September 14, 2024 • 41 mins
In Hour 3 of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike continue working their way through this week's NFL matchups. They hit on Cleveland vs. Jacksonville, which leads into a talk about Trevor Lawrence and whether or not he's lived up to his "generational" billing. the guys also react to CMC and Hollywood Brown both flirting with a stint on IR as they deal with injuries. Plus, reacting to Caitlin Clark setting the WNBA single-season assist record, along with a weird technical foul called on her.
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
Let me pull back the curtain for a moment. Here
in the Fox Sports Radio studios. Yay, Friday Night of activity.
We watch some college football. We got some baseball. We're
eating potato chips, tato sal shit lemon, the lime flavored
potato chips from Lea's, which are very tasty.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Limo limon. I like the way you said over the
l I m O N see. Now you are multi
multi lingual Limos done, like who play used to play
center field for the Tigers? Check Limon or White Sox
great who used to used to pitch for the Astros?
Mark Limonngello? Nicely done. Now I want some Limon jellal.
(01:27):
I'm out of people named Lemon who used to manage
the Yankees, Don Limon. Oh see there you go? Yeah?
Oh no, sorry, right, Bob, Bob Lemon, Yeah, Bob don
Lemon guy got fired on CNN. Bob Lemon manager of
the Yankees. Guy got paid out though.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Anyway, I was watching you, uh as we were making
notes and kind of chatting about what we're gonna do
this this second half of the show on Friday Night.
I don't think I've seen you cheer for the Mets
as much as you did. The saltiness of a Giants
runner being thrown out of the he was.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So angry, dead Tuck.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The Giants could have got back in the game against
a bleeping podres No, no no, And how do you
send him? He's out by ten feet. I don't even
think he ever touched the play out.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Now in baseball twenty years ago, where you could say,
all right, I'm running towards you, and you're like that target,
that's narrowing, because I'm about ready to crash it. Sure
you might have been able to do that because then
you can separate the player from the ball.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And today's Major League baseball, you can't do that. You
more or less have to raise your hand as you
got me. I was really mad. I'm like, oh the
giants would get no, Nope, And then you went storming
down the hallway something to yourself. It was really kind
of an interesting couple of minutes. I had to go
have chips or cookies or something like that to deal
with that play. Right now, sugar and caffeine.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
That's how we get through duct tape and band aids
to get through the week, depending on what you're doing
wherever you are, however, you're listening, thanks for being part
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Speaker 1 (02:58):
So in the middle of well, you know, look, because
first thing they want to come in and said, you
put the Padres and the Diamondbacks on right now because
we could catch both of them. Uh. Big weekend in
the NFL. Let's take a look at the game of
the week, at least on paper. What the game of
the week looks like right now and that is Cincinnati
in Kansas City. All right, Now, the Bengals, Look, we
(03:19):
talked about them that they're the one team that has
the right attitude towards playing the Chiefs because they've done
well in in in Burroughhead, won the Type, then went
to the super Bowl, all these things. They play them
really tough, and they assume they were gonna keep getting
back to the zuper right now, it's gonna keep winning.
That's the way it works. Look, no, it's it's not.
(03:41):
It's not a case of hey, Cincinnati always has the
right uh, the right personnel, but they have the right attitude.
They're not scared. They go into every game. Look this week,
what did Jamar Chase say, We're we're the team to beat,
and and and and you had you had the Bengals
coming in here with, Hey, we're gonna come out and
we're gonna be really aggressive. There's no bowing down to
(04:03):
the Chiefs. There's no hey, we have to counterattack them. No,
we're gonna go out, we're gonna fight. And look, that's
a great attitude to have against Kansas City because look,
and there's no secret. Hey, maybe that's why the Bengals
play them so well. Now I say all that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And I tell you that it's a good preamble that
that's coming to ice smack talking. I like the positivity
in the Bravado and saying, look at our history, look.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
At what we've been able to do here. We're building
something special that's coming to an end. On Sunday, Kansas City.
They know the checkered pass they have against the Bengals.
The Bengals just are not really together right now. You
have Jamar Chase who a little unsure about white and
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get more balls. Last week against the Patriots, losing a
game they should have won by four touchdowns. You lose
to Jacoby Brissett and you can't get the ball down
the field. This is on you. You have Joe Burrow,
who was risk dingda. I don't care what he says
or what people think about how he's picking up a
water bottle. Joe Burrow's wrist is not healthy. They are
having trouble with the rushing attack. They thought it was
(05:09):
going to be okay Zach mosson Chase Brown, and it
might be at some point, but boy, you look at
Joe Mixon running for one hundred and fifty yards and
going man, we could have used him again, but so
the Bengals. Yeah, but look, but the Bengals are not
really where they will be at some point as long
as Borrow is healthy, when they figure out the right division,
because right now it looks like it's Zach Moss's backfield
a little bit more than Chase Brown. But they're just
(05:31):
don't quite have it right now. And I don't know
any team that finds themselves and puts it together in
Kansas City when Kensady's coming off a win, and this
is a team that knows how to win with a
diminished offense because they're not quite as good as they were.
You know, you're not getting Hollywood Brown back, and he's
going to be out for maybe the entire season. We'll
get into that coming up later on in the show.
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But I don't see them getting well against the Chiefs.
This could be this is a game where the Chiefs
not only are going to wind up fine a way
to win, but it's not gonna be particularly close. And
we're gonna wonder has the bubble burst for the Bengals.
Here they are at zero to two, they lose a game,
maybe they got caught looking ahead, But here they are
losing to another really good team. I don't see the
bag as much as the Bengals have kept it close
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in games recent years and it's been a toss up.
I can't see that happening Sunday. And I think Mahomes
has a big day and the Chiefs win going away. Oh,
I think they bludging him and there's a lot to it.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Six point favorite at home forty eight is your total. Look,
the Bengals are terrible under Zach Taylor to start seasons.
They're one in ten in the first two weeks of
a season. Usually Joe Burrow slow started. Now we have
to wonder water bottle gait and the way he delivered
the football last week is men. I don't think it
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was unfair asking the questions about rich.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And here's what's stupid is that people wanted to focus
on how he picked up the water bottle. I'm like,
how about what he's doing for like ten seconds before
he picks up the water bottle. He's just moving his wrists, Like, wow,
my wrist is really matter how he picks Go back
and watch the full game.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Like my daughter playing soccer right a couple of weeks ago,
she took a spill right and embraced herself and popped
the bone in the wrist. And what I watched her
as she played, and Joe Burrow did the same thing,
kept doing this, rolling his wrists the whole time, right
in between plays as the ball's coming back and they're
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getting ready to reset. It's it's the same thing, same
kind of feel. And every year Joe Burrow in September
is coming off something getting his timing right. Well, T
Higgins isn't walking through the door. Tyler Boyd has gone.
You talk about the running back position. I like their
two running backs, but you don't have a guy right
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that you had in Joe Mixon. Whatever you thought of
Joe Mixon, and whatever you think of Joe mix and
Joe Mixon, the football player is at times one of
your top five backs in the game. And he certainly
displayed that a week ago. Defensively, they got run over, right.
That was the big thing for me coming out out
of Week one was not only did.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
New England beat them, they bludgeoned them. They ran right
at Old lou on a Rumo's.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Defense that everybody hyped up like that was the one
thing that you thought you could count on is that
they were gonna play their game and that Burrow had
to do just enough to get a w succeed and
proceed kind of thing. And then they round into shape
and then we get to see a rematch.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And you know, these guys will run towards the Chiefs
coming into the playoffs, but now they're owen to one.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
They're looking up at Owen two here, and I don't
know that it's gonna be necessarily close, because we saw
the Chiefs offensive line do some damage for much of
that game in Week one. And if that's the case,
Mahomes has a clean pocket. Pa Checko starts to run
the ball a bit. Now you pick your poison, you play,
you know, start pulling out the strings. And that defensive
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line they're getting after Joe Burrow there is not gonna
be a clean pocket. So this one could get a
in a hurry, particularly in front of the home crowd.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The Browns and the Jaguars. This is not going to
be a conversation about Deshaun Watson, the Browns and the Jadgears.
We go from coronations Joe pearwhead and now it's the Browns.
Look Deshaun Watson has been a big topic of conversation
this week. We spent a lot of time talking about
him his status. But it's time. It's it's time to
(09:27):
really understand that a lot of fans, and specifically the Jaguars,
really think Trevor Lawrence is better than he is. Now.
They're renaming the stadium this week for him for a
one week thing. Trevor, you know, Bankstoff, but it's like
named a film up and I think that's pretty. But
(09:51):
Trevor Lawrence is really over rating. He may be the
most overrated quarterback in the NFL. Jacksonville wants to treat
him like he's a star because they haven't had one
in so long. So it's yeah, we're gonna ignore the
fact that he had one good year. That's what it was.
Three He's had one good ish year. He is a
periphery top fifteen quarterback. He is somewhere between the twelfth
(10:13):
and fifteenth best quarterback in the NFL, and yet he
got paid like he's one of the top three quarterbacks. Right. Oh,
we gotta keep yeah, I got it, you gotta keep me.
It's Trevor, Trevor Lawrence. Yes, you drafted you thought he
was gonna be the generational talent. The guy is okay,
and I'm not saying he's terrible's he's not nearly what
you thought he was gonna be. Trevor Lawrence is. He's
(10:35):
not awful. He makes good plays and good decisions from
time to time, but he's not very consistent with it.
He still makes bad decisions, still throws a lot of interceptions.
He doesn't elevate the Jaguars like you would expect a
guy drafted number one overall generational talent getting paid like that.
He doesn't elevate them. There's no games where I can
say I look back and say, Trevor Lawrence won that
(10:57):
game all by himself. I can say that with my
homes and Lamar Jackson and Aaron Rodgers when he was good,
and plenty of other quarterbacks DAC I can say to
I can't tell you one game where I said, you
know what, he really went and won that game by himself.
He is an okay quarterback. He is. He is just
a little bit above league average, and yet he's been
he's been treated and it's like the image of him
(11:18):
is that he's great. Like if you came down from
a planet a foreign planet and didn't know anything. I mean,
I guess all other planets are foreign. If you came
for another planet and you said, boy, tombout this Trevor Lawrence. Guy,
I'm sorry, I don't see it. Yeah, exactly right. I
mean again, it's not he's bad. He's just not as
good as he's getting paid as expected to be. Again,
he's still he makes good play, he makes good throws,
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but boy, he makes bad decisions and he's not dynamic,
and no matter what kind of offensive weapons he has,
he still finds a way to just be okay enough.
He has the big comeback against the Chargers in the playoffs,
and he's been living off of that one comeback. He
had a horrible rookie season, he had a good next year,
he had an average last year at best year, and
now we started out kind of slow a little bit.
(12:02):
Now he did get hit a couple of times. You know,
offensive line is not as great as it is, but
a guy like Trevor Lawrence, you need to be doing
a little bit or you can't throw for one hundred
and sixty five yards when you're Trevor Lawrence, that's not
a week for it. And he has too many weeks
like that. So it's not again, it's not that he's bad,
it's just he's not nearly as good as the image
and the optic of Trevor Lawrence's. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I think one of the things that comes out with
it is, you know, last week is the unfortunate ETN
fumble that then gets turned around to an eighty yard
Tyreek Hill touchdown, right, just like that, the deflation of
we're going in, oh no, we're not ah and now
we've given up a big touchdown and the failures there
but to.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Trevor Lawrence go back.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You can go find audio in plenty in the far
Fox Sports Radio archives when everybody was taking Trevor Lawrence.
He's gonna be generational, He's gonna be the greatest together,
and you and I are sitting here going hold on,
like how every year we got to have a generational guy.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Let's go on down here. He's so generational, but good
not great?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, is rarely you know, can you say, hey, you
know it, he played a perfect game. You can go
back to what he did in the second half against
the Chargers in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
They get guess and you can talk about that.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
But otherwise No, this team's if they're gonna win, they're
gonna have to be balanced, right, and that defensive front
can give you some fits. They got beat in the
secondary a few times for big plays, but held their
own otherwise, So I mean that's gonna be the calling card.
Can they get to the quarterback? But on the offensive side,
you don't have a world beater. You got some nice
component parts, and I think Brian Thomas Junior is eventually
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going to be a really good player for them. And
I like Christian Kirk and I like Gave Davis. Those
are guys that we've talked about his fantasy Ninjas and
breakthrough guys for years. They're not number one guys. So
you don't have that go to security blanket. Just put
it in a window. This guy's gonna go get it.
Yet maybe and maybe Thomas becomes that guy. Evan Ingram
at times had to be that guy a year ago.
(13:58):
But for Trevor Lawrence, yeah, the spectation has just been
off the charts and it's wishing, wanting and hoping like
it's Mark Brunell coming back through the door from years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I mean, look, he threw a really nice touchdown to
Brian Thomas to start, but held onto the ball way
too long on a huge key play in the fourth
quarter against the Dolphins. It's like he does good things,
but he also makes a lot of mistakes or shows
that maybe you're only going to get so much, and
at some point you have to realize that Trevor Lawrence
has hit his ceiling. When you're in the league this long,
(14:30):
this is kind of who you are and and and
it's not that well, what, yeah, okay, first year Doug
Peterson comes at Wow, that was awesome, didn't build on
it last year and now started out of the gate
like he was playing a year ago. So this is
kind of who he is. He's a He's a periphery
twelfth to fifteenth best quarterback in the NFL. That's that's
where he's at. That's probably what his ceiling is going
(14:51):
to be because he still turns the ball over. He's
and this is a long time now, but by your
second year, we kind of know who you are in
the NFL, and your third year you're this is what
the career you're gonna have is like, Well, he takes
some bad sacks and still puts the ball in harm's way.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
We talk about it more than anything else. When it
comes to quarterbacks, how often do you put the ball
up for grabs? And to some degree it can be
a positive right the Brett farvs of the world, whatever,
but that's also a small percentage of thirty five throws
a game right that you're trying to make a play
because you think you can make with Lawrence. Every once
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in a while he puts it up wishing and hoping,
and it's not a definitive factor of who he is
on a.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Week to week basis. You don't know what you're getting.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It is really difficult to try to prognosticate anything with
the Jaguars. And there was a lot to like coming
out of Clemson, obviously, all the awards and excite excitement
about him. But now you're in Jacksonville and the touchdown
to interception ratio doesn't pop off, he doesn't make a
lot of plays with his legs, and the decision making
is still spotty. Doug Peterson, you thought he was gonna
(16:01):
be the whisper he needs to start shouting, he's Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Is the most overrated player in the NFL. Hey, if
he has a bad game, sendate. It's gonna be well,
the Browns DEFENSI will fit continue to try to make
excuses FORMATSI. This is kind of who no, no, it's
a put up per shut up year.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
There's no question you got paid, and now they're gonna
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big injury stories in the NFL for one team. Things
are fine for one team, the San Francisco forty nine ers,
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maybe without Christian McCaffrey for a little bit. Now, we
missed opening week against the Jets. And depending on what
you believe, Jordan Mason he either knew or didn't know
when he was going to be starting.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
But he's a video of him dancing last week because
he knew it was gonna be a longer injury.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
With a timestamp on Friday night. No, I didn't know.
Told me on Friday night, Tom, he told me he
was gonna be hurt for multiple weeks. So Mason has
a big game obviously against the Jets and they go
on to win going away. And now McCaffrey has already
been ruled out for Sunday, Kyle Shanahan making the announcement
earlier today, and a potential stay on the injured list
(20:18):
may be coming. So if he gets put on IR,
he's got to miss another couple of games. So they're
gonna be without Christian McCaffrey for a little bit. But
I'll tell you this doesn't matter. And it's tough to
say when you say this is the best running back
in the NFL, because he is, obviously, But this is
what happens. This is an effect of having the most
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talented roster in the NFL. This is why you give
all that money to Brandon Ayuk. It's why you give
all that money to Trent Williams, because when you have
the most talented roster in the NFL, you can withstand
a loss like this for a few weeks. Again, they
got eight guys making fifteen million dollars a year. That's
not gonna happen in the spring. They're gonna lose some guys,
but for this year it doesn't matter. It's it's they're rich,
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and when you're rich, you can afford some losses, right
And that's what it is. Right now. They're gonna be
just fine without McCaffrey for the next couple of weeks.
If they keep blowing holes open, it doesn't matter who
they're playing against. Jordan Mason can run through them. James
Mason can run through them. Mason Crosby can run through them,
nicely done. I'm out of Mason a kicker, I'm out
of Mason's. Perry Mason can run through them. Now you
(21:23):
just want to go through the Mason's. I'm out of
Mason's and not the Masons like Mason reed like like
the profession being a Mason Mason.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
So the forty nine Ers as Mason Clark Cable. Now
we've gone down a whole other rabbit hole. But the
thing is right, we talk about building coacher cultures and
continuity in the National Football League and there's so few
teams right. Well, we had Jay Glazer on yesterday. What
do you talk about with Pittsburgh. Oh, yeah, that's the
That's a Mike Tomlin win if there ever was one.
Right for that week one win, the defense and Boswell
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kicking field goals. With the forty nine Ers, it's a
culture and a continuity, you know, from the front office
and the structure and Shanahan and what they have, and
it all runs through Trent Williams, right, which is why
you knew eventually he was going to get his money,
even though he had three more years on his deal.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
He's thirty six years old. All the reasons you'd say
they shouldn't pay him. They know where their bread is buttered.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Right, as long as he's there, he makes every one
of those guys on the offensive line that may grade
out is below average or average, makes them that much better,
that much bigger a unit, and gives them that much
more flexibility and opportunity to pull the strings on offense.
And that makes Mason a hero. It's why Elijah Mitchell,
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when he's played in the past, he's obviously on ir now,
but when he would be the next man up, he
would play well. If you needed to use use check
for a couple of series that he'd be able to
run or catch the ball out of the backfield. All
of that to say, we don't have a lot of
teams in the National Football League. Everybody's striving for that,
but there's very few and rarefied air. And why you
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always just pencil in the four nine ers as a contender,
and you need McCaffrey in January. Winning games in September
is nice, getting to your over total, getting a home
field advantage for whatever that's worth, and being the number
one seed.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
That's all finely good.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
As long as he's upright come January, is this is
a blessing in disguise. It happens to start the season
as opposed to Week twelve.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
If this was at the end of the year, if
this was something where I thought they didn't sign Ayuk
they traded him an obviously, Look, Piersoll's not playing yet.
Where are the weapons? Where do you go at the football? Hey,
you're in trouble, but you're really not. I mean you
have an embarrassing of riches everywhere, so you can withstand
this loss for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, what it does is it changes up your play
calling to where maybe you're exposing Deebo a little more
than you would have liked to write as a runner,
to try to give a change of pace to what
you're getting with Mason, and maybe that shifts away. If
McCaffrey does go to the ir then maybe you rethink
how you're you know, going through your carries and doing
(23:59):
that clothes split. But for the time being, Yeah, the
machine rolls on, man next man up.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Meanwhile, a team that it's not because of this injury,
but it's going to happen Hollywood. Brown looks like his
season is in jeopardy. The Chiefs making the announcement today,
Andy Reid saying that it's going to be months, not
weeks until he comes back. He got hurt in the
very first rep of training camp, and it looks like
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with the surgery he's going to have to have, he's
going to be out for quite a long time. Maybe
he plays again, maybe he doesn't. Now for the Chiefs,
this is the concern about Kansas City. This is clearly
not the same Chiefs team that the first five six
years of the Patrick Mahomes era was in danger of
(24:46):
rolling up forty points every week. They're just they're just
not that's not the team. Doesn't mean they can't win,
but they're not that team. It's not Tyreek Hill, it's
not Kareem Hunt when he was. It's not that team.
He's not throwing thirty five forty touchdowns a year. Patrick
Mahomes had a very pedestrian ish type year last year.
And that's kind of where the Chiefs have settled a
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bit where their offense is still plenty good enough, their
defense is very good. But this is not The Chiefs
are gonna come in and scare the blank out of you,
because they're just gonna go up and down the field,
This is a team that that offense is not quite
as good as it was. Travis Kelcey has slowed down,
he doesn't take over games like he used to. And
Xavier Worthy maybe a gadget guy. You heard the Bengals
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say you can run straight, but that's it Rasheil Rice.
So you can do is hit him. Yeah, Rashi Rice
is a good receiver. Is he great? This is not
a great Chiefs offense. And you're going through all of
last year where it was wow, they kind of struggle.
They did enough to win and that shows you how
good the team is is that it did enough to win.
But now this year when they tried to jump start
the offense, we're gonna draft Xavier Worthy, We're gonna get
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Hollywood Brown. This is gonna be a new thing. Now
it's the same offense. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen.
This is what I mean when I say you and
I are head of the curve. At some point this year,
a team is going to play the Chiefs and they're
going to roll them like thirty one to thirteen, and
it's going to be a game plan that's going to
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catch fire around the league. Whatever a team is going
to do because offensively, this is not the same team.
You're going to see a copycat league go all sorts
of copycat. There's going to be a game where the
Chiefs get rolled because a team has certain type of
personnel that will cause all sorts of problems to Kansas City,
and other teams are going to copycat that. It's gonna
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happen because this is not the great Chiefs offensive years past.
They are vulnerable and when that happens, the Chiefs are
gonna take some l's and things are going to be
really difficult for them. Not every team is going to
be able to do it. Because you look back and
I'll use this for example the Super Bowl a couple
of years ago when when Tampa Bay beat the Chiefs
right where they just rolled the Chiefs twenty eight to nine,
and the Chiefs were terrible all day, Well, what was
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the whole thing? Hey, we saw that if you can
pressure the Chiefs without having the blitz, which is a
big key in a lot of us. But but if
you could pressure the Chiefs specifically without blitzing, you're able
to cover Tyreek Hill, who can't just run a pos downfield.
You can cover Travis Kelcey, because if you if you
can keep your guys in the middle of the field,
that's going to be a lot better. What was the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers big strength defensively they got after the
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quarterback with their defensive eye yards laterally terly. So so
once you see something like that, okay, well we want
to be able to try to reproduce that. This is different.
This is more. This is the personnel of the Chiefs,
and this is how you can stop them. Somebody is
going to put together a defensive game plan and offensive
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game plan too, because the chief defense is really really good.
But mainly you're going to say, oh, this is how
we do it. We can be aggressive with the Chiefs.
We don't have to be reactionary. We don't have to Hey,
let's see what Mahomes gives us. Let's see what the
day looks like. No, we can be aggressive, get after
them and not have to worry about him burning us
and what that's going to happen one time this year
And as soon as that happens, the Chiefs are going
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to start taking some else.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You know, I want to figure out where that where
that is on the schedule taking so long as fifteen.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Beating Eating Out, Eating Out, even.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
The origin story of eating W's earlier in the week.
How about Week four Chargers Jim Harbaugh could be Chargers
currently and the Chargers sure getting weird there. Week seven,
you've got the forty nine ers. Week nine, those aforementioned
Tampa Bay Bucks. Week ten, Denver Week eleven, Buffalo may.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Not have it. You just went right over Denver. You
just went right Week ten, den Week eleven. You didn't
even get that. You didn't even say Denver is a
full night. I love Patrick certain you got out after
Denver and Denver ad week eleven.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
This is where so Broncos, I'm sorry, I'm not buying in.
You can prove me wrong. Okay, prove me wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Going not there, not even know why I brought that game.
I'm going through. I'm going through.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
And then fifteen and sixteen c Evelynd and Houston, Week
seventeen Pittsburgh, and then week eighteen that Denver team again.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's gonna have one one time this year You're gonna
see a team come up with that game plan and
it could be look and it could be a lot,
it could be Hey, Mahomes is not nearly as mobile
as he was, and we can rush him or we
can do whatever it is. It is. We're gonna come
up with something that other teams have always been afraid
to do because you never defended the Chiefs this way.
But now you can because this is not the same offense.
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So we can take more chances, be more aggressive. Someone's
gonna come up with that game plan and that's gonna
do it.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, that's the thing, the big push when it comes
to Mahomes and the mobility because many of the plays,
I mean, they're not straight.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Here's what we called, here's what was run.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And yes you can if you want to, you know,
as they do in their post game and saying how
clean it is, a lot of it is not quite
jail break situation, but it's area right, particularly when it
comes to Travis Kelcey historically, right when Tyreek Hill was there, Yes,
you throw it up, let him go make a play.
It is cornerbacks can't hold containment that long. So if
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you're not gonna get pressure, good luck.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Right. We watched it with Miami last night against Buffalo.
What happened.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
They pushed the Miami offensive line around, which meant Tua
before he got hurt. Didn't have any time to wait
for Tyreek Hill to run past anybody, and every play
broke down, and then he made some bad decisions. He
checked down to the third or fourth receivers, guys who
couldn't catch the football, and you had it going back
the other way. For Patrick Mahomes, he will put the
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ball in harm's way time and again, right if the
timing is off. That was the whole knock when Brady
would go to the sideline cursing out his receivers. If
a guy got chucked at the line and it took
the timing off, what happened. He's getting hit in the
shoulder pad instead of a clean catch him on the
run right Welker or Edelman or whoever else. And that's
how that's what you have to do. Also to Patrick Mahomes,
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you got to keep him moving, but don't let that
space get open where Kelsey can sit down or where
Worthy can sit down. I mean, that was a blown coverage.
Like for all the greatness awes ave you're Worthy, the
safety didn't show up on your screen until eight seconds
later chasing him down. So you know you're not gonna
have a lot of those jail break situations. I don't
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think as the season roles, but.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Just watch the L's are going to come for the
Chiefs because that game is going to be here. Exit
out about a Fresco exit swelling down the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carment jets. Time now
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
From a guy who was actually one of the nine
pitchers for the Tigers today who nearly threw a O Italy,
it's Steve Desager with what's trending.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
No, I think it was the Dodgers that used nine tonight.
That Tigers's totally about four. By the way, as you
talk NFL, can I just note that as the Chargers
are about to play Sunday morning, Pacific time at Carolina
a chance to start the season two and oh, the
Chargers haven't started a season two and oh since twenty twelve,
over a decade since even starting two and oh in
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an NFL case, I really thought you.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Were gonna say nineteen ninety five when they went to
the Super Bowl with Stan Humpstead and Tony Martin were
the big stars.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
Let's just say they've been known over the years for
their slow starts to see them.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Sure, and this kind of feeds.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Out the second half is usually really exciting. I mean,
in Hollywood knows how to end the movie. Well, how
many Chargers have done a hell of a job with that?
How many years was it? The Chargers are zero and five?
But no, now they've won eleven in a row. They're
in the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
Like that was the Chargers forever junior sales career, Philip
Rivers whole career.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, executive, Yeah, we're going nine. We're in the playoffs. Wait,
how did we started owing to nine? Does it we
got in?
Speaker 6 (32:31):
We got remember early nineties with one of the SEO
teams the Chargers had, they did start owing four and
they were set the record of being a playoff team
despite the slow start. And they had one of those
Saturday games at the end of the season against the
Giant Giants and all the snowballs.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Who wasn't had a big long touchdown. It might have
been Tony Martino had a big touchdown and they all
just pelted him with snowball and he got to the
end zone. The end zones tend to be closer to
the seats. Sure, it is what happened, got to the
snowball because we suck.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Chargers linebacker Joey Bosa questionable for the weekend with a
bad back. Carolina punter Johnny Hecker questionable with a bad back.
He returned to limited practice yesterday. Metstar Francisco Lindor left
tonight's game with a sore back, but just as a precaution,
they say, if the game was closer, he would have
stayed in.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
So I'm glad and I'll go leaping off the railings, Francisco,
and don't do that either. Slide going into second base.
Don't get caught well, slide going into second That's how
we got hurt.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
The theme of the week as we get towards the
end of our Fox Sports Radio week together, slide.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, that is a thing needs to be remembered. Who
does that song? Who does slide? Why don't you slide? Darn? Here?
Is that third eye blind? Why don't you slide? Dolls?
Googoo dolls? Yes, Scoogo dolls. After that rendition, I wish
it was third eyed deaf. That's wow. Yeah, Johnny Resnick
is never going to send you a Christmas card.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
That's one eleven to three in Philadelphia. That's a three
three run homers. Atlanta did win its game six '
two over the Dodge Brave, still one game behind the
Mets for the final NL Wildcard. The Milwaukee Brewers beat
Arizona two to one. The Brewers have a magic number
of just five to clinch the NL Central in the
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AL Central Tampa Bay one at Cleveland, Cincinnati, one at Minnesota.
Kansas City was a winner eight three at Pittsburgh. Salvador
Perez is twenty seventh homer. He has one hundred and
two RBIs this year. And then there's Aaron Judge one
hundred and thirty RBIs home run number fifty two tonight
to beat Boston five to four, Judge hitting a grand
slam in the seventh for the lead. Baltimore got shut
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out one nothing at Detroit. Gunner Henderson broke up a
combined no hit bid with two outs in the top
of the ninth with a triple so the Oriels three
games back of the Yankees for first in the AL East.
Wins for Washington, for Toronto and eleven innings. Oakland won
two to nothing at the White Sox, who have a
record now of thirty three and one fifteen, Colorado beat
the Cubs nine to five, Houston a five to three
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winner at the angels Youseay Kakuchi went seven innings for
the win. Houston has won all eight of his starts
since he arrived. And Seattle's still losing at home Rangers
four to two over the Mariners in the bottom of
the eighth inning, and it's now a Padres five nothing
lead at San Francisco in the top of the ninth WNBA.
Las Vegas won at Indiana seventy eight seventy four. Caitlin
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Clark set the league's single season assist records. She had
eighteen points in the lost nine assist six turnovers. And
in college football on Fox TV, Kansas State beat up
Arizona thirty one seven. UNLV scored late to beat Kansas
twenty three to twenty.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmen Love from the tyrack dot Com Studios.
Straight ahead, a record breaking night and a really really
bad officiating decision to break down. Oh that's next, right here, Jason,
Mike Johnny, Fox Sports Radio. We're gonna let us lie.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
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Speaker 1 (36:00):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Live
from the tiraq dot Com Studios. We've got more NFL
on the way in a few minutes. But how about
the night for Caitlin Clark tonight? Not only did she
have an unbelievable night, you can no longer question that
even the officials are out together, no points at halftime
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in the it's basically like a series they played this
week against Las Vegas. Well, you know, look, Las Vegas
approving they're the better team. They escaped a couple nights ago.
They hold on tonight to win seventy eight to seventy four.
But Caitlin Clark sets the record for most assists in
the season by the WNBA by WNBA player. She nearly
pulls off a triple double zero points at halftime, finishes
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eighteen nine assists, eight rebounds. The game was a two
point game late, Kelsey Plumb hits a big three and
the Aces close it out from there. But this game
for Caitlin Clark, the big play that everybody's talking about
is another technical that she got. She has now won
away from an automatic suspension. I would almost get that
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before the playoffs, like, you know, give it to me now,
so I don't have in the playoffs. Let's get it
out of the way. This was a play that again,
you can't think anything other than boy, the referees are
holding her to a different standard, and it's the same
kind of jealousy and pettiness that a lot of players
are showing towards her. Here's the play early in the
first half. Caitlyn Clark commits a foul, doesn't feel like
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she should be called for a foul, yells out, oh
my god, and punches the stanchion. Right doesn't just says
oh my god, punches the stanchion, and she gets teed
up Tiffany Hayes, who really packed a punch off the bench.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
And there's the second foul.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
On Clark and they gave her a technical. And this
is a similar situation.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
To again earlier this year, she got a technical for
hitting the stanchion.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Caitlin Clark won stanchion zero. There it is on ion
with the call and she talked about it after the
game and she said, look, it's crazy. They're never gonna
overturn it. I think it's just one of those rules.
I could have done a better job keeping my emotions
in check, but at the same time, really like that
was their statement. I could have done know that, but
at the same time, really and that's absolutely a perfect
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statement to make about that. Yes, I punched the stand
chand you gotta let players be able to emote. They
didn't come after the referee. They didn't yell at you.
Look at what some of the guys do in the
NBA all the time. Luca cries and complains every time
down the floor, and he yells at the referees. This
wasn't done in a referee's face. This is a moment.
You gotta give players a second. Oh you call me
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for a foul, I don't think I committed it, and
I'm gonna punch a stanchin the ref They're not showing
you up. Of course, tell me one NBA player or
WNBA player that's gonna say, yes, I absolutely committed that
foul one hundred percent. No, they never think they commit
a foul. You have to let players go with that.
If she was causing a commotion or was really showing
up a referee, I get it. But this goes all
the way back to the beginning of the year when
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she gets railroaded from behind by Kennedy Carter and the
referee just calls a common foul and doesn't call Hey,
that's a flagrant. Now you've seen this. Now, now she's
got six technicals of this kind across the course of
the season, and she's won away from being from getting
a suspension. You can't tell me that the officials are
not officiating her differently than they are other players. You
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gotta let players have a second to let their emotion
out and yell or hit a stancheon or stomp a
foot or do something like that. It's ridiculous. And I'd
like to think that this was going to go away,
but no, clearly it's still here. And what do I
say about the WNBA, show me you can handle success,
and here's another moment of not being able to handle success.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, but at some point she's got to stop with
the history honics, like, because she's done this all season long.
The fact that she's only got six technicals is actually
kind of remarkable.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
This is not that big a deal. What she's doing
is not that big, and she's not she's not, you know,
grabbing a referee by the lapels and picking them up
and said, I can't believe you call that. No, I'm
punching this. I'm done. No, no, no calling it tech.
Why do you need to punch a stancheon You're man?
So players gets all the time, Arthur and Clinch. Players yell,
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they turn away from the officials, they yell, they do
something physical and it and we move on, and we
move on. It's a very emotional game. It's a physical game.
You gotta let players do that.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Now, this is really early in the game. So this
is I would say sure, based on games circumstance. But
now we got to start looking at the histories. Do
we have a Chris Paul situation starting to go with
certain referees. Scott Foster is walking through that door.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
The officials unzips their head and it's Scott Foster. I
knew it. I knew it was Scott Foster, but just
the idea that watching her over the course and it
Scott Foster and zips and it's Nick Pavettah like I said,
Nick Pavetta, Like I said, I like that.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
You know, now you're just kind of doing an inception
kind of thing going on me here. But for Caitlin Clark,
it's been an issue all year long, right, yes, she
plays with great motion.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
This this this is silly. I mean, it's silly to
call the technical.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
But if you're gonna keep opening the door for them
to adjudicated saying, hey, stop showing me up.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Officials do you know they take it personally, but they're
not there, but they're not showing. They're not showing anybody up.
That's the whole thing is that this is this is
the equivalent of like when a when a baseball player
disagrees with the strike and then yells at the umpire
but keeps his head away from it. Doesn't look like
I'm yelling at the ump show. I'm stepping out of
the box. Like that's kind of what this is. No, no, no,
we're still gonna call it technical on it.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Well, and we've seen plenty of umpires run guys who
are mouthing off.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Why But I wasn't looking at you. That was a
ventriloquist thing coming from the front road. Now you threw
me out. Now I'm yelling at you. Uh. Coming up next,
we get back into the biggest NFL story the last
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
Let me pull back the curtain for a moment. Here
in the Fox Sports Radio studios. Yay, Friday Night of activity.
We watch some college football. We got some baseball. We're
eating potato chips, tato sal shit lemon, the lime flavored
potato chips from Lea's, which are very tasty.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Limo limon. I like the way you said over the
l I m O N see. Now you are multi
multi lingual Limos done, like who play used to play
center field for the Tigers? Check Limon or White Sox
great who used to used to pitch for the Astros?
Mark Limonngello? Nicely done. Now I want some Limon jellal.
(01:27):
I'm out of people named Lemon who used to manage
the Yankees, Don Limon. Oh see there you go? Yeah?
Oh no, sorry, right, Bob, Bob Lemon, Yeah, Bob don
Lemon guy got fired on CNN. Bob Lemon manager of
the Yankees. Guy got paid out though.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Anyway, I was watching you, uh as we were making
notes and kind of chatting about what we're gonna do
this this second half of the show on Friday Night.
I don't think I've seen you cheer for the Mets
as much as you did. The saltiness of a Giants
runner being thrown out of the he was.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So angry, dead Tuck.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The Giants could have got back in the game against
a bleeping podres No, no no, And how do you
send him? He's out by ten feet. I don't even
think he ever touched the play out.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Now in baseball twenty years ago, where you could say,
all right, I'm running towards you, and you're like that target,
that's narrowing, because I'm about ready to crash it. Sure
you might have been able to do that because then
you can separate the player from the ball.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And today's Major League baseball, you can't do that. You
more or less have to raise your hand as you
got me. I was really mad. I'm like, oh the
giants would get no, Nope, And then you went storming
down the hallway something to yourself. It was really kind
of an interesting couple of minutes. I had to go
have chips or cookies or something like that to deal
with that play. Right now, sugar and caffeine.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
That's how we get through duct tape and band aids
to get through the week, depending on what you're doing
wherever you are, however, you're listening, thanks for being part
of the extended family.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
So in the middle of well, you know, look, because
first thing they want to come in and said, you
put the Padres and the Diamondbacks on right now because
we could catch both of them. Uh. Big weekend in
the NFL. Let's take a look at the game of
the week, at least on paper. What the game of
the week looks like right now and that is Cincinnati
in Kansas City. All right, Now, the Bengals, Look, we
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talked about them that they're the one team that has
the right attitude towards playing the Chiefs because they've done
well in in in Burroughhead, won the Type, then went
to the super Bowl, all these things. They play them
really tough, and they assume they were gonna keep getting
back to the zuper right now, it's gonna keep winning.
That's the way it works. Look, no, it's it's not.
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It's not a case of hey, Cincinnati always has the
right uh, the right personnel, but they have the right attitude.
They're not scared. They go into every game. Look this week,
what did Jamar Chase say, We're we're the team to beat,
and and and and you had you had the Bengals
coming in here with, Hey, we're gonna come out and
we're gonna be really aggressive. There's no bowing down to
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the Chiefs. There's no hey, we have to counterattack them. No,
we're gonna go out, we're gonna fight. And look, that's
a great attitude to have against Kansas City because look,
and there's no secret. Hey, maybe that's why the Bengals
play them so well. Now I say all that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And I tell you that it's a good preamble that
that's coming to ice smack talking. I like the positivity
in the Bravado and saying, look at our history, look.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
At what we've been able to do here. We're building
something special that's coming to an end. On Sunday, Kansas City.
They know the checkered pass they have against the Bengals.
The Bengals just are not really together right now. You
have Jamar Chase who a little unsure about white and
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get more balls. Last week against the Patriots, losing a
game they should have won by four touchdowns. You lose
to Jacoby Brissett and you can't get the ball down
the field. This is on you. You have Joe Burrow,
who was risk dingda. I don't care what he says
or what people think about how he's picking up a
water bottle. Joe Burrow's wrist is not healthy. They are
having trouble with the rushing attack. They thought it was
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going to be okay Zach mosson Chase Brown, and it
might be at some point, but boy, you look at
Joe Mixon running for one hundred and fifty yards and
going man, we could have used him again, but so
the Bengals. Yeah, but look, but the Bengals are not
really where they will be at some point as long
as Borrow is healthy, when they figure out the right division,
because right now it looks like it's Zach Moss's backfield
a little bit more than Chase Brown. But they're just
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don't quite have it right now. And I don't know
any team that finds themselves and puts it together in
Kansas City when Kensady's coming off a win, and this
is a team that knows how to win with a
diminished offense because they're not quite as good as they were.
You know, you're not getting Hollywood Brown back, and he's
going to be out for maybe the entire season. We'll
get into that coming up later on in the show.
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But I don't see them getting well against the Chiefs.
This could be this is a game where the Chiefs
not only are going to wind up fine a way
to win, but it's not gonna be particularly close. And
we're gonna wonder has the bubble burst for the Bengals.
Here they are at zero to two, they lose a game,
maybe they got caught looking ahead, But here they are
losing to another really good team. I don't see the
bag as much as the Bengals have kept it close
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in games recent years and it's been a toss up.
I can't see that happening Sunday. And I think Mahomes
has a big day and the Chiefs win going away. Oh,
I think they bludging him and there's a lot to it.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Six point favorite at home forty eight is your total. Look,
the Bengals are terrible under Zach Taylor to start seasons.
They're one in ten in the first two weeks of
a season. Usually Joe Burrow slow started. Now we have
to wonder water bottle gait and the way he delivered
the football last week is men. I don't think it
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was unfair asking the questions about rich.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And here's what's stupid is that people wanted to focus
on how he picked up the water bottle. I'm like,
how about what he's doing for like ten seconds before
he picks up the water bottle. He's just moving his wrists, Like, wow,
my wrist is really matter how he picks Go back
and watch the full game.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Like my daughter playing soccer right a couple of weeks ago,
she took a spill right and embraced herself and popped
the bone in the wrist. And what I watched her
as she played, and Joe Burrow did the same thing,
kept doing this, rolling his wrists the whole time, right
in between plays as the ball's coming back and they're
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getting ready to reset. It's it's the same thing, same
kind of feel. And every year Joe Burrow in September
is coming off something getting his timing right. Well, T
Higgins isn't walking through the door. Tyler Boyd has gone.
You talk about the running back position. I like their
two running backs, but you don't have a guy right
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that you had in Joe Mixon. Whatever you thought of
Joe Mixon, and whatever you think of Joe mix and
Joe Mixon, the football player is at times one of
your top five backs in the game. And he certainly
displayed that a week ago. Defensively, they got run over, right.
That was the big thing for me coming out out
of Week one was not only did.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
New England beat them, they bludgeoned them. They ran right
at Old lou on a Rumo's.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Defense that everybody hyped up like that was the one
thing that you thought you could count on is that
they were gonna play their game and that Burrow had
to do just enough to get a w succeed and
proceed kind of thing. And then they round into shape
and then we get to see a rematch.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And you know, these guys will run towards the Chiefs
coming into the playoffs, but now they're owen to one.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
They're looking up at Owen two here, and I don't
know that it's gonna be necessarily close, because we saw
the Chiefs offensive line do some damage for much of
that game in Week one. And if that's the case,
Mahomes has a clean pocket. Pa Checko starts to run
the ball a bit. Now you pick your poison, you play,
you know, start pulling out the strings. And that defensive
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line they're getting after Joe Burrow there is not gonna
be a clean pocket. So this one could get a
in a hurry, particularly in front of the home crowd.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
The Browns and the Jaguars. This is not going to
be a conversation about Deshaun Watson, the Browns and the Jadgears.
We go from coronations Joe pearwhead and now it's the Browns.
Look Deshaun Watson has been a big topic of conversation
this week. We spent a lot of time talking about
him his status. But it's time. It's it's time to
(09:27):
really understand that a lot of fans, and specifically the Jaguars,
really think Trevor Lawrence is better than he is. Now.
They're renaming the stadium this week for him for a
one week thing. Trevor, you know, Bankstoff, but it's like
named a film up and I think that's pretty. But
(09:51):
Trevor Lawrence is really over rating. He may be the
most overrated quarterback in the NFL. Jacksonville wants to treat
him like he's a star because they haven't had one
in so long. So it's yeah, we're gonna ignore the
fact that he had one good year. That's what it was.
Three He's had one good ish year. He is a
periphery top fifteen quarterback. He is somewhere between the twelfth
(10:13):
and fifteenth best quarterback in the NFL, and yet he
got paid like he's one of the top three quarterbacks. Right. Oh,
we gotta keep yeah, I got it, you gotta keep me.
It's Trevor, Trevor Lawrence. Yes, you drafted you thought he
was gonna be the generational talent. The guy is okay,
and I'm not saying he's terrible's he's not nearly what
you thought he was gonna be. Trevor Lawrence is. He's
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not awful. He makes good plays and good decisions from
time to time, but he's not very consistent with it.
He still makes bad decisions, still throws a lot of interceptions.
He doesn't elevate the Jaguars like you would expect a
guy drafted number one overall generational talent getting paid like that.
He doesn't elevate them. There's no games where I can
say I look back and say, Trevor Lawrence won that
(10:57):
game all by himself. I can say that with my
homes and Lamar Jackson and Aaron Rodgers when he was good,
and plenty of other quarterbacks DAC I can say to
I can't tell you one game where I said, you
know what, he really went and won that game by himself.
He is an okay quarterback. He is. He is just
a little bit above league average, and yet he's been
he's been treated and it's like the image of him
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is that he's great. Like if you came down from
a planet a foreign planet and didn't know anything. I mean,
I guess all other planets are foreign. If you came
for another planet and you said, boy, tombout this Trevor Lawrence. Guy,
I'm sorry, I don't see it. Yeah, exactly right. I
mean again, it's not he's bad. He's just not as
good as he's getting paid as expected to be. Again,
he's still he makes good play, he makes good throws,
(11:40):
but boy, he makes bad decisions and he's not dynamic,
and no matter what kind of offensive weapons he has,
he still finds a way to just be okay enough.
He has the big comeback against the Chargers in the playoffs,
and he's been living off of that one comeback. He
had a horrible rookie season, he had a good next year,
he had an average last year at best year, and
now we started out kind of slow a little bit.
(12:02):
Now he did get hit a couple of times. You know,
offensive line is not as great as it is, but
a guy like Trevor Lawrence, you need to be doing
a little bit or you can't throw for one hundred
and sixty five yards when you're Trevor Lawrence, that's not
a week for it. And he has too many weeks
like that. So it's not again, it's not that he's bad,
it's just he's not nearly as good as the image
and the optic of Trevor Lawrence's. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I think one of the things that comes out with
it is, you know, last week is the unfortunate ETN
fumble that then gets turned around to an eighty yard
Tyreek Hill touchdown, right, just like that, the deflation of
we're going in, oh no, we're not ah and now
we've given up a big touchdown and the failures there
but to.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Trevor Lawrence go back.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You can go find audio in plenty in the far
Fox Sports Radio archives when everybody was taking Trevor Lawrence.
He's gonna be generational, He's gonna be the greatest together,
and you and I are sitting here going hold on,
like how every year we got to have a generational guy.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Let's go on down here. He's so generational, but good
not great?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yeah, is rarely you know, can you say, hey, you
know it, he played a perfect game. You can go
back to what he did in the second half against
the Chargers in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
They get guess and you can talk about that.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
But otherwise No, this team's if they're gonna win, they're
gonna have to be balanced, right, and that defensive front
can give you some fits. They got beat in the
secondary a few times for big plays, but held their
own otherwise, So I mean that's gonna be the calling card.
Can they get to the quarterback? But on the offensive side,
you don't have a world beater. You got some nice
component parts, and I think Brian Thomas Junior is eventually
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going to be a really good player for them. And
I like Christian Kirk and I like Gave Davis. Those
are guys that we've talked about his fantasy Ninjas and
breakthrough guys for years. They're not number one guys. So
you don't have that go to security blanket. Just put
it in a window. This guy's gonna go get it.
Yet maybe and maybe Thomas becomes that guy. Evan Ingram
at times had to be that guy a year ago.
(13:58):
But for Trevor Lawrence, yeah, the spectation has just been
off the charts and it's wishing, wanting and hoping like
it's Mark Brunell coming back through the door from years ago.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I mean, look, he threw a really nice touchdown to
Brian Thomas to start, but held onto the ball way
too long on a huge key play in the fourth
quarter against the Dolphins. It's like he does good things,
but he also makes a lot of mistakes or shows
that maybe you're only going to get so much, and
at some point you have to realize that Trevor Lawrence
has hit his ceiling. When you're in the league this long,
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this is kind of who you are and and and
it's not that well, what, yeah, okay, first year Doug
Peterson comes at Wow, that was awesome, didn't build on
it last year and now started out of the gate
like he was playing a year ago. So this is
kind of who he is. He's a He's a periphery
twelfth to fifteenth best quarterback in the NFL. That's that's
where he's at. That's probably what his ceiling is going
(14:51):
to be because he still turns the ball over. He's
and this is a long time now, but by your
second year, we kind of know who you are in
the NFL, and your third year you're this is what
the career you're gonna have is like, Well, he takes
some bad sacks and still puts the ball in harm's way.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
We talk about it more than anything else. When it
comes to quarterbacks, how often do you put the ball
up for grabs? And to some degree it can be
a positive right the Brett farvs of the world, whatever,
but that's also a small percentage of thirty five throws
a game right that you're trying to make a play
because you think you can make with Lawrence. Every once
(15:28):
in a while he puts it up wishing and hoping,
and it's not a definitive factor of who he is
on a.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Week to week basis. You don't know what you're getting.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It is really difficult to try to prognosticate anything with
the Jaguars. And there was a lot to like coming
out of Clemson, obviously, all the awards and excite excitement
about him. But now you're in Jacksonville and the touchdown
to interception ratio doesn't pop off, he doesn't make a
lot of plays with his legs, and the decision making
is still spotty. Doug Peterson, you thought he was gonna
(16:01):
be the whisper he needs to start shouting, he's Lawrence.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Is the most overrated player in the NFL. Hey, if
he has a bad game, sendate. It's gonna be well,
the Browns DEFENSI will fit continue to try to make
excuses FORMATSI. This is kind of who no, no, it's
a put up per shut up year.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
There's no question you got paid, and now they're gonna
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he'sy on the confetti. Who's maybe let's go. But two
big injury stories in the NFL for one team. Things
are fine for one team, the San Francisco forty nine ers,
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maybe without Christian McCaffrey for a little bit. Now, we
missed opening week against the Jets. And depending on what
you believe, Jordan Mason he either knew or didn't know
when he was going to be starting.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
But he's a video of him dancing last week because
he knew it was gonna be a longer injury.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
With a timestamp on Friday night. No, I didn't know.
Told me on Friday night, Tom, he told me he
was gonna be hurt for multiple weeks. So Mason has
a big game obviously against the Jets and they go
on to win going away. And now McCaffrey has already
been ruled out for Sunday, Kyle Shanahan making the announcement
earlier today, and a potential stay on the injured list
(20:18):
may be coming. So if he gets put on IR,
he's got to miss another couple of games. So they're
gonna be without Christian McCaffrey for a little bit. But
I'll tell you this doesn't matter. And it's tough to
say when you say this is the best running back
in the NFL, because he is, obviously, But this is
what happens. This is an effect of having the most
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talented roster in the NFL. This is why you give
all that money to Brandon Ayuk. It's why you give
all that money to Trent Williams, because when you have
the most talented roster in the NFL, you can withstand
a loss like this for a few weeks. Again, they
got eight guys making fifteen million dollars a year. That's
not gonna happen in the spring. They're gonna lose some guys,
but for this year it doesn't matter. It's it's they're rich,
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and when you're rich, you can afford some losses, right
And that's what it is. Right now. They're gonna be
just fine without McCaffrey for the next couple of weeks.
If they keep blowing holes open, it doesn't matter who
they're playing against. Jordan Mason can run through them. James
Mason can run through them. Mason Crosby can run through them,
nicely done. I'm out of Mason a kicker, I'm out
of Mason's. Perry Mason can run through them. Now you
(21:23):
just want to go through the Mason's. I'm out of
Mason's and not the Masons like Mason reed like like
the profession being a Mason Mason.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
So the forty nine Ers as Mason Clark Cable. Now
we've gone down a whole other rabbit hole. But the
thing is right, we talk about building coacher cultures and
continuity in the National Football League and there's so few
teams right. Well, we had Jay Glazer on yesterday. What
do you talk about with Pittsburgh. Oh, yeah, that's the
That's a Mike Tomlin win if there ever was one.
Right for that week one win, the defense and Boswell
(21:55):
kicking field goals. With the forty nine Ers, it's a
culture and a continuity, you know, from the front office
and the structure and Shanahan and what they have, and
it all runs through Trent Williams, right, which is why
you knew eventually he was going to get his money,
even though he had three more years on his deal.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
He's thirty six years old. All the reasons you'd say
they shouldn't pay him. They know where their bread is buttered.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Right, as long as he's there, he makes every one
of those guys on the offensive line that may grade
out is below average or average, makes them that much better,
that much bigger a unit, and gives them that much
more flexibility and opportunity to pull the strings on offense.
And that makes Mason a hero. It's why Elijah Mitchell,
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when he's played in the past, he's obviously on ir now,
but when he would be the next man up, he
would play well. If you needed to use use check
for a couple of series that he'd be able to
run or catch the ball out of the backfield. All
of that to say, we don't have a lot of
teams in the National Football League. Everybody's striving for that,
but there's very few and rarefied air. And why you
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always just pencil in the four nine ers as a contender,
and you need McCaffrey in January. Winning games in September
is nice, getting to your over total, getting a home
field advantage for whatever that's worth, and being the number
one seed.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
That's all finely good.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
As long as he's upright come January, is this is
a blessing in disguise. It happens to start the season
as opposed to Week twelve.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
If this was at the end of the year, if
this was something where I thought they didn't sign Ayuk
they traded him an obviously, Look, Piersoll's not playing yet.
Where are the weapons? Where do you go at the football? Hey,
you're in trouble, but you're really not. I mean you
have an embarrassing of riches everywhere, so you can withstand
this loss for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Yeah, what it does is it changes up your play
calling to where maybe you're exposing Deebo a little more
than you would have liked to write as a runner,
to try to give a change of pace to what
you're getting with Mason, and maybe that shifts away. If
McCaffrey does go to the ir then maybe you rethink
how you're you know, going through your carries and doing
(23:59):
that clothes split. But for the time being, Yeah, the
machine rolls on, man next man up.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Meanwhile, a team that it's not because of this injury,
but it's going to happen Hollywood. Brown looks like his
season is in jeopardy. The Chiefs making the announcement today,
Andy Reid saying that it's going to be months, not
weeks until he comes back. He got hurt in the
very first rep of training camp, and it looks like
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with the surgery he's going to have to have, he's
going to be out for quite a long time. Maybe
he plays again, maybe he doesn't. Now for the Chiefs,
this is the concern about Kansas City. This is clearly
not the same Chiefs team that the first five six
years of the Patrick Mahomes era was in danger of
(24:46):
rolling up forty points every week. They're just they're just
not that's not the team. Doesn't mean they can't win,
but they're not that team. It's not Tyreek Hill, it's
not Kareem Hunt when he was. It's not that team.
He's not throwing thirty five forty touchdowns a year. Patrick
Mahomes had a very pedestrian ish type year last year.
And that's kind of where the Chiefs have settled a
(25:08):
bit where their offense is still plenty good enough, their
defense is very good. But this is not The Chiefs
are gonna come in and scare the blank out of you,
because they're just gonna go up and down the field,
This is a team that that offense is not quite
as good as it was. Travis Kelcey has slowed down,
he doesn't take over games like he used to. And
Xavier Worthy maybe a gadget guy. You heard the Bengals
(25:31):
say you can run straight, but that's it Rasheil Rice.
So you can do is hit him. Yeah, Rashi Rice
is a good receiver. Is he great? This is not
a great Chiefs offense. And you're going through all of
last year where it was wow, they kind of struggle.
They did enough to win and that shows you how
good the team is is that it did enough to win.
But now this year when they tried to jump start
the offense, we're gonna draft Xavier Worthy, We're gonna get
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Hollywood Brown. This is gonna be a new thing. Now
it's the same offense. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen.
This is what I mean when I say you and
I are head of the curve. At some point this year,
a team is going to play the Chiefs and they're
going to roll them like thirty one to thirteen, and
it's going to be a game plan that's going to
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catch fire around the league. Whatever a team is going
to do because offensively, this is not the same team.
You're going to see a copycat league go all sorts
of copycat. There's going to be a game where the
Chiefs get rolled because a team has certain type of
personnel that will cause all sorts of problems to Kansas City,
and other teams are going to copycat that. It's gonna
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happen because this is not the great Chiefs offensive years past.
They are vulnerable and when that happens, the Chiefs are
gonna take some l's and things are going to be
really difficult for them. Not every team is going to
be able to do it. Because you look back and
I'll use this for example the Super Bowl a couple
of years ago when when Tampa Bay beat the Chiefs
right where they just rolled the Chiefs twenty eight to nine,
and the Chiefs were terrible all day, Well, what was
(26:56):
the whole thing? Hey, we saw that if you can
pressure the Chiefs without having the blitz, which is a
big key in a lot of us. But but if
you could pressure the Chiefs specifically without blitzing, you're able
to cover Tyreek Hill, who can't just run a pos downfield.
You can cover Travis Kelcey, because if you if you
can keep your guys in the middle of the field,
that's going to be a lot better. What was the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers big strength defensively they got after the
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quarterback with their defensive eye yards laterally terly. So so
once you see something like that, okay, well we want
to be able to try to reproduce that. This is different.
This is more. This is the personnel of the Chiefs,
and this is how you can stop them. Somebody is
going to put together a defensive game plan and offensive
(27:38):
game plan too, because the chief defense is really really good.
But mainly you're going to say, oh, this is how
we do it. We can be aggressive with the Chiefs.
We don't have to be reactionary. We don't have to Hey,
let's see what Mahomes gives us. Let's see what the
day looks like. No, we can be aggressive, get after
them and not have to worry about him burning us
and what that's going to happen one time this year
And as soon as that happens, the Chiefs are going
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to start taking some else.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You know, I want to figure out where that where
that is on the schedule taking so long as fifteen.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Beating Eating Out, Eating Out, even.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
The origin story of eating W's earlier in the week.
How about Week four Chargers Jim Harbaugh could be Chargers
currently and the Chargers sure getting weird there. Week seven,
you've got the forty nine ers. Week nine, those aforementioned
Tampa Bay Bucks. Week ten, Denver Week eleven, Buffalo may.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Not have it. You just went right over Denver. You
just went right Week ten, den Week eleven. You didn't
even get that. You didn't even say Denver is a
full night. I love Patrick certain you got out after
Denver and Denver ad week eleven.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
This is where so Broncos, I'm sorry, I'm not buying in.
You can prove me wrong. Okay, prove me wrong.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Going not there, not even know why I brought that game.
I'm going through. I'm going through.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
And then fifteen and sixteen c Evelynd and Houston, Week
seventeen Pittsburgh, and then week eighteen that Denver team again.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
It's gonna have one one time this year You're gonna
see a team come up with that game plan and
it could be look and it could be a lot,
it could be Hey, Mahomes is not nearly as mobile
as he was, and we can rush him or we
can do whatever it is. It is. We're gonna come
up with something that other teams have always been afraid
to do because you never defended the Chiefs this way.
But now you can because this is not the same offense.
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So we can take more chances, be more aggressive. Someone's
gonna come up with that game plan and that's gonna
do it.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, that's the thing, the big push when it comes
to Mahomes and the mobility because many of the plays,
I mean, they're not straight.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Here's what we called, here's what was run.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And yes you can if you want to, you know,
as they do in their post game and saying how
clean it is, a lot of it is not quite
jail break situation, but it's area right, particularly when it
comes to Travis Kelcey historically, right when Tyreek Hill was there, Yes,
you throw it up, let him go make a play.
It is cornerbacks can't hold containment that long. So if
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you're not gonna get pressure, good luck.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Right. We watched it with Miami last night against Buffalo.
What happened.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
They pushed the Miami offensive line around, which meant Tua
before he got hurt. Didn't have any time to wait
for Tyreek Hill to run past anybody, and every play
broke down, and then he made some bad decisions. He
checked down to the third or fourth receivers, guys who
couldn't catch the football, and you had it going back
the other way. For Patrick Mahomes, he will put the
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ball in harm's way time and again, right if the
timing is off. That was the whole knock when Brady
would go to the sideline cursing out his receivers. If
a guy got chucked at the line and it took
the timing off, what happened. He's getting hit in the
shoulder pad instead of a clean catch him on the
run right Welker or Edelman or whoever else. And that's
how that's what you have to do. Also to Patrick Mahomes,
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you got to keep him moving, but don't let that
space get open where Kelsey can sit down or where
Worthy can sit down. I mean, that was a blown coverage.
Like for all the greatness awes ave you're Worthy, the
safety didn't show up on your screen until eight seconds
later chasing him down. So you know you're not gonna
have a lot of those jail break situations. I don't
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think as the season roles, but.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Just watch the L's are going to come for the
Chiefs because that game is going to be here. Exit
out about a Fresco exit swelling down the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carment jets. Time now
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
From a guy who was actually one of the nine
pitchers for the Tigers today who nearly threw a O Italy,
it's Steve Desager with what's trending.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
No, I think it was the Dodgers that used nine tonight.
That Tigers's totally about four. By the way, as you
talk NFL, can I just note that as the Chargers
are about to play Sunday morning, Pacific time at Carolina
a chance to start the season two and oh, the
Chargers haven't started a season two and oh since twenty twelve,
over a decade since even starting two and oh in
(31:58):
an NFL case, I really thought you.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Were gonna say nineteen ninety five when they went to
the Super Bowl with Stan Humpstead and Tony Martin were
the big stars.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
Let's just say they've been known over the years for
their slow starts to see them.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Sure, and this kind of feeds.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Out the second half is usually really exciting. I mean,
in Hollywood knows how to end the movie. Well, how
many Chargers have done a hell of a job with that?
How many years was it? The Chargers are zero and five?
But no, now they've won eleven in a row. They're
in the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
Like that was the Chargers forever junior sales career, Philip
Rivers whole career.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, executive, Yeah, we're going nine. We're in the playoffs. Wait,
how did we started owing to nine? Does it we
got in?
Speaker 6 (32:31):
We got remember early nineties with one of the SEO
teams the Chargers had, they did start owing four and
they were set the record of being a playoff team
despite the slow start. And they had one of those
Saturday games at the end of the season against the
Giant Giants and all the snowballs.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Who wasn't had a big long touchdown. It might have
been Tony Martino had a big touchdown and they all
just pelted him with snowball and he got to the
end zone. The end zones tend to be closer to
the seats. Sure, it is what happened, got to the
snowball because we suck.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Chargers linebacker Joey Bosa questionable for the weekend with a
bad back. Carolina punter Johnny Hecker questionable with a bad back.
He returned to limited practice yesterday. Metstar Francisco Lindor left
tonight's game with a sore back, but just as a precaution,
they say, if the game was closer, he would have
stayed in.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
So I'm glad and I'll go leaping off the railings, Francisco,
and don't do that either. Slide going into second base.
Don't get caught well, slide going into second That's how
we got hurt.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
The theme of the week as we get towards the
end of our Fox Sports Radio week together, slide.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, that is a thing needs to be remembered. Who
does that song? Who does slide? Why don't you slide? Darn? Here?
Is that third eye blind? Why don't you slide? Dolls?
Googoo dolls? Yes, Scoogo dolls. After that rendition, I wish
it was third eyed deaf. That's wow. Yeah, Johnny Resnick
is never going to send you a Christmas card.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
That's one eleven to three in Philadelphia. That's a three
three run homers. Atlanta did win its game six '
two over the Dodge Brave, still one game behind the
Mets for the final NL Wildcard. The Milwaukee Brewers beat
Arizona two to one. The Brewers have a magic number
of just five to clinch the NL Central in the
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AL Central Tampa Bay one at Cleveland, Cincinnati, one at Minnesota.
Kansas City was a winner eight three at Pittsburgh. Salvador
Perez is twenty seventh homer. He has one hundred and
two RBIs this year. And then there's Aaron Judge one
hundred and thirty RBIs home run number fifty two tonight
to beat Boston five to four, Judge hitting a grand
slam in the seventh for the lead. Baltimore got shut
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out one nothing at Detroit. Gunner Henderson broke up a
combined no hit bid with two outs in the top
of the ninth with a triple so the Oriels three
games back of the Yankees for first in the AL East.
Wins for Washington, for Toronto and eleven innings. Oakland won
two to nothing at the White Sox, who have a
record now of thirty three and one fifteen, Colorado beat
the Cubs nine to five, Houston a five to three
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winner at the angels Youseay Kakuchi went seven innings for
the win. Houston has won all eight of his starts
since he arrived. And Seattle's still losing at home Rangers
four to two over the Mariners in the bottom of
the eighth inning, and it's now a Padres five nothing
lead at San Francisco in the top of the ninth WNBA.
Las Vegas won at Indiana seventy eight seventy four. Caitlin
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Clark set the league's single season assist records. She had
eighteen points in the lost nine assist six turnovers. And
in college football on Fox TV, Kansas State beat up
Arizona thirty one seven. UNLV scored late to beat Kansas
twenty three to twenty.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmen Love from the tyrack dot Com Studios.
Straight ahead, a record breaking night and a really really
bad officiating decision to break down. Oh that's next, right here, Jason,
Mike Johnny, Fox Sports Radio. We're gonna let us lie.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
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Speaker 1 (36:00):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Live
from the tiraq dot Com Studios. We've got more NFL
on the way in a few minutes. But how about
the night for Caitlin Clark tonight? Not only did she
have an unbelievable night, you can no longer question that
even the officials are out together, no points at halftime
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in the it's basically like a series they played this
week against Las Vegas. Well, you know, look, Las Vegas
approving they're the better team. They escaped a couple nights ago.
They hold on tonight to win seventy eight to seventy four.
But Caitlin Clark sets the record for most assists in
the season by the WNBA by WNBA player. She nearly
pulls off a triple double zero points at halftime, finishes
(36:44):
eighteen nine assists, eight rebounds. The game was a two
point game late, Kelsey Plumb hits a big three and
the Aces close it out from there. But this game
for Caitlin Clark, the big play that everybody's talking about
is another technical that she got. She has now won
away from an automatic suspension. I would almost get that
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before the playoffs, like, you know, give it to me now,
so I don't have in the playoffs. Let's get it
out of the way. This was a play that again,
you can't think anything other than boy, the referees are
holding her to a different standard, and it's the same
kind of jealousy and pettiness that a lot of players
are showing towards her. Here's the play early in the
first half. Caitlyn Clark commits a foul, doesn't feel like
(37:27):
she should be called for a foul, yells out, oh
my god, and punches the stanchion. Right doesn't just says
oh my god, punches the stanchion, and she gets teed
up Tiffany Hayes, who really packed a punch off the bench.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
And there's the second foul.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
On Clark and they gave her a technical. And this
is a similar situation.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
To again earlier this year, she got a technical for
hitting the stanchion.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Caitlin Clark won stanchion zero. There it is on ion
with the call and she talked about it after the
game and she said, look, it's crazy. They're never gonna
overturn it. I think it's just one of those rules.
I could have done a better job keeping my emotions
in check, but at the same time, really like that
was their statement. I could have done know that, but
at the same time, really and that's absolutely a perfect
(38:16):
statement to make about that. Yes, I punched the stand
chand you gotta let players be able to emote. They
didn't come after the referee. They didn't yell at you.
Look at what some of the guys do in the
NBA all the time. Luca cries and complains every time
down the floor, and he yells at the referees. This
wasn't done in a referee's face. This is a moment.
You gotta give players a second. Oh you call me
(38:37):
for a foul, I don't think I committed it, and
I'm gonna punch a stanchin the ref They're not showing
you up. Of course, tell me one NBA player or
WNBA player that's gonna say, yes, I absolutely committed that
foul one hundred percent. No, they never think they commit
a foul. You have to let players go with that.
If she was causing a commotion or was really showing
up a referee, I get it. But this goes all
the way back to the beginning of the year when
(38:58):
she gets railroaded from behind by Kennedy Carter and the
referee just calls a common foul and doesn't call Hey,
that's a flagrant. Now you've seen this. Now, now she's
got six technicals of this kind across the course of
the season, and she's won away from being from getting
a suspension. You can't tell me that the officials are
not officiating her differently than they are other players. You
(39:21):
gotta let players have a second to let their emotion
out and yell or hit a stancheon or stomp a
foot or do something like that. It's ridiculous. And I'd
like to think that this was going to go away,
but no, clearly it's still here. And what do I
say about the WNBA, show me you can handle success,
and here's another moment of not being able to handle success.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Yeah, but at some point she's got to stop with
the history honics, like, because she's done this all season long.
The fact that she's only got six technicals is actually
kind of remarkable.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
This is not that big a deal. What she's doing
is not that big, and she's not she's not, you know,
grabbing a referee by the lapels and picking them up
and said, I can't believe you call that. No, I'm
punching this. I'm done. No, no, no calling it tech.
Why do you need to punch a stancheon You're man?
So players gets all the time, Arthur and Clinch. Players yell,
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they turn away from the officials, they yell, they do
something physical and it and we move on, and we
move on. It's a very emotional game. It's a physical game.
You gotta let players do that.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Now, this is really early in the game. So this
is I would say sure, based on games circumstance. But
now we got to start looking at the histories. Do
we have a Chris Paul situation starting to go with
certain referees. Scott Foster is walking through that door.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
The officials unzips their head and it's Scott Foster. I
knew it. I knew it was Scott Foster, but just
the idea that watching her over the course and it
Scott Foster and zips and it's Nick Pavettah like I said,
Nick Pavetta, Like I said, I like that.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
You know, now you're just kind of doing an inception
kind of thing going on me here. But for Caitlin Clark,
it's been an issue all year long, right, yes, she
plays with great motion.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
This this this is silly. I mean, it's silly to
call the technical.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
But if you're gonna keep opening the door for them
to adjudicated saying, hey, stop showing me up.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Officials do you know they take it personally, but they're
not there, but they're not showing. They're not showing anybody up.
That's the whole thing is that this is this is
the equivalent of like when a when a baseball player
disagrees with the strike and then yells at the umpire
but keeps his head away from it. Doesn't look like
I'm yelling at the ump show. I'm stepping out of
the box. Like that's kind of what this is. No, no, no,
we're still gonna call it technical on it.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Well, and we've seen plenty of umpires run guys who
are mouthing off.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Why But I wasn't looking at you. That was a
ventriloquist thing coming from the front road. Now you threw
me out. Now I'm yelling at you. Uh. Coming up next,
we get back into the biggest NFL story the last
twenty four hours. This is Fox Sports Radio,
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