January 3, 2026 • 40 mins
Veejey Vernon Huskey and Arnie Spanier preview all the playoff possibilities in week 18 and wonder if NFL teams should go all out with nothing to play for.
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Verner Husky and Arnie Spayer and Arnie before we get
into some NFL, you want to read some tweets man,
that you're a big tweet reader. You like to get
on X and read with the peoples, which the peoples
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are saying, so us he's at staking genius one. I'm
that big vanilla funny anything out there striking any interest
to you? Right now, brother, right now.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
There was a few earlier that I'm gonna go ahead
to says here. Gutter says, I'm happy about all those
first roug games. I just didn't go with my gut
with my bracket. Otherwise I would have had a perfect bracket.
I didn't get a winner. Man. I think in our
bracket contest, I got everyone wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
To me, I got one. I'm wanted a few that
called Miami Overhio State. Is that you had that one
that I had that? Wow, I had that one.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I totally agree, we agree with you when it comes
to college football. Uh. And he takes a shot at you.
He said the BCS error was a joke. Go Canes.
I was beyond mad when the computer put Florida stayed
in over my Canes.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I was about to say, that's why he's saying that.
When he said go, I go, yeah, no, wonder you
hate the BCS from the year Florida State got to
play in the National Championship Game against the Gators in
the Sugar Bowl. I remember the years talking about.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I gotta tell you know, I really do enjoy it
so much better like this. I always thought we needed
a playoff twelve teams. Now we don't even know what
it's going to be next year. Do you understand that
they they've not decided that it could very well be sixteen?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
No, listen, man, it has not been decided ten teams.
No buys. You can still play first round games on
home fields and then go play the bowl games and
then you have one last championship game somewhere at the
big stadium like they're doing it this year in Miami.
It's been in Jerry's world before it's been out here
in so far National Championship game was it so five
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a few years ago, which was a disaster because it
was windy and rainy and so far as an open
even though it has a roof, there's no doors or
walls on the entire stadium, so the elements can come in,
and the rain was blowing in from the from the
West end zone out there at the old Hollywood Racing Park.
But I just think that if you try to expand
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this thing, you're killing the regular season. And the regular
season it's great for a reason. It's because you can't
you know, you can't lose too much. Man, that everybody's
on the edge of or see every Saturday waiting for,
you know, the big time upset you start adding teams. Look,
we already had a three loss team in this year,
and I was I was on the edge of saying, yeah,
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I was on the fence with a two lost team.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Cool three loss team.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I don't know, guys, if you lost three games already
and then showing Alabama they had already lost three they
did beat Oklahoma and then got trounced in the Rose
Bowl for the world to see probably about fifteen to
twenty minute million viewers. After we look at the numbers
of that game, I mean, this has got embarrassed, bro.
But the never end up eleven and four.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I never liked that when you lost the game in October,
you were automatically done and that was it. And I'm
always for second and even third chances. So we will
totally disagree on that. And a little Chewy by the way,
said we need steak a genius and big vanilla funny
to be paired together due on the weekend rotation to
five Sports radio, especially in the Houston area, which is
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airing on Sports Talk seven to ninety down there in Houston,
tex you've been down there the well.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So here's the thing. She always been trying to get
me to come down there to a sports bar and
do a live broadcast from there for about two years now, about.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Two or three years.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's a great, a beautiful city. Oh man, Houston is outstanding.
One of my best friends a firefighter, and the a MT.
Sergeant like a manager of supervisor or something. The emt
him and his wife friend in the medical field. They're
shout out to my boy Jamar and his wife head
also too quick shut out. My daughter just text me,
my four year old daughter, she's listening, So I told
her if she texted me during.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
This, she's late.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh my god, man, let me tell you something. My
daughter Journey doesn't have a bad time. I have a
four year old that doesn't have a Now she's got
a bad time, but she don't got a bad time.
She kind of just because she'll come out in the
living room out of nowhere and I'll be on the
soul foot. It'll be like eleven o'clock. I'm like, what
are you doing up? It's dark? Or Cameron, her brother,
Cameron snore, I can't sleep, and she gives me this
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little puppy dog face, bro, and I just go, come on,
get up here, and she climbs up on the couch
with daddy and that's how she ends up watching a
lot of late night DVR sports with me. Man, But
she just used her mom's phone and text me, you
know what.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
The best thing, since you're bringing up TV today was
the Twilight Zone Marathon, which is I love that stuff.
I don't know if you're a Twilight Zone guy.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I was went out back in the day, man, But now,
shit everyone, I'm someone golfed in sports and comedy. I'm
shooting the comedy special for YouTube coming up in March,
so I'm just on sport. I'm in golf with sports,
and I like things that make me laugh because I
just like trying to be happy and coming. Now. My
guilty pleasure is I have watched every season. I'm up
to season twenty three on first forty eight. The first
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forty eight, I watched every episode and it's real, real
homicide cases, and you follow you know, the office of
the detective. You know, they do the investigation, trying to
figure out who chilled this person, cured this person. I'm
up to season twenty one two and oh god, I
never met from season one. And it's from different cities,
so like some episodes there in Miami and Tulsa, Burma,
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you know, means happened in Birmingham out and I'm.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Like, are you a stranger things guy?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Have you?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Alex keeps telling me I need to watch it, but
I just.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Extremely got shut down the other day because it was there.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I don't how did they get shut down for that,
and didn't get shut down for Jake Paul getting his
ass well by Anthony Joshua on Netflix. No, just it
was best.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
So many people.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Were watching I think more I think more people watched.
I think more people watch Anthony Joshua.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Oh maybe you're right. I have no idea that Jake.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Paul and and and Netflix didn't glitch one second, didn't
git one second.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Idea how many people were watching that? That was kind
of crazy. Finally a real boxer knocked him on his
ass well because.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
He finally got in the ring with a real box
on his problem. We've been waiting. We've all been waiting, Yes,
we've all been waiting for you to fight a real fighter.
That's that's your size.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
They're big. You broke your jaw, broke in two.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Different places and made him. I'm gonna tell you this,
he got ninety million for Anthony got seventy, Jay got ninety.
I'm sure the ninety field good, but I'm sure having
this jaw broken with two titanium plates put on in
each side.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I told you I was gonna break your jaw for
ninety million. You take it to the heartbeat.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, I mean yeah, I would, man, it's ninety it's
ninety million, But it also just ruin his boxing is boxing,
you know, Creed. So anyway, let's move on to an
NFL man. Fans want to talk about NFL. People tweet
they want to get to the NFL. So this is
what we're gonna do. We'll start with Saturday's games. We
got lines, we got over runners. But what I'm gonna
throw to you is, because there's a lot of games
this weekend that don't mean nothing as far as playoffs go, right,
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But I do think every game brings something because that's
the NFL. Right Like in the NBA, if the if
the Kings are playing the Hornets on the last night,
no one gives a damn Like we don't have no questions.
There are some NFL matchups of some bad teams that
have some questions going into the offseason. I'll throw that
at you, stinking genius, and you'll give us your reaction.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Man.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So let's start with tomorrow's games. Nice headed doubleheader we
got tomorrow for the NFC SOUD If we have the
Carolina Panthers at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay three
point favorites over under forty three and a half. If
you want to take the Panthers on the money line
straight up as a plus one twenty four, I'll tell
you why I'm going right here. I'm sticking with my
man b Y by seeing Bryce young since he was fifteen,
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sixteen years old out here at Cathedral High School, covered
him when he was there, also covered him at modern day.
Know him, know his family, his mom, his dad. He's
a great young man. I love what he's done in
the NFL, small guy getting his ass beat behind the
bad line. They need to keep fixing it. Got him
some weapons, got him a running back, got him a
tight end, got him a receiver. Got to keep fixing
these things. But Tampa Bay has just been crap since
Week eight. I think that continues. Even though you're hearing
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the rumors that their head coach is fine, like he's
safe this all season, they're not making looking to make
any move at the head coaching position. Give me the
Panthers here straight up, even with the plus three, I'm
just taking the Panthers to win this game.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Well, first of all, I'm bright, shawng I'm sure we'll
hear after the season. There'll be somebody leaking this out.
How close he was to be thrown to the side
on this team last year. He was benched, I believe
at the end of right and then but they had
to bring him back with Dalton got hurt. Had Dalton
not got hurt, who knows how this would have turned out.
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I know, who knows if what, this, that, and the other.
But he came real close to being tossed away to
the side by the Panthers. Turns around, has a really,
really good year. Baker Mayfield's hurt. He's not gonna say
it they're not going to bring it up. He just
does not look like the Baker midfield he's has the
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last couple of years. And that's why Tampa is struggling.
And I know a lot of teams, all the teams
have injuries, but it's really taking install on Tampa. I
like Caroline in this game. And by the way, is
Donald the most underrated guy in the entire and Africo
listen me. Dallas never wanted to let him go. They said,
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that's why they didn't have much of a choice. And
he ran for a thousand for him. He was a
thousand yard Russia for them. And then he just comes
out of nowhere this year and he's been able to
study that backfield. I got to push back a little
bit on the buy stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I thought my opinion was they sat him down because
he was getting killed out there. And yes, he wasn't
playing well, but he wasn't playing well because when his
backfoot hits, he's got two defenders in his face. This
offensive line last year, Pro Football Focus had it at
thirty two. This year, before the season started, it had
it at thirty one. It hadn't gotten that much better. Man,
you gotta have an offensive line in front of you.
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They have got to address that this offseason. I'm not
talking skill position players. This defense is a top half
defense in the league, top fifteen, eleven, twelve. This is
a very good young defense. They're fine there, but first
round pick, second round pick, third round pick, and your
number one or at least your second big free agent
and you go after this year. They all need to
have a oh in front of the next letter, whether
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it's a OG or ot, and get this offensive line
fix for Bryce Shung.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, but you know what, Joey say that to Joe
Burrow in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
No, we're talking about his defense.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
No, okay, But do we also say, though all these
teams have problems online, we say that about Miami's though
Miami's offense.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I was about to say, no running game, centers football,
But you know, it just seems like everybody cries about
the offensive line, especially out there in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
What about San Diego? I mean, excuse me, the Chargers, Well,
they gonna be goodness, both tackles in the guard.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
But that's not that's not all they not crying, or Arnie,
you have football is in the trenches. Football starts in
the trenches. So if if teams are crying about a line,
I'm not mad at them. Yeah, you gotta give me
a damn line. How the hell is everybody can't have
Joe Burrow. Everybody can't have six four six thirty pounds
or or Josh Allen. You have to have a line.
Even those guys, when they don't have a good line
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and they lose games, do people say, well, if their
line played any better, Well, Josh Allen's gotta scramble and
run so much because his line isn't playing, So it's
always going to be the line. People want to discredit
the number one rusher in NFL history. We hear all
the time emmittt. Smith. But why is Emmitt Smith other
than his own individual talent? Why is Emmitt Smith the
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all time leader rushier in NFL history? Because Jimmy Johnson
assembled one of the greatest offensive lines in NFL, doesn't.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Troy and Michael have any Just do with that.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
If you got one of the greatest guys in the
offensive history, then you can have time to throw the
quarterback and throw the j Novacheck. Don't forget about Alvin Harper.
Calvin Williams wasn't just Michael Levin. Man, there were so
many guys. No, no, but I met that opened up
other things. Right where where did it start? Do you
remember how big Larry Allen's ass was?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Do you remember the year he Remember the combine? Like
not the combine? Remember the competition they used to have
where they would run the forty, do the bench press
and all that stuff. Remember the day Larry Allen showed
up with a mouthful of tobacco and laid down and
did two twenty five like forty times like it was
nothing like can you imagine laying on your back and
doing two twenty five? I can only get out of
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about thirteen four team right now. I just did it
the other day in the gym. I'm two twenty five.
I could get to about thirteen fourteen right.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I'm trying Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I think you ain't getting man. You play, you play pickleball.
You're not getting that up at all. Second game tomorrow,
the Seattle Seahawks having a surprise year with Sam Darnold
at quarterback, only a two and a half point favorite.
I'm trying to figure out if this is another Vegas coup?
Why their favorite San Francisco I had Vrabel as my
coach of the Year a few weeks ago, and I
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said I was gonna stick with that. I'm probably gonna
be wrong if San Francisco wins this game, because how
the hell has Mike Shanahan done this? I mean, god,
I mean these guys, Yeah, but listen, I'm with you.
But if they win this game tomorrow, Warner done for
the year, Bosa done for the year, traded away? Who
wants some of Deebo? Samuel I You've been in and out, chef,
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I mean all these guys, and you're leaning really on
one running back that's got over like three hundred and
seventy touches this year. They're wearing his wey're not wearing
him down because he looks like he's getting stronger than
years going on. You've had to play your backup quarterback
for four or five games. It's how has Shanahan done this? Man?
Kyle is just really put this thing together. But two
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and a half point underdogs at home tomorrow night over
under forty five and a half, I'm taking the Niners
here to cover this. I think this is a very
very close football game, but I think the Niners pull
this off. I think the Niners have home field advantage,
but I do not think they make the super Bowl
because they can be gotten, like they can be beaten,
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but I just don't think it happens to morrow. I
give me the Niners to cover with you.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
You say, you know, how did Shanahanan do it? How
did San Francis go?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
And you're right, how some good points.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
But if you would have told me before the start
of the season that you think that the Seahawks gonna
be the best team in the NFL, I would have
fired you on the spot. I would tell you, thank
you very much. I appreciate your ten years of service. Goodbite, Seattle.
What Seattle has done is perhaps better than what San
Francisco has done, and they did it with a quarterback
where you know Sam Darnold, who has just been fantastic
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this year. Seattle's actually the better team than San Francisco.
But I probably would have had the line in about
a pick of mall. So this is a big game
because if San Francisco wins this game, they probably go
ahead and make it to the super Bowl. You know,
they don't have.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
To leave the super Bowl, is there?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Yeah, So they don't have to leave it all. They're done,
they're done traveling. They win today, O go to be
Sunday Saturday. I get my days mixed up. If they
win Saturday.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
To midnight where you are now? So yeah today?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yeah? Well whatever. If they win their next game, they
don't have to travel throughout the rest of the year
and Super Bowl, they'll have all the home games. That's
why I'm kind of rooting against them. This one's going
to be a great one. Probably go I'd probably go
with San Francisco, but I want Seattle to go ahead
and win this game.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Over on the forty seven and a half.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I'd probably go with the under on this one. I
just can't see it's going to be an offensive explosion.
It'll be close to that number, though, but I'd probably
go with younger give me the over.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I think one of these teams scores almost thirty. I
do I think pretty fan or No, I'm not a fan,
but I'm not a hater. Right, he's a he's a
he's a guy to me, like like he's better than that.
He's no, no, no, I'm not saying his talent. I'm
talking about as far as whether I care or not
about Okay, okay, I'm like whatever, Like I don't. I
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Don'm not a hater, but I'm not a fan. I'm
not gonna why is he not more popular? I mean,
he's mister irrelevant, last pick. Every every like kid should
be like, look at him. He's a last drop pick,
last pick.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I want to he broke all odges and I mean
that this is what sports is all about, what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Right, you want to know why Arnie on some real
man just get human here for saying let's take the
sports talk hats off and get human. We act like
we like that stuff. We we don't, Okay, we we
act like, yeah, it's a cool story, right, it's a
cool story until he sees something on the NFL level
that he hasn't seen before, and he goes through a
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little bad spurt. Had a lot of rookie quarterbacks do.
Then people are gonna get behind microphones and put their
headsets on, or they're gonna put on badly put together
suits and go sit on debate shows on TV and
trash this guy. This is why no one one of them.
This is no wonder it took him so long. We
will do this. We've done it with Brock Party. I
try to stay away from stuff like that because I
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understand the evan flows of pro sports, and not everyone
can walk in the door and be Dann Marino and
start throwing for five thousand yards in nineteen eighty four
and it didn't happen again for another almost twenty years
in NFL history, throwing forty seven, forty six, forty eight
touchdown passes. Everybody can't walk in the league and do that.
Peyton Man twenty nine interceptions good for a year. Yeah,
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I don't know if it's an underdog story can be a.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Bigger one from mister irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
To I mean, I mean Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson.
If you want an underdog store.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
No, but I've been in the NFL. I mean there's
in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
There's how many people I'll put it to you like this,
he was mister irrelevant. But I'll take Tom Brady story
one ninety nine. He gives us. Yeah, you know, remember,
but we liked time was the Brady six. It was
six quarterbacks taken before Tom Brady in that draft, and
maybe we're sixth quarterback.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Take it to the first round show.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
He sure was Guys like Jim Kelly Ken O'Brien, all
those guys were taken before Marios back. What party, man,
I just like I said, I just think this is
one of these stories that we act like in the world,
especially in American sports. We act like we like Jeremy Lynn. Right,
that was cool for about six weeks, big time, It
was huge for about five and a half weeks. As
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soon as it cools down, we go back to loving
Kobe and Lebron and Durant and Steph just like with
Brock Purty. It was cool for a second and we're
right back to Lamar and Josh Allen and Joe Burrow
like the guys. Man Like, that's why you ask me
how I feel about Bron.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Josh was the same thing. He's from Wyoming those that's all.
That's a dog story.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
It was the first round draft picks, not another dog story.
When you're coming from that at school, it doesn't matter
when you're drafted. No, when you're drafted in the first round,
you are not an underdog.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Hell No.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Mel Kiper, who was the voice of pre draft for
the last thirty five years of our lives, was the
one guy screaming, screaming for Josh Allen and doesn't and
he doesn't let people, but he doesn't let people forget
about it. Because people were like, oh, get this guy
off the air. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
We're so sick of mel Kuiper. No, it looks like
mel Kiper was ahead of all of us, ladies and gentlemen.
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And I'm not a Josh Allen guy. You know how
I feel about I call him Josh Apple turnover Allen
because all he doesn't turn the ball on him is
most important.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
But he was a first round pick. Sel he couldn't
have been that as far ahead of everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
No, I mean, listen, there was some other teams wanted them.
There was something somebody saw him. Look think a boy,
a guy like Pat Mahoons. You going to call him
an underdog story coming into that draft coming.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
In No, No, I'm not into that.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Last season about Texas Tech, nobody thought.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
He was a I was gonna say he didn't have
he didn't have good numbers in Texas text, but so Red.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
But Andy Reid saw something and and remember they came
up to get at them. They didn't just it. They
can't fall. It didn't fall to Casey Casey came up
to get him. So I don't look at that as
an underdog story when you go on to.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Flea tom Brady or brock Purty.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Right the Tom Brady listen, tom Brady was eighth on
the depth charted Michigan his freshman year. He said he
would get one rep every other not every practice, every
other practice, he would get one rep. That's it.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Nowadays, you transfer offway.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Through this, not even halfway through the season. You transfer
up to one transfer and spring because remember there's a
spring portal portal once everybody goes through spring, which I like,
you go through spring game, you go through spring practice,
you play your spring game in front of you know,
in front of your fans, and if you feel like,
hey they're not gonna I'm not gonna get any playing
time here, there's another window that opens up and you
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can portal out again if you want to. I wouldn't
do it because if you already portaled on January second,
and you get to the spring game and you got
a portal again, just maybe that level of d one
not for you. Man. Maybe you need to go down
to like Faris University where Shambliss was going. Yourself a
national champions.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Did you see, by the way, did you see the
number they just put it out? Three thousand, seven hundred
and fifty three players have entered the transfer portal today?
How many three three thousand, seven hundred and fifty three.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And seventy percent of them will not find a new home. No,
you're probably right off because because already, do you know
how much room has to be made on big time
programs for you to fit in another three thousand players?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I'm trying to do the math, how many teams? How
many new players?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, think about it, because the team carries, each team's
gonna carry between there's one hundred plus teams, right any teams,
Any team's gonna cary anywhere between eighty to ninety five
suited up players every Saturday. It's about eighty to ninety
five kids on the sideline that'll be suited up. So
you're taking an extra thirty per team, Like, well, then
you gotta louty give or take. You got it right, right?
Then it means then it means you must have thirty
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poort nowt right, So if you don't have thirty, poor,
if I only got ten kids poorting out, I don't
have to bring in ten new kids. I could just
bring in four or five. Obviously I got something good
if only ten or leaving. If you're only leaving losing
like eight or nine kids, you're doing a damn good
job at your program. In the portal era that we
live in, Michigan State had thirty six kids hit the
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exactly thirty six kids hit the portal of Michigan State today.
And they got a new Pat FitzGeralds their new coach
coming in.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, right, Well, a lot of hit the portal. Like
when Dion came in. Some some kids say, I'm not
gonna get a fair break. I gotta get a.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Look, told him comany and I'm bringing luggage. So he
let them know most of y'all better hit the portal.
But he was right. They were one in eleven, bro, like,
you guys can't play. Y'all got to get out of here. Man.
We'll hit him some more NFL good on tomorrow's games
man set, But then we're gonna hit some Saturday games.
And I got some games I really want to throw
at you, one that I really want to see what
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your opinion is about. Neither team going to the playoffs,
but big storylines here man, he's just thinking jeans. I'm
vj vern Husky. We are in for the guys on
The Jason Smith Show for Jason Smith and his best
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Speaker 4 (23:19):
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Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well ready or not. I know there's some teams that's
ready not this weekend, and there's some things they need
to find. Some people want to find better playoff positioning
than they're sitting there right now. You listen to the Jays.
It's the Smith Show. We're sitting in for Jason Smith
in this book. But best friend, Mike Harmon, myself VJ
Vernon Husky and Ronie Spear. Guys, don't forget to hit
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always pops up at the top of my screen Steve
the Seger with what's trending? Well, we got trending today's day.
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Buddy, Good evening once again, We've only got one NBA
game still going and they're going to the fourth quarter
in LA. The Lakers are tied with Memphis, ninety six
oh twenty eight points for Luka Donsig. As expected, Oklahoma
City wipe the floor with the Golden State Warriors in
the Bay Area, one thirty one to ninety four. The
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final shake Gilgis Alexander thirty points in under thirty minutes.
Golden State was without Steph Curry this due to an
ankle injury. Jimmy Butler was out with illness, Jonathan Cominga
was out with a sore bag, Draymond Green was rested.
And it's a thirty and five record for Oklahoma City.
They do have the Player of the Month in the
West shake Gilgis Alexander Player of the Month in the East.
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New York's Jalen Brunson now at Madison Square Garden. Tonight,
Atlanta beat the Knicks one eleven ninety nine. Karl Anthony
Towns was out due to illness for New York. Jalen
Brunson twenty four points from from three point range. He
was one for ten. San Antonio's twenty five and nine
now after a victory at Indiana, and that's without Victor
wembin Yama of the Spurs. He was out with the
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hyper extended knee. Dylan Harper off the bench with twenty
two points. Washington beat Brooklyn by twenty net starters from
three point range two for seventeen. Cleveland down Denver one
thirteen to one o eight despite thirty four points from
Jamal Murray the Cavs Donovan Mitchell scored thirty three. The
Nuggets as a team scored seven points in the last
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nine and a half minutes at Cleveland DA Milwaukee over
Charlotte won twenty two to one twenty one. Janis ANTENACUNMPO
thirty points in thirty minutes of work, including an Ali
Oup dunk in the final seconds. Chicago over Orlando won
twenty one, one fourteen despite thirty one points from Polo
Bankero of the Magic. Portland won at New Orleans won
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twenty two to one oh nine. Pelicans eight and twenty
eight this year, although they did get thirty five points
from Zion Williamson. Phoenix at home beat Sacramento one twenty
nine to one oh two. Devin Booker thirty three points
in under thirty minutes of work. Kings record now eight
and twenty seven. In college basketball Number seven, Gonzaga needed
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overtime to defeat Seattle U eighty to seventy two. So
number two Michigan still undefeated after whipping USC ninety six
sixty six. Thirteenth rank Nebraska is still undefeated after edging
ninth rank Michigan State fifty eight fifty six. Neither team
scored in the final minute. Stanford upset Number sixteen Louisville
eighty to seventy six. There was the outdoor game in
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Miami in the NHL, The Winter Classic with the roof
open at the Marlins Ballpark went to the Rangers five
to one at Florida. Minnesota leads four to one at
Anaheim early in the third. Saint Louis was a four
to three winner over Vegas. Four Bowl games in college football,
SMU beat seventeenth ranked Arizona in San Diego twenty four nineteen.
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It was twenty four to nothing at the half.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Good comeback, good comeback. Oh I Like it?
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Wake Forest forty three twenty nine over Mississippi State in Charlotte.
Victories for Texas State and Navy Steelers. Pass rusher TJ.
Watt will be playing on Sunday night. That's in the
season finale against the Ravens. He missed last three games
after the lung injury. He returned to full practice today.
Baltimore gave nose tackle John Jenkins a one year extension.
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Quarterback Lamar Jackson practice fully again today after the bad back.
Bill's quarterback Josh Allen returned to limited practice and should
start Sunday. Vikings QB JJ McCarthy will start after his
broken hand. He practice fully the last couple of days,
but running back Aaron Jones is out with a hip injury,
and Dolphins running back to Von had is doubtful for
this weekend with a shoulder injury. He's misspracticed all week.
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Tight End Darren Waller was placed on ir back to.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You, Steve, just real quick for you go man, this
basketball see college basketball season. It feels like this could
be something. I know we're so caught up with college
football playoff right now in NFL right now, but the
top thirteen teams either are undefeated or only have one loss.
It's been a while since we've seen a top heavy
I mean, I didn't I'm a tar Hill guy, you
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know me. I didn't think Hubert Davis would turn this
thing around so fast. With Caleb william Our, our our
Firstmian Williams and some of these transfer kids, man. And
just what Michigan's doing Arizona, it's a healing people. They're
beating people by night thirty points like it's nothing.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
I think it's seven times now after tonight. And USC
was ranked twenty fourth in.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
The country right and got to be by thirty.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Michigan is thirteen. And oh, what's shocking me is Nebraska,
which I guess soon we'll be in the top ten
fourteen and oh, right after the two point win against
Michigan State tonight, I had looked it up earlier at
night and say, how how is Nebraska basketball off to
its best ever start at fourteen? And oh, did they
play anybody? Well, they did play Wisconsin and beat them
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by thirty, and played at Illinois and edged them, and
Oklahoma edged them and Michigan State by two and Nebraska wins.
So it's not like they've played nobody.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
No, they're playing some guys. Man.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
It's not just a good record, it's Nebraska's undefeated so far.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
The fighting ty lows goodness, gracious, Uva, honestly, Uvas sitting
at eleven and one Georgia's eleven than one, Nebraska fourteen
and oh my Heels twelve and one, Vanderbilt twelve, and
oh b YU twelve and one. Michigan State takes another
loss to day that gives them their second one. But
I'm just this this. Once we get past the NFL,
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and I think we're doing. If you put your eyes
on college basketball, ladies and gentlemen, it's gonna be hardest
hell to try to pick this bracket by the time
this comes.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
This is the YU went from one to ten because
they had one loss.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, well, and they went from one to ten only
because that's just the way these polls go. And it's
more popular one time. Yeah, but it's more of a popularity.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Christmas break with the A people. But they're still Duke,
there's still you, right. I mean, we're gonna even things
out once you get in conference play. I know Arnie
thinks they're gonna go undefeated in conference, but.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Big twelve is the toughest conference in college basketball. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
It's good they do say that. Act other Knights.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
You're saying they're gonna win every game is in the
Big twelve? Kansas Vansas? Are they even still in that
that's the case.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
They already got three losses. Kansas area has already been
beaten three times.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Now we'll go back to BYU and their star that
is a big twelve team.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, and b Yu too. I look this up. They
Land are like the number two, are number three or
like number one player in the nation. I'm like, how
do you what kind of money are they paying it? BYU?
You can't tell me. Listen, listen Nil. That's why I
think this is okay because you'll have people disager complain
about nil, but you can't tell me that somebody this
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is not nil. Vanderbilt twelve and oh Vandy twelve and oh,
like you gotta do. Somebody's paying some money to get
certain kids to come help these programs. And it's all
legal now, and.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
It became obvious with football as well.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Flank knows it better than I do. But it's twenty
point five million is the budget. That is the budget.
So every school works with the twenty point five million.
The the ones that figure out how to go over
that exactly. They take it from other you know, other
program to call it.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
No, you call it friends of the program, right, yeah,
exact friends of the program. Y'all remember the movie The Program.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
And they won't get in trouble for it yet, because
as we all know, no one's in charge.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Mark Cuban helps out Indiana. Nobody says anything bad about that.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Well, well, Phil Knight helps out Oregon. Right, what's that?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I always has I think it's okay. The kids deserves something. Yes, Texas,
Oklahoma State used to have Cody CAMPBELLI millionaire, thirty million
dollars to Texas Text football program and said, here go
go win here go win me.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Something football, basketball, softball, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Go hit, go win me something. All right, cool?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Thanks to saying, oh man, Texas Tech paid the softball
picture one million dollars. Hey, the one that came from Stanford.
Is that the word?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Well, and I'll say you this and then and then
the women's College playoff. When she gets into the circle,
she get better, she better, she better go ten strikeouts,
no walks with a point zero nine e r A baby,
I'm paying a million. I need that man. Jason Smith
show with his best friend Mike harmtt vj Vernon Husky,
Arnie Spanish saying all right, Arnie, before we go to
bre let's throw another game out there really quick for
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the NFL. A game I want to I'm just gonna
skip around Brown's at the Bengals. Now, neither one team
is going to the playoffs, but coaching questions here. Both
these guys can be fired. Both these quarterbacks can be
in different teams. I don't think one will. You might
be surprised at the one that I don't think will.
But there's one that I They could be in a
different uniform. Their team has made and known that they
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are ready to listen, and he is talking like he's
sick of that place. He hasn't said it yet, he's
just kind of talking like it. Bengals and Browns seven
and a half point for the Bengals at home. I
don't care who you pick. Give me a takeaway from
this game for us to keep an eye on going
into the offseason.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Well, if you read Twitter, and I know everybody does,
it's been reported by many people that Stefanski's pretty much gone.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
He's done.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
In fact, one report had that they were already talking
to two other coaches about their opening. I don't know
how much of that is true. I look, I thought
maybe Stefanski should get another chance, But I understand, but
I do understand why they're moving on from him. Shador
Sanders obviously is the person you want to see and
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see how well he continues. I wonder how it's going
to affect him next year. And you know, who's going
to be the starter quarterback or if the new coaches
wanted to bring in his own guy and I want
another quarterback and I can't work with these two guys.
So a lot of up in the air there Cincinnati
and Joe Burrow. I guess it's who you're referring to.
I said, I feel like Joe Burrow is going to
(34:27):
be gone. But how could you trade him? How you
gonna get rid of him? What could you get for him?
You can't get three value? And remember, shave shame on
Joe Burrow because I just want to say this, Shame
on Joe Burrow because he wanted Jamar Chase to get
paid and they did. He wanted Higgins to get his
money right.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
And they did.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
You know, you can't pay everybody. I don't know how
much is left over for the offensive line and the
defense and all this. Everybody can't get paid. So you know,
shame on him for all the complaining going on. You know,
they did the best, but they did give him as
two wide receivers, which I thought was very important. I
do think Joe Burrows could end up going back to Cincinnati.
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I don't think anybody's gonna trade for him.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
I told my partner on Sundays Hartman and our producer
Bo about uh. I would say, maybe three or four
months ago. If you watch season two A Quarterback on Netflix,
Joe Burrow, he just comes off to me as a
me guy. And I don't mean selfish attention getting that,
but more or less, I'm doing my part and we're still,
(35:34):
you know, bleeping losing some of the outtakes, like some
of the wired up stuff that you catching that. It
doesn't it doesn't exude a team mate to me. It
exudes It comes off us. I'm doing my part, you
know what the hell is going on with the rest
of this. But if you remember, Brady then came out
about three to four weeks after that. He didn't name him,
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but man, it felt like he was talking to a
guy like that because he said, first of all, quarterback
is not a nine to five position. It's a three
sixty five, twenty seven, twenty four to seven position. And yes,
you're coming out and you're throwing your five thousand yards
and your forty touchdowns, But what else are you doing?
Are you talking to the defense, are you talking to
the defensive coaches? Are you sitting in those meetings? Are
you having walkthroughs on your own? Are you doing all
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these things? And then he starts to name all the
stuff he did as a Patriot, where he would literally say, dude,
I would get so mad at billing those guys. They're
talking about our walkthroughs at ten thirty. He would go,
you know what, bleep that I'm not waiting until ten thirty.
I called all fifty one guys, and I tell him
I'll see you at eight am. We would already go
through a meeting and a walk through before the coaches
had their meeting to walk through. That's what a leader does.
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That's and he started to staying, he's this long rand.
It was on the Joel Klatt, who's a colleague of
ours here at Fox Sports. It was on Joe Klatt's podcast,
and it's really good. If you guys haven't heard it,
please go back and listen to it because it made
me go, wow, I would he's talking to somebody. He's
not just saying this, He's directing this at a certain
young quarterback or maybe an era a group of young
quarterbacks saying, Hey, you want to be me. You want
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to be Pat Mahomes, you want to be Joe Montana,
you want to be Peyton Manny. You want to beat
those guys. You want to be us. This is what
we do. And I just feel like Joe Burrow, you
know the last comments of you know, if I'm gonna
keep doing this? When you hear if I'm gonna keep
if your wife came to you right now and said, Arnie,
if I'm gonna keep doing this, Arnie, right, you see
(37:21):
where I'm going?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Would you you just stop right the right? Would you
think your marriage was safe? No, you can just think
there's some work that you need to do.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
You have a choice because Cincinnati very stubborn. They might
they may not trade him, but you can force your
way out of a place nowadays.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Absolutely, So I'm with you on that one, man. So
we'll get back into some of these games.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
We got a lot of show. We're just gonna go NFL.
We had some NBA stough, but NFL is just king
and I want to touch on some more of these
games too. Man, Arnie spaying your VJ. Vernal Husky, Jason
Smith Show Fox Sports Radio in for the guys.
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since we're talking about Cali Love, let's go to a
California game right here, man, two of them right here,
big game because the number one seed in the AFC
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has not been decided yet. But some guys are gonna
be sitting out of this bad boy right here because
the Chargers are at the Broncos. But this thing ballooned
up to thirteen and a half points, and that told
me right there, Okay, the Chargers are saying, look, we
gotta go on the road. We don't care where we go,
but we gotta get some guys rested the over runner.
This is thirty seven and a half. Do you like
(38:59):
this by the Chargers to kind of play it this
way or would you rather get some guys uh out there?
Because McVeigh has already said he's playing his starters regardless
of what seeding that they'll be looking at, because they
will know their seating when they kick off against the
Cardinals on Sunday evening.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, if I'm the Chargers, I'm resting everybody. I mean, look,
they've been banged up so much it's not even fatty.
I mean it is horrible. They're losing guys left and right.
Actually feel bad for them. How they finish with the Well,
they're eleven and five right now. Sone season they got
to that point. I have no idea. So and by
the way, justin Herbert, every time that guy hits the ground,
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you feel pain in what was it the left hand
with the glove on.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Yeah, well he's broken. I mean he's got a cast
on it.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
I know it's it just looks painful. Every and every
time he falls he makes sure to, you know, make
it out of his left side whatever he so he
doesn't hurt himself. It is just terrible. No, I don't
I don't blame them at all for resting. They're not
gonna win in Denver anyway, so you might as well
rest everybody and give them an extra week off.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
So, if you're Denver, are you playing everybody? If I'm
hoo Denver, if you're Denmer, are you playing everybody? No,
I'm not playing everybody.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Once I get a hold of the game, I'm pretty
much taking people out. But I might not play everybody
from the very beginning anyway.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Well, the way the NFL did this is kind of slick.
Them and the Patriots both play at the same time,
so neither one of them will be able to scoreboard watch.
No going into the game. Sorry, they'll both have to
scoreboard watch. Neither one of them will know going into
the game. Three hours down. That's fast Man. One more
to go. VJ. Verner Husky Army spinning in for the guys.
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Verner Husky and Arnie Spayer and Arnie before we get
into some NFL, you want to read some tweets man,
that you're a big tweet reader. You like to get
on X and read with the peoples, which the peoples
(01:13):
are saying, so us he's at staking genius one. I'm
that big vanilla funny anything out there striking any interest
to you? Right now, brother, right now.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
There was a few earlier that I'm gonna go ahead
to says here. Gutter says, I'm happy about all those
first roug games. I just didn't go with my gut
with my bracket. Otherwise I would have had a perfect bracket.
I didn't get a winner. Man. I think in our
bracket contest, I got everyone wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
To me, I got one. I'm wanted a few that
called Miami Overhio State. Is that you had that one
that I had that? Wow, I had that one.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I totally agree, we agree with you when it comes
to college football. Uh. And he takes a shot at you.
He said the BCS error was a joke. Go Canes.
I was beyond mad when the computer put Florida stayed
in over my Canes.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I was about to say, that's why he's saying that.
When he said go, I go, yeah, no, wonder you
hate the BCS from the year Florida State got to
play in the National Championship Game against the Gators in
the Sugar Bowl. I remember the years talking about.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I gotta tell you know, I really do enjoy it
so much better like this. I always thought we needed
a playoff twelve teams. Now we don't even know what
it's going to be next year. Do you understand that
they they've not decided that it could very well be sixteen?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
No, listen, man, it has not been decided ten teams.
No buys. You can still play first round games on
home fields and then go play the bowl games and
then you have one last championship game somewhere at the
big stadium like they're doing it this year in Miami.
It's been in Jerry's world before it's been out here
in so far National Championship game was it so five
(02:41):
a few years ago, which was a disaster because it
was windy and rainy and so far as an open
even though it has a roof, there's no doors or
walls on the entire stadium, so the elements can come in,
and the rain was blowing in from the from the
West end zone out there at the old Hollywood Racing Park.
But I just think that if you try to expand
(03:01):
this thing, you're killing the regular season. And the regular
season it's great for a reason. It's because you can't
you know, you can't lose too much. Man, that everybody's
on the edge of or see every Saturday waiting for,
you know, the big time upset you start adding teams. Look,
we already had a three loss team in this year,
and I was I was on the edge of saying, yeah,
(03:23):
I was on the fence with a two lost team.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Cool three loss team.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I don't know, guys, if you lost three games already
and then showing Alabama they had already lost three they
did beat Oklahoma and then got trounced in the Rose
Bowl for the world to see probably about fifteen to
twenty minute million viewers. After we look at the numbers
of that game, I mean, this has got embarrassed, bro.
But the never end up eleven and four.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I never liked that when you lost the game in October,
you were automatically done and that was it. And I'm
always for second and even third chances. So we will
totally disagree on that. And a little Chewy by the way,
said we need steak a genius and big vanilla funny
to be paired together due on the weekend rotation to
five Sports radio, especially in the Houston area, which is
(04:05):
airing on Sports Talk seven to ninety down there in Houston,
tex you've been down there the well.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So here's the thing. She always been trying to get
me to come down there to a sports bar and
do a live broadcast from there for about two years now, about.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Two or three years.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's a great, a beautiful city. Oh man, Houston is outstanding.
One of my best friends a firefighter, and the a MT.
Sergeant like a manager of supervisor or something. The emt
him and his wife friend in the medical field. They're
shout out to my boy Jamar and his wife head
also too quick shut out. My daughter just text me,
my four year old daughter, she's listening, So I told
her if she texted me during.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
This, she's late.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh my god, man, let me tell you something. My
daughter Journey doesn't have a bad time. I have a
four year old that doesn't have a Now she's got
a bad time, but she don't got a bad time.
She kind of just because she'll come out in the
living room out of nowhere and I'll be on the
soul foot. It'll be like eleven o'clock. I'm like, what
are you doing up? It's dark? Or Cameron, her brother,
Cameron snore, I can't sleep, and she gives me this
(05:02):
little puppy dog face, bro, and I just go, come on,
get up here, and she climbs up on the couch
with daddy and that's how she ends up watching a
lot of late night DVR sports with me. Man, But
she just used her mom's phone and text me, you
know what.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
The best thing, since you're bringing up TV today was
the Twilight Zone Marathon, which is I love that stuff.
I don't know if you're a Twilight Zone guy.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I was went out back in the day, man, But now,
shit everyone, I'm someone golfed in sports and comedy. I'm
shooting the comedy special for YouTube coming up in March,
so I'm just on sport. I'm in golf with sports,
and I like things that make me laugh because I
just like trying to be happy and coming. Now. My
guilty pleasure is I have watched every season. I'm up
to season twenty three on first forty eight. The first
(05:44):
forty eight, I watched every episode and it's real, real
homicide cases, and you follow you know, the office of
the detective. You know, they do the investigation, trying to
figure out who chilled this person, cured this person. I'm
up to season twenty one two and oh god, I
never met from season one. And it's from different cities,
so like some episodes there in Miami and Tulsa, Burma,
(06:06):
you know, means happened in Birmingham out and I'm.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Like, are you a stranger things guy?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Have you?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Alex keeps telling me I need to watch it, but
I just.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Extremely got shut down the other day because it was there.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I don't how did they get shut down for that,
and didn't get shut down for Jake Paul getting his
ass well by Anthony Joshua on Netflix. No, just it
was best.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
So many people.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Were watching I think more I think more people watched.
I think more people watch Anthony Joshua.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Oh maybe you're right. I have no idea that Jake.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Paul and and and Netflix didn't glitch one second, didn't
git one second.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Idea how many people were watching that? That was kind
of crazy. Finally a real boxer knocked him on his
ass well because.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
He finally got in the ring with a real box
on his problem. We've been waiting. We've all been waiting, Yes,
we've all been waiting for you to fight a real fighter.
That's that's your size.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
They're big. You broke your jaw, broke in two.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Different places and made him. I'm gonna tell you this,
he got ninety million for Anthony got seventy, Jay got ninety.
I'm sure the ninety field good, but I'm sure having
this jaw broken with two titanium plates put on in
each side.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I told you I was gonna break your jaw for
ninety million. You take it to the heartbeat.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, I mean yeah, I would, man, it's ninety it's
ninety million, But it also just ruin his boxing is boxing,
you know, Creed. So anyway, let's move on to an
NFL man. Fans want to talk about NFL. People tweet
they want to get to the NFL. So this is
what we're gonna do. We'll start with Saturday's games. We
got lines, we got over runners. But what I'm gonna
throw to you is, because there's a lot of games
this weekend that don't mean nothing as far as playoffs go, right,
(07:35):
But I do think every game brings something because that's
the NFL. Right Like in the NBA, if the if
the Kings are playing the Hornets on the last night,
no one gives a damn Like we don't have no questions.
There are some NFL matchups of some bad teams that
have some questions going into the offseason. I'll throw that
at you, stinking genius, and you'll give us your reaction.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Man.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So let's start with tomorrow's games. Nice headed doubleheader we
got tomorrow for the NFC SOUD If we have the
Carolina Panthers at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay three
point favorites over under forty three and a half. If
you want to take the Panthers on the money line
straight up as a plus one twenty four, I'll tell
you why I'm going right here. I'm sticking with my
man b Y by seeing Bryce young since he was fifteen,
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sixteen years old out here at Cathedral High School, covered
him when he was there, also covered him at modern day.
Know him, know his family, his mom, his dad. He's
a great young man. I love what he's done in
the NFL, small guy getting his ass beat behind the
bad line. They need to keep fixing it. Got him
some weapons, got him a running back, got him a
tight end, got him a receiver. Got to keep fixing
these things. But Tampa Bay has just been crap since
Week eight. I think that continues. Even though you're hearing
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the rumors that their head coach is fine, like he's
safe this all season, they're not making looking to make
any move at the head coaching position. Give me the
Panthers here straight up, even with the plus three, I'm
just taking the Panthers to win this game.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Well, first of all, I'm bright, shawng I'm sure we'll
hear after the season. There'll be somebody leaking this out.
How close he was to be thrown to the side
on this team last year. He was benched, I believe
at the end of right and then but they had
to bring him back with Dalton got hurt. Had Dalton
not got hurt, who knows how this would have turned out.
(09:14):
I know, who knows if what, this, that, and the other.
But he came real close to being tossed away to
the side by the Panthers. Turns around, has a really,
really good year. Baker Mayfield's hurt. He's not gonna say
it they're not going to bring it up. He just
does not look like the Baker midfield he's has the
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last couple of years. And that's why Tampa is struggling.
And I know a lot of teams, all the teams
have injuries, but it's really taking install on Tampa. I
like Caroline in this game. And by the way, is
Donald the most underrated guy in the entire and Africo
listen me. Dallas never wanted to let him go. They said,
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that's why they didn't have much of a choice. And
he ran for a thousand for him. He was a
thousand yard Russia for them. And then he just comes
out of nowhere this year and he's been able to
study that backfield. I got to push back a little
bit on the buy stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I thought my opinion was they sat him down because
he was getting killed out there. And yes, he wasn't
playing well, but he wasn't playing well because when his
backfoot hits, he's got two defenders in his face. This
offensive line last year, Pro Football Focus had it at
thirty two. This year, before the season started, it had
it at thirty one. It hadn't gotten that much better. Man,
you gotta have an offensive line in front of you.
(10:29):
They have got to address that this offseason. I'm not
talking skill position players. This defense is a top half
defense in the league, top fifteen, eleven, twelve. This is
a very good young defense. They're fine there, but first
round pick, second round pick, third round pick, and your
number one or at least your second big free agent
and you go after this year. They all need to
have a oh in front of the next letter, whether
(10:52):
it's a OG or ot, and get this offensive line
fix for Bryce Shung.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, but you know what, Joey say that to Joe
Burrow in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
No, we're talking about his defense.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
No, okay, But do we also say, though all these
teams have problems online, we say that about Miami's though
Miami's offense.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I was about to say, no running game, centers football,
But you know, it just seems like everybody cries about
the offensive line, especially out there in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
What about San Diego? I mean, excuse me, the Chargers, Well,
they gonna be goodness, both tackles in the guard.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
But that's not that's not all they not crying, or Arnie,
you have football is in the trenches. Football starts in
the trenches. So if if teams are crying about a line,
I'm not mad at them. Yeah, you gotta give me
a damn line. How the hell is everybody can't have
Joe Burrow. Everybody can't have six four six thirty pounds
or or Josh Allen. You have to have a line.
Even those guys, when they don't have a good line
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and they lose games, do people say, well, if their
line played any better, Well, Josh Allen's gotta scramble and
run so much because his line isn't playing, So it's
always going to be the line. People want to discredit
the number one rusher in NFL history. We hear all
the time emmittt. Smith. But why is Emmitt Smith other
than his own individual talent? Why is Emmitt Smith the
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all time leader rushier in NFL history? Because Jimmy Johnson
assembled one of the greatest offensive lines in NFL, doesn't.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Troy and Michael have any Just do with that.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
If you got one of the greatest guys in the
offensive history, then you can have time to throw the
quarterback and throw the j Novacheck. Don't forget about Alvin Harper.
Calvin Williams wasn't just Michael Levin. Man, there were so
many guys. No, no, but I met that opened up
other things. Right where where did it start? Do you
remember how big Larry Allen's ass was?
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Do you remember the year he Remember the combine? Like
not the combine? Remember the competition they used to have
where they would run the forty, do the bench press
and all that stuff. Remember the day Larry Allen showed
up with a mouthful of tobacco and laid down and
did two twenty five like forty times like it was
nothing like can you imagine laying on your back and
doing two twenty five? I can only get out of
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about thirteen four team right now. I just did it
the other day in the gym. I'm two twenty five.
I could get to about thirteen fourteen right.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I'm trying Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I think you ain't getting man. You play, you play pickleball.
You're not getting that up at all. Second game tomorrow,
the Seattle Seahawks having a surprise year with Sam Darnold
at quarterback, only a two and a half point favorite.
I'm trying to figure out if this is another Vegas coup?
Why their favorite San Francisco I had Vrabel as my
coach of the Year a few weeks ago, and I
(13:27):
said I was gonna stick with that. I'm probably gonna
be wrong if San Francisco wins this game, because how
the hell has Mike Shanahan done this? I mean, god,
I mean these guys, Yeah, but listen, I'm with you.
But if they win this game tomorrow, Warner done for
the year, Bosa done for the year, traded away? Who
wants some of Deebo? Samuel I You've been in and out, chef,
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I mean all these guys, and you're leaning really on
one running back that's got over like three hundred and
seventy touches this year. They're wearing his wey're not wearing
him down because he looks like he's getting stronger than
years going on. You've had to play your backup quarterback
for four or five games. It's how has Shanahan done this? Man?
Kyle is just really put this thing together. But two
(14:12):
and a half point underdogs at home tomorrow night over
under forty five and a half, I'm taking the Niners
here to cover this. I think this is a very
very close football game, but I think the Niners pull
this off. I think the Niners have home field advantage,
but I do not think they make the super Bowl
because they can be gotten, like they can be beaten,
(14:32):
but I just don't think it happens to morrow. I
give me the Niners to cover with you.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
You say, you know, how did Shanahanan do it? How
did San Francis go?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
And you're right, how some good points.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
But if you would have told me before the start
of the season that you think that the Seahawks gonna
be the best team in the NFL, I would have
fired you on the spot. I would tell you, thank
you very much. I appreciate your ten years of service. Goodbite, Seattle.
What Seattle has done is perhaps better than what San
Francisco has done, and they did it with a quarterback
where you know Sam Darnold, who has just been fantastic
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this year. Seattle's actually the better team than San Francisco.
But I probably would have had the line in about
a pick of mall. So this is a big game
because if San Francisco wins this game, they probably go
ahead and make it to the super Bowl. You know,
they don't have.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
To leave the super Bowl, is there?
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Yeah, So they don't have to leave it all. They're done,
they're done traveling. They win today, O go to be
Sunday Saturday. I get my days mixed up. If they
win Saturday.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
To midnight where you are now? So yeah today?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yeah? Well whatever. If they win their next game, they
don't have to travel throughout the rest of the year
and Super Bowl, they'll have all the home games. That's
why I'm kind of rooting against them. This one's going
to be a great one. Probably go I'd probably go
with San Francisco, but I want Seattle to go ahead
and win this game.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Over on the forty seven and a half.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I'd probably go with the under on this one. I
just can't see it's going to be an offensive explosion.
It'll be close to that number, though, but I'd probably
go with younger give me the over.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I think one of these teams scores almost thirty. I
do I think pretty fan or No, I'm not a fan,
but I'm not a hater. Right, he's a he's a
he's a guy to me, like like he's better than that.
He's no, no, no, I'm not saying his talent. I'm
talking about as far as whether I care or not
about Okay, okay, I'm like whatever, Like I don't. I
(16:21):
Don'm not a hater, but I'm not a fan. I'm
not gonna why is he not more popular? I mean,
he's mister irrelevant, last pick. Every every like kid should
be like, look at him. He's a last drop pick,
last pick.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I want to he broke all odges and I mean
that this is what sports is all about, what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Right, you want to know why Arnie on some real
man just get human here for saying let's take the
sports talk hats off and get human. We act like
we like that stuff. We we don't, Okay, we we
act like, yeah, it's a cool story, right, it's a
cool story until he sees something on the NFL level
that he hasn't seen before, and he goes through a
(16:59):
little bad spurt. Had a lot of rookie quarterbacks do.
Then people are gonna get behind microphones and put their
headsets on, or they're gonna put on badly put together
suits and go sit on debate shows on TV and
trash this guy. This is why no one one of them.
This is no wonder it took him so long. We
will do this. We've done it with Brock Party. I
try to stay away from stuff like that because I
(17:19):
understand the evan flows of pro sports, and not everyone
can walk in the door and be Dann Marino and
start throwing for five thousand yards in nineteen eighty four
and it didn't happen again for another almost twenty years
in NFL history, throwing forty seven, forty six, forty eight
touchdown passes. Everybody can't walk in the league and do that.
Peyton Man twenty nine interceptions good for a year. Yeah,
(17:43):
I don't know if it's an underdog story can be a.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Bigger one from mister irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
To I mean, I mean Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson.
If you want an underdog store.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
No, but I've been in the NFL. I mean there's
in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
There's how many people I'll put it to you like this,
he was mister irrelevant. But I'll take Tom Brady story
one ninety nine. He gives us. Yeah, you know, remember,
but we liked time was the Brady six. It was
six quarterbacks taken before Tom Brady in that draft, and
maybe we're sixth quarterback.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Take it to the first round show.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
He sure was Guys like Jim Kelly Ken O'Brien, all
those guys were taken before Marios back. What party, man,
I just like I said, I just think this is
one of these stories that we act like in the world,
especially in American sports. We act like we like Jeremy Lynn. Right,
that was cool for about six weeks, big time, It
was huge for about five and a half weeks. As
(18:34):
soon as it cools down, we go back to loving
Kobe and Lebron and Durant and Steph just like with
Brock Purty. It was cool for a second and we're
right back to Lamar and Josh Allen and Joe Burrow
like the guys. Man Like, that's why you ask me
how I feel about Bron.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Josh was the same thing. He's from Wyoming those that's all.
That's a dog story.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
It was the first round draft picks, not another dog story.
When you're coming from that at school, it doesn't matter
when you're drafted. No, when you're drafted in the first round,
you are not an underdog.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Hell No.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Mel Kiper, who was the voice of pre draft for
the last thirty five years of our lives, was the
one guy screaming, screaming for Josh Allen and doesn't and
he doesn't let people, but he doesn't let people forget
about it. Because people were like, oh, get this guy
off the air. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.
We're so sick of mel Kuiper. No, it looks like
mel Kiper was ahead of all of us, ladies and gentlemen.
(19:29):
And I'm not a Josh Allen guy. You know how
I feel about I call him Josh Apple turnover Allen
because all he doesn't turn the ball on him is
most important.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
But he was a first round pick. Sel he couldn't
have been that as far ahead of everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
No, I mean, listen, there was some other teams wanted them.
There was something somebody saw him. Look think a boy,
a guy like Pat Mahoons. You going to call him
an underdog story coming into that draft coming.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
In No, No, I'm not into that.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Last season about Texas Tech, nobody thought.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
He was a I was gonna say he didn't have
he didn't have good numbers in Texas text, but so Red.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
But Andy Reid saw something and and remember they came
up to get at them. They didn't just it. They
can't fall. It didn't fall to Casey Casey came up
to get him. So I don't look at that as
an underdog story when you go on to.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Flea tom Brady or brock Purty.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Right the Tom Brady listen, tom Brady was eighth on
the depth charted Michigan his freshman year. He said he
would get one rep every other not every practice, every
other practice, he would get one rep. That's it.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Nowadays, you transfer offway.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Through this, not even halfway through the season. You transfer
up to one transfer and spring because remember there's a
spring portal portal once everybody goes through spring, which I like,
you go through spring game, you go through spring practice,
you play your spring game in front of you know,
in front of your fans, and if you feel like,
hey they're not gonna I'm not gonna get any playing
time here, there's another window that opens up and you
(20:50):
can portal out again if you want to. I wouldn't
do it because if you already portaled on January second,
and you get to the spring game and you got
a portal again, just maybe that level of d one
not for you. Man. Maybe you need to go down
to like Faris University where Shambliss was going. Yourself a
national champions.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Did you see, by the way, did you see the
number they just put it out? Three thousand, seven hundred
and fifty three players have entered the transfer portal today?
How many three three thousand, seven hundred and fifty three.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And seventy percent of them will not find a new home. No,
you're probably right off because because already, do you know
how much room has to be made on big time
programs for you to fit in another three thousand players?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
I'm trying to do the math, how many teams? How
many new players?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, think about it, because the team carries, each team's
gonna carry between there's one hundred plus teams, right any teams,
Any team's gonna cary anywhere between eighty to ninety five
suited up players every Saturday. It's about eighty to ninety
five kids on the sideline that'll be suited up. So
you're taking an extra thirty per team, Like, well, then
you gotta louty give or take. You got it right, right?
Then it means then it means you must have thirty
(21:55):
poort nowt right, So if you don't have thirty, poor,
if I only got ten kids poorting out, I don't
have to bring in ten new kids. I could just
bring in four or five. Obviously I got something good
if only ten or leaving. If you're only leaving losing
like eight or nine kids, you're doing a damn good
job at your program. In the portal era that we
live in, Michigan State had thirty six kids hit the
(22:16):
exactly thirty six kids hit the portal of Michigan State today.
And they got a new Pat FitzGeralds their new coach
coming in.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, right, Well, a lot of hit the portal. Like
when Dion came in. Some some kids say, I'm not
gonna get a fair break. I gotta get a.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Look, told him comany and I'm bringing luggage. So he
let them know most of y'all better hit the portal.
But he was right. They were one in eleven, bro, like,
you guys can't play. Y'all got to get out of here. Man.
We'll hit him some more NFL good on tomorrow's games
man set, But then we're gonna hit some Saturday games.
And I got some games I really want to throw
at you, one that I really want to see what
(22:49):
your opinion is about. Neither team going to the playoffs,
but big storylines here man, he's just thinking jeans. I'm
vj vern Husky. We are in for the guys on
The Jason Smith Show for Jason Smith and his best
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What's going on?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Buddy, Good evening once again, We've only got one NBA
game still going and they're going to the fourth quarter
in LA. The Lakers are tied with Memphis, ninety six
oh twenty eight points for Luka Donsig. As expected, Oklahoma
City wipe the floor with the Golden State Warriors in
the Bay Area, one thirty one to ninety four. The
(25:10):
final shake Gilgis Alexander thirty points in under thirty minutes.
Golden State was without Steph Curry this due to an
ankle injury. Jimmy Butler was out with illness, Jonathan Cominga
was out with a sore bag, Draymond Green was rested.
And it's a thirty and five record for Oklahoma City.
They do have the Player of the Month in the
West shake Gilgis Alexander Player of the Month in the East.
(25:33):
New York's Jalen Brunson now at Madison Square Garden. Tonight,
Atlanta beat the Knicks one eleven ninety nine. Karl Anthony
Towns was out due to illness for New York. Jalen
Brunson twenty four points from from three point range. He
was one for ten. San Antonio's twenty five and nine
now after a victory at Indiana, and that's without Victor
wembin Yama of the Spurs. He was out with the
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hyper extended knee. Dylan Harper off the bench with twenty
two points. Washington beat Brooklyn by twenty net starters from
three point range two for seventeen. Cleveland down Denver one
thirteen to one o eight despite thirty four points from
Jamal Murray the Cavs Donovan Mitchell scored thirty three. The
Nuggets as a team scored seven points in the last
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nine and a half minutes at Cleveland DA Milwaukee over
Charlotte won twenty two to one twenty one. Janis ANTENACUNMPO
thirty points in thirty minutes of work, including an Ali
Oup dunk in the final seconds. Chicago over Orlando won
twenty one, one fourteen despite thirty one points from Polo
Bankero of the Magic. Portland won at New Orleans won
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twenty two to one oh nine. Pelicans eight and twenty
eight this year, although they did get thirty five points
from Zion Williamson. Phoenix at home beat Sacramento one twenty
nine to one oh two. Devin Booker thirty three points
in under thirty minutes of work. Kings record now eight
and twenty seven. In college basketball Number seven, Gonzaga needed
(26:56):
overtime to defeat Seattle U eighty to seventy two. So
number two Michigan still undefeated after whipping USC ninety six
sixty six. Thirteenth rank Nebraska is still undefeated after edging
ninth rank Michigan State fifty eight fifty six. Neither team
scored in the final minute. Stanford upset Number sixteen Louisville
eighty to seventy six. There was the outdoor game in
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Miami in the NHL, The Winter Classic with the roof
open at the Marlins Ballpark went to the Rangers five
to one at Florida. Minnesota leads four to one at
Anaheim early in the third. Saint Louis was a four
to three winner over Vegas. Four Bowl games in college football,
SMU beat seventeenth ranked Arizona in San Diego twenty four nineteen.
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It was twenty four to nothing at the half.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Good comeback, good comeback. Oh I Like it?
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Wake Forest forty three twenty nine over Mississippi State in Charlotte.
Victories for Texas State and Navy Steelers. Pass rusher TJ.
Watt will be playing on Sunday night. That's in the
season finale against the Ravens. He missed last three games
after the lung injury. He returned to full practice today.
Baltimore gave nose tackle John Jenkins a one year extension.
(28:07):
Quarterback Lamar Jackson practice fully again today after the bad back.
Bill's quarterback Josh Allen returned to limited practice and should
start Sunday. Vikings QB JJ McCarthy will start after his
broken hand. He practice fully the last couple of days,
but running back Aaron Jones is out with a hip injury,
and Dolphins running back to Von had is doubtful for
this weekend with a shoulder injury. He's misspracticed all week.
(28:31):
Tight End Darren Waller was placed on ir back to.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
You, Steve, just real quick for you go man, this
basketball see college basketball season. It feels like this could
be something. I know we're so caught up with college
football playoff right now in NFL right now, but the
top thirteen teams either are undefeated or only have one loss.
It's been a while since we've seen a top heavy
I mean, I didn't I'm a tar Hill guy, you
(28:54):
know me. I didn't think Hubert Davis would turn this
thing around so fast. With Caleb william Our, our our
Firstmian Williams and some of these transfer kids, man. And
just what Michigan's doing Arizona, it's a healing people. They're
beating people by night thirty points like it's nothing.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
I think it's seven times now after tonight. And USC
was ranked twenty fourth in.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
The country right and got to be by thirty.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Michigan is thirteen. And oh, what's shocking me is Nebraska,
which I guess soon we'll be in the top ten
fourteen and oh, right after the two point win against
Michigan State tonight, I had looked it up earlier at
night and say, how how is Nebraska basketball off to
its best ever start at fourteen? And oh, did they
play anybody? Well, they did play Wisconsin and beat them
(29:37):
by thirty, and played at Illinois and edged them, and
Oklahoma edged them and Michigan State by two and Nebraska wins.
So it's not like they've played nobody.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
No, they're playing some guys. Man.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
It's not just a good record, it's Nebraska's undefeated so far.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
The fighting ty lows goodness, gracious, Uva, honestly, Uvas sitting
at eleven and one Georgia's eleven than one, Nebraska fourteen
and oh my Heels twelve and one, Vanderbilt twelve, and
oh b YU twelve and one. Michigan State takes another
loss to day that gives them their second one. But
I'm just this this. Once we get past the NFL,
(30:13):
and I think we're doing. If you put your eyes
on college basketball, ladies and gentlemen, it's gonna be hardest
hell to try to pick this bracket by the time
this comes.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
This is the YU went from one to ten because
they had one loss.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, well, and they went from one to ten only
because that's just the way these polls go. And it's
more popular one time. Yeah, but it's more of a popularity.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Christmas break with the A people. But they're still Duke,
there's still you, right. I mean, we're gonna even things
out once you get in conference play. I know Arnie
thinks they're gonna go undefeated in conference, but.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Big twelve is the toughest conference in college basketball. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
It's good they do say that. Act other Knights.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
You're saying they're gonna win every game is in the
Big twelve? Kansas Vansas? Are they even still in that
that's the case.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
They already got three losses. Kansas area has already been
beaten three times.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
Now we'll go back to BYU and their star that
is a big twelve team.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, and b Yu too. I look this up. They
Land are like the number two, are number three or
like number one player in the nation. I'm like, how
do you what kind of money are they paying it? BYU?
You can't tell me. Listen, listen Nil. That's why I
think this is okay because you'll have people disager complain
about nil, but you can't tell me that somebody this
(31:25):
is not nil. Vanderbilt twelve and oh Vandy twelve and oh,
like you gotta do. Somebody's paying some money to get
certain kids to come help these programs. And it's all
legal now, and.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
It became obvious with football as well.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Flank knows it better than I do. But it's twenty
point five million is the budget. That is the budget.
So every school works with the twenty point five million.
The the ones that figure out how to go over
that exactly. They take it from other you know, other
program to call it.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
No, you call it friends of the program, right, yeah,
exact friends of the program. Y'all remember the movie The Program.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
And they won't get in trouble for it yet, because
as we all know, no one's in charge.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
Mark Cuban helps out Indiana. Nobody says anything bad about that.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Well, well, Phil Knight helps out Oregon. Right, what's that?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I always has I think it's okay. The kids deserves something. Yes, Texas,
Oklahoma State used to have Cody CAMPBELLI millionaire, thirty million
dollars to Texas Text football program and said, here go
go win here go win me.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Something football, basketball, softball, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Go hit, go win me something. All right, cool?
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Thanks to saying, oh man, Texas Tech paid the softball
picture one million dollars. Hey, the one that came from Stanford.
Is that the word?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Well, and I'll say you this and then and then
the women's College playoff. When she gets into the circle,
she get better, she better, she better go ten strikeouts,
no walks with a point zero nine e r A baby,
I'm paying a million. I need that man. Jason Smith
show with his best friend Mike harmtt vj Vernon Husky,
Arnie Spanish saying all right, Arnie, before we go to
bre let's throw another game out there really quick for
(32:59):
the NFL. A game I want to I'm just gonna
skip around Brown's at the Bengals. Now, neither one team
is going to the playoffs, but coaching questions here. Both
these guys can be fired. Both these quarterbacks can be
in different teams. I don't think one will. You might
be surprised at the one that I don't think will.
But there's one that I They could be in a
different uniform. Their team has made and known that they
(33:22):
are ready to listen, and he is talking like he's
sick of that place. He hasn't said it yet, he's
just kind of talking like it. Bengals and Browns seven
and a half point for the Bengals at home. I
don't care who you pick. Give me a takeaway from
this game for us to keep an eye on going
into the offseason.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Well, if you read Twitter, and I know everybody does,
it's been reported by many people that Stefanski's pretty much gone.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
He's done.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
In fact, one report had that they were already talking
to two other coaches about their opening. I don't know
how much of that is true. I look, I thought
maybe Stefanski should get another chance, But I understand, but
I do understand why they're moving on from him. Shador
Sanders obviously is the person you want to see and
(34:06):
see how well he continues. I wonder how it's going
to affect him next year. And you know, who's going
to be the starter quarterback or if the new coaches
wanted to bring in his own guy and I want
another quarterback and I can't work with these two guys.
So a lot of up in the air there Cincinnati
and Joe Burrow. I guess it's who you're referring to.
I said, I feel like Joe Burrow is going to
(34:27):
be gone. But how could you trade him? How you
gonna get rid of him? What could you get for him?
You can't get three value? And remember, shave shame on
Joe Burrow because I just want to say this, Shame
on Joe Burrow because he wanted Jamar Chase to get
paid and they did. He wanted Higgins to get his
money right.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
And they did.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
You know, you can't pay everybody. I don't know how
much is left over for the offensive line and the
defense and all this. Everybody can't get paid. So you know,
shame on him for all the complaining going on. You know,
they did the best, but they did give him as
two wide receivers, which I thought was very important. I
do think Joe Burrows could end up going back to Cincinnati.
(35:09):
I don't think anybody's gonna trade for him.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
I told my partner on Sundays Hartman and our producer
Bo about uh. I would say, maybe three or four
months ago. If you watch season two A Quarterback on Netflix,
Joe Burrow, he just comes off to me as a
me guy. And I don't mean selfish attention getting that,
but more or less, I'm doing my part and we're still,
(35:34):
you know, bleeping losing some of the outtakes, like some
of the wired up stuff that you catching that. It
doesn't it doesn't exude a team mate to me. It
exudes It comes off us. I'm doing my part, you
know what the hell is going on with the rest
of this. But if you remember, Brady then came out
about three to four weeks after that. He didn't name him,
(35:56):
but man, it felt like he was talking to a
guy like that because he said, first of all, quarterback
is not a nine to five position. It's a three
sixty five, twenty seven, twenty four to seven position. And yes,
you're coming out and you're throwing your five thousand yards
and your forty touchdowns, But what else are you doing?
Are you talking to the defense, are you talking to
the defensive coaches? Are you sitting in those meetings? Are
you having walkthroughs on your own? Are you doing all
(36:17):
these things? And then he starts to name all the
stuff he did as a Patriot, where he would literally say, dude,
I would get so mad at billing those guys. They're
talking about our walkthroughs at ten thirty. He would go,
you know what, bleep that I'm not waiting until ten thirty.
I called all fifty one guys, and I tell him
I'll see you at eight am. We would already go
through a meeting and a walk through before the coaches
had their meeting to walk through. That's what a leader does.
(36:37):
That's and he started to staying, he's this long rand.
It was on the Joel Klatt, who's a colleague of
ours here at Fox Sports. It was on Joe Klatt's podcast,
and it's really good. If you guys haven't heard it,
please go back and listen to it because it made
me go, wow, I would he's talking to somebody. He's
not just saying this, He's directing this at a certain
young quarterback or maybe an era a group of young
quarterbacks saying, Hey, you want to be me. You want
(37:00):
to be Pat Mahomes, you want to be Joe Montana,
you want to be Peyton Manny. You want to beat
those guys. You want to be us. This is what
we do. And I just feel like Joe Burrow, you
know the last comments of you know, if I'm gonna
keep doing this? When you hear if I'm gonna keep
if your wife came to you right now and said, Arnie,
if I'm gonna keep doing this, Arnie, right, you see
(37:21):
where I'm going?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Would you you just stop right the right? Would you
think your marriage was safe? No, you can just think
there's some work that you need to do.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
You have a choice because Cincinnati very stubborn. They might
they may not trade him, but you can force your
way out of a place nowadays.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Absolutely, So I'm with you on that one, man. So
we'll get back into some of these games.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (37:38):
We got a lot of show. We're just gonna go NFL.
We had some NBA stough, but NFL is just king
and I want to touch on some more of these
games too. Man, Arnie spaying your VJ. Vernal Husky, Jason
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since we're talking about Cali Love, let's go to a
California game right here, man, two of them right here,
big game because the number one seed in the AFC
(38:38):
has not been decided yet. But some guys are gonna
be sitting out of this bad boy right here because
the Chargers are at the Broncos. But this thing ballooned
up to thirteen and a half points, and that told
me right there, Okay, the Chargers are saying, look, we
gotta go on the road. We don't care where we go,
but we gotta get some guys rested the over runner.
This is thirty seven and a half. Do you like
(38:59):
this by the Chargers to kind of play it this
way or would you rather get some guys uh out there?
Because McVeigh has already said he's playing his starters regardless
of what seeding that they'll be looking at, because they
will know their seating when they kick off against the
Cardinals on Sunday evening.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Yeah, if I'm the Chargers, I'm resting everybody. I mean, look,
they've been banged up so much it's not even fatty.
I mean it is horrible. They're losing guys left and right.
Actually feel bad for them. How they finish with the Well,
they're eleven and five right now. Sone season they got
to that point. I have no idea. So and by
the way, justin Herbert, every time that guy hits the ground,
(39:39):
you feel pain in what was it the left hand
with the glove on.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
Yeah, well he's broken. I mean he's got a cast
on it.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
I know it's it just looks painful. Every and every
time he falls he makes sure to, you know, make
it out of his left side whatever he so he
doesn't hurt himself. It is just terrible. No, I don't
I don't blame them at all for resting. They're not
gonna win in Denver anyway, so you might as well
rest everybody and give them an extra week off.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
So, if you're Denver, are you playing everybody? If I'm
hoo Denver, if you're Denmer, are you playing everybody? No,
I'm not playing everybody.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Once I get a hold of the game, I'm pretty
much taking people out. But I might not play everybody
from the very beginning anyway.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Well, the way the NFL did this is kind of slick.
Them and the Patriots both play at the same time,
so neither one of them will be able to scoreboard watch.
No going into the game. Sorry, they'll both have to
scoreboard watch. Neither one of them will know going into
the game. Three hours down. That's fast Man. One more
to go. VJ. Verner Husky Army spinning in for the guys.
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