Well.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And and the first Quicksilver. They're still not bringing Aaron
and he's become a big star.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No a bringing no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But I mean I feel confident, I feel happy, glad
about the MCU. Now finally I'm like, all right, I
feel good.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, as one who doesn't sit there trying to parse
out all the timelines. And I want to grab a
bucket of popcorn to you. It was my mini bottling
to throw into my my Coca cola. Wow, okay. And
then we say, don't you take your kids to these movies? Yeah, okay,
sometimes they drive. Now, okay, you're gonna drive that home
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because I'm gonna get wasted next to you. Rain a
nice tasty beverage. And then I just want to relax
to watch a movie, like when it comes to the song, like,
if I want to go see a serious movie, there's
plenty of those. If I want to go be depressed
for three hours, plenty of movies on the duck to
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let me do that, or possession movies, which are back
in vogue. But if I just want to go see
a comic book film. I don't want to have to
sit there with an advocus trying to figure out what
the hell's going on. I'll buy you a son, but
don't drink mine. Don't drink any out of mine. It's
in the this is the cup holder with mine. You
have your own, see the one I got the red
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sharpie marker on. And if you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Accidentally don't drink from it, you tell no one that
you drink from it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Not one person. That's an honest mistake, not one person.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Dad was drunk at the movie.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
No. Now, there may or may not be pictures of
a young Mike Harmon who obscotted with a beer and
a family gather. It was drunk. Get Deadpool and Wolverine.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It was not.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I was perfectly sober. I was having a nice cup
of coffee. Again, like I said, for that movie, Hey funny,
They're both great. The cameos are awesome, and you see
the plot line and you go, oh, come on, really,
come on, man.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Come onny. Kerry Rhodes comes in, he and Bier after
Ryan Hollins and I get off on Sunday mornings and
he goes, hey, did you go see it yet? And
go you're talking Deadpool. He goes, what'd you think a
lot of laughs, some great music, great performances, plot was
He goes.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Exactly, yeah, exactly, man, I feel confident now in the
MCU again, I feel confident. Now you're bringing back your
biggest star. It's going to be now, it's going to
be fine. Now just dump all these movies that you're making.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Just dump them all.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Of the Let's get to the Two Avengers.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Let's get to the Two Avengers movies now, so we
have well, I did like the guy that was on
that FX show, you know, tell me what you don't
like about yourself, right, because he was he was dooming
that other Oh yeah yeah, but this.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Is Robert Downey Junior. Took the most char probably the
most charismatic guy in movies.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Now people wondering if this isn't a whole fake out
and it's actually gonna be Killian Murphy with Poppenheimer, comes
to the MCU.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmen live from the Tirech dot
Com Studios. This is easily the most interesting NFL story
of the week. Is John Elway decided to play little
revisionist history. He was playing golf recently with Bill's quarterback
Josh Allen. I talked about this on the Pardon My
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Take A podcast or barstool, and he said, you know,
I played golf with him, and I'm wondering, how long
is it going to take him to realize that I
passed on him and took Bradley Chubb instead, And it
took him two and a half holes. All right, So
he's telling the story. I played golf with Josh Allen.
Going back to the twenty eighteen draft. I took Bradley Chubb,
who couldn't really stay healthy, moved on to the Dolphins.
Josh Allen has become one of the top five quarterbacks
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in the NFL. Elway says I loved him, it just
didn't work out.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
He was my type.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That was probably my biggest mistake of my GM days,
not taking Josh Allen. You know, I see this and
I go, yeah, in a vacuum, you could say, how
do you pass on this guy? I get it, I understand,
I understand that, but come on, man, I mean really,
this is where, hey, I'm gonna throw myself out here
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as a sports martyr and show you that, Oh, look
at the mistake I made. You would just sign case Keenum. Right,
go back to twenty eighteen. This is the big draft
with Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold and Josh Rosen and
Josh Allen. Nobody knew, Hey, which of these four guys
are going to be the best? Up until the draft.
You thought Sam Darnald, good Lamar Jackson the best guy
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turned out to be the guy that went all the
way at the end of the first round. So nobody
knew who was going to be the best. Nobody had
any idea. You had four or five guys in the
mix for the top few picks, and he had just
signed case Keenum, who was coming off the run the
Minneapolis Miracle. And you think, okay, Case Keene, one of
those guys thirty years old, he hit it big. He's
gonna be, you know, one of those later later in life. Quarterbacks. Okay,
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you had just gotten burned by taking Paxton Lynch recently
or two years before that. And let's be honest, your
track record of picking quarterbacks in the draft wasn't that great.
You got Peyton Manning, you won the Super Bowl. Brock
Oswiler stunk, Paxton Lynch stunk. You weren't good at it.
So are you gonna go get a guy like Josh
Allen who at the time was coming off a really
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poor senior year. He threw sixteen touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
But go back to his completion percentage accurately all those questions.
I believe that there was someone that you could pull
out of that. But I stood by that and fought
with a lot of guys here on Fox Sports Radio.
But if you're looking to make that guy the key
to your long term success as a GM, that was
not a guy you were hitching your wagon too. No
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people were running to the hill.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The Bills took him because it was him or Josh
or Josh Rosen Like, that's why they took him. They
had to pick between the two of them. We took
Josh Allen. Okay, it worked out right. If Josh Allen
was so good, if everybody had such a great grade
on him, guess what, he'd have gone number one overall.
The Browns would have taken him, the Jets would have
taken him, somebody else would have taken them.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But to be fair, they were the Browns and the Jets.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, that is true, and neither team has done a
great job picking quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No I heard anything else for a very long time,
turning it around down. But there's other teams.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That gonna taken off too. This is why I'll give
you this hot take. This is why in a situation
like this, I always believe we should have the draft
before free agency.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The draft should come because teams.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Hit free agency and they don't always hit it with
the same gusto because they think, well, do we want
to get our quarterback here or do we want to
go into the draft for one? All right, we're to
take our chances going to the draft and get a quarterback.
So you're kind of half in half out on free agency,
and it's really difficult to plan to say, all right, well,
in free agency, we're gonna go, oh, we're gonna get
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our guys, all right, great now in the draft. Okay,
well we still have big we still have big needs.
Oh we didn't know we were gonna get this guy
in the d in free agency. So that this hurts us.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Here.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
If you had the draft first, teams would take their
quarterbacks and then they would say, all right, we know
who got a quarterback. We don't need a quarterback in
f agenc that we're all good. Whereas if you come
out of if you come out of the draft, let's
say quarterbacks, for instance, if you come out of the draft,
you have the draft first and you have your quarterback,
all right, we don't need a quarterback in evangency. If
you don't have your quarterback, okay, we got to jump
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into free agency and get one, right, So you know,
if we either get our quarterback in the draft we like,
or we didn't, we weren't able to take a guy. Hey,
let's get into free agency. Let's get in for the
bidding on Kirk Cousins as somebody else. Let's make it
really big and it's easier to fill the needs on
your team. Conversely, a team going into free agency that
needs a quarterback, Oh, do we want to give Kirk
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Cousins thirty five million? We're picking fifth. Maybe we want
to take Bonick from Michael Pennix. Maybe that's what we
want to do.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I don't know. Do we do this? Do we do that?
And it becomes.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Harder to go forward with it because in free agency
you're looking to fill holes with veterans, where in the draft,
you're looking to draft for your future, but you get
caught with best player available. Hey, we didn't think this
guy would fall to us. I think teams would build
their rosters much cleaner if you had the draft first
and then you add free agency.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah. I think for all other positions you need your
drafting for depth. So I don't know how much that changes,
because you're still gonna take, as you said, the best
player available. The quarterback positions. The interesting one though, because
most years do we really have an A list guy
that's hitting free agency, I mean legitimately hitting free agency
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to where if you were in a top ten draft position,
you're gonna essue the contract that comes with that first
round pick and the future years where they're under control
at a minimum amount of doubt, versus a guy who
might be a B list guy like Kirk Cousins. As
good as he may be, he's coming off a major injury.
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So how many teams really were in the Hey, let's
go pay this guy, the greatest businessman in NFL in history.
Let's go pay him this exorbitant amount of money. And
look what Atlanta still did. They still came back over
the top and drafted Pennix junior. Right, So most years
you don't have the you know choice where say the
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Alex Smith, because you have Patrick Mahomes. He goes out.
But even then, what was Alex Smith at that point
in his career? How many years were you banking on
him being able to continue at that you know aptitude
of what he demonstrated in Kansas City. So few, very
few of those. So I would I would say that's
the one, one spot. As much as you may flip
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the thinking for the quarterback, I'd rather have it.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
The way it is well and for Elway to bring
it full circle back to him.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It's in a vacuum.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, but look at how we laid out his team,
because you would go on and gotten case King you
had got it. Now let's say you flipped that and
you had the draft first, why do you taken Josh
Allen there at five? Yeah, you would have. I don't
know what I'm gonna get in free agency. Let's get
our quarterback right now.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Even though I just the Bears spent a lot of
money and Mike Glennon and they still went and drafted
up top. We just whiffed on Paxton land On us
while we went but that you would have taken him then.
I mean, it's it's revisionous history to go, yeah, you
had already built your team, so hey, quarterback wasn't the
top of your list at that point. So this is
Elway kind of just going, oh, look at me, look
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at the bad MISTAKEE. No, you really didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You went along with what what any other team would
have done had their team been built like that. In
free agency, we got our quarterback. We we feel pretty
good about that. Now what do we need?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
No? I like the theoretical, but again, going back to
the pre draft evaluations of Josh Allen, there were a
lot of question marks related.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I like Bradley Chubb just catching us straight right there. Oh,
you had to throw me in.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
He's the guy you paid me. Unfortunately, that name.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is cemented in history as the number five pick.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Exit out about a Fresca exit. Swallen' down The Jason
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Speaker 1 (15:02):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, Hobo, we got a big Olympic hot
take coming your way in a couple of minutes. But first,
I don't know, I'd say maybe the most obvious Olympic story.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, that's just what's huge? Huge? All right?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
The men's triathlon, yeah, will not go ahead as planned tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Now the triathlon is what swimming, running and biking?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Right, just let me see yeah yeah really, yeah, you
know your sports?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
How do you things you never do?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Uh, let's see, no biking, I'll bike once in a while, running, never.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I'm a biking commotionary doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
No, no, no, no, no no, I'll go bike you
know we really yeah yeah, Zoe and ride our bikes.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah yeah, you have training wheels.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah no, dude, I could ride the hell on his bike. Man.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah no, I rude them. You got you got the
you got the one with the motor on. You ain't
tling it. That hill is too much, right, let me
hit the engine. He's got the engine on there. If
he's got a bike.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Katy Smith wasn't down in a unicycle.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
And uh and and swimming if you're counting sitting in
the pool.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And the funny thing is my best friend and I
in Colin used to have the triathlon all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Used to go out on Friday night, Saturday nights.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
It would be pool, darts and cards and whoever and
whoever won two out of three paid for all the
beer that night. Oh yeah. He would usually beat me
in pool. I'm sorry, he just beat me in darts.
I would beat him in pool. It would come down
to cards. Okay, yeah, uh that was our own triathlon.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, I mean you got to invent your own uh,
your own competitions.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
That's right, but the men's triathlon will not go ahead
as plan Tuesday. Well, why why are they going to
They didn't bikes Wait a minute, yeah that uh. They
the people hadn't returned their scooters enough, so they had
to go pick them up. So the bird scooters they
had to pick them up. The lime scooters they gotta
pick up because surprise, pollution levels in the Seine remained
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too high. France spent one and a half billion dollars.
That's a b right, so all the money they're gonna
make on the Olympics has now gone. They spent one
and a half billion dollars to fix the send so
they wouldn't be the high levels of pollution, to fix
the the waste into the waterways. And nope, the pollution
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levels remain too high, so they can't have the triathlon.
They're hoping they can clean it up and have the
triathlon in a day or two.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah. But they even did the press event. This is
the best part. Paris Mayor and Hidalgo went in, did
the ceremonial. Yeah, look, it's perfectly safe. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And then she's gonna go swim in the river. And
then she got outlitude and the cameras off, spray.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Me with some kind of dissent. Fucking now now now
on the mayor not making out.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
All of a sudden, Oh, you're turning into the thing.
Oh my goodness, you're.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Gonna be in the marble cinematic universe spraying Now chick
Cliffs wasn't available. That's unbelievable. One point five billion dollars
to try to build the infrastructure out to contain the waste,
and here we know can't do it, can't do it
on the eve, literally the eve of the event, like
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all right, we're ready. Fifty five people are gonna be
part of this. Hey guys, maybe Wednesday, I'm gonna swim
in the sin. You got any advice for me?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, don't let any water get in your ears, eyes, nose,
if you have any cuts. Uh, if you have you know,
they're radio of spiders.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I don't you know. Watch. But legitimately, what the hell's
gonna happen in twenty four hours where they're suddenly gonna
say ton of go ahead? They do?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
They have people out there with the big long sticks,
you know, stick grabbing the trashlight on the side of
the road, and they're taking it out and putting it away.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh, we're pulling that trash out.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
We're good. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It's okay. It's okay. We got them all gone. Hypodermic
needles were getting all them. That's fine, all good. See
you're taking it a whole on the level.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm like Mike, it's like, nah, I want to remind
everybody that big movie on Netflix Under Paris. Oh, by
the way, rent or watch under Paris. It's a phenomenal
horror movie under Paris.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's okay. There's no sharks. There's no sharks.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We're all good.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Don't worry about it. No sharks in the sin. It's
just a movie. It's all good. You can go out there.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
We can have the triathlon.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's for love metal listen is t the How bad
do you want it? As? As a group fifty five,
are you gonna vote as a cohesion block to have
this event go on as currently scheduled Wednesday? Knowing that
there's potential for grave illness mutation, whatever mutation you.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Brought up the thing before, Professor Sreek, how safe is
the swim in the water? Well defined safe? If you
think safe is, you'll probably be okay. Then yeah, we
have the event, that's no problem.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But legitimately, like where do you now have the swimming portion?
And now if we've rewrote all of this and no
end up at the one indoor pool that's not being
used embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Luckily Mape has a big Olympic sized pool in his backyard.
We're gonna use that. Are you gonna swim back and forth?
And well, that's gonna be the swimming portion of it.
We're gonna can't. It's just gonna be the biathlot, except
instead of shooting and skiing, it's gonna be running in bike.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
What's that product that you use at the guy in
the late night commercial where he fires it into a
tumble of water, Look at all on the grind disappears?
Oh no, maybe just like him.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Twisters, they just released the door with the stuff. Now
we're gonna we're gonna get all the moisture. It's great,
we'll get all the stuff stuck to us.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Spoiler alerts.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I gonna say Twisters was pretty good. So at this
weekend I was I was really with no expectations and uh,
both Glenn Powell and Daisy Edgar Jones, who's gotta go
by Daisy Edgar Jones because she can't go by Daisy Jones.
People think she's a singer in a rock band. Uh,
they are, And you knew it about Glenn Powell. They're
both incredibly watchable and the movie is fun and it's
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a little bits. It's different enough that the the cgi
the effects are all terrific. I'll tell you I went
it with it was I'm like, wow, this is one
of the best action.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Movies I've seen. The problem for me though, Powell too
close to Gosling, and every time I see him, I
want to start singing City of Stars, and it just
goes down a spiraling kind of thing. I'm just walking
around house.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Going if you feel it, if you feel it, I'm
not walking down my stairs tomorrow. Well today and my
wife and daughter were up and there say Dad, you're up,
and I said, if you feel it.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I heard Zoey go, oh my god. Yeah. Legitimately, I
threw it out as a potential thing for the kids.
Both of them just went as much as they love
Glenn Powell because you know, teenage girls, some sure some.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
TikTok and and I love the one shot of him
for no reason walking with a cowboy hat on and
a white T shirt in the rain for no reason.
That's an movie. Oh he's just there. Oh hey, that
worked for Tebow for about a.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Year, about a year, about about a week. I think
you got a lot of run out of that.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So while we're waiting to find out if we can
ever have the try the triathlon, if the send can
be safe enough.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
We've eliminated the swimming suits, just cutting it out. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
The US women's national basketball team played today and a
little bit of trouble with China early, but with Japan early,
but they pulled away and they won big. Okay, they
haven't lost an Olympic game since nineteen ninety two. They're
going to win the gold medal. All of this is true.
Brianna Stewart and to an extent, Britney Grinder, who will
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probably play limited minutes. But Brianna Stewart and Asia Wilson,
they will lead the United States the gold medal because
there's nobody internationally that can stop them. They're just too talented.
Ump inside and go to work. But and I'm gonna
give you this hot take. Even though Chelsea Gray had
eleven assists today, the guards struggled, and Kelsey Plum struggled
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and Chelsea Gray struggled. They struggled with China's pressure, their
Japan's pressure, the the man demand pressure. Getting the ball
over half court. You saw the point guards pick up
their dribble a lot. They made risky passes to try
to get it inside. They turned the ball over a
decent amount. They were bailed out of turnovers just because
the players they were passing to were much bigger than
(23:30):
Japan as we you know, you heard No Eagles say
before the game, Uh, definitely vertically challenged.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Is uh is Japan today? Uh?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
So they got bailed out. But the guards, the guard
play was not great, right, They made one three. The
entire game was Kelsey Plum made a three that that
rattled in and out and went in.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And here's my hot take.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
You know how good they would be if they had
Kaitlyn Clark, If they had Caitlin Clark, who's been able
to break.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Down defensive.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yes, right, I mean Don Staley really, you know Don
Staley is like, oh, she should have just said, hey,
I'll give you a hot take. She would be on
the team. She should be on the team. She would
be the best point guard that the United States would
have should have said, and ravescrewed it up. Well, you know,
and you get to look. We talked about that, the
pettiness and the jealousy. Cheryl Reeve doesn't like Caitlyn Clark,
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is jealous of her, is petty towards her. You know,
the players didn't want Caitlyn Clark on the team.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
This is our team.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
She's coming into the league and when we built this
league on our backs and she's coming in too, So
you know, there's that stupid pettiness and jealousiness. But I'll
tell you what, they'd be much better off with Caitlin
Clarke playing point guard because she has shown you that
I don't need to take all the shots I can.
I can rack up fifteen seventeen. It says she would
have been a great moving the ball from side to
side and finding the openings and being able to dish.
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And that's really something in the team US they needed
because the quickness of Japan's guards, you could tell once
we got into the into you know, once we got
over half court, there are a lot of quaiss We
want to try to dump it in, but it's much
more difficult than we thought it.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Was gonna be anything they need.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
They would have missed Caitlyn Clark today, they really would
have done. It would have been a game where it
would have blown out early. It wouldn't have been close,
it would have blown out in the first quarter. By halftime,
would have been other people play, everybody getting off the bench,
everybody playing a bunch of minutes. But I'll tell you
they needed Caitlyn Clark today and they're gonna wind up
needing her as it goes forward. Because if you get
this trouble from Japan, who is not it was not
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a great team, how much difficulty your guard's gonna wind
up being.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And as the tournament gets on.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Like I said, they'll win the goal because nobody can
stop their big nobody can say they're just so good.
But how much trouble are they gonna be in? Because
I'll tell you I watched today. I'm like, I'm not
feeling great about the back court of the United States
after today's game against spand CAUF. You could tell me,
all right, first quarter, a little bit of nerves, a
little bit of this. Okay, you get a time out
or halftime, you come back out. We're gonna dominate in
(25:48):
a second. No, it was still Brianna Stewart pulling down rebounds,
starting to break herself, you know, court long passes to
Asia Wilson, will Wilson pulling down a rebound, pulling it
up herself. That was the strength. But boy, I'll tell you,
I want the entire games that I'm going They really needed.
Caitlin Clark today.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Shot twenty percent from three point range. Conversely, nearly thirty
nine percent for Japan. Yamamoto hit five, and that was
the thing kept them in the game early on right
three point shooting, and we're hitting them in buckets for
a while, wide open looks, and that's that's the big thing.
It's all rotationally. But watching this game after a while,
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it was like, all right, just dump it inside. Okay,
you can miss, get your own rebound, put it back up.
You can miss. That's fine because there's nobody there that's
going to contend with you, and you're gonna have very
few of your opponents that are gonna be able to
even become close to matching the size. So it really
just becomes a version of the old NBA style of
all right, let's dump it down to the Biggs and
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Rihanna Stewart, Nasa Wilson should be able to just dominate
from pillar to post throughout this competition and you'll get
better guard play. I would suspect here was you had
some hot shooting early on that kept it close, and
then eventually you just pull away size and depth.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, and look, it's it's not to the point where
the United States men's team is where other nations have
gotten so good in the last few years, and the
rules international rules really.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Are against what the men try to do.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It's still to a point where where where our women's
team we can, we can roll out our best players
and stomp on other countries.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It's still a twenty six point burial. But I'm telling you, yeah,
but it was. It was a little closer than it should.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
They stayed closer than you thought it would be, and
it was and it was trouble. They couldn't just dump
the ball in because the guards had trouble and they
weren't threat shooting the ball. They didn't try to get
to the rim. It was really I'm watching it going.
They really need Caitlin Clark, they really need her in
this game. So I didn't even take a three. Just
try to get to the try to get to the rim.
(27:51):
She's find somebody open. You see, the kind of passage
has a reason. She leads WNBA and it's the other.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Thing they needed needed her for is the fact that
they played to a half empty arena would have been
falls as a bunch of folks. I forget who it was.
On Twitter earlier pointed out like they they actually played
the fewer people, uh than pretty much every other women's
basketball game has in the tournament thus far. What do
(28:17):
you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I got a better solution, guys than Caton Clark.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Who's that? Okay?
Speaker 5 (28:22):
They should go get Jason Tatum. I hear he's looking
for minutes.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Can he bring Halliburton with him? That would solve their probable.
If I'm not playing, I'm playing here. I can play
on the Olympic team, right, I can play. I can play.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Hey, Jason, how you do we signed this? All right?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
That's great going You're gonna play your player, Everyone doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Whatever you want to do. Time to find out what's
right now in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
From Special Deliveries team to Sager, who will begin the
update by recapping how the Mets got every one of
their fifteen runs tonight.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Again will not ye, that doesn't seem likely, but they
did score fifteen, and the Yankees scored fourteen, and the
Red Sox scored fourteen, and seemingly the White Sox, well,
they've lost fifteen in a row. But we'll get to
all of that in a moment. You mentioned US women's basketball.
They only led Japan thirty eight thirty two late in
the first half today, but the Americans never trailed.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
They won the game one oh two to seventy six.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
And with the height advantage, the US scored sixty four
points in the paint today, So the US women since
nineteen eighty four and the Olympics are now seventy to one.
They had eleven blocks to none in this game today,
outrebounded Japan fifty six twenty seven, Asia Wilson twenty four points,
Brianna Stewart twenty two, Chelsea Gray thirteen assists, and won turnover.
(29:41):
Germany beat Belgium. Germans led the entire game eighty three
sixty nine. The final Thursday, it's the US women against Belgium. Amazingly,
Back in February, the US women only won at Belgium
eighty one seventy nine, and that was in an Olympic qualifier.
In fact, that game, the US was down nine after
three quarters. This Sunday it's the un US women against Germany,
a team the Americans easily beat in a recent tune
(30:04):
up game. US men play again Wednesday. A bronze medal
for US men's gymnastics today, Japan beat China for the gold.
The team final in women's gymnastics is tomorrow. US leads
the team event and yes, Tomorrow's men's triathlon in Paris
was postponed for a day after failed water quality tests
taken at the sen River. Novak Djokovic swept Rafael Nadal
(30:26):
in the second round tennis match six to one, sixty
four to baseball almost everything's final Washington holding on eight
to seven at Arizona with one out in the bottom
of the ninth. Trade deadline is tomorrow in the MLB,
and the Braves of A reacquired Dhrge Solaire from San Francisco.
The Brewers acquired pitcher Frankie Montas from the Reds. Milwaukee
(30:46):
beat Atlanta tonight eight three. Kansas City hit three homers
in the eighth to beat the White Sox in Chicago
eight five. White Sox have lost fifteen in a row.
Attendance was twelve thousand, and Pittsburgh was a five to
three winner. At Houston, the law to closer Josh Hater,
he allowed a three run homer in the ninth. Houston
traded for pitcher you Say Kakuchi from Toronto. The Yankees
(31:07):
got two Aaron Judge home runs and one at Philadelphia
fourteen to four. Toronto and Baltimore split a doubleheader. Back
to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios. Coming up now,
we got a big NFL story coming your way in
a few minutes. But straight ahead, boy, we got two
big stories coming off the Olympics taken into one does
involve Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (31:43):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios, and two Big
Stories from the Olympics today. One is kind of continuation
we talked about a few minutes ago. We talked about how, hey, look,
how you hot to take US women's national team could
have used Kaitlyn Clark today. Right, the backcourt was very
(32:03):
suspect the Bigs were able to do it. They're going
to do it for us and win and win another
gold medal. But it was kind of difficult watching them
struggle bring the ball up first.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Half, struggle and certainly eventually had a thirty rebound margin.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
But you mentioned down Staley's comments South Carolina head coach
who said, hey, you know, if we were evaluating now
instead of when the season first started, yeah, Caitlyn Clark
would be a strong candidate for the team. In other words,
she doesn't want to say she'd be on the team,
but hey, you know, if they evaluated, she'd be a
strong candidate for the team.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Which is great.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
But and again, and I go back to this because
I can't believe more people don't bring this up.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Is that mainly every year since nineteen ninety six, right
last time the US women's national team won the gold medal,
all the gold medal run here almost every year, almost
every year, the US women's team takes the top pick
in the draft to the Olympics, and they don't have
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time to spend with the with the with the national team,
but they take them. Diana Tarassi, they did it for her,
she's forty two. Did it for Danna Trassi. They did
it for Rebecca Lobo, did it for Kandice Parker, did
it for Brianna Stewart.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
So almost every year the.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Last twenty five years, they've taken the number one rookie.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
But oh, this year, we're not gonna take Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, that's pettiness and jealousy because they take almost every
every time they take the top rookie, because that's kind
of what you do. Hey, you're gonna be the face
of women's basketball, gonna get used to international competition. Here,
you'll play a smaller role. No one's gonna care how
much Caitlyn Clark plays. Her doesn't live as long as
she played. As long as she played, people wouldn't care.
(33:54):
Long No one cares as long as Hey, you're a
d NPCD Caitlin. Just wave that towel on the bench,
all right, But no, no one would care. She could
come off the bench, she could start, it wouldn't matter.
But they always took the rookie. They always took the
number one player to But no, no, no, because Caitlyn's
we're not gonna take her, because we're gonna be petty
and we're gonna be jealous. And you know that that
(34:15):
that the coach hates her, doesn't want her on the team.
She's been the most vocal every time she seems to
say things, it's very anti Caitlyn Clark. So what else
do you want? I mean, really, this is this is
why she's not there. She's not there. They could have
taken her, because they normally do, but they didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
But like all workplaces, all semblance of teams, sports, team projects,
you don't have to love each other. Right, how many
school projects did you do and you got through it
and you never spoke to those people again? Right? You
were forced into a team dynamic, you divvied up, whatever
the roles. Someone was always a slacker that you had
(34:54):
to keep sending notes to and harassing them, or showing
up at their dorm room and knocking on the or
again owing to our age before cell phones, when you
could just be like dude, what the hell? Uh here?
It was knocking on the door and potentially causes of chaos.
But all the way through, you don't have to love
each other. And it's not that you had to bring
(35:15):
Caitlyn Clark in with full smiles, hugs and whatever else.
But you have to recognize a her game, be what
she means to your game, and all of those you know,
everything in between, And for Coach Reeve in particular, like
it's at some point you took some media training at
some point, didn't you, Because you just all all of
(35:38):
those things, and the players could say that they're blue
in their face, there's nothing wrong. We all get along
with Caitlin and we love her and she's good for
the game. Yeah, because clearly for the economics and for
their own pocketbooks. It's great. Look at all the other
commercial opportunities that have suddenly popped up all across the dot.
Commercials do you see them on? Everybody's all over, everybody's
(36:00):
got endorsements, And it doesn't mean that they weren't necessarily coming,
but the arrival of Caitlin Clark sure seemed to push
that into a whole other stratosphere. But to openly downplay
it and push it away, as Reeve has most specifically,
Tarassi is mad at the reporting, you know, because people
are like, well, why do you have to keep doing this?
(36:21):
Because I can okay, because I'm still playing at a
high level. That's all she needs to say. But that's
a story that just keeps going on and on and on,
and it's unfortunate that when we look at what position
Caitlin Clark plays there, it is in direct opposition, right,
so it becomes this antagonistic thing, you know, from the
outside looking in. So there's that story. I understand.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
It's still about pettiness and jealousy why she's not there. Meanwhile,
this has become my favorite story is the Canadian Is it.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
The river again?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
No, it's not the real Well, why that's becoming my
favorite story? My favorite story up until.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
This said guy guys sending me blinky.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
The the Canadians, this women's soccer team, despite all the
stuff that's gone on, has a chance to move on
to the knockout stage after getting the six point penalty
because their coaches were caught cheating by flying a drone
over a closed practice. They got a six point penalty,
but all the have to do is be Columbia and
they can move on. The players are upset at everything
(37:21):
that's gone on, this cheating scandal that has now gotten
wider than just oh we flew a drone and recorded
an entire practice. We found out that this has been
something that supposedly, according to reports, Canadian team has been
doing for years. Job interviews that people have had, it's been, hey,
would you be comfortable filming other teams practice your moral flexibility?
Like this is about as crooked as you can get,
and now you understand, Hey, oh, this is how Canada's
(37:43):
soccer teams have gotten good the last few years. All
of a sudden, they went from no one paid attention
to Canadian soccer for me, Now suddenly they're good. They're
gold medalist, they're playing well. This is my favorite story
because already the Canadian team has turned this. Hey, we're
gonna play the victims us spending. Vanessa Geel, one of
(38:03):
the defenders, was really upset following their win over France
that kept their their chance alive, said quote, we're timing
again defending ourselves. We're not cheaters. We're a damn good players.
We're a damn good team. We're a damn good group.
This is not about us, our pride to represent this
country when all this blank is coming out about our values,
(38:26):
about our reputation, representation as Canadians, it's not us. Okay,
time out for a second. You're sick and tired of
defending ourselves. It's been three days. This is not Even
the Astros had to defend themselves for a little bit
long before they said, you know, we're sick and tired
of everybody hating us. We know we have to do well.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But even the Astros let it
go a few months before they said we're sick of it.
(38:47):
And now it's us against the world. This has been
three days, and now it's we're sick of defending ourselves.
You just got caught cheating. It's a developing story. And yes,
maybe you didn't do anything. Maybe the players were kept
in the dark about this, because this is how spygate work.
The players didn't know. Hey, Tom Brady, I got a question, coach,
how do you know what they're gonna run there?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Defensively? Don't worry, we know Tom just audible to that play.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Okay, great, But to sit here and say now suddenly
they've they've gone right away from hey, cheeters too. Now
we're the victims, like they go so fast from oh
look at how bad this is.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Now we're the victims.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
And now everybody which asks against the world like they
have jumped from oh blake, my goodness, this is awful,
and we feel bad about what's going on with the
sport of soccer.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Two. That's not our fault. We're the victims here. Yeah,
but think about the reputation that Canada has enjoyed low
these many years. The land of Maple Syrup, land of
Anne Murray and all of those things in hockey and
being so kind right the old anchorman, Oh sorry, you know,
and all those jokes that we've had for years, and
(39:49):
now you might have committed this completely underhanded espionage thing
to propel your teams to great this on the global stage.
Everything you built as a reputation just got torn asunder. So, yeah,
what are you gonna say?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
It's not us, it's not us going to play there.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
The coach hasn't even landed after being banished.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
This is like right away they're like, oh, were the
victims hour out there?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Now, Wow, that's against the world.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Gotta find your motivation, exit up personally, exit swollen dome.
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you know, in a in an error now in which
the last few days we're talking about big trades and
different acquisitions. I don't know that there could be a
if you could tally up all the baseball acquisitions that
have gone on the last few days, and we will
see tomorrow none of them will be bigger than the
(01:12):
MCU getting Robert Downey Junior to come back, as was
announced over the week, and he's going to be Doctor Doom.
They're rebuilding the New Adventures franchise around his villain, Doctor Doom.
He's back in. As he said, what hey, being a
hero means you can't be around your what you're round
long enough, you'll eventually become the villain. No, it's the
old Batman line. Yeah, kind of what's happening to Robert
(01:33):
Downey Junior?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
He is back. Well, you had the unfortunate instance where
you had to pivot from your whole Kang dynasty thing
with Majors issues, So what do you do? You back
up the Brinks truck. Robert Downey Junior got his oscar
for Oppenheimer right everything there, and reportedly is going to
make eighty million dollars plus whatever percentage point five or
(01:56):
a full percentage off of the gross because that's what
he is. Last time. He's gonna get his own compound
of trailers and whatever else private jet to use at
his leisure, and then the Russo's had to come back
to direct it. What we you go?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
This shows you a how desperate the Marvel Cinematic universe
is because you think about the high they were at
coming off of Endgame.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
We can do no wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
The multiverse saga, like this is gonna go down in
film history is one of the like the Ishtar and
this is but this is like ten movies you got,
but this is like ten movies we're gonna see where
This is just awful. The the the the multiverse saga
is terrible. Nobody can keep track of it. There's too
many there's too many things going on. It's too convoluted
(02:42):
and and it's awful. Now, at least I feel confident
that the MCU can make its way back because you're
bringing back the most charismatic person that was ever in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And yeah, he's gonna be a villain. Awesome,
He's gonna be Doctor j Great awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Right, so do the big thing as part of hom
con and Saturday Night saw the ex whale no longer
the Twitter whale. But it broke and then all of
a sudden I came back. I was like, all right, refreshed. Hey,
there's all it's our DJ all over the place. When
I did find funny, right, there's a ton of memes
that go on, but perhaps the best line was proof
(03:18):
that nobody stays dead in this universe except Uncle ben Well.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
And and the first Quicksilver. They're still not bringing Aaron
and he's become a big star.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No a bringing no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
But I mean I feel confident, I feel happy, glad
about the MCU. Now finally I'm like, all right, I
feel good.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, as one who doesn't sit there trying to parse
out all the timelines. And I want to grab a
bucket of popcorn to you. It was my mini bottling
to throw into my my Coca cola. Wow, okay. And
then we say, don't you take your kids to these movies? Yeah, okay,
sometimes they drive. Now, okay, you're gonna drive that home
(04:01):
because I'm gonna get wasted next to you. Rain a
nice tasty beverage. And then I just want to relax
to watch a movie, like when it comes to the song, like,
if I want to go see a serious movie, there's
plenty of those. If I want to go be depressed
for three hours, plenty of movies on the duck to
(04:21):
let me do that, or possession movies, which are back
in vogue. But if I just want to go see
a comic book film. I don't want to have to
sit there with an advocus trying to figure out what
the hell's going on. I'll buy you a son, but
don't drink mine. Don't drink any out of mine. It's
in the this is the cup holder with mine. You
have your own, see the one I got the red
(04:43):
sharpie marker on. And if you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Accidentally don't drink from it, you tell no one that
you drink from it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Not one person. That's an honest mistake, not one person.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Dad was drunk at the movie.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
No. Now, there may or may not be pictures of
a young Mike Harmon who obscotted with a beer and
a family gather. It was drunk. Get Deadpool and Wolverine.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
It was not.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I was perfectly sober. I was having a nice cup
of coffee. Again, like I said, for that movie, Hey funny,
They're both great. The cameos are awesome, and you see
the plot line and you go, oh, come on, really,
come on, man.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Come onny. Kerry Rhodes comes in, he and Bier after
Ryan Hollins and I get off on Sunday mornings and
he goes, hey, did you go see it yet? And
go you're talking Deadpool. He goes, what'd you think a
lot of laughs, some great music, great performances, plot was
He goes.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Exactly, yeah, exactly, man, I feel confident now in the
MCU again, I feel confident. Now you're bringing back your
biggest star. It's going to be now, it's going to
be fine. Now just dump all these movies that you're making.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Just dump them all.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Of the Let's get to the Two Avengers.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Let's get to the Two Avengers movies now, so we
have well, I did like the guy that was on
that FX show, you know, tell me what you don't
like about yourself, right, because he was he was dooming
that other Oh yeah yeah, but this.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Is Robert Downey Junior. Took the most char probably the
most charismatic guy in movies.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Now people wondering if this isn't a whole fake out
and it's actually gonna be Killian Murphy with Poppenheimer, comes
to the MCU.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmen live from the Tirech dot
Com Studios. This is easily the most interesting NFL story
of the week. Is John Elway decided to play little
revisionist history. He was playing golf recently with Bill's quarterback
Josh Allen. I talked about this on the Pardon My
(06:39):
Take A podcast or barstool, and he said, you know,
I played golf with him, and I'm wondering, how long
is it going to take him to realize that I
passed on him and took Bradley Chubb instead, And it
took him two and a half holes. All right, So
he's telling the story. I played golf with Josh Allen.
Going back to the twenty eighteen draft. I took Bradley Chubb,
who couldn't really stay healthy, moved on to the Dolphins.
Josh Allen has become one of the top five quarterbacks
(07:02):
in the NFL. Elway says I loved him, it just
didn't work out.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
He was my type.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That was probably my biggest mistake of my GM days,
not taking Josh Allen. You know, I see this and
I go, yeah, in a vacuum, you could say, how
do you pass on this guy? I get it, I understand,
I understand that, but come on, man, I mean really,
this is where, hey, I'm gonna throw myself out here
(07:28):
as a sports martyr and show you that, Oh, look
at the mistake I made. You would just sign case Keenum. Right,
go back to twenty eighteen. This is the big draft
with Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold and Josh Rosen and
Josh Allen. Nobody knew, Hey, which of these four guys
are going to be the best? Up until the draft.
You thought Sam Darnald, good Lamar Jackson the best guy
(07:49):
turned out to be the guy that went all the
way at the end of the first round. So nobody
knew who was going to be the best. Nobody had
any idea. You had four or five guys in the
mix for the top few picks, and he had just
signed case Keenum, who was coming off the run the
Minneapolis Miracle. And you think, okay, Case Keene, one of
those guys thirty years old, he hit it big. He's
gonna be, you know, one of those later later in life. Quarterbacks. Okay,
(08:13):
you had just gotten burned by taking Paxton Lynch recently
or two years before that. And let's be honest, your
track record of picking quarterbacks in the draft wasn't that great.
You got Peyton Manning, you won the Super Bowl. Brock
Oswiler stunk, Paxton Lynch stunk. You weren't good at it.
So are you gonna go get a guy like Josh
Allen who at the time was coming off a really
(08:33):
poor senior year. He threw sixteen touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
But go back to his completion percentage accurately all those questions.
I believe that there was someone that you could pull
out of that. But I stood by that and fought
with a lot of guys here on Fox Sports Radio.
But if you're looking to make that guy the key
to your long term success as a GM, that was
not a guy you were hitching your wagon too. No
(08:57):
people were running to the hill.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
The Bills took him because it was him or Josh
or Josh Rosen Like, that's why they took him. They
had to pick between the two of them. We took
Josh Allen. Okay, it worked out right. If Josh Allen
was so good, if everybody had such a great grade
on him, guess what, he'd have gone number one overall.
The Browns would have taken him, the Jets would have
taken him, somebody else would have taken them.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But to be fair, they were the Browns and the Jets.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, that is true, and neither team has done a
great job picking quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
No I heard anything else for a very long time,
turning it around down. But there's other teams.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That gonna taken off too. This is why I'll give
you this hot take. This is why in a situation
like this, I always believe we should have the draft
before free agency.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The draft should come because teams.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Hit free agency and they don't always hit it with
the same gusto because they think, well, do we want
to get our quarterback here or do we want to
go into the draft for one? All right, we're to
take our chances going to the draft and get a quarterback.
So you're kind of half in half out on free agency,
and it's really difficult to plan to say, all right, well,
in free agency, we're gonna go, oh, we're gonna get
(10:00):
our guys, all right, great now in the draft. Okay,
well we still have big we still have big needs.
Oh we didn't know we were gonna get this guy
in the d in free agency. So that this hurts us.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Here.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
If you had the draft first, teams would take their
quarterbacks and then they would say, all right, we know
who got a quarterback. We don't need a quarterback in
f agenc that we're all good. Whereas if you come
out of if you come out of the draft, let's
say quarterbacks, for instance, if you come out of the draft,
you have the draft first and you have your quarterback,
all right, we don't need a quarterback in evangency. If
you don't have your quarterback, okay, we got to jump
(10:30):
into free agency and get one, right, So you know,
if we either get our quarterback in the draft we like,
or we didn't, we weren't able to take a guy. Hey,
let's get into free agency. Let's get in for the
bidding on Kirk Cousins as somebody else. Let's make it
really big and it's easier to fill the needs on
your team. Conversely, a team going into free agency that
needs a quarterback, Oh, do we want to give Kirk
(10:51):
Cousins thirty five million? We're picking fifth. Maybe we want
to take Bonick from Michael Pennix. Maybe that's what we
want to do.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I don't know. Do we do this? Do we do that?
And it becomes.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Harder to go forward with it because in free agency
you're looking to fill holes with veterans, where in the draft,
you're looking to draft for your future, but you get
caught with best player available. Hey, we didn't think this
guy would fall to us. I think teams would build
their rosters much cleaner if you had the draft first
and then you add free agency.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah. I think for all other positions you need your
drafting for depth. So I don't know how much that changes,
because you're still gonna take, as you said, the best
player available. The quarterback positions. The interesting one though, because
most years do we really have an A list guy
that's hitting free agency, I mean legitimately hitting free agency
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to where if you were in a top ten draft position,
you're gonna essue the contract that comes with that first
round pick and the future years where they're under control
at a minimum amount of doubt, versus a guy who
might be a B list guy like Kirk Cousins. As
good as he may be, he's coming off a major injury.
(12:05):
So how many teams really were in the Hey, let's
go pay this guy, the greatest businessman in NFL in history.
Let's go pay him this exorbitant amount of money. And
look what Atlanta still did. They still came back over
the top and drafted Pennix junior. Right, So most years
you don't have the you know choice where say the
(12:28):
Alex Smith, because you have Patrick Mahomes. He goes out.
But even then, what was Alex Smith at that point
in his career? How many years were you banking on
him being able to continue at that you know aptitude
of what he demonstrated in Kansas City. So few, very
few of those. So I would I would say that's
the one, one spot. As much as you may flip
(12:51):
the thinking for the quarterback, I'd rather have it.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
The way it is well and for Elway to bring
it full circle back to him.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It's in a vacuum.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, but look at how we laid out his team,
because you would go on and gotten case King you
had got it. Now let's say you flipped that and
you had the draft first, why do you taken Josh
Allen there at five? Yeah, you would have. I don't
know what I'm gonna get in free agency. Let's get
our quarterback right now.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Even though I just the Bears spent a lot of
money and Mike Glennon and they still went and drafted
up top. We just whiffed on Paxton land On us
while we went but that you would have taken him then.
I mean, it's it's revisionous history to go, yeah, you
had already built your team, so hey, quarterback wasn't the
top of your list at that point. So this is
Elway kind of just going, oh, look at me, look
(13:36):
at the bad MISTAKEE. No, you really didn't.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
You went along with what what any other team would
have done had their team been built like that. In
free agency, we got our quarterback. We we feel pretty
good about that. Now what do we need?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
No? I like the theoretical, but again, going back to
the pre draft evaluations of Josh Allen, there were a
lot of question marks related.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I like Bradley Chubb just catching us straight right there. Oh,
you had to throw me in.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
He's the guy you paid me. Unfortunately, that name.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is cemented in history as the number five pick.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Exit out about a Fresca exit. Swallen' down The Jason
Smith Show with my Ive, asked Fred Mike Harmon, Coming
up next? Boy, do we have a hot take off
of one of the biggest games in sports today.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
That's next, Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
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Speaker 4 (14:33):
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We usually talk all basketball all the time, but it's
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Speaker 1 (15:02):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, Hobo, we got a big Olympic hot
take coming your way in a couple of minutes. But first,
I don't know, I'd say maybe the most obvious Olympic story.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, that's just what's huge? Huge? All right?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
The men's triathlon, yeah, will not go ahead as planned tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Now the triathlon is what swimming, running and biking?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Right, just let me see yeah yeah really, yeah, you
know your sports?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
How do you things you never do?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Uh, let's see, no biking, I'll bike once in a while, running, never.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I'm a biking commotionary doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
No, no, no, no, no no, I'll go bike you
know we really yeah yeah, Zoe and ride our bikes.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Yeah yeah, you have training wheels.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yeah no, dude, I could ride the hell on his bike. Man.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah no, I rude them. You got you got the
you got the one with the motor on. You ain't
tling it. That hill is too much, right, let me
hit the engine. He's got the engine on there. If
he's got a bike.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Katy Smith wasn't down in a unicycle.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
And uh and and swimming if you're counting sitting in
the pool.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And the funny thing is my best friend and I
in Colin used to have the triathlon all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Used to go out on Friday night, Saturday nights.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
It would be pool, darts and cards and whoever and
whoever won two out of three paid for all the
beer that night. Oh yeah. He would usually beat me
in pool. I'm sorry, he just beat me in darts.
I would beat him in pool. It would come down
to cards. Okay, yeah, uh that was our own triathlon.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Well, I mean you got to invent your own uh,
your own competitions.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
That's right, but the men's triathlon will not go ahead
as plan Tuesday. Well, why why are they going to
They didn't bikes Wait a minute, yeah that uh. They
the people hadn't returned their scooters enough, so they had
to go pick them up. So the bird scooters they
had to pick them up. The lime scooters they gotta
pick up because surprise, pollution levels in the Seine remained
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too high. France spent one and a half billion dollars.
That's a b right, so all the money they're gonna
make on the Olympics has now gone. They spent one
and a half billion dollars to fix the send so
they wouldn't be the high levels of pollution, to fix
the the waste into the waterways. And nope, the pollution
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levels remain too high, so they can't have the triathlon.
They're hoping they can clean it up and have the
triathlon in a day or two.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah. But they even did the press event. This is
the best part. Paris Mayor and Hidalgo went in, did
the ceremonial. Yeah, look, it's perfectly safe. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And then she's gonna go swim in the river. And
then she got outlitude and the cameras off, spray.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Me with some kind of dissent. Fucking now now now
on the mayor not making out.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
All of a sudden, Oh, you're turning into the thing.
Oh my goodness, you're.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Gonna be in the marble cinematic universe spraying Now chick
Cliffs wasn't available. That's unbelievable. One point five billion dollars
to try to build the infrastructure out to contain the waste,
and here we know can't do it, can't do it
on the eve, literally the eve of the event, like
(18:14):
all right, we're ready. Fifty five people are gonna be
part of this. Hey guys, maybe Wednesday, I'm gonna swim
in the sin. You got any advice for me?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, don't let any water get in your ears, eyes, nose,
if you have any cuts. Uh, if you have you know,
they're radio of spiders.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I don't you know. Watch. But legitimately, what the hell's
gonna happen in twenty four hours where they're suddenly gonna
say ton of go ahead? They do?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
They have people out there with the big long sticks,
you know, stick grabbing the trashlight on the side of
the road, and they're taking it out and putting it away.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh, we're pulling that trash out.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
We're good. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It's okay. It's okay. We got them all gone. Hypodermic
needles were getting all them. That's fine, all good. See
you're taking it a whole on the level.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm like Mike, it's like, nah, I want to remind
everybody that big movie on Netflix Under Paris. Oh, by
the way, rent or watch under Paris. It's a phenomenal
horror movie under Paris.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's okay. There's no sharks. There's no sharks.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We're all good.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Don't worry about it. No sharks in the sin. It's
just a movie. It's all good. You can go out there.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
We can have the triathlon.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
That's for love metal listen is t the How bad
do you want it? As? As a group fifty five,
are you gonna vote as a cohesion block to have
this event go on as currently scheduled Wednesday? Knowing that
there's potential for grave illness mutation, whatever mutation you.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Brought up the thing before, Professor Sreek, how safe is
the swim in the water? Well defined safe? If you
think safe is, you'll probably be okay. Then yeah, we
have the event, that's no problem.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But legitimately, like where do you now have the swimming portion?
And now if we've rewrote all of this and no
end up at the one indoor pool that's not being
used embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Luckily Mape has a big Olympic sized pool in his backyard.
We're gonna use that. Are you gonna swim back and forth?
And well, that's gonna be the swimming portion of it.
We're gonna can't. It's just gonna be the biathlot, except
instead of shooting and skiing, it's gonna be running in bike.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
What's that product that you use at the guy in
the late night commercial where he fires it into a
tumble of water, Look at all on the grind disappears?
Oh no, maybe just like him.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Twisters, they just released the door with the stuff. Now
we're gonna we're gonna get all the moisture. It's great,
we'll get all the stuff stuck to us.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Spoiler alerts.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I gonna say Twisters was pretty good. So at this
weekend I was I was really with no expectations and uh,
both Glenn Powell and Daisy Edgar Jones, who's gotta go
by Daisy Edgar Jones because she can't go by Daisy Jones.
People think she's a singer in a rock band. Uh,
they are, And you knew it about Glenn Powell. They're
both incredibly watchable and the movie is fun and it's
(21:05):
a little bits. It's different enough that the the cgi
the effects are all terrific. I'll tell you I went
it with it was I'm like, wow, this is one
of the best action.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Movies I've seen. The problem for me though, Powell too
close to Gosling, and every time I see him, I
want to start singing City of Stars, and it just
goes down a spiraling kind of thing. I'm just walking
around house.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Going if you feel it, if you feel it, I'm
not walking down my stairs tomorrow. Well today and my
wife and daughter were up and there say Dad, you're up,
and I said, if you feel it.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I heard Zoey go, oh my god. Yeah. Legitimately, I
threw it out as a potential thing for the kids.
Both of them just went as much as they love
Glenn Powell because you know, teenage girls, some sure some.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
TikTok and and I love the one shot of him
for no reason walking with a cowboy hat on and
a white T shirt in the rain for no reason.
That's an movie. Oh he's just there. Oh hey, that
worked for Tebow for about a.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Year, about a year, about about a week. I think
you got a lot of run out of that.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So while we're waiting to find out if we can
ever have the try the triathlon, if the send can
be safe enough.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
We've eliminated the swimming suits, just cutting it out. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
The US women's national basketball team played today and a
little bit of trouble with China early, but with Japan early,
but they pulled away and they won big. Okay, they
haven't lost an Olympic game since nineteen ninety two. They're
going to win the gold medal. All of this is true.
Brianna Stewart and to an extent, Britney Grinder, who will
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probably play limited minutes. But Brianna Stewart and Asia Wilson,
they will lead the United States the gold medal because
there's nobody internationally that can stop them. They're just too talented.
Ump inside and go to work. But and I'm gonna
give you this hot take. Even though Chelsea Gray had
eleven assists today, the guards struggled, and Kelsey Plum struggled
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and Chelsea Gray struggled. They struggled with China's pressure, their
Japan's pressure, the the man demand pressure. Getting the ball
over half court. You saw the point guards pick up
their dribble a lot. They made risky passes to try
to get it inside. They turned the ball over a
decent amount. They were bailed out of turnovers just because
the players they were passing to were much bigger than
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Japan as we you know, you heard No Eagles say
before the game, Uh, definitely vertically challenged.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Is uh is Japan today? Uh?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
So they got bailed out. But the guards, the guard
play was not great, right, They made one three. The
entire game was Kelsey Plum made a three that that
rattled in and out and went in.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And here's my hot take.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
You know how good they would be if they had
Kaitlyn Clark, If they had Caitlin Clark, who's been able
to break.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Down defensive.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Yes, right, I mean Don Staley really, you know Don
Staley is like, oh, she should have just said, hey,
I'll give you a hot take. She would be on
the team. She should be on the team. She would
be the best point guard that the United States would
have should have said, and ravescrewed it up. Well, you know,
and you get to look. We talked about that, the
pettiness and the jealousy. Cheryl Reeve doesn't like Caitlyn Clark,
(24:18):
is jealous of her, is petty towards her. You know,
the players didn't want Caitlyn Clark on the team.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
This is our team.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
She's coming into the league and when we built this
league on our backs and she's coming in too, So
you know, there's that stupid pettiness and jealousiness. But I'll
tell you what, they'd be much better off with Caitlin
Clarke playing point guard because she has shown you that
I don't need to take all the shots I can.
I can rack up fifteen seventeen. It says she would
have been a great moving the ball from side to
side and finding the openings and being able to dish.
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And that's really something in the team US they needed
because the quickness of Japan's guards, you could tell once
we got into the into you know, once we got
over half court, there are a lot of quaiss We
want to try to dump it in, but it's much
more difficult than we thought it.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Was gonna be anything they need.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
They would have missed Caitlyn Clark today, they really would
have done. It would have been a game where it
would have blown out early. It wouldn't have been close,
it would have blown out in the first quarter. By halftime,
would have been other people play, everybody getting off the bench,
everybody playing a bunch of minutes. But I'll tell you
they needed Caitlyn Clark today and they're gonna wind up
needing her as it goes forward. Because if you get
this trouble from Japan, who is not it was not
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a great team, how much difficulty your guard's gonna wind
up being.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And as the tournament gets on.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Like I said, they'll win the goal because nobody can
stop their big nobody can say they're just so good.
But how much trouble are they gonna be in? Because
I'll tell you I watched today. I'm like, I'm not
feeling great about the back court of the United States
after today's game against spand CAUF. You could tell me,
all right, first quarter, a little bit of nerves, a
little bit of this. Okay, you get a time out
or halftime, you come back out. We're gonna dominate in
(25:48):
a second. No, it was still Brianna Stewart pulling down rebounds,
starting to break herself, you know, court long passes to
Asia Wilson, will Wilson pulling down a rebound, pulling it
up herself. That was the strength. But boy, I'll tell you,
I want the entire games that I'm going They really needed.
Caitlin Clark today.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Shot twenty percent from three point range. Conversely, nearly thirty
nine percent for Japan. Yamamoto hit five, and that was
the thing kept them in the game early on right
three point shooting, and we're hitting them in buckets for
a while, wide open looks, and that's that's the big thing.
It's all rotationally. But watching this game after a while,
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it was like, all right, just dump it inside. Okay,
you can miss, get your own rebound, put it back up.
You can miss. That's fine because there's nobody there that's
going to contend with you, and you're gonna have very
few of your opponents that are gonna be able to
even become close to matching the size. So it really
just becomes a version of the old NBA style of
all right, let's dump it down to the Biggs and
(26:48):
Rihanna Stewart, Nasa Wilson should be able to just dominate
from pillar to post throughout this competition and you'll get
better guard play. I would suspect here was you had
some hot shooting early on that kept it close, and
then eventually you just pull away size and depth.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, and look, it's it's not to the point where
the United States men's team is where other nations have
gotten so good in the last few years, and the
rules international rules really.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Are against what the men try to do.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
It's still to a point where where where our women's
team we can, we can roll out our best players
and stomp on other countries.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
It's still a twenty six point burial. But I'm telling you, yeah,
but it was. It was a little closer than it should.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
They stayed closer than you thought it would be, and
it was and it was trouble. They couldn't just dump
the ball in because the guards had trouble and they
weren't threat shooting the ball. They didn't try to get
to the rim. It was really I'm watching it going.
They really need Caitlin Clark, they really need her in
this game. So I didn't even take a three. Just
try to get to the try to get to the rim.
(27:51):
She's find somebody open. You see, the kind of passage
has a reason. She leads WNBA and it's the other.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Thing they needed needed her for is the fact that
they played to a half empty arena would have been
falls as a bunch of folks. I forget who it was.
On Twitter earlier pointed out like they they actually played
the fewer people, uh than pretty much every other women's
basketball game has in the tournament thus far. What do
(28:17):
you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I got a better solution, guys than Caton Clark.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Who's that? Okay?
Speaker 5 (28:22):
They should go get Jason Tatum. I hear he's looking
for minutes.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Can he bring Halliburton with him? That would solve their probable.
If I'm not playing, I'm playing here. I can play
on the Olympic team, right, I can play. I can play.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Hey, Jason, how you do we signed this? All right?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
That's great going You're gonna play your player, Everyone doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Whatever you want to do. Time to find out what's
right now in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
From Special Deliveries team to Sager, who will begin the
update by recapping how the Mets got every one of
their fifteen runs tonight.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Again will not ye, that doesn't seem likely, but they
did score fifteen, and the Yankees scored fourteen, and the
Red Sox scored fourteen, and seemingly the White Sox, well,
they've lost fifteen in a row. But we'll get to
all of that in a moment. You mentioned US women's basketball.
They only led Japan thirty eight thirty two late in
the first half today, but the Americans never trailed.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
They won the game one oh two to seventy six.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
And with the height advantage, the US scored sixty four
points in the paint today, So the US women since
nineteen eighty four and the Olympics are now seventy to one.
They had eleven blocks to none in this game today,
outrebounded Japan fifty six twenty seven, Asia Wilson twenty four points,
Brianna Stewart twenty two, Chelsea Gray thirteen assists, and won turnover.
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Germany beat Belgium. Germans led the entire game eighty three
sixty nine. The final Thursday, it's the US women against Belgium. Amazingly,
Back in February, the US women only won at Belgium
eighty one seventy nine, and that was in an Olympic qualifier.
In fact, that game, the US was down nine after
three quarters. This Sunday it's the un US women against Germany,
a team the Americans easily beat in a recent tune
(30:04):
up game. US men play again Wednesday. A bronze medal
for US men's gymnastics today, Japan beat China for the gold.
The team final in women's gymnastics is tomorrow. US leads
the team event and yes, Tomorrow's men's triathlon in Paris
was postponed for a day after failed water quality tests
taken at the sen River. Novak Djokovic swept Rafael Nadal
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in the second round tennis match six to one, sixty
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to seven at Arizona with one out in the bottom
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beat Atlanta tonight eight three. Kansas City hit three homers
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eight five. White Sox have lost fifteen in a row.
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios. Coming up now,
we got a big NFL story coming your way in
a few minutes. But straight ahead, boy, we got two
big stories coming off the Olympics taken into one does
involve Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
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Speaker 3 (31:35):
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Speaker 1 (31:43):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios, and two Big
Stories from the Olympics today. One is kind of continuation
we talked about a few minutes ago. We talked about how, hey, look,
how you hot to take US women's national team could
have used Kaitlyn Clark today. Right, the backcourt was very
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suspect the Bigs were able to do it. They're going
to do it for us and win and win another
gold medal. But it was kind of difficult watching them
struggle bring the ball up first.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Half, struggle and certainly eventually had a thirty rebound margin.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
But you mentioned down Staley's comments South Carolina head coach
who said, hey, you know, if we were evaluating now
instead of when the season first started, yeah, Caitlyn Clark
would be a strong candidate for the team. In other words,
she doesn't want to say she'd be on the team,
but hey, you know, if they evaluated, she'd be a
strong candidate for the team.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Which is great.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
But and again, and I go back to this because
I can't believe more people don't bring this up.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Is that mainly every year since nineteen ninety six, right
last time the US women's national team won the gold medal,
all the gold medal run here almost every year, almost
every year, the US women's team takes the top pick
in the draft to the Olympics, and they don't have
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time to spend with the with the with the national team,
but they take them. Diana Tarassi, they did it for her,
she's forty two. Did it for Danna Trassi. They did
it for Rebecca Lobo, did it for Kandice Parker, did
it for Brianna Stewart.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
So almost every year the.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Last twenty five years, they've taken the number one rookie.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
But oh, this year, we're not gonna take Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, that's pettiness and jealousy because they take almost every
every time they take the top rookie, because that's kind
of what you do. Hey, you're gonna be the face
of women's basketball, gonna get used to international competition. Here,
you'll play a smaller role. No one's gonna care how
much Caitlyn Clark plays. Her doesn't live as long as
she played. As long as she played, people wouldn't care.
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Long No one cares as long as Hey, you're a
d NPCD Caitlin. Just wave that towel on the bench,
all right, But no, no one would care. She could
come off the bench, she could start, it wouldn't matter.
But they always took the rookie. They always took the
number one player to But no, no, no, because Caitlyn's
we're not gonna take her, because we're gonna be petty
and we're gonna be jealous. And you know that that
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that the coach hates her, doesn't want her on the team.
She's been the most vocal every time she seems to
say things, it's very anti Caitlyn Clark. So what else
do you want? I mean, really, this is this is
why she's not there. She's not there. They could have
taken her, because they normally do, but they didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
But like all workplaces, all semblance of teams, sports, team projects,
you don't have to love each other. Right, how many
school projects did you do and you got through it
and you never spoke to those people again? Right? You
were forced into a team dynamic, you divvied up, whatever
the roles. Someone was always a slacker that you had
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to keep sending notes to and harassing them, or showing
up at their dorm room and knocking on the or
again owing to our age before cell phones, when you
could just be like dude, what the hell? Uh here?
It was knocking on the door and potentially causes of chaos.
But all the way through, you don't have to love
each other. And it's not that you had to bring
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Caitlyn Clark in with full smiles, hugs and whatever else.
But you have to recognize a her game, be what
she means to your game, and all of those you know,
everything in between, And for Coach Reeve in particular, like
it's at some point you took some media training at
some point, didn't you, Because you just all all of
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those things, and the players could say that they're blue
in their face, there's nothing wrong. We all get along
with Caitlin and we love her and she's good for
the game. Yeah, because clearly for the economics and for
their own pocketbooks. It's great. Look at all the other
commercial opportunities that have suddenly popped up all across the dot.
Commercials do you see them on? Everybody's all over, everybody's
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got endorsements, And it doesn't mean that they weren't necessarily coming,
but the arrival of Caitlin Clark sure seemed to push
that into a whole other stratosphere. But to openly downplay
it and push it away, as Reeve has most specifically,
Tarassi is mad at the reporting, you know, because people
are like, well, why do you have to keep doing this?
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Because I can okay, because I'm still playing at a
high level. That's all she needs to say. But that's
a story that just keeps going on and on and on,
and it's unfortunate that when we look at what position
Caitlin Clark plays there, it is in direct opposition, right,
so it becomes this antagonistic thing, you know, from the
outside looking in. So there's that story. I understand.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
It's still about pettiness and jealousy why she's not there. Meanwhile,
this has become my favorite story is the Canadian Is it.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
The river again?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
No, it's not the real Well, why that's becoming my
favorite story? My favorite story up until.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
This said guy guys sending me blinky.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
The the Canadians, this women's soccer team, despite all the
stuff that's gone on, has a chance to move on
to the knockout stage after getting the six point penalty
because their coaches were caught cheating by flying a drone
over a closed practice. They got a six point penalty,
but all the have to do is be Columbia and
they can move on. The players are upset at everything
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that's gone on, this cheating scandal that has now gotten
wider than just oh we flew a drone and recorded
an entire practice. We found out that this has been
something that supposedly, according to reports, Canadian team has been
doing for years. Job interviews that people have had, it's been, hey,
would you be comfortable filming other teams practice your moral flexibility?
Like this is about as crooked as you can get,
and now you understand, Hey, oh, this is how Canada's
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soccer teams have gotten good the last few years. All
of a sudden, they went from no one paid attention
to Canadian soccer for me, Now suddenly they're good. They're
gold medalist, they're playing well. This is my favorite story
because already the Canadian team has turned this. Hey, we're
gonna play the victims us spending. Vanessa Geel, one of
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the defenders, was really upset following their win over France
that kept their their chance alive, said quote, we're timing
again defending ourselves. We're not cheaters. We're a damn good players.
We're a damn good team. We're a damn good group.
This is not about us, our pride to represent this
country when all this blank is coming out about our values,
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about our reputation, representation as Canadians, it's not us. Okay,
time out for a second. You're sick and tired of
defending ourselves. It's been three days. This is not Even
the Astros had to defend themselves for a little bit
long before they said, you know, we're sick and tired
of everybody hating us. We know we have to do well.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But even the Astros let it
go a few months before they said we're sick of it.
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And now it's us against the world. This has been
three days, and now it's we're sick of defending ourselves.
You just got caught cheating. It's a developing story. And yes,
maybe you didn't do anything. Maybe the players were kept
in the dark about this, because this is how spygate work.
The players didn't know. Hey, Tom Brady, I got a question, coach,
how do you know what they're gonna run there?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Defensively? Don't worry, we know Tom just audible to that play.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Okay, great, But to sit here and say now suddenly
they've they've gone right away from hey, cheeters too. Now
we're the victims, like they go so fast from oh
look at how bad this is.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Now we're the victims.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
And now everybody which asks against the world like they
have jumped from oh blake, my goodness, this is awful,
and we feel bad about what's going on with the
sport of soccer.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Two. That's not our fault. We're the victims here. Yeah,
but think about the reputation that Canada has enjoyed low
these many years. The land of Maple Syrup, land of
Anne Murray and all of those things in hockey and
being so kind right the old anchorman, Oh sorry, you know,
and all those jokes that we've had for years, and
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now you might have committed this completely underhanded espionage thing
to propel your teams to great this on the global stage.
Everything you built as a reputation just got torn asunder. So, yeah,
what are you gonna say?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
It's not us, it's not us going to play there.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
The coach hasn't even landed after being banished.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
This is like right away they're like, oh, were the
victims hour out there?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Now, Wow, that's against the world.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Gotta find your motivation, exit up personally, exit swollen dome.
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