December 11, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if we’ve already seen the best of Pete Alonso. More on the news coming out of Michigan football. Plus, a TNF preview of Falcons and Buccaneers!
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome in side hour three the Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon. The end of the
third quarter and it's the Spurs still on top of
the Lakers by sixteen. The last Final four E Cup
berth at Steak and it's been the Spurs who jumped
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out to a seventeen point lead in the first half
and they have been able to keep this up again
closing in the end of the third quarter without Wemby
and they are thumping LA ninety eight to eighty two.
We'll have more on this game coming up. Following the
conclusion of this game. Rick Bucker is gonna stop by
Fox Sports won NBA inside of the latest on this
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all the big news out of the NBA. Now before
we get to the latest on Sharon Mordes. We talked
about a couple of quarterbacks a few minutes ago that
may or may not be playing on Sunday. Right, we
may get Philip Rivers playing on Sunday. Yeah, good luck.
Start the Seahawks defense. The other guy that we're not
going to see on Sunday. Honestly, at this point, I
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hope we don't see him the rest of the year.
Jayden Daniels will not play Sunday against the Giants. He
got knocked out a last week's loss of the Vikings
after landing hard on his left elbow, which he previously
dislocated in Week nine. This is now the third time
this season he has had to leave a game because
of injury. As great as last year went, as great
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a year as he had and what he showed, it
is one hundred and eighty degrees opposite it this year.
And you know, at this point, if you're Washington, why
bring him back at all this year? The season's over.
You have a lot of things to do to this
team to get it ready, to get back to being
the team you were a year ago, which was you know,
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one step from the Super Bowl. Right, your team is
older you have to figure out a running situation, receivers,
your tight end. You know, we saw a couple of
big injuries and.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Earth this this has been yet.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It has been a bad season for a team that
got so far last year. You thought they were the
next great power in the NFC, and now it's almost
like they're starting over. It's an older team. They tried
to bring everybody back. It didn't work, and there's no
reason to have Jad and Daniels play because the last
thing you want, and I hate to say it, but
I see a lot of comparisons right now, is that
there's a lot of comparisons between Jade and Daniels and
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Robert Griffin, the third right. RG three came into the
league as a rookie and he was terrific, right offensive
Rookie of the Year. He was amazing. Right he came in,
it was wow. I thought Andrew Luck was going to
be great. Oh, the Redskins got a guy back with
her with the Redskins and he was terrific. And then
slowly what happened. He had trouble staying on the field.
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He couldn't he couldn't stay healthy. His running style, he
didn't wasn't able to slide, wasn't able to get away
from things. And as a result of him, you heard
a lot of stories about, hey, maybe things weren't the
rosiest there with RG three and and and his teammates.
I'm not talking about that part of it at all.
But the one thing that always pushes your football mortality
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to the end is that if you can't stay healthy,
teams aren't going to continue to say you're our guy.
And when he couldn't stay on the field, this is
a guy taking number two overall in the draft, right,
this is as high as you took Jade and Daniels
that when you take a guy that I he's our future,
he's everything. But after a couple of years and RG
three couldn't stay on the field, it was we got
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to move on. And then he tried to stick around.
He tried to start with through the Ravens a little bit,
and he had one bad pass in the preseason that
he threw thirty yards over the end zone. I don't
think he ever got away from that from that crazy
ass play. And because of that, because he couldn't stay
on the field, a guy that was all kinds of talented,
his career just fell apart, and Jayden daniels first year
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was phenomenal, right, just like RG three now here, he
is three separate injuries this year, and you don't want
to go down like you don't want to be compared
to have a career like that. I do not need
to see him the rest of the year. I need
him to be incredibly healthy. I need to make sure
that the offensive line is as good as it can
be next year. And I gotta make sure he is
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upright because yes, it's tackle football and I understand what happens,
but you got to make sure that this guy is
staying upright. You know, of course the Chargers are going
to go into next offseason going we got to get
way more offensive line because it didn't work this year
and justin Herbert's getting crunched every single time he plays,
so you need to do some roster adjustments to make
sure you are going to be able to keep him
healthy as long as possible. But man, first year, second
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year like that's kind of followed, you know, a generation later.
RG three's career with with Washington and now where Jayden
Daniels is.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Came in at an over one hundred and nine and
a half wins on the year. Expected regression, not to
this level of what the expectations were on the Vikings
after they shuffled up and dealt at the quarterback position,
but certainly a lot of one win game or one
score games and last minute heroics. So expecting a little
bit of a regression. But for Jade and Daniels, we've
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we talked about it as he was drafted and all
through last year, the number of near misses and scary moments,
and this year it all came to pass, being out
multiple times. Unfortunate here as he goes back to the
injured list, Regina Jackson is going to come for you.
That's Jaden daniels mom back in October said quote, I
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wish you would stop manifest and RG three on my son,
words are powerful. Was after a hamstring injury, so you
know now I got three. Yeah, he's a much bigger
injury and obviously one that could be a long standing issue.
But we talk about, you know, running quarterbacks, mobile quarterbacks,
the ability to protect yourself. Justin Herbert had a crazy
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ass game, right Jim Harbaugh put the built another statue
for him. After that effort, we watched him run like
his hair was on fire. But we also saw him
sack seven times. So yeah, to your point, it's like
the Dodger bullpen a year ago. Right, Yeah, signed a
bunch of guys, but you might need another four or five.
That's their line. That's where you're at in Washington because
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you've had guys in and out of the lineup all
year long, and the heart's injury. That's probably a career
ender for him. But and he was their leading receiver,
right because McLaurin had missed so much time, Like you
have some good pieces in Deebo Samuel getting a bit
older and beaten up all those years of seven carries
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a game in San Francisco ofa taking their toll. But
now it's a completely reconstituted roster and you're gonna have
a second quarterback there, there's no question about it. It's
gonna be a captain. Kirk rise, Hey, I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Can I come back? You know you know that phrase
nothing good happens after midnight? Right? They always say that
when you go out at night, maybe nothing good happens
after midnight. Like I feel like in the NFL you
could say, hey, if you're a bad team. Nothing good
happens in December, right, But nothing good happens in December,
just so just when when it's that bad a year,
you're three and ten, your snake bit injury wise, there
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is no reason to throw those guys out there again
and potentially hurt the future of your team. Like, if
you're a bad team, nothing good happens in December. You so, Jason,
at this point, you're it's almost time for next year.
That's you gotta worry.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
But the fact that he got reactivated, we talked about
it when that news came out. It's like I didn't
believe I couldn't believe it. Yeah, I thought for sure
based on that injury. And obviously you know where we're
we only play doctors on the radio, and we've seen
plenty of times where it's like, wow, that looks terrible,
and then the guy's back three plays later. We've also
seen what we would call probably malfeasance a number of
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times of a guy knowing just the right answers to
the concussion test or whatever to get back on a field.
Think about t Higgins just recently here for the Bengals
to where you're wondering how the human body, and you
marvel at the resilience of these guys, the aforementioned Herbert
being one of those guys that stands up certainly playing
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with screws in his hand and whatever else. Hey, let's
go change the bandage because you're bleeding through and we
can't have that, you know, all of those kinds of
things that But for Jaden Daniels, the fact that he
got back on the field, I give him all sorts
of love for his toughness and wanting to be out
there and finish and try to kill off some of
these narratives. But clearly physically he was not ready to
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get back out there.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
The Jason Smith with Mike Carman Lott from the Fox
Sports Radio studios. We got more NFL on the way.
But to give you this new information that has come
in regarding University of Michigan head coach Charon Moore. Sharon
Moore is in custody tonight in a Michigan County jail
as a suspect in an alleged assault. This just hours
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after he got fired by Michigan for having what the
school said was quote, an inappropriate relationship with a staff member.
Police released a statement on Wednesday night saying they responded
around four to ten pm to a house for the
purposes of investigating an alleged assault. Suspect was taken into custody.
This incident does not appear to be random in nature,
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and there appears to be no ongoing threat to the community.
This is where Sharon Moore stands. We're twenty four hours ago.
The guy was about on top of the world as
you could be, and now here he is no job.
Michigan's fired him for cause, which means he's not going
to get paid. And here he is an inappropriate relation
with a staff member of the Michigan football team. In
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this story, with every hour, just gets more and more wacky.
And again, I'm sure by this time tomorrow we will
know more details on what happened, who's involved, what happened
with Sharon Moore in this incident we're talking about now
because there's just a lot of internet speculation happening right now.
And look, if there was one common narrative, I would say, Okay,
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well this is what's being said. But there's like three
or four different things for each of these stories. Who
the woman was, he was involved with, for relationship. There's
a couple of different women that's support what is it her?
Is it her?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Is?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Is this even true? A couple of stories about why
he was suspected and assault. So again I look. I
always look at TMZ when TMZ is saying there's a
lot of stuff out there on the internet. Okay, I
understand TMZ, which is well connected as any newsroom in
the world, when they're saying there's a lot of stuff
out there, Okay, I get it. It means there's a
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lot of stuff out there. But the bottom line is
Sharon Moore is no longer Michigan's head coach. And it
really gets to me that I still shake my head
and I can't believe how many people. Well we talk
about this with the WNBA, Right, what do I say,
Their biggest thing has been they can't handle success? Right,
extremely successful. Caitlin Clark comes into the league, Angel Reaves
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comes into the league, Cameron Brink comes into the league,
Paige Becker's comes into the league. All of a sudden,
it is the time for the league now. It is
incredible success whatever, whether you love or hate the timing,
because you were been in the league for a long time,
or you're the MVP, former MVP doesn't matter. This is
the time for the league. And still the WNBA can't
handle success. Players are fighting with each other, there's jealousy,
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there's players being left off Olympic teams. People love Caitlin Clark,
they hate Caitlin Clark. They can't be thankful that Caitlyn
Clark showed up. And now they have charter flights everywhere
and they're going through a CBA where more money is
going to get involved, Like, okay, you got to be
able to handle success and the number of people that
can't do it. And Sharon Moore's there's nobody that was
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handed success more than this side. He's the OC on
the team that wins a national title. Jim Harbaugh has
to leave for the NFL because he's never gonna let
him coach in college again. After the sign stealing scandal,
right Searon Moore gets caught up in it, gets suspended
for a few games, but it doesn't matter. Michigan hires them.
They're paying them a lot of money. He beats Ohio
State last year, everything seems on the way up. He's
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a guy that didn't have to go and coach at
seventeen different spots to get a job coaching Michigan. He
slides in, it's a great gig for a guy that
everybody seemed to like on the team, he won games,
Michigan seems to like him, the fan base is okay
with him, and he couldn't handle success. And now here
he is at Michigan, which was a top five job
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in all of college football. Guy's been their whole lives
in college trying to get a job like this, head
coach at Ohio State, head coach at Alabama, wherever you
want to say, this is where I want to get
to head coach at USC And he couldn't handle success,
and this is where he's at right now. Now you
have an assault and an inappropriate relationship with a staff member,
Like how are you? How are you not there handling
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your success? Because in life, right what do you really
want to do? Hey, I got the I got one
of the best gigs in the world. This is all
my attention right now, and instead I gave it away
because of inappropriate relationships and an assault, Like what is
I really I can't believe times, Mike, where people just
torpedo their own careers because they can't handle the success
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that they have, and Sharon Moore is at the top
of that list.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah, I mean in this particular case, right, we're still
awaiting a number of other details. As you say, there's
any number of rumors that you can start to go
down the rabbit hole and just wait a second and
you'll be pivoting to another in terms of the handling
of success. I mean, I don't know that how recent
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of an invention it is. And I don't know Sharon
Moore's history, right, and who the man is, you know,
going all the way back and whatever his family circumstance
and and everything laid out, but certainly got the opportunity
as Harbaugh went to the Chargers that he had the
rapport with the locker room, the boosters and relationships on
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the recruiting trail or whatever that gave him that opportunity.
And you know what goes into a man or woman's
heart and their their mind, the missteps, miscalculations, and sometimes
you think you've got things covered or and not even
just from a hey, secrets or whatever, just whatever you're
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trying to handle that suddenly it gets away and it
starts to spiral.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
The old little white lie.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
That becomes something much, much bigger because you're afraid to
confront it. And in this case right now, we're trying
to parse out what's real, what's imagined, because some of
the speculation is is really next level, This is straight
out of the movie of the week kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So, by to your point, we see it in business, government,
all the way through every layer that you know, just
because you rise to a position of power, prominence and
demonstrated aptitude in a particular field doesn't negate the fact
that you are at the core of it all human
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and may may follow it up right the old saying
common sense isn't so common?
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Mike Harmon, you know it just really cuick. Before you
get into pedal Linzo, I'm not delaying into Pete Alonzo
it's fine. Uh, you know, I gotta say in with
everything going on, you know, Searon Moore fired as Michigan
head coach and you know, accused of an inappropriate relationship
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with a staff member. Now he's been booked on on
on assault charges. Biff Pogi is going to be the
Michigan interim head coach through the bold game. Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Now, not often you get a guy named Biff running around.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You hear the name Biff Pogi, and then you see
a picture of him and you go, that's exactly what
I thought a guy named fIF Pogi gonna look like.
Right like if you said, if you were doing a
movie and you said, you know, I need a guy
to be my head cut like a comedy. I need
a guy to be my head coach. He need a
big guy who looks the part like every guy that
ever yelled at you. That's his language is salty, and
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he's funny and the kids love him. And he's standing
on the blocking sled like what I think you would say, Oh,
I got the guy for you, Biff Pogi. Oh that's
a great name. We'll use that. No, that's his real name.
Here's a picture of the guy. Oh get him. He's
our guy, man. He is central casting one.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
That is absolutely true that that would be the way
it did properly, especially the pictures that they also chose
of him. In every one of these stories. He's screaming, gesturing,
fist pumping whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
He's He's sleepless in a lot. He's like in cold
weather games. He's sleepless. He's got all it looks like
he's got all the necks. Uh, you know, cut off
his off his shirt like you know that when you
want to make a it's a little bit too tight,
so you cut the top of the neck of the shirt, make.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
A little bit. Why.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It's like every shirt he has is that way, Biff
oh Man.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Now he'll lead him through bowl season and then based
on the betting odds, a bunch of heavyweights from the
college and pro worlds looking at potential there with again
calein de Boor. You're early leader in the clubhouse of
the odds markets.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Good luck. All right, So now to Peede Alonzo. All right,
and I'm being I know you think that I'm a
pod person. The last couple of days, Jase, you got
to be absolutely devastated. Edwin Diaz has gone to the Dodgers. Now, Pete,
Alonzo's gone to the Orioles, I have to say, and
I'm being honest with you, it's fine, and two things
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can be true at once. With Alonzo. Did it suck
today when I heard that he that he went to
the Orioles for five years and one hundred and fifty
million dollars? Yeah? Did it suck that the Mets didn't
make an offer to him and they just said, hey, Pete,
good luck.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, congratulations on a job.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah done. It sucked. But at the same time, I
completely understand not giving a one dimensional first baseman who
you've had the best of him, and he's on the
wrong side of thirty one hundred and fifty million dollars
for the next five only I was understand that. I
understand that, No, we've seen his best, No we haven't.
I'm pretty sure we've seen his best.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oriols already paying him all that money if we've seen his.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Best, Okay, all right, yeah, he will lead the children.
We'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we've seen his best.
It's not suddenly where he was going to turn into
a guy hitting sixty home runs a year, knocking in
one hundred and forty runs. That's not who he was.
The Mets had an incredible collapse this year. And what
I like about this is that there's clearly a plan
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and David Stearns is bold, foolhardy enough to say, hey,
I'll wear the bulls eye because I know what the
vision needs to be for this team to take the
next step, and spending two hundred and twenty million dollars
on a closer and a one dimensional first baseman is
not where we want to spend our money. I get
it right. You can agree or disagree, but I get
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that this is the vision for the team, and the
one thing you want your guys in charge is to
have a vision for the team. Now, the Mets aren't playing.
If they were playing tomorrow, I would say, all right,
we're in trouble. But there's guys like Kyle Tucker and
Cody Bellinger who can play all three outfield positions and
first base that the Mets are in. The Mets have
all kinds of money, and Steve Cohen is not afraid
to spend money to go upgrade at different positions. Right.
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You know that coming off you can't just run the
same guys out there. Certain collapses happen in sports when
you blow a playoff spot or a game and you
just can't bring the same guys back. You just can't
do it. You have to have something new, And this
collapse was really bad. They went as far as they
could with this core of Lindoor and Alonzo and Nimmo
and Jeff McNeil. And why do you think two of
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them are already gone and one of them's on the
trade block. Look, Lindoras is signed for a long time.
He's still a great player. But I guarantee you they
would look for Lindor if he was coming up at
the end of his contract, right, like it's it's time
to move, and say, who's our next core that we're
gonna pair up with Juan Soto for the better part
of the next ten years, Like who's our guys we're
going to get right now? So I get that there's
a vision. I understand. I wasn't upset that Alonzo left
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when he hired Scott Boris two and a half years ago.
I knew he was leaving. I said, at some point
he's gone. I don't know when, but Alonzo's gone. I
understand this, right, I get it. But did it suck
at the same time, Yeah, of course it sucked. Alonso
was great at the biggest home run in Mets history.
I drove to work last night listening to the ninth
inning call of Howie Rose of the the the home
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run and the whole ninth thinning against the Brewers. And
by the way, it's still his typical Mets A two
years later, we signed the guy that gave up the
home run and we don't have the guy that hit
the home run. So that's Mets. That's typical Mets. But
but yeah, it sucks because he's a homegrown talent and
he was great. I hope he would retire with the Mets.
He's a great story. But you know what, it's not
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like there's I gotta say, boy, all those banner ceremonies
we have for World Series and nl pennance up there.
Boy maybybe letting Alonzo go was a mistake. You know,
I don't see any of those. Yes, got to the
NLCS a year ago, wasn't nearly good enough this year.
You've had this core together for a long time, Alonzo
and Nimo and McNeil, and they have all been there
a long time. It's time to do something a little
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bit different and to know that you're gonna have a
guy build the rest of this offseason, and there's star
players out there. You have a big farm system that
you can make trades with. They're good at and at
the end of the day, when it's okay, well, hey,
next year, it's Cody Bellinger playing first base and Kyle
Tucker in the outfield with with one soda, suddenly things
are looking a little good. Oh Suarez. Suarez is closing
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games now, in addition to Devin Williams. Oh okay, I
get it. But the Mets had a vision and I understand,
and I'm not upset about losing Alonzo. At the same time,
it does suck emotionally. It was a really tough day.
There was a like tears came to my eyes a
couple of times when I thought about when I saw
him hit the home run again and saw him running
around yelling let's go. When he first swung that bat
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and he screamed at the plate, and I knew he
got it before anybody else knew it was a home run.
Just watching him scream, I knew. I said, we're winning
three to two. He knows he got that. Yeah, But
both things can be true. It can be the right
move and it can be a tough day at the
same time. Right, coming off a big year thirty one,
but he's gonna be thirty two. You got him till
thirty five, thirty six. How's he gonna age? How's he
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gonna go? Uh? Yeah, I'm okay with with taking that
money and spending at someplace else. But it doesn't mean
today still didn't suck. You want to sing a little.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday and play
that home run a couple of times more.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I mean, no, I got it.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I'm not trying to bribe you.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
It was more just a theoretical thing because my man
obviously needs a little bit of piece and and love
and an extra slice of chocolate cake in his house
between what's going on. As fine, he's lying because it does.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
No matter what, like I have Cad, well matter what I.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Mean, that's a given, but just in terms of timelines
and and finite pieces to you know, this era of
Mets baseball is officially dead. Right Narco moves to the
West Coast, Timmy Trumpet tries to leave the l behind. Indeed,
a rule already learning how to play it as we
were Chronicle yesterday. Now you look at Pete Alonzo leaving
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for Baltimore, he'll look very odd in an Orioles uniform.
And look, he's still in his early thirties and it's
only a five year deal. The fact that he can't
really do much defensively, there's no versatility. I understand your
point there, but you still have to go and ratchet
up in the free agent market and there's plenty of
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bats out there. Just recognize that those guys are all
allegedly wanting eight to ten year deals. I want any
part of that for any of those guys really, for
the careers that Tucker and Bellinger have had and the
ups and downs and times that they've had, Yeah, let's
go give them eight to ten years. Especially Tucker after
that second half of this season he was the MVP
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and then three weeks later going does he still hit
the ball? Like between me and Pete crow Armstrong, two
guys that suddenly is like someone stole their bats and
they had to go up there and hit it with
their hands and to make believes swing through like it
was going to be added like a lightsaber into Star
Wars Land. But all of that to say, it is
a much different squad that you're coming back to understand
(26:02):
the the emotion of it, all the pragmatism. Now trying
to lay that at the feet b Alonzo that it's
his fault that they didn't raise banners.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know what I'm saying, You're kind of going down.
They do something, it's wrong.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You got a lot of didn't wait, was not that
guy on?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
People are looking back at this era of the Mets like, boy,
it was it was World Series after World Series and
how do you how do you pull the plug on this?
Look at that? No, that's not at all. You were competitive,
saw that?
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Man?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
No, it's that you were competitive because twenty of years
you haven't been.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
But what do you.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Think I'm celebrating a number one draft pick win for
crying out.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
The Mets lost one hundred games.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Goodness, lost one hundred games this coming up season. Because
I know the answer to mine three of the last four. Baby, Yeah,
let's go, let's go all the way back. Look, Frostburg's
just upset because this Lakers are getting worked by the Spurs.
But no, look I go by the Jim Beheim philosophy
(27:03):
of I want to win. I don't care who plays, right, Okay,
I have no loyalty. I sign all these guys they
come in to play for me in Syracuse, but I
don't care if one guy is playing better another guy.
I don't care if I went out and got him
and whatever nil money he had to get or whatever
it was, whatever recruiting process was. I want. I don't
care who plays. I really I don't care who plays.
(27:25):
And maybe this is part of me being in my
fifties and understanding how much, over the course of your
life players come and go. The name on the front
of the jersey's more important the name on the back.
I bet you. I bet you. If you went into
everybody on social media today and saw the people who
complain the most that Pete Alonso didn't get signed by
the Mets, it would be people who are really, really young,
(27:48):
who's only experience with a player who's been there that
long with the Mets has been Pete Alonzo. I guarantee,
I guarantee you say all the guys, there's nobody in
their fifties or or forties or in their late thirties
say oh wow, look at it. There's I'm not saying this,
don't but there's no big part of a fan base
that's like, yeah, these are It's all the people that
(28:09):
this is the one guy I've known, right, the one
guy that I've been rooting for for the past ten years,
and now how do you let him go? He's an
all time met Yeah, guys come and go right.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah, people in their vid water are still shaking their
fist that Nolan Ryan got away.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
So how do we not have Strawberry and good and
still out there? How did we let Strawberry go to
the Dodgers in nineteen ninety So, I mean it's fine.
I get it, like I get it. I get the
I get people being upset, but it's not like a
team that was broken up. There was this huge power, right,
I mean, Edwin Diaz is in every other year. Guy,
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he wanted a lot of money. Okay, you can spend
money better than and locking down the ninth inning for
seventy million dollars for three years. Okay, I get it.
You can spend a little bit better money than a
one dimensional first baseman who's not gonna age that great
and is gonna have to dh probably by the middle
of this year. You can spend a little bit more
money someplace else with it. It's not like the guys
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Kyle Warmer. Right, if it was Kyle Schwarber, it was
hitting seventy home runs and knocking one hundred and forty runs. Okay,
well you kind of got to pay that guy, even
though he's just a dh You gotta be doing all
kinds of that stuff to be able to make it worthwhile.
So I get that, Hey, there's a bigger thing at play,
and we went to the top of the mountain with
what we had, and now it's time for something new.
All right, I get, I understand. I'm good. I'm good
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with all again. Still emotional. It still sucked today, but
again both things can be true. My top of the
mountain mountain, well, the Mets frame mountains. It's you know
the met look. You know when you go to a
when you go to a park and they go, hey,
if you want to climb this trail, if you want
to go the full way, get to the best view,
it's this you know, four mile walk, right, that's the
(29:47):
top of the mountain. That's like where the Dodgers go.
But then they say, hey, for all you other uh,
you know, beginner hikers. Hey, this is a nice half
mile switchback trail that that'll give you a nice little
view like that's the mets top of the mountain, right, Hey,
are we do that little half mile trail and come
back and have s'mores and then go back. No, the
big top of the trail, you want to hike four
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or five miles into the woods past all the animals
that can kill you, like you're in the out back
in Australia. That's that's most teams climbing the top of
the mountain.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
This is a little bit, a little bit one hundred losses,
a little.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Bit smaller mount exit up about a Fresco exit, swollen dome.
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Time how to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. Martin Weiss and dub What do you
got for us?
Speaker 6 (30:33):
The NBA Cup Quarterfinals ending right now between these Spurs
and the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
To get to that in just a second.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
First, Sharon Moore of the University of Michigan has been
fired as the head coach of the team. They fired
him on Wednesday, shortly after the news broke.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
They was fired.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
He was detained by police by police of Saline, Michigan.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Asked a little about.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
More after seven pm on Wednesday, Saleine police chief refer
to the comment saying that they can't really give more information,
but he has been reporting that there is investigation of
an assault charge assault Wade Wade Manual the assistant, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
The athletic director released the statement.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Saying they have credible evidence that Moore had an inappropriate
relationship with a staff member, which violates not only his
contract but the university policies. Assistant Biff Pogey will serve
as the team's interim head coach and the Citrus Bowl
against Texas.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Biff Pogey also served.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
As the interim head coach in weeks three and four,
which Arl Moore was suspended due to some of the
other NCAA violations from.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
The Harbaugh era. The Baltimore Orioles and Pete Slugger.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Pete Slugger, Slugger Peter Lon Zuger do a five year
deal with Slugger.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I like Slugger from now.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Hey, Pete Slugger, I'm telling you, you know, it's been
a long day. It's been a long day.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
It's been a long day.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
It has. You know, it's one thing for your coach
to get fired. It's another thing to get arrested. And
it's another thing that all happened. When you're sitting at
the update desk, you know, it's like.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Oh, yeah, yeah, where Michigan is. Yeah, because you figure
I can leave what I wear my Michigan sweatshirt today,
I'm good. And then you get driving to work, You're like,
can't turn back and go get a new sweatshirt.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Yeah, but he's hit refreshed so many times that he's
got to go check out whether he's injured his hand.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Well, that's the other thing, because you see these things
and it's from like you know, uh, you know Jason
one two through four, five, seven, eight, nine, ten, And
I was like, I don't know, this is real.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
That's the guy that JJ redickates exactly.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Turn over, I look and all of a sudden, Dan,
what was on ESPN Sandys all?
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Here we go? All right?
Speaker 6 (32:41):
And speaking of here we go, Philip Rivers signed his
practice squad deal today with the Colts. Apparently the Colts
also call Sam Ellinger, who turned them down to join them.
He remained with the Broncos practice squad. Riley Leonard full
participant in practice today. A team activated Brad Rippon from
their practice squad to be the backup Mike Evint activated
(33:01):
from I are expected to play Thursday night football against
the Falcons. They won't have Drake London for that game.
NFL teams notified that they will be cutting down the
amount of time to make a first round pick in
the draft from ten minutes to eight minutes. Derek Lively
were missed the rest of the season due to foot surgery.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
The Mavericks, I mean just can't can't stay healthy. That team.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
The San Antonio Spurs beat the Lakers in the quarterfinals
of the Western Conference NBA Cup one thirty two to
one nineteen, San Antonio vancing to the semi finals lead
and scoring by Stefan Castle had thirty Caldon Johnson had
seventeen off the bench, Luca with thirty five in a
losing effort. Lebron James had nineteen, ost the Reefs with fifteen,
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the Thunder twenty four and one twelve and zero. At
home after a one thirty eight to eighty nine win
over the Phoenix Suns, Thanks for coming out, Phoenix no
thunder player played over twenty eight minutes. Tonight Shay Gildshelly's
there at twenty eight points. Chat Holmgrin had twenty four
No Devin Booker, no Kevin Durant for Phoenix.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Guys, thanks a bunch, appreciated them up. We got Rick
Buker coming up in about twenty minutes. All the latest
as now, the final four is set in the NBA
E Cup. The Spurs al Wemby are taking on the
Thunder at the Nicks and the Magic this weekend in
Las Vegas. But coming up next, we got a we
(34:27):
got a big story of the out of the NFL.
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
PA.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
And he hit sixty homers for the Oreole.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
We lat Alonso go to Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Now we don't have a first baseman Fox Sports Radio,
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
Matt Joe, a lot more baseball. Final hour of the show,
but we are now twenty four hours away from the
beginning of yet another incredible week in the National Football
(35:12):
League kicked off Thursday night football on Prime Video. Week fifteen.
We have the Falcons and the Bucks and big news
if you're starting Baker Mayfield in fantasy or if you
think the Bucks are the best team in the NFC South,
they are going to get back or they were activated
from injured reserve Mike Evans Jalen McMillan back in advance
(35:35):
of Thursday Night's game against the Falcons. They had to
be activated so they could be eligible to play. They're
both officially listed as questionable, but if they do play,
it'll be the first time all year the Bucks will
have their top four receivers on the field together. Now,
I'm gonna tell you this. I believed in the Bucks
early part of the year Baker Mayfield was playing at
(35:55):
an MVP level. Then teams kind of figured out, Oh,
when you really don't have anybody to throw to and
your receivers are hurt and Bucky Irving, who's been your
safety net, is out, yeah, we can control your offense
a little bit. I mean, look, as good as Baker
Mayfield has played, they really hit the skids. But now
you talk about a team that I can see the
last month of the season, right, Hey, these last four games,
(36:18):
who can really hit the next level and be a
dangerous team. I'm looking at Tampa right if they get
all their guys back for Tomorrow night, this is a
game they're They're playing against a Falcons team that's done.
You know, it's gonna be a new head coach next year,
It's gonna be a new lot of things in Atlanta.
Pennix is out, it's Kirk Cousins who's been terrible. This
is gonna be Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is gonna be
(36:40):
a get right game for them. And I know things
have been tough, but they're still near the top of
the division and they're getting healthy and these you know,
getting Evans and Jalen McMillan back. People forget how big
a part of the offense Jalen McMillan is, you know,
here and there. But this is where I can see
Tampa being one of those teams where, hey, five month
of the season, we could look back at after week
(37:03):
eighteen to go, man, Tampa Bay was the best team
in the NFC in the month of December. They went
on a run. They won their games because they got healthy,
They got all their guys back, and remember how good
they were early part of the season. They're that team
or early part of the season was great, middle was bad.
The end is great. They beat Atlanta big time tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Fun finish to the year ahead for them. As we
look at the schedule going forward, First off, we get
our predictive mode in. You got Tampa four and a
half point favorites here over under sitting at forty four
and a half. No Drake London for your Atlanta Falcons.
(37:41):
Not a lot of wishing, wanting, hoping there as well.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
So oh, you Darnell Mooney hater. You you just hate it.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
With the Bears.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Don't get me wrong, man, it's not my Guysanda man,
but you got a home date tomorrow seven and six,
trying to win the NFC South. You're tied with Carolina
right now, even though you've scored fifty five or points.
The thing that I fear is Tampa's defense. What's that word?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
They stink.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
They've given up three hundred and twenty five points on
the year and just took an el the Tyler shuck
In Company, that's right, that guy for your New Orleans Saints.
But you know we got this game against the Falcons. Okay,
assume they take care of business. You get the full compliment,
even if they run half the reps. That should help
(38:30):
Amika Abuka, who's been invisible going on six or seven
weeks as well. So he and Bucky Irving maybe better days,
better days. And then we get into the final throws
of the season where we get, you know, the dumbass
sandwich games. Let's save all of the division stuff till
the end, where you have at Carolina the sandwich game
(38:52):
at Miami. Oh, and then you end the season with
Carolina sandwich game. Well, it is open now the division
at you play the same team twice in the final three.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
That's a great idea. It makes Tampa Bay and Carolina
a big game at the end of the season. Come on, man,
you made Tampa and Carolina.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Bit yeahah, one of them would be a great time
battle right now.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Maybe it's gonna be so good, we'll see it again.
You're the guy that keeps telling me, oh, Carolina's really good,
Carolina's really.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Good, Carolina really good. I said that defense, Tampa's defense stinks.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
You said.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Greatest teams in NFL history eighty five Bears two thousand,
Ravens twenty five.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Carolina McMillan, Tantaroa. Otherwise his family is gonna come and
attack me.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Tenaro On.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
McMillan is gonna win Rookie of the Year, so good
on him. But all of that is as we look
at the the final stretch. This is my usual stump
speech against the way they do scheduling. They should not
be playing the same team division wise twice in the
final three weeks.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, I think it's fun because you got lucky. You
have games that mean something at the top of the
If they played this game earlier in the year, nobody
would pay attention. Now we're gonna get to pay attention
to two of them. Why not. I'm all about fair.
You know, you celebrate.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
I celebrate some less than others, and certainly the schedule
there's less than everything else.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
A game.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
This is a game to mean something. Now you just look,
I go back to you.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Just here, just because they fall into something until your
clocks right twice a day, you still.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Hate Darnel Mooney, and that's why you're bad about this.
This whole thing is upset you. That's why I just
like the term mooney coming up Next Rick Bucher, All
Things NBA. Next, This is Fuck.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome in side hour three the Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon. The end of the
third quarter and it's the Spurs still on top of
the Lakers by sixteen. The last Final four E Cup
berth at Steak and it's been the Spurs who jumped
(00:52):
out to a seventeen point lead in the first half
and they have been able to keep this up again
closing in the end of the third quarter without Wemby
and they are thumping LA ninety eight to eighty two.
We'll have more on this game coming up. Following the
conclusion of this game. Rick Bucker is gonna stop by
Fox Sports won NBA inside of the latest on this
(01:12):
all the big news out of the NBA. Now before
we get to the latest on Sharon Mordes. We talked
about a couple of quarterbacks a few minutes ago that
may or may not be playing on Sunday. Right, we
may get Philip Rivers playing on Sunday. Yeah, good luck.
Start the Seahawks defense. The other guy that we're not
going to see on Sunday. Honestly, at this point, I
(01:32):
hope we don't see him the rest of the year.
Jayden Daniels will not play Sunday against the Giants. He
got knocked out a last week's loss of the Vikings
after landing hard on his left elbow, which he previously
dislocated in Week nine. This is now the third time
this season he has had to leave a game because
of injury. As great as last year went, as great
(01:55):
a year as he had and what he showed, it
is one hundred and eighty degrees opposite it this year.
And you know, at this point, if you're Washington, why
bring him back at all this year? The season's over.
You have a lot of things to do to this
team to get it ready, to get back to being
the team you were a year ago, which was you know,
(02:16):
one step from the Super Bowl. Right, your team is
older you have to figure out a running situation, receivers,
your tight end. You know, we saw a couple of
big injuries and.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Earth this this has been yet.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It has been a bad season for a team that
got so far last year. You thought they were the
next great power in the NFC, and now it's almost
like they're starting over. It's an older team. They tried
to bring everybody back. It didn't work, and there's no
reason to have Jad and Daniels play because the last
thing you want, and I hate to say it, but
I see a lot of comparisons right now, is that
there's a lot of comparisons between Jade and Daniels and
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Robert Griffin, the third right. RG three came into the
league as a rookie and he was terrific, right offensive
Rookie of the Year. He was amazing. Right he came in,
it was wow. I thought Andrew Luck was going to
be great. Oh, the Redskins got a guy back with
her with the Redskins and he was terrific. And then
slowly what happened. He had trouble staying on the field.
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He couldn't he couldn't stay healthy. His running style, he
didn't wasn't able to slide, wasn't able to get away
from things. And as a result of him, you heard
a lot of stories about, hey, maybe things weren't the
rosiest there with RG three and and and his teammates.
I'm not talking about that part of it at all.
But the one thing that always pushes your football mortality
(03:34):
to the end is that if you can't stay healthy,
teams aren't going to continue to say you're our guy.
And when he couldn't stay on the field, this is
a guy taking number two overall in the draft, right,
this is as high as you took Jade and Daniels
that when you take a guy that I he's our future,
he's everything. But after a couple of years and RG
three couldn't stay on the field, it was we got
(03:57):
to move on. And then he tried to stick around.
He tried to start with through the Ravens a little bit,
and he had one bad pass in the preseason that
he threw thirty yards over the end zone. I don't
think he ever got away from that from that crazy
ass play. And because of that, because he couldn't stay
on the field, a guy that was all kinds of talented,
his career just fell apart, and Jayden daniels first year
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was phenomenal, right, just like RG three now here, he
is three separate injuries this year, and you don't want
to go down like you don't want to be compared
to have a career like that. I do not need
to see him the rest of the year. I need
him to be incredibly healthy. I need to make sure
that the offensive line is as good as it can
be next year. And I gotta make sure he is
(04:40):
upright because yes, it's tackle football and I understand what happens,
but you got to make sure that this guy is
staying upright. You know, of course the Chargers are going
to go into next offseason going we got to get
way more offensive line because it didn't work this year
and justin Herbert's getting crunched every single time he plays,
so you need to do some roster adjustments to make
sure you are going to be able to keep him
healthy as long as possible. But man, first year, second
(05:03):
year like that's kind of followed, you know, a generation later.
RG three's career with with Washington and now where Jayden
Daniels is.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Came in at an over one hundred and nine and
a half wins on the year. Expected regression, not to
this level of what the expectations were on the Vikings
after they shuffled up and dealt at the quarterback position,
but certainly a lot of one win game or one
score games and last minute heroics. So expecting a little
bit of a regression. But for Jade and Daniels, we've
(05:31):
we talked about it as he was drafted and all
through last year, the number of near misses and scary moments,
and this year it all came to pass, being out
multiple times. Unfortunate here as he goes back to the
injured list, Regina Jackson is going to come for you.
That's Jaden daniels mom back in October said quote, I
(05:54):
wish you would stop manifest and RG three on my son,
words are powerful. Was after a hamstring injury, so you
know now I got three. Yeah, he's a much bigger
injury and obviously one that could be a long standing issue.
But we talk about, you know, running quarterbacks, mobile quarterbacks,
the ability to protect yourself. Justin Herbert had a crazy
(06:17):
ass game, right Jim Harbaugh put the built another statue
for him. After that effort, we watched him run like
his hair was on fire. But we also saw him
sack seven times. So yeah, to your point, it's like
the Dodger bullpen a year ago. Right, Yeah, signed a
bunch of guys, but you might need another four or five.
That's their line. That's where you're at in Washington because
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you've had guys in and out of the lineup all
year long, and the heart's injury. That's probably a career
ender for him. But and he was their leading receiver,
right because McLaurin had missed so much time, Like you
have some good pieces in Deebo Samuel getting a bit
older and beaten up all those years of seven carries
(06:58):
a game in San Francisco ofa taking their toll. But
now it's a completely reconstituted roster and you're gonna have
a second quarterback there, there's no question about it. It's
gonna be a captain. Kirk rise, Hey, I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Can I come back? You know you know that phrase
nothing good happens after midnight? Right? They always say that
when you go out at night, maybe nothing good happens
after midnight. Like I feel like in the NFL you
could say, hey, if you're a bad team. Nothing good
happens in December, right, But nothing good happens in December,
just so just when when it's that bad a year,
you're three and ten, your snake bit injury wise, there
(07:35):
is no reason to throw those guys out there again
and potentially hurt the future of your team. Like, if
you're a bad team, nothing good happens in December. You so, Jason,
at this point, you're it's almost time for next year.
That's you gotta worry.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
But the fact that he got reactivated, we talked about
it when that news came out. It's like I didn't
believe I couldn't believe it. Yeah, I thought for sure
based on that injury. And obviously you know where we're
we only play doctors on the radio, and we've seen
plenty of times where it's like, wow, that looks terrible,
and then the guy's back three plays later. We've also
seen what we would call probably malfeasance a number of
(08:12):
times of a guy knowing just the right answers to
the concussion test or whatever to get back on a field.
Think about t Higgins just recently here for the Bengals
to where you're wondering how the human body, and you
marvel at the resilience of these guys, the aforementioned Herbert
being one of those guys that stands up certainly playing
(08:34):
with screws in his hand and whatever else. Hey, let's
go change the bandage because you're bleeding through and we
can't have that, you know, all of those kinds of
things that But for Jaden Daniels, the fact that he
got back on the field, I give him all sorts
of love for his toughness and wanting to be out
there and finish and try to kill off some of
these narratives. But clearly physically he was not ready to
(08:57):
get back out there.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
The Jason Smith with Mike Carman Lott from the Fox
Sports Radio studios. We got more NFL on the way.
But to give you this new information that has come
in regarding University of Michigan head coach Charon Moore. Sharon
Moore is in custody tonight in a Michigan County jail
as a suspect in an alleged assault. This just hours
(09:20):
after he got fired by Michigan for having what the
school said was quote, an inappropriate relationship with a staff member.
Police released a statement on Wednesday night saying they responded
around four to ten pm to a house for the
purposes of investigating an alleged assault. Suspect was taken into custody.
This incident does not appear to be random in nature,
(09:41):
and there appears to be no ongoing threat to the community.
This is where Sharon Moore stands. We're twenty four hours ago.
The guy was about on top of the world as
you could be, and now here he is no job.
Michigan's fired him for cause, which means he's not going
to get paid. And here he is an inappropriate relation
with a staff member of the Michigan football team. In
(10:04):
this story, with every hour, just gets more and more wacky.
And again, I'm sure by this time tomorrow we will
know more details on what happened, who's involved, what happened
with Sharon Moore in this incident we're talking about now
because there's just a lot of internet speculation happening right now.
And look, if there was one common narrative, I would say, Okay,
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well this is what's being said. But there's like three
or four different things for each of these stories. Who
the woman was, he was involved with, for relationship. There's
a couple of different women that's support what is it her?
Is it her?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Is?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Is this even true? A couple of stories about why
he was suspected and assault. So again I look. I
always look at TMZ when TMZ is saying there's a
lot of stuff out there on the internet. Okay, I
understand TMZ, which is well connected as any newsroom in
the world, when they're saying there's a lot of stuff
out there, Okay, I get it. It means there's a
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lot of stuff out there. But the bottom line is
Sharon Moore is no longer Michigan's head coach. And it
really gets to me that I still shake my head
and I can't believe how many people. Well we talk
about this with the WNBA, Right, what do I say,
Their biggest thing has been they can't handle success? Right,
extremely successful. Caitlin Clark comes into the league, Angel Reaves
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comes into the league, Cameron Brink comes into the league,
Paige Becker's comes into the league. All of a sudden,
it is the time for the league now. It is
incredible success whatever, whether you love or hate the timing,
because you were been in the league for a long time,
or you're the MVP, former MVP doesn't matter. This is
the time for the league. And still the WNBA can't
handle success. Players are fighting with each other, there's jealousy,
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there's players being left off Olympic teams. People love Caitlin Clark,
they hate Caitlin Clark. They can't be thankful that Caitlyn
Clark showed up. And now they have charter flights everywhere
and they're going through a CBA where more money is
going to get involved, Like, okay, you got to be
able to handle success and the number of people that
can't do it. And Sharon Moore's there's nobody that was
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handed success more than this side. He's the OC on
the team that wins a national title. Jim Harbaugh has
to leave for the NFL because he's never gonna let
him coach in college again. After the sign stealing scandal,
right Searon Moore gets caught up in it, gets suspended
for a few games, but it doesn't matter. Michigan hires them.
They're paying them a lot of money. He beats Ohio
State last year, everything seems on the way up. He's
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a guy that didn't have to go and coach at
seventeen different spots to get a job coaching Michigan. He
slides in, it's a great gig for a guy that
everybody seemed to like on the team, he won games,
Michigan seems to like him, the fan base is okay
with him, and he couldn't handle success. And now here
he is at Michigan, which was a top five job
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in all of college football. Guy's been their whole lives
in college trying to get a job like this, head
coach at Ohio State, head coach at Alabama, wherever you
want to say, this is where I want to get
to head coach at USC And he couldn't handle success,
and this is where he's at right now. Now you
have an assault and an inappropriate relationship with a staff member,
Like how are you? How are you not there handling
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your success? Because in life, right what do you really
want to do? Hey, I got the I got one
of the best gigs in the world. This is all
my attention right now, and instead I gave it away
because of inappropriate relationships and an assault, Like what is
I really I can't believe times, Mike, where people just
torpedo their own careers because they can't handle the success
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that they have, and Sharon Moore is at the top
of that list.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah, I mean in this particular case, right, we're still
awaiting a number of other details. As you say, there's
any number of rumors that you can start to go
down the rabbit hole and just wait a second and
you'll be pivoting to another in terms of the handling
of success. I mean, I don't know that how recent
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of an invention it is. And I don't know Sharon
Moore's history, right, and who the man is, you know,
going all the way back and whatever his family circumstance
and and everything laid out, but certainly got the opportunity
as Harbaugh went to the Chargers that he had the
rapport with the locker room, the boosters and relationships on
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the recruiting trail or whatever that gave him that opportunity.
And you know what goes into a man or woman's
heart and their their mind, the missteps, miscalculations, and sometimes
you think you've got things covered or and not even
just from a hey, secrets or whatever, just whatever you're
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trying to handle that suddenly it gets away and it
starts to spiral.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
The old little white lie.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
That becomes something much, much bigger because you're afraid to
confront it. And in this case right now, we're trying
to parse out what's real, what's imagined, because some of
the speculation is is really next level, This is straight
out of the movie of the week kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Right.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So, by to your point, we see it in business, government,
all the way through every layer that you know, just
because you rise to a position of power, prominence and
demonstrated aptitude in a particular field doesn't negate the fact
that you are at the core of it all human
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and may may follow it up right the old saying
common sense isn't so common?
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Mike Harmon, you know it just really cuick. Before you
get into pedal Linzo, I'm not delaying into Pete Alonzo
it's fine. Uh, you know, I gotta say in with
everything going on, you know, Searon Moore fired as Michigan
head coach and you know, accused of an inappropriate relationship
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with a staff member. Now he's been booked on on
on assault charges. Biff Pogi is going to be the
Michigan interim head coach through the bold game. Okay.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Now, not often you get a guy named Biff running around.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You hear the name Biff Pogi, and then you see
a picture of him and you go, that's exactly what
I thought a guy named fIF Pogi gonna look like.
Right like if you said, if you were doing a
movie and you said, you know, I need a guy
to be my head cut like a comedy. I need
a guy to be my head coach. He need a
big guy who looks the part like every guy that
ever yelled at you. That's his language is salty, and
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he's funny and the kids love him. And he's standing
on the blocking sled like what I think you would say, Oh,
I got the guy for you, Biff Pogi. Oh that's
a great name. We'll use that. No, that's his real name.
Here's a picture of the guy. Oh get him. He's
our guy, man. He is central casting one.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
That is absolutely true that that would be the way
it did properly, especially the pictures that they also chose
of him. In every one of these stories. He's screaming, gesturing,
fist pumping whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
He's He's sleepless in a lot. He's like in cold
weather games. He's sleepless. He's got all it looks like
he's got all the necks. Uh, you know, cut off
his off his shirt like you know that when you
want to make a it's a little bit too tight,
so you cut the top of the neck of the shirt, make.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
A little bit. Why.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It's like every shirt he has is that way, Biff
oh Man.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Now he'll lead him through bowl season and then based
on the betting odds, a bunch of heavyweights from the
college and pro worlds looking at potential there with again
calein de Boor. You're early leader in the clubhouse of
the odds markets.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Good luck. All right, So now to Peede Alonzo. All right,
and I'm being I know you think that I'm a
pod person. The last couple of days, Jase, you got
to be absolutely devastated. Edwin Diaz has gone to the Dodgers. Now, Pete,
Alonzo's gone to the Orioles, I have to say, and
I'm being honest with you, it's fine, and two things
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can be true at once. With Alonzo. Did it suck
today when I heard that he that he went to
the Orioles for five years and one hundred and fifty
million dollars? Yeah? Did it suck that the Mets didn't
make an offer to him and they just said, hey, Pete,
good luck.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, congratulations on a job.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah done. It sucked. But at the same time, I
completely understand not giving a one dimensional first baseman who
you've had the best of him, and he's on the
wrong side of thirty one hundred and fifty million dollars
for the next five only I was understand that. I
understand that, No, we've seen his best, No we haven't.
I'm pretty sure we've seen his best.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oriols already paying him all that money if we've seen his.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Best, Okay, all right, yeah, he will lead the children.
We'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we've seen his best.
It's not suddenly where he was going to turn into
a guy hitting sixty home runs a year, knocking in
one hundred and forty runs. That's not who he was.
The Mets had an incredible collapse this year. And what
I like about this is that there's clearly a plan
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and David Stearns is bold, foolhardy enough to say, hey,
I'll wear the bulls eye because I know what the
vision needs to be for this team to take the
next step, and spending two hundred and twenty million dollars
on a closer and a one dimensional first baseman is
not where we want to spend our money. I get
it right. You can agree or disagree, but I get
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that this is the vision for the team, and the
one thing you want your guys in charge is to
have a vision for the team. Now, the Mets aren't playing.
If they were playing tomorrow, I would say, all right,
we're in trouble. But there's guys like Kyle Tucker and
Cody Bellinger who can play all three outfield positions and
first base that the Mets are in. The Mets have
all kinds of money, and Steve Cohen is not afraid
to spend money to go upgrade at different positions. Right.
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You know that coming off you can't just run the
same guys out there. Certain collapses happen in sports when
you blow a playoff spot or a game and you
just can't bring the same guys back. You just can't
do it. You have to have something new, And this
collapse was really bad. They went as far as they
could with this core of Lindoor and Alonzo and Nimmo
and Jeff McNeil. And why do you think two of
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them are already gone and one of them's on the
trade block. Look, Lindoras is signed for a long time.
He's still a great player. But I guarantee you they
would look for Lindor if he was coming up at
the end of his contract, right, like it's it's time
to move, and say, who's our next core that we're
gonna pair up with Juan Soto for the better part
of the next ten years, Like who's our guys we're
going to get right now? So I get that there's
a vision. I understand. I wasn't upset that Alonzo left
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when he hired Scott Boris two and a half years ago.
I knew he was leaving. I said, at some point
he's gone. I don't know when, but Alonzo's gone. I
understand this, right, I get it. But did it suck
at the same time, Yeah, of course it sucked. Alonso
was great at the biggest home run in Mets history.
I drove to work last night listening to the ninth
inning call of Howie Rose of the the the home
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run and the whole ninth thinning against the Brewers. And
by the way, it's still his typical Mets A two
years later, we signed the guy that gave up the
home run and we don't have the guy that hit
the home run. So that's Mets. That's typical Mets. But
but yeah, it sucks because he's a homegrown talent and
he was great. I hope he would retire with the Mets.
He's a great story. But you know what, it's not
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like there's I gotta say, boy, all those banner ceremonies
we have for World Series and nl pennance up there.
Boy maybybe letting Alonzo go was a mistake. You know,
I don't see any of those. Yes, got to the
NLCS a year ago, wasn't nearly good enough this year.
You've had this core together for a long time, Alonzo
and Nimo and McNeil, and they have all been there
a long time. It's time to do something a little
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bit different and to know that you're gonna have a
guy build the rest of this offseason, and there's star
players out there. You have a big farm system that
you can make trades with. They're good at and at
the end of the day, when it's okay, well, hey,
next year, it's Cody Bellinger playing first base and Kyle
Tucker in the outfield with with one soda, suddenly things
are looking a little good. Oh Suarez. Suarez is closing
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games now, in addition to Devin Williams. Oh okay, I
get it. But the Mets had a vision and I understand,
and I'm not upset about losing Alonzo. At the same time,
it does suck emotionally. It was a really tough day.
There was a like tears came to my eyes a
couple of times when I thought about when I saw
him hit the home run again and saw him running
around yelling let's go. When he first swung that bat
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and he screamed at the plate, and I knew he
got it before anybody else knew it was a home run.
Just watching him scream, I knew. I said, we're winning
three to two. He knows he got that. Yeah, But
both things can be true. It can be the right
move and it can be a tough day at the
same time. Right, coming off a big year thirty one,
but he's gonna be thirty two. You got him till
thirty five, thirty six. How's he gonna age? How's he
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gonna go? Uh? Yeah, I'm okay with with taking that
money and spending at someplace else. But it doesn't mean
today still didn't suck. You want to sing a little.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday and play
that home run a couple of times more.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I mean, no, I got it.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I'm not trying to bribe you.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
It was more just a theoretical thing because my man
obviously needs a little bit of piece and and love
and an extra slice of chocolate cake in his house
between what's going on. As fine, he's lying because it does.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
No matter what, like I have Cad, well matter what I.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Mean, that's a given, but just in terms of timelines
and and finite pieces to you know, this era of
Mets baseball is officially dead. Right Narco moves to the
West Coast, Timmy Trumpet tries to leave the l behind. Indeed,
a rule already learning how to play it as we
were Chronicle yesterday. Now you look at Pete Alonzo leaving
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for Baltimore, he'll look very odd in an Orioles uniform.
And look, he's still in his early thirties and it's
only a five year deal. The fact that he can't
really do much defensively, there's no versatility. I understand your
point there, but you still have to go and ratchet
up in the free agent market and there's plenty of
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bats out there. Just recognize that those guys are all
allegedly wanting eight to ten year deals. I want any
part of that for any of those guys really, for
the careers that Tucker and Bellinger have had and the
ups and downs and times that they've had, Yeah, let's
go give them eight to ten years. Especially Tucker after
that second half of this season he was the MVP
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and then three weeks later going does he still hit
the ball? Like between me and Pete crow Armstrong, two
guys that suddenly is like someone stole their bats and
they had to go up there and hit it with
their hands and to make believes swing through like it
was going to be added like a lightsaber into Star
Wars Land. But all of that to say, it is
a much different squad that you're coming back to understand
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the the emotion of it, all the pragmatism. Now trying
to lay that at the feet b Alonzo that it's
his fault that they didn't raise banners.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know what I'm saying, You're kind of going down.
They do something, it's wrong.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
You got a lot of didn't wait, was not that
guy on?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
People are looking back at this era of the Mets like, boy,
it was it was World Series after World Series and
how do you how do you pull the plug on this?
Look at that? No, that's not at all. You were competitive,
saw that?
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Man?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
No, it's that you were competitive because twenty of years
you haven't been.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
But what do you.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Think I'm celebrating a number one draft pick win for
crying out.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
The Mets lost one hundred games.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Goodness, lost one hundred games this coming up season. Because
I know the answer to mine three of the last four. Baby, Yeah,
let's go, let's go all the way back. Look, Frostburg's
just upset because this Lakers are getting worked by the Spurs.
But no, look I go by the Jim Beheim philosophy
(27:03):
of I want to win. I don't care who plays, right, Okay,
I have no loyalty. I sign all these guys they
come in to play for me in Syracuse, but I
don't care if one guy is playing better another guy.
I don't care if I went out and got him
and whatever nil money he had to get or whatever
it was, whatever recruiting process was. I want. I don't
care who plays. I really I don't care who plays.
(27:25):
And maybe this is part of me being in my
fifties and understanding how much, over the course of your
life players come and go. The name on the front
of the jersey's more important the name on the back.
I bet you. I bet you. If you went into
everybody on social media today and saw the people who
complain the most that Pete Alonso didn't get signed by
the Mets, it would be people who are really, really young,
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who's only experience with a player who's been there that
long with the Mets has been Pete Alonzo. I guarantee,
I guarantee you say all the guys, there's nobody in
their fifties or or forties or in their late thirties
say oh wow, look at it. There's I'm not saying this,
don't but there's no big part of a fan base
that's like, yeah, these are It's all the people that
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this is the one guy I've known, right, the one
guy that I've been rooting for for the past ten years,
and now how do you let him go? He's an
all time met Yeah, guys come and go right.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Yeah, people in their vid water are still shaking their
fist that Nolan Ryan got away.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
So how do we not have Strawberry and good and
still out there? How did we let Strawberry go to
the Dodgers in nineteen ninety So, I mean it's fine.
I get it, like I get it. I get the
I get people being upset, but it's not like a
team that was broken up. There was this huge power, right,
I mean, Edwin Diaz is in every other year. Guy,
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he wanted a lot of money. Okay, you can spend
money better than and locking down the ninth inning for
seventy million dollars for three years. Okay, I get it.
You can spend a little bit better money than a
one dimensional first baseman who's not gonna age that great
and is gonna have to dh probably by the middle
of this year. You can spend a little bit more
money someplace else with it. It's not like the guys
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Kyle Warmer. Right, if it was Kyle Schwarber, it was
hitting seventy home runs and knocking one hundred and forty runs. Okay,
well you kind of got to pay that guy, even
though he's just a dh You gotta be doing all
kinds of that stuff to be able to make it worthwhile.
So I get that, Hey, there's a bigger thing at play,
and we went to the top of the mountain with
what we had, and now it's time for something new.
All right, I get, I understand. I'm good. I'm good
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with all again. Still emotional. It still sucked today, but
again both things can be true. My top of the
mountain mountain, well, the Mets frame mountains. It's you know
the met look. You know when you go to a
when you go to a park and they go, hey,
if you want to climb this trail, if you want
to go the full way, get to the best view,
it's this you know, four mile walk, right, that's the
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top of the mountain. That's like where the Dodgers go.
But then they say, hey, for all you other uh,
you know, beginner hikers. Hey, this is a nice half
mile switchback trail that that'll give you a nice little
view like that's the mets top of the mountain, right, Hey,
are we do that little half mile trail and come
back and have s'mores and then go back. No, the
big top of the trail, you want to hike four
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or five miles into the woods past all the animals
that can kill you, like you're in the out back
in Australia. That's that's most teams climbing the top of
the mountain.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
This is a little bit, a little bit one hundred losses,
a little.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Bit smaller mount exit up about a Fresco exit, swollen dome.
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Time how to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. Martin Weiss and dub What do you
got for us?
Speaker 6 (30:33):
The NBA Cup Quarterfinals ending right now between these Spurs
and the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
To get to that in just a second.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
First, Sharon Moore of the University of Michigan has been
fired as the head coach of the team. They fired
him on Wednesday, shortly after the news broke.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
They was fired.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
He was detained by police by police of Saline, Michigan.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Asked a little about.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
More after seven pm on Wednesday, Saleine police chief refer
to the comment saying that they can't really give more information,
but he has been reporting that there is investigation of
an assault charge assault Wade Wade Manual the assistant, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
The athletic director released the statement.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Saying they have credible evidence that Moore had an inappropriate
relationship with a staff member, which violates not only his
contract but the university policies. Assistant Biff Pogey will serve
as the team's interim head coach and the Citrus Bowl
against Texas.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Biff Pogey also served.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
As the interim head coach in weeks three and four,
which Arl Moore was suspended due to some of the
other NCAA violations from.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
The Harbaugh era. The Baltimore Orioles and Pete Slugger.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Pete Slugger, Slugger Peter Lon Zuger do a five year
deal with Slugger.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
I like Slugger from now.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Hey, Pete Slugger, I'm telling you, you know, it's been
a long day. It's been a long day.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
It's been a long day.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
It has. You know, it's one thing for your coach
to get fired. It's another thing to get arrested. And
it's another thing that all happened. When you're sitting at
the update desk, you know, it's like.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Oh, yeah, yeah, where Michigan is. Yeah, because you figure
I can leave what I wear my Michigan sweatshirt today,
I'm good. And then you get driving to work, You're like,
can't turn back and go get a new sweatshirt.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Yeah, but he's hit refreshed so many times that he's
got to go check out whether he's injured his hand.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Well, that's the other thing, because you see these things
and it's from like you know, uh, you know Jason
one two through four, five, seven, eight, nine, ten, And
I was like, I don't know, this is real.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
That's the guy that JJ redickates exactly.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Turn over, I look and all of a sudden, Dan,
what was on ESPN Sandys all?
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Here we go? All right?
Speaker 6 (32:41):
And speaking of here we go, Philip Rivers signed his
practice squad deal today with the Colts. Apparently the Colts
also call Sam Ellinger, who turned them down to join them.
He remained with the Broncos practice squad. Riley Leonard full
participant in practice today. A team activated Brad Rippon from
their practice squad to be the backup Mike Evint activated
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from I are expected to play Thursday night football against
the Falcons. They won't have Drake London for that game.
NFL teams notified that they will be cutting down the
amount of time to make a first round pick in
the draft from ten minutes to eight minutes. Derek Lively
were missed the rest of the season due to foot surgery.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
The Mavericks, I mean just can't can't stay healthy. That team.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
The San Antonio Spurs beat the Lakers in the quarterfinals
of the Western Conference NBA Cup one thirty two to
one nineteen, San Antonio vancing to the semi finals lead
and scoring by Stefan Castle had thirty Caldon Johnson had
seventeen off the bench, Luca with thirty five in a
losing effort. Lebron James had nineteen, ost the Reefs with fifteen,
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the Thunder twenty four and one twelve and zero. At
home after a one thirty eight to eighty nine win
over the Phoenix Suns, Thanks for coming out, Phoenix no
thunder player played over twenty eight minutes. Tonight Shay Gildshelly's
there at twenty eight points. Chat Holmgrin had twenty four
No Devin Booker, no Kevin Durant for Phoenix.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Guys, thanks a bunch, appreciated them up. We got Rick
Buker coming up in about twenty minutes. All the latest
as now, the final four is set in the NBA
E Cup. The Spurs al Wemby are taking on the
Thunder at the Nicks and the Magic this weekend in
Las Vegas. But coming up next, we got a we
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got a big story of the out of the NFL.
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
PA.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
And he hit sixty homers for the Oreole.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
We lat Alonso go to Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Now we don't have a first baseman Fox Sports Radio,
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
Matt Joe, a lot more baseball. Final hour of the show,
but we are now twenty four hours away from the
beginning of yet another incredible week in the National Football
(35:12):
League kicked off Thursday night football on Prime Video. Week fifteen.
We have the Falcons and the Bucks and big news
if you're starting Baker Mayfield in fantasy or if you
think the Bucks are the best team in the NFC South,
they are going to get back or they were activated
from injured reserve Mike Evans Jalen McMillan back in advance
(35:35):
of Thursday Night's game against the Falcons. They had to
be activated so they could be eligible to play. They're
both officially listed as questionable, but if they do play,
it'll be the first time all year the Bucks will
have their top four receivers on the field together. Now,
I'm gonna tell you this. I believed in the Bucks
early part of the year Baker Mayfield was playing at
(35:55):
an MVP level. Then teams kind of figured out, Oh,
when you really don't have anybody to throw to and
your receivers are hurt and Bucky Irving, who's been your
safety net, is out, yeah, we can control your offense
a little bit. I mean, look, as good as Baker
Mayfield has played, they really hit the skids. But now
you talk about a team that I can see the
last month of the season, right, Hey, these last four games,
(36:18):
who can really hit the next level and be a
dangerous team. I'm looking at Tampa right if they get
all their guys back for Tomorrow night, this is a
game they're They're playing against a Falcons team that's done.
You know, it's gonna be a new head coach next year,
It's gonna be a new lot of things in Atlanta.
Pennix is out, it's Kirk Cousins who's been terrible. This
is gonna be Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is gonna be
(36:40):
a get right game for them. And I know things
have been tough, but they're still near the top of
the division and they're getting healthy and these you know,
getting Evans and Jalen McMillan back. People forget how big
a part of the offense Jalen McMillan is, you know,
here and there. But this is where I can see
Tampa being one of those teams where, hey, five month
of the season, we could look back at after week
(37:03):
eighteen to go, man, Tampa Bay was the best team
in the NFC in the month of December. They went
on a run. They won their games because they got healthy,
They got all their guys back, and remember how good
they were early part of the season. They're that team
or early part of the season was great, middle was bad.
The end is great. They beat Atlanta big time tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Fun finish to the year ahead for them. As we
look at the schedule going forward, First off, we get
our predictive mode in. You got Tampa four and a
half point favorites here over under sitting at forty four
and a half. No Drake London for your Atlanta Falcons.
(37:41):
Not a lot of wishing, wanting, hoping there as well.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
So oh, you Darnell Mooney hater. You you just hate it.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
With the Bears.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Don't get me wrong, man, it's not my Guysanda man,
but you got a home date tomorrow seven and six,
trying to win the NFC South. You're tied with Carolina
right now, even though you've scored fifty five or points.
The thing that I fear is Tampa's defense. What's that word?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
They stink.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
They've given up three hundred and twenty five points on
the year and just took an el the Tyler shuck
In Company, that's right, that guy for your New Orleans Saints.
But you know we got this game against the Falcons. Okay,
assume they take care of business. You get the full compliment,
even if they run half the reps. That should help
(38:30):
Amika Abuka, who's been invisible going on six or seven
weeks as well. So he and Bucky Irving maybe better days,
better days. And then we get into the final throws
of the season where we get, you know, the dumbass
sandwich games. Let's save all of the division stuff till
the end, where you have at Carolina the sandwich game
(38:52):
at Miami. Oh, and then you end the season with
Carolina sandwich game. Well, it is open now the division
at you play the same team twice in the final three.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
That's a great idea. It makes Tampa Bay and Carolina
a big game at the end of the season. Come on, man,
you made Tampa and Carolina.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Bit yeahah, one of them would be a great time
battle right now.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Maybe it's gonna be so good, we'll see it again.
You're the guy that keeps telling me, oh, Carolina's really good,
Carolina's really.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Good, Carolina really good. I said that defense, Tampa's defense stinks.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
You said.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Greatest teams in NFL history eighty five Bears two thousand,
Ravens twenty five.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
Carolina McMillan, Tantaroa. Otherwise his family is gonna come and
attack me.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Tenaro On.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
McMillan is gonna win Rookie of the Year, so good
on him. But all of that is as we look
at the the final stretch. This is my usual stump
speech against the way they do scheduling. They should not
be playing the same team division wise twice in the
final three weeks.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, I think it's fun because you got lucky. You
have games that mean something at the top of the
If they played this game earlier in the year, nobody
would pay attention. Now we're gonna get to pay attention
to two of them. Why not. I'm all about fair.
You know, you celebrate.
Speaker 4 (40:12):
I celebrate some less than others, and certainly the schedule
there's less than everything else.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
A game.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
This is a game to mean something. Now you just look,
I go back to you.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Just here, just because they fall into something until your
clocks right twice a day, you still.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Hate Darnel Mooney, and that's why you're bad about this.
This whole thing is upset you. That's why I just
like the term mooney coming up Next Rick Bucher, All
Things NBA. Next, This is Fuck.
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