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October 21, 2025 35 mins

Jason Smith: Baker Mayfield has just been AWFUL tonight. Sailing the ball, bad decisions. Just brutal. No one would've been surprised if Lions won a shootout, but the way their 'D shut down Baker Mayfield & the Bucs should scare the rest of the NFL.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Hello, Welcome inside final Hour tonight to Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon, live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios, where Sam Darnold is doing everything he
can to keep the Houston Texans in this game. His
fumble in the end zone when you had said a

(00:52):
hold on to the football, get sacked for a safety.
Everything is okay, no, no, no, no, Maybe you want
to try to throw the football lefty instead. It's a touchdown.
Get them within one score, okay, twenty seven to twelve.
Things are going well. Ten minutes to go in the
fourth quarter and Donald throws a pass underthrown for Jackson
Smith the jigbub It is picked off by the Texans

(01:14):
who are fighting against hope to try to get back
in this game because the offense tonight for Houston has
been terrible. But like we talked about with the Giants
and the Broncos yesterday, if you keep giving the team
the football back enough, eventually they're gonna find a way
to get down the field and score. And that's kind
of what the Seahawks have been doing so far tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, we've seen some skirmishes on the sideline. Nico Collins
is in went to the locker room earlier, so trying
to find some other pieces in that passing game. Dalton
Schultz your leader. He'll be a popular waiver wire pickup.
Seven for eighty. Thus far, running backs have been virtually invisible.
Thirteen carries thirty yards between Chubb and Marks.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
So we'll keep you updated on here again. About seven
and a half have to go. It's a two score
game for the Texans. Have the football, they are across midfield.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
CJ.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Stroud having an absolutely horrendous game. We'll have more on
him as the game unfolds now. Earlier tonight, we watched
the Lions absolutely dismantle the Tampa Bay Buccaneers twenty four
to nine as your final, and the game didn't even
seem like it was that close. Jamir Gibbs has the
big Superstar night. The guy was well over two hundred
yards total offense, eighty yard touchdown run. And I'll tell

(02:30):
you this right away. We talked about this era of
running back in the NFL where hey, Jonathan Taylor is
in his prime and he's back to being the best
running back. You know, we've seen Saquon Barkley the year
he had last year, but running back is some pretty
good hands with the two best young running backs in
the game, guys who came out in the same draft

(02:50):
class probably were taking one to two in your dynasty
drafts with with Jamiir Gibbs number two in Bejon Robinson
number one. Jamiir Gibbs, he is he Look, he's been
the most dangerous running back in the NFL for a
little bit, but honestly, it makes it makes sense. It's
kind of apropos considering the team he plays for, but
he is the closest thing to Barry Sanders that we've

(03:11):
seen in the NFL for quite some time. Right, no
one's ever going to be the running back Barry Sanders.
Was that we you make guys missing the backfield accelerate
out of tackles, but Jamiir Gibbs is that every time
he gets the football, you hold your breath because he
could take it to the house. There's other guys that
have been fast, you get them the football, they can
do their thing, but he is an every down type

(03:32):
running back, and the only things that that slows him
down is when Dan Campbell decides, I really want to
just give the ball to Dave Montgomery because I really
like him for some reason.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
But every time he's been pretty good, I mean, you've
been You're so dismissive of David Montgomery because Gibbs, but
he's still a lot better than most of these running
batches that are number one teams.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
And if he was on a team, that'd be fun.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's fine, But you dismiss him as I that jerk
that comes in like he just falls forward, okay, or
he falls down he can't handle a handoff, like that's okay.
That's kind of what it looks like when when Gibbs
comes in, it's wow, this.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Is a house.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
He's got a halo, a committee to elect. I mean, well,
he's Gibbs is just so incredibly talented and you can
see just some of the sly moves he makes. That's
just one cut in the middle of a run that
that turns a defender around like Barry Sanders used to

(04:30):
do every time he touches the footplets is this swing
pass going all the way? Is this is this run
around end? He looks like he's got a block. Is
he getting through that? Because now there's more between the
tackle runs for him where he is finding a way
to turn a three yard game into a twelve yard
game like the Jamiir Gibbs is the most dangerous running
back in the NFL, and you see him again every

(04:51):
play it could be a house play. Again, it's the
closest thing to Barry Sanders that we've seen, where you
just is this a play?

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (04:58):
His his combination of speed and vision, the way he
sees the field like he is so incredibly special that
that it's been a long time so we had a
guy like this in the NFL, and here we now
get it every single week.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
For that.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Oh, he's fun to watch. Certainly.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
I started thinking about players of that impact and some
of it gets shaded a little bit by you know,
fantasy stats, and then we start complaining running and receiving
jail breaks. Certainly we go to Jamal Charles and Priest
Holmes for what they did in Kansas City for those years.
But Jamiir Gibbs, when you talk about what the balance
has become in this offensive line for Detroit, a little

(05:35):
bit of a step back, and we watched that throughout
the National Football League. Trying to find five guys that
are A good and B can stay healthy are two
very huge efforts that every offense and every coordinator and
every GM has to come convear. I mean we watched
it as things started to coalesce with the charge. Well,

(05:56):
you lose Slater before the season, you lose alt You
were down to two ackled number seven with the number
of guys that were hurt over the course of Joe
Thomas was coming out of retirement to play for the Age.
You know, if they paid him enough. Sure, I'm sure
how many snaps I got left, I don't know. But
but watching the Lions and what this offense has become,
and certainly Gibbs we talked about. You know, you brought

(06:19):
up Jean Robinson. Remember the first year he was in
a box, right, he was a guy that didn't get
to work and certainly all Jeer is a guy that
can get after it, and he'll be on the front
and center with a date against Miami on this schedule
that you expect a little bit more of the workload.
But yeah, I mean these two are far and away

(06:39):
that next class. Meanwhile, Taylor and McCaffrey and those guys
are holding the round for a little while longer.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, I mean, look, McCaffrey's gonna be thirty, so obviously
he's you know, he's gonna be nearing the end as well.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Same thing.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Taylor's in the middle to endish of his prime. But
you talk about these the guys that are you know,
twenty three, twenty four, and the running back with these
guys in really good hands man.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Well, especially if you don't bog him down by saying, hey,
you're gonna run between the tackles, yeah, outside, Yeah, where
cornerbacks have to make business decisions as opposed to lineman
falling on you with great repetition.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
So the other big story of this game, and this
gets into a bigger conversation, Baker Mayfield tonight was terrible.
He was This is the worst game I have seen
him play, maybe since he was with Cleveland. Although, boy,
there's a couple of stinkers with Carolina. This was he
played absolutely terrible tonight. Now, the Lions defense deserves so
much credit, and this is why the rest of the

(07:34):
NFL should be scared of the Lions. Their defense played
extremely well. Their defensive backs were able to stay on
the on the receivers for the most part. And Baker
Mayfield was really bad. They couldn't run the football at all,
and Mayfield was Mayfield was not only held back by
the Lions, but but you know, just for to be
you know, realistic about this, hey man. Uh, he overthrew

(07:57):
guys every single possession. He was overthrowing guys, whether it
was Johnson or Evans before he had to leave the
game and now no Mike Evans probably for the rest
of the season with a broken collar bone. But like Mayfield,
like he's got guys that are open, Like he missed
Tes Johnson on him on a wide open pass that
could have made it a one score game in the
final minutes. He overthrew him by ten yards. Like Baker

(08:18):
Mayfield was terrible tonight. Now, whether this was just I'm
having a bad game, but you could tell the Lions
were in his head because at some point Mayfield, all right,
I have to tap this down a little bit. I
gotta figure it way out of this. I gotta And
he's been able to do that, not been able to
against the Lions. Right, a guy that's pretty much had
his way the last year plus in the NFL, right,
last year with with Tampa and now this year so far,

(08:39):
right playing like an MVP candidate. This is what should
scare the rest of the NFL and the rest of
the NFC about the Lions at their defense, which has
been good, right, hasn't been league leading, but clearly they
are playing with an edge. Clearly they upgraded last year
losing Aaron Glenn as their DC. Now we not only
know Aaron Glenn's a bad head cut, maybe he was

(09:00):
overrated as a defensive coordinator, because wow, this Lion's defense
looks like they have a little bit more oomph and
a little bit more electricity to them this year. And
if that's part of their motivation losing losing about their coordinators,
because clearly that's been something that could work out for them. Right, Hey,
they lost about their coordinators, but clearly, hey, when they
play the Bears, they wanted to really stick it to
Ben Johnson. They ran up the score on the Bears

(09:22):
and scored fifty the same thing. Hey, yeah, we lost
Darren Glenn, We're still really bleeping good, right, And if
that's motivation, that motivation is awesome. But yeah, this is
why the rest of the league should be scared of
the Lions because right now, if you said to me,
who's the best team in the NFC, the Lions are.
Because it's pretty simple. If I said, who's the one

(09:42):
team in the NFC you don't want to play right now?

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Lions?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Right, there's other good teams, right. The Eagles are good,
maybe they're figuring out, but they have issues. The Rams
are really good, but they have a couple of injuries.
Can they we still run the football like they used
to with Kien Williams.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Maybe not.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
There's other good teams you don't want to play the
Lions because the offense is the best offense in the NFL.
They have playmakers everywhere. And oh, by the way, now
their defense looks like they can shut down one of
the best offense and one of the best quarterbacks in
the game. That's why I say, who's the best team
in the NFC? Right now it's the Lions, and that
defensive effort tonight should be something that scares everybody to be.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I mean, you had no branch in the secondary, but
you watch what the defensive line did against a Tampa
offensive line that you know ranks in the middle. Right,
they're not great shakes and certainly down a couple receivers,
But the thing was Mayfield getting rid of the ball
a beat earlier and not being able to have that timing.
We talk about Johnson stepping up that throw will live

(10:42):
and I'm sure Baker Mayfield that's the one he's going
to see in his head a million times where he
came across the middle towards the end zone and he
just flat out and missed him to what could have
made it a one score game.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
And then we don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
I mean we've seen his heroics all season long that
maybe that would be the thing to jump started.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I really thought for sure, Okay, fourth quarter, we're gonna get.
Baker's gonna lead him down for a touchdown. They're gonna
get because Jared Goff had they survived a bad game
from Jared Goff tonight, uh turn the football over a
couple of times, making some bad decisions. I said, Okay,
they're gonna get the ball back and it's gonna win.
Tampa's gonna win this game by two. But it just
never happened. They had a they what a twenty play
drive at the end, right. We had Jack Campbell on

(11:20):
the show, Lions linebacker. After they won, he was like,
I was so tired, man, nineteen plays twenty plays never
was and Tampa Bay didn't score. I'm exhausted after that.
Find that I'm the best of It was great Jack Campbell,
great talker.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
That was fine, fun to hang with him.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
But yeah, I mean you're talking about just the the drives, right,
Eleven plays sixty seven yards. Okay, fine, that made it
a fourteen to nine game. Detroit comes right back down
and scores five play twenty nine nine fine field goal
for the Lions makes it twenty four to nine. But
then you have that eighteen play fifty nine yard drive
takes up six minutes of the clock and you come

(11:54):
away with a turnover on downs. Just demoralizing at that point.
And then they can get the ball, they force a
punt twenty twenty six seconds to go off the clock. Again,
five plays thirty three yards but it turned over on down,
so they had their opportunities to get back in the game.
But disruptive and Ben don't break and you'll you'll have

(12:16):
that opportunity. And for the Lions, we know what the
offense can do on a game to game basis, But
at the defense, down the guy who's arguably, outside of Hutchinson,
their best player in the back seven because he was
suspended for the game, you're down him and other guys
step up to shut down Baker and company. They frustrate
him and look, they need Bucky Irving back. I mean,

(12:37):
this was the first time it really showed because you
had no semblance of balance with White in the backfield.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, this was This was a complete and total dominance.
And you could tell the Hey, we're gonna make sure
we're gonna make Baker and these other receivers try to
beat us. And what did they see? They took away
that short game of because what's Baker Mayfield one of
the best things he does. Hey, when I checked down,
when I look downfield and I go to my running,
that's where he's been missing Bucky Irving a lot, because
Irving has always been that outlet for him out of

(13:05):
the backfield because how many times you've seen it. Hey,
nothing to it's second and thirteen. Oh, he checks down
to Bucky Irving who catches the ball five yards downfield.
Makes guys miss. Now it's third and one. Instead he's
flinging it downfield over everybody's head and there's no basis.
That's all stop start the entire game. So yeah, Lions
had a great game plan. Again again, I think they upgraded.

(13:27):
Losing Aaron Glenn turned out to be a positive for them,
Gaining Aaron Glen a negative for the Jets.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
So that that's how it goes, sure hand and tackling
the order of the day. Six four catches for Rashad White,
he had six receiving yards. Now, I gotta be fair
to your guy, Aaron Glenn for a moment. Look, it's
the offense that's been a disaster. Should have won that
game against Denver and then you lose thirteen to six, Like,
you give up a total of twenty six points over

(13:53):
two weeks.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
Those should be two ws.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, so that becomes a very long lockdown to the
offensive quarter ago.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
Really really this is what we got. Yeah, but this
is the offense.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
It's what you signed up for this is when you said,
let's do this, let's go get this quarterback, Let's go
set NFL back.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
You know sixty years where we had three guys in
the back. We're going the single wing offense. Let's do it.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Now, that's not so bad when they lost twenty nine
to twenty seven to these bucket Now, I'm gonna.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Have to watch. I know I'm gonna watch after the buy.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
I'm gonna watch Brady Cook playing quarterback for the Jets
the last half of the season.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
I know it. Though I'd rather we're.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Getting closer to the fifty quarterbackscause. We're gonna get Andy
Andy Dalton probably this week, So i mean, come.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
On, exit, out bout a Fresca, exit swollen Dome. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Still twenty seven to twelve Texans with the football just
under five minutes left to go. They are just inside
the Seahawks thirty yard line. We got more on this
coming up next as well as if the Lines are
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(14:53):
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Speaker 1 (16:42):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Uh. You would think that the Seahawks
would say, Okay, we understand what we're doing to our
fans tonight. They just watched the Mariners get knocked out
of the playoffs three innings away from the World Series.
You know, let's finish this game against the Texans. But

(17:02):
instead it's like a I feel like it's like a
fixed prize fight where hey, we're gonna just we're gonna
absolutely just hold up the Texans as much as we
can for the entirety of the game. And that's what's
going on. We're gonna hold up as much as we
can for the entirety of the game. Well, we've seen

(17:22):
some inane plays and decision making from Sam Donald. He's
got a lot to explain in this one. That touchdown
to Woody Marx puts the game to the over. That
forty one looked like you were licking bills at half time. No,
not so fast.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
All of a sudden, it's a twenty seven nineteen game,
one score, two minute warning. As we've flowed through, we
talked about Nico Collins leaving this game earlier, Jelen Noel
and some others stepping up, and somehow here we are.
We've got a game that Sam Donald needs to make
a play to keep the dream alive.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
Now, this is something I don't get right now. This
is again.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
The Texans score to make it a one score game,
just this side of the two minute warning. Okay, just
decide to and again a crazy play where CJ. Stroud
fades back to pass. He's got like ten or twelve
seconds to throw. They finally run a safety to blitz
them like it's like you're playing in the street where
it's like, hey, this guy's been running, this play is

(18:28):
going forever, just go go, go get him, and he
throws to what he marks, who catches it for a touchdown.
It's a one score game, and they score the touchdown
again just on the other side of the two minute
warning right to make it twenty seven to nineteen. With
two ZHO four left. You have one time out left

(18:48):
if you are the Texans. One timeout okay, So you
have one of two things you can do. You either
a on sidekick because again you have the two minute
warning and one time out right, okay, So you on sidekick,
try to get the ball back because clearly you don't
have enough time, or you kick off and kick it
out of bounds, because all you're gonna do is if

(19:11):
you if you can't kick it through the end zone,
the Seahawks are gonna run the ball out and it's
gonna tick down to the two minute warning. One of
those things you have to do. You have to either
have the on side kick or kick it out of bounds.
And instead the Texans kicked it deep. The Seahawks caught
the ball in the end zone, ran it out, So
of course we get down to the two minute warning.

(19:32):
So now there's a buck fifty eight left to go.
The Texans have one time out left, and some of
the players on the sideline are just absolutely in disbelief.
I know who they just cut to you because it was
really fast, but looked at it. Might have been Woody Marks,
I can't tell, but looked up at the scoreboard and
just shook his head like.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
What are you doing? Like really, I mean, you gotta understand.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
To migo, Ryan, you got to understand that one of
you gotta either on side kick or kick it out
of bounds, and instead you kick it deep they run
it back like that. That's one of those things that
is a head coach like I look at that as
a fireable offense Like you when when when people who
are fans or are watching the game from three thousand
miles away know the right play to make, Like come on, man,
you gotta know you have a whole host of coaches

(20:12):
on the sideline.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
Can you get people in the movie.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
You got the guys on the sideline, You got the
players on the sideline, all your other analysts and everybody
else involved in this. You've forced or been gifted with
four turnovers. I'll let you decide, uh where you're atting
that uh, including the Anderson play where you scored a touchdown.
You're one score down and you've basically said, yeah, we

(20:37):
don't want this by making the decision that you did.
I mean, really, you litle time out called at one
fifty three. I mean that that's that's that's absolutely unforgivable.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Bye bye bye bye.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Demiko Ryans in the Texas. That's absolutely unforgivable. Then now
you're you're gonna sit here and say, on what are
you gonna do with get the ball back now? And
you're gonna have no time. If you get the ball back,
You're gonna have absolutely no time. What's funny is I
mean the graphic versus reality. The play clock was running
before that play was really whistled down.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
On that second down play.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
I mean really, I mean I don't know. I don't
know what they're doing. Sometimes I really don't know what
coaches do when they think, hey, we're gonna do this here,
like there's nobody at the end. Again, when I open
up and have my end of the season, ye, my
management in the final two minutes, I'll have to add
this about. Wow, you didn't think you need to have
a new kickoff rule? No, no, you're right, I have
to add the new kickoff rule always wrinkles that you've

(21:33):
got to add to the mix.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
I got to add that.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Let's see, avoids the first tackle. So the ball finally
ruled down with about a minute two left. So after
the punt, we're talking about fifteen. Now we got a
flag that comes out that will delay the adjudication of this.
I don't know if they're gonna call a delay of
game unnecessary roughness waiting on the call, Yeah, you get it. Wow,

(21:58):
And then you get an unnecessary rough that just puts
the final nail in the coffin.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
I mean really, I mean I expect you expect stuff
like that from the Jets. I mean really, everybody's taking
the headsets off right now. Yeah, we're done. Now game's over. Yeah,
so the nile is it moving? But they've basically whistled
it dead. So now it's the separation. He decides to
go full on frog splash from behind to get the flag,

(22:26):
which will effectively end this game.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
I really that's I mean, you deserve it. Yeah? Oh no, No,
what happens at the end here, you absolutely do.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
You don't deserve the final eighteen second to throw a
hail Mary and maybe maybe steal a tie out of this. Now,
you don't deserve it with that level of decision making
from your coaches, and then Settle deciding he's got to
dive into a play that's been blown dead.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
I mean, really, the number of NFL coaches that have
no idea how to manage time in the final two
minutes of a game is mind blowing.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
I mean, this is wild.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
When I have my yearly thing, Okay, NFL coaches come out,
We do the final two minutes of games. We do
live reps. There's golf because you know, just like your golf,
but we do live reps out. I show you just
exactly how to how to navigate the final two minutes,
when to call timeouts, when not to call timeouts. Now,
this new NFL kickoff thing is a new thing. But
you would have thought, hey, we figured this out. We

(23:22):
we we figure out what to do here, we know
how to kick. But no, we watched we watched the
Ben Johnson fail with it early in the season, right,
we watched Kevin O'Connell come on out come on out,
Come on out. Watch Tamiko Ryans help give the game
to the to the Seahawks here by by doing I mean, really,
if if you can't trust your kicker to kick it
out of the end zone, to kick it far you

(23:43):
don't want it, doesn't matter, kick it out of bounds,
find a way.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
But that's just we have an on side.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
You have a kick it out of bounds, I don't
get it in the kicking zone, or you kick it
through the through the back of the end zone for
the touchback.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
That's it. Those are that you have three ways to
do this play and not screw it up. I really
then you picked option four.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
I mean really, I mean it's I mean really, this
is where I say, okay, again, being a head's too
much for you to be a head coach, right, but.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Tamika rudes, he's been, you know, to forget you for
the most part. How do you not do? I mean,
how do you how do you lose that?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
How do you what's what's the percentage of you sorry
about that kickoff return?

Speaker 4 (24:22):
Is that what they were playing for?

Speaker 3 (24:24):
I gotta think that recovering it onside kicks you gotta
be at least as.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
High if not higher.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Come on, man, I mean it, I'm Sam Donald, and
the Seahawks tried to gift you at least an opportunity,
an opportunity, not that you're gonna win it, but an
opportunity to get the ball back with some time on
the clock to make it a Hail Mary's situation.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
And you didn't even give yourself that. I really, I
mean I I don't understand. And now the final time
has ticked off the clock. The Seahawks find a way
to win this game. Congratulations Seattle. I know you took
it on the chin earlier tonight, but now you got
it right.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
But that shot of McDonald in the sideline right after
that pedalty got called like it couldn't have been two
seconds that they went to. All right, the canvas on
the coach, what's he doing, He's taking the headset off
and exhaling. I don't have to stress that final minute cut.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
It's insane. Exit out by to Frasca, exit swollen dome.
Jason Smith, Mike Carmon Love from the Fox Sports radio studios.
We got more NFL coming up in ninety seconds. But
now the final game of the night is in the books.
So let's find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports, from special Delivery Steve to Saga Le's deee.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
What do you Got?

Speaker 5 (25:32):
The final at Seattle is Seahawks twenty seven nineteen over
the Texans, despite four turnovers by the home team. The
offensive Seattle on third down conversions two of fourteen, Houston's
offense two for fifteen. Texans wide receiver Nico Collins left
with a possible concussion. He was targeted ten times and
had four catches. The winning quarterback Sam Darnold one touchdown pass,

(25:54):
one interception, one fumble, Zach Sharbon a two touchdown run.
Seattle now five and two. Houston falls to two and four.
Detroit led Tampa Bay at the half fourteen to three,
only fourteen to three despite a huge yardage advantage. There
were two turnovers each first to half. Eventually, Detroit beat
the Bucks twenty four to nine. Each team five and two.

(26:16):
Bucks offense had fourteen drives fifteen first downs. In fact,
the first seven drives tonight was five punts, then a fumble,
then an interception. Jamiir Gibbs an alliance seventeen carries one
hundred and thirty six yards and two scores plus. He
had three receptions for eighty two yards. Jared Goff one TV,
one interception, one fumble. Now Mecha Abuka, the rookie wide

(26:36):
receiver for the Bucks, did play after a hamstring injury.
Was targeted twelve times, had only four catches. The wide
receiver Mike Evans, returned after his hamstring injury and left
with injury before halftime. Concussion and broken collarbone is the report.
After a hard landing on a deep pass. Mike Evans
might miss most of the rest of the season. Washington

(26:56):
says quarterback Jaden daniels hamstring injury is not significant, but
that I don't know if you'll play next Monday at
Kansas City. Panthers quarterback Bryce Young is out this week
with a high ankle. Spring forty nine Ers QB Brock
Perty is likely out again this week with a toe injury.
Falcons quarterback Michael Pennix is day to day with a
bone bruise in his foot and ankle. Raiders tight end
Brock Bauers, who's been out with the knee injury, is

(27:17):
due to return after their bye this week. Defensive end
Brandon Graham has been retired, but he will sign with
Philadelphia to play for the Eagles again tomorrow. Defensive back
of the Jet Sauce Gardners in concussion protocol. Saints running
back Hendry Miller out for the year with a torn
acl Broncos linebacker Dre Greenlaw, who just returned, was suspended

(27:38):
one game for his conduct toward a referee Sunday right
after the game. He will appeal. In the American League
Championship Series Game seven at Toronto to the Blue Jays,
eliminating Seattle for three, George Springer with a three run
homer in the seventh, the loss to reliever Edward Bizardo,
who allowed the home run to the first batter he faced.
Solo homers for Seattle's Julio Rodriguez and cow Rowl. The

(28:00):
Mariners are out with runners in scoring positions. Seattle was
one for seven, the same to Jeff Hoffman three straight
strikeouts in the ninth Series MVP Vladimir Guerrero Junior. The
World Series starts on Fox TV Friday night, with Toronto
hosting the Dodgers. The reason one more victory for Toronto
ninety four compared to the ninety three wins of the

(28:22):
Dodgers in the regular season they did play each other
head to head, and the Dodgers were going for a
three game weekend sweep in August and the bullpen blew
the game, giving up two homers in the eighth one
to Toronto in the ninth. That's the difference between Toronto
hosting games one and two or having to travel. And
by the way, the word that I see trending on

(28:44):
Twitter is cheater after George Springer was a hero in
this game. Tonight Across made that happen formerly with the
Houston Astros and in fact was MVP in the World
Series of their team that cheated to the World Series
in twenty seventeen. If you haven't seen the PBS Frontline
documentary on the whole Astro's cheating scandal, highly recommended. But

(29:07):
in that a Houston Astros fan when he first heard
of the story says, and he's documented it online, you
can still find it. He went through the video of
every Astro's home game that year, documented over eight thousand pitches,
and he heard the banging to alert the batter of
what's coming on over a thousand of those pitches in

(29:27):
home games. I've seen the stats, and he noted that
there was a game, for example, a lot of banging
on the trash can to help the hitters. From late
May to late September in twenty seventeen in Houston, late May,
there was a game they played where they banged on
the trash can almost thirty times in one game. Ten
of those were for George Springer at bats Wow tonight.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
So now because I've gone through it and I heard
it on his home tonight.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
Actually the banging was for fifteen percent of the time
for George Springer pitches well, he was set to dish.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Thank you, thank you, Steve, though how much Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. We'll
have our first Big Bowl prediction for the World Series
coming up in about fifteen minutes. But look, Houston loses
to Seattle tonight, and you know, again, I don't understand
Amiko Ryans. He needs to apologize to his team and say, listen,

(30:24):
I screwed up at the end. I didn't give us
a chance because I didn't kick it out of bounds
and I and I didn't on sidekick, which is just
it's unforgivable as a coach to make those mistakes. But
yet still these are some of the biggest, smartest guys
in the world, and they don't know how to do
two minute time management. I don't understand how that's not
a skill that you can learn as a coach, right,
learn it, learn it, learn it, know it. What's a

(30:46):
what's a fast times?

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Learn it? Know it? Love me, love it? Right?

Speaker 1 (30:50):
But uh, the other thing from tonight's game is this
we watch now the Sea The Titans fall to two
and six on the seat and two and four in
the season. And this is a team we thought was
gonna come out and run away with the AFC. Right,
easy easy division. The Texans, Sorry, you come in, run,
run rough, shot over the rest of the AFC. They're
an easy division. And instead here they are two and four.

(31:13):
Now they have questions, right, they don't quite have the playmakers.
Nico Collins got hurt tonight and CJ. Stroud maybe he
peaked a couple of years ago. But if we talked
about the Lines as being the best team in the NFC,
I think people are making the best team in the
AFC too hard right now because there's so much run
for the Chiefs. Yeah, okay, the Chiefs beat the Raiders.
The Raiders are terrible.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
They quit in the middle of the game.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
They're done right, Yes the Chiefs. Yes, they got Rashid
Rice back and the chief It's still going to be
a struggle. Don't make it too tough. The culture the
best team in the AFC. They should be undefeated. If
had Ni Mitchell holds onto the football, they probably are.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
But this is a team.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Their offense is number one in points, number two in yards.
They're at the top of everything. I hope you got
them when I said, hey, they're my dark Corse super
Bowl team. I said in the Springdaniel Jones is gonna
win the job. And look at what's and hey, the
Colts are gonna be really good. I should have bet
it because it was plus ten thousand when I said that.
And here's what's going on. Daniel Jones has been exactly
what this offense needs. There's playmakers, whether Michael Pittman's having

(32:13):
a big game, whether Josh Downs plays, doesn't play Alec
Pierce had a big game on Sunday. They came in
against a really good Charger defense. Jonathan Taylor just rips
off another big game. This is a really, really good team.
Their offense is unstoppable, but because it's the Colts, so
we don't have to. We're halfway through the season. Man,
they got the best record in the AFC. Everybody else

(32:34):
is flawed, right, The Bills are flawed. Teams in the
AFC West, they're flawed. Now, maybe the Chargers get healthy
on the offensive line and that becomes different. Maybe the
Broncos start to make a run because maybe they're starting
to become a pretty good team. Everybody in the AFC
North is terrible, right, and clearly the Cults are the
best team in the AFC South. Yeah, Colts are the
best team in the AFC right now. They've done everything

(32:54):
you wanted them to be. But just because it's Daniel Jones,
Oh I'm not.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Believing in the Colts. No, sorry, Cults are terrific. Yeah,
take care of business. Obviously. The schedule watching we can do.
You can only beat who's on it, so it'll be curious.
The second half is the Chiefs get healthy, and we
watched that offense really start to come to be together.
Brishard Smith out of the backfield had five catches. Fantasy Land, Uh,
look for the I Watch Flex podcast and all of that,

(33:18):
but it's you know, with Rashi rice back comes back
and it's like he never left. And you look at
that offense the last couple of weeks, it's clicking. You
got speed for days. Mahome's playing great football. Perhaps he
won't have to run as much, which is better for
his longevity. But with the Colts, I think some of
it was the pushback on Jones. Some of it's the schedule,

(33:40):
and you don't have anybody in the receiving cord that
scares you, so to speak. You mentioned Mitchell, We look
at Michael Pittman, who's been fantastic in spots. Obviously, you
bring in the rookie tight end who's been fantastic in
Warren So and Jonathan Taylor. Everybody keeps looking for the cliff.
Haven't seen it yet. He doesn't need to catch passes

(34:01):
out of the backfield. Sorry for your fantasy totals. You
don't get the extra five free points like you do
with so many other guys. But all of that to
say for Jones as a runner and as a play caller,
he's a guy that always backed and the division I
thought would be much more difficult run. I wasn't believing
in the Texans because you're looking at Nico Collins and
a bunch of question marks. I guess Jalen Noel now

(34:22):
becomes that guy. He and Dalton Schultz should Collins be
forced to miss time, will keep an eye on his
status as he left with the apparent concussion.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
But for CJ.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Stroud, that offensive line got worse, right, it was bad
last year and you lost the only component parts that
were good. So he's got happy feet and it's unfortunate
because that defense is everything you need and then some
to keep you in and around games. But if the
offense can't can't do its part, eventually you break. And

(34:52):
that's saw tonight right. They had every opportunity to fight
back in but the offense couldn't give him any semblance
consistency and the run game with Chubb Marx is non existent.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Exit ab out a Fresco, Exit swollen Dome. Coming up next,
we have one more big hot take coming off of
Monday Night Football involving the game one congratulations because the
Seahawks needed to win for the people of Seattle and
we got our first big hot take for the World Series.
Who's going to have a big World Series between the
Dodgers and the Blue Jays not one, but I got

(35:22):
a few guys. It's next right here, Jason and Mike.
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
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