September 14, 2023 • 30 mins
Jason explains why it’s World Series or bust for the Atlanta Braves. The NBA has approved a rule that will not allow teams to rest two stars in the same game. And Giannis Antetokounmpo speaks on his future in Milwaukee.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio
dot com, or stream us live every night on the
iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, Welcome inside our three of The Jason Smith Show
with my Basfriendmike Harmon Livethetirack dot com studios. Tirec dot
com will help you get there an unmatched selection, fast,
free shipping, free road hazard protection, over ten thousand recommended
installers tirack dot com The way tire buying should be.
So before we get back into the big day in
(00:51):
the Rise of Aaron Rodgers, Uh, yes or no?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
If I know feet to the no, I don't even
know what the question is, but I'll just go with
no because I'm a negative kind of guy, Like it's
gonna be the Jets.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Are the Jets good? No?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
No, No, you sell that yesterday And then they did
a close up shot. I got no ability to retort.
They clipped it off before I started screaming.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Well right after he was done.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's unbelaable. But like I'm like, all right here it is,
I'm gonna start screaming at him. And then the clip ends,
like what the hell are we doing here? I have
control over certain things. I do. I have control over
certain things. I felt greatly disrespected, but no, smart guys,
propaganda thing got to go up there.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
My big question is were those really alien corpses revealed
today in Mexico or the hoax? Where those really mummified
corpses of it?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Four year old paper mache.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
It's paper mache for a as yet to be named
horror movie under the A twenty four banner.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know, you know, going through this and obviously, look
we've heard the story about Area fifty one and that
maybe the United States has evidence of alien life forms
because what a retired general state or something like that
over the path summer, and then the story kind of
went away, right.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Notice that very hot for like a day and a half, right,
But that was the way to slip it in though
a lot of economic concerns and and you know, the
insurrection stuff going on in the courts and everything else.
People had a lot to worry about, you know, the
Summer of the Shark, whatever it was. I mean, it
was a lot going on. So to slip in, hey
aliens exist kind of came and went. People just kind
(02:34):
of shrugged, going, yeah, we gotta figure that. Yeah. No,
So like Aaron Rodgers did, oh, hey, hey we may have.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Aliens maybe visiting. But Aaron Rodgers got hurt. Oh we'll
get to the aliens later on.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Let's well, maybe he got hurt so he could go
explore this a little more.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You know what made me think about this being a hoax?
I mean, of all the things that it could be
a hoax, is that why?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Because they looked like Yeah, it's like why.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Why do these aliens look like every alien that's been
created by Hollywood in the last fifty years?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Right, Like, how why do the aliens look like us? Right?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They're the smaller alien bodies. They have the hands and
the arms and the legs and the hip bones and
everything else, and the head is very similar. Wait, this
is this is like what Hollywood picks up aliens to
be because well, they gotta be something. They gotta walk,
they gotta be we gotta put them on screen. They
can't just be blobs of something that's not interesting.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Because we're from the set of Men in Black.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
They got it would have been cooler if they look
like the guys from Mars Attacks. We gotta look a
little like us.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, we gotta. We gotta say. That's how people
are gonna stay and watch this movie. No, I like
how but that that that's the aliens in fact, No, no,
they look they look just like us, except they're smaller.
And you know, and I'm saying to myself, really, that's
to be the one thing I would say. So aliens
they look just like us, Like stars, they're just like us.
They walk their dogs, they fill up gasta. So aliens
they look kind of like us. That they're a little
(03:54):
bit smaller.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
How come I never bellies?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's you're telling Mellies. No, no overweight aliens. No aliens.
I've had too much starfuel. Sorry about that. I'm just
kind of hanging out here. No, they don't eat McDonald's
well when they travel the galaxy because they're looking for
new forces, you know, sources of food and energy.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hey, hey, mister alien, can I take you to McDonald's. No,
I've heard they have the best friend fries N.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I love the ball pit.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I've heard you don't get free refills. They're phasing that out, Matt.
Is that going to happen soon? Can I get a
free refill today? Matte? Matt?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Why is that always ice cream machine? Always broken?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Damn it? The aliens can come in and fix the
ice cream machines there, you, I mean, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh so, it just so happens that the aliens could
look like anything. They could absolutely anything. We know, they
kind of look like us.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Jason, my two year rold can make a better paper
mache alien.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, I'm just gonna say this, right, you know, the
the Old You can get all biblical for a minute,
the Old. You know, man is made God's image and
all that we end up projecting on, you know what
we are, right, So, all the aliens that are out there,
they've got to be just like humans, just with more wrinkles,
(05:12):
maybe a little bit shorter.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Wait a minute, it looks like that alien's wearing a
Knicks jacket. No, no, no, no, no, that's from hundreds
and hundreds of years ago. That's that's the first ever
colors of blue and orange that we've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
No, no, but there's the Adidas logo is right there?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, no, no, no, Adidas hasn't had the rights to
the NBA for a long time.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
There's a long time ago. Wait a minute. That looks
like a schwatch from a Walt Clyde Frasier suit coat.
It says Mitt.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Mitt, Mitchell, Mitchell and Mitchell and Mitchell and Nets. What
does that mean? Mitchell and Nets? What are there is
that the aliens names? Yes, that's the aliens names? Und
pent uh So speaking of aliens and rising, Aaron Rodgers
says I shall rise yet again, Rise the Rise of
(05:58):
Aaron Rodgers on Instagram posts earlier today, thanking everyone reaching
out to the Jets quarterback who has done for the
season with the torn achilles after four snaps and seventy
five seconds. Week one, thanked everybody for their support, and
he closed his Instagram post by saying, the night is
darkest before the dawn, and I shall rise yet again,
(06:20):
Rise of Aaron.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Rodgers, Rise, Lord Vader.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Here's Robert Sala from earlier today because he was asked
the big R question about Aaron Rodgers do you see
him retiring? And Robert Sallas said retired. Robert Sala does
not see that happening here.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It is. I'd be shocked if he's if this is
the way he's going to go out.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But at the same time, for him, he's working through
a whole lot of headspace things that he needs to
deal with, and that will be the last thing I
talked to him About's our guy, Zach is Zach Wilson's back. Look,
I know that after today, and I've seen lot of
Aaron Rodgers the quarterback. Next year he goes in, he's
(07:03):
the number one, he's gonna be playing. He wants to play.
You can see the fire that Aaron Rodgers has to
come back. He wants to come back. Look, I'll tell
you two very simple things. The Jets plan going forward
is easy. Zack Wilson gets this season, if he's good, Okay,
next year, it's gonna be Zack Wilson Aaron Rodgers coming back,
because Rogers is going to try to come back. If
(07:24):
Zach Wilson stinks, it will be quarterback TBA, which will
be somebody else and Aaron Rodgers trying to come back.
That's the situation for the Jets. But to think that
Aaron Rodgers is going to be the quarterback of the
Jets next year. The best I can do, and you
know me, I want to be mister Pollyanna Jets fan
(07:44):
and everything is great.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Like I'm telling you, they're going to the playoffs this year.
It's happening. But for Rogers next year, the best I can.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Say is there's just as big a chance that Zack
Wilson or somebody else is the quarterback Week one as
it is Aaron Rodgers. Because Rogers is thirty nine. Want
to do everything you want to. Your body's going to
tell you something different, and a torn achilles when you're
thirty nine years old, his body's gonna tell him something different.
We talked about this the night of the injury. People
just getting that topic today, Congratulations. Like I said, tomorrow's
(08:14):
takes two nights before this time. Your achilles is not
you know, you can't talk to your achilles and say, hey,
I really need to come back, and your achilles, oh,
I understand, I'm gonna work extra hard to come back now.
It doesn't work that way. We've seen this happen to
players before. The older they are, the less chance there
is for them to come back, and the less chance
there is for them to come back and still be
(08:35):
great players. Happened, if any Testaverdi in ninety nine, he
was coming off a Pro Bowl year of the Jets.
He still played a few more years, but he was
never the same and he was thirty five you're talking about.
Rogers is going to be forty. He's a guy that
didn't have a lot of activity when it comes to
pounding and football. He doesn't play in the preseason, didn't
play at all in the preseason. His calf was tweaked
a little bit and everything was fine until four plays.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
In and it ruptured.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
So Aaron Rodgers can try and want to come back,
and I know he's gonna try to do it. He's
not just gonna say I'm done because a Rodgers likes
the attention. He likes the limelight. He wants to be
out there. He wants people to be talking about him.
He doesn't want to stop playing right now. I believe
him when he says he wants to play at least
forty five again because he likes the attention. He's the
number one story in the NFL. But the other party, Yeah,
(09:20):
he's also gonna try to come backcause he wants to play.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
But his body.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I don't know if that's gonna let him. I can't
sit here and tell you he's gonna be the quarterback
next year. The best, the absolute best I can do,
is that there's an equal chance it's Wilson, somebody else
or Aaron Rodgers. Because Rodgers, you get to the point where, hey,
guess what. I can't throw off my back foot like
I used to. I can't put the zip on the
ball like I used to. And he's not gonna come
out there and be a shell of himself. If he
(09:44):
can be close to the version he thought he would
be this year, Okay, maybe come back, but to be
that crafty guy that can't really throw the football and
is gonna try to beat you with smoke and mirrors
not gonna happen. I can easily see. I can see
this being the end for Aaron Rodgers and his Jets
career is all all of four plays in seventy five seconds.
I can see that that's the best I can do
(10:04):
for Aaron Rodgers next year. So you know I'm telling
the truth because I'm realistic, and that's about as realistic
and as positive as I could be for him.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
One of my favorite lines from the late great Mark
Lanigan is don't let my will give out before my
body breaks off a song called Stockholm City Blues. And
that's where we're at with Aaron Rodgers, the will to
come back versus the broken body which gives Does he
battle all the way through or is there something in
(10:32):
the rehab where it's enough setbacks, enough of his time
and frustration to where he finally taps out. Don't know,
but he probably doesn't come back to the same guy. Right.
You can go through and find guys that played post.
You bring up Vinnie Testaverdi, our guy, Bernie Fratto's like, hey,
don't forget about Dan Marino, Like, yeah, statues right, Dann
(10:53):
Marino as long as he could get the snap, could
still wing the ball downfield like you weren't looking to
be a loose if he wasn't extending plays whatever else.
But for Aaron Rodgers, that's been so much of his game. Hell,
that's how he ended up getting hurt here. He had
Garrett Wilson if he just got rid of the ball,
But how long before you have another play similar? And
(11:14):
was that ankle already compromise? You know, the leg based
on the injury that he'd already had, so I mean,
all of those things come into play as you push forward.
I want nothing more but him to get back on
the field. But you know, would I say with any
confidence that we see it, No, I would say that
we'll see him in OTAs at some point hanging around.
(11:34):
We'll see him around the team this season. But in
terms of being back and playing in the NFL years
a long time man, especially when you're going to be
forty at the start of December, and when you're away
from the team and you've got all these other commitments
and other things that you're into and studying and media appearances, whatever,
(11:54):
is the grind to try to get back just to
be a guy for you, Because not only are you
just trying to get back on the field, jayse, you're
trying to get back to a guy who was, you know,
working up a big second act or so he thought, like,
that's the bigger part, right. It wasn't just hey, I'm
extending my career and being a great tourist and having
(12:15):
a lot of fun with some young new talent here
in New York and New Jersey. But it was the
I can go do what Brady and Stafford did I
can go and have a new chapter and have great success,
and four plays in that went asunder. So if the
thought is just, hey, getting back is enough, no, no, no,
(12:36):
that's not the way this works, man Like. This is
about the extension of a Hall of Fame career and
getting back towards quasi elite level right back end top
ten and having you know, every third Sunday beat some
huge effort with Garrett Wilson and sip and Tea or
whatever the hell. Their celebrations are more blinged out stuff
(12:56):
from Sauce Gardner, all of those things. But in the interim,
it's a long, hard road. Give me, give me this documentary.
He gave me the stuff that was easy during training
camp of him salivating and getting all fanboy over Sabertooth.
Now show me the rehab work and the battle back.
That's gonna be interesting while he searches for those aliens.
(13:17):
See how I decided all together?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well, now he does have time, he does, he does
have time for that look And just really quick, you
mentioned Marino. Marino came back after after he tore his achilles,
and he had he had the next year was really good,
but after that he was just a guy right the
last five years of his career, and that's when he
was thirty three years old. Look at Kobe Kobe Torre's achilles.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He came back.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
He was never the same those last couple of years
in the NBA, and he and he was younger. He
was still great, but he wasn't the same. And so
it's it's to say at thirty nine to come back
and do it. I mean, he's he's gonna understand, boy,
I'm just gonna embarrass myself if I go out there,
like He's not gonna go out there and embarrass and
ruin the image of who he is. And he'll he'll
look to try to to temper that by staying with
(13:59):
the Jets in some kind of role if he can't
play again or whatever else.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
It is.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Like I said, eventually he's gonna wind up being a
head coach in the NFL, but he'll look to he'll
look to something like that to try to ease the
push into retirement, to not make it look like, hey,
you're hurt, you can't come back. But I mean, really,
that's the best I can do, is say, yeah, it
could be Rodgers, but it just it just as easily
could be somebody else there. It's like thirty three percent
chance Rogers, thirty three percent chance Zach Wilson thirty three
(14:26):
percent someone.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Else that that.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's about as good as you could say for Aaron Rodgers.
I'm glad he wants to come back, but the ability
to actually do it, yeah, I can't say that.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Fox Sports Radio. You make an alien noises again?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, yeah? Thingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingding thing. Thing. Think I could have played
synthesizer on the song du dun dun dun un dun
dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
dun dun.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
What do you do with that?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
The whole song? Oh? Sure, that's me. I could have
played I could played it.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Can you keep that up for four minutes?
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Though?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I don't think so? Sure?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I got seventy seconds?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Which would you guys just stopped but went forty three
minutes too early for you.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Guys. Jets are one and five o'clocks. Both your sucky
teams are zero and one. Just so you know, one
to know. There are two columns. There is a win column.
There is a lost column.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Well, Josh Allen didn't give us four gifts.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Lost column, win column. Who had expectations? Not this guy?
I told you Friday. Look, climb, sinker and script. You're
getting exactly keep that. I'm alright with that. Not you
me now.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Bears, come on, Yeah, you declared ten wins.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You can't claim Caleb Williams going.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
One in sixteen. They won a game, they're out of
the brace.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Bears will get the number one pick again and trade
it again. Hey, we really like Justin Fields. I know
he's five and thirty five as a starting quarterback, but man,
we really like the guy. I'll let you got somebody
else can go out of Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
That'll be fine. I hate you and everything you.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
The Jason Smith Show is my best friend Mike Carvion
live from the Ti rag dot com studios.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
So it has been we we've talked about this this week.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It very quickly went from a hey, this could be
a really good season for the Dallas Cowboys. Into it
is super Bowl or bust. One hundred percent. It is
super Bowl or bust for the Dallas Cowboys. Absolutely. This
is because of the success they had Week one when
they win over the Giants forty tozering on the road.
(16:48):
Look how good they are. Look at this, we should win.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
We have all of that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's now super Bowl or bus season. After tonight it's
become it's become not super Bowl, but it's become World
Series or bust for the Braves, right of all the
teams in Major League Baseball, right the Braves. Tonight they
clinched the NLS for the sixth straight year, and the break.
You know what, I just wish the Braves are more likable.
Not you know, not me Mets fan, going another team
(17:12):
from the nleast is gonna go to win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And it's not the Mets that they're just so unlikely.
They're just so full of themselves. And look how great
we are.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
We do we do great, celebrating each other and celebrating
the greatness of everybody on this team. And look look
how smart we all are signing these deals early. They're
just they're just not likable. It's hard to like. I
can't like the Braves. It's hard to like the Braves
a Mets fans, So you hit them for but I
said no, no, no, I said I. I quantified it
by saying not. This is not just me being I'm
(17:41):
watching another team in the A and the NL East
could go to the World Series. They're just not likable.
They're arrogant, they're elitist, they are they just how they
carry themself. We're so great, we are so great. Okay,
but it has become a World Series or bust here
because for all the talk we have about the Dodgers,
the Astros, here come the Mariners. Now suddenly the Orioles.
(18:04):
For all the talk of all these teams, it is
the Braves should win the World Series, and if they don't,
something is wrong. It's god because they have the best team.
They had eight All Stars, they have a relentless great lineup.
Their starting pitching is great, their bullpen is great. Everything
is great. If they lose the World Series, something is wrong.
(18:26):
There is an inordinate amount of pressure on them to
win because now they're the overwhelming favorite, and you could
say they've been the overwhelming favorite all year. But we've
talked about it. Say, yeah, the Braves, they're really good, Bud,
how about this because the nleast wasn't that interesting because
the Brigs are running away with it very early. Yeah,
the Braves are really good. We've seen them be really good.
All these other teams, all the Dodgers, how are they
gonna get it going? All the Yankees they stink? And
all here come the Astros. The Rangers are good.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
But we spend all that time when really we're looking going,
if it's not the Braves winning, something's wrong. It is
a World Series championship or bust year. And if this
isn't a year that Rob Manford is handing that trophy
to a very grateful Braves owner, that hunk a medal
to a very grateful Braves owner, it's a failure for
the Braves. The Braves win the World Series this year
(19:10):
or this year is a failure. Is when you're that good,
you're that much better than everybody, it's World Series or
bus they lose, it's a failure.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Well, but this goes back to all those teams we
had with the super Rotation and all Stars that were
lined up years and years ago. All right, it's just
the next iteration, move the timeline, and here we go again.
And as we know, in the playoffs we can speak
to it having done our show and resided in Los
(19:38):
Angeles a long time. Regular season when it's all said
and done, don't mean a damn thing. Do your starting
pitchers show up? And oh, by the way, the other
teams they've usually got a couple in the postseason as
well to go and slow you down, so we don't
get these runaway twenty one run games like you've seen
at times from the Braves. So yes, while I agree
(20:01):
with you it is the World Series or bust, I
don't know. I'm ready for chaos. I'm always ready for
chaos once we get into the playoffs at this point,
because all you need is an umpire with a strike
zone that's maybe a little tighter or a little looser,
and everything changes, right, And this year you also have
to look into strategies going to change as well over
(20:22):
past postseasons. Yeah, we try a little more of the
get them on, get them over, get them in knowing
runs quote or had a premium kat on your Bengo card.
See how many times that shows up once we get
into the Wildcard and beyond. But it's true in that
you're not playing and going up to the plate with
your usual mechanics and everything. Because every base now carries
(20:48):
that extra premium. How quickly can you get into other teams' bullpens.
So yeah, braves are there. It's exciting. You bemoan the
number of All Stars and everything they have. Sorry, they
do it right. They didn't buy it. No, they didn't,
bry and it worked. But you finish it off because
all of those Bobby Talks teams and everything else, what
(21:08):
did they have? One runs? They got one.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Failure if they it's for anybody, it's for anybody. Because
for the Cowboys, is it a failure if they don't
win the Super Bowl after Week one?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Of course it is. It's a failure.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
We're the best team in the NFC and we got
We're the Dallas bleeping Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Man. No, if they don't win, now it's a failure.
They're talking big, but you've been talking on the other side.
That's how it goes.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Doesn't matter, He's doesn't matter, doesn't matter that, brock Purty. Look,
the Niners are great, right, They're a terrific team. They're awesome.
They look just as good as they were last year.
They are fan bleeping.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
He's got Hayman on his side. What do the Cowboys have?
Sid layers? Not loyal to any one team. He'll cheer
for whoever cuts him a check and get you.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Got ai Jerry Mike, Yeah they have.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah. When you have Jerry, that's kind of all you need.
That is true. Yeah, it's a I Jerry is gonna say.
I can tell you that fan base is a super
Bowl or bust. Yeah. Wow, that that story. That story,
I'll tell you what that's that is gonna be. You know,
not to go deep down that that pathway because that
(22:12):
it requires a lot of backstory and every but you
got the All right, here's a guy that was a
respected journalist for what two and a half three decades.
It's saying, uh, this is what some of these owners
were saying and talking up in terms of race and
the league, and the owners immediately came back out going, yeah,
and none of that ever happened with Jim Trotter.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
He's a liar.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
All right. Let me let me just say this, Hmmm,
guy's got problems with the NFL network.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Huh huh, Okay, Jason, you want the floor?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Uh No, that's all I'm gonna say. It's all. I'm
like Mark Sanchez the other night.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So Bill's quarterback runs into his own guy and fumbles
the football where.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know he does. He's got a commercial that reference
is that? Now, I didn't see what it was for.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I can hand out all the blank us your cools.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Go for it. There's here's the name that. There's not
a lot of your coals. There's not a lot of
your coals. There isn't there isn't. I I will say that.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
You know, I'll only say this about my time in
NFL Network, right, I'll just say this because I opened
the door a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's my fault, uh is that? Look?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I like the time I was there, and I loved
you know, I wanted to be on TV. I wanted
to do that in my career. And it was great
and I had some really great times there and I
enjoyed a lot of things. There are a lot of
good people there. But I just wanted to I will
say this. I thought I worked with my friends, and
I didn't. And you know, and my and and and
Pam was able to succinctly say that for me.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Uh you know. Not Not long after that, she goes,
you thought you worked with your friends? You did?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I said, yeah, Yeah, that's exactly it. That's exactly it.
I thought I worked with my friends and I didn't.
That's that that That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
None of us know anything about that in our professional careers. Jason,
I thought I did, but I did. Everybody feels so
seen across America. I see you looking in the rearview mirror.
I see you staring into your child's eyes. I see
you walking the dog down the street. You're all with us,
kindred spirits across this vast country. Off of what Jason
(24:11):
just said, Jason names, look how long you've been my
best friend? For Mike car I wasn't about you. I got,
I got I can you know? We all we all
have histories.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Jason ranked them in your favorite order to stop.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend
Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
We have more NFL on the way coming up in
a few minutes, including what maybe and sound like a
crazy NFL Bowl prediction but it really isn't. Meanwhile, is
Yana is on his way out of Milwaukee?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Wait? What?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
On his way out of Milwaukee? Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Jannisnikakunpo does a podcast UH earlier today and he talks
about what his future intentions.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Are for his career. Now.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
He says, I really want to stay in Milwaukee Buck,
but if something doesn't happen that I don't like, I
might have to go someplace else. This is the from
the forty eight minutes podcast of Yanna saying.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I want to be a Buck, but.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I make my mind up. I go to Lakers.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Just with that, that's the greatest Greek accent I ever heard.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
That's not even a I can't even do a Greek accent.
I could even try, and he puts the wind X
on everything that can't.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
That's where you're wrong, you know, I do.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Out.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I'd welcome Yannis here in Philly. It would be you
would be great?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Is not either?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I take my picture up next to him.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
They'll put a big fat head of his up in
wah wah, and I'd take a picture next to it,
and I'd send it out to all my friends.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
You'll be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
They'll take down the one of Carson Wentz because it's
still had that one up in the corner.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
And I did put Yiannis up over because he's taller.
See now that's an accent.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I play whiz with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You should do that with berman accent and done that.
Here is Giannis today saying, yeah, I love the Bucks.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
But.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I really want to go Lakers.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Okay, there's people that.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Are gonna actually think that it's actually him saying it.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
If that's the truth, then then Frostburg, good job by you.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Justin like the guy who said, oh, Aaron Rodgers gonna
blow out his achilles in two and a half hours
here on this field.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Oh it's like he doesn't look like Giannis, like that
Paul Gasol guy that ate out for free for a
long time. But he sounds just.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Actually you did right, yeah yeah yeah, thinking he was
the real pal Gasol, that's how he did it.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Uh. Now here is the real yo, honest talking about
his future.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I love Lakers.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Okay, you're an idiot, all right, all right, all right, okay, okay, okay,
all right, here's the best way to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
After he said he loved the Lakers and wanted to
go there, He then went into more detail on his
future in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
As long as we play and we approach the game
every single day the right way, and we all sacrifice
for a common goal, I can see myself being in
walking backs for the rest of my career. But the
moment people are not committed as as I am to
get that golden thing in the back.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I am not.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
You know, I am walking back. But most importantly, I'm
a winner. I want to win, and I have to
do whatever it takes for me to win. And if
there's a better situation for me to win, the lady O'Brien,
I have to take that better situation.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
If there's a better situation, woo, all right, So I
got the oldest roster going, right, wasn't that they not
going into the playoffs and they were exited very quickly.
So we've got that going. I do like the fact
that now it's I need to be winning, because before
it was all about learning and the goals of winning,
(28:28):
but losing, you know, wasn't a failure. Now he just
said blank that losing's a failure. I want that golden ball,
damn it. I love gold I'll tell you right now,
he's leaving. It's not going to be in three days,
three weeks, three months. But when it comes up, he's leaving.
Why because you could tell he's already got that itch
(28:49):
that is life better. He's worried about his legacy, and
every every big man, every big star, gets the point
in their career where they go, hey, I've had a
lot of fun here, but I want my legacy to
be really big. It happened to Shack, it's happening now
to Joel Embiid. It's gonna happen to Giannis. But he's
got a championship, so that's nice.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
But hey, it's gonna be Giannis can only win one, right,
Sometimes there's players that can't do enough, no matter who
they are. Giannis is that guy, is the grass greener.
Can I go to a bigger market, because, let's face it,
part of the thing is in a smaller market, have
we achieved as much as we can? I think if
you win a championship in Milwaukee, just consider yourself lucky
you won because teams are playing Milwaukee generally don't win championships, right,
(29:28):
The smaller markets don't win over and over and over again.
So the longer time goes on, he's won once, he's
going to leave. Maybe the grass is greener with La,
with the Knicks, with somebody else, but he will go
because that itch is just too much to scratch.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I can I can win more. We got through that
entire analysis and then in the last seconds to the Lakers,
to the Knicks, play that up. I didn't say next.
You made that up. You said Nicks. Oh completely me.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, you said Nix, not me. Knicks Knicks, Knicks, Knicks, Nick.
He's going at some point, he's going. He will leave
when it's time for him to go. Giannis will be
an ex Milwaukee buck X. Speaking of x at, how
about a fresca at Swollen Dome coming up next? A
Big Bowl prediction for what's next for Aaron Rodgers And
it ain't what you think, Fox,
Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio
dot com, or stream us live every night on the
iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, Welcome inside our three of The Jason Smith Show
with my Basfriendmike Harmon Livethetirack dot com studios. Tirec dot
com will help you get there an unmatched selection, fast,
free shipping, free road hazard protection, over ten thousand recommended
installers tirack dot com The way tire buying should be.
So before we get back into the big day in
(00:51):
the Rise of Aaron Rodgers, Uh, yes or no?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
If I know feet to the no, I don't even
know what the question is, but I'll just go with
no because I'm a negative kind of guy, Like it's
gonna be the Jets.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Are the Jets good? No?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
No, No, you sell that yesterday And then they did
a close up shot. I got no ability to retort.
They clipped it off before I started screaming.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Well right after he was done.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's unbelaable. But like I'm like, all right here it is,
I'm gonna start screaming at him. And then the clip ends,
like what the hell are we doing here? I have
control over certain things. I do. I have control over
certain things. I felt greatly disrespected, but no, smart guys,
propaganda thing got to go up there.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
My big question is were those really alien corpses revealed
today in Mexico or the hoax? Where those really mummified
corpses of it?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Four year old paper mache.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
It's paper mache for a as yet to be named
horror movie under the A twenty four banner.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know, you know, going through this and obviously, look
we've heard the story about Area fifty one and that
maybe the United States has evidence of alien life forms
because what a retired general state or something like that
over the path summer, and then the story kind of
went away, right.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Notice that very hot for like a day and a half, right,
But that was the way to slip it in though
a lot of economic concerns and and you know, the
insurrection stuff going on in the courts and everything else.
People had a lot to worry about, you know, the
Summer of the Shark, whatever it was. I mean, it
was a lot going on. So to slip in, hey
aliens exist kind of came and went. People just kind
(02:34):
of shrugged, going, yeah, we gotta figure that. Yeah. No,
So like Aaron Rodgers did, oh, hey, hey we may have.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Aliens maybe visiting. But Aaron Rodgers got hurt. Oh we'll
get to the aliens later on.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Let's well, maybe he got hurt so he could go
explore this a little more.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You know what made me think about this being a hoax?
I mean, of all the things that it could be
a hoax, is that why?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Because they looked like Yeah, it's like why.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Why do these aliens look like every alien that's been
created by Hollywood in the last fifty years?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Right, Like, how why do the aliens look like us? Right?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
They're the smaller alien bodies. They have the hands and
the arms and the legs and the hip bones and
everything else, and the head is very similar. Wait, this
is this is like what Hollywood picks up aliens to
be because well, they gotta be something. They gotta walk,
they gotta be we gotta put them on screen. They
can't just be blobs of something that's not interesting.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Because we're from the set of Men in Black.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
They got it would have been cooler if they look
like the guys from Mars Attacks. We gotta look a
little like us.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, we gotta. We gotta say. That's how people
are gonna stay and watch this movie. No, I like
how but that that that's the aliens in fact, No, no,
they look they look just like us, except they're smaller.
And you know, and I'm saying to myself, really, that's
to be the one thing I would say. So aliens
they look just like us, Like stars, they're just like us.
They walk their dogs, they fill up gasta. So aliens
they look kind of like us. That they're a little
(03:54):
bit smaller.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
How come I never bellies?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's you're telling Mellies. No, no overweight aliens. No aliens.
I've had too much starfuel. Sorry about that. I'm just
kind of hanging out here. No, they don't eat McDonald's
well when they travel the galaxy because they're looking for
new forces, you know, sources of food and energy.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Hey, hey, mister alien, can I take you to McDonald's. No,
I've heard they have the best friend fries N.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I love the ball pit.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I've heard you don't get free refills. They're phasing that out, Matt.
Is that going to happen soon? Can I get a
free refill today? Matte? Matt?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Why is that always ice cream machine? Always broken?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Damn it? The aliens can come in and fix the
ice cream machines there, you, I mean, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Oh so, it just so happens that the aliens could
look like anything. They could absolutely anything. We know, they
kind of look like us.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Jason, my two year rold can make a better paper
mache alien.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, I'm just gonna say this, right, you know, the
the Old You can get all biblical for a minute,
the Old. You know, man is made God's image and
all that we end up projecting on, you know what
we are, right, So, all the aliens that are out there,
they've got to be just like humans, just with more wrinkles,
(05:12):
maybe a little bit shorter.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Wait a minute, it looks like that alien's wearing a
Knicks jacket. No, no, no, no, no, that's from hundreds
and hundreds of years ago. That's that's the first ever
colors of blue and orange that we've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
No, no, but there's the Adidas logo is right there?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, no, no, no, Adidas hasn't had the rights to
the NBA for a long time.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
There's a long time ago. Wait a minute. That looks
like a schwatch from a Walt Clyde Frasier suit coat.
It says Mitt.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Mitt, Mitchell, Mitchell and Mitchell and Mitchell and Nets. What
does that mean? Mitchell and Nets? What are there is
that the aliens names? Yes, that's the aliens names? Und
pent uh So speaking of aliens and rising, Aaron Rodgers
says I shall rise yet again, Rise the Rise of
(05:58):
Aaron Rodgers on Instagram posts earlier today, thanking everyone reaching
out to the Jets quarterback who has done for the
season with the torn achilles after four snaps and seventy
five seconds. Week one, thanked everybody for their support, and
he closed his Instagram post by saying, the night is
darkest before the dawn, and I shall rise yet again,
(06:20):
Rise of Aaron.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Rodgers, Rise, Lord Vader.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Here's Robert Sala from earlier today because he was asked
the big R question about Aaron Rodgers do you see
him retiring? And Robert Sallas said retired. Robert Sala does
not see that happening here.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It is. I'd be shocked if he's if this is
the way he's going to go out.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But at the same time, for him, he's working through
a whole lot of headspace things that he needs to
deal with, and that will be the last thing I
talked to him About's our guy, Zach is Zach Wilson's back. Look,
I know that after today, and I've seen lot of
Aaron Rodgers the quarterback. Next year he goes in, he's
(07:03):
the number one, he's gonna be playing. He wants to play.
You can see the fire that Aaron Rodgers has to
come back. He wants to come back. Look, I'll tell
you two very simple things. The Jets plan going forward
is easy. Zack Wilson gets this season, if he's good, Okay,
next year, it's gonna be Zack Wilson Aaron Rodgers coming back,
because Rogers is going to try to come back. If
(07:24):
Zach Wilson stinks, it will be quarterback TBA, which will
be somebody else and Aaron Rodgers trying to come back.
That's the situation for the Jets. But to think that
Aaron Rodgers is going to be the quarterback of the
Jets next year. The best I can do, and you
know me, I want to be mister Pollyanna Jets fan
(07:44):
and everything is great.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Like I'm telling you, they're going to the playoffs this year.
It's happening. But for Rogers next year, the best I can.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Say is there's just as big a chance that Zack
Wilson or somebody else is the quarterback Week one as
it is Aaron Rodgers. Because Rogers is thirty nine. Want
to do everything you want to. Your body's going to
tell you something different, and a torn achilles when you're
thirty nine years old, his body's gonna tell him something different.
We talked about this the night of the injury. People
just getting that topic today, Congratulations. Like I said, tomorrow's
(08:14):
takes two nights before this time. Your achilles is not
you know, you can't talk to your achilles and say, hey,
I really need to come back, and your achilles, oh,
I understand, I'm gonna work extra hard to come back now.
It doesn't work that way. We've seen this happen to
players before. The older they are, the less chance there
is for them to come back, and the less chance
there is for them to come back and still be
(08:35):
great players. Happened, if any Testaverdi in ninety nine, he
was coming off a Pro Bowl year of the Jets.
He still played a few more years, but he was
never the same and he was thirty five you're talking about.
Rogers is going to be forty. He's a guy that
didn't have a lot of activity when it comes to
pounding and football. He doesn't play in the preseason, didn't
play at all in the preseason. His calf was tweaked
a little bit and everything was fine until four plays.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
In and it ruptured.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
So Aaron Rodgers can try and want to come back,
and I know he's gonna try to do it. He's
not just gonna say I'm done because a Rodgers likes
the attention. He likes the limelight. He wants to be
out there. He wants people to be talking about him.
He doesn't want to stop playing right now. I believe
him when he says he wants to play at least
forty five again because he likes the attention. He's the
number one story in the NFL. But the other party, Yeah,
(09:20):
he's also gonna try to come backcause he wants to play.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
But his body.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I don't know if that's gonna let him. I can't
sit here and tell you he's gonna be the quarterback
next year. The best, the absolute best I can do,
is that there's an equal chance it's Wilson, somebody else
or Aaron Rodgers. Because Rodgers, you get to the point where, hey,
guess what. I can't throw off my back foot like
I used to. I can't put the zip on the
ball like I used to. And he's not gonna come
out there and be a shell of himself. If he
(09:44):
can be close to the version he thought he would
be this year, Okay, maybe come back, but to be
that crafty guy that can't really throw the football and
is gonna try to beat you with smoke and mirrors
not gonna happen. I can easily see. I can see
this being the end for Aaron Rodgers and his Jets
career is all all of four plays in seventy five seconds.
I can see that that's the best I can do
(10:04):
for Aaron Rodgers next year. So you know I'm telling
the truth because I'm realistic, and that's about as realistic
and as positive as I could be for him.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
One of my favorite lines from the late great Mark
Lanigan is don't let my will give out before my
body breaks off a song called Stockholm City Blues. And
that's where we're at with Aaron Rodgers, the will to
come back versus the broken body which gives Does he
battle all the way through or is there something in
(10:32):
the rehab where it's enough setbacks, enough of his time
and frustration to where he finally taps out. Don't know,
but he probably doesn't come back to the same guy. Right.
You can go through and find guys that played post.
You bring up Vinnie Testaverdi, our guy, Bernie Fratto's like, hey,
don't forget about Dan Marino, Like, yeah, statues right, Dann
(10:53):
Marino as long as he could get the snap, could
still wing the ball downfield like you weren't looking to
be a loose if he wasn't extending plays whatever else.
But for Aaron Rodgers, that's been so much of his game. Hell,
that's how he ended up getting hurt here. He had
Garrett Wilson if he just got rid of the ball,
But how long before you have another play similar? And
(11:14):
was that ankle already compromise? You know, the leg based
on the injury that he'd already had, so I mean,
all of those things come into play as you push forward.
I want nothing more but him to get back on
the field. But you know, would I say with any
confidence that we see it, No, I would say that
we'll see him in OTAs at some point hanging around.
(11:34):
We'll see him around the team this season. But in
terms of being back and playing in the NFL years
a long time man, especially when you're going to be
forty at the start of December, and when you're away
from the team and you've got all these other commitments
and other things that you're into and studying and media appearances, whatever,
(11:54):
is the grind to try to get back just to
be a guy for you, Because not only are you
just trying to get back on the field, jayse, you're
trying to get back to a guy who was, you know,
working up a big second act or so he thought, like,
that's the bigger part, right. It wasn't just hey, I'm
extending my career and being a great tourist and having
(12:15):
a lot of fun with some young new talent here
in New York and New Jersey. But it was the
I can go do what Brady and Stafford did I
can go and have a new chapter and have great success,
and four plays in that went asunder. So if the
thought is just, hey, getting back is enough, no, no, no,
(12:36):
that's not the way this works, man Like. This is
about the extension of a Hall of Fame career and
getting back towards quasi elite level right back end top
ten and having you know, every third Sunday beat some
huge effort with Garrett Wilson and sip and Tea or
whatever the hell. Their celebrations are more blinged out stuff
(12:56):
from Sauce Gardner, all of those things. But in the interim,
it's a long, hard road. Give me, give me this documentary.
He gave me the stuff that was easy during training
camp of him salivating and getting all fanboy over Sabertooth.
Now show me the rehab work and the battle back.
That's gonna be interesting while he searches for those aliens.
(13:17):
See how I decided all together?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well, now he does have time, he does, he does
have time for that look And just really quick, you
mentioned Marino. Marino came back after after he tore his achilles,
and he had he had the next year was really good,
but after that he was just a guy right the
last five years of his career, and that's when he
was thirty three years old. Look at Kobe Kobe Torre's achilles.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He came back.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
He was never the same those last couple of years
in the NBA, and he and he was younger. He
was still great, but he wasn't the same. And so
it's it's to say at thirty nine to come back
and do it. I mean, he's he's gonna understand, boy,
I'm just gonna embarrass myself if I go out there,
like He's not gonna go out there and embarrass and
ruin the image of who he is. And he'll he'll
look to try to to temper that by staying with
(13:59):
the Jets in some kind of role if he can't
play again or whatever else.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
It is.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Like I said, eventually he's gonna wind up being a
head coach in the NFL, but he'll look to he'll
look to something like that to try to ease the
push into retirement, to not make it look like, hey,
you're hurt, you can't come back. But I mean, really,
that's the best I can do, is say, yeah, it
could be Rodgers, but it just it just as easily
could be somebody else there. It's like thirty three percent
chance Rogers, thirty three percent chance Zach Wilson thirty three
(14:26):
percent someone.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Else that that.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's about as good as you could say for Aaron Rodgers.
I'm glad he wants to come back, but the ability
to actually do it, yeah, I can't say that.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Fox Sports Radio. You make an alien noises again?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, yeah? Thingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingdingding thing. Thing. Think I could have played
synthesizer on the song du dun dun dun un dun
dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
dun dun.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
What do you do with that?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
The whole song? Oh? Sure, that's me. I could have
played I could played it.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
What was that?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Can you keep that up for four minutes?
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Though?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I don't think so? Sure?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I got seventy seconds?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Which would you guys just stopped but went forty three
minutes too early for you.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Guys. Jets are one and five o'clocks. Both your sucky
teams are zero and one. Just so you know, one
to know. There are two columns. There is a win column.
There is a lost column.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Well, Josh Allen didn't give us four gifts.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Lost column, win column. Who had expectations? Not this guy?
I told you Friday. Look, climb, sinker and script. You're
getting exactly keep that. I'm alright with that. Not you
me now.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Bears, come on, Yeah, you declared ten wins.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You can't claim Caleb Williams going.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
One in sixteen. They won a game, they're out of
the brace.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Bears will get the number one pick again and trade
it again. Hey, we really like Justin Fields. I know
he's five and thirty five as a starting quarterback, but man,
we really like the guy. I'll let you got somebody
else can go out of Caleb Williams.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
That'll be fine. I hate you and everything you.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
The Jason Smith Show is my best friend Mike Carvion
live from the Ti rag dot com studios.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
So it has been we we've talked about this this week.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It very quickly went from a hey, this could be
a really good season for the Dallas Cowboys. Into it
is super Bowl or bust. One hundred percent. It is
super Bowl or bust for the Dallas Cowboys. Absolutely. This
is because of the success they had Week one when
they win over the Giants forty tozering on the road.
(16:48):
Look how good they are. Look at this, we should win.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
We have all of that.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's now super Bowl or bus season. After tonight it's
become it's become not super Bowl, but it's become World
Series or bust for the Braves, right of all the
teams in Major League Baseball, right the Braves. Tonight they
clinched the NLS for the sixth straight year, and the break.
You know what, I just wish the Braves are more likable.
Not you know, not me Mets fan, going another team
(17:12):
from the nleast is gonna go to win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And it's not the Mets that they're just so unlikely.
They're just so full of themselves. And look how great
we are.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
We do we do great, celebrating each other and celebrating
the greatness of everybody on this team. And look look
how smart we all are signing these deals early. They're
just they're just not likable. It's hard to like. I
can't like the Braves. It's hard to like the Braves
a Mets fans, So you hit them for but I
said no, no, no, I said I. I quantified it
by saying not. This is not just me being I'm
(17:41):
watching another team in the A and the NL East
could go to the World Series. They're just not likable.
They're arrogant, they're elitist, they are they just how they
carry themself. We're so great, we are so great. Okay,
but it has become a World Series or bust here
because for all the talk we have about the Dodgers,
the Astros, here come the Mariners. Now suddenly the Orioles.
(18:04):
For all the talk of all these teams, it is
the Braves should win the World Series, and if they don't,
something is wrong. It's god because they have the best team.
They had eight All Stars, they have a relentless great lineup.
Their starting pitching is great, their bullpen is great. Everything
is great. If they lose the World Series, something is wrong.
(18:26):
There is an inordinate amount of pressure on them to
win because now they're the overwhelming favorite, and you could
say they've been the overwhelming favorite all year. But we've
talked about it. Say, yeah, the Braves, they're really good, Bud,
how about this because the nleast wasn't that interesting because
the Brigs are running away with it very early. Yeah,
the Braves are really good. We've seen them be really good.
All these other teams, all the Dodgers, how are they
gonna get it going? All the Yankees they stink? And
all here come the Astros. The Rangers are good.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
But we spend all that time when really we're looking going,
if it's not the Braves winning, something's wrong. It is
a World Series championship or bust year. And if this
isn't a year that Rob Manford is handing that trophy
to a very grateful Braves owner, that hunk a medal
to a very grateful Braves owner, it's a failure for
the Braves. The Braves win the World Series this year
(19:10):
or this year is a failure. Is when you're that good,
you're that much better than everybody, it's World Series or
bus they lose, it's a failure.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Well, but this goes back to all those teams we
had with the super Rotation and all Stars that were
lined up years and years ago. All right, it's just
the next iteration, move the timeline, and here we go again.
And as we know, in the playoffs we can speak
to it having done our show and resided in Los
(19:38):
Angeles a long time. Regular season when it's all said
and done, don't mean a damn thing. Do your starting
pitchers show up? And oh, by the way, the other
teams they've usually got a couple in the postseason as
well to go and slow you down, so we don't
get these runaway twenty one run games like you've seen
at times from the Braves. So yes, while I agree
(20:01):
with you it is the World Series or bust, I
don't know. I'm ready for chaos. I'm always ready for
chaos once we get into the playoffs at this point,
because all you need is an umpire with a strike
zone that's maybe a little tighter or a little looser,
and everything changes, right, And this year you also have
to look into strategies going to change as well over
(20:22):
past postseasons. Yeah, we try a little more of the
get them on, get them over, get them in knowing
runs quote or had a premium kat on your Bengo card.
See how many times that shows up once we get
into the Wildcard and beyond. But it's true in that
you're not playing and going up to the plate with
your usual mechanics and everything. Because every base now carries
(20:48):
that extra premium. How quickly can you get into other teams' bullpens.
So yeah, braves are there. It's exciting. You bemoan the
number of All Stars and everything they have. Sorry, they
do it right. They didn't buy it. No, they didn't,
bry and it worked. But you finish it off because
all of those Bobby Talks teams and everything else, what
(21:08):
did they have? One runs? They got one.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Failure if they it's for anybody, it's for anybody. Because
for the Cowboys, is it a failure if they don't
win the Super Bowl after Week one?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Of course it is. It's a failure.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
We're the best team in the NFC and we got
We're the Dallas bleeping Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Man. No, if they don't win, now it's a failure.
They're talking big, but you've been talking on the other side.
That's how it goes.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Doesn't matter, He's doesn't matter, doesn't matter that, brock Purty. Look,
the Niners are great, right, They're a terrific team. They're awesome.
They look just as good as they were last year.
They are fan bleeping.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
He's got Hayman on his side. What do the Cowboys have?
Sid layers? Not loyal to any one team. He'll cheer
for whoever cuts him a check and get you.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Got ai Jerry Mike, Yeah they have.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah. When you have Jerry, that's kind of all you need.
That is true. Yeah, it's a I Jerry is gonna say.
I can tell you that fan base is a super
Bowl or bust. Yeah. Wow, that that story. That story,
I'll tell you what that's that is gonna be. You know,
not to go deep down that that pathway because that
(22:12):
it requires a lot of backstory and every but you
got the All right, here's a guy that was a
respected journalist for what two and a half three decades.
It's saying, uh, this is what some of these owners
were saying and talking up in terms of race and
the league, and the owners immediately came back out going, yeah,
and none of that ever happened with Jim Trotter.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
He's a liar.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
All right. Let me let me just say this, Hmmm,
guy's got problems with the NFL network.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Huh huh, Okay, Jason, you want the floor?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Uh No, that's all I'm gonna say. It's all. I'm
like Mark Sanchez the other night.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
So Bill's quarterback runs into his own guy and fumbles
the football where.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know he does. He's got a commercial that reference
is that? Now, I didn't see what it was for.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I can hand out all the blank us your cools.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Go for it. There's here's the name that. There's not
a lot of your coals. There's not a lot of
your coals. There isn't there isn't. I I will say that.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
You know, I'll only say this about my time in
NFL Network, right, I'll just say this because I opened
the door a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's my fault, uh is that? Look?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I like the time I was there, and I loved
you know, I wanted to be on TV. I wanted
to do that in my career. And it was great
and I had some really great times there and I
enjoyed a lot of things. There are a lot of
good people there. But I just wanted to I will
say this. I thought I worked with my friends, and
I didn't. And you know, and my and and and
Pam was able to succinctly say that for me.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Uh you know. Not Not long after that, she goes,
you thought you worked with your friends? You did?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I said, yeah, Yeah, that's exactly it. That's exactly it.
I thought I worked with my friends and I didn't.
That's that that That's what it was.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
None of us know anything about that in our professional careers. Jason,
I thought I did, but I did. Everybody feels so
seen across America. I see you looking in the rearview mirror.
I see you staring into your child's eyes. I see
you walking the dog down the street. You're all with us,
kindred spirits across this vast country. Off of what Jason
(24:11):
just said, Jason names, look how long you've been my
best friend? For Mike car I wasn't about you. I got,
I got I can you know? We all we all
have histories.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Jason ranked them in your favorite order to stop.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend
Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
We have more NFL on the way coming up in
a few minutes, including what maybe and sound like a
crazy NFL Bowl prediction but it really isn't. Meanwhile, is
Yana is on his way out of Milwaukee?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Wait? What?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
On his way out of Milwaukee? Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Jannisnikakunpo does a podcast UH earlier today and he talks
about what his future intentions.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Are for his career. Now.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
He says, I really want to stay in Milwaukee Buck,
but if something doesn't happen that I don't like, I
might have to go someplace else. This is the from
the forty eight minutes podcast of Yanna saying.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I want to be a Buck, but.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I make my mind up. I go to Lakers.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Just with that, that's the greatest Greek accent I ever heard.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
That's not even a I can't even do a Greek accent.
I could even try, and he puts the wind X
on everything that can't.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
That's where you're wrong, you know, I do.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Out.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I'd welcome Yannis here in Philly. It would be you
would be great?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Is not either?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I take my picture up next to him.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
They'll put a big fat head of his up in
wah wah, and I'd take a picture next to it,
and I'd send it out to all my friends.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
You'll be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
They'll take down the one of Carson Wentz because it's
still had that one up in the corner.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
And I did put Yiannis up over because he's taller.
See now that's an accent.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
I play whiz with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You should do that with berman accent and done that.
Here is Giannis today saying, yeah, I love the Bucks.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
But.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I really want to go Lakers.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Okay, there's people that.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Are gonna actually think that it's actually him saying it.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
If that's the truth, then then Frostburg, good job by you.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Justin like the guy who said, oh, Aaron Rodgers gonna
blow out his achilles in two and a half hours
here on this field.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Oh it's like he doesn't look like Giannis, like that
Paul Gasol guy that ate out for free for a
long time. But he sounds just.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Actually you did right, yeah yeah yeah, thinking he was
the real pal Gasol, that's how he did it.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Uh. Now here is the real yo, honest talking about
his future.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I love Lakers.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Okay, you're an idiot, all right, all right, all right, okay, okay, okay,
all right, here's the best way to do it.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
After he said he loved the Lakers and wanted to
go there, He then went into more detail on his
future in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
As long as we play and we approach the game
every single day the right way, and we all sacrifice
for a common goal, I can see myself being in
walking backs for the rest of my career. But the
moment people are not committed as as I am to
get that golden thing in the back.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I am not.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
You know, I am walking back. But most importantly, I'm
a winner. I want to win, and I have to
do whatever it takes for me to win. And if
there's a better situation for me to win, the lady O'Brien,
I have to take that better situation.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
If there's a better situation, woo, all right, So I
got the oldest roster going, right, wasn't that they not
going into the playoffs and they were exited very quickly.
So we've got that going. I do like the fact
that now it's I need to be winning, because before
it was all about learning and the goals of winning,
(28:28):
but losing, you know, wasn't a failure. Now he just
said blank that losing's a failure. I want that golden ball,
damn it. I love gold I'll tell you right now,
he's leaving. It's not going to be in three days,
three weeks, three months. But when it comes up, he's leaving.
Why because you could tell he's already got that itch
(28:49):
that is life better. He's worried about his legacy, and
every every big man, every big star, gets the point
in their career where they go, hey, I've had a
lot of fun here, but I want my legacy to
be really big. It happened to Shack, it's happening now
to Joel Embiid. It's gonna happen to Giannis. But he's
got a championship, so that's nice.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
But hey, it's gonna be Giannis can only win one, right,
Sometimes there's players that can't do enough, no matter who
they are. Giannis is that guy, is the grass greener.
Can I go to a bigger market, because, let's face it,
part of the thing is in a smaller market, have
we achieved as much as we can? I think if
you win a championship in Milwaukee, just consider yourself lucky
you won because teams are playing Milwaukee generally don't win championships, right,
(29:28):
The smaller markets don't win over and over and over again.
So the longer time goes on, he's won once, he's
going to leave. Maybe the grass is greener with La,
with the Knicks, with somebody else, but he will go
because that itch is just too much to scratch.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I can I can win more. We got through that
entire analysis and then in the last seconds to the Lakers,
to the Knicks, play that up. I didn't say next.
You made that up. You said Nicks. Oh completely me.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, you said Nix, not me. Knicks Knicks, Knicks, Knicks, Nick.
He's going at some point, he's going. He will leave
when it's time for him to go. Giannis will be
an ex Milwaukee buck X. Speaking of x at, how
about a fresca at Swollen Dome coming up next? A
Big Bowl prediction for what's next for Aaron Rodgers And
it ain't what you think, Fox,
Hosts And Creators
Jason Smith
Mike Harmon
Popular Podcasts
Fudd Around And Find Out
UConn basketball star Azzi Fudd brings her championship swag to iHeart Women’s Sports with Fudd Around and Find Out, a weekly podcast that takes fans along for the ride as Azzi spends her final year of college trying to reclaim the National Championship and prepare to be a first round WNBA draft pick. Ever wonder what it’s like to be a world-class athlete in the public spotlight while still managing schoolwork, friendships and family time? It’s time to Fudd Around and Find Out!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!