February 27, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the news that presumed number one overall pick Abdul Carter may need foot surgery, with Jason taking the position that this clears the way for the Titans to take Heisman winner Travis Hunter with the first overall pick.
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A few minutes ago, we talked about this, this breaking
story that came in Monty Blagos. Brought it to us
a few minutes ago on the eve of the NFL combine.
Now things are maybe a little bit more crazy than
we thought. Abdul Carter, who had lately become one of
the favorites to be taking number one overall in the
NFL draft defensive lineman out of Penn State. It has
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been revealed by his agent, Drew Rosenhause tonight telling ESPN
that he has a stress reaction in his right foot.
Not Drew Rosenhuse, Abdul Carter, because if it was true, Rosa,
okay a Carter first, Jason and now they're gonna fight.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Now going to fight each other.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, we'll have that coming up in a few minutes.
Oh boy. Uh so, Abdul Carter's got a stress reaction
in his right foot, test revealing this Wednesday, and he's
got to decide soon whether or not he's gonna have surgery.
Drew Rosenhouse saying there's mixed opinions whether or not he
needs it. We're gonna figure that out in the near future. Uh.
They don't expect it to affect his draft stock where
he winds up going Rosenhause of course, saying he fully
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expects him to be the number one. Oh, we're all
picking the draft. And a few minutes ago we talked
about this and I said, look, it's good. This is
good news for Carter because even if he does have
the surgery, he it looks like he's going to be
back to normal in about eight weeks, which you're talking about. Okay,
So if he has it sometime in March, he's back
to normal and getting in when they get to mini
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camp and everything is fine. He hits the ground running
this summer, it should be fine. It doesn't sound like
this is something that's going to hurt him long term,
which is great, great news, And he may not need it, right,
he may not need it. It depends. Although I would say,
if you have some doctors saying you need surgery to
fix something, and others say you don't, why do the
ones say you do? And who are the ones that
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I'd be real nervous about the ones that say no,
you're fine, play through it. Yeahs saying that's really what
I want to know here.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah. It's a little weird, And I'm always going to
err on the side of well, if if a lot
of people say, hey that you need surgery on this,
maybe that's kind of where you want to go. I
get that. It's it's the draft is coming, and you
don't want to miss anything. You don't want to have
anything effect you. If you can still do your pro day,
you can still. Yeah, it should be fine, but regardless,
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it seems like this is not going to affect him,
affect his career, right, And he's been the favorite, the
late favorite over the past few weeks to go number
one overall. And you know not because of this story.
But I said a few minutes ago, I'm still taking
Travis Hunter number one. You're starting to think like I do,
I'm still taking him number one in most cases. Yeah,
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Hunter's the best. You know, he's the best player in
the draft. Heisman Trophy when you know all the things.
Plays both ways, great shutdown corner maybe even as good
a receiver as he is as a cornerback. Right right now,
he's going to the NFL. He's projected as a cornerback
because that's his position that he was given for the
combine someone who can play cornerback and then potentially be
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a slot receiver. It'd be someone that can play twenty
five thirty STAPs of offense. Like, he's a guy we
haven't seen his talent in the NFL in twenty five years, right,
Guys that came to the NFL played a little bit
of offen. Those guys don't really exist, right, They don't.
Like Rod Woodson played both ways at Purdue, but he
came to the NFL. He's a shutdown, a cornerback then
a safety. Was on the All the fiftieth Anniversary team
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or whatever, the hundredth Anniversary All NFL team, and yeah,
played a little bit of running back at the end
with the Steelers, but not a lot. Yeah. Well, no,
Rod Woodson is fine. Charles Woodson is the one that
doesn't like me. Rod Woodson. I mean we don't know
that though. I mean history, and you think he's in
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his late sixties. Now I think I've a we'll call
coach Woodson. But you know, look, Charles Woodson comes in
two way threat, wins the Heisman Trophy in ninety seven
with Michigan, just plays a cup of coffee on offense
for Michigan, played a handful of snaps. Travis Hunter's playing
every snap of every game. This guy is a freak
how talented he is. And if it's all equal, it's
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not like, hey, Abdul Carter's coming in as this guy's
the best defensive lineman any of us seene since Reggie White,
like that would be a thing. But is he the
best defensive lineman in the draft. Yeah, But sometimes if
it's equal, and you can I can get a I
can get a shutdown corner who can play receiver, who
may break the mold as far as NFL play, we
may never see a guy like this again. Or I
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can get a great defensive line. Right, they're both great players.
I'm gonna take Travis Hunter right. And not only that,
And and because this is part of the equation, whether
you whether you want to realize it or not, is
that when you can draft a superstar who comes into
the league as a superstar. If Duke Carter's not coming
in as a superstar, be coming in as the number
one pick, great player. But Travis Hunters a guy Jersey's
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attention everything right away when you need an identity that's
only going to help you not just on the field.
But hey, who are the Titans free agency? Who comes here?
Travis Hunter's there? Travis, I saw all the stuff going on.
He seems to love it there. Yes, I want to
go play there. Sometimes you need to win a little
bit of that battle as well. And teams that have
a tough time getting superstars to get there, because if
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you're not a big market team or you can overspend
in free agency, how are you gonna get one of
those guys, right The Titans have one lined up for you.
Here you can Travis Hunter is is served up to
you right here. You can have him, and he can
be that guy for the rest of your career and
he can go into Canton as a Tennessee Titan. Yeah,
I'm gonna default to taking that guy again, as long
as it's equal. I'm not reaching for Travis Hunter clearly,
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so as long as it's equal, yeah, that's the guy
I'm gonna take. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
All that being said, you know, the tail of the tape,
we go to some of the strength of schedule stuff
in terms of concerns about when Hunter has to match
up against top notch cornerbacks or top notch wide receivers
on a weekly basis, what does that look like?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And I'm excited to see it, right.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I got excited when they tried to get Devin Hester
to become a wide receiver right to the greatest return
man in football history, and then the Bears couldn't even
get him to be an adequate pass catcher.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Look, nobody wants a guy to succeed on these things
more than I do.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I love when we get the freaks of nature and
they bucked the trends of how players have been utilized.
This would be fantastic. And again the marketing and merchandising
that you bring up, certainly it shouldn't be discounted all together.
Just I go to the old app, I want an attacker,
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I want to protect her, and I want to throw her.
Those are the three positions I need to fill. First,
you like that, not like that app? That's pretty good.
I like to say it's time for Pat, but then
people start thinking about the Saturday Night Live skit and
it really takes us off the point. See, I got
to explain to millennials who the character Pat was. But
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all of that to say, like, I like your Hunter
style if it can play out like part of me
is just fearful that we don't get that impact on
the field that we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That really gives you the juice that you need. And
does he want to go play in Tennessee? Well, I
don't know that he can sit here and say this
is where I'm gonna play and not play. I mean,
your quarterbacks can kind of do that, but your defensive backs, yeah,
I think you have to. Hey, this is where you're
playing but I mean, look, but just think about this
for a second. Okay. Travis Hunter won the Chuck Berrick
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Award for the nation's top defensive player. Oh, by the way,
beating out Abdul Carter. He also won the Fred Blittnikoff
Awards the nation's best wide receiver. Like, what else do
you guy have to do? Yeah, we're worried about You're
worried about what he's gonna do on Sunday. Worry. If
you're gonna worry about Travis Hunter, you're gonna worry about
every single player in the draft, right, Like if you
worry about a guy coming up is the best defensive player,
he's the best offensive player, but I worry about him
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in the NFL. Yeah, then I don't know that you
should be in charge of a draft because I don't
know how you're gonna make it picks. You'll be like
that young GM Scottie Carson down in Jacksonville who trading
away all his second round picks. Wants to know what's
going on Colin Sunny Weaver, like he's gonna tell him
all the truth.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Again, it goes back to the idea of at the
next level, that that he's going to play with this
level of efficiency and dominance, one has.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
To play one side of the ball. With that, you
got him being a wizard on both. If he isn't,
that's why you have to take them. If he is
a wizard defensive back and he can play a slot
wide receiver, that's that's something we've never seen before in
the NFL, going back to the going back to when
the Bears and Redskins were playing for the NFL championship
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every year because they both had the single wing offense,
and that.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Is the margins are different, the spacing is different, and
your ability to get open as a receiver or to
handle things downfield against behemos like Jamar Chase and the
like that are coming your way.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Nico Collins, for that matter, on a play by play basis,
he hasn't seen that yet. So I've got to ask
those questions. I'll be the bad guy, I'll be I'll
be Travis Hunter, car Abdul Carter has seen all that,
Like did I miss that to the actually playing? I
missed that that I didn't It was they strike.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
The schedule they played was tenth as I met, but
I missed the fifth.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I miss that. You don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
That.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
No, you're saying. You're saying in terms of there's in
terms of who they played. Is there's a wide swap
there is there not?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
The offensive lines are the big ten against what Travis
Hunter covered.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Uh dude, it's if Travis Hunter there were any questions,
he wouldn't have been named. He wouldn't have won all
these awards. He wouldn't have been the Heisman Trophy winner.
If they thought, well, he's only doing it. I don't know,
you like storylines, he wouldn't. He wouldn't be doing it
against the He won every single award there is out there.
He's like silence of the lambs, of the of the
of the college football everything. That's a whole other thing.
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Oh look at you. I just want to hate everything.
I hate silence of the lambs. I hate the yelling
of the lambs. I hate the yelling of the above
any anything, the bleeding and the lambs, which just like awards,
like yeah, yeah, Dion was handing over money to buy them.
You don't how much for the Ben Derek? Oh that
bar I got it right here. Don't worry about it.
(11:12):
You pay for your emmy, trav I got you covered.
Uh three hundred three hundred. Well, you have to pay
for the for the thing, like I have to. Well,
I want, I want an Emmy. I just when you
get the everybody has to. But just usually when when
someone wins an Emmy, there this movie studio or the
television net that they pay for it, so you don't
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have to. But you know, when I went a Sports Emmy,
it's oh no, dude, you're you're paying.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
We're not paying for it for yours.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I did I want it. I would still be an
Emmy winner whether or not I had my Emmy. I
would I would still be an Emmy winner. My name
would still be on I would still be Emmy Winner
Jason Smith, whether I had it or not. What I'm
upset is that I bought the uh the Certificate of Authenticities.
I thought I really needed that. I'm like, it's Emmy.
Yea wait, what did they make you pay for the
co o? Okay, so okay, so that's.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
The story about that you had to pay for the
the actual hunk of metal?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Okay, alright, so it's the other So before I, before
I started doing sports talk radio, was a producer at ESPN,
and I won a Sports Emmy for my work on
Sports Center, A lot of us did it was you
know the Sports eemis you hear every year lots of
people have won. And at the end they said, yeah,
you won great, and here's how much it is for
your emmy. ESPN wasn't going to pay for all of
our Emmys, and it was three hundred dollars for the Emmy.
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I'm like, of course, I'll pay three hundred dollars for
an I want to bleep an Emmy. And then it
was and it's one hundred and twenty five if you
want the certificate of authenticity. Now it comes framed and
they do it up really nice for you, and I'm like,
I should get it because I'm gonna have an Emmy
and people are gonna know is that a real Emmy?
Is it not? Is it really? Yes, here's a certificate
of authenticity. So I got it. And then after a
while I'm like, if you're suspicious that you think it's
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not a real Emmy, aren't you going to be suspicious
that the certificate of authenticity is not real too? Like
you just made that up. I'm like, yes, I'm going
to this length. I'm making up winning an Emmy and
I'm making up the certificate of authentic. I'm making this
all the way up to further the storyline. So I
thought after a while, Yeah that I should. I didn't
need to buy the Emmy itself. Absolutely, I had to
gotta have it. I walk by it every I see
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it every day. But yeah, there's no I don't know
that I needed that.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I don't think so, Yeah, that was my miss some
next level stuff, right, it's gonna be. Hey, I want
to get certified in an autograph I got in person,
you know, from an athlete, even though you know it's true,
if say, something happens to you and the family's gotta
sell it like this, this was your protection for Pam
and Zoe in case they need to hawk your wares.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh great, thanks for making that really dark. Wow, you
hate Silence of the Lambs. You hate Traviss Hunter. What
if something happens to you and they gotta sell you
melt it down. Here's the co a. You gotta prove it.
You gotta prove that it was real. Jason's not here
to tell the story anymore. Oh you're like, you know,
you're like you're You're like a cartoon. Who's the cartoon
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character that walks in the cloud is always over them,
like it's always right, Like that's you the last five minutes.
That's just dirt. Now do I mean like there's a cloud,
Like there's a rain cloud over them the entire time? Question?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
My point was, just because you win the awards doesn't
make you the best God.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I'm pretty sure I made that argument on the show
many times, though.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'm pretty sure Travis, Hi.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Have you not made that argument millions of times? Don't
we have a big event coming in this next Sunday
that you've been talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Oh dude, the oscars are not the same thing as
the hydrants. Come on, man, they're still voting. That's not
the same thing. Come on, a bunch of voters, right.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
You got two people that were dopes that said, hey,
Ray Fines, I can't vote for him because he's won before.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, and he never won before. That was a controversy
for Brody who had Yeah that was a thing today, Hey,
each some guy didn't vote for each tro for crying
out loud, no, no one's no, one's not voting for Travis. Well,
he's going to win the Heisman Trophy if I vote
for him, So I'm not going to vote for him.
I mean, that's not that's not how it's done. That's
that's it's too. The purpose of the oscars is completely
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different from the purpose of the Heisman Trophy've been out
all that. It's completely different.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You can't keep playing you off.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Oh wow, okay, you know just for that coming up
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It's time to get into Hooka Doncage. It really is.
I mean, it's gonna be the nickname now that follows
them everywhere. God did you say, well, I'm trying to
do it so because it's I know, it's hookah, but
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it sounds better if it's say hookah because it is
a whole other thing. Hook hookahs. Is that part of
the investigation Hookah Doncage right, say, it's like it's hookah hookah,
not hookah hookah. That's what I said. Is something else?
I said, hookah? Well that you're from the Hey there
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you go? You that that the Hooka doncic. I like
that's pretty good right there. Hey, I got there right
there all right.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Before they cleaned up Times Square, we had to make
a cowboy was in.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Now we got rid of him. So a day after
Luca goes for a triple double, Lakers win their first
game against the Mavericks, who came back to play a
first time against his former team. No Anthony Davis in
this game, but Luca plays terrific, looks outstanding, and the
sky's a limit for the Lakers. Right Everything is coming
(18:22):
up Lakers right now. Today the story breaks and the
Athletic has this. It's been picked up by a lot
of other outlets too, that there's a report that says
that the last days of Luca in Dallas quote the
people who witness these do not paint a flattering portrait
of Luca's professionalism. Donch's conditioning level was reportedly a main
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source of frustration for the organization, and they didn't like
his taste for beer and hookah. So we knew about
the beer part. And look, and this goes back to
making that video of after the Mavericks won to go
to the NBA Finals last year and Lucas hanging out
in the locker room with his dad and Michael Finley,
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former Maverick star who works the team, comes and just
takes the beer out of Luca's hand so you can
tell like, hey, you know, instead of being a ridiculous
moment where you know, the guy can have a beer
because we just got us to the NBA Finals. Now,
you say, oh, wait a minute, maybe that was a
long standing conversation or something that was a big bone
of contention was how much Luca likes to drink beer
(19:27):
and and and and hookah and everything else about it. Now, look,
this is not something we said this when the when
when the trade happened, and this is absolutely true. We
said it then, it was true the week after. It's true. Now,
the Mavericks didn't just wake up one day and decide
to trade Luka Doncic Nico Harrison didn't just wake up
(19:49):
one day and decide to trade him. For all the
cries of you make it work with him, you think
they didn't try to make it work for the last
six years. And oh, by the way, now the rubber
had to hit the road because he was due a
three hundred and something million dollar contract extension in this
offseason and the Mavericks didn't want to give it to him. Right,
we said this. Now other people are picking up on
(20:09):
this line of strategy. A congratulations, send us money. We
told you that this is what happened. It's a case
of they didn't want to pay him, So what can
we do, Hey, we can get an All NBA player
for him and Anthony Davis. Let's go make the deal. Now.
You can disagree with it. You can disagree and say
I wouldn't have done it. I don't think it's gonna work.
The Lakers got to steal. All of these things you
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can say, but you can't say, Hey, the Mavericks didn't
try to make it work, and they didn't want to
give him that money because he wasn't someone that was
going to do what the Mavericks want him to do,
and that was take care of his body over the
next few years. And they saw what was gonna happen,
and we got to give him all this money. It's
not going to be a great investment for us, so
we're gonna trade him. Now. When you look at this
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in light of what's going on today, where this story leaks,
I don't think it's any coincidence that the story leaks this. Hey,
let's defend the Mavericks leaks a day after Luca goes
for a triple double and embarrasses Dallas. Look, it's been
tough for Nico Harrison and Mavericks owners because it's how
do you trade Luca fan favorite everybody else? Right? How
do you do this? How do you do this so
I get there playing defense? But if I can just say,
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if I walked in as they're a public relations advisor, right,
And I always say the thing I would do if
I wasn't a sports talk radio house is I'd be
a PR advisor and I would say, look, I'd tell Dallas,
I would get Nico Harrison to get ownership. I would say,
I understand, you want to win this. You want to
win this trade. You don't like being told all the
time and having daily stories about how you're stupid, you
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don't know what you're doing. You gave up a star player.
Look at how great things are going in Los Angeles. Yeah,
maybe that's got Luca's attention now. And Luca's gonna be
a great player, take care of his body and do
all of these things. He wasn't gonna do it in Dallas.
And I know you want to win that. I know
you want to win that and stop the criticism. But
you know what, you just have to take it for
a while, and you have to understand that you might
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not be for another five or seven years, whatever it's
gonna be. If that happens to Luca and his career
goes downhill and he flames out when he's thirty because
he can't take care of himself and instead of having
another five to seven great years of his career, he's
done it thirty or thirty one because his injuries break
down his body and he can't do it anymore. That's
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when you win. That's when that's when the Mavericks go,
oh okay, yeah, they really knew what they were doing.
They saw that. I get it. It's really hard. Everybody
wants to see what goes around comes around, right I do.
I always did in my life. Oh, I can't wait
to see it come around for you. Sometimes you're not
there for to see what goes around comes around. Sometimes
you gotta wait a while. This is what the Mavericks
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have to do. I get it sucks, and Niko Harrison
doesn't want to get made fun of, and the Mavericks
don't want to get made fun of all. I get there,
done with that storyline, But you made a trade that
is deeply unpopular with your fan base that still has
taken the NBA by storm. If you're gonna win this,
you have to wait and let it play out. It sucks,
but you gotta wait to see if this comes around
for you and that's when it's going to be so
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right now, I would drop it. I would move on,
I would play. I would get Anthony Davis healthy, I
would get him out there doing interviews. I would take
a look and see what our record is and push
that this is what we've done without Luca when he
was out from sept. December all the way till now.
But this whole storyline of hey, Luca wasn't doing what
we wanted them to. That storyline is out there. Everybody
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knows it. It doesn't matter. People are still upset you
turned your back on a twenty five year old top
three overall NBA player, And no matter what you say,
no matter what you keep getting out there, that's not
going to change popular opinion. This is just a story.
You got to wait and see if you're right on
It sucks, but that's the strategy. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
The more you leak about little incidents and whatever is
just going to be further ingrained in your fan base's head. Wow,
you are really grossly over over analyzing your space and
overstating because you've you realize that maybe either you made
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a mistake or you recognize that you've you're not winning
the pr on this in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
To your point, you've got five years. It's a running clock.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
If you need to put one up in the in
the studio and have a calendar that gets flipped.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You know, only so many.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
More days until we can claim victory. So we've got
to pray for the breakdown, bring in a shaman, bring
in a voodoo person, whatever you need to do to
get it to fruition, because once you get past five years,
all right, you lost, But in the interim you're too
too quick to the I hate to say I told
you so after you lose by eight. You didn't even
(24:38):
beat the spread last night, okay it was seven and
a half. You can't claim victory on a night after
you didn't beat the spread.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
The other the hookah.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Just to make sure everybody's aware smoking, right, so smoking tobacco, weed, opium,
potentially some other drugs. May maybe it's something that's you
just a favorite flavored tobacco. Either way, they don't like
it and you kind of go through there. You can't
have some hashies as well. But all of that, for Luca,
(25:12):
the more stories that come out, you're not winning. You're
just you end up looking worse for it. It's like, hey,
what else we got? We got anything else? It's like
all those books as the Patriots. We were getting fractured, right,
and guys were signing away. It's like, hey, they co
existed for twenty years, but look how terrible these things
were all the time. Yeah, because Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.
(25:34):
It seems so forced and unnatural when they've had to
deal with each other.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Hasn't it come on? Man?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Like all of this is just so ridiculous, and this
is just one story after the next. This is like
all the books that come out on the eighty five
Bears every year.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It's like, it's over. Okay, we've heard all the stories
and we get it.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
You didn't like his physical conditioning, you didn't like whoever
he was hanging out with his old man. You didn't
like that he drank a beer now and again or
maybe a couple more now and again. And Nikola Jokicch
didn't help things by saying, yeah, we used to have
fun the day before and All Star Game together, Like, no,
don't do that, Jokicch. You're not helping you anything. But
(26:16):
for the Mavericks, Mavericks has just been one after another
of oh yeah, and this one time and band camp.
He did this like you're just let it go, Let
it go, the trade's done. Figure out how to get
Gafford a D and everybody that you are banking on
that this iteration of the team.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Was gonna be good.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Figure out how to get their asses back on the court,
and then talk to me.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I mean, in essence, it's suck it up and move on. Yeah, right,
it's you made a deal. Nobody forced you to make
the trade. No, Rob Polinka, I hypnotize that comes out.
You will trade me Luka Dadgitch. You don't need to
see his identification. We don't need to see his identification.
You will give us Luka Doncic. I'm gonna give you
(27:01):
Luka Dantic. Yes, and we're only gonna trade Max Christy
and we're only gonna trade wait wait wait wait wait
uh look I oh wait that's Mavericks starter man. You
know it's I can't imagine what it's like to wake
up every day and walk down the street or have
people think about your team and go, you don't know
(27:22):
what you're doing. You really don't know. How dare you
do that? In to turn on the ring and turn
on well no, I mean, no one's surprised that Jets
don't know what they're doing. Yeah, that's kind of how
it works for the Jets, right, Okay, the Jets stake. Yeah, okay, accepted,
We move on.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I just want to make sure every morning.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But this is a you know, well, look the Mavericks,
they're coming off the NBA Finals last year, and I
get it's that's a really hard thing, man, to know
that every time you walk into a room, people go,
that's the guy who traded Luca. You know, that's the
owner who traded Luca. That's it. I understand that's tough,
but man, there's a reason why you made the money
that you did and you're in the positions that you are.
Sometimes unpopular decisions are that way, and it's not gonna
(28:01):
be the last unpopular decision that you make. To quote
Aaron Glenn from a day ago, but that's gonna happen,
and you have to be okay with it. Obviously, Mavericks
ownership was okay with trading Luca, and Nico was over
okay with trading Luca, So everybody seems to be on
the same page and Yeah, what goes around comes around,
all right, if you're right about Luca, and you might
(28:22):
be you except that it's gonna be years. This is
not where in a month Lucas is suddenly gonna fall
on this face. No, it's gonna be years because the
guy's still living this life until he's twenty five. He's
one of the top three players in the league. Yeah,
but when he gets to thirty. Yeah, you can see
the downturn happen. You can see it going on. And
maybe that's a case where hey, now we can say
(28:43):
we won. Maybe Nico Harris is not the GM of
the Mavericks anymore. But you know what, that's the occupational
hazard you have with this job. Sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn't. But in the end that's why you made
the trade. But you also make this trade. Right we say, hey,
there's mac Max Christi and East starting.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Okay, cool, But otherwise you brought in Anthony Davis, whose
whole career is defined by what sitting there in street
clothes and what sunglasses he's gonna wear.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
To match him. So you're not winning. You're not winning
that argument.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Like Luca literally has to play not a single minute
more for the Lakers, and you still lost because he's
won several games while Anthony Davis played a half at
those points, It's like you're not, like, I don't understand
how doing the all out press of hey, is there
any Dallas reporter we haven't talked to you yet with
(29:34):
a Lucas story. I don't see how that wins, because
on the other side, you're trying to figure out how
to get Ad back on the court, like you traded
for a guy who's already proven to have all these
issues health wise for years, last year being really the
outlier to it, and the shortened bubble seat. It's a title,
(29:55):
it counts just the same, But otherwise has he been available? No,
So you're answering questions about the guy you got. I
guess it's a good way to deflect off questions about
Ad because you just keep throwing up more crap about Luca. Hey,
don't we have a worry over here? Don't look here,
Look at the guy we got rid of. Look at
what a problem and a nuisance he was or is
(30:16):
going to be. May never actually come to fruition, but
in our earth, in our earth that we see in
our offices, that's the guy we're dealing with just bad business.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
If the Mavericks, clearly guys weren't paying an attention when
dare was a thing and they visited their schools. Wow,
hookah isn't drugs Whoka No.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
No, if you think no, I'm not saying it is.
I'm not. I'm not said I just think wow, Hohoka dodge.
It is some kind of a nickname. Man. No, it's good. Yeah.
Look he walked by on the street and walk by
hookah bars all the time, and see people have one
right down in a neighborhood right across it.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Look like Hukah was derailing his career last night.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah, and when he got them to the finals last time.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Beer is not hard alcohol, no, but no.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
But it's about being in shape. It's about taking care
of your body and saying, hey, you can't go out. Yeah. No,
But what I'm saying, yeah, how did you feel when
you were twenty five? It was great when you were thirty. Oh,
it's a little bit different. That stuff hits differently. I
can't just win. I can't just wake up after a
night of partying and go to bed at four thirty
and wake up at seven thirty and go to work anymore.
(31:25):
Can't do that.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I can do that when I'm who's drinking beer is
not partying.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
But it's part of the lifestyle, is what they're saying. Hey,
take care of your body and don't don't you know,
don't do this. A look, any kind of alcohol, any
kind of alcohol is bad for you and it doesn't
keep you in shape. Right, it's it's for you. Uh okay, Well,
I mean you drink beer every night on the show,
so I mean obviously you.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Know, on the show, only on the show, in.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
The show, on the show, kind of like the on camera. Yeah,
it has to be said the show. You hear the
crack of that beer all the time. You think it's
my diet coke.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
No, it's it's time out to find out what's trending
in the wide world of sports. From someone who's been
called the Luca dats at your Fox Sports radio. Every
time she shows up, she puts on a show. It's
Manzy Belanya's and I do love me some beer.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
I don't like it Uca very much.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
I tried it years ago, you know, when everyone was
doing it and I didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I was like the same for me, the same for
your girl. But I do love me some beer. So
that's Luca and I have that in common. Okay, you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, all right, guys.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
So the NFL Combine starts later today if you're on
the East coast Thursday. If you're on the West coast,
it starts tomorrow. And tests at the NFL Combine revealed
that potential number one pick and Penn State star Abduel
Carter has a stress reaction in his right foot. He
may have surgery. According to the NFL Network, Option one
would be to have the preemptive surgery, have a screw
(32:54):
inserted in his foot, and be back in eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That would be option one.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
According to his agent, all the NBA games have wrapped
up today. We'll start with the Pistons because they've won
eight in a row. They took down the Celtics one
seventeen to ninety seven. Kate Cunningham twenty one points and
eleven assists in the win. Jalen Brunson dropped thirty four
points as the Knicks top to seventy six ers win
ten to one oh five.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Philadelphia has lost nine in a row.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
I'm laughing because Shay is losing his mind over this
King's hockey game, which we will go to in a second.
But he's like yelling in the background. So if you're
someone screaming and yelling, it's just Shay, so don't worry
about it. Pacers beat the Raptors one eleven to ninety one.
The Trailblazers top the Wizards won twenty nine to one
twenty one. The Thunder were down eighteen out one point.
They came back to beat the Nets win twenty nine
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to one twenty one, while he crushed the Hawks won
thirty one to one oh nine. The Clippers won thankfully.
They beat the Bulls won twenty two to one seventeen.
The Kings out of one eighteen to one oh one
win over the Jazz, and the Rockets rolled past the
Spurs one eighteen to one oh six.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
One upset.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
In men's college hoops, Vanderbilt eighty six to eighty four.
They took down number twelve Texas a number one. Auburn
crushed Ole Miss one of six to seventy six. Number
eight Michigan State top number sixteen Maryland fifty eight fifty
five with.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
A half court buzzer beater.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Maryland definitely thought they were going to overtime, and Hail
Mary went in for Michigan State. And lastly with men's college,
who's number seven, Saint John's, which has won fourteen out
of their last fifteen. They defeated Butler Sunday sixty seventy
so for the first time since nineteen ninety two, Saint
John's Hays clinched a share of the Big East regular
season title. Now in the NHL, the Connects and the
Kings are still going at it. They're officially in overtime
(34:32):
three and a half minutes to go. They are tied
a two uppiece. The Jets I mentioned earlier have won
eleven in a row. They beat the Senators for one
stop the Jets exactly, and the Avalanche crushed the Devils
a five to one.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Back to you guys, Thank you, Mine hit it. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon Locke, the tirec dot Com Staios. Everybody's getting
on my bandwagon now, Mike Carmen, Saint John's to win
the NCAA championship. Everybody's jumping on. I got two nuggets
for you.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
One first head coach in Division one history to win
a regular season conference title in five different programs, Who
Boston University, Kentucky, Louisville, Iona, and now Saint John's and
the US lost two to one to Japan in the
She Believes Cup.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Exit? How about a Fresca exit? Swallendome Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the tyrack dot Com Studios Coming up next.
You are not gonna believe what one Yankee player said
today about the World Series against the Dodgers. That's next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
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Speaker 1 (35:44):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon, and boy, I tell you. One of the
more fun storylines is offseason of Major League Baseball ou
getting set for the game of the season in a
few weeks. The back and forth between the Dodgers and
Yankees following World Series. Right, you had a couple of
Dodger players in cleaning Joe Kelly, he wasn't even on
the roster, saying that you know, the lazy Yankees. We knew.
(36:09):
All we had to do was put the ball in play.
They were gonna throw up on themselves basically what he
was saying. Chris Taylor saying the same thing. Lazy Yankees,
lazy Yankees, and they sold the truth. Yeah, no, no, yeah,
I don't know that I would have said it, but
clearly yeah, no, they were absolutely right, you know, lazy Yankees,
all of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Yeah, but we talked for a living, we're hot take nonsense.
On occasion, we would have done it. Yeah, I would
have poked the bear.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
And now we jumped back to what Nestor Cortes Yankee,
a former Yankee reliever who has since traded to the
Brewers in the offseason because you know, you couldn't have
him back. After the World Series, he was asked about
the World Series and he said today, quote, we were
(36:53):
the better team. We had done enough to win that game,
Game one that Freddie Freeman won with a walk off
off grand slam. Oh, by the way, one of the
most five now most famous home runs in the history
of the game. They can talk whatever they want to talk,
but we win game one, which we should have. We
lost two and three. We win Game four and we
should have won Game five. Then we go back to
(37:15):
La up three to two. People can say it slipped
away from us, can say we made a lot of mistakes,
which we did, but at the end of the day,
we were the better team. I see it that way.
The reality could have been going back to La leading
three to two. Okay, now, before we go any further
on this, let's let's bring back let's get understand on
Nestor Cortes. Why do I know that name. Let's bring
(37:37):
back Nestor Cortes's big highlight from Game one of the
World Series. He's the pitcher for the Yankees. On this play,
Cortes deliveries free hits abroad.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
A right field ses good Jimmy made Freddy game of
the World Series.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Thank you, Nester.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
The guy who gives up the biggest, one of the
five biggest home runs in World Series history. This is
a guy saying we were the better team. I don't
know what a quote out of this dude be for.
I don't know what makes less sense. Joe Kelly, who
didn't play, saying the Yankees were latey we knew we
were gonna kill him. Or Ne's the Cortes who gave
us this monstrous home run that we're gonna talk about
(38:28):
for fifty years. He's a guy's saying, yeah, we were
the better team. We were the better team by though.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Joe Kelly wins because you know he was in those
meetings and strategy sessions, and they have the hunk A medal,
so they win.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Cortes. You know, it's what it could have should have.
There was a lot of we oughta and I should
have and we could.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Have kind of thing going on. You know your old
doctor Phil speech that some guy's going on tour with
you need to talk to him too. Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Anyway, here was the rest.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Of his quote, nobody remembers my second outing, talking about
I dominated my second outing man, I dominated O'tani struck
him out, dominated Freeman. Obviously it didn't matter at that moment.
I came back and I did what I had to do,
which is my job.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
I got people out, except when it mattered. Come on,
all we had to do. I would say, listen, Nester,
your job in that in that big game one was
don't give up a grand slam. That was your job.
Don't give up a grand slam. Nope, grand slam. Nup,
gave a grand slam. That's like what that's like? Ryan
(39:38):
Day last year when when Michigan beat Ohio is doing
they won the national title. Michigan won like fifty to
twenty one, and he says, you know, outside of six
or seven explosive plays like we were in that game,
we were just as good as they were. Like, yeah, dude,
those plays happened, like you know, come on, that's that's
Lincoln Riley. Outside of like, you know, eight or ten
big plays, we're an undefeated team. Yeah, but these are plays,
(39:59):
you look, these are plays that give you a winning
a loss. Man. You can't just suddenly just blow it
off like that didn't count.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
I'm surprised Lincoln Riley didn't try to have himself a
national title parade through downtown.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
L a uh.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Corgez is trying to endear himself to teammates through through
this article I was reading on the Athletic. He's got
a coffee truck showing up at the parking lot twice
a week, so he's got that going.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
That's good. I just buy some love. It's the Nasty
Nester Cafe like that. Had we just not lost in five,
we would have won the World Series. It's not like
you lost in seven and a guy hit a wall.
Scraper home run to win Game seven in the twelfth inning. Like,
you lost in five? Man, how can you say judges
(40:42):
dropping fly balls and Volpi's throwing wide to third they
couldn't cover for Like, how could you tell me you're
the better team? You lost in five? You lost them five? Yeah,
a second outing. Nobody remembers that. Nobody. Yeah, you did
so well, and that's so, that's why you're a Brewer.
Now that's he didn't bring you back. That's that's why
you're a Brewer. Wow, Yeah that was Hey, that's what
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the Yankees and Brewers said. Hey, our guys gave up
some of the worst home runs you ever want to see.
So let's let let's make sure neither of them are
on our teams. All right, Great, that works out. Great,
you get Devin Williams, We'll wind up with nest To Cortes. Hey,
we solve each other's problems. That's terrific. I love this
biggest home run we've seen in baseball. At twenty five years,
we were the better team. Okay, coming up next, we
(41:26):
have a big story out of the NFL has to
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A few minutes ago, we talked about this, this breaking
story that came in Monty Blagos. Brought it to us
a few minutes ago on the eve of the NFL combine.
Now things are maybe a little bit more crazy than
we thought. Abdul Carter, who had lately become one of
the favorites to be taking number one overall in the
NFL draft defensive lineman out of Penn State. It has
(01:17):
been revealed by his agent, Drew Rosenhause tonight telling ESPN
that he has a stress reaction in his right foot.
Not Drew Rosenhuse, Abdul Carter, because if it was true, Rosa,
okay a Carter first, Jason and now they're gonna fight.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Now going to fight each other.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, we'll have that coming up in a few minutes.
Oh boy. Uh so, Abdul Carter's got a stress reaction
in his right foot, test revealing this Wednesday, and he's
got to decide soon whether or not he's gonna have surgery.
Drew Rosenhouse saying there's mixed opinions whether or not he
needs it. We're gonna figure that out in the near future. Uh.
They don't expect it to affect his draft stock where
he winds up going Rosenhause of course, saying he fully
(01:58):
expects him to be the number one. Oh, we're all
picking the draft. And a few minutes ago we talked
about this and I said, look, it's good. This is
good news for Carter because even if he does have
the surgery, he it looks like he's going to be
back to normal in about eight weeks, which you're talking about. Okay,
So if he has it sometime in March, he's back
to normal and getting in when they get to mini
(02:18):
camp and everything is fine. He hits the ground running
this summer, it should be fine. It doesn't sound like
this is something that's going to hurt him long term,
which is great, great news, And he may not need it, right,
he may not need it. It depends. Although I would say,
if you have some doctors saying you need surgery to
fix something, and others say you don't, why do the
ones say you do? And who are the ones that
(02:40):
I'd be real nervous about the ones that say no,
you're fine, play through it. Yeahs saying that's really what
I want to know here.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah. It's a little weird, And I'm always going to
err on the side of well, if if a lot
of people say, hey that you need surgery on this,
maybe that's kind of where you want to go. I
get that. It's it's the draft is coming, and you
don't want to miss anything. You don't want to have
anything effect you. If you can still do your pro day,
you can still. Yeah, it should be fine, but regardless,
(03:11):
it seems like this is not going to affect him,
affect his career, right, And he's been the favorite, the
late favorite over the past few weeks to go number
one overall. And you know not because of this story.
But I said a few minutes ago, I'm still taking
Travis Hunter number one. You're starting to think like I do,
I'm still taking him number one in most cases. Yeah,
(03:31):
Hunter's the best. You know, he's the best player in
the draft. Heisman Trophy when you know all the things.
Plays both ways, great shutdown corner maybe even as good
a receiver as he is as a cornerback. Right right now,
he's going to the NFL. He's projected as a cornerback
because that's his position that he was given for the
combine someone who can play cornerback and then potentially be
(03:52):
a slot receiver. It'd be someone that can play twenty
five thirty STAPs of offense. Like, he's a guy we
haven't seen his talent in the NFL in twenty five years, right,
Guys that came to the NFL played a little bit
of offen. Those guys don't really exist, right, They don't.
Like Rod Woodson played both ways at Purdue, but he
came to the NFL. He's a shutdown, a cornerback then
a safety. Was on the All the fiftieth Anniversary team
(04:16):
or whatever, the hundredth Anniversary All NFL team, and yeah,
played a little bit of running back at the end
with the Steelers, but not a lot. Yeah. Well, no,
Rod Woodson is fine. Charles Woodson is the one that
doesn't like me. Rod Woodson. I mean we don't know
that though. I mean history, and you think he's in
(04:39):
his late sixties. Now I think I've a we'll call
coach Woodson. But you know, look, Charles Woodson comes in
two way threat, wins the Heisman Trophy in ninety seven
with Michigan, just plays a cup of coffee on offense
for Michigan, played a handful of snaps. Travis Hunter's playing
every snap of every game. This guy is a freak
how talented he is. And if it's all equal, it's
(05:01):
not like, hey, Abdul Carter's coming in as this guy's
the best defensive lineman any of us seene since Reggie White,
like that would be a thing. But is he the
best defensive lineman in the draft. Yeah, But sometimes if
it's equal, and you can I can get a I
can get a shutdown corner who can play receiver, who
may break the mold as far as NFL play, we
may never see a guy like this again. Or I
(05:23):
can get a great defensive line. Right, they're both great players.
I'm gonna take Travis Hunter right. And not only that,
And and because this is part of the equation, whether
you whether you want to realize it or not, is
that when you can draft a superstar who comes into
the league as a superstar. If Duke Carter's not coming
in as a superstar, be coming in as the number
one pick, great player. But Travis Hunters a guy Jersey's
(05:44):
attention everything right away when you need an identity that's
only going to help you not just on the field.
But hey, who are the Titans free agency? Who comes here?
Travis Hunter's there? Travis, I saw all the stuff going on.
He seems to love it there. Yes, I want to
go play there. Sometimes you need to win a little
bit of that battle as well. And teams that have
a tough time getting superstars to get there, because if
(06:07):
you're not a big market team or you can overspend
in free agency, how are you gonna get one of
those guys, right The Titans have one lined up for you.
Here you can Travis Hunter is is served up to
you right here. You can have him, and he can
be that guy for the rest of your career and
he can go into Canton as a Tennessee Titan. Yeah,
I'm gonna default to taking that guy again, as long
as it's equal. I'm not reaching for Travis Hunter clearly,
(06:29):
so as long as it's equal, yeah, that's the guy
I'm gonna take. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
All that being said, you know, the tail of the tape,
we go to some of the strength of schedule stuff
in terms of concerns about when Hunter has to match
up against top notch cornerbacks or top notch wide receivers
on a weekly basis, what does that look like?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And I'm excited to see it, right.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I got excited when they tried to get Devin Hester
to become a wide receiver right to the greatest return
man in football history, and then the Bears couldn't even
get him to be an adequate pass catcher.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Look, nobody wants a guy to succeed on these things
more than I do.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I love when we get the freaks of nature and
they bucked the trends of how players have been utilized.
This would be fantastic. And again the marketing and merchandising
that you bring up, certainly it shouldn't be discounted all together.
Just I go to the old app, I want an attacker,
(07:27):
I want to protect her, and I want to throw her.
Those are the three positions I need to fill. First,
you like that, not like that app? That's pretty good.
I like to say it's time for Pat, but then
people start thinking about the Saturday Night Live skit and
it really takes us off the point. See, I got
to explain to millennials who the character Pat was. But
(07:49):
all of that to say, like, I like your Hunter
style if it can play out like part of me
is just fearful that we don't get that impact on
the field that we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That really gives you the juice that you need. And
does he want to go play in Tennessee? Well, I
don't know that he can sit here and say this
is where I'm gonna play and not play. I mean,
your quarterbacks can kind of do that, but your defensive backs, yeah,
I think you have to. Hey, this is where you're
playing but I mean, look, but just think about this
for a second. Okay. Travis Hunter won the Chuck Berrick
(08:22):
Award for the nation's top defensive player. Oh, by the way,
beating out Abdul Carter. He also won the Fred Blittnikoff
Awards the nation's best wide receiver. Like, what else do
you guy have to do? Yeah, we're worried about You're
worried about what he's gonna do on Sunday. Worry. If
you're gonna worry about Travis Hunter, you're gonna worry about
every single player in the draft, right, Like if you
worry about a guy coming up is the best defensive player,
he's the best offensive player, but I worry about him
(08:45):
in the NFL. Yeah, then I don't know that you
should be in charge of a draft because I don't
know how you're gonna make it picks. You'll be like
that young GM Scottie Carson down in Jacksonville who trading
away all his second round picks. Wants to know what's
going on Colin Sunny Weaver, like he's gonna tell him
all the truth.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Again, it goes back to the idea of at the
next level, that that he's going to play with this
level of efficiency and dominance, one has.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
To play one side of the ball. With that, you
got him being a wizard on both. If he isn't,
that's why you have to take them. If he is
a wizard defensive back and he can play a slot
wide receiver, that's that's something we've never seen before in
the NFL, going back to the going back to when
the Bears and Redskins were playing for the NFL championship
(09:28):
every year because they both had the single wing offense,
and that.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Is the margins are different, the spacing is different, and
your ability to get open as a receiver or to
handle things downfield against behemos like Jamar Chase and the
like that are coming your way.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Nico Collins, for that matter, on a play by play basis,
he hasn't seen that yet. So I've got to ask
those questions. I'll be the bad guy, I'll be I'll
be Travis Hunter, car Abdul Carter has seen all that,
Like did I miss that to the actually playing? I
missed that that I didn't It was they strike.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
The schedule they played was tenth as I met, but
I missed the fifth.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I miss that. You don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
That.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
No, you're saying. You're saying in terms of there's in
terms of who they played. Is there's a wide swap
there is there not?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
The offensive lines are the big ten against what Travis
Hunter covered.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Uh dude, it's if Travis Hunter there were any questions,
he wouldn't have been named. He wouldn't have won all
these awards. He wouldn't have been the Heisman Trophy winner.
If they thought, well, he's only doing it. I don't know,
you like storylines, he wouldn't. He wouldn't be doing it
against the He won every single award there is out there.
He's like silence of the lambs, of the of the
of the college football everything. That's a whole other thing.
(10:51):
Oh look at you. I just want to hate everything.
I hate silence of the lambs. I hate the yelling
of the lambs. I hate the yelling of the above
any anything, the bleeding and the lambs, which just like awards,
like yeah, yeah, Dion was handing over money to buy them.
You don't how much for the Ben Derek? Oh that
bar I got it right here. Don't worry about it.
(11:12):
You pay for your emmy, trav I got you covered.
Uh three hundred three hundred. Well, you have to pay
for the for the thing, like I have to. Well,
I want, I want an Emmy. I just when you
get the everybody has to. But just usually when when
someone wins an Emmy, there this movie studio or the
television net that they pay for it, so you don't
(11:33):
have to. But you know, when I went a Sports Emmy,
it's oh no, dude, you're you're paying.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
We're not paying for it for yours.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I did I want it. I would still be an
Emmy winner whether or not I had my Emmy. I
would I would still be an Emmy winner. My name
would still be on I would still be Emmy Winner
Jason Smith, whether I had it or not. What I'm
upset is that I bought the uh the Certificate of Authenticities.
I thought I really needed that. I'm like, it's Emmy.
Yea wait, what did they make you pay for the
co o? Okay, so okay, so that's.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
The story about that you had to pay for the
the actual hunk of metal?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Okay, alright, so it's the other So before I, before
I started doing sports talk radio, was a producer at ESPN,
and I won a Sports Emmy for my work on
Sports Center, A lot of us did it was you
know the Sports eemis you hear every year lots of
people have won. And at the end they said, yeah,
you won great, and here's how much it is for
your emmy. ESPN wasn't going to pay for all of
our Emmys, and it was three hundred dollars for the Emmy.
(12:27):
I'm like, of course, I'll pay three hundred dollars for
an I want to bleep an Emmy. And then it
was and it's one hundred and twenty five if you
want the certificate of authenticity. Now it comes framed and
they do it up really nice for you, and I'm like,
I should get it because I'm gonna have an Emmy
and people are gonna know is that a real Emmy?
Is it not? Is it really? Yes, here's a certificate
of authenticity. So I got it. And then after a
while I'm like, if you're suspicious that you think it's
(12:49):
not a real Emmy, aren't you going to be suspicious
that the certificate of authenticity is not real too? Like
you just made that up. I'm like, yes, I'm going
to this length. I'm making up winning an Emmy and
I'm making up the certificate of authentic. I'm making this
all the way up to further the storyline. So I
thought after a while, Yeah that I should. I didn't
need to buy the Emmy itself. Absolutely, I had to
gotta have it. I walk by it every I see
(13:10):
it every day. But yeah, there's no I don't know
that I needed that.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I don't think so, Yeah, that was my miss some
next level stuff, right, it's gonna be. Hey, I want
to get certified in an autograph I got in person,
you know, from an athlete, even though you know it's true,
if say, something happens to you and the family's gotta
sell it like this, this was your protection for Pam
and Zoe in case they need to hawk your wares.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh great, thanks for making that really dark. Wow, you
hate Silence of the Lambs. You hate Traviss Hunter. What
if something happens to you and they gotta sell you
melt it down. Here's the co a. You gotta prove it.
You gotta prove that it was real. Jason's not here
to tell the story anymore. Oh you're like, you know,
you're like you're You're like a cartoon. Who's the cartoon
(13:55):
character that walks in the cloud is always over them,
like it's always right, Like that's you the last five minutes.
That's just dirt. Now do I mean like there's a cloud,
Like there's a rain cloud over them the entire time? Question?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
My point was, just because you win the awards doesn't
make you the best God.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I'm pretty sure I made that argument on the show
many times, though.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'm pretty sure Travis, Hi.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Have you not made that argument millions of times? Don't
we have a big event coming in this next Sunday
that you've been talking about.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Oh dude, the oscars are not the same thing as
the hydrants. Come on, man, they're still voting. That's not
the same thing. Come on, a bunch of voters, right.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
You got two people that were dopes that said, hey,
Ray Fines, I can't vote for him because he's won before.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, and he never won before. That was a controversy
for Brody who had Yeah that was a thing today, Hey,
each some guy didn't vote for each tro for crying
out loud, no, no one's no, one's not voting for Travis. Well,
he's going to win the Heisman Trophy if I vote
for him, So I'm not going to vote for him.
I mean, that's not that's not how it's done. That's
that's it's too. The purpose of the oscars is completely
(15:01):
different from the purpose of the Heisman Trophy've been out
all that. It's completely different.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
You can't keep playing you off.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Oh wow, okay, you know just for that coming up
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It's time to get into Hooka Doncage. It really is.
I mean, it's gonna be the nickname now that follows
them everywhere. God did you say, well, I'm trying to
do it so because it's I know, it's hookah, but
(17:29):
it sounds better if it's say hookah because it is
a whole other thing. Hook hookahs. Is that part of
the investigation Hookah Doncage right, say, it's like it's hookah hookah,
not hookah hookah. That's what I said. Is something else?
I said, hookah? Well that you're from the Hey there
(17:50):
you go? You that that the Hooka doncic. I like
that's pretty good right there. Hey, I got there right
there all right.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Before they cleaned up Times Square, we had to make
a cowboy was in.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Now we got rid of him. So a day after
Luca goes for a triple double, Lakers win their first
game against the Mavericks, who came back to play a
first time against his former team. No Anthony Davis in
this game, but Luca plays terrific, looks outstanding, and the
sky's a limit for the Lakers. Right Everything is coming
(18:22):
up Lakers right now. Today the story breaks and the
Athletic has this. It's been picked up by a lot
of other outlets too, that there's a report that says
that the last days of Luca in Dallas quote the
people who witness these do not paint a flattering portrait
of Luca's professionalism. Donch's conditioning level was reportedly a main
(18:45):
source of frustration for the organization, and they didn't like
his taste for beer and hookah. So we knew about
the beer part. And look, and this goes back to
making that video of after the Mavericks won to go
to the NBA Finals last year and Lucas hanging out
in the locker room with his dad and Michael Finley,
(19:06):
former Maverick star who works the team, comes and just
takes the beer out of Luca's hand so you can
tell like, hey, you know, instead of being a ridiculous
moment where you know, the guy can have a beer
because we just got us to the NBA Finals. Now,
you say, oh, wait a minute, maybe that was a
long standing conversation or something that was a big bone
of contention was how much Luca likes to drink beer
(19:27):
and and and and hookah and everything else about it. Now, look,
this is not something we said this when the when
when the trade happened, and this is absolutely true. We
said it then, it was true the week after. It's true. Now,
the Mavericks didn't just wake up one day and decide
to trade Luka Doncic Nico Harrison didn't just wake up
(19:49):
one day and decide to trade him. For all the
cries of you make it work with him, you think
they didn't try to make it work for the last
six years. And oh, by the way, now the rubber
had to hit the road because he was due a
three hundred and something million dollar contract extension in this
offseason and the Mavericks didn't want to give it to him. Right,
we said this. Now other people are picking up on
(20:09):
this line of strategy. A congratulations, send us money. We
told you that this is what happened. It's a case
of they didn't want to pay him, So what can
we do, Hey, we can get an All NBA player
for him and Anthony Davis. Let's go make the deal. Now.
You can disagree with it. You can disagree and say
I wouldn't have done it. I don't think it's gonna work.
The Lakers got to steal. All of these things you
(20:31):
can say, but you can't say, Hey, the Mavericks didn't
try to make it work, and they didn't want to
give him that money because he wasn't someone that was
going to do what the Mavericks want him to do,
and that was take care of his body over the
next few years. And they saw what was gonna happen,
and we got to give him all this money. It's
not going to be a great investment for us, so
we're gonna trade him. Now. When you look at this
(20:54):
in light of what's going on today, where this story leaks,
I don't think it's any coincidence that the story leaks this. Hey,
let's defend the Mavericks leaks a day after Luca goes
for a triple double and embarrasses Dallas. Look, it's been
tough for Nico Harrison and Mavericks owners because it's how
do you trade Luca fan favorite everybody else? Right? How
do you do this? How do you do this so
I get there playing defense? But if I can just say,
(21:16):
if I walked in as they're a public relations advisor, right,
And I always say the thing I would do if
I wasn't a sports talk radio house is I'd be
a PR advisor and I would say, look, I'd tell Dallas,
I would get Nico Harrison to get ownership. I would say,
I understand, you want to win this. You want to
win this trade. You don't like being told all the
time and having daily stories about how you're stupid, you
(21:38):
don't know what you're doing. You gave up a star player.
Look at how great things are going in Los Angeles. Yeah,
maybe that's got Luca's attention now. And Luca's gonna be
a great player, take care of his body and do
all of these things. He wasn't gonna do it in Dallas.
And I know you want to win that. I know
you want to win that and stop the criticism. But
you know what, you just have to take it for
a while, and you have to understand that you might
(22:01):
not be for another five or seven years, whatever it's
gonna be. If that happens to Luca and his career
goes downhill and he flames out when he's thirty because
he can't take care of himself and instead of having
another five to seven great years of his career, he's
done it thirty or thirty one because his injuries break
down his body and he can't do it anymore. That's
(22:21):
when you win. That's when that's when the Mavericks go,
oh okay, yeah, they really knew what they were doing.
They saw that. I get it. It's really hard. Everybody
wants to see what goes around comes around, right I do.
I always did in my life. Oh, I can't wait
to see it come around for you. Sometimes you're not
there for to see what goes around comes around. Sometimes
you gotta wait a while. This is what the Mavericks
(22:42):
have to do. I get it sucks, and Niko Harrison
doesn't want to get made fun of, and the Mavericks
don't want to get made fun of all. I get there,
done with that storyline, But you made a trade that
is deeply unpopular with your fan base that still has
taken the NBA by storm. If you're gonna win this,
you have to wait and let it play out. It sucks,
but you gotta wait to see if this comes around
for you and that's when it's going to be so
(23:03):
right now, I would drop it. I would move on,
I would play. I would get Anthony Davis healthy, I
would get him out there doing interviews. I would take
a look and see what our record is and push
that this is what we've done without Luca when he
was out from sept. December all the way till now.
But this whole storyline of hey, Luca wasn't doing what
we wanted them to. That storyline is out there. Everybody
(23:24):
knows it. It doesn't matter. People are still upset you
turned your back on a twenty five year old top
three overall NBA player, And no matter what you say,
no matter what you keep getting out there, that's not
going to change popular opinion. This is just a story.
You got to wait and see if you're right on
It sucks, but that's the strategy. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
The more you leak about little incidents and whatever is
just going to be further ingrained in your fan base's head. Wow,
you are really grossly over over analyzing your space and
overstating because you've you realize that maybe either you made
(24:02):
a mistake or you recognize that you've you're not winning
the pr on this in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
To your point, you've got five years. It's a running clock.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
If you need to put one up in the in
the studio and have a calendar that gets flipped.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
You know, only so many.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
More days until we can claim victory. So we've got
to pray for the breakdown, bring in a shaman, bring
in a voodoo person, whatever you need to do to
get it to fruition, because once you get past five years,
all right, you lost, But in the interim you're too
too quick to the I hate to say I told
you so after you lose by eight. You didn't even
(24:38):
beat the spread last night, okay it was seven and
a half. You can't claim victory on a night after
you didn't beat the spread.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
The other the hookah.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Just to make sure everybody's aware smoking, right, so smoking tobacco, weed, opium,
potentially some other drugs. May maybe it's something that's you
just a favorite flavored tobacco. Either way, they don't like
it and you kind of go through there. You can't
have some hashies as well. But all of that, for Luca,
(25:12):
the more stories that come out, you're not winning. You're
just you end up looking worse for it. It's like, hey,
what else we got? We got anything else? It's like
all those books as the Patriots. We were getting fractured, right,
and guys were signing away. It's like, hey, they co
existed for twenty years, but look how terrible these things
were all the time. Yeah, because Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.
(25:34):
It seems so forced and unnatural when they've had to
deal with each other.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Hasn't it come on? Man?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Like all of this is just so ridiculous, and this
is just one story after the next. This is like
all the books that come out on the eighty five
Bears every year.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
It's like, it's over. Okay, we've heard all the stories
and we get it.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
You didn't like his physical conditioning, you didn't like whoever
he was hanging out with his old man. You didn't
like that he drank a beer now and again or
maybe a couple more now and again. And Nikola Jokicch
didn't help things by saying, yeah, we used to have
fun the day before and All Star Game together, Like, no,
don't do that, Jokicch. You're not helping you anything. But
(26:16):
for the Mavericks, Mavericks has just been one after another
of oh yeah, and this one time and band camp.
He did this like you're just let it go, Let
it go, the trade's done. Figure out how to get
Gafford a D and everybody that you are banking on
that this iteration of the team.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Was gonna be good.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Figure out how to get their asses back on the court,
and then talk to me.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I mean, in essence, it's suck it up and move on. Yeah, right,
it's you made a deal. Nobody forced you to make
the trade. No, Rob Polinka, I hypnotize that comes out.
You will trade me Luka Dadgitch. You don't need to
see his identification. We don't need to see his identification.
You will give us Luka Doncic. I'm gonna give you
(27:01):
Luka Dantic. Yes, and we're only gonna trade Max Christy
and we're only gonna trade wait wait wait wait wait
uh look I oh wait that's Mavericks starter man. You
know it's I can't imagine what it's like to wake
up every day and walk down the street or have
people think about your team and go, you don't know
(27:22):
what you're doing. You really don't know. How dare you
do that? In to turn on the ring and turn
on well no, I mean, no one's surprised that Jets
don't know what they're doing. Yeah, that's kind of how
it works for the Jets, right, Okay, the Jets stake. Yeah, okay, accepted,
We move on.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I just want to make sure every morning.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
But this is a you know, well, look the Mavericks,
they're coming off the NBA Finals last year, and I
get it's that's a really hard thing, man, to know
that every time you walk into a room, people go,
that's the guy who traded Luca. You know, that's the
owner who traded Luca. That's it. I understand that's tough,
but man, there's a reason why you made the money
that you did and you're in the positions that you are.
Sometimes unpopular decisions are that way, and it's not gonna
(28:01):
be the last unpopular decision that you make. To quote
Aaron Glenn from a day ago, but that's gonna happen,
and you have to be okay with it. Obviously, Mavericks
ownership was okay with trading Luca, and Nico was over
okay with trading Luca, So everybody seems to be on
the same page and Yeah, what goes around comes around,
all right, if you're right about Luca, and you might
(28:22):
be you except that it's gonna be years. This is
not where in a month Lucas is suddenly gonna fall
on this face. No, it's gonna be years because the
guy's still living this life until he's twenty five. He's
one of the top three players in the league. Yeah,
but when he gets to thirty. Yeah, you can see
the downturn happen. You can see it going on. And
maybe that's a case where hey, now we can say
(28:43):
we won. Maybe Nico Harris is not the GM of
the Mavericks anymore. But you know what, that's the occupational
hazard you have with this job. Sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn't. But in the end that's why you made
the trade. But you also make this trade. Right we say, hey,
there's mac Max Christi and East starting.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Okay, cool, But otherwise you brought in Anthony Davis, whose
whole career is defined by what sitting there in street
clothes and what sunglasses he's gonna wear.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
To match him. So you're not winning. You're not winning
that argument.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Like Luca literally has to play not a single minute
more for the Lakers, and you still lost because he's
won several games while Anthony Davis played a half at
those points, It's like you're not, like, I don't understand
how doing the all out press of hey, is there
any Dallas reporter we haven't talked to you yet with
(29:34):
a Lucas story. I don't see how that wins, because
on the other side, you're trying to figure out how
to get Ad back on the court, like you traded
for a guy who's already proven to have all these
issues health wise for years, last year being really the
outlier to it, and the shortened bubble seat. It's a title,
(29:55):
it counts just the same, But otherwise has he been available? No,
So you're answering questions about the guy you got. I
guess it's a good way to deflect off questions about
Ad because you just keep throwing up more crap about Luca. Hey,
don't we have a worry over here? Don't look here,
Look at the guy we got rid of. Look at
what a problem and a nuisance he was or is
(30:16):
going to be. May never actually come to fruition, but
in our earth, in our earth that we see in
our offices, that's the guy we're dealing with just bad business.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
If the Mavericks, clearly guys weren't paying an attention when
dare was a thing and they visited their schools. Wow,
hookah isn't drugs Whoka No.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
No, if you think no, I'm not saying it is.
I'm not. I'm not said I just think wow, Hohoka dodge.
It is some kind of a nickname. Man. No, it's good. Yeah.
Look he walked by on the street and walk by
hookah bars all the time, and see people have one
right down in a neighborhood right across it.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Look like Hukah was derailing his career last night.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah, and when he got them to the finals last time.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Beer is not hard alcohol, no, but no.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
But it's about being in shape. It's about taking care
of your body and saying, hey, you can't go out. Yeah. No,
But what I'm saying, yeah, how did you feel when
you were twenty five? It was great when you were thirty. Oh,
it's a little bit different. That stuff hits differently. I
can't just win. I can't just wake up after a
night of partying and go to bed at four thirty
and wake up at seven thirty and go to work anymore.
(31:25):
Can't do that.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I can do that when I'm who's drinking beer is
not partying.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
But it's part of the lifestyle, is what they're saying. Hey,
take care of your body and don't don't you know,
don't do this. A look, any kind of alcohol, any
kind of alcohol is bad for you and it doesn't
keep you in shape. Right, it's it's for you. Uh okay, Well,
I mean you drink beer every night on the show,
so I mean obviously you.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Know, on the show, only on the show, in.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
The show, on the show, kind of like the on camera. Yeah,
it has to be said the show. You hear the
crack of that beer all the time. You think it's
my diet coke.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
No, it's it's time out to find out what's trending
in the wide world of sports. From someone who's been
called the Luca dats at your Fox Sports radio. Every
time she shows up, she puts on a show. It's
Manzy Belanya's and I do love me some beer.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
I don't like it Uca very much.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
I tried it years ago, you know, when everyone was
doing it and I didn't get it.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I was like the same for me, the same for
your girl. But I do love me some beer. So
that's Luca and I have that in common. Okay, you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, all right, guys.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
So the NFL Combine starts later today if you're on
the East coast Thursday. If you're on the West coast,
it starts tomorrow. And tests at the NFL Combine revealed
that potential number one pick and Penn State star Abduel
Carter has a stress reaction in his right foot. He
may have surgery. According to the NFL Network, Option one
would be to have the preemptive surgery, have a screw
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inserted in his foot, and be back in eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That would be option one.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
According to his agent, all the NBA games have wrapped
up today. We'll start with the Pistons because they've won
eight in a row. They took down the Celtics one
seventeen to ninety seven. Kate Cunningham twenty one points and
eleven assists in the win. Jalen Brunson dropped thirty four
points as the Knicks top to seventy six ers win
ten to one oh five.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Philadelphia has lost nine in a row.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
I'm laughing because Shay is losing his mind over this
King's hockey game, which we will go to in a second.
But he's like yelling in the background. So if you're
someone screaming and yelling, it's just Shay, so don't worry
about it. Pacers beat the Raptors one eleven to ninety one.
The Trailblazers top the Wizards won twenty nine to one
twenty one. The Thunder were down eighteen out one point.
They came back to beat the Nets win twenty nine
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to one twenty one, while he crushed the Hawks won
thirty one to one oh nine. The Clippers won thankfully.
They beat the Bulls won twenty two to one seventeen.
The Kings out of one eighteen to one oh one
win over the Jazz, and the Rockets rolled past the
Spurs one eighteen to one oh six.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
One upset.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
In men's college hoops, Vanderbilt eighty six to eighty four.
They took down number twelve Texas a number one. Auburn
crushed Ole Miss one of six to seventy six. Number
eight Michigan State top number sixteen Maryland fifty eight fifty
five with.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
A half court buzzer beater.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Maryland definitely thought they were going to overtime, and Hail
Mary went in for Michigan State. And lastly with men's college,
who's number seven, Saint John's, which has won fourteen out
of their last fifteen. They defeated Butler Sunday sixty seventy
so for the first time since nineteen ninety two, Saint
John's Hays clinched a share of the Big East regular
season title. Now in the NHL, the Connects and the
Kings are still going at it. They're officially in overtime
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three and a half minutes to go. They are tied
a two uppiece. The Jets I mentioned earlier have won
eleven in a row. They beat the Senators for one
stop the Jets exactly, and the Avalanche crushed the Devils
a five to one.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Back to you guys, Thank you, Mine hit it. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon Locke, the tirec dot Com Staios. Everybody's getting
on my bandwagon now, Mike Carmen, Saint John's to win
the NCAA championship. Everybody's jumping on. I got two nuggets
for you.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
One first head coach in Division one history to win
a regular season conference title in five different programs, Who
Boston University, Kentucky, Louisville, Iona, and now Saint John's and
the US lost two to one to Japan in the
She Believes Cup.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Exit? How about a Fresca exit? Swallendome Jason Smith Mike
Harmon live from the tyrack dot Com Studios Coming up next.
You are not gonna believe what one Yankee player said
today about the World Series against the Dodgers. That's next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon, and boy, I tell you. One of the
more fun storylines is offseason of Major League Baseball ou
getting set for the game of the season in a
few weeks. The back and forth between the Dodgers and
Yankees following World Series. Right, you had a couple of
Dodger players in cleaning Joe Kelly, he wasn't even on
the roster, saying that you know, the lazy Yankees. We knew.
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All we had to do was put the ball in play.
They were gonna throw up on themselves basically what he
was saying. Chris Taylor saying the same thing. Lazy Yankees,
lazy Yankees, and they sold the truth. Yeah, no, no, yeah,
I don't know that I would have said it, but
clearly yeah, no, they were absolutely right, you know, lazy Yankees,
all of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Yeah, but we talked for a living, we're hot take nonsense.
On occasion, we would have done it. Yeah, I would
have poked the bear.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
And now we jumped back to what Nestor Cortes Yankee,
a former Yankee reliever who has since traded to the
Brewers in the offseason because you know, you couldn't have
him back. After the World Series, he was asked about
the World Series and he said today, quote, we were
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the better team. We had done enough to win that game,
Game one that Freddie Freeman won with a walk off
off grand slam. Oh, by the way, one of the
most five now most famous home runs in the history
of the game. They can talk whatever they want to talk,
but we win game one, which we should have. We
lost two and three. We win Game four and we
should have won Game five. Then we go back to
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La up three to two. People can say it slipped
away from us, can say we made a lot of mistakes,
which we did, but at the end of the day,
we were the better team. I see it that way.
The reality could have been going back to La leading
three to two. Okay, now, before we go any further
on this, let's let's bring back let's get understand on
Nestor Cortes. Why do I know that name. Let's bring
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back Nestor Cortes's big highlight from Game one of the
World Series. He's the pitcher for the Yankees. On this play,
Cortes deliveries free hits abroad.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
A right field ses good Jimmy made Freddy game of
the World Series.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Thank you, Nester.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
The guy who gives up the biggest, one of the
five biggest home runs in World Series history. This is
a guy saying we were the better team. I don't
know what a quote out of this dude be for.
I don't know what makes less sense. Joe Kelly, who
didn't play, saying the Yankees were latey we knew we
were gonna kill him. Or Ne's the Cortes who gave
us this monstrous home run that we're gonna talk about
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for fifty years. He's a guy's saying, yeah, we were
the better team. We were the better team by though.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Joe Kelly wins because you know he was in those
meetings and strategy sessions, and they have the hunk A medal,
so they win.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Cortes. You know, it's what it could have should have.
There was a lot of we oughta and I should
have and we could.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Have kind of thing going on. You know your old
doctor Phil speech that some guy's going on tour with
you need to talk to him too. Uh.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Anyway, here was the rest.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Of his quote, nobody remembers my second outing, talking about
I dominated my second outing man, I dominated O'tani struck
him out, dominated Freeman. Obviously it didn't matter at that moment.
I came back and I did what I had to do,
which is my job.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
I got people out, except when it mattered. Come on,
all we had to do. I would say, listen, Nester,
your job in that in that big game one was
don't give up a grand slam. That was your job.
Don't give up a grand slam. Nope, grand slam. Nup,
gave a grand slam. That's like what that's like? Ryan
(39:38):
Day last year when when Michigan beat Ohio is doing
they won the national title. Michigan won like fifty to
twenty one, and he says, you know, outside of six
or seven explosive plays like we were in that game,
we were just as good as they were. Like, yeah, dude,
those plays happened, like you know, come on, that's that's
Lincoln Riley. Outside of like, you know, eight or ten
big plays, we're an undefeated team. Yeah, but these are plays,
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you look, these are plays that give you a winning
a loss. Man. You can't just suddenly just blow it
off like that didn't count.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
I'm surprised Lincoln Riley didn't try to have himself a
national title parade through downtown.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
L a uh.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Corgez is trying to endear himself to teammates through through
this article I was reading on the Athletic. He's got
a coffee truck showing up at the parking lot twice
a week, so he's got that going.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
That's good. I just buy some love. It's the Nasty
Nester Cafe like that. Had we just not lost in five,
we would have won the World Series. It's not like
you lost in seven and a guy hit a wall.
Scraper home run to win Game seven in the twelfth inning. Like,
you lost in five? Man, how can you say judges
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dropping fly balls and Volpi's throwing wide to third they
couldn't cover for Like, how could you tell me you're
the better team? You lost in five? You lost them five? Yeah,
a second outing. Nobody remembers that. Nobody. Yeah, you did
so well, and that's so, that's why you're a Brewer.
Now that's he didn't bring you back. That's that's why
you're a Brewer. Wow, Yeah that was Hey, that's what
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the Yankees and Brewers said. Hey, our guys gave up
some of the worst home runs you ever want to see.
So let's let let's make sure neither of them are
on our teams. All right, Great, that works out. Great,
you get Devin Williams, We'll wind up with nest To Cortes. Hey,
we solve each other's problems. That's terrific. I love this
biggest home run we've seen in baseball. At twenty five years,
we were the better team. Okay, coming up next, we
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have a big story out of the NFL has to
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