January 17, 2026 • 36 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon celebrate the upcoming College Football Championship Game by not only giving you their prediction but breaking down the coaching carrousel in the NFL! Plus, the college football guru Pete Fiutak joins the guys!
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we had the National Championship game coming up on Monday night.
Pete Futec College football insider extraordinaire joins us coming up
in about twenty minutes, gives us his thoughts on that end,
quarterbacks leaving, going transfer portal, things happening, not happening. Uh oh,
by the way, boy to Darien Mensa, screw Duke tonight man?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
What?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah? Screwed Dukeo Man? Was that bad? Oh? Boy? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
You know what a lot of chaos going on here
or here I'm gonna sue you and you Meanwhile, there's
no rules over here. And by the way, look at hey,
I'm raising my hand and then I'm calling out too.
So yeah, just chaos.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But there are two people that have a lot at
stake this week and in the NFL, and neither of
them are going to play a snap. The last couple
of weeks especially, you have seen the voices get the
loudest they have been for how bad Tony Romo is
and about Tom Brady and his job in the booth
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for Fox. Okay, these are two guys who are now
going in absolutely opposite directions, and let's do Romo first.
All right, Now, Look, the first thing I'm gonna tell
you is that I really don't care. A lot of
times what an analyst has to say, I really don't
because how much do you really take away from it?
Do you listen? Yes, if you go online and you
see someone will write a column going, look at these
(02:31):
great points that were brought up, yeah, no, I get it.
But generally analysis it sometimes it goes in one ear
goes out the other. You're not really you're kind of
half paying attention because you're watching the action, you're talking
with someone else. If you were, if you were experiencing
an NFL game in a sensory deprivation tank where all
you had were the voices of the play by play
guy in the analysts, okay, then I would tell you,
(02:53):
all right, yes, okay, then you really but really it's
not that big a deal yet. It's never gonna get
any better for Tony Romme, right, Tony Romeo is a
guy who really talking about the guy who peaked, you know,
his first year. Every week things just get worse and worse,
and look, I gotta be honest, some of the things
he said in the Bills Jaguars game was a little weird,
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and it honestly just feels like just watching Tony Romo,
it just feels like the guy is showing up now,
where when he first got the gig, he worked hard,
he was predicting plays, he was branded, no one had
ever seen anybody do that, and he became a big
star right away, got a big contract. But now it
just kind of feels like he's showing up, right, Like,
is the hard work still there? And I don't mean
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there he's blowing off meetings and going to Cabo, you know,
on bye weeks or anything, but like, is he really
putting forth the effort he needs to to succeed? Right,
They've had meetings with him at CBS, You've heard all this,
but it kind of feels like he's just showing up.
Jim and I are showing up in our chemistry and
our and our knowledge of the game and my knowledge
of the game. Yeah, I can kind of just do this.
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But really, you are seeing the more and more criticism
of him on social media. You know who listens to
social media Television networks when they see people, when they
see viewership dropping, or when they see someone that they're
paying a lot of money to just get absolutely roasted
on a regular basis, Guess what those things happen. Right,
how much did you have to see the Monday Night
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Football booth with Levy and Tessitour and and and Jason Witten?
How much you have to see people just rip that
to shreds every week on social media before ESPN said no, no, no,
we're getting rid of that. We're getting rid of that.
We're gonna go spend all kinds of money on Joe
Buck and Troy Aikman. We don't worry. We're getting rid
of that. We're gonna get rid of that. Right, you
see social media runs things like that. Right. They don't
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run NFL teams, they don't run baseball teams, but certain
things that like that. Yeah, they kind of have a
big say in what happens. And I've seen networks do
it before because you have executives who are really sick
of seeing, Hey, our product is getting dragged through the
mud because nobody likes our analysts, and every date and
every Monday after a game, here's Tony Romo, here's some
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of this stuff he said. If I got to hear
Tony Romo calling the Bills an overdog again, look what's
he saying? Overdog? Like?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
This?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Is it like he's got to understand that his future.
What's gonna happen is they're paying him a lot of money.
But guess who's gonna get demoted off the number one team.
That's what's gonna happen, right, I mean, he thinks, Ah, yeah,
me and Jim we've been doing games. I'm the number Yeah.
Guess what, you can get demoted pretty easy. And I
wouldn't be surprised if coming off of this season that
and Romo's got to bounce back this week in the
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next couple of weeks. If he doesn't, he's gonna get
demoted and somebody else is gonna be in the number
one booth alongside Jim Nantz next season, or you're gonna
see a big change in the number one booth overall.
Maybe Jim nance decides, Okay, I don't want to get
pushed out before I have to, so I'm gonna leave,
or who knows how it's gonna go. But I'll tell
you what, if you had to make me make a
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decision right now, I would tell you Romo's not gonna
be in the number one booth next year for CBS.
It's just good. It's too far gone now where so
many people think he's doing an awful job, and I
can't say they're not, because when I see him talk
sometimes I'm going, wow, you really really just say things
like you're just kind of showing up, and I kind
of need a little more from you on someplace. I
need at least a little bit why this replay is
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not going to get overturned or what happened on that.
And I don't even feel like I get that from
Tony Romo anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
A lot of guesswork, a lot of just excited like
he's in the three hundred level at times. Nance has
been fantastic and keeps the line moving. But you know,
we've talked a lot about it and go back to
some of what we did with Kyler Murray and some
of the other wonder kids, I mean wonder kinds through
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the time of guys that have just tremendous success. I mean,
you saw this at Syracuse, right Maybe you were the
wizard that came in and you dominated all your high
school classes and then you come there and all of
a sudden, oh, it's a little harder. Likewise, Kyler Murray
hasd every test, Heisman first pick Hey, top ten, pick
and baseball, go choose, choose the world your oyster, and
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then you actually have to hunker down and try to
figure out the next generation. Suddenly it got hard. Suddenly
you didn't have the ability to just wing it on
tests and make it through and get by on a
good looks of smile and a witty turn of phrase. Wait,
I turned that back on you and me there, but
some of that is going on with Tony Romo here
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as well. I think you come into the booth and
you know what you know, you know the coaches, their tendencies,
their schemes.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Guess what, it's a whole.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Generation removed just that fast, and a lot of guys
that maybe you don't have all the answers to to
where you're calling him out by number because you don't
know the surname. And you get yourself caught in watching
as a fan and marveling and maybe you know and
evoked some of those little kid feelings, but it doesn't
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translate into a number one analyst kind of role. And
what he set up such great expectations for himself in
that first year. Right, he was different, He was fun,
He had the snark to go alongside with what nance
brings to the table and now a couple of years later,
it's just got a different feel. I don't want to
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lose him. But what what's Greg Olsen's contract look like?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Right? Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I mean a lot. I think
there's a lot of things you can do. Look, there's
always going to get Maybe this is where they say, hey,
Mike Tomlin, how would you like to come and do
games every Sunday? Right, how would you like to be
partnered with? Jim Nan said, oh wait a minute, wait,
Mike tom there's always that next guy out there, right,
I mean, look, and Romo's getting a lot of Money's
getting eighteen million dollars a year. Look, it's a lot
of cash to do it. But yeah, they can easily
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demote him and try to find the new guy. You
can spend a lot of money on that.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Last thing to say with it is also, you know
you talked about execs and social media. Nowadays, you don't
just get a guy doing a quick tweet on it.
You get a super cut of all the malpropisms and
numbers and you know, disjointed commentary that comes up. Right,
So out of a three hour broadcast might have only
had five of them, But here they are and fashion
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for a minute and a half that is easily consumable
to listeners and viewers who love the NFL but may
not have caught all the game. Maybe they're out at
a bar or at another game, so they see the video.
Like I watch a lot of games, I don't watch
it with a lot of sound oftentimes. So yeah, those
super cuts do come in, and those are the things
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that are very easy to bring into a Monday recap
meeting to go through, as I'm sure has been done
many times this year.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Now going in the opposite direction, quite honestly, is Tom
Brady Okay? Now, Brady came in last year. I thought
he was going to come in and be just like
just everything that Romo was right here. He comes in
as everybody wants to see what he has to say.
He's going to tell incredible stories. For Brady, it's been
much more of a grind than I thought it was
going to be. But the last few weeks I feel
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like Brady has really come into his own right. His
game last week was the best he has done because
I again, what do I say, how many things do
you really remember? But a couple of things that he
talked about just really stick out, and I feel like
maybe it just took him the better part of two
seasons to get it going. Looked just like a quarterback right,
takes me a little bit, but then I pick it
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up right. His point on the Christian McCaffrey trick play,
when I don't know why the defender is letting Christian
McCaffrey run by him. You see him on the field,
what are you doing? You're not getting to the backfield.
What are you And they're showing the replay and you
just see McCaffrey running by and he's, oh, no, all right,
Like that was really fun. That was a great point.
And then he talked about how what's going on with
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Jalen Hurts and when you throw the football in this
kind of weather, if the tip of the football is
up a little bit, you miss a lot of passes
the ball sails on you. And how many times do
we see Jalen Hurts just miss on a pass where
the ball sailed that big incomplete pass to Devonte Smith
at the end of the game that could have put
the Eagles inside the ten yard line. Instead, they turn
it over on downs and they're watching, like I feel
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like Brady has really sort of the last three or
four weeks, but then last week with the Eagles game
and the forty nine ers, I feel like he's really
starting to come into his own. Like it took him
longer than I thought, and he was always serviceable, but
you know, look, did I think he was trying to
do too much? Yeah? Like, okay, I don't think everybody
needs to know. This is what the right tackle did
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on this play. This is what the the defensive ended
on this play. This is what the linebacker did on
this play. This is what the fullback did on this play.
Like okay, Like you don't need to say everything. So
maybe it's taken him a little bit of time to
get comfortable, but I really feel like the last month
Brady has really started to shine. And I don't know
if he's gonna get the credit for it. I mean, look,
when you're getting paid forty million dollars a year to
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do football games, but really, you know, the last month
and then getting into last week, I thought that was
his best game. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I really enjoyed that crazy ass end of season Bears
Packers game, the Saturday night game. He was just so
jacked up for that atmosphere and from the opening kick
all the way through. It brought that energy to every call,
and he was concise and excitable, doing some of the
same excited utterances that we get from from Romo. But
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then adding the piece of information. I think some of
it it's reps. You know, we've been talking a lot
about Dante Moore. Hey, go back and get more reps,
Go go throw more passes. At the collegiate level, all
of those kinds of things. Same thing here. You've come
into your own and you had no doubt that once
he got all that negative feedback, oh he's going to
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internalize that and fight back. I mean, I got a
couple of minutes. He had a great interview on The
Herd with Colin on yesterday's show. You can find that
wherever you get your podcasts, but just kind of talking
about some of the personal stuff at the end of
his playing career. But also you know in the broadcast booth,
you know, learning less is more and timing down distance
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just like a quarterback, right you got to find your rhythm,
find your pace because they're getting back up to the line.
So even if you want to get that extra line
in about the right tackle as you said, Jason's got
to live to see another day, right, that's gotta be during.
It come a long time out and it's like, hey,
let's go back and now we've got a sequence of
plays to kind of highlight it and whatever. It can't
be done in the moment, and that only comes through
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repetition and your production team and trust in your squad.
So uh, bit by bit better and better. Now he
just has to go fix the raiders.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, look and un listen, maybe he'll show up at
your house and deliver you a Pizza Hut and that
could happen. Does he actually eat pizza though?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Because TV twelve is getting sunned down? I don't know
if you saw that.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, you going away? Yeah, but here here's what I think.
I think he's gonna come up. He's doing these Pizza
Hut commercials and it's gonna be Hey, this pizza has
coliflower crust and it's and it's not real cheese. It's
cheese and I can make in my backyard. It's all.
I mean that. I think that's kind of where it's going.
That's what I think.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
The The cauliflower crust seems to be the latest fraud
beying perpetrated. You know, for a while it made avocados
where every other advertisement and everything else like this feels
like the next iteration.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Exit out about a fresca x at Swollen Dome. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Student Again,
two analysts going in absolutely opposite directions. I'll tell you what,
Romo may just have a couple of weeks to flip
that narrative. Man Uh Coming up next? Pete futech College
Football Inside or Extraordinariy stops By gives us his thoughts,
(14:27):
his pick for the National Championship Game. What's happening with
Dante More and the rest of the quarterbacks on the portal?
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Speaker 2 (14:37):
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Speaker 3 (14:48):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. The National Championship Game is set to
kick off on Monday night, just like we all thought
beginning the year, Miami and Indiana, for all the marbles
we have all kinds of drama at college football this week.
Dante Moore headed back to school. Darian Mensa headed.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
To the portal.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Sorry, Duke, I know, that's a that's a tough one, man,
this late in the portal. That's a that's a real
tough one.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
You seem to be enjoying that one a little on
a Friday.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No, no, no, it's it's it's a tough that's a
tough one, man, that's a real tough one. Like here's
Duke who is who is you know, at a level
they've never been at. You know, they didn't deserve to
be in the playoff, but they win the acc for
the first time since I think Steve Spurrier was playing.
And and you know, Manny Diaz has done a great
job there getting in and here they are. They got
their quarterback back for next year. And clearly Duke has
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been good because they figured out the nil era and
now here at the you know, when all the other
quarterbacks are gone. Now, Darian men says, Oh, I'm head
into the portal. I got a feeling we're gonna have
a destination for Mensa pretty quick, and it's gonna be
pretty big. But Joe us now the hot line for
more on these stories. There is nobody better than the owner, editor,
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stop shopping for everything college football, all the picks, all
the previous, all the prognostications done by Pete Futach. He
is on Twitter at Pete Futech. He joins us, Now, Pete,
what's happening man? How are you?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I wish I had the deal of you know, darian
ment where you just sort of, you know, get paid
a little bit more at the last second and move on.
That seems pretty sweet.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, it's definitely sweet. Not if you're Duke, but that's
definitely sweat.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Here's the problem, like when do you you know? I don't.
It's just done. Kind of a wame way to put
it here, but like it's kind of like like a
fantasy football league sometimes where like when is there like
in our league there's a direct cutoff date or cutoff
moment like an hour and a half before kickoff? Okay,
so then what happens when you know, eighty nine or
ninety one minutes before kickoff? Someone drops the guy that
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they think other guys are going to watch you know,
like like when if you're going to have the cutoff
moment and say, okay, well the deadline is today. Well okay,
so is it today the deadline or not?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
You know, so like that's all a pretty kosher, you know,
it's all part of the deal. It just seems kind
of wrong that all right, you know, seems like it's
going to be Miami.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
It's going to swoop in and take Darien Mensa. But like, yeah,
kind of thinks. But the part about this is like, look,
you know, Duke went and gave Menta a lot of
money to get him away from the portal and away
from Tulane, and now they're all mad that someone else
is offering him a lot of money and maybe a
little bit more to leave. It's kind of welcome to
the game, Sun, It's kind of this thing's played right now.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Wait, so you think it's going to be Miami, you
think that's where that's where he's head.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
It seems like it seems like that's I mean, it's
if he's going in the last deck, and it seems
like that would be the place because he's going to
get paid a lot of money to do this and
he's already the you know, it was never official, but
it was something about like four million to play for
Duke and he kind of you know, that's put changed
the whole market for Nico Jamieva and you know, for others.
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And if he's gonna leave Duke and Miami's desperate for
a quarterback, it kind of seems like that might fit.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Oh, I like this, So does that mean he's coming
in to run it back or rebuild from the Ashes
after they get crushed by Signetti and they were googling
him again.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I don't even know why they show up. I mean,
it's Signetti and all the Signetti ness that.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
The you know in India. Let me ask you this,
are you guys? Are you guys that you're sitting in
this this matchup?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Are you like, do you have National Championship fever?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Like?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Is there you fired up for this game?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I'm fired up, like like Kurt Signetti go to Chipotle
every single day, PFU Tech every day.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
That's awesome, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Pete.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I don't know how much y'all have left after the
Bears Rams game, but yeah, whenever I got left pouring
into whatever defense Crystal Ball could throw at the Indiana
sink you joke, but that.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Really does suck. I mean, because like honestly, if we
have you know, we're gonna have we have, We're gonna
be coming off of the divisional rounds, and it's what
all sports talk radio is going to want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Now.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
The difference being that since ESPN has the National Championship,
it's gonna be Wall the Wall, Indiana versus Miami.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
But the rest of the world is going to be
talking about whatever happens on Saturday and Sunday. You know,
so especially if like let's say we do get like
you know, Bears versus like Niners, and you know, Patriots
versus Bills or whatever it turns out to be, you know,
that's gonna be the front and center talking.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
It's gonna be oh yeah, and you know, shift gears here,
let's go to the National Championship.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It just seems like.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
They they drag it out a little bit too long,
and this is kind of a byproduct of that. Now
it's it's a classic game, then everyone's going to be
like wow, and that's the all they're going to talk
about with us of the week. If this, you know,
is just a thriller, But I hope. So I'm hoping
it's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
But I just Indiana has a way of turning teams
into quivering bowl that goo. So let's let's see how
Miami shows up for See.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Here's the thing, Pete is, I do think we're gonna
get a classic. I think we're gonna get a game
that's a lot like the Giants Bills, Super Bowl, the
Norwood miss because Miami's defense is fast, it's physical. They're
gonna come in and they're gonna take shots at Fernanda
Mendoza and try to make them uncomfortable. Right, Indiana's got
a great offense, but they've been a front running team
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for a long time. Especially coming off that game last
week where you get a pick six on the first play,
you do whatever you want to throwing the football, running
the football. Miami's defense is gonna make it harder for Indiana.
And I can just see a couple of those typical
Miami thirteen play seventy yard eight and a half minutes
off the clock drives, It keeps Mendoza on the bench
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where even it's a field touchdown, field goal doesn't matter,
And I can see Miami pulling the upset using that formula.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
The only problem is I'm not there. And basically every
national championship I've been to has been awesome in the
playoff era, and every game I have not been at
I was supposed to go but couldn't it the last second.
Every game I haven't been at it's stunk. So there's
that problem.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
But tach Kurts, people need to rally together for three
thousand dollars for Pete to get tickets.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Oh no, I've got the I've got the credentials. The
credentials we worth the problem.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
It's you know, various you know other aspects of this
which I will not get into.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
But you should be happy. You you you've benefited.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
From this as much as anybody else. I didn't go
with the last second, the very very very last second.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
I didn't go to Michigan TCU so or Michigan Washington so. Okay,
so there was or Michigan TCU.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
I'm sorry too soon.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Uh no, But to your point, direct point, one of
the things that no one's done is run the ball
religiously on India. It's like they everyone stops and it's
my biggest pet peeves. It's a college thing, not a
pro thing. You know, you can go to teams and
like there's certain teams like Notre Dame who have just
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this twisted thing where they're like one hundred and ninety
five and one for the last like whatever, how many
twenty years whenever they run the ball twenty five times
or more? When didn't they do it? They didn't run
twenty five times or more against Ohio State last year,
or did against Northern Illinois or just like it's there
was always these weird stats like that no one has
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run the ball like much on India. I said, the
most anybody's done it this year is ten State ran
it only thirty three times. Like Alabama. You's got this big,
massive group of guys up front and NFL line, you're
only running it what seventeen times?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
It's like they stop now.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I kind of get why Oregon didn't because they don't
have any running backs available. But if you're in Miami,
to your direct point, even if you're getting stuffed right away,
and they did get stuffed by Ole Miss, but they
ran the ball a ga jillion times, keep pounding away.
Just eventually that NFL offensive line is going to start
to break through because It's so funny. In my little
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sewing circle of guys, everyone's.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Sitting thinking, oh, well, we're gonna get another Indiana blowout,
and because they've just been too.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Good, too technically good.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
But in the back of their minds, everyone's kind of
said the same thing you're saying. It's like, yeah, I
don't know, you know, this Miami team's got the guys.
So as long as Carson Beck doesn't start throwing interceptions
like he did against Louisville and SMU. Yeah, I'm hoping
maybe I'm wish captain this, but I think it's going
to be a pretty good game.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Pete, were you surprised that Dante Moore said I'm going
back to school Rodney Dangerfield style.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yeah, I am, like, and that's a red flag. Like,
I'm in the Bill Parcells camp where if if you
want to be an NFL player, go be an NFL player.
What are you doing hanging around with a college kids? Like,
I get it, you know, he wants to improve and
all that kind of stuff. I find it kind of
hilarious that you know he wants to come back to
college and you know there's a long season. He needs
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a break. You's got to take a vacation. Meanwhile, classes
started at Oregon like two weeks ago, so I don't
think he's you know, diving into the class work on this.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I think he wants to get better, and I get it,
and I guess where he wants to be. You know,
maybe he doesn't really just does not want to be
a jet or maybe he thinks he can be the
number one pick next year.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
But for whatever reason, Okay, great, you know that's fine,
But I don't know, just go if you're that good,
if you're going to be a top five pick. And
I still think even after the performance against Indiana, once
you get him into workouts, he's a little more of
a projection than Mendoza, but he could have been number
one overall. Definitely number two maybe, So if you're that good,
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don't just go in the league, I guess. But look,
coming back to all of a sudden makes you know,
Oregon that much more powerful coming in the next year,
and it's certainly a bigger deal where you know, for
all the people talking, well, this is the start of
the dynasty for Indiana. They have the number one transfer
portal and all that kind of stuff. Well, or you know,
Ohio State's not quitting football. Michigan's going to be better.
(25:04):
I mean, you know, who knows what we're getting got
it teams like we go Wisconsin and Illinois and a
better UCLA going forward, usc at the best recruiting class
in the country, and now Oregon gets back a guy
who might be the number two pick in the draft
next year after our Schmanning goes one. So it's going
to be a if everyone's thinking that the Big ten
is going to take a hit now after these you know,
(25:24):
this massive run, Now that's not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Now, let me let me throw the hatch for Dante
more Pete because this is a different way to think
of him going back to school. I get not wanting
to be a Jet and sitting there at number two.
You know, I understand that, But what are the chances
that Dante Moore, hey, you know whatever it was, got
feedback the Jets said, yeah, we might not take you
(25:48):
at number two. We don't know if you're ready, and
you could slide. And I didn't get the feedback from
that he needed from the rest of the league, and
he could have wind up being a guy that we
thought was going to go number two. But would slide
through the first round because teams are nervous about it
because he doesn't have the starts and all all the
things that you just talked about. What are the odds
that he didn't get the feedback from the league he
wanted and that's why he went back to school and.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Then like he's gonna be this year Shador Sanders and
keep flat dropping down.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
The problem though, is no, I mean like he would
drop down to the end of the first round like
he would he would take the second.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Yeah, but like who I mean kid club Nick No,
Drew Aller, No, I mean, I guess Ty Simpson is
I'm not buying that. But the Ty Simpson's your guy now,
I mean, like he's the guy who could go number
two to the Jets only because in the Quarterback Star
of Draft that's it.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
But that's possible.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
He could absolutely have done that to me. Though again,
if you're a quarterback with the potential to be someone's
franchise quarterback, I still I just can't get past it.
Like justin Herbert literally made more money than the Mountain West.
You know, It's like, you know, Jill Burrow is making
more money than Conference USA and meteor rites like you
(26:59):
gotta get to that second contract as soon as possible.
Now you're talking, you know, real money, Amigo money. You're talking.
You know, you're talking to fifty five million a year deal.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
So it's the fact that you can get there if
you are good enough. It doesn't really matter where you go.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
But I get it.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
I mean, he's to only twenty, and I get that
he wants to progress and get better and do all that.
But that's a that's a pretty big risk to take.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Because you're never sure to be as quite as hot
as you are right now. I mean just remember Carton
Beck was the presumptive number one overall pick a couple
of years ago, and Garrett Nusmeyer, well he's going to
be the number one pick.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
You know, guys, rise up.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
You know there's going to be another Mendoza out there
coming that we don't see coming. So when you have
your chance, you kind of got to take it when
it comes to the drafting world.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen
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We're the headquarters there. At least we will be on
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Speaker 6 (28:09):
Well the weather, the weather is definitely better.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
And you know you have to play a local right there,
which is yeah awesome.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Hey, if you're ever in town, Pete, I'll play a
logo on us.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Oh, I've I've been. I've met Stet, Steve Harvey, Nikki
six know they're I'm a big fan of the spot,
the Fox Sports Studios area. And what's better in La
the weather strong? You know right now that is in
Miamiami weather. It's what's been pretty lousy for the next
few days.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well, it's gonna be better than it is in Chicago
one Sunday night, that's for sure too.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
That's gonna matter. You know.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
I not to pivot off here, but how can it.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I know, Matthew Stafford and you know Devaca Adams have
played and their professionals they reduced all these guys used
to cold weather. But how do you not get It's
gonna be seventy nine degrees in LA on Sunday and
it's going to be like two here pretty much for
the rest of the week. So I've got to imagine that's.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Gonna matter something but it's not gonna be two degrees
in Miami.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Till Pete great stuff, as always, have a great weekend.
We'll talk to you after the game on Monday night.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Maybe, guys, all right, be everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Eat FEU Tech, right. I mean, think about that point
about Indiana. You know, nobody has tried to run the
football on Indiana, and you know that's what Miami's gonna do.
They're gonna continue to try to run it to keep
Mendoza off the field because they're gonna, hey, how to
stop the Indiana offense. The less reps possible, the less
time they're on the field, the less they can score.
They're gonna try to continue to do that and hold
(29:28):
onto the clock. And look, it's not gonna be pretty,
but this is a Miami team that can do a
lot of things well. And I really I smell that
upset on Monday night, Mike Carman, I do.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
I like the chaos potential as a team. They ran
for over twenty three hundred yards during the season, four
point two a pop, twenty six scores ground Control.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
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Speaker 3 (29:57):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Ma My best
Friend Mike Carmen Allo. I gotta say, if I'm really
being honest, my best friend right now is Boba Schet bisshit.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, I've been usurped.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Yeah, well clearly. Yes. Prosper called me today and he said,
does your family know you now love Bobachett more than
you love them? I said, well, I I kind of
didn't have to say it.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
They kind of knew I did.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I did, Yeah, I did. I didn't have to do it. Look,
when I woke up this morning to that news with
my phone going off, I thought it was everybody who
found out early when they woke up today, because look,
the Kyle Tucker thing happened about ten o'clock last night
on the East Coast. I thought it was all my
East Coast friends and family text Oh you lost Kyle Tucker.
(30:45):
You sucked the meds suck, you suck. I hate you.
You know what I get from my family normally, it's.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
A lot of love, though, But then to send the
very best Yeah, oh hey.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Jason's miserable, let me send a text to him. Uh.
But the first time I said, when I saw my
phone before for the messages would continue to you know,
go go in front of one another. I just saw
bo twice. I go, we got Bobachhett. I just knew
right away we got Bobaschett he got Okay, No, they
just you know, it was just about bo is. Hey,
congrats on Bo. Bo is great. No, whether they knew
(31:15):
how to spell it or not, I don't know, but
they gave me a congrats on bow, which is fine. Yeah,
that's all right.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
It could have been about Bo Jackson and thinking back
to some of his great exploits, because there were some
anniversaries held of those. Sure, just a couple of days ago,
maybe you were thinking about him. Maybe Ohio State running
back Bo Jackson.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
That's what you said. Jackson, Now that's what That's what
all the fans here now, the Ohio State guy. He's
that good. Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
But when I saw the numbers, because that was the
big thing, I'm like, Okay, this is going to be
a real overpa, because what what do we say? Last night,
after the Kyle Tucker deal goes down to the Dodgers,
we talked about how watch the panic that happens now
from teams that feel like they have to go get X,
Y and Z, and they're going to overpay for everybody. Bobashett,
(32:00):
Tody Bellinger training for Freddie PERRAULTA, whatever it's gonna be,
You're gonna see a lot of overpayment because this is
gonna scare people because here's the Dodgers getting better. And
then what I saw was three years and one hundred
and twenty million. I'm like, oh, and there's opt outs
that this is a better deal than Kyle Tucker. I
would rather and I think all baseball people if you said, okay,
(32:20):
you can have either one of these players with their deals,
would it be Kyle Tucker for sixty million a year
for the next four years, or would it be Bobaschett
for the next three years one hundred and twenty six
million with opt outs along the way. Every ninety nine
point nine percent of people are taking the Bobashett option.
They're both terrific players, They're both not perfect. They both
(32:40):
have issues, but shed at a horrible twenty twenty four,
had a great year last year. Uh Tucker has a
tough time staying in the lineup. He had a he
had a tough end of the year last year. Now
you're seeing a lot of sour grapes out there online
about some of his attitude and how it was with
the with the Cubs and why the Cubs are able
to say goodbye to him, but you.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Know on his phone a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah, look, just to you not to go too far
down down that aspect of it. But when you think
of the contract for here's two guys that are both
really good, they both have red flags. What deal would
you rather have to have to work out with your team,
Bobaschett or Kyle Tuckett. You'd rather work with the bobashett one.
If Bobachette one works out great, great, And if he
(33:21):
wants to opt out, great, you don't know many more
money you can figure it out. If it works out
to a point where he wants to stay, great. I mean,
there's no downside to this deal. He was just as
good of a guy out there as Tucker. Now he
plays the infield and he wanted an outfielder. So yeah,
Tucker is probably a better fit because of that. But
now the Mets have the best infield in baseball, his
defense does not matter. By failing to get Kyle Tucker
(33:45):
the Mets actually wound up succeeding. That never happens, Mike.
Usually the Mets fail to just fail, but instead they failed,
and they failed upward, which was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Figured you were gonna come up empty, and it took
less than twenty four hours for the baseball gods to
just you deserved a little bit of fun.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I deserve a break today, just like McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
That's Bob, maybe you'll go and grab some. And he's
had to reward yourself from me, Bobashett, I mean four
times top sixteen MVP. We talked about the sixty three
extra base hits a year ago, in two ninety four
career hit or all of those things. Look, both guys
have opt outs. For Tucker, obviously, it's his power that
(34:26):
can be exercised after two years to go back and
say the market's changed. We live in a different world
that we did thirty seconds ago. I want more money,
So yeah you have that. The Bashett still waiting on
final terms, but you know, expected some options there. How
much his team reliant there I will remains.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
To be seen.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
But he's great insurance of Lindor coming off the elbow
surgery isn't ready to go at short, but certainly pencil
in at third. Not as excited about his offense. If
he's playing third every day, man, you know corner endfielders
she can have. His defense does not matter. And I
wish he could run.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
A little bit more.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
But all that said, three for one twenty six, pretty
strong deal and a nice rebound for your guy Cohen.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Yeah. And the other thing too, is to take this
from the twenty four hours after Kyle Tucker, you can
see the way baseball is going now. Fans are mad,
media members of the media are mad, right or wrong
about how the Dodgers are are doing. And they're doing
nothing ne farious. I would love my team to act
like the Dodgers, be able to put two billion dollars
on the books like the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
But that's the thing, nothing nefarious.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yet.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Everybody's gonna celebrate Carlos Carlos Beltrand getting into the Hall
of Fame match next for that.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
But but the thing is, there's too much. There's too
much going downhill as far as baseball needing to do something,
either salary cap wise or free agency wise, because you
have're gonna have a lot of upset teams and upset
fans going into spring training because the Dodgers keep loading
up like this, there needs to be some sort of
(36:06):
way to go in where salary cap, luxury tax, whatever
it's going to be. By this time next year, there's
gonna be a big change in Major League Baseball because
too many entities from teams down to fans are really
upset and you can't have that negative optic of the
game going forward from either side.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yeah, you have the potential of the work stoppage, but
just real quickly, I hope they all show up at
forty to sixty dollars a pop for tickets, one hundred
for parking to show their displeasure.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Exit out Vanabresca, exit Swollen Dome. Always no Mike Harmon
will bring up the parking very early in a baseball argument.
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(01:10):
we had the National Championship game coming up on Monday night.
Pete Futec College football insider extraordinaire joins us coming up
in about twenty minutes, gives us his thoughts on that end,
quarterbacks leaving, going transfer portal, things happening, not happening. Uh oh,
by the way, boy to Darien Mensa, screw Duke tonight man?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
What?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah? Screwed Dukeo Man? Was that bad? Oh? Boy? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
You know what a lot of chaos going on here
or here I'm gonna sue you and you Meanwhile, there's
no rules over here. And by the way, look at hey,
I'm raising my hand and then I'm calling out too.
So yeah, just chaos.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But there are two people that have a lot at
stake this week and in the NFL, and neither of
them are going to play a snap. The last couple
of weeks especially, you have seen the voices get the
loudest they have been for how bad Tony Romo is
and about Tom Brady and his job in the booth
(02:10):
for Fox. Okay, these are two guys who are now
going in absolutely opposite directions, and let's do Romo first.
All right, Now, Look, the first thing I'm gonna tell
you is that I really don't care. A lot of
times what an analyst has to say, I really don't
because how much do you really take away from it?
Do you listen? Yes, if you go online and you
see someone will write a column going, look at these
(02:31):
great points that were brought up, yeah, no, I get it.
But generally analysis it sometimes it goes in one ear
goes out the other. You're not really you're kind of
half paying attention because you're watching the action, you're talking
with someone else. If you were, if you were experiencing
an NFL game in a sensory deprivation tank where all
you had were the voices of the play by play
guy in the analysts, okay, then I would tell you,
(02:53):
all right, yes, okay, then you really but really it's
not that big a deal yet. It's never gonna get
any better for Tony Romme, right, Tony Romeo is a
guy who really talking about the guy who peaked, you know,
his first year. Every week things just get worse and worse,
and look, I gotta be honest, some of the things
he said in the Bills Jaguars game was a little weird,
(03:13):
and it honestly just feels like just watching Tony Romo,
it just feels like the guy is showing up now,
where when he first got the gig, he worked hard,
he was predicting plays, he was branded, no one had
ever seen anybody do that, and he became a big
star right away, got a big contract. But now it
just kind of feels like he's showing up, right, Like,
is the hard work still there? And I don't mean
(03:34):
there he's blowing off meetings and going to Cabo, you know,
on bye weeks or anything, but like, is he really
putting forth the effort he needs to to succeed? Right,
They've had meetings with him at CBS, You've heard all this,
but it kind of feels like he's just showing up.
Jim and I are showing up in our chemistry and
our and our knowledge of the game and my knowledge
of the game. Yeah, I can kind of just do this.
(03:55):
But really, you are seeing the more and more criticism
of him on social media. You know who listens to
social media Television networks when they see people, when they
see viewership dropping, or when they see someone that they're
paying a lot of money to just get absolutely roasted
on a regular basis, Guess what those things happen. Right,
how much did you have to see the Monday Night
(04:17):
Football booth with Levy and Tessitour and and and Jason Witten?
How much you have to see people just rip that
to shreds every week on social media before ESPN said no, no, no,
we're getting rid of that. We're getting rid of that.
We're gonna go spend all kinds of money on Joe
Buck and Troy Aikman. We don't worry. We're getting rid
of that. We're gonna get rid of that. Right, you
see social media runs things like that. Right. They don't
(04:38):
run NFL teams, they don't run baseball teams, but certain
things that like that. Yeah, they kind of have a
big say in what happens. And I've seen networks do
it before because you have executives who are really sick
of seeing, Hey, our product is getting dragged through the
mud because nobody likes our analysts, and every date and
every Monday after a game, here's Tony Romo, here's some
(04:58):
of this stuff he said. If I got to hear
Tony Romo calling the Bills an overdog again, look what's
he saying? Overdog? Like?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
This?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Is it like he's got to understand that his future.
What's gonna happen is they're paying him a lot of money.
But guess who's gonna get demoted off the number one team.
That's what's gonna happen, right, I mean, he thinks, Ah, yeah,
me and Jim we've been doing games. I'm the number Yeah.
Guess what, you can get demoted pretty easy. And I
wouldn't be surprised if coming off of this season that
and Romo's got to bounce back this week in the
(05:26):
next couple of weeks. If he doesn't, he's gonna get
demoted and somebody else is gonna be in the number
one booth alongside Jim Nantz next season, or you're gonna
see a big change in the number one booth overall.
Maybe Jim nance decides, Okay, I don't want to get
pushed out before I have to, so I'm gonna leave,
or who knows how it's gonna go. But I'll tell
you what, if you had to make me make a
(05:46):
decision right now, I would tell you Romo's not gonna
be in the number one booth next year for CBS.
It's just good. It's too far gone now where so
many people think he's doing an awful job, and I
can't say they're not, because when I see him talk
sometimes I'm going, wow, you really really just say things
like you're just kind of showing up, and I kind
of need a little more from you on someplace. I
need at least a little bit why this replay is
(06:08):
not going to get overturned or what happened on that.
And I don't even feel like I get that from
Tony Romo anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
A lot of guesswork, a lot of just excited like
he's in the three hundred level at times. Nance has
been fantastic and keeps the line moving. But you know,
we've talked a lot about it and go back to
some of what we did with Kyler Murray and some
of the other wonder kids, I mean wonder kinds through
(06:35):
the time of guys that have just tremendous success. I mean,
you saw this at Syracuse, right Maybe you were the
wizard that came in and you dominated all your high
school classes and then you come there and all of
a sudden, oh, it's a little harder. Likewise, Kyler Murray
hasd every test, Heisman first pick Hey, top ten, pick
and baseball, go choose, choose the world your oyster, and
(06:55):
then you actually have to hunker down and try to
figure out the next generation. Suddenly it got hard. Suddenly
you didn't have the ability to just wing it on
tests and make it through and get by on a
good looks of smile and a witty turn of phrase. Wait,
I turned that back on you and me there, but
some of that is going on with Tony Romo here
(07:18):
as well. I think you come into the booth and
you know what you know, you know the coaches, their tendencies,
their schemes.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Guess what, it's a whole.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Generation removed just that fast, and a lot of guys
that maybe you don't have all the answers to to
where you're calling him out by number because you don't
know the surname. And you get yourself caught in watching
as a fan and marveling and maybe you know and
evoked some of those little kid feelings, but it doesn't
(07:48):
translate into a number one analyst kind of role. And
what he set up such great expectations for himself in
that first year. Right, he was different, He was fun,
He had the snark to go alongside with what nance
brings to the table and now a couple of years later,
it's just got a different feel. I don't want to
(08:10):
lose him. But what what's Greg Olsen's contract look like?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Right? Yeah, exactly, Yeah, I mean a lot. I think
there's a lot of things you can do. Look, there's
always going to get Maybe this is where they say, hey,
Mike Tomlin, how would you like to come and do
games every Sunday? Right, how would you like to be
partnered with? Jim Nan said, oh wait a minute, wait,
Mike tom there's always that next guy out there, right,
I mean, look, and Romo's getting a lot of Money's
getting eighteen million dollars a year. Look, it's a lot
of cash to do it. But yeah, they can easily
(08:35):
demote him and try to find the new guy. You
can spend a lot of money on that.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Last thing to say with it is also, you know
you talked about execs and social media. Nowadays, you don't
just get a guy doing a quick tweet on it.
You get a super cut of all the malpropisms and
numbers and you know, disjointed commentary that comes up. Right,
So out of a three hour broadcast might have only
had five of them, But here they are and fashion
(09:00):
for a minute and a half that is easily consumable
to listeners and viewers who love the NFL but may
not have caught all the game. Maybe they're out at
a bar or at another game, so they see the video.
Like I watch a lot of games, I don't watch
it with a lot of sound oftentimes. So yeah, those
super cuts do come in, and those are the things
(09:23):
that are very easy to bring into a Monday recap
meeting to go through, as I'm sure has been done
many times this year.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Now going in the opposite direction, quite honestly, is Tom
Brady Okay? Now, Brady came in last year. I thought
he was going to come in and be just like
just everything that Romo was right here. He comes in
as everybody wants to see what he has to say.
He's going to tell incredible stories. For Brady, it's been
much more of a grind than I thought it was
going to be. But the last few weeks I feel
(09:53):
like Brady has really come into his own right. His
game last week was the best he has done because
I again, what do I say, how many things do
you really remember? But a couple of things that he
talked about just really stick out, and I feel like
maybe it just took him the better part of two
seasons to get it going. Looked just like a quarterback right,
takes me a little bit, but then I pick it
(10:14):
up right. His point on the Christian McCaffrey trick play,
when I don't know why the defender is letting Christian
McCaffrey run by him. You see him on the field,
what are you doing? You're not getting to the backfield.
What are you And they're showing the replay and you
just see McCaffrey running by and he's, oh, no, all right,
Like that was really fun. That was a great point.
And then he talked about how what's going on with
(10:35):
Jalen Hurts and when you throw the football in this
kind of weather, if the tip of the football is
up a little bit, you miss a lot of passes
the ball sails on you. And how many times do
we see Jalen Hurts just miss on a pass where
the ball sailed that big incomplete pass to Devonte Smith
at the end of the game that could have put
the Eagles inside the ten yard line. Instead, they turn
it over on downs and they're watching, like I feel
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like Brady has really sort of the last three or
four weeks, but then last week with the Eagles game
and the forty nine ers, I feel like he's really
starting to come into his own. Like it took him
longer than I thought, and he was always serviceable, but
you know, look, did I think he was trying to
do too much? Yeah? Like, okay, I don't think everybody
needs to know. This is what the right tackle did
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on this play. This is what the the defensive ended
on this play. This is what the linebacker did on
this play. This is what the fullback did on this play.
Like okay, Like you don't need to say everything. So
maybe it's taken him a little bit of time to
get comfortable, but I really feel like the last month
Brady has really started to shine. And I don't know
if he's gonna get the credit for it. I mean, look,
when you're getting paid forty million dollars a year to
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do football games, but really, you know, the last month
and then getting into last week, I thought that was
his best game. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I really enjoyed that crazy ass end of season Bears
Packers game, the Saturday night game. He was just so
jacked up for that atmosphere and from the opening kick
all the way through. It brought that energy to every call,
and he was concise and excitable, doing some of the
same excited utterances that we get from from Romo. But
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then adding the piece of information. I think some of
it it's reps. You know, we've been talking a lot
about Dante Moore. Hey, go back and get more reps,
Go go throw more passes. At the collegiate level, all
of those kinds of things. Same thing here. You've come
into your own and you had no doubt that once
he got all that negative feedback, oh he's going to
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internalize that and fight back. I mean, I got a
couple of minutes. He had a great interview on The
Herd with Colin on yesterday's show. You can find that
wherever you get your podcasts, but just kind of talking
about some of the personal stuff at the end of
his playing career. But also you know in the broadcast booth,
you know, learning less is more and timing down distance
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just like a quarterback, right you got to find your rhythm,
find your pace because they're getting back up to the line.
So even if you want to get that extra line
in about the right tackle as you said, Jason's got
to live to see another day, right, that's gotta be during.
It come a long time out and it's like, hey,
let's go back and now we've got a sequence of
plays to kind of highlight it and whatever. It can't
be done in the moment, and that only comes through
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repetition and your production team and trust in your squad.
So uh, bit by bit better and better. Now he
just has to go fix the raiders.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, look and un listen, maybe he'll show up at
your house and deliver you a Pizza Hut and that
could happen. Does he actually eat pizza though?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Because TV twelve is getting sunned down? I don't know
if you saw that.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, you going away? Yeah, but here here's what I think.
I think he's gonna come up. He's doing these Pizza
Hut commercials and it's gonna be Hey, this pizza has
coliflower crust and it's and it's not real cheese. It's
cheese and I can make in my backyard. It's all.
I mean that. I think that's kind of where it's going.
That's what I think.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
The The cauliflower crust seems to be the latest fraud
beying perpetrated. You know, for a while it made avocados
where every other advertisement and everything else like this feels
like the next iteration.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Exit out about a fresca x at Swollen Dome. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Student Again,
two analysts going in absolutely opposite directions. I'll tell you what,
Romo may just have a couple of weeks to flip
that narrative. Man Uh Coming up next? Pete futech College
Football Inside or Extraordinariy stops By gives us his thoughts,
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his pick for the National Championship Game. What's happening with
Dante More and the rest of the quarterbacks on the portal?
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. The National Championship Game is set to
kick off on Monday night, just like we all thought
beginning the year, Miami and Indiana, for all the marbles
we have all kinds of drama at college football this week.
Dante Moore headed back to school. Darian Mensa headed.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
To the portal.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Sorry, Duke, I know, that's a that's a tough one, man,
this late in the portal. That's a that's a real
tough one.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
You seem to be enjoying that one a little on
a Friday.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No, no, no, it's it's it's a tough that's a
tough one, man, that's a real tough one. Like here's
Duke who is who is you know, at a level
they've never been at. You know, they didn't deserve to
be in the playoff, but they win the acc for
the first time since I think Steve Spurrier was playing.
And and you know, Manny Diaz has done a great
job there getting in and here they are. They got
their quarterback back for next year. And clearly Duke has
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been good because they figured out the nil era and
now here at the you know, when all the other
quarterbacks are gone. Now, Darian men says, Oh, I'm head
into the portal. I got a feeling we're gonna have
a destination for Mensa pretty quick, and it's gonna be
pretty big. But Joe us now the hot line for
more on these stories. There is nobody better than the owner, editor,
proprietor grand Poobah of College Footballnews dot com. You're one
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stop shopping for everything college football, all the picks, all
the previous, all the prognostications done by Pete Futach. He
is on Twitter at Pete Futech. He joins us, Now, Pete,
what's happening man? How are you?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I wish I had the deal of you know, darian
ment where you just sort of, you know, get paid
a little bit more at the last second and move on.
That seems pretty sweet.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, it's definitely sweet. Not if you're Duke, but that's
definitely sweat.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Here's the problem, like when do you you know? I don't.
It's just done. Kind of a wame way to put
it here, but like it's kind of like like a
fantasy football league sometimes where like when is there like
in our league there's a direct cutoff date or cutoff
moment like an hour and a half before kickoff? Okay,
so then what happens when you know, eighty nine or
ninety one minutes before kickoff? Someone drops the guy that
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they think other guys are going to watch you know,
like like when if you're going to have the cutoff
moment and say, okay, well the deadline is today. Well okay,
so is it today the deadline or not?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
You know, so like that's all a pretty kosher, you know,
it's all part of the deal. It just seems kind
of wrong that all right, you know, seems like it's
going to be Miami.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
It's going to swoop in and take Darien Mensa. But like, yeah,
kind of thinks. But the part about this is like, look,
you know, Duke went and gave Menta a lot of
money to get him away from the portal and away
from Tulane, and now they're all mad that someone else
is offering him a lot of money and maybe a
little bit more to leave. It's kind of welcome to
the game, Sun, It's kind of this thing's played right now.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Wait, so you think it's going to be Miami, you
think that's where that's where he's head.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
It seems like it seems like that's I mean, it's
if he's going in the last deck, and it seems
like that would be the place because he's going to
get paid a lot of money to do this and
he's already the you know, it was never official, but
it was something about like four million to play for
Duke and he kind of you know, that's put changed
the whole market for Nico Jamieva and you know, for others.
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And if he's gonna leave Duke and Miami's desperate for
a quarterback, it kind of seems like that might fit.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Oh, I like this, So does that mean he's coming
in to run it back or rebuild from the Ashes
after they get crushed by Signetti and they were googling
him again.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I don't even know why they show up. I mean,
it's Signetti and all the Signetti ness that.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
The you know in India. Let me ask you this,
are you guys? Are you guys that you're sitting in
this this matchup?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Are you like, do you have National Championship fever?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Like?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Is there you fired up for this game?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I'm fired up, like like Kurt Signetti go to Chipotle
every single day, PFU Tech every day.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
That's awesome, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Pete.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I don't know how much y'all have left after the
Bears Rams game, but yeah, whenever I got left pouring
into whatever defense Crystal Ball could throw at the Indiana
sink you joke, but that.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Really does suck. I mean, because like honestly, if we
have you know, we're gonna have we have, We're gonna
be coming off of the divisional rounds, and it's what
all sports talk radio is going to want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Now.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
The difference being that since ESPN has the National Championship,
it's gonna be Wall the Wall, Indiana versus Miami.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
But the rest of the world is going to be
talking about whatever happens on Saturday and Sunday. You know,
so especially if like let's say we do get like
you know, Bears versus like Niners, and you know, Patriots
versus Bills or whatever it turns out to be, you know,
that's gonna be the front and center talking.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
It's gonna be oh yeah, and you know, shift gears here,
let's go to the National Championship.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It just seems like.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
They they drag it out a little bit too long,
and this is kind of a byproduct of that. Now
it's it's a classic game, then everyone's going to be
like wow, and that's the all they're going to talk
about with us of the week. If this, you know,
is just a thriller, But I hope. So I'm hoping
it's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
But I just Indiana has a way of turning teams
into quivering bowl that goo. So let's let's see how
Miami shows up for See.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Here's the thing, Pete is, I do think we're gonna
get a classic. I think we're gonna get a game
that's a lot like the Giants Bills, Super Bowl, the
Norwood miss because Miami's defense is fast, it's physical. They're
gonna come in and they're gonna take shots at Fernanda
Mendoza and try to make them uncomfortable. Right, Indiana's got
a great offense, but they've been a front running team
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for a long time. Especially coming off that game last
week where you get a pick six on the first play,
you do whatever you want to throwing the football, running
the football. Miami's defense is gonna make it harder for Indiana.
And I can just see a couple of those typical
Miami thirteen play seventy yard eight and a half minutes
off the clock drives, It keeps Mendoza on the bench
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where even it's a field touchdown, field goal doesn't matter,
And I can see Miami pulling the upset using that formula.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
The only problem is I'm not there. And basically every
national championship I've been to has been awesome in the
playoff era, and every game I have not been at
I was supposed to go but couldn't it the last second.
Every game I haven't been at it's stunk. So there's
that problem.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
But tach Kurts, people need to rally together for three
thousand dollars for Pete to get tickets.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Oh no, I've got the I've got the credentials. The
credentials we worth the problem.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
It's you know, various you know other aspects of this
which I will not get into.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
But you should be happy. You you you've benefited.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
From this as much as anybody else. I didn't go
with the last second, the very very very last second.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
I didn't go to Michigan TCU so or Michigan Washington so. Okay,
so there was or Michigan TCU.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
I'm sorry too soon.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Uh no, But to your point, direct point, one of
the things that no one's done is run the ball
religiously on India. It's like they everyone stops and it's
my biggest pet peeves. It's a college thing, not a
pro thing. You know, you can go to teams and
like there's certain teams like Notre Dame who have just
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this twisted thing where they're like one hundred and ninety
five and one for the last like whatever, how many
twenty years whenever they run the ball twenty five times
or more? When didn't they do it? They didn't run
twenty five times or more against Ohio State last year,
or did against Northern Illinois or just like it's there
was always these weird stats like that no one has
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run the ball like much on India. I said, the
most anybody's done it this year is ten State ran
it only thirty three times. Like Alabama. You's got this big,
massive group of guys up front and NFL line, you're
only running it what seventeen times?
Speaker 6 (22:45):
It's like they stop now.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I kind of get why Oregon didn't because they don't
have any running backs available. But if you're in Miami,
to your direct point, even if you're getting stuffed right away,
and they did get stuffed by Ole Miss, but they
ran the ball a ga jillion times, keep pounding away.
Just eventually that NFL offensive line is going to start
to break through because It's so funny. In my little
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sewing circle of guys, everyone's.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Sitting thinking, oh, well, we're gonna get another Indiana blowout,
and because they've just been too.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Good, too technically good.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
But in the back of their minds, everyone's kind of
said the same thing you're saying. It's like, yeah, I
don't know, you know, this Miami team's got the guys.
So as long as Carson Beck doesn't start throwing interceptions
like he did against Louisville and SMU. Yeah, I'm hoping
maybe I'm wish captain this, but I think it's going
to be a pretty good game.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Pete, were you surprised that Dante Moore said I'm going
back to school Rodney Dangerfield style.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yeah, I am, like, and that's a red flag. Like,
I'm in the Bill Parcells camp where if if you
want to be an NFL player, go be an NFL player.
What are you doing hanging around with a college kids? Like,
I get it, you know, he wants to improve and
all that kind of stuff. I find it kind of
hilarious that you know he wants to come back to
college and you know there's a long season. He needs
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a break. You's got to take a vacation. Meanwhile, classes
started at Oregon like two weeks ago, so I don't
think he's you know, diving into the class work on this.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
I think he wants to get better, and I get it,
and I guess where he wants to be. You know,
maybe he doesn't really just does not want to be
a jet or maybe he thinks he can be the
number one pick next year.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
But for whatever reason, Okay, great, you know that's fine,
But I don't know, just go if you're that good,
if you're going to be a top five pick. And
I still think even after the performance against Indiana, once
you get him into workouts, he's a little more of
a projection than Mendoza, but he could have been number
one overall. Definitely number two maybe, So if you're that good,
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don't just go in the league, I guess. But look,
coming back to all of a sudden makes you know,
Oregon that much more powerful coming in the next year,
and it's certainly a bigger deal where you know, for
all the people talking, well, this is the start of
the dynasty for Indiana. They have the number one transfer
portal and all that kind of stuff. Well, or you know,
Ohio State's not quitting football. Michigan's going to be better.
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I mean, you know, who knows what we're getting got
it teams like we go Wisconsin and Illinois and a
better UCLA going forward, usc at the best recruiting class
in the country, and now Oregon gets back a guy
who might be the number two pick in the draft
next year after our Schmanning goes one. So it's going
to be a if everyone's thinking that the Big ten
is going to take a hit now after these you know,
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this massive run, Now that's not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Now, let me let me throw the hatch for Dante
more Pete because this is a different way to think
of him going back to school. I get not wanting
to be a Jet and sitting there at number two.
You know, I understand that, But what are the chances
that Dante Moore, hey, you know whatever it was, got
feedback the Jets said, yeah, we might not take you
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at number two. We don't know if you're ready, and
you could slide. And I didn't get the feedback from
that he needed from the rest of the league, and
he could have wind up being a guy that we
thought was going to go number two. But would slide
through the first round because teams are nervous about it
because he doesn't have the starts and all all the
things that you just talked about. What are the odds
that he didn't get the feedback from the league he
wanted and that's why he went back to school and.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Then like he's gonna be this year Shador Sanders and
keep flat dropping down.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
The problem though, is no, I mean like he would
drop down to the end of the first round like
he would he would take the second.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
Yeah, but like who I mean kid club Nick No,
Drew Aller, No, I mean, I guess Ty Simpson is
I'm not buying that. But the Ty Simpson's your guy now,
I mean, like he's the guy who could go number
two to the Jets only because in the Quarterback Star
of Draft that's it.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
But that's possible.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
He could absolutely have done that to me. Though again,
if you're a quarterback with the potential to be someone's
franchise quarterback, I still I just can't get past it.
Like justin Herbert literally made more money than the Mountain West.
You know, It's like, you know, Jill Burrow is making
more money than Conference USA and meteor rites like you
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gotta get to that second contract as soon as possible.
Now you're talking, you know, real money, Amigo money. You're talking.
You know, you're talking to fifty five million a year deal.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
So it's the fact that you can get there if
you are good enough. It doesn't really matter where you go.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
But I get it.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
I mean, he's to only twenty, and I get that
he wants to progress and get better and do all that.
But that's a that's a pretty big risk to take.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
Because you're never sure to be as quite as hot
as you are right now. I mean just remember Carton
Beck was the presumptive number one overall pick a couple
of years ago, and Garrett Nusmeyer, well he's going to
be the number one pick.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
You know, guys, rise up.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
You know there's going to be another Mendoza out there
coming that we don't see coming. So when you have
your chance, you kind of got to take it when
it comes to the drafting world.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
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Speaker 6 (28:09):
Well the weather, the weather is definitely better.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
And you know you have to play a local right there,
which is yeah awesome.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Hey, if you're ever in town, Pete, I'll play a
logo on us.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Oh, I've I've been. I've met Stet, Steve Harvey, Nikki
six know they're I'm a big fan of the spot,
the Fox Sports Studios area. And what's better in La
the weather strong? You know right now that is in
Miamiami weather. It's what's been pretty lousy for the next
few days.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well, it's gonna be better than it is in Chicago
one Sunday night, that's for sure too.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
That's gonna matter. You know.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
I not to pivot off here, but how can it.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
I know, Matthew Stafford and you know Devaca Adams have
played and their professionals they reduced all these guys used
to cold weather. But how do you not get It's
gonna be seventy nine degrees in LA on Sunday and
it's going to be like two here pretty much for
the rest of the week. So I've got to imagine that's.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
Gonna matter something but it's not gonna be two degrees
in Miami.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Till Pete great stuff, as always, have a great weekend.
We'll talk to you after the game on Monday night.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Maybe, guys, all right, be everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Eat FEU Tech, right. I mean, think about that point
about Indiana. You know, nobody has tried to run the
football on Indiana, and you know that's what Miami's gonna do.
They're gonna continue to try to run it to keep
Mendoza off the field because they're gonna, hey, how to
stop the Indiana offense. The less reps possible, the less
time they're on the field, the less they can score.
They're gonna try to continue to do that and hold
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onto the clock. And look, it's not gonna be pretty,
but this is a Miami team that can do a
lot of things well. And I really I smell that
upset on Monday night, Mike Carman, I do.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
I like the chaos potential as a team. They ran
for over twenty three hundred yards during the season, four
point two a pop, twenty six scores ground Control.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
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Speaker 3 (29:57):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Ma My best
Friend Mike Carmen Allo. I gotta say, if I'm really
being honest, my best friend right now is Boba Schet bisshit.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, I've been usurped.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Yeah, well clearly. Yes. Prosper called me today and he said,
does your family know you now love Bobachett more than
you love them? I said, well, I I kind of
didn't have to say it.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
They kind of knew I did.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
I did, Yeah, I did. I didn't have to do it. Look,
when I woke up this morning to that news with
my phone going off, I thought it was everybody who
found out early when they woke up today, because look,
the Kyle Tucker thing happened about ten o'clock last night
on the East Coast. I thought it was all my
East Coast friends and family text Oh you lost Kyle Tucker.
(30:45):
You sucked the meds suck, you suck. I hate you.
You know what I get from my family normally, it's.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
A lot of love, though, But then to send the
very best Yeah, oh hey.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Jason's miserable, let me send a text to him. Uh.
But the first time I said, when I saw my
phone before for the messages would continue to you know,
go go in front of one another. I just saw
bo twice. I go, we got Bobachhett. I just knew
right away we got Bobaschett he got Okay, No, they
just you know, it was just about bo is. Hey,
congrats on Bo. Bo is great. No, whether they knew
(31:15):
how to spell it or not, I don't know, but
they gave me a congrats on bow, which is fine. Yeah,
that's all right.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
It could have been about Bo Jackson and thinking back
to some of his great exploits, because there were some
anniversaries held of those. Sure, just a couple of days ago,
maybe you were thinking about him. Maybe Ohio State running
back Bo Jackson.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
That's what you said. Jackson, Now that's what That's what
all the fans here now, the Ohio State guy. He's
that good. Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
But when I saw the numbers, because that was the
big thing, I'm like, Okay, this is going to be
a real overpa, because what what do we say? Last night,
after the Kyle Tucker deal goes down to the Dodgers,
we talked about how watch the panic that happens now
from teams that feel like they have to go get X,
Y and Z, and they're going to overpay for everybody. Bobashett,
(32:00):
Tody Bellinger training for Freddie PERRAULTA, whatever it's gonna be,
You're gonna see a lot of overpayment because this is
gonna scare people because here's the Dodgers getting better. And
then what I saw was three years and one hundred
and twenty million. I'm like, oh, and there's opt outs
that this is a better deal than Kyle Tucker. I
would rather and I think all baseball people if you said, okay,
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you can have either one of these players with their deals,
would it be Kyle Tucker for sixty million a year
for the next four years, or would it be Bobaschett
for the next three years one hundred and twenty six
million with opt outs along the way. Every ninety nine
point nine percent of people are taking the Bobashett option.
They're both terrific players, They're both not perfect. They both
(32:40):
have issues, but shed at a horrible twenty twenty four,
had a great year last year. Uh Tucker has a
tough time staying in the lineup. He had a he
had a tough end of the year last year. Now
you're seeing a lot of sour grapes out there online
about some of his attitude and how it was with
the with the Cubs and why the Cubs are able
to say goodbye to him, but you.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Know on his phone a lot.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah, look, just to you not to go too far
down down that aspect of it. But when you think
of the contract for here's two guys that are both
really good, they both have red flags. What deal would
you rather have to have to work out with your team,
Bobaschett or Kyle Tuckett. You'd rather work with the bobashett one.
If Bobachette one works out great, great, And if he
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wants to opt out, great, you don't know many more
money you can figure it out. If it works out
to a point where he wants to stay, great. I mean,
there's no downside to this deal. He was just as
good of a guy out there as Tucker. Now he
plays the infield and he wanted an outfielder. So yeah,
Tucker is probably a better fit because of that. But
now the Mets have the best infield in baseball, his
defense does not matter. By failing to get Kyle Tucker
(33:45):
the Mets actually wound up succeeding. That never happens, Mike.
Usually the Mets fail to just fail, but instead they failed,
and they failed upward, which was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Figured you were gonna come up empty, and it took
less than twenty four hours for the baseball gods to
just you deserved a little bit of fun.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I deserve a break today, just like McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
That's Bob, maybe you'll go and grab some. And he's
had to reward yourself from me, Bobashett, I mean four
times top sixteen MVP. We talked about the sixty three
extra base hits a year ago, in two ninety four
career hit or all of those things. Look, both guys
have opt outs. For Tucker, obviously, it's his power that
(34:26):
can be exercised after two years to go back and
say the market's changed. We live in a different world
that we did thirty seconds ago. I want more money,
So yeah you have that. The Bashett still waiting on
final terms, but you know, expected some options there. How
much his team reliant there I will remains.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
To be seen.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
But he's great insurance of Lindor coming off the elbow
surgery isn't ready to go at short, but certainly pencil
in at third. Not as excited about his offense. If
he's playing third every day, man, you know corner endfielders
she can have. His defense does not matter. And I
wish he could run.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
A little bit more.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
But all that said, three for one twenty six, pretty
strong deal and a nice rebound for your guy Cohen.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Yeah. And the other thing too, is to take this
from the twenty four hours after Kyle Tucker, you can
see the way baseball is going now. Fans are mad,
media members of the media are mad, right or wrong
about how the Dodgers are are doing. And they're doing
nothing ne farious. I would love my team to act
like the Dodgers, be able to put two billion dollars
on the books like the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
But that's the thing, nothing nefarious.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Yet.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Everybody's gonna celebrate Carlos Carlos Beltrand getting into the Hall
of Fame match next for that.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
But but the thing is, there's too much. There's too
much going downhill as far as baseball needing to do something,
either salary cap wise or free agency wise, because you
have're gonna have a lot of upset teams and upset
fans going into spring training because the Dodgers keep loading
up like this, there needs to be some sort of
(36:06):
way to go in where salary cap, luxury tax, whatever
it's going to be. By this time next year, there's
gonna be a big change in Major League Baseball because
too many entities from teams down to fans are really
upset and you can't have that negative optic of the
game going forward from either side.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Yeah, you have the potential of the work stoppage, but
just real quickly, I hope they all show up at
forty to sixty dollars a pop for tickets, one hundred
for parking to show their displeasure.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Exit out Vanabresca, exit Swollen Dome. Always no Mike Harmon
will bring up the parking very early in a baseball argument.
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