January 16, 2026 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you exactly why all the other NFL head coach openings lack sizzle outside of John Harbaugh to Giants. Plus, all the latest on the Dodgers signing Kyle Tucker!
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome in side our three, The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. This time it counts
two big NBA games Right now. The Knicks trail the
Warriors by nine. Nixt show and look you speaking of gambling.
I mean like if someone called me and said, hey,
(00:52):
do you have a bet for me for tonight? I
would say the Knicks the second night of back to
backs without Jalen Brunson on the West Coast at Golden State, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Take the Warriors. Yeah, but they're hanging around. I thought
they were gonna get blown out and fold up to ten.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Take the Warriors down nine right now, eleven minutes ago
in the fourth quarter hasn't been kicked out yet.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No, that's true. Well, Well, if you're betting Draymond to
get kicked out of a game. He got a technical.
Yet I don't believe he has Okay, I don't believe
he has. Still eleven and he's in the game, and
he's in the game.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Meanwhile, boy, the Hornets lead the Lakers in LA right
now by ten in the second half. We talked about
it last night. The Lakers have gone from no problems
a couple of weeks ago to all kinds of problems.
They lose to Charlotte tonight at home, and it's still
it's middle of the third quarter. Man, it just gets
(01:44):
more and more dire to the fact that they need
something bold before the deadline. I mean, really, like a
month ago is they have no problems, everything is great,
but then Lebron comes back. They try to assimilate Rich
Paul says, maybe in a perfect world the Lakers trade
Austin Reeves for another player her and now it's like
he's sabotaging the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Wow. I mean, he had a solution. It's a sad
he was. He was a problem solved, a sabotage. I
got an idea, that guy who's gonna be the number two?
How about But no, you get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I want him just like the photo shot into the
Beastie Boys video in the beginning, he's standing up with
the camera on the ground that he's wrapped.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's a sabotage. Like the best sab I like from
this game is one Colt Brenner and Vanderbilt got into it.
Your guy JJ Redding ran out the court to separate him.
Like that's been it. That's that's the big thing. Hey, Lebron,
how are things going with the Lakers? Now? Sold? Now
(02:49):
we're at a skate park and running around. We'll keep
one eye on both of these games. But look, the
big story of the night. It broke just as we
were getting on the air tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Kyle Tucker, the number one free in Major League Baseball, surprise,
is going to the Dodgers four years, two hundred and
forty million dollars. He's getting sixty million dollars a year
as a guy the Dodgers can say, oh, yeah, we
can use somebody like that. That's great that he's the
end all be all for other teams that need him. Boy,
(03:18):
we need to put in middle our orders. We're gonna
compete this year. Yeah, we can have him or not
have that, Yeah, let's go, let's pay sixty million dollars
year form.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What do we get? Your reaction was like Steve Carell
and the forty year old Virgin when he's on the
table getting his chest waxed, and you yelled, Kelly Clarkson,
we're gonna give Cody Bellinger a lot of money. We're
gonna overpay for Trek School. Now. Look, to be honest
with you, is that I knew this was gonna happen.
(03:45):
And you know I knew this because we have the proof,
which is social media, Twitter last night and what we
said in the nine o'clock hour, in this hour last night,
when we talked about Kyle Tucker, there's times when you
know that someone is out there using leverage. And now
it's become pretty easy to see that when it doesn't
matter if it's a it's a baseball player, football player.
(04:07):
When you get word that a contract offer has been
put out to a player, right, and we found out
yesterday both the Blue Jays and the Mets, two of
the three teams that were in on Kyle Tucker, had
put out offers to him. Right. The Mets was four
years and fifty million dollars a year. The Blue Jays
was between eight and ten years, between three point fifty
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three seventy five million. Right, when you know that both
those offers are out there and there's only a couple
of teams talking to you, and these are offers that
are well within what you would say yes to, right,
I mean is, if you want the shorter term deal,
you're really going to say no to fifty million dollars
a year. If you want the longer term, you're going
to say no to ten years and nearly four hundred million. No,
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you're not.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
But the fact that these offers were still out there
and Kyle Tucker was unsigned, what did I say last night?
He does want either of these teams. He wants the Dodgers.
And all this was was leverage to get the Dodgers
to come close to what he's getting from the Mets.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
And in the end they did to come close. They
wound up going over the top. But honestly, the Dodgers, oh, well,
look of course he overpaid, But they could have really
come back to Tucker and said we'll match the Mets offer.
What's he gonna say? No? It was pretty much the
same though. If that's where he wanted to go money
was the same. It was about, well, the Dodgers paying
ten million more year.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Then he wanted to win, right, Well, well, look I
can't fault him for go wanting to go to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Why wouldn't you, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
They're the best team in baseball, They're the Empire, They're
the team that is most set up to win for
the next three to five years. It's not even close.
I get it. But I told you letting you know.
Whenever there's an offer out there and a guy hasn't
said yes, it's very rare that he comes back and says, okay,
yeah that offer that was there, I'm gonna take that. No,
he's using it as leverage.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
He kirk cousined his way, you know, like like Kirk
Cousins used the Jets to get that big record setting
contract from the Vikings where all nine million dollars he
was getting was guaranteed. Right, that was a big change.
The next big change was the Deshaun Watson contract where
all two hundred and thirty million dollars were guaranteed. Do
you do?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
That was what he was waiting for. There was something
else out there. Okay, we got what we wanted. Let's
use this as leverage, right, So I knew last night
That's why I already had time to steal to myself.
The Mets weren't getting him, and I'm being honest when
I say it would have been great to get Kyle Tucker.
But I'm also not upset with with not paying sixty
million dollars a year for a guy that has had
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injury issues, has not always been great, and is a
twenty five and ninety guy right at his best, he
is twenty five ninety and two seventy. That's really good, right,
it's been all started the last three years. That's really good.
I'm not saying it's not.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
He's not a good player, but I'm not upset with
not paying him ten million dollars more a year than
I'm paying one Soto. I'm okay with not doing that
and saying let's go back and get somebody different, because
you can get somebody different for a little bit less
money that can give you twenty five and ninety. So
I mean, I'm kay with not paying him that kind
of money. Now, again, it's not my money. But when
you worried about luxury tax and Sally, okay, you know
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that's kind of how it goes. But I'm okay with
not giving him that money and losing him to the Dodgers,
all right. Like if the Mets had lost him to
the Rays or the Reds or the.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Guardians, where I'm taking that money that's very similar instead
of yours, I'd be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Man? Are the Mets not a destination anymore? What are
their problems? But losing a guy to the Dodgers, Okay,
I get it. I get they won the last two
World Series and it's Otani and it's Freddy Freeman's and
the rich camera. I understand that. But I'm also at
the same time both things can be true. I am
not upset with him not getting it, and I knew
last night, which is why Jeff Passing and John Paul Morosi,
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who I love the debt that all these guys I'm
the best baseball inside you could possibly have, because I
told you last night he wasn't going any of those. Yeah.
I mean, for some of it, it just comes down
to the As an organization and you're bidding for a
top free agent, you just have to recognize that the
Dodgers can always play improv appropriate here in Los Angeles
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of yes and okay, you've got fifty million yes, and
what do we want to come over the top with? Right,
it's the you know, a little extra at the end
of the meal, the little extra, however you want to
term it, to get you on board. And that's the
unfortunate game that a lot of gns and owners have
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to play in. And you have to decide how much
you want to do that, how ridiculous you decide an
offer has to be to where the Dodgers suddenly walk
away from the table. We'll tell you what if they
want the guy bad enough and they know it can
hurt you enough. Even if it doesn't, you know, to
your point, you can find another guy with some of
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those numbers. And Tucker's just coming into his prime. As
Steve alluded to in our conversation earlier, a bunch of
injuries second half for a day on second half. Now
it was him. It's Pete crow Armstrong. They struggled mightily,
the Cubs did in the middle of the order second
half of the season. But he's only twenty eight. So
you're still saying, hey, the best is yet to come
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and all of that stuff that you could roll through.
That's like a gambling thing, isn't it Wasn't that a
casino ad repeated the best was yet to come. I
think I know it's old. I know it's an old song,
that old staple and notch or whatever else, but you know,
been used again going with the gambling theme with a
lot of this a puppet, a pirate, a cub and
an astro and now I'm a dodger. No, it's pretty good.
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Fifty d million, make it six d million, blank you,
Steve Cohen. But you have to realize that you're also
not just hurting them potentially on the field, right because
you've got to go and find now the replacement the Mets,
But you're also creating unrest in the fan base. Now,
you could try to be the voice of reason here
ahead of our beautiful Fox Sports banner here on Fox
(09:55):
Sports Radio. But you know, Joe Q public in New
York and the talkers in New Yorker wah wah, wah
wah about how bad Steve Cohens biff and things because
he can't land the big fish. Yeah he's got soda,
but Pete Alonso's not there. To shield any of the
incoming anymore pet Alonso, they could have had they decided
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not to it. But they like Peter. The people like
pet al I'm saying it, he comes, and now you
start fighting the public perception and you're losing on the
back page of the fish wrap and all that. So
the Dodgers not only get the guy, they weaken your
hold over your city, maybe forcing you to more bad moves.
If we played a game tomorrow, I'd be worried. But
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we don't, and we have the best farm system in baseball.
We can make a treadle. We're gonna have a star
guy in left field. We're gonna get another star pitcher.
We don't play tomorrow. I'm absolutely in the end. Last year,
you might as well have had the season the White
Sox did, because you know what, I didn't sweat until
the end of September. It was over. You had to
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spend a lot of energy, the lot of eggs. I
spent the entire season in the sauna, and then you
were done, just like the Whites the entire time. And
then just like the White Sox, as soon as that
postseason was started, you were hanging out and came to.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Look for the Dodgers, because we have there's a bigger point.
There's another bigger point to make about this coming up
in a few minutes. But for the Dodgers, look, I mean,
I don't know, I don't know what to say. What
do you get the team that has everything right?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Like a little more do? Yeah? Right? They needed an outfielder,
now they got him right, and and and they continue
to find a way to go get the players they want,
whether they need them or not. And the thing is
is that I didn't think it would be Kyle Tucker, right,
because this this is now, but it's going to be
known as the Kyle Tucker rule, the Kyle Tucker. Kyle
(11:49):
Tucker lost the Tuck rule as much the Tuck rule.
Uh go tuck Y. So this now has twenty nine
other owners and teams in Major League Baseball pissed that
the Dodgers can keep doing this, and Rob Manford has
not done anything to stop the one man army from
buying their way through baseball. You thought it was Steve Cohen. Oh,
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we can't let Steve Coen do. I'm gonna put in
Steve Cohen tax. Don't worry about it. The Dodgers said,
oh yeah, great, we're gonna work around that and do
our thing. So you're worried about Steve Cohen, the Dodgers
were who you had to worry about. Now. I would
want my team to do the same thing if I
was If I that's I want. Hey, you're not circumventing rules,
you're not doing anything illegal. But I guarantee you this move,
(12:32):
there's gonna be twenty nine owners calling Rob Manford tomorrow going,
this can't happen anymore. You gotta do something.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And I didn't think it would be Kyle Tucker, he
of the twenty five home runs, ninety RBI two, seventy
batting average.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I thought it would be Shoeo.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Tani when they got him and they said, we're deferring
all the money till way, way later. But this is
what's going to put in a rule that's gonna stop
the Dodgers from loading up every year that Baseball understands
this is they're finding a way to continue to do this.
This is not helping us compete. This is not helping us.
This is hurting us our business. We're not in for
big free agents. When then, when when Dodge allowed to
do this.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Whatever rule is going to be put in, Rob Manford's
gonna have no choice but to do it. And you're
gonna see something over the course of the next year
that when we get to this part next year, the
Dodgers aren't going to be able to load up this way.
And it could be something crazy where if you sign
a player of this silk one offseason, you can't sign
a player of that level the next off seat. Whatever
it's going to be, there's gonna be something in there,
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because now at this point, the other teams have had
it with this and the Dodgers eve olampire is going
to continue. But you will see some kind of rule
in the next year that's going to stop the Dodgers
from loading up every year. Well, if you don't like it,
take your giant cash payout and leave. I think part
of the text chain will be the how much did
we get off the national TV revenue share last year?
How many asses and seeds for those home games when
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the Dodgers came in. Can we really attribute to the
fact that you know, they all came in wearing Dodgers uniforms,
basically head to toe.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
The Dodters coming to town. We make money when other
teams come into town. We don't make money, right all right, which.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Means everybody's gonna let it keep going because in the
end it affects a handful of team where we're talking
about the Kyle Tuckers of the world. You're not worried
about Tampa effect, but it's market teams and now those
are the ones that pushed this. They're gonna be mad,
but they lose to everybody else but your in terms
of a voting. But you're looking at a team that
is effected.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Who knows when the next Dodgers might show, Hey, we're
gonna find we like the way they defer money and
do X, Y and Z.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Now we're gonna do that. And then the Cardinals are
going to do it, or the Yankees find a way
to do it, and that they had they had the
idea to do it for Steve Cohen. Now they trust me.
There's gonna be a big push and it's gonna be
much different free agency a year from now because of
Kyle Tucker, who knew let me see when that puff
of smoke goes.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Upucker, Kyle Tucker exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen
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the table?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
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Speaker 1 (15:58):
The Lakers have no answer for Larry Johnson and Muggsy Bogues.
Hornets lead the Lakers one oh four ninety three. Early
in the fourth quarter, you number three forty rebounds, dude,
Zoe was having I mean, he is just he's just
pushing Jacob Rabia.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Around the war I mean, it's really amazing. That'll do it. Hey,
By the way, we have an update. Mike uh down
in Jacksonville. Made sure he was listening. Thanks for chiming in,
because we were watching your Nicks and the Warriors. Yeah. Literally,
as we finished talking about that, they had gone to review.
Draymond was assessed a flagrant oh tripping Karl Anthony town Wow. Literally,
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as we transitioned into our Kyle Tucker talk. Okay, finished
that review and assessed the penalty. Well, as we said,
there was eleven minutes left in the game. There you go, like, literally,
as that.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Happened, boom hasn't helped the Knicks because they're down by
fourteen with seven minutes left. But like I said last night,
if someone said to me, hey, you have any advice for.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Tonight in sports, I'm like hmm. The Knicks without Jalen
Brunson on the road the second night of a back
to back against the Warriors. Yeah, I think the Warriors.
That's a pride like the Warriors. Pretty good. Not that
it would be my lock of the year, but boy,
to be close, Warriors were either six and a half
or seven and a half, depended on when you got it.
Uh so again one thirteen ninety six. Right now it's
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a seventeen point lead with six minutes to go in
the fourth quarter. Maybe Jalen Brunson is Jalen Brunston. Tyres
Haliburton looked like they could be the NBA MVPs. What's
great is they're both guys that have been known to
be big fans of the Wwe actually have a car
to them standing in a trading you know, pleasantry. Yeah, okay,
I mean really and now they're the co MVPs sitting
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on their butts.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You look at what the mark of a team is,
how good are what happens when they don't have you
in the lineup? Well, you see what happens to the NIXT.
You see what happens to the Pacers. Uh yeah, that's
kind of it. It's it doesn't get any simpler than that.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
What Jonathan Kaminga doing, Well, we'll get to We'll get
to Kaminga because that's a really big story today, not
that it's just well Jonathan Kaminga. Yeah, that's gonna turn
out to be a really big story. We'll tell you why.
But here we are now, twenty four hours after John
Harbaugh was named or for it was announced he was
going to become the next head coach of the New
York Giants. Right, And we talked about this a lot
(18:11):
last night. Adam Schefter had the report. So now that
the dust has settled, right, Okay, so Harbaugh to the Giants,
and that really needed to be the first domino to fall.
The best head coach always needs to be the first
one to pick his landing spot, especially if he's gonna
wind up talking to everybody, because well, we don't want
to miss out on what could be the best guy.
(18:31):
Maybe he's not gonna come talk to us, but he
was set to talk to Tennessee after the Giants. I mean, really,
to do an o'clock just going to talk to everybody.
I refuse to travel, so we're doing it on zoom.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
How do you feel about cam Ward. Heck of a goalie.
I'm gonna put him out there between the pipes. Sixty
nights a game. Great, we love you. Let's go like,
don't land.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Uh but this this is where things sit right now,
and say, okay, head coaching openings and we're talking about
guys like Stefanski and Tomlin's walk Away and the Steelers.
It is kind of a you know, I like dystopian
novels and read a lot dide post apocalyptic stuff. It's great.
(19:12):
I'll read the most worst bull crappy kind of because hey,
it's post apocalyptic and do you have do you have
your lifetime supply of food stuff in storage? Or what
the entire Mets franchise is dealt with in a post
apocalyptic way. Okay, just so you know, he's got a
whole series of novels no I read, No, I just
thought I just finished reading one, uh two nights ago
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that was about the zombie apocalypse happens in London and
it's like three months after and a doctor is asked
to work on uh, the new project that's looking for
a cure. Right, they've killed all the infected in London,
in England and they're looking for a cure now, and
she has kept her husband alive while she hopefully looks
(19:58):
for your cure. Because she's a doc. She gets into
the she wanted to get into the program where they're
looking for a cure, and she's keeping her husbands like
Frankenstein like she's you know, like and I'm like, oh,
that's pretty interesting. I read it and I got about
halfway through. I'm going, this is too tedious. How do
you make a zombie apocalypse novel tedious? It's way too
t I don't even know the scene of her in
the bedroom with the husband who was chained to the
(20:19):
bed and just groaning. I'm like, come on, give me
a now. The end of the book got well, I
mean I've seen that on other movies for years. Lean
is where she meets Brad Pitton. Yeah, he's not anywhere
near this Moe. It's called One Yellow Eye. And I
like the ending because you know, the zombies all have
one yellow eye and that's how you tell her they are.
But I'm like, boy, you really made this tedious. And
you made this tedious, how do you make a zombie
(20:40):
apocalypse if you've made something like that? Come on?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So anyway, uh, I read all post apocalyptic stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
And the coaching landscape right now in the NFL really
has that Cormack McCarthy the Road kind of post apocalyptic
landscape to it because the jobt here Because you think
about it like this, a outside of John Harbaugh and
a little bit of Kevin Stefanski, it is not an
(21:11):
exciting landscape for hiring coaches, right. Mike Tomlin's not going
to jump to another job. He's going to take a
year off. Maybe more baby's on TV, but there's no
more exciting guys. This is not last year where hey
Ben Johnson had sizzle, Aaron Glenn had sizzle, Mike Rabel
had sizzle. There's none of that this year as well.
We're really reaching to the bottom of the barrel for
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who we think are.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The next great offensive minds, right, because that's really where
things have gone to in the last few years. It's okay, well,
who's the next great young offensive mind, Who's the next
Kyle Shanahan, Who's the next Sean McVeigh. So Kevin O'Connell
gets jobs and you found so that's what everybody's looking for.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
But when it's not there, it becomes really difficult. This
is not the year to need a head coach in
the NFL, right because outside of Kevin Stefanski, who else
you have out there? It's like, I don't know. When
you couple that with the fact that the majority of
the coaching openings are an absolute mess that I want
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no part of, you have a bleak landscape. Man Like,
if you want to rank the head coaching openings, which
I like to see people do all the time, let's
rank the head coaching openings. Okay, the Giants was great,
but that's been filled. Pittsburgh is okay because you're gonna
get a lot of time, but you have a lot
of changes have to be made to the sure and
you never know when Art Rooney's gonna decide. Yeah, I'm
(22:33):
done with given everybody ten years. But you also still
haven't bottomed out right, right, And that's that's been the
hard part is you haven't even hit rock bottom. So
the decision whether they were ever gonna go down the
firing line with Tomin or not, it ended up not
having to go there, but you have the you've never
hit that point for a full reset.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I mean, the Giants was a great opening. The Steelers
is good because of the time you're gonna get right
because they don't fire coaches. Everything else is a mess.
Atlanta is a mess. Do you really have that franchise
quarterback and Michael Pennix Junior, a guy that hasn't flashed
and can't stay healthy, or you're gonna be starting over
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a quarterback. And guess what, if you're starting over a quarterback,
they'll be starting over with a new coach in a
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Well, but that's the problem with all of these, right,
you go down the full nine, there's only two of
the jobs where you had a quarterback saying that's my guy,
that's it, that's it, and maybe a third if you
decide you like Jacoby.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
His own right, So Atlanta is a mess. Baltimore, you
have a deteriorating Lamar Jackson. Right, you don't have Lamar
Jackson beginning of his career. You have Lamara Jackson where
Steve Baschatt he's already said he's got to redo his contract,
and we got to redo his contract because it's too
much money.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
We got to go out and get other things. Right,
he's gonna be doing like seventy four million or something
against the Yeah, but Lamar Jackson, you're in You're in
the back last few years of his career, and was
this year in aberration or is this kind of who
Lamar Jackson is where he's not nearly his mobile can't move,
whether it's injuries or whatever else.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So Baltimore is not great. Cleveland's a mess. You're looking
for a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You're starting over Vegas looking for a quarterback, starting over Miami,
looking for a quarterback, starting over Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You have a quarterback, but is he really good? No
one knows, So maybe you're starting over again Arizona. You
have to get rid of your longtime starting quarterback and
get another guy and hope that Jacoby Brissett is actually okay.
None of these openings are good, right, it's it's the
Giants was great, Pittsburgh is okay, the rest it's wow.
So when you have the combination of seven openings that
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aren't any good and the number of guys for that opening,
there's nobody great out there. This is this is not
chocolate meats, peanut butter with Reese's peanut butter cup man
going nicely done.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
This is not this is oil pean water cups in
that vending machine there that should be good.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
This is olive Oil meets I'm mcvinagrett, which you know
they can't.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
They just on the sides of each other. I really
thought you were going to go down to the Wimpy
Bluto and Popeye run there with an olive oil kind
of reference. But you look at all these jobs, but
what do you always come in if you want you
either want a quarterback that you can build with or
a quarterback that you can go get. You don't have
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that either. Right, We've been talking about it, which is
why would Dante Moore deciding to go back to school?
He was your only your second guy. Now would other
guys go in the first round? Sure, Simpson and maybe
some others remember that name, that might end up in
the first round just because of need. But we don't
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even have that class where we say, okay, I compare that,
we'll draft a quarterback here in the first round and
we'll start the rebuild process. No, no, no, you're going, all right, well,
are we in the business? Are we bringing Intua or
Kyler Murray or are we going to get Kirk Cousins? Right,
those are the we're looking at in terms of all right,
(26:03):
I'm going to take a head coaching job and try
to build and resurrect a franchise, and maybe it's my
first bite at the apple. Like, none of this is
something that you get really excited about. Again, Pittsburgh could
turn on a dime. Suddenly the Ruinis just a are
firing squads. You know, Mike, Tom what's gone. That's the
end of an era, and now we're going to operate
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like the rest of the NFL. Down comes in for
a year and gets fired. You really want to Adam
goes back in front of a body. Yeah, but all
about to say, like Lamar, We've talked about it a lot.
We've gotten spoiled by these quarterbacks going into a second
decade this last ten to fifteen years, whereas before that,
if you got to year eight, hey man, you made
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it and then some right. We don't normally see that
in particularly for guys where a lot of their early
value was predicated on being able to elude a pass rush,
make big plays, carry the ball one hundred plus times
a year like Lamar Jackson did. I don't know if
this was dissatisfaction with the offense and Monken, whether it's
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lingering injuries, that he couldn't do it? Was it a
all right, if I don't do this, maybe we'll actually
give the ball to twenty two where it should be going,
which they didn't do many times. All of that to
say you have no idea, I mean, I guess that's
by default because eighty percent of Lamar Jackson is still
better than anything else you're dealing with.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I mean, look beyond it. It's a risk. It's not Hey,
I can go coach Lamar Jackson. It's oh what Lamar Jackson?
Am I getting? Am I getting the Hall of Famer?
Am I getting a guy who's done right? We get
a guy that couldn't run and couldn't get outside the
pocket anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Is it because he's injured? Is it because his body
is breaking down? Is it because he wanted harball out
and wasn't trying? Like it's a risk, Like that's the
biggest thing. Like usually, hey, when there's coaching openings, whether
it's three, five, seven, nine, there's there's at least there's
at least three to four where hey, you have some
dudes in here. It didn't work and we need somebody
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because the team is underachieving. But now you have all
these you have so many teams that are just starting over,
like Tennessee, Miami, Vegas, Cleveland, they're all starting over. Atlanta's
a mess, and you're not inheriting a good quarterback situation.
Like we talked about what's going on with Baltimore, right,
and the same thing with Arizona. You're starting over again,
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right because you've gotten to the end of the Kyler
Murray James Connor run. You thought it was gonna do
for you because James Connor was hurting. He's over thirty.
So you're either starting over or you're in bad situations
with quarterbacks. And to come in, not only that, to
have a situation where you have bad openings, you don't
have great candidates and oh, by the way, let's make
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up for it by having a draft class where there's
no quarterbacks in it. I mean, this is a Bermuda
triangle of badness for the NFL when it comes to
That's why I say bleak post apocalyptic dystopian landscape. It's
that curiosity. Do we go down the road like with
Dante morgoing if you try to hide from a head
coaching jobs, like say you're Jesse Minter and you say
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I'd rather coach up this Chargers defense again. You know
which teams are waiting for you next year. If you
go back into the coaching realm, say save damn teams.
I'll catch you next year. No, we won't be Oh yeah,
we'll be here next year. Don't worry. We'll be here
waiting for you same time next year. Sweaty and grimy
and desperate. Oh, we're waiting here next year. One yellow eye,
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just waiting, one yellow eye.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Try not to find out what's trending in the wide
rule of sports from someone who's been called the Jonathan
kaminga of Fox Sports Radio. He's told us he wants out. Oh,
but that's out of the studio to go home, because
he's been working every day this week. It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh, I would want out.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
If I was making when Jonathan Kamenico is waking. That
is a separate story. But yeah, Kaming of Golden State
demanded a trade. He hasn't played in a Month's NBA
trade deadline is February fifth, Golden State hosting a New
York team that does not have Jalen Brun's tonight out
with a sprained ankle. Warriors lead with about a minute
ago one twenty four to one eleven. Laker's still losing
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it home to Charlotte. It's Hornet's one seventeen one oh
three with about seven minutes left. Luka Donsi's thirty four
points for LA, victories for Dallas and Portland, wins for
Boston and San Antonio. Oklahoma City won its fifth straight game.
The record's up to thirty five and seven OKC one
at Houston, one eleven to ninety one, victories for Detroit,
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one o eight, one oh five over Phoenix, and Orlando,
which was down twenty in the first half. It came
back to beat Memphis in Berlin, one eighteen to one eleven.
They'll play again against each other on Sunday in London.
Demantus Sabonis of the Kings practice fully today and could
return to play on Friday. He's been out since mid
November with a knee injury. Anthony Edwards of Minnesota will
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miss another game on Friday with a foot injury. Cleveland
guard Darius Garland is out Friday with a foot injury.
Guard Trey Young, now with the Wizards, is out until
after next month's All Star break. He has a sprain
knee and a Bruce quad. College basketball number nine Gonzaga
won tonight at Washington State eighty six sixty five. Women's
hoops at number two South Carolina, the home team edge
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Number four Texas sixty eight sixty five. The late NHL
game in Vegas went to the Golden Knights in a
comeback and overtime win against Toronto six to five. Earlier
victories for Utah and Boston. The Dodgers are signing right
fielder Kyle Tucker, reportedly a four year deal with an
opt out after year two and year three.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
The reminder.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
College Football's national title game is Monday, Indiana at Miami.
The NFL's divisional playoffs are this weekend, and Seahawks quarterback
Sam Darnold says he'll play Saturday night despite an oblique
injury he had to leave practice early today. Linebacker of
the Niners Fred Warner is still out this weekend after
a broken and dislocated ankle at October, but he could
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play in the NFC title game if San Francisco advances.
Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen will play Saturday despite foot, knee,
and finger injuries. He just fully this week wide receiver
Terrelle Shavers of the Bills does have a torn ACL,
as does wide receiver Gabe Davis and wide receiver Joshua Palmers.
On IR form. Curtis Samuel wideout returned to practice this week.
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Texan star wide receiver Nico Collins mispracticed again today with
his concussion. Houston's at New England Sunday, then the Rams
play at Chicago temperature about twenty degrees for that game.
The New York Giants are reportedly finalizing a contract with
head coach John Harbaugh. He was fired by the Ravens
last week. And if you didn't see the TV ratings,
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the audience was large for last weekend's wildcard games in
the NFL. The games averaged thirty two million viewers, including
the Sunday afternoon game on Fox forty nine Ers at
Eagles over forty million viewers, and that Chicago Bears game
was just on Amazon Prime unless you were in those
two markets. Packers Bears, and that still got over thirty
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million viewers. By the way, did you see the reports
plural of the Bears perhaps thinking of a new home
across state lines in Indiana?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
The Northwest Indiana Bears Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
An Indiana senator is introduced to bill that would establish
a funding mechanism for a new football stadium on their
side of the state line.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Back to you and Bears, Kurt Signetti would coach both teams,
while idiot Chipotlet and.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
He would not be happy about either.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Thank you, Steve, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we get back
into the biggest two hundred and forty million dollars, sixty
million dollars a year story of the night. Give it
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Kyle Tucker is a Dodger sixty million dollars a year,
four four years. Uh, the big shocking story of the night.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Well, because we told you last night he was going
to be a Dodger, Tucker goes the Dodgers four years,
two hundred and forty million dollars, a signing bonus for
him that's going to help defray the cost of his
of his deal. Signing by I believe is somewhere in
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the sixty million dollars. I think sixty four million dollars
signing bonus. The Mets we just.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Got word their final law for to him was very close.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
It was four years to twenty with a seventy to
seventy five million dollars signing bonus, and Kyle Tucker chose
the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Again, I'm not upset. If he chose the Tigers or
the Angels over the Mets, then I'd be like, there's
a problem. But I get choosing to die. I understand that.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
But this is what I'm afraid of, right, This is
what I'm afraid of now, because now here's Kyle Tucker,
who has gone for the most money per year in
baseball history, angering all twenty nine other owners who are like,
that's the guy you had set the market?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Really, Now all these other.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Free agents are gonna say, hey, that's what you're paying
Kyle Tucker. Hey, I could be a twenty five and
ninety and two seventy three hitter. I could be that guy.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
So, now all twenty nine other on mad because the
Dodgers gave that kind of money to Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Sure, but are you sure it's all twenty nine?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
But here's okay, twenty of the teams, half ten half
the league five still but they'll still all be mad.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
But it's just me, but will affect about half the league.
So but this is what I'm afraid of now because
this is such a big deal. He's the number one
free agent and now you're taking him off the board.
Teams want to compete.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So now, how much is a guy like Bobashett gonna get?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
What the hell is the Yankee and Met bidding war
for Cody Bellinger gonna wind up getting to? I was
this week. I was like, hey, come on, man, if
Bellinger comes down, they can get him for three or
four years, and Mets'll get him. Now I think they're
gonna give him nine years and four and a million dollars,
which is I don't want to give that to Cody Bellinger.
But that's what I'm afraid of now for both my
team other teams that now there's going to be a
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panic because we've waited a long time. In the middle
of January, pitchers and catchers are about a month away.
My dad tells me every day, you know, thirty six
days still pitchers and catchers. Yeah, Dad, I got it.
He's still wearing that guy's paying thirty five day with
Justin Lampson's pants every other day, every other day, every
other day, every other day. But that's that's my big
thing now because think about what the domino effect of
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him signing is going to be. What's Bellinger's contract going
to be, maybe not for nine years, but it's going
to be about fifty million dollars a year, Boba Schett,
he could be about fifty million dollars a year. Now,
you are going to see teams panic and shake, and
the top teams that feel they are one or two
players away from the World Series are going to way
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overpay for guys that aren't that big difference makers. Because
this is not a great free agency crop. I never
feel bad about teams that are going to pay money
for guys who are really good, right.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I never feel bad about that, because, Okay, you got
to spend to get a guy, right, if it's a
starting pitcher, I don't want to spend, but you got
to spend to get a guy, right.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
I understand that. But this is not a great crop
of free agent free agents out here. Now.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Kyle Tucker is the best a guy who had a
bad second half last year again, who is a career
when he stays healthy for one hundred and forty one
hundred and forty five games, twenty five home runs, ninety RBIs,
it's about two seventy.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
There's about thirty to thirty five guys in Major League
Baseball that go twenty five and ninety And Kyle Tucker
is a guy now that's getting sixty million dollars. I
am so I am so full of anxiety that I'm
gonna wake up tomorrow and see a board the next
couple of days and see a big overpayment for players
that aren't worth it. And it's not just gonna be
my team. It's gonna be the Blue Jays are gonna
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do it, The Yankees are gonna do it, the Giants
are gonna do it, the Padres are gonna do it,
the Phillies are gonna do it. All these teams.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Now, I're gonna say, well, we have to answer somehow,
and there's not a lot of chairs out there. We
had to make sure we grab a chair before we're
left standing with nobody. Well, it's a great game of poker, right.
It's like bidding on something at a charity.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Auction and realizing that well, nobody was going within fifty
percent of what you bid, right, It's like, Oh, shouldn't
I get it at the next increment? No, you put
down one thousand dollars, you're giving us one thousand dollars
online auctions whatever else. Same thing here is you're trying
to figure out what that number is. And if we're
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talking about those top elite and elite is all a
relative term on a year to your basis, Like you're
saying that you're going in for one of those guys, well,
then you're paying what the market rate is. And if
the market rate, to your thinking, is too rich for
what that guy's impact is, guess what, don't bid on him?
(38:39):
Just saying we have to fill this slot. Well, in theory,
you got a minor league. In theory, you can go
down the chain and maybe find someone that's half that value,
which when you run the numbers, right, this is the
old moneyball strategy of he gives you just as much
output in terms of what he's going to mean on
the field. Now does the other guy? I put more
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asses and seeds, maybe sell a few more jerseys, excite
some of your sponsors locally, to activate them and do
bigger sales or sweet sales or whatever. That's what you
have to decide, Right, where's the ancillarity money? Hey, this
is how many parking spots this guy's worth because the
overpay and he edit eight your money. The only thing
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you can worry about is if it precludes you from
going out into the market for free agent number two. Yeah,
that's a big thing. And with the Mets, if that's
what you're worried about, you're just mad that Cohen can't
play the same He's trying to play the same game,
but he's losing. We got one Soto last year. I
think we're doing okay. You missed the playoff.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I think we're doing okay. We got the best free
agent that's going to be out there for a decade.
I feel pretty good that we have won SODO and
don't have Kyle Tucker. I feel But you were mad
at what they paid him last I feel okay about
that now. I'm okay with that because it's not going
to preclude them from going out and getting others.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
But that's their right. But the hood from the five
about the money they are though, Yeah, then that's again
you're in the wrong business. Yeah, but it's it's still
going to be a situation where you're gonna see teams
panic and when owners won't go past the luxury tax
and you're stuck with a really really bad contract, there's
no way out of it. You just have to sit
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and wait it out, and there's no way out.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
And that's I'm afraid of is that, you know, my
team or other teams are gonna go out and say, well,
let's go overpay for Cody Bellinger. Wow, man, that hole
in the swing is not gonna age. It's not gonna
age well in the next few years. I don't want
him for nine years, but someone's gonna give me nine
years because I can't panic and lose him and not
get Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
We gotta go get somebody.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
And all of a sudden, that's a contract, that's an albatross,
and that drags you down.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
That's I'm afraid of. Albatross. Got a big story out
of the NFL and NBA. Next fuck
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome in side our three, The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. This time it counts
two big NBA games Right now. The Knicks trail the
Warriors by nine. Nixt show and look you speaking of gambling.
I mean like if someone called me and said, hey,
(00:52):
do you have a bet for me for tonight? I
would say the Knicks the second night of back to
backs without Jalen Brunson on the West Coast at Golden State, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Take the Warriors. Yeah, but they're hanging around. I thought
they were gonna get blown out and fold up to ten.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Take the Warriors down nine right now, eleven minutes ago
in the fourth quarter hasn't been kicked out yet.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
No, that's true. Well, Well, if you're betting Draymond to
get kicked out of a game. He got a technical.
Yet I don't believe he has Okay, I don't believe
he has. Still eleven and he's in the game, and
he's in the game.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Meanwhile, boy, the Hornets lead the Lakers in LA right
now by ten in the second half. We talked about
it last night. The Lakers have gone from no problems
a couple of weeks ago to all kinds of problems.
They lose to Charlotte tonight at home, and it's still
it's middle of the third quarter. Man, it just gets
(01:44):
more and more dire to the fact that they need
something bold before the deadline. I mean, really, like a
month ago is they have no problems, everything is great,
but then Lebron comes back. They try to assimilate Rich
Paul says, maybe in a perfect world the Lakers trade
Austin Reeves for another player her and now it's like
he's sabotaging the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Wow. I mean, he had a solution. It's a sad
he was. He was a problem solved, a sabotage. I
got an idea, that guy who's gonna be the number two?
How about But no, you get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I want him just like the photo shot into the
Beastie Boys video in the beginning, he's standing up with
the camera on the ground that he's wrapped.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It's a sabotage. Like the best sab I like from
this game is one Colt Brenner and Vanderbilt got into it.
Your guy JJ Redding ran out the court to separate him.
Like that's been it. That's that's the big thing. Hey, Lebron,
how are things going with the Lakers? Now? Sold? Now
(02:49):
we're at a skate park and running around. We'll keep
one eye on both of these games. But look, the
big story of the night. It broke just as we
were getting on the air tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Kyle Tucker, the number one free in Major League Baseball, surprise,
is going to the Dodgers four years, two hundred and
forty million dollars. He's getting sixty million dollars a year
as a guy the Dodgers can say, oh, yeah, we
can use somebody like that. That's great that he's the
end all be all for other teams that need him. Boy,
(03:18):
we need to put in middle our orders. We're gonna
compete this year. Yeah, we can have him or not
have that, Yeah, let's go, let's pay sixty million dollars
year form.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
What do we get? Your reaction was like Steve Carell
and the forty year old Virgin when he's on the
table getting his chest waxed, and you yelled, Kelly Clarkson,
we're gonna give Cody Bellinger a lot of money. We're
gonna overpay for Trek School. Now. Look, to be honest
with you, is that I knew this was gonna happen.
(03:45):
And you know I knew this because we have the proof,
which is social media, Twitter last night and what we
said in the nine o'clock hour, in this hour last night,
when we talked about Kyle Tucker, there's times when you
know that someone is out there using leverage. And now
it's become pretty easy to see that when it doesn't
matter if it's a it's a baseball player, football player.
(04:07):
When you get word that a contract offer has been
put out to a player, right, and we found out
yesterday both the Blue Jays and the Mets, two of
the three teams that were in on Kyle Tucker, had
put out offers to him. Right. The Mets was four
years and fifty million dollars a year. The Blue Jays
was between eight and ten years, between three point fifty
(04:29):
three seventy five million. Right, when you know that both
those offers are out there and there's only a couple
of teams talking to you, and these are offers that
are well within what you would say yes to, right,
I mean is, if you want the shorter term deal,
you're really going to say no to fifty million dollars
a year. If you want the longer term, you're going
to say no to ten years and nearly four hundred million. No,
(04:52):
you're not.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
But the fact that these offers were still out there
and Kyle Tucker was unsigned, what did I say last night?
He does want either of these teams. He wants the Dodgers.
And all this was was leverage to get the Dodgers
to come close to what he's getting from the Mets.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
And in the end they did to come close. They
wound up going over the top. But honestly, the Dodgers, oh, well,
look of course he overpaid, But they could have really
come back to Tucker and said we'll match the Mets offer.
What's he gonna say? No? It was pretty much the
same though. If that's where he wanted to go money
was the same. It was about, well, the Dodgers paying
ten million more year.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Then he wanted to win, right, Well, well, look I
can't fault him for go wanting to go to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Why wouldn't you, right, I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
They're the best team in baseball, They're the Empire, They're
the team that is most set up to win for
the next three to five years. It's not even close.
I get it. But I told you letting you know.
Whenever there's an offer out there and a guy hasn't
said yes, it's very rare that he comes back and says, okay,
yeah that offer that was there, I'm gonna take that. No,
he's using it as leverage.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
He kirk cousined his way, you know, like like Kirk
Cousins used the Jets to get that big record setting
contract from the Vikings where all nine million dollars he
was getting was guaranteed. Right, that was a big change.
The next big change was the Deshaun Watson contract where
all two hundred and thirty million dollars were guaranteed. Do
you do?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
That was what he was waiting for. There was something
else out there. Okay, we got what we wanted. Let's
use this as leverage, right, So I knew last night
That's why I already had time to steal to myself.
The Mets weren't getting him, and I'm being honest when
I say it would have been great to get Kyle Tucker.
But I'm also not upset with with not paying sixty
million dollars a year for a guy that has had
(06:31):
injury issues, has not always been great, and is a
twenty five and ninety guy right at his best, he
is twenty five ninety and two seventy. That's really good, right,
it's been all started the last three years. That's really good.
I'm not saying it's not.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
He's not a good player, but I'm not upset with
not paying him ten million dollars more a year than
I'm paying one Soto. I'm okay with not doing that
and saying let's go back and get somebody different, because
you can get somebody different for a little bit less
money that can give you twenty five and ninety. So
I mean, I'm kay with not paying him that kind
of money. Now, again, it's not my money. But when
you worried about luxury tax and Sally, okay, you know
(07:06):
that's kind of how it goes. But I'm okay with
not giving him that money and losing him to the Dodgers,
all right. Like if the Mets had lost him to
the Rays or the Reds or the.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Guardians, where I'm taking that money that's very similar instead
of yours, I'd be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Man? Are the Mets not a destination anymore? What are
their problems? But losing a guy to the Dodgers, Okay,
I get it. I get they won the last two
World Series and it's Otani and it's Freddy Freeman's and
the rich camera. I understand that. But I'm also at
the same time both things can be true. I am
not upset with him not getting it, and I knew
last night, which is why Jeff Passing and John Paul Morosi,
(07:44):
who I love the debt that all these guys I'm
the best baseball inside you could possibly have, because I
told you last night he wasn't going any of those. Yeah.
I mean, for some of it, it just comes down
to the As an organization and you're bidding for a
top free agent, you just have to recognize that the
Dodgers can always play improv appropriate here in Los Angeles
(08:07):
of yes and okay, you've got fifty million yes, and
what do we want to come over the top with? Right,
it's the you know, a little extra at the end
of the meal, the little extra, however you want to
term it, to get you on board. And that's the
unfortunate game that a lot of gns and owners have
(08:29):
to play in. And you have to decide how much
you want to do that, how ridiculous you decide an
offer has to be to where the Dodgers suddenly walk
away from the table. We'll tell you what if they
want the guy bad enough and they know it can
hurt you enough. Even if it doesn't, you know, to
your point, you can find another guy with some of
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those numbers. And Tucker's just coming into his prime. As
Steve alluded to in our conversation earlier, a bunch of
injuries second half for a day on second half. Now
it was him. It's Pete crow Armstrong. They struggled mightily,
the Cubs did in the middle of the order second
half of the season. But he's only twenty eight. So
you're still saying, hey, the best is yet to come
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and all of that stuff that you could roll through.
That's like a gambling thing, isn't it Wasn't that a
casino ad repeated the best was yet to come. I
think I know it's old. I know it's an old song,
that old staple and notch or whatever else, but you know,
been used again going with the gambling theme with a
lot of this a puppet, a pirate, a cub and
an astro and now I'm a dodger. No, it's pretty good.
(09:33):
Fifty d million, make it six d million, blank you,
Steve Cohen. But you have to realize that you're also
not just hurting them potentially on the field, right because
you've got to go and find now the replacement the Mets,
But you're also creating unrest in the fan base. Now,
you could try to be the voice of reason here
ahead of our beautiful Fox Sports banner here on Fox
(09:55):
Sports Radio. But you know, Joe Q public in New
York and the talkers in New Yorker wah wah, wah
wah about how bad Steve Cohens biff and things because
he can't land the big fish. Yeah he's got soda,
but Pete Alonso's not there. To shield any of the
incoming anymore pet Alonso, they could have had they decided
(10:16):
not to it. But they like Peter. The people like
pet al I'm saying it, he comes, and now you
start fighting the public perception and you're losing on the
back page of the fish wrap and all that. So
the Dodgers not only get the guy, they weaken your
hold over your city, maybe forcing you to more bad moves.
If we played a game tomorrow, I'd be worried. But
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we don't, and we have the best farm system in baseball.
We can make a treadle. We're gonna have a star
guy in left field. We're gonna get another star pitcher.
We don't play tomorrow. I'm absolutely in the end. Last year,
you might as well have had the season the White
Sox did, because you know what, I didn't sweat until
the end of September. It was over. You had to
(10:59):
spend a lot of energy, the lot of eggs. I
spent the entire season in the sauna, and then you
were done, just like the Whites the entire time. And
then just like the White Sox, as soon as that
postseason was started, you were hanging out and came to.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Look for the Dodgers, because we have there's a bigger point.
There's another bigger point to make about this coming up
in a few minutes. But for the Dodgers, look, I mean,
I don't know, I don't know what to say. What
do you get the team that has everything right?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Like a little more do? Yeah? Right? They needed an outfielder,
now they got him right, and and and they continue
to find a way to go get the players they want,
whether they need them or not. And the thing is
is that I didn't think it would be Kyle Tucker, right,
because this this is now, but it's going to be
known as the Kyle Tucker rule, the Kyle Tucker. Kyle
(11:49):
Tucker lost the Tuck rule as much the Tuck rule.
Uh go tuck Y. So this now has twenty nine
other owners and teams in Major League Baseball pissed that
the Dodgers can keep doing this, and Rob Manford has
not done anything to stop the one man army from
buying their way through baseball. You thought it was Steve Cohen. Oh,
(12:10):
we can't let Steve Coen do. I'm gonna put in
Steve Cohen tax. Don't worry about it. The Dodgers said,
oh yeah, great, we're gonna work around that and do
our thing. So you're worried about Steve Cohen, the Dodgers
were who you had to worry about. Now. I would
want my team to do the same thing if I
was If I that's I want. Hey, you're not circumventing rules,
you're not doing anything illegal. But I guarantee you this move,
(12:32):
there's gonna be twenty nine owners calling Rob Manford tomorrow going,
this can't happen anymore. You gotta do something.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And I didn't think it would be Kyle Tucker, he
of the twenty five home runs, ninety RBI two, seventy
batting average.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I thought it would be Shoeo.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Tani when they got him and they said, we're deferring
all the money till way, way later. But this is
what's going to put in a rule that's gonna stop
the Dodgers from loading up every year that Baseball understands
this is they're finding a way to continue to do this.
This is not helping us compete. This is not helping us.
This is hurting us our business. We're not in for
big free agents. When then, when when Dodge allowed to
do this.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Whatever rule is going to be put in, Rob Manford's
gonna have no choice but to do it. And you're
gonna see something over the course of the next year
that when we get to this part next year, the
Dodgers aren't going to be able to load up this way.
And it could be something crazy where if you sign
a player of this silk one offseason, you can't sign
a player of that level the next off seat. Whatever
it's going to be, there's gonna be something in there,
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because now at this point, the other teams have had
it with this and the Dodgers eve olampire is going
to continue. But you will see some kind of rule
in the next year that's going to stop the Dodgers
from loading up every year. Well, if you don't like it,
take your giant cash payout and leave. I think part
of the text chain will be the how much did
we get off the national TV revenue share last year?
How many asses and seeds for those home games when
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the Dodgers came in. Can we really attribute to the
fact that you know, they all came in wearing Dodgers uniforms,
basically head to toe.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
The Dodters coming to town. We make money when other
teams come into town. We don't make money, right all right, which.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Means everybody's gonna let it keep going because in the
end it affects a handful of team where we're talking
about the Kyle Tuckers of the world. You're not worried
about Tampa effect, but it's market teams and now those
are the ones that pushed this. They're gonna be mad,
but they lose to everybody else but your in terms
of a voting. But you're looking at a team that
is effected.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Who knows when the next Dodgers might show, Hey, we're
gonna find we like the way they defer money and
do X, Y and Z.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Now we're gonna do that. And then the Cardinals are
going to do it, or the Yankees find a way
to do it, and that they had they had the
idea to do it for Steve Cohen. Now they trust me.
There's gonna be a big push and it's gonna be
much different free agency a year from now because of
Kyle Tucker, who knew let me see when that puff
of smoke goes.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Upucker, Kyle Tucker exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen
do home Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios. We'll have more than Kyle Tucker story
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the table?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
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Speaker 1 (15:58):
The Lakers have no answer for Larry Johnson and Muggsy Bogues.
Hornets lead the Lakers one oh four ninety three. Early
in the fourth quarter, you number three forty rebounds, dude,
Zoe was having I mean, he is just he's just
pushing Jacob Rabia.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Around the war I mean, it's really amazing. That'll do it. Hey,
By the way, we have an update. Mike uh down
in Jacksonville. Made sure he was listening. Thanks for chiming in,
because we were watching your Nicks and the Warriors. Yeah. Literally,
as we finished talking about that, they had gone to review.
Draymond was assessed a flagrant oh tripping Karl Anthony town Wow. Literally,
(16:33):
as we transitioned into our Kyle Tucker talk. Okay, finished
that review and assessed the penalty. Well, as we said,
there was eleven minutes left in the game. There you go, like, literally,
as that.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Happened, boom hasn't helped the Knicks because they're down by
fourteen with seven minutes left. But like I said last night,
if someone said to me, hey, you have any advice for.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Tonight in sports, I'm like hmm. The Knicks without Jalen
Brunson on the road the second night of a back
to back against the Warriors. Yeah, I think the Warriors.
That's a pride like the Warriors. Pretty good. Not that
it would be my lock of the year, but boy,
to be close, Warriors were either six and a half
or seven and a half, depended on when you got it.
Uh so again one thirteen ninety six. Right now it's
(17:14):
a seventeen point lead with six minutes to go in
the fourth quarter. Maybe Jalen Brunson is Jalen Brunston. Tyres
Haliburton looked like they could be the NBA MVPs. What's
great is they're both guys that have been known to
be big fans of the Wwe actually have a car
to them standing in a trading you know, pleasantry. Yeah, okay,
I mean really and now they're the co MVPs sitting
(17:36):
on their butts.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
You look at what the mark of a team is,
how good are what happens when they don't have you
in the lineup? Well, you see what happens to the NIXT.
You see what happens to the Pacers. Uh yeah, that's
kind of it. It's it doesn't get any simpler than that.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
What Jonathan Kaminga doing, Well, we'll get to We'll get
to Kaminga because that's a really big story today, not
that it's just well Jonathan Kaminga. Yeah, that's gonna turn
out to be a really big story. We'll tell you why.
But here we are now, twenty four hours after John
Harbaugh was named or for it was announced he was
going to become the next head coach of the New
York Giants. Right, And we talked about this a lot
(18:11):
last night. Adam Schefter had the report. So now that
the dust has settled, right, Okay, so Harbaugh to the Giants,
and that really needed to be the first domino to fall.
The best head coach always needs to be the first
one to pick his landing spot, especially if he's gonna
wind up talking to everybody, because well, we don't want
to miss out on what could be the best guy.
(18:31):
Maybe he's not gonna come talk to us, but he
was set to talk to Tennessee after the Giants. I mean, really,
to do an o'clock just going to talk to everybody.
I refuse to travel, so we're doing it on zoom.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
How do you feel about cam Ward. Heck of a goalie.
I'm gonna put him out there between the pipes. Sixty
nights a game. Great, we love you. Let's go like,
don't land.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Uh but this this is where things sit right now,
and say, okay, head coaching openings and we're talking about
guys like Stefanski and Tomlin's walk Away and the Steelers.
It is kind of a you know, I like dystopian
novels and read a lot dide post apocalyptic stuff. It's great.
(19:12):
I'll read the most worst bull crappy kind of because hey,
it's post apocalyptic and do you have do you have
your lifetime supply of food stuff in storage? Or what
the entire Mets franchise is dealt with in a post
apocalyptic way. Okay, just so you know, he's got a
whole series of novels no I read, No, I just
thought I just finished reading one, uh two nights ago
(19:35):
that was about the zombie apocalypse happens in London and
it's like three months after and a doctor is asked
to work on uh, the new project that's looking for
a cure. Right, they've killed all the infected in London,
in England and they're looking for a cure now, and
she has kept her husband alive while she hopefully looks
(19:58):
for your cure. Because she's a doc. She gets into
the she wanted to get into the program where they're
looking for a cure, and she's keeping her husbands like
Frankenstein like she's you know, like and I'm like, oh,
that's pretty interesting. I read it and I got about
halfway through. I'm going, this is too tedious. How do
you make a zombie apocalypse novel tedious? It's way too
t I don't even know the scene of her in
the bedroom with the husband who was chained to the
(20:19):
bed and just groaning. I'm like, come on, give me
a now. The end of the book got well, I
mean I've seen that on other movies for years. Lean
is where she meets Brad Pitton. Yeah, he's not anywhere
near this Moe. It's called One Yellow Eye. And I
like the ending because you know, the zombies all have
one yellow eye and that's how you tell her they are.
But I'm like, boy, you really made this tedious. And
you made this tedious, how do you make a zombie
(20:40):
apocalypse if you've made something like that? Come on?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So anyway, uh, I read all post apocalyptic stuff.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
And the coaching landscape right now in the NFL really
has that Cormack McCarthy the Road kind of post apocalyptic
landscape to it because the jobt here Because you think
about it like this, a outside of John Harbaugh and
a little bit of Kevin Stefanski, it is not an
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exciting landscape for hiring coaches, right. Mike Tomlin's not going
to jump to another job. He's going to take a
year off. Maybe more baby's on TV, but there's no
more exciting guys. This is not last year where hey
Ben Johnson had sizzle, Aaron Glenn had sizzle, Mike Rabel
had sizzle. There's none of that this year as well.
We're really reaching to the bottom of the barrel for
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who we think are.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The next great offensive minds, right, because that's really where
things have gone to in the last few years. It's okay, well,
who's the next great young offensive mind, Who's the next
Kyle Shanahan, Who's the next Sean McVeigh. So Kevin O'Connell
gets jobs and you found so that's what everybody's looking for.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
But when it's not there, it becomes really difficult. This
is not the year to need a head coach in
the NFL, right because outside of Kevin Stefanski, who else
you have out there? It's like, I don't know. When
you couple that with the fact that the majority of
the coaching openings are an absolute mess that I want
(22:10):
no part of, you have a bleak landscape. Man Like,
if you want to rank the head coaching openings, which
I like to see people do all the time, let's
rank the head coaching openings. Okay, the Giants was great,
but that's been filled. Pittsburgh is okay because you're gonna
get a lot of time, but you have a lot
of changes have to be made to the sure and
you never know when Art Rooney's gonna decide. Yeah, I'm
(22:33):
done with given everybody ten years. But you also still
haven't bottomed out right, right, And that's that's been the
hard part is you haven't even hit rock bottom. So
the decision whether they were ever gonna go down the
firing line with Tomin or not, it ended up not
having to go there, but you have the you've never
hit that point for a full reset.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
I mean, the Giants was a great opening. The Steelers
is good because of the time you're gonna get right
because they don't fire coaches. Everything else is a mess.
Atlanta is a mess. Do you really have that franchise
quarterback and Michael Pennix Junior, a guy that hasn't flashed
and can't stay healthy, or you're gonna be starting over
(23:16):
a quarterback. And guess what, if you're starting over a quarterback,
they'll be starting over with a new coach in a
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Well, but that's the problem with all of these, right,
you go down the full nine, there's only two of
the jobs where you had a quarterback saying that's my guy,
that's it, that's it, and maybe a third if you
decide you like Jacoby.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
His own right, So Atlanta is a mess. Baltimore, you
have a deteriorating Lamar Jackson. Right, you don't have Lamar
Jackson beginning of his career. You have Lamara Jackson where
Steve Baschatt he's already said he's got to redo his contract,
and we got to redo his contract because it's too
much money.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
We got to go out and get other things. Right,
he's gonna be doing like seventy four million or something
against the Yeah, but Lamar Jackson, you're in You're in
the back last few years of his career, and was
this year in aberration or is this kind of who
Lamar Jackson is where he's not nearly his mobile can't move,
whether it's injuries or whatever else.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So Baltimore is not great. Cleveland's a mess. You're looking
for a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
You're starting over Vegas looking for a quarterback, starting over Miami,
looking for a quarterback, starting over Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
You have a quarterback, but is he really good? No
one knows, So maybe you're starting over again Arizona. You
have to get rid of your longtime starting quarterback and
get another guy and hope that Jacoby Brissett is actually okay.
None of these openings are good, right, it's it's the
Giants was great, Pittsburgh is okay, the rest it's wow.
So when you have the combination of seven openings that
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aren't any good and the number of guys for that opening,
there's nobody great out there. This is this is not
chocolate meats, peanut butter with Reese's peanut butter cup man
going nicely done.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
This is not this is oil pean water cups in
that vending machine there that should be good.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
This is olive Oil meets I'm mcvinagrett, which you know
they can't.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
They just on the sides of each other. I really
thought you were going to go down to the Wimpy
Bluto and Popeye run there with an olive oil kind
of reference. But you look at all these jobs, but
what do you always come in if you want you
either want a quarterback that you can build with or
a quarterback that you can go get. You don't have
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that either. Right, We've been talking about it, which is
why would Dante Moore deciding to go back to school?
He was your only your second guy. Now would other
guys go in the first round? Sure, Simpson and maybe
some others remember that name, that might end up in
the first round just because of need. But we don't
(25:42):
even have that class where we say, okay, I compare that,
we'll draft a quarterback here in the first round and
we'll start the rebuild process. No, no, no, you're going, all right, well,
are we in the business? Are we bringing Intua or
Kyler Murray or are we going to get Kirk Cousins? Right,
those are the we're looking at in terms of all right,
(26:03):
I'm going to take a head coaching job and try
to build and resurrect a franchise, and maybe it's my
first bite at the apple. Like, none of this is
something that you get really excited about. Again, Pittsburgh could
turn on a dime. Suddenly the Ruinis just a are
firing squads. You know, Mike, Tom what's gone. That's the
end of an era, and now we're going to operate
(26:23):
like the rest of the NFL. Down comes in for
a year and gets fired. You really want to Adam
goes back in front of a body. Yeah, but all
about to say, like Lamar, We've talked about it a lot.
We've gotten spoiled by these quarterbacks going into a second
decade this last ten to fifteen years, whereas before that,
if you got to year eight, hey man, you made
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it and then some right. We don't normally see that
in particularly for guys where a lot of their early
value was predicated on being able to elude a pass rush,
make big plays, carry the ball one hundred plus times
a year like Lamar Jackson did. I don't know if
this was dissatisfaction with the offense and Monken, whether it's
(27:06):
lingering injuries, that he couldn't do it? Was it a
all right, if I don't do this, maybe we'll actually
give the ball to twenty two where it should be going,
which they didn't do many times. All of that to
say you have no idea, I mean, I guess that's
by default because eighty percent of Lamar Jackson is still
better than anything else you're dealing with.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I mean, look beyond it. It's a risk. It's not Hey,
I can go coach Lamar Jackson. It's oh what Lamar Jackson?
Am I getting? Am I getting the Hall of Famer?
Am I getting a guy who's done right? We get
a guy that couldn't run and couldn't get outside the
pocket anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Is it because he's injured? Is it because his body
is breaking down? Is it because he wanted harball out
and wasn't trying? Like it's a risk, Like that's the
biggest thing. Like usually, hey, when there's coaching openings, whether
it's three, five, seven, nine, there's there's at least there's
at least three to four where hey, you have some
dudes in here. It didn't work and we need somebody
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because the team is underachieving. But now you have all
these you have so many teams that are just starting over,
like Tennessee, Miami, Vegas, Cleveland, they're all starting over. Atlanta's
a mess, and you're not inheriting a good quarterback situation.
Like we talked about what's going on with Baltimore, right,
and the same thing with Arizona. You're starting over again,
(28:24):
right because you've gotten to the end of the Kyler
Murray James Connor run. You thought it was gonna do
for you because James Connor was hurting. He's over thirty.
So you're either starting over or you're in bad situations
with quarterbacks. And to come in, not only that, to
have a situation where you have bad openings, you don't
have great candidates and oh, by the way, let's make
(28:45):
up for it by having a draft class where there's
no quarterbacks in it. I mean, this is a Bermuda
triangle of badness for the NFL when it comes to
That's why I say bleak post apocalyptic dystopian landscape. It's
that curiosity. Do we go down the road like with
Dante morgoing if you try to hide from a head
coaching jobs, like say you're Jesse Minter and you say
(29:06):
I'd rather coach up this Chargers defense again. You know
which teams are waiting for you next year. If you
go back into the coaching realm, say save damn teams.
I'll catch you next year. No, we won't be Oh yeah,
we'll be here next year. Don't worry. We'll be here
waiting for you same time next year. Sweaty and grimy
and desperate. Oh, we're waiting here next year. One yellow eye,
(29:29):
just waiting, one yellow eye.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Try not to find out what's trending in the wide
rule of sports from someone who's been called the Jonathan
kaminga of Fox Sports Radio. He's told us he wants out. Oh,
but that's out of the studio to go home, because
he's been working every day this week. It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh, I would want out.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
If I was making when Jonathan Kamenico is waking. That
is a separate story. But yeah, Kaming of Golden State
demanded a trade. He hasn't played in a Month's NBA
trade deadline is February fifth, Golden State hosting a New
York team that does not have Jalen Brun's tonight out
with a sprained ankle. Warriors lead with about a minute
ago one twenty four to one eleven. Laker's still losing
(30:07):
it home to Charlotte. It's Hornet's one seventeen one oh
three with about seven minutes left. Luka Donsi's thirty four
points for LA, victories for Dallas and Portland, wins for
Boston and San Antonio. Oklahoma City won its fifth straight game.
The record's up to thirty five and seven OKC one
at Houston, one eleven to ninety one, victories for Detroit,
(30:27):
one o eight, one oh five over Phoenix, and Orlando,
which was down twenty in the first half. It came
back to beat Memphis in Berlin, one eighteen to one eleven.
They'll play again against each other on Sunday in London.
Demantus Sabonis of the Kings practice fully today and could
return to play on Friday. He's been out since mid
November with a knee injury. Anthony Edwards of Minnesota will
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miss another game on Friday with a foot injury. Cleveland
guard Darius Garland is out Friday with a foot injury.
Guard Trey Young, now with the Wizards, is out until
after next month's All Star break. He has a sprain
knee and a Bruce quad. College basketball number nine Gonzaga
won tonight at Washington State eighty six sixty five. Women's
hoops at number two South Carolina, the home team edge
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Number four Texas sixty eight sixty five. The late NHL
game in Vegas went to the Golden Knights in a
comeback and overtime win against Toronto six to five. Earlier
victories for Utah and Boston. The Dodgers are signing right
fielder Kyle Tucker, reportedly a four year deal with an
opt out after year two and year three.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
The reminder.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
College Football's national title game is Monday, Indiana at Miami.
The NFL's divisional playoffs are this weekend, and Seahawks quarterback
Sam Darnold says he'll play Saturday night despite an oblique
injury he had to leave practice early today. Linebacker of
the Niners Fred Warner is still out this weekend after
a broken and dislocated ankle at October, but he could
(31:50):
play in the NFC title game if San Francisco advances.
Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen will play Saturday despite foot, knee,
and finger injuries. He just fully this week wide receiver
Terrelle Shavers of the Bills does have a torn ACL,
as does wide receiver Gabe Davis and wide receiver Joshua Palmers.
On IR form. Curtis Samuel wideout returned to practice this week.
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Texan star wide receiver Nico Collins mispracticed again today with
his concussion. Houston's at New England Sunday, then the Rams
play at Chicago temperature about twenty degrees for that game.
The New York Giants are reportedly finalizing a contract with
head coach John Harbaugh. He was fired by the Ravens
last week. And if you didn't see the TV ratings,
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the audience was large for last weekend's wildcard games in
the NFL. The games averaged thirty two million viewers, including
the Sunday afternoon game on Fox forty nine Ers at
Eagles over forty million viewers, and that Chicago Bears game
was just on Amazon Prime unless you were in those
two markets. Packers Bears, and that still got over thirty
(32:56):
million viewers. By the way, did you see the reports
plural of the Bears perhaps thinking of a new home
across state lines in Indiana?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
The Northwest Indiana Bears Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
An Indiana senator is introduced to bill that would establish
a funding mechanism for a new football stadium on their
side of the state line.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Back to you and Bears, Kurt Signetti would coach both teams,
while idiot Chipotlet and.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
He would not be happy about either.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Thank you, Steve, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we get back
into the biggest two hundred and forty million dollars, sixty
million dollars a year story of the night. Give it
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Kyle Tucker is a Dodger sixty million dollars a year,
four four years. Uh, the big shocking story of the night.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Well, because we told you last night he was going
to be a Dodger, Tucker goes the Dodgers four years,
two hundred and forty million dollars, a signing bonus for
him that's going to help defray the cost of his
of his deal. Signing by I believe is somewhere in
(34:20):
the sixty million dollars. I think sixty four million dollars
signing bonus. The Mets we just.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Got word their final law for to him was very close.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
It was four years to twenty with a seventy to
seventy five million dollars signing bonus, and Kyle Tucker chose
the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Again, I'm not upset. If he chose the Tigers or
the Angels over the Mets, then I'd be like, there's
a problem. But I get choosing to die. I understand that.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
But this is what I'm afraid of, right, This is
what I'm afraid of now, because now here's Kyle Tucker,
who has gone for the most money per year in
baseball history, angering all twenty nine other owners who are like,
that's the guy you had set the market?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Really, Now all these other.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Free agents are gonna say, hey, that's what you're paying
Kyle Tucker. Hey, I could be a twenty five and
ninety and two seventy three hitter. I could be that guy.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
So, now all twenty nine other on mad because the
Dodgers gave that kind of money to Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Sure, but are you sure it's all twenty nine?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
But here's okay, twenty of the teams, half ten half
the league five still but they'll still all be mad.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
But it's just me, but will affect about half the league.
So but this is what I'm afraid of now because
this is such a big deal. He's the number one
free agent and now you're taking him off the board.
Teams want to compete.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So now, how much is a guy like Bobashett gonna get?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
What the hell is the Yankee and Met bidding war
for Cody Bellinger gonna wind up getting to? I was
this week. I was like, hey, come on, man, if
Bellinger comes down, they can get him for three or
four years, and Mets'll get him. Now I think they're
gonna give him nine years and four and a million dollars,
which is I don't want to give that to Cody Bellinger.
But that's what I'm afraid of now for both my
team other teams that now there's going to be a
(36:01):
panic because we've waited a long time. In the middle
of January, pitchers and catchers are about a month away.
My dad tells me every day, you know, thirty six
days still pitchers and catchers. Yeah, Dad, I got it.
He's still wearing that guy's paying thirty five day with
Justin Lampson's pants every other day, every other day, every
other day, every other day. But that's that's my big
thing now because think about what the domino effect of
(36:22):
him signing is going to be. What's Bellinger's contract going
to be, maybe not for nine years, but it's going
to be about fifty million dollars a year, Boba Schett,
he could be about fifty million dollars a year. Now,
you are going to see teams panic and shake, and
the top teams that feel they are one or two
players away from the World Series are going to way
(36:42):
overpay for guys that aren't that big difference makers. Because
this is not a great free agency crop. I never
feel bad about teams that are going to pay money
for guys who are really good, right.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I never feel bad about that, because, Okay, you got
to spend to get a guy, right, if it's a
starting pitcher, I don't want to spend, but you got
to spend to get a guy, right.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
I understand that. But this is not a great crop
of free agent free agents out here. Now.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Kyle Tucker is the best a guy who had a
bad second half last year again, who is a career
when he stays healthy for one hundred and forty one
hundred and forty five games, twenty five home runs, ninety RBIs,
it's about two seventy.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
There's about thirty to thirty five guys in Major League
Baseball that go twenty five and ninety And Kyle Tucker
is a guy now that's getting sixty million dollars. I
am so I am so full of anxiety that I'm
gonna wake up tomorrow and see a board the next
couple of days and see a big overpayment for players
that aren't worth it. And it's not just gonna be
my team. It's gonna be the Blue Jays are gonna
(37:38):
do it, The Yankees are gonna do it, the Giants
are gonna do it, the Padres are gonna do it,
the Phillies are gonna do it. All these teams.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Now, I're gonna say, well, we have to answer somehow,
and there's not a lot of chairs out there. We
had to make sure we grab a chair before we're
left standing with nobody. Well, it's a great game of poker, right.
It's like bidding on something at a charity.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Auction and realizing that well, nobody was going within fifty
percent of what you bid, right, It's like, Oh, shouldn't
I get it at the next increment? No, you put
down one thousand dollars, you're giving us one thousand dollars
online auctions whatever else. Same thing here is you're trying
to figure out what that number is. And if we're
(38:18):
talking about those top elite and elite is all a
relative term on a year to your basis, Like you're
saying that you're going in for one of those guys, well,
then you're paying what the market rate is. And if
the market rate, to your thinking, is too rich for
what that guy's impact is, guess what, don't bid on him?
(38:39):
Just saying we have to fill this slot. Well, in theory,
you got a minor league. In theory, you can go
down the chain and maybe find someone that's half that value,
which when you run the numbers, right, this is the
old moneyball strategy of he gives you just as much
output in terms of what he's going to mean on
the field. Now does the other guy? I put more
(39:00):
asses and seeds, maybe sell a few more jerseys, excite
some of your sponsors locally, to activate them and do
bigger sales or sweet sales or whatever. That's what you
have to decide, Right, where's the ancillarity money? Hey, this
is how many parking spots this guy's worth because the
overpay and he edit eight your money. The only thing
(39:21):
you can worry about is if it precludes you from
going out into the market for free agent number two. Yeah,
that's a big thing. And with the Mets, if that's
what you're worried about, you're just mad that Cohen can't
play the same He's trying to play the same game,
but he's losing. We got one Soto last year. I
think we're doing okay. You missed the playoff.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
I think we're doing okay. We got the best free
agent that's going to be out there for a decade.
I feel pretty good that we have won SODO and
don't have Kyle Tucker. I feel But you were mad
at what they paid him last I feel okay about
that now. I'm okay with that because it's not going
to preclude them from going out and getting others.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
But that's their right. But the hood from the five
about the money they are though, Yeah, then that's again
you're in the wrong business. Yeah, but it's it's still
going to be a situation where you're gonna see teams
panic and when owners won't go past the luxury tax
and you're stuck with a really really bad contract, there's
no way out of it. You just have to sit
(40:14):
and wait it out, and there's no way out.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
And that's I'm afraid of is that, you know, my
team or other teams are gonna go out and say, well,
let's go overpay for Cody Bellinger. Wow, man, that hole
in the swing is not gonna age. It's not gonna
age well in the next few years. I don't want
him for nine years, but someone's gonna give me nine
years because I can't panic and lose him and not
get Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
We gotta go get somebody.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
And all of a sudden, that's a contract, that's an albatross,
and that drags you down.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
That's I'm afraid of. Albatross. Got a big story out
of the NFL and NBA. Next fuck
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