January 30, 2025 • 41 mins
Matthew Stafford to return in '25…but will he'll be a Ram? Jason and Mike react to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s recent proposal to shorten NBA games by reducing the length of each quarter from 12 minutes to 10 minutes. Plus, a BIG bold prediction on the NFL Draft!
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
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gotta be on when somebody does something that's really impressive.
I gotta admit, hey, this is something halftime of Syracuse
and Stanford right now, serrics come back to actually make
this a game. But they just had a guy halftime
entertainment balance on a table on top of like six skateboards.
Like so there's a table and there's six skate like
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six skateboards one on top of the other, and he
jumped from the floor on top of the skateboards and
balanced for like ten seconds and then and then jumped off. Okay,
like that's a first of all, just to jump from
the floor to the top of the skateboards. Can he
suit up for Syracuse in the second half? But to
actually balance on there, that's Prett's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Man, though bad?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Riddle me this, what would inspire you to decide you
wanted to try that movie?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah? I know, I don't know what film.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I don't cartoon.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Hey man, you ever see me balance on his skateboard?
That's cool? You couldn't balance on But dude, I can
balance on two skateboards, man, Yeah, how many could you
balance on?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I get ballantce on six skateboards. Man, just watch me
do it and then the guy does it. Hey man,
I can actually make some money at this. Man, this
is gonna be cool.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Remember when the coyote had all his acne products and
he'd be chasing the road runner and suddenly to be
hanging in the air. I always figured I'd try to
do that. This is my way, man, I'm standing in
front of the crowd.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
And they're going one more one more like seven skateboards.
That's insanity, man, you can't do that. I'll try it, though, man,
because it'll be cool. I mean, that's balance, man, That
show boundaries.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I mean, I'm sure if I just stood on one skateboard,
how long could I bounce where I had to get
off half a second? I mean really, I mean I
don't know. I maybe. I mean if I stood, if
I well, if I didn't have nervous feet after I like,
if I'm able to stand on pretty good, I could
probably do like five or ten seconds. Have to be
a really wide skateboarder, it would be yes, Yeah, that's
that's why I could ever be a skateboarder because my
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feet are two wide.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I wonder how.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Many people, how many people when they got older, they're
careers as skateboarders, couldn't take off because they're fighting.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Jason, your skateboard would be that wide cart, the flat
cart at like Costco.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I would have Pam pushing the part of the handle.
Look at me, Ballance boy, his feet look like they're
hanging over the edge. He's got that wide foot. Man,
that's wide foot skateboarding.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
This guy got a QR code.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
A minute, Wait a minute, there's got you gotta fight.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
There's a back up.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Here comes to tail flip. There's gotta be There's gotta
be a thing called wide foot skateboarding.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I'm trying to look for it.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
We just invented it, like over fifty softball and stuff
like that. There's gotta be wide foot skateboarding. There has
to be. There is no boom right there. Stout sponsored
by New Balance, you know, because they have, you know,
wide shoes for goodhearted people like me.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
So now that's the paddle they have against vans.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
There is yeah, yeah, good luck. Yeah you want to
be you're just you only let narrow footed people who
have regular feet compete. We let everybody compete. We let
the wide footed people compete. Look at these guys. Look
at these guys. Look at these guys. They're all Fred Flintstone.
They're all walking right now. They can't even find shoes
that fit. Then they need like seven E wide shoes
and you can't even get on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I found a new one on Amazon called the Stubby Cruiser.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'm gonna say, yeah, that's you're your best to try
to explain this that is Look at.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
The checkerboard pattern.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's fantastic, stubby stubby cruiser.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That's really what. I can fit a dinner plate on that.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Oh yeah, it's got a slot for a dinner.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You put your tray when you're done.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Could fit a whole turkey on it. It's not even
hanging over the side. That's rip.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Wow, it's now you're lazy, Susan.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You're just spinning it around and get any different things
out here. You put a little motor on the bottom
of it, and you send it to the part of
the house that needs some food, okay, Parsley. Oh so
now it's like a roomba, except deliver's food. A different delivers.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Food, okay, instead of having the robot like polyad Rocky four.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Happy Birthday, Pollie, Happy birth.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Wait, we got a Stubbys skateboard that sends food.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You're ware, you know, Patton, that idea You never know,
you might be a millionaire, you know, like you jump
to conclusions, Matt you this might.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Be it could be breakthrough. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Meanwhile, in the NFL Big Story tonight, Ian Rappaport NFL
Network first report this that Matthew Stafford has made his
decision on twenty twenty five, he is going to retire. Play, retire, play,
retire play. He will play in twenty twenty five, however
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likely this according to reports, his contract situation is going
to have to be figured out. And there's the potential
that maybe Matthew Stafford when he comes back, it's not
with the Rams right now. This is what we know
to this point. But Stafford has made the decision to
come back and play. Look, we told you this a
week and a half ago and Stafford said, all I
got to take some time out, but he just wants
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more money added to his deal. He's still slinging the
football really well. Right. No one closes a season like
Matthew Stafford. He starts and he looks absolutely terrible, but man,
those last eight nine weeks, he is fantastic. He is
still an upper level quarterback. And you see the way
the Rams year after year continue to compete, continue to
contend and win division titles and go to the playoffs,
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and look, they were a mere yards away from potentially
upsetting the Eagles. Like Stafford can still bring it, and
all he wanted was, hey, there's only four million dollars
a guaranteed money on my contract. The rest of the way.
He wants it redone to make more money next year, right.
Sean McVeigh right away said, well, we don't want to
go down that road. We got to know if he's
coming back, we have decisions to make.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Now Stafford says he's coming back, right, But here's the
caveat about it, is that likely it will still be
with the Rams. The Rams know they're not ready to
turn this over to somebody else unless they have a
trade in the work said, okay, we're just gonna part
with Matthew Stafford and go on someplace else. They'll likely
take their quarterback in the future in the draft here,
try to figure something else out. But again, Afford's still
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playing at a high level. But if they can't, right,
let's just say Sean mcvay's line in the sand was
a real line in the sand. They have something else
in plan they're gonna go do. If Stafford became available,
he would become the number one sought after quarterback in
free agency, more than Sam Darnald, more than anybody else,
more than anybody wanting to trade for Kirk Cousins. More
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than any of that. He would be the number one
quarterback available because teams are confident that Matthew Stafford can
get them places. Sam Darnald eroded all that confidence with
his performance the last two games of the year, final
game of the regular season against the Lions playoff game,
when he went back to the old Sam Darnald, he
undid fifteen or sixteen weeks of really terrific quarterback play.
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But this is what happens in the NFL is a
league where when do big games come, your big players
have to play well. Your quarterback can't suck, right, So
one game he could suck. Two games, No, we can't
do that. But Stafford, you have seen him win big game.
You've seen the fact that he's still got life left
in that arm. And maybe it's as much as two
more years. If he became available, he would get the
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bigger contract. He would get a big two year deal
somewhere with a team that says, hey, Matthew Stafford's still
going to sling it forth. Probably have to be a
warm weather team where you know, throwing the football when
you get older gets a little bit more difficult. I
would assume it would be a situation like that, but
he would jump to the front and there would be
no shortage of teams that would want Matthew Stafford. Right, Like,
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if you can say to me, hey, would the Steelers
being on Sam Darnold, I would say, Ah, I don't know.
Maybe with the young quarter you know the situation they
had that want something a little bit more certain. If
Matthew Stafford became available, they would go right after him,
right Like, any team that needs a quarterback that is
close enough to the playoffs, who needs something to get
over the top, they would go for Matthew Stafford. They
would say, let's go give this guy money, Let's let
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him get us where we need to go, because they
would because of what he's been able to accomplish and
what he does at the end of years. Yeah, he's
not a forty touchdown a year guy anymore, but he's
still a twenty five touchdown a year guy. And he's
gonna close like a madman, right with like twenty touchdowns
in the last nine weeks, and you know that you
can win with him. He would immediately be sought after,
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And that's why it's probably not a big deal for
him to think, Hey, I really don't want to hit
free agency. I like the rams, I like being out here.
I won the Super Bowl. My family is comfortable out here,
but I have to go someplace else. Somebody's gonna pay
me because the rest of this quarterback class ain't great,
and the draft class ain't great. I could get somewhere
really good for the next couple of years.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, you go back. The last monster year for him
is obviously twenty twenty one. You look at A ten
and eight, twenty twenty two, A twenty four, eleven, twenty three,
and then twenty and eight this year. Quarterback rating in
each of the last two years at about A ninety three.
We talk about injuries, the decline of Cooper Cup, whatever else,
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but you had certainly enough component parts Nikua when available
and go on down the line. Kyron Williams has been fantastic.
I guess it would come down to a couple things
for me. I mean, we know the contract as it
lays out. He's only got four million dollars of guaranteed money,
but he's got a cap hit of about forty nine
point five forty nine point eight whatever. That reality is
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their rounding errors at that point. But all of that is, Yeah,
when you look at the marketplace, you're not ready for retirement,
you go, all right, my body's beat up, but I'm
better than all of these guys. Right, all the guys
you laid out. You didn't even get into the Russell
Wilson and Justin Field sweepstay. You just left them off
because you just decided you needed to go inside. Swipe,
(10:34):
Sam Dartle No.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Dude, come on, come on the Steelers. When Art Rooney says, Hey,
we're gonna keep one of the guys, oh, which one? Oh,
I don't know, but just we're gonna keep one of them,
but no more than one. Which one, Oh, I don't
care it, just we'll keep Wilson or Justin Oh, okay,
that's a great way to make a decision. We'll keep
one of them, but not both of them, but we'll
keep it.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Hey, Rudy did a good job. He talked about him
like he was just his kids. I like them both equally.
Keep pressing me. I'm never gonna I'm never gonna portray
the other. But when it comes down to it, any
team that's gonna bring him in, I need to know
where his wife's mind is on stuff, because she's gonna
be vocal. So that's part of the equation. That comes
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with it. The other is is he passing any reasonable
physical and I mean a real physical at this point
with the amount of I mean because the end of
the year, what we hear broken ribs? Back off these
other things like how hurt? Is he really? Like, where's
the body at in this process? Because you're talking about
a fifty million dollar maybe one hundred million dollars guarantee
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to bring him in. I have no question that when
on the field, he's as good or better an option.
I would say better an option than any of these
other guys. Am I touching Captain Kirk right now? Banking
that year two beyond the surgery is suddenly gonna make
him right? Is he suddenly gonna get that little bit
of mobility back to extend plays and make things happen.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I'm gonna believe him up to the wayside you already talk.
I mean, I I was.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Always a justin fields guy, but we saw I think
where his maximum was. Part of that is an indictment
on Arthur Smith. Hello, he finds his way into a
lot of these conversations. Funny enough, when Russell Wilson is
is done, he's cooked. Maybe he becomes a raider I
don't know. Uh, I really, I.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Really don't think Pete Carroll's going back. He might say
everything seems great, that's not happening. There's there's no But.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
What if he gets Daryl Bevil too, and they all
and they get Marshawn Lynch. Why not they get every
hay back he's shut He showed up for the presser. Yeah,
find someone who loves you like Marshaw Lynch.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think Marshaw was there because he's doing pub for
that new movie. That's not the reason he was there
so he wouldn't get fined. Oh no, you're right, right,
I still control that money. You're right, you're absolutely.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
We're all gonna go see that movie. By the way,
it looks like it could be fun.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Doug Baldwin too. Why not go get Doug Baldwin back? Sure? Sure,
Billy Baldwin.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
The thing is he was.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Traded for Anny Baldwin. Steven, you get, you get well
a little trouble. Yeah, No, I would say there's definitely
a hierarchy. Even you want, Oh, boy, when Stephen Baldwin's
a guy, you probably want to get. That's boy. The
Baldwin power rankings are not what they want, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Mean, Billy, I mean, if nothing else, we can ask
him back draft questions.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well, I want to talk to China Phillips and go Hi,
I loved you for so long high.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
See, that's why we can't let you in that Joe,
you gotta be, you gotta be on Skype, might not go.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Do you think they in Baldwin Hills? I like, uh h,
Baldwin Park either one. I think so one of those two.
Did you really just say Skype? Did you really skype?
Like it's twenty thirteen, you said Skype, Skype, zoom, FaceTime,
whatever you need to We're on Skype. That's what we're doing,
and then trying.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
To bring everybody together with some of the equips and
then we can connect.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
On Friendster and then we'll really have great conversations.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Well, yeah, we watched Social Network again this weekend, so
that was that was kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It's likely he's going to be a RAM. But if
somehow he becomes available, because it looks it looked a
little dicey number one guy, and he would get a
big two year deal.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Man, I get on MiG turning the page.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Man, he'd get one of those two year, forty five
fifty million dollars all guaranteed contracts with a team like that.
That's kind of what he would get if he wins.
So I do know if you get more than two years,
but you'd get like two years everything guaranteed, a fifty
fifty sixty million. Stafford will completely get that.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
No, no, no, yeah, I don't think he's coming back
for penny less than forty.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, but two years at sixty is better than one
at forty because you're you're still making an extra twenty
million grety, you're playing it, you make an extra twenty
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Well how about one and the bonus?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Oh now yeah, Oh you're getting greedy. Now you're Scott
Boris suddenly. Okay, Well I'm gonna be greedy if I'm
looking at it. I'm going to extend my career. And
I recognize that. Let's face it, the rest of the
quarterback classes that are out there, How do I say
this nicely? Suck exit out, bout of Fresca, Exit swollen Dome.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. See this is when I think Ty
Shirt is just sending out songs to his girlfriend, Like
your your obsession with eyes without a face, Like we
hear this every night, like we hear Tears for Fears. Yeah,
Like why because I'm still enamored by Eyes Wide Shut?
(17:02):
So okay? And also does it bothers you?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
It did a bad, bad thing.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I thought you played Chris Isaac then if that was
the case, dude, dude, dude, dude, Okay. Eyes White Shut
also the third longest movie of all time. That right,
The Irishman and Oppenheimer's and then eyes wide shut.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
What about that uh bo is afraid movie? You guys
we're watching.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I'm I'm afraid to watch that movie because I heard
it so bad. No, that that's what it is. No,
I think I think I streamed the second season of
Shrinking in less time than it took me to watch
The Irishman.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Less.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I'm pretty sure Gettysburg is longer. Gettysburg is pretty lower
baseball with ken Burns short it is.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Well. As soon as PBS comes in, you're getting a marathon.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
You're getting every penny worth. Hey, listen, don't forget warn pe.
Do we want to edit this down? No, we're PBS.
We have no advertising. Man, We'll just we'll just sweep
the bottom of the hour with anything you need. Just
make it as long as you want, ken Burns, whatever
you need to do.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Let that logo on a tote bag and let's go in.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Peace. Jason's got to be the longest. Warren Byes. Yeah,
Warren Peace long. I don't know, Oppenheimer maybe longer, against
Christopher Nolan longer, maybe longer, Chris Christopher Nolan hate the guy. No, No,
you do. Here, here's what you say was terrible. It's great,
and it was the first half of tenant was good better.
Last half was what the hell am I watching? Because
that's every Christopher Nolan movie. That's every movie because they're
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not warmed up chicken nuggets and it's like an actual
build your own dish. It's worth it all right. Here,
here's what I'm making comparison. Okay, you are doing a
no food some kind of no food died fast where
you don't eat for it. No, No, but it's not
that would be too simple to call it fast, and
it's actually called something you're doing like a no food
fast for like how long I don't know. Okay, so
(18:51):
at some point, after a certain number of hours, you're
gonna get really loopy and you're gonna make decisions you shouldn't.
Not at all. It's absolutely gonna happen, right, how it goes? Right? No,
But that's exactly when you don't eat, That's what happens.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
It's the inverse of when you consume alcohol, is what
he's trying to say.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Sometime it's going to has food.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Something happens to your brain, not alcohol. Something happens to.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Your eventually something's gonna happen. You're making bad decision. I'm
gonna say, listen, have a sandwich and you'll be fine
in a few minutes. Just have a sandwich. Right, this
whole cleansed thing where I'm getting rid of the toxins
and the bacteria and all that. Okay, that does happened, Okay,
and you realize it. Boy, I'm not really thinking like
I should. I don't know what the cause is. But
that's what happens during Christopher Nolan movies, Like he's doing
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the movie and boy, this is a really good movie,
and then all of a sudden in the middle, it's like,
what kind of decisions are you making? Wow?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
How is this?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
How is this getting made? Like, I don't think there's
any you know, you hear the stories all the time
about directors who are like, oh I had to meet
with the studio and cut this out and cut this
out and cut this out. I think no one just says, no,
I'm not meeting with anybody. I'm gonna I'm gonna do
this the way it is. Yeah, there's a final cut.
There's a lot of it that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
You still gonna do it, still gonna do? People like you?
It doesn't know, come on, people like dude. I would
rather I would rather watch a Zack Snyder cut of
The Irishman more than i'd rather watch another Christopher Nolan movie.
I would rather have that. It's easy to follow. I
get it.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Wait, did you just take it up? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I haven't had McDonald's in a while. I can't say that.
Last week I had a coffee and I had McNuggets. Yeah,
what about this week? No, that's it, dude, I have
not been to McDonald's. And I'll tell you when I
go to McDonald's on me Wednesday. Yes, I'll tell you
when I go to McDonald's. I've been on this diet
now for a month. No, the only thing I've had
is McNuggets. I've been to McDonald's once. I had McNuggets.
(20:37):
That's it once. Huh. Yeah, that's it. That's my wife
if he went without her. That's what I like to do,
is I need to find some away time in a
loane time, So I go to McDonald's. Just try to
sit and have a coffee and eat a big mac. Oh,
your kids, stay out. I'm eating a big mac now.
Don't judge me and stay out.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
There's a big shiny ball next to the other balls.
That's his head, honey, yeah, the meat sweats.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah No, you're literally making fun of one of the
greatest directors of our time and space.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
He's not great. He Interstellar, he got Interstellar was good.
I like the Interstellar confusing. No, Insteller was good. How
does you understand that he's made He's made good movies.
He's just not Wow. This sounds like, okay, dude, you
don't need everything to be and here's the conceptualization of
what you're going to be doing. And I want to
be saying something in every single frame of the movie.
I want to take what you know about the movie
(21:31):
and turn it on its head and make you question
what you just saw. And when I have conversations with
characters where you can't follow what they're saying because it
makes no sense. Inception and as much as again Inception,
a lot of it was good and then and then
it got really out there, like that's what happens to them.
He goes outside the box. Jason.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, okaybe he didn't get everything that happened because you
were on a snack break.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I gotta have red vines. I don't know what's going
on with this. I can't follow top I mean, this
isn't even up for debate. It's science. No. Christopher Nolan
won because it's a downtime in movies. He's made a
lot of movies for Hollywood that have made a lot
of money, and it's a Lifetime Achievement Award. It's what
he won for Oppenheimer. Your mic is on Oppenheimer was
(22:15):
was eight hours long. It was way too long. I'm
telling fantastic. When it got to the point when they
detonated the bomb. Sorry sport who when they detonate the bomb,
my wife turns me. He goes, there's an hour and
fifteen minutes left in this movie.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
And I said, no way, no way.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You said it here for and people were looking at me,
and I was like, oh, because I got really mad.
I'm like, how is there an hour?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
And fit? Come on?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You led to there's an hour and fifteen minutes left
in the movie. It is an hour's No, it was
just too long, but it was a big scope, was
a big event. Barbenheimer was a big thing. Every single
star in the world wanted to be in the movie.
So yeah, let's have it win Best Film. Okay, great,
and the pantheon of best films over the course of
the last seventy five years, that's at the bottom. It's
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at the bottom of best films. I'd have voted for
top Gun Maverick over that. How dare you give me
some give me on to.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Wow? And now you're just pushing it.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
No, I'm telling you that movie brought movies back. Oh no,
we can't vote for that though. For Best Picture. No,
we got to give it to something. We got to
give it to something like the Weight of Water or
whatever it is where a woman has sex with an alien.
Gotta have that because that's new. Oh sorry, spoiler alert.
So who's your favorite director? Doctor sus my favorite my
favorite director? Problem, he's my favorite doctor? No, Tysher asked
(23:32):
me the other night. I said, Spielberg, Ron Howard. How
can those guys be way too uh way too smart
for you? What do you mean they're too smart?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
If you can't understand a Christopher Nolan movie, how are
you understanding Spielberg and Shakespeare?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And Shakespeare? Wait, Shakespeare is not a director. Romeo and
Juliet Duh, I'm sorry, I do understand what it means
light through yonder window break? Did you break a window?
And what does that mean? We need to we need
to do stuff here? Sorry, but I do know. Hop
on pop. Hey, you're talking to a dude who minored
(24:06):
in in in Shakespeare. Okay, just so you know that
was that was my Yeah, no, that was it was
my fault because I should have majored in something that
would have helped me in you know, like education or
something else that of majoring in English. Uh no, because
I mean I went to my my degree, like I
have an English degree. It's like it helps me nothing
but just speak English. Yeah, but it helps me with nothing,
(24:26):
like you know, it does help mes, Like if I
had done something like education or anything else, it would
have helped me. But I did English, and so my
actually it was my concentration was Shakespeare. So I can
rattle off all, Hey, you want to get to the
Shakespeare category on h on Jeopardy, I can make you
a millionaire. But but outside of that, like there's no
real there's no real uh purpose for it in life.
(24:47):
I couldn't. I couldn't. I couldn't really impress women I
liked by by walking up going Hey, alas poor Yorick?
I knew him Horatio? You know that one? You know that? Hey,
where you going? Where are you going?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I was just I'm Shakespeare in it.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I'm shakespe. Well, if you run around with a skull,
you're like too, Die.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Oppenheimer, Hey, he wiled women with his brain? Jason, Hey,
can I ask you something? Do you really think rosen
Krantz and Guildenstern were killed? What do you think? Do
you think? Where are you going? Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Eight seven seven ninety nine?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Man? Who'd you like better? Ros rosen Krantz or Guildenstern?
Who was the better person in hall? Eight seven seven nine?
Uh So today, if you like desperation.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Tell me someone wouldn't do that bit?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That was what that was.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I much begging to take calls on that right now.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That was sports talk radio in the thirteen hundreds. You know, like, okay,
you're give me your five favorite William Shakespeare plays, and
no sneaking in Christopher Malo. This is Shakespeare only. Okay,
if you have to do your top five plays, you
couldn't have Macbeth. What would be your top five plays?
Right now? Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Who's
your favorite Hamlet? So Lauren's Olivier with who.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Do you really think was Shakespeare?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
If you like desperation, I present to you. No, no,
that well, that's that's football desperation. This is NBA desperation.
I present to you NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who was
on the Dan Patrick Show earlier today and with All
Star weekend coming up, you know, the conversation turned to
the NBA and doing different things to try to reverse
the ratings. As we know, the NBA has kind of
(26:20):
been in a rating slump, and Adam Silver offered this idea,
something he would like that maybe could reverse things. Christopher
Nolan is the greatest. You really think that you've heard
Adam Silver talk. That's not Adam Silver. Oh, he's like
this Adam Silver. Adam Silver is, hey, you know, I
I really am glad to be commissioner and I polished
(26:42):
my name plate every day on Under.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Adam Silver is a guy that would take two minutes
off of Christopher Nolan's every one of his scenes.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
He would take more than that off. He would say, hey,
this movie is two hours and forty nine minutes. Let's
bring it in a brisk ninety five minutes. All right,
So let's let's let's cut a full hour plus out
of this.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
We're gonna have an in movie tournament.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, the in movie tournament, and the parts of the
movie that you like will move on. The parts of
the movie you don't like, we will just discard. You
won't see those parts anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, I mean, that's use your own adventure.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's not a bad idea. I hate the storyline, We'll
drop it from the rest of the movie. You don't
have to see it anymore. We're dropping what you like
to continue down this path?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Do you like this character?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
If you no hit this button, that would have been
killed off?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Isn't this a Hallmark movie? We'll kill characters love. We
have to. We need people that keep watching Danica mckeller.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
All right, So I don't know what happened. That was the
guy that was carrying home or pine? He was carrying
the pine. Why did you kill him off?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So here is Adam Silver with a radical idea on
what could make the NBA a better product to watch
on television.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
The NBA is the only league that plays forty eight minutes.
I am a fan of four ten minute quarters, putting
inside what it means for records and things like that,
I think that a two hour format for a game
is more consistent with sort of modern television habitat.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
You can feel the desperation. You heard the desperation. Hey,
four ten minute quarters. The NBA is officially in the
era of let's throw stuff at the wall and just
see what sticks. Right, They've seen their domestic reach sort
of plateau, and now it's all about overseas. And I
guarantee you every single day he's thinking, away, can we
(28:24):
expand overseas? How do we get more overseas? Because that's
really the only place we can go to try to
improve revenue, to try to improve ratings, to try to
improve overall continued consumption of the NBA. Right, because we've
had a great run for the last thirty years. We
had Larry and Magic to MJ to Lebron and Kobe,
(28:46):
and now we're at the era of the international superstar
where it's about Giannis and Jokichen Wemby. So what can
we do because hey, they play forty minutes overseas, we're
the only place to place forty eight minutes. Let me
throw this out there and see if it sticks if
anybody likes like. Look, I like the idea personally because
that means the Knicks don't need a bench anymore. And
this they can play all their starters. You know, they
(29:06):
only have to play thirty five minutes a game instead
of forty two minutes a game. Right, So it work.
But this is one of those ideas where I go,
how is this gonna help anything? Right?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
They asked Tom Thibodau and Mike and Michael Malone about
it tonight before they played in MSG, and Tim said, yeah,
I don't know. I don't want the records to not
mean anything anymore. And Michael Malone just said, I don't
want to be the Barnum and Bailey of sports where
we're just making all kinds of changes under the big
top everybody. So yeah, I mean, I look at Adam
Silver and I go, wow, is it really? Is it
(29:35):
really that desperate? Are you really at that point where
we're throwing stuff like this out there where there are
real legitimate things you can do that could help and
help the television product, because no one thinks the TV
product is too long. NBA games coming around two hours
and fifteen minutes. It's not coming in in three hours
that we have to cut it down. It's not baseball.
Where baseball was coming in three fifteen and it was
(29:56):
everybody was going to bed. No, the NBA comes in
two hour. There is a fifteen minutes. That's fine. What
are the big issues? The stars aren't playing in enough games,
So how about we cut some of the games off? No, no, no, no,
we don't need eighty two games anymore. No, no, the
owners would lose money. Yeah, but you know, what is
it worth it to have star players playing more games
and play in more than sixty two games a year.
(30:17):
Maybe they would play in seventy two games a year.
Then if you only had seventy two games, they would
play in a little bit more. You can get rid
of back to backs, you can do different you can
do different things to try to gain the viewer to
be able to watch games by maybe if you want
to start them earlier than seven thirty, because if you
worried about two hours and fifteen minutes and it gets
to be too late, Oh, just started to start games
(30:38):
at six forty local time instead of seven to ten,
and then maybe more people will go to the games
more families will go to the games. These are all
things I like, But just saying, hey, how about forty
minute games, like, really shorten the games. That's your idea,
shorten the games. Let's just shorten the games. Let's just
do it like the NBA really is in the Let's
throw things at the wall and see what sticks.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Err, yeah, it's I'm all for Hey, let's look at
our product and see where we can improve it. And
you know, talking about what you do with three point
shooting and free throws and whatever, which are other parts
of the conversation, All right, hash it out. Part of
it is the number of timeouts you give. And I
would argue, you know, the point if if you're talking
(31:17):
about games that are hitting that two fifteen, two thirty mark,
you're invested in those games because they're possession by possession, right,
whether you're extending it by free throws, because you still
have that potential at a steal and a make to
make it a game and push things forward, or you're
actually gone to overtime. I don't know that you necessarily
(31:37):
need to go down the path of creating something inorganic
and absolutely shuddering your history of the game. If I'm
Missoula and all these other guys because he looked at
the reporters that I just don't care. But if you
had the you know, one of them to just say, hey,
you know what, clearly look at what just down the
street from the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Huh. The way Thibodeau constructs roster and runs things.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah, you're trying to make it a Nicks favorable kind
of league, aren't they? But you know, taking those minutes off,
Like the whole point is you want to see stars
more so, what guys are gonna down play twenty five
out of forty minutes if we go down to that route.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
What are you getting?
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Are you gonna get a guarantee on the back to
backs if you do this, Like, there's a lot of
things you'd have to broke her in. Remember when players
were so mad when it went to sixty five games
to be eligible for the you know, different awards, Like
think about this, all right, you now have to participate
in x percentage of back to backs too, because you're
(32:39):
playing fewer minutes tonight. In all of these things, Like,
it's just so much to it, the integrity, the fabric
of the game. You're just trying to change it up
and changing for change sakes like go figure out the
fundamental real issues to your game and whether you can
figure out why guys are having more incidences in injury,
(33:00):
et cetera and missing games not just because they have
the I feel like it kind of scenario. Before you
worry about how many minutes you're playing.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Exit, how about a Fresco exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon time to find out what's trending right now
in the wide world of sports of Monsi Belanos, who
is very excited. It's something she just saw on her computer.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
You know what, Steph Curry just making threes look so easy.
Speaker 9 (33:25):
That was that reaction you just saw.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
It's a close one between Golden State and the Thunder.
Thunder are down one oh nine to one oh five
with ninety seconds to go.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
Steph Curry right now has twenty one points.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
He has passed Ray Allen for twenty seventh on the
all time scoring list.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
Next player that he would.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Pass would be Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing when he
gets there. But yeah, so down to the final seventy
five seconds here, Golden State up by seven right now,
what has already happened in the NBA. Well, the timberwill
have have one four in a row because they meet
the Suns today.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
One twenty one to one thirteen.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
The Clippers topped the Spurs one twenty eight to one sixteen.
Kawhi Leonard returning to San Antonio once again. We He
ended with twenty seven points, six rebounds and seven assists
the Mavericks edge the Pelicans won thirty seven to one
thirty six. The seventy six ers beat the Kings one
seventeen to one oh four. Demonte Sabonis another triple double
in the loss. In this one, the Knicks have won
(34:20):
five in a row after defeating the Nuggets one seventeen
to one oh four, all starters for New York in
double digits.
Speaker 9 (34:27):
Donovan Mitchell dropped thirty four points.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
As the Cavs outscored they heat one twenty six to
one oh two, and the Celtics they beat the Bulls
won twenty.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
Two to one ten.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
And it looks like the Warriors are trying to extend
their lead with one minutes ago. They're beating the thunder
now one to fourteen to one oh five. By the way,
Shay Gildess Alexander has forty eight points in this game.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
So far.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
In the NHL, there was one game going on officially
over oh the Penguins beat the Utah Hockey Club three
to two in overtime. And yes, the plural version of
YETI is Yetti's conferred it is YETI.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
At least we know that much right.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
In the NFL, the Jets have agreed to terms with
former Cardinals head coach Steve Wooks to be their new
defensive coordinator, with the plan for him not new head
coach Aaron Glenn to.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
Call plays in baseball.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
The Tampa Bay Race signed second Basement Hassan came to
a two year deal worth twenty nine million.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Back to you guys, thanks Monsi, Jace, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon Love from the ti rac dot Com studios. Coming
up next, after what happened today at the Senior Bowl,
we have a big bold prediction for the NFL Draft.
What is It?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
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Speaker 4 (36:02):
Puts in the bag for Shark or something.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Now I'm gonna double down in a big Bowl prediction
I made a couple of weeks ago for the NFL draft,
and after today it looks even better. With quarterbacks getting
set for the Senior Bowl coming up, We're seeing quarterbacks
like Jalen Milroe at practice today and oh boy, for
Jalen Milroe, and if everyone wants to draft him, don't
look at the video from today. Was not a great
(36:26):
day for him. He missed a lot of passes. It
was really embarrassing to see a guy that has given
us those kind of highlights look that bad from time
to time today when when you know you're supposed to
look pretty good in these practices. And one time he
missed eight throws in a row, which I mean, that
doesn't happen when you're practices. But I'm gonna tell you this,
because of the way things have been going, and this
(36:47):
is and this is kind of buoyed by the reports
that came out for him today, is that when it
comes down to it, cam Warden, Shadeur Sandals will be
the first two quarterbacks off the board. That is not
a question. Now, are they gonna go one two overall? Well,
that's gonna be the thing. Is someone gonna trade up
or they gonna trade down, But those will be the
first two guys. The third guy coming off the board
is gonna be Kyle McCord to Syracuse he's the third
(37:10):
guy coming off reports today. He's the best quarterback down
here at the senior ball. It's not even close. Like
there's a reason why he decided to ditch his lawsuit
to the NCAA to play one more year and say no,
I'm going to the NFL. I'm sure he knew he
was told you can really rise up draft boards and
be someone who a team takes early in the draft,
(37:32):
like maybe beginning of the second round, because the quarterbacks
in this draft just are not great. It's a year
to get your quarterback of the future, not your franchise quarterback.
And from a cord who ended the season better than
anybody else. I mean everything the guy does fundamentally, he
is what you want. He throws the ball in the
tight windows. He anticipates, he sees the field fantastic. He's
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a great field leader. He doesn't make a lot of mistakes.
He still takes chances with the ball, but they are
educated chances. Is a reason why he would able to
throw and lead the nation in yardage this year and
get Syracuse to ten wins, which like never happens. But
he's the guy that's rising, and I knew he would.
And when it comes down to it, when the quarterbacks
really start flying off, probably early second round, he's gonna
(38:16):
be the first of those guys coming off, and then
it's gonna be some kind of order of maybe Jackson
Dart will go after him, and then it's gonna be
Milrow and quinn Ewers and those guys will go on
a run after that begins.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Yeah, I think a lot of it always comes down
to what do we call rising versus actually paying attention
to someone be on the top two, right, because because
that's really where all the air was in the balloon
over the back half of the year. Right, is Shador Sanders.
Do you believe in him or not? Cam Ward Narrow
escapes early and then they fall and is what is he?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Overall?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
So Yeah, from a Cord, fantastic run, fantastic opportunity. Jackson Dart.
You see the articles today, and then it's tale of
who's writing the articles or the synopsis on Twitter or
wherever else, Jason, because I saw just as many people
praising Milroe today as that had the what am I
(39:10):
watching reaction yesterday? The same thing for Jackson Dart. Yet
several columns if you do a quick search Jackson Dart
just talk about how great he's been and look what's
going to happen for his draft prospects. And McCord is
that guy now being bolstered by Syracuse alum. But it's
(39:30):
the opportunity to go into the marketplace. We're having the
conversation about Matthew Stafford earlier. It's not a very robust
veteran class that's going to be out there to go
and pick between between a reconstructured Kirk Cousins, the loser
of the Pittsburgh battle between Russell Wilson and Justin Fields,
(39:54):
Sam Darnold if you believe he got broken in those
final two games, and that's it. It's a very short
list of people, uh that you're going into the marketplace
unless you're gonna draft your next ones. So, uh you
go in and by the end of the first round,
early second Yeah, we're gonna see these guys move, particularly
if if they've played the requisite number of college games
(40:15):
to come in and adapt quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Look, mc cord's a guy started for four years, right,
He's not someone that will He needs a lot of time.
It's just just time to get used to the offense
in the NFL. These are the guys gonna be more
uh more that the teams are gonna want to want
to draft more because of that experience. Look, Milroe started
a lot of games too. Jackson Dart started a lot
of games too, you know, in his college career. So
(40:38):
that that's gonna that's gonna be a good thing for
these guys. But when it comes down to it, you're
gonna what guy has looked the best in the end
of the season into this and into this Senior Bowl.
It's Kyle McCord. I can't help, but he's a Syrica.
Syracuse has the best quarterback there and they said they
got the best running back in the best wide receiver
there in Meeks And look for now, and how do
we not go undefeated? Then? How do we have the
three offense guys to the senior ball and not go
(41:00):
more than ten and.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Three that every one of the first questions for those guys,
why the hell didn't you win more?
Speaker 1 (41:07):
We got more football on the way. Is the Lombardi
Trophy about to be renamed the Tom Brady Trophy? Jason
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gotta be on when somebody does something that's really impressive.
I gotta admit, hey, this is something halftime of Syracuse
and Stanford right now, serrics come back to actually make
this a game. But they just had a guy halftime
entertainment balance on a table on top of like six skateboards.
Like so there's a table and there's six skate like
(01:17):
six skateboards one on top of the other, and he
jumped from the floor on top of the skateboards and
balanced for like ten seconds and then and then jumped off. Okay,
like that's a first of all, just to jump from
the floor to the top of the skateboards. Can he
suit up for Syracuse in the second half? But to
actually balance on there, that's Prett's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Man, though bad?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Riddle me this, what would inspire you to decide you
wanted to try that movie?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah? I know, I don't know what film.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I don't cartoon.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Hey man, you ever see me balance on his skateboard?
That's cool? You couldn't balance on But dude, I can
balance on two skateboards, man, Yeah, how many could you
balance on?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I get ballantce on six skateboards. Man, just watch me
do it and then the guy does it. Hey man,
I can actually make some money at this. Man, this
is gonna be cool.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Remember when the coyote had all his acne products and
he'd be chasing the road runner and suddenly to be
hanging in the air. I always figured I'd try to
do that. This is my way, man, I'm standing in
front of the crowd.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
And they're going one more one more like seven skateboards.
That's insanity, man, you can't do that. I'll try it, though, man,
because it'll be cool. I mean, that's balance, man, That
show boundaries.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I mean, I'm sure if I just stood on one skateboard,
how long could I bounce where I had to get
off half a second? I mean really, I mean I
don't know. I maybe. I mean if I stood, if
I well, if I didn't have nervous feet after I like,
if I'm able to stand on pretty good, I could
probably do like five or ten seconds. Have to be
a really wide skateboarder, it would be yes, Yeah, that's
that's why I could ever be a skateboarder because my
(02:55):
feet are two wide.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I wonder how.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Many people, how many people when they got older, they're
careers as skateboarders, couldn't take off because they're fighting.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Jason, your skateboard would be that wide cart, the flat
cart at like Costco.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I would have Pam pushing the part of the handle.
Look at me, Ballance boy, his feet look like they're
hanging over the edge. He's got that wide foot. Man,
that's wide foot skateboarding.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
This guy got a QR code.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
A minute, Wait a minute, there's got you gotta fight.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
There's a back up.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Here comes to tail flip. There's gotta be There's gotta
be a thing called wide foot skateboarding.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I'm trying to look for it.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
We just invented it, like over fifty softball and stuff
like that. There's gotta be wide foot skateboarding. There has
to be. There is no boom right there. Stout sponsored
by New Balance, you know, because they have, you know,
wide shoes for goodhearted people like me.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
So now that's the paddle they have against vans.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
There is yeah, yeah, good luck. Yeah you want to
be you're just you only let narrow footed people who
have regular feet compete. We let everybody compete. We let
the wide footed people compete. Look at these guys. Look
at these guys. Look at these guys. They're all Fred Flintstone.
They're all walking right now. They can't even find shoes
that fit. Then they need like seven E wide shoes
and you can't even get on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I found a new one on Amazon called the Stubby Cruiser.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'm gonna say, yeah, that's you're your best to try
to explain this that is Look at.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
The checkerboard pattern.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's fantastic, stubby stubby cruiser.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
That's really what. I can fit a dinner plate on that.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Oh yeah, it's got a slot for a dinner.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
You put your tray when you're done.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Could fit a whole turkey on it. It's not even
hanging over the side. That's rip.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Wow, it's now you're lazy, Susan.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
You're just spinning it around and get any different things
out here. You put a little motor on the bottom
of it, and you send it to the part of
the house that needs some food, okay, Parsley. Oh so
now it's like a roomba, except deliver's food. A different delivers.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Food, okay, instead of having the robot like polyad Rocky four.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Happy Birthday, Pollie, Happy birth.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Wait, we got a Stubbys skateboard that sends food.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You're ware, you know, Patton, that idea You never know,
you might be a millionaire, you know, like you jump
to conclusions, Matt you this might.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Be it could be breakthrough. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Meanwhile, in the NFL Big Story tonight, Ian Rappaport NFL
Network first report this that Matthew Stafford has made his
decision on twenty twenty five, he is going to retire. Play, retire, play,
retire play. He will play in twenty twenty five, however
(05:35):
likely this according to reports, his contract situation is going
to have to be figured out. And there's the potential
that maybe Matthew Stafford when he comes back, it's not
with the Rams right now. This is what we know
to this point. But Stafford has made the decision to
come back and play. Look, we told you this a
week and a half ago and Stafford said, all I
got to take some time out, but he just wants
(05:57):
more money added to his deal. He's still slinging the
football really well. Right. No one closes a season like
Matthew Stafford. He starts and he looks absolutely terrible, but man,
those last eight nine weeks, he is fantastic. He is
still an upper level quarterback. And you see the way
the Rams year after year continue to compete, continue to
contend and win division titles and go to the playoffs,
(06:18):
and look, they were a mere yards away from potentially
upsetting the Eagles. Like Stafford can still bring it, and
all he wanted was, hey, there's only four million dollars
a guaranteed money on my contract. The rest of the way.
He wants it redone to make more money next year, right.
Sean McVeigh right away said, well, we don't want to
go down that road. We got to know if he's
coming back, we have decisions to make.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Now Stafford says he's coming back, right, But here's the
caveat about it, is that likely it will still be
with the Rams. The Rams know they're not ready to
turn this over to somebody else unless they have a
trade in the work said, okay, we're just gonna part
with Matthew Stafford and go on someplace else. They'll likely
take their quarterback in the future in the draft here,
try to figure something else out. But again, Afford's still
(07:00):
playing at a high level. But if they can't, right,
let's just say Sean mcvay's line in the sand was
a real line in the sand. They have something else
in plan they're gonna go do. If Stafford became available,
he would become the number one sought after quarterback in
free agency, more than Sam Darnald, more than anybody else,
more than anybody wanting to trade for Kirk Cousins. More
(07:23):
than any of that. He would be the number one
quarterback available because teams are confident that Matthew Stafford can
get them places. Sam Darnald eroded all that confidence with
his performance the last two games of the year, final
game of the regular season against the Lions playoff game,
when he went back to the old Sam Darnald, he
undid fifteen or sixteen weeks of really terrific quarterback play.
(07:47):
But this is what happens in the NFL is a
league where when do big games come, your big players
have to play well. Your quarterback can't suck, right, So
one game he could suck. Two games, No, we can't
do that. But Stafford, you have seen him win big game.
You've seen the fact that he's still got life left
in that arm. And maybe it's as much as two
more years. If he became available, he would get the
(08:07):
bigger contract. He would get a big two year deal
somewhere with a team that says, hey, Matthew Stafford's still
going to sling it forth. Probably have to be a
warm weather team where you know, throwing the football when
you get older gets a little bit more difficult. I
would assume it would be a situation like that, but
he would jump to the front and there would be
no shortage of teams that would want Matthew Stafford. Right, Like,
(08:28):
if you can say to me, hey, would the Steelers
being on Sam Darnold, I would say, Ah, I don't know.
Maybe with the young quarter you know the situation they
had that want something a little bit more certain. If
Matthew Stafford became available, they would go right after him,
right Like, any team that needs a quarterback that is
close enough to the playoffs, who needs something to get
over the top, they would go for Matthew Stafford. They
would say, let's go give this guy money, Let's let
(08:50):
him get us where we need to go, because they
would because of what he's been able to accomplish and
what he does at the end of years. Yeah, he's
not a forty touchdown a year guy anymore, but he's
still a twenty five touchdown a year guy. And he's
gonna close like a madman, right with like twenty touchdowns
in the last nine weeks, and you know that you
can win with him. He would immediately be sought after,
(09:10):
And that's why it's probably not a big deal for
him to think, Hey, I really don't want to hit
free agency. I like the rams, I like being out here.
I won the Super Bowl. My family is comfortable out here,
but I have to go someplace else. Somebody's gonna pay
me because the rest of this quarterback class ain't great,
and the draft class ain't great. I could get somewhere
really good for the next couple of years.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, you go back. The last monster year for him
is obviously twenty twenty one. You look at A ten
and eight, twenty twenty two, A twenty four, eleven, twenty three,
and then twenty and eight this year. Quarterback rating in
each of the last two years at about A ninety three.
We talk about injuries, the decline of Cooper Cup, whatever else,
(09:49):
but you had certainly enough component parts Nikua when available
and go on down the line. Kyron Williams has been fantastic.
I guess it would come down to a couple things
for me. I mean, we know the contract as it
lays out. He's only got four million dollars of guaranteed money,
but he's got a cap hit of about forty nine
point five forty nine point eight whatever. That reality is
(10:12):
their rounding errors at that point. But all of that is, Yeah,
when you look at the marketplace, you're not ready for retirement,
you go, all right, my body's beat up, but I'm
better than all of these guys. Right, all the guys
you laid out. You didn't even get into the Russell
Wilson and Justin Field sweepstay. You just left them off
because you just decided you needed to go inside. Swipe,
(10:34):
Sam Dartle No.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Dude, come on, come on the Steelers. When Art Rooney says, Hey,
we're gonna keep one of the guys, oh, which one? Oh,
I don't know, but just we're gonna keep one of them,
but no more than one. Which one, Oh, I don't
care it, just we'll keep Wilson or Justin Oh, okay,
that's a great way to make a decision. We'll keep
one of them, but not both of them, but we'll
keep it.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Hey, Rudy did a good job. He talked about him
like he was just his kids. I like them both equally.
Keep pressing me. I'm never gonna I'm never gonna portray
the other. But when it comes down to it, any
team that's gonna bring him in, I need to know
where his wife's mind is on stuff, because she's gonna
be vocal. So that's part of the equation. That comes
(11:14):
with it. The other is is he passing any reasonable
physical and I mean a real physical at this point
with the amount of I mean because the end of
the year, what we hear broken ribs? Back off these
other things like how hurt? Is he really? Like, where's
the body at in this process? Because you're talking about
a fifty million dollar maybe one hundred million dollars guarantee
(11:36):
to bring him in. I have no question that when
on the field, he's as good or better an option.
I would say better an option than any of these
other guys. Am I touching Captain Kirk right now? Banking
that year two beyond the surgery is suddenly gonna make
him right? Is he suddenly gonna get that little bit
of mobility back to extend plays and make things happen.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I'm gonna believe him up to the wayside you already talk.
I mean, I I was.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Always a justin fields guy, but we saw I think
where his maximum was. Part of that is an indictment
on Arthur Smith. Hello, he finds his way into a
lot of these conversations. Funny enough, when Russell Wilson is
is done, he's cooked. Maybe he becomes a raider I
don't know. Uh, I really, I.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Really don't think Pete Carroll's going back. He might say
everything seems great, that's not happening. There's there's no But.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
What if he gets Daryl Bevil too, and they all
and they get Marshawn Lynch. Why not they get every
hay back he's shut He showed up for the presser. Yeah,
find someone who loves you like Marshaw Lynch.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think Marshaw was there because he's doing pub for
that new movie. That's not the reason he was there
so he wouldn't get fined. Oh no, you're right, right,
I still control that money. You're right, you're absolutely.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
We're all gonna go see that movie. By the way,
it looks like it could be fun.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Doug Baldwin too. Why not go get Doug Baldwin back? Sure? Sure,
Billy Baldwin.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
The thing is he was.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Traded for Anny Baldwin. Steven, you get, you get well
a little trouble. Yeah, No, I would say there's definitely
a hierarchy. Even you want, Oh, boy, when Stephen Baldwin's
a guy, you probably want to get. That's boy. The
Baldwin power rankings are not what they want, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Mean, Billy, I mean, if nothing else, we can ask
him back draft questions.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Well, I want to talk to China Phillips and go Hi,
I loved you for so long high.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
See, that's why we can't let you in that Joe,
you gotta be, you gotta be on Skype, might not go.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Do you think they in Baldwin Hills? I like, uh h,
Baldwin Park either one. I think so one of those two.
Did you really just say Skype? Did you really skype?
Like it's twenty thirteen, you said Skype, Skype, zoom, FaceTime,
whatever you need to We're on Skype. That's what we're doing,
and then trying.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
To bring everybody together with some of the equips and
then we can connect.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
On Friendster and then we'll really have great conversations.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Well, yeah, we watched Social Network again this weekend, so
that was that was kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
It's likely he's going to be a RAM. But if
somehow he becomes available, because it looks it looked a
little dicey number one guy, and he would get a
big two year deal.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Man, I get on MiG turning the page.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Man, he'd get one of those two year, forty five
fifty million dollars all guaranteed contracts with a team like that.
That's kind of what he would get if he wins.
So I do know if you get more than two years,
but you'd get like two years everything guaranteed, a fifty
fifty sixty million. Stafford will completely get that.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
No, no, no, yeah, I don't think he's coming back
for penny less than forty.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, but two years at sixty is better than one
at forty because you're you're still making an extra twenty
million grety, you're playing it, you make an extra twenty
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Well how about one and the bonus?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Oh now yeah, Oh you're getting greedy. Now you're Scott
Boris suddenly. Okay, Well I'm gonna be greedy if I'm
looking at it. I'm going to extend my career. And
I recognize that. Let's face it, the rest of the
quarterback classes that are out there, How do I say
this nicely? Suck exit out, bout of Fresca, Exit swollen Dome.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. See this is when I think Ty
Shirt is just sending out songs to his girlfriend, Like
your your obsession with eyes without a face, Like we
hear this every night, like we hear Tears for Fears. Yeah,
Like why because I'm still enamored by Eyes Wide Shut?
(17:02):
So okay? And also does it bothers you?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
It did a bad, bad thing.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I thought you played Chris Isaac then if that was
the case, dude, dude, dude, dude, Okay. Eyes White Shut
also the third longest movie of all time. That right,
The Irishman and Oppenheimer's and then eyes wide shut.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
What about that uh bo is afraid movie? You guys
we're watching.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I'm I'm afraid to watch that movie because I heard
it so bad. No, that that's what it is. No,
I think I think I streamed the second season of
Shrinking in less time than it took me to watch
The Irishman.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Less.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I'm pretty sure Gettysburg is longer. Gettysburg is pretty lower
baseball with ken Burns short it is.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Well. As soon as PBS comes in, you're getting a marathon.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
You're getting every penny worth. Hey, listen, don't forget warn pe.
Do we want to edit this down? No, we're PBS.
We have no advertising. Man, We'll just we'll just sweep
the bottom of the hour with anything you need. Just
make it as long as you want, ken Burns, whatever
you need to do.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Let that logo on a tote bag and let's go in.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Peace. Jason's got to be the longest. Warren Byes. Yeah,
Warren Peace long. I don't know, Oppenheimer maybe longer, against
Christopher Nolan longer, maybe longer, Chris Christopher Nolan hate the guy. No, No,
you do. Here, here's what you say was terrible. It's great,
and it was the first half of tenant was good better.
Last half was what the hell am I watching? Because
that's every Christopher Nolan movie. That's every movie because they're
(18:29):
not warmed up chicken nuggets and it's like an actual
build your own dish. It's worth it all right. Here,
here's what I'm making comparison. Okay, you are doing a
no food some kind of no food died fast where
you don't eat for it. No, No, but it's not
that would be too simple to call it fast, and
it's actually called something you're doing like a no food
fast for like how long I don't know. Okay, so
(18:51):
at some point, after a certain number of hours, you're
gonna get really loopy and you're gonna make decisions you shouldn't.
Not at all. It's absolutely gonna happen, right, how it goes? Right? No,
But that's exactly when you don't eat, That's what happens.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
It's the inverse of when you consume alcohol, is what
he's trying to say.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Sometime it's going to has food.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Something happens to your brain, not alcohol. Something happens to.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Your eventually something's gonna happen. You're making bad decision. I'm
gonna say, listen, have a sandwich and you'll be fine
in a few minutes. Just have a sandwich. Right, this
whole cleansed thing where I'm getting rid of the toxins
and the bacteria and all that. Okay, that does happened, Okay,
and you realize it. Boy, I'm not really thinking like
I should. I don't know what the cause is. But
that's what happens during Christopher Nolan movies, Like he's doing
(19:32):
the movie and boy, this is a really good movie,
and then all of a sudden in the middle, it's like,
what kind of decisions are you making? Wow?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
How is this?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
How is this getting made? Like, I don't think there's
any you know, you hear the stories all the time
about directors who are like, oh I had to meet
with the studio and cut this out and cut this
out and cut this out. I think no one just says, no,
I'm not meeting with anybody. I'm gonna I'm gonna do
this the way it is. Yeah, there's a final cut.
There's a lot of it that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
You still gonna do it, still gonna do? People like you?
It doesn't know, come on, people like dude. I would
rather I would rather watch a Zack Snyder cut of
The Irishman more than i'd rather watch another Christopher Nolan movie.
I would rather have that. It's easy to follow. I
get it.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Wait, did you just take it up? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I haven't had McDonald's in a while. I can't say that.
Last week I had a coffee and I had McNuggets. Yeah,
what about this week? No, that's it, dude, I have
not been to McDonald's. And I'll tell you when I
go to McDonald's on me Wednesday. Yes, I'll tell you
when I go to McDonald's. I've been on this diet
now for a month. No, the only thing I've had
is McNuggets. I've been to McDonald's once. I had McNuggets.
(20:37):
That's it once. Huh. Yeah, that's it. That's my wife
if he went without her. That's what I like to do,
is I need to find some away time in a
loane time, So I go to McDonald's. Just try to
sit and have a coffee and eat a big mac. Oh,
your kids, stay out. I'm eating a big mac now.
Don't judge me and stay out.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Mom.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
There's a big shiny ball next to the other balls.
That's his head, honey, yeah, the meat sweats.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah No, you're literally making fun of one of the
greatest directors of our time and space.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
He's not great. He Interstellar, he got Interstellar was good.
I like the Interstellar confusing. No, Insteller was good. How
does you understand that he's made He's made good movies.
He's just not Wow. This sounds like, okay, dude, you
don't need everything to be and here's the conceptualization of
what you're going to be doing. And I want to
be saying something in every single frame of the movie.
I want to take what you know about the movie
(21:31):
and turn it on its head and make you question
what you just saw. And when I have conversations with
characters where you can't follow what they're saying because it
makes no sense. Inception and as much as again Inception,
a lot of it was good and then and then
it got really out there, like that's what happens to them.
He goes outside the box. Jason.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yeah, okaybe he didn't get everything that happened because you
were on a snack break.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I gotta have red vines. I don't know what's going
on with this. I can't follow top I mean, this
isn't even up for debate. It's science. No. Christopher Nolan
won because it's a downtime in movies. He's made a
lot of movies for Hollywood that have made a lot
of money, and it's a Lifetime Achievement Award. It's what
he won for Oppenheimer. Your mic is on Oppenheimer was
(22:15):
was eight hours long. It was way too long. I'm
telling fantastic. When it got to the point when they
detonated the bomb. Sorry sport who when they detonate the bomb,
my wife turns me. He goes, there's an hour and
fifteen minutes left in this movie.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
And I said, no way, no way.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You said it here for and people were looking at me,
and I was like, oh, because I got really mad.
I'm like, how is there an hour?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
And fit? Come on?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
You led to there's an hour and fifteen minutes left
in the movie. It is an hour's No, it was
just too long, but it was a big scope, was
a big event. Barbenheimer was a big thing. Every single
star in the world wanted to be in the movie.
So yeah, let's have it win Best Film. Okay, great,
and the pantheon of best films over the course of
the last seventy five years, that's at the bottom. It's
(22:57):
at the bottom of best films. I'd have voted for
top Gun Maverick over that. How dare you give me
some give me on to.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Wow? And now you're just pushing it.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
No, I'm telling you that movie brought movies back. Oh no,
we can't vote for that though. For Best Picture. No,
we got to give it to something. We got to
give it to something like the Weight of Water or
whatever it is where a woman has sex with an alien.
Gotta have that because that's new. Oh sorry, spoiler alert.
So who's your favorite director? Doctor sus my favorite my
favorite director? Problem, he's my favorite doctor? No, Tysher asked
(23:32):
me the other night. I said, Spielberg, Ron Howard. How
can those guys be way too uh way too smart
for you? What do you mean they're too smart?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
If you can't understand a Christopher Nolan movie, how are
you understanding Spielberg and Shakespeare?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And Shakespeare? Wait, Shakespeare is not a director. Romeo and
Juliet Duh, I'm sorry, I do understand what it means
light through yonder window break? Did you break a window?
And what does that mean? We need to we need
to do stuff here? Sorry, but I do know. Hop
on pop. Hey, you're talking to a dude who minored
(24:06):
in in in Shakespeare. Okay, just so you know that
was that was my Yeah, no, that was it was
my fault because I should have majored in something that
would have helped me in you know, like education or
something else that of majoring in English. Uh no, because
I mean I went to my my degree, like I
have an English degree. It's like it helps me nothing
but just speak English. Yeah, but it helps me with nothing,
(24:26):
like you know, it does help mes, Like if I
had done something like education or anything else, it would
have helped me. But I did English, and so my
actually it was my concentration was Shakespeare. So I can
rattle off all, Hey, you want to get to the
Shakespeare category on h on Jeopardy, I can make you
a millionaire. But but outside of that, like there's no
real there's no real uh purpose for it in life.
(24:47):
I couldn't. I couldn't. I couldn't really impress women I
liked by by walking up going Hey, alas poor Yorick?
I knew him Horatio? You know that one? You know that? Hey,
where you going? Where are you going?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I was just I'm Shakespeare in it.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
I'm shakespe. Well, if you run around with a skull,
you're like too, Die.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Oppenheimer, Hey, he wiled women with his brain? Jason, Hey,
can I ask you something? Do you really think rosen
Krantz and Guildenstern were killed? What do you think? Do
you think? Where are you going? Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Eight seven seven ninety nine?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Man? Who'd you like better? Ros rosen Krantz or Guildenstern?
Who was the better person in hall? Eight seven seven nine?
Uh So today, if you like desperation.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Tell me someone wouldn't do that bit?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That was what that was.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I much begging to take calls on that right now.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
That was sports talk radio in the thirteen hundreds. You know, like, okay,
you're give me your five favorite William Shakespeare plays, and
no sneaking in Christopher Malo. This is Shakespeare only. Okay,
if you have to do your top five plays, you
couldn't have Macbeth. What would be your top five plays?
Right now? Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Who's
your favorite Hamlet? So Lauren's Olivier with who.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Do you really think was Shakespeare?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
If you like desperation, I present to you. No, no,
that well, that's that's football desperation. This is NBA desperation.
I present to you NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who was
on the Dan Patrick Show earlier today and with All
Star weekend coming up, you know, the conversation turned to
the NBA and doing different things to try to reverse
the ratings. As we know, the NBA has kind of
(26:20):
been in a rating slump, and Adam Silver offered this idea,
something he would like that maybe could reverse things. Christopher
Nolan is the greatest. You really think that you've heard
Adam Silver talk. That's not Adam Silver. Oh, he's like
this Adam Silver. Adam Silver is, hey, you know, I
I really am glad to be commissioner and I polished
(26:42):
my name plate every day on Under.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Adam Silver is a guy that would take two minutes
off of Christopher Nolan's every one of his scenes.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
He would take more than that off. He would say, hey,
this movie is two hours and forty nine minutes. Let's
bring it in a brisk ninety five minutes. All right,
So let's let's let's cut a full hour plus out
of this.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
We're gonna have an in movie tournament.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, the in movie tournament, and the parts of the
movie that you like will move on. The parts of
the movie you don't like, we will just discard. You
won't see those parts anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, I mean, that's use your own adventure.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
That's not a bad idea. I hate the storyline, We'll
drop it from the rest of the movie. You don't
have to see it anymore. We're dropping what you like
to continue down this path?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Do you like this character?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
If you no hit this button, that would have been
killed off?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Isn't this a Hallmark movie? We'll kill characters love. We
have to. We need people that keep watching Danica mckeller.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
All right, So I don't know what happened. That was the
guy that was carrying home or pine? He was carrying
the pine. Why did you kill him off?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So here is Adam Silver with a radical idea on
what could make the NBA a better product to watch
on television.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
The NBA is the only league that plays forty eight minutes.
I am a fan of four ten minute quarters, putting
inside what it means for records and things like that,
I think that a two hour format for a game
is more consistent with sort of modern television habitat.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
You can feel the desperation. You heard the desperation. Hey,
four ten minute quarters. The NBA is officially in the
era of let's throw stuff at the wall and just
see what sticks. Right, They've seen their domestic reach sort
of plateau, and now it's all about overseas. And I
guarantee you every single day he's thinking, away, can we
(28:24):
expand overseas? How do we get more overseas? Because that's
really the only place we can go to try to
improve revenue, to try to improve ratings, to try to
improve overall continued consumption of the NBA. Right, because we've
had a great run for the last thirty years. We
had Larry and Magic to MJ to Lebron and Kobe,
(28:46):
and now we're at the era of the international superstar
where it's about Giannis and Jokichen Wemby. So what can
we do because hey, they play forty minutes overseas, we're
the only place to place forty eight minutes. Let me
throw this out there and see if it sticks if
anybody likes like. Look, I like the idea personally because
that means the Knicks don't need a bench anymore. And
this they can play all their starters. You know, they
(29:06):
only have to play thirty five minutes a game instead
of forty two minutes a game. Right, So it work.
But this is one of those ideas where I go,
how is this gonna help anything? Right?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Like?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
They asked Tom Thibodau and Mike and Michael Malone about
it tonight before they played in MSG, and Tim said, yeah,
I don't know. I don't want the records to not
mean anything anymore. And Michael Malone just said, I don't
want to be the Barnum and Bailey of sports where
we're just making all kinds of changes under the big
top everybody. So yeah, I mean, I look at Adam
Silver and I go, wow, is it really? Is it
(29:35):
really that desperate? Are you really at that point where
we're throwing stuff like this out there where there are
real legitimate things you can do that could help and
help the television product, because no one thinks the TV
product is too long. NBA games coming around two hours
and fifteen minutes. It's not coming in in three hours
that we have to cut it down. It's not baseball.
Where baseball was coming in three fifteen and it was
(29:56):
everybody was going to bed. No, the NBA comes in
two hour. There is a fifteen minutes. That's fine. What
are the big issues? The stars aren't playing in enough games,
So how about we cut some of the games off? No, no, no, no,
we don't need eighty two games anymore. No, no, the
owners would lose money. Yeah, but you know, what is
it worth it to have star players playing more games
and play in more than sixty two games a year.
(30:17):
Maybe they would play in seventy two games a year.
Then if you only had seventy two games, they would
play in a little bit more. You can get rid
of back to backs, you can do different you can
do different things to try to gain the viewer to
be able to watch games by maybe if you want
to start them earlier than seven thirty, because if you
worried about two hours and fifteen minutes and it gets
to be too late, Oh, just started to start games
(30:38):
at six forty local time instead of seven to ten,
and then maybe more people will go to the games
more families will go to the games. These are all
things I like, But just saying, hey, how about forty
minute games, like, really shorten the games. That's your idea,
shorten the games. Let's just shorten the games. Let's just
do it like the NBA really is in the Let's
throw things at the wall and see what sticks.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Err, yeah, it's I'm all for Hey, let's look at
our product and see where we can improve it. And
you know, talking about what you do with three point
shooting and free throws and whatever, which are other parts
of the conversation, All right, hash it out. Part of
it is the number of timeouts you give. And I
would argue, you know, the point if if you're talking
(31:17):
about games that are hitting that two fifteen, two thirty mark,
you're invested in those games because they're possession by possession, right,
whether you're extending it by free throws, because you still
have that potential at a steal and a make to
make it a game and push things forward, or you're
actually gone to overtime. I don't know that you necessarily
(31:37):
need to go down the path of creating something inorganic
and absolutely shuddering your history of the game. If I'm
Missoula and all these other guys because he looked at
the reporters that I just don't care. But if you
had the you know, one of them to just say, hey,
you know what, clearly look at what just down the
street from the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Huh. The way Thibodeau constructs roster and runs things.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Yeah, you're trying to make it a Nicks favorable kind
of league, aren't they? But you know, taking those minutes off,
Like the whole point is you want to see stars
more so, what guys are gonna down play twenty five
out of forty minutes if we go down to that route.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
What are you getting?
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Are you gonna get a guarantee on the back to
backs if you do this, Like, there's a lot of
things you'd have to broke her in. Remember when players
were so mad when it went to sixty five games
to be eligible for the you know, different awards, Like
think about this, all right, you now have to participate
in x percentage of back to backs too, because you're
(32:39):
playing fewer minutes tonight. In all of these things, Like,
it's just so much to it, the integrity, the fabric
of the game. You're just trying to change it up
and changing for change sakes like go figure out the
fundamental real issues to your game and whether you can
figure out why guys are having more incidences in injury,
(33:00):
et cetera and missing games not just because they have
the I feel like it kind of scenario. Before you
worry about how many minutes you're playing.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Exit, how about a Fresco exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon time to find out what's trending right now
in the wide world of sports of Monsi Belanos, who
is very excited. It's something she just saw on her computer.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
You know what, Steph Curry just making threes look so easy.
Speaker 9 (33:25):
That was that reaction you just saw.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
It's a close one between Golden State and the Thunder.
Thunder are down one oh nine to one oh five
with ninety seconds to go.
Speaker 9 (33:36):
Steph Curry right now has twenty one points.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
He has passed Ray Allen for twenty seventh on the
all time scoring list.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
Next player that he would.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Pass would be Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing when he
gets there. But yeah, so down to the final seventy
five seconds here, Golden State up by seven right now,
what has already happened in the NBA. Well, the timberwill
have have one four in a row because they meet
the Suns today.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
One twenty one to one thirteen.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
The Clippers topped the Spurs one twenty eight to one sixteen.
Kawhi Leonard returning to San Antonio once again. We He
ended with twenty seven points, six rebounds and seven assists
the Mavericks edge the Pelicans won thirty seven to one
thirty six. The seventy six ers beat the Kings one
seventeen to one oh four. Demonte Sabonis another triple double
in the loss. In this one, the Knicks have won
(34:20):
five in a row after defeating the Nuggets one seventeen
to one oh four, all starters for New York in
double digits.
Speaker 9 (34:27):
Donovan Mitchell dropped thirty four points.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
As the Cavs outscored they heat one twenty six to
one oh two, and the Celtics they beat the Bulls
won twenty.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
Two to one ten.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
And it looks like the Warriors are trying to extend
their lead with one minutes ago. They're beating the thunder
now one to fourteen to one oh five. By the way,
Shay Gildess Alexander has forty eight points in this game.
Speaker 9 (34:47):
So far.
Speaker 6 (34:47):
In the NHL, there was one game going on officially
over oh the Penguins beat the Utah Hockey Club three
to two in overtime. And yes, the plural version of
YETI is Yetti's conferred it is YETI.
Speaker 9 (35:00):
At least we know that much right.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
In the NFL, the Jets have agreed to terms with
former Cardinals head coach Steve Wooks to be their new
defensive coordinator, with the plan for him not new head
coach Aaron Glenn to.
Speaker 9 (35:12):
Call plays in baseball.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
The Tampa Bay Race signed second Basement Hassan came to
a two year deal worth twenty nine million.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Back to you guys, thanks Monsi, Jace, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon Love from the ti rac dot Com studios. Coming
up next, after what happened today at the Senior Bowl,
we have a big bold prediction for the NFL Draft.
What is It?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Big Game coverage just presented by Old Tesla
oh Prevolast. This is Football's biggest moment under the lights
on the screen where we come together to celebrate the
(35:53):
best of the best. This is more than a game.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Be there.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Puts in the bag for Shark or something.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Now I'm gonna double down in a big Bowl prediction
I made a couple of weeks ago for the NFL draft,
and after today it looks even better. With quarterbacks getting
set for the Senior Bowl coming up, We're seeing quarterbacks
like Jalen Milroe at practice today and oh boy, for
Jalen Milroe, and if everyone wants to draft him, don't
look at the video from today. Was not a great
(36:26):
day for him. He missed a lot of passes. It
was really embarrassing to see a guy that has given
us those kind of highlights look that bad from time
to time today when when you know you're supposed to
look pretty good in these practices. And one time he
missed eight throws in a row, which I mean, that
doesn't happen when you're practices. But I'm gonna tell you this,
because of the way things have been going, and this
(36:47):
is and this is kind of buoyed by the reports
that came out for him today, is that when it
comes down to it, cam Warden, Shadeur Sandals will be
the first two quarterbacks off the board. That is not
a question. Now, are they gonna go one two overall? Well,
that's gonna be the thing. Is someone gonna trade up
or they gonna trade down, But those will be the
first two guys. The third guy coming off the board
is gonna be Kyle McCord to Syracuse he's the third
(37:10):
guy coming off reports today. He's the best quarterback down
here at the senior ball. It's not even close. Like
there's a reason why he decided to ditch his lawsuit
to the NCAA to play one more year and say no,
I'm going to the NFL. I'm sure he knew he
was told you can really rise up draft boards and
be someone who a team takes early in the draft,
(37:32):
like maybe beginning of the second round, because the quarterbacks
in this draft just are not great. It's a year
to get your quarterback of the future, not your franchise quarterback.
And from a cord who ended the season better than
anybody else. I mean everything the guy does fundamentally, he
is what you want. He throws the ball in the
tight windows. He anticipates, he sees the field fantastic. He's
(37:52):
a great field leader. He doesn't make a lot of mistakes.
He still takes chances with the ball, but they are
educated chances. Is a reason why he would able to
throw and lead the nation in yardage this year and
get Syracuse to ten wins, which like never happens. But
he's the guy that's rising, and I knew he would.
And when it comes down to it, when the quarterbacks
really start flying off, probably early second round, he's gonna
(38:16):
be the first of those guys coming off, and then
it's gonna be some kind of order of maybe Jackson
Dart will go after him, and then it's gonna be
Milrow and quinn Ewers and those guys will go on
a run after that begins.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Yeah, I think a lot of it always comes down
to what do we call rising versus actually paying attention
to someone be on the top two, right, because because
that's really where all the air was in the balloon
over the back half of the year. Right, is Shador Sanders.
Do you believe in him or not? Cam Ward Narrow
escapes early and then they fall and is what is he?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Overall?
Speaker 4 (38:49):
So Yeah, from a Cord, fantastic run, fantastic opportunity. Jackson Dart.
You see the articles today, and then it's tale of
who's writing the articles or the synopsis on Twitter or
wherever else, Jason, because I saw just as many people
praising Milroe today as that had the what am I
(39:10):
watching reaction yesterday? The same thing for Jackson Dart. Yet
several columns if you do a quick search Jackson Dart
just talk about how great he's been and look what's
going to happen for his draft prospects. And McCord is
that guy now being bolstered by Syracuse alum. But it's
(39:30):
the opportunity to go into the marketplace. We're having the
conversation about Matthew Stafford earlier. It's not a very robust
veteran class that's going to be out there to go
and pick between between a reconstructured Kirk Cousins, the loser
of the Pittsburgh battle between Russell Wilson and Justin Fields,
(39:54):
Sam Darnold if you believe he got broken in those
final two games, and that's it. It's a very short
list of people, uh that you're going into the marketplace
unless you're gonna draft your next ones. So, uh you
go in and by the end of the first round,
early second Yeah, we're gonna see these guys move, particularly
if if they've played the requisite number of college games
(40:15):
to come in and adapt quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Look, mc cord's a guy started for four years, right,
He's not someone that will He needs a lot of time.
It's just just time to get used to the offense
in the NFL. These are the guys gonna be more
uh more that the teams are gonna want to want
to draft more because of that experience. Look, Milroe started
a lot of games too. Jackson Dart started a lot
of games too, you know, in his college career. So
(40:38):
that that's gonna that's gonna be a good thing for
these guys. But when it comes down to it, you're
gonna what guy has looked the best in the end
of the season into this and into this Senior Bowl.
It's Kyle McCord. I can't help, but he's a Syrica.
Syracuse has the best quarterback there and they said they
got the best running back in the best wide receiver
there in Meeks And look for now, and how do
we not go undefeated? Then? How do we have the
three offense guys to the senior ball and not go
(41:00):
more than ten and.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Three that every one of the first questions for those guys,
why the hell didn't you win more?
Speaker 1 (41:07):
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