Hour 4 – Concerns About the Dodgers

Jason Smith: Only thing that concerns me about the Dodgers: They'll probably get a bounce in the World Series pitching-wise, and their 'D isn't that great. They remind me of...the 2015 Mets who lost to KC.

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putting this content out for you every single night here
on the show. So we got more from Thursday night
football Old guys rule up in about fifteen minutes because
you know, after Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers one hundred percent,
but big stuff out of baseball, right, We're getting set
for the end of the NLCS, which is probably gonna

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happen tomorrow. Uh. The Dodgers up three games to none
after what is another incredible pitching performance, not quite as
good as what we saw from Yamamoto and Blake Snell.
The Glass now is great, throws one hundred pitches, needs
a little bit more bullpen than the others needed, but
still you win a game five to one. The Brewers

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just say, you know what, we are in the middle
of a starting pitching buzzsaw right now, and what can
you do right And Otani's gonna pitch tomorrow and that's
probably gonna be it for the Brewers. But I'll tell
you the team the Dodgers remind me of, and it's
it's Frostbre's gonna be mad. It's not it's not great.
But this is who they remind you of, is that

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the Dodgers are now. And we talked about this with
John Paul Morosi about a half hour ago. The Dodgers
are probably gonna get a bounce pitching wise between now,
from now to the World Series. It's gonna be really
difficult to go out there again another round and get
games like you got from Snell, Yamamoto, Glassnell, whatever we
get from Otana. Not that they're gonna fall off the

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fall off the cliff, but this is a team that, hey,
is not scoring a ton of runs right now. Right,
they look dominant because they're starting pitching is great, but
they're not winning these games six to one, seven to one, right,
this is everything is it's a struggle. It's two to one,
three to one. Two. Like, they're not scoring a lot
of runs. So if they get a little bit of
a bounce all of a sudden, that's a big equalizer

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for the Blue Jays or the Mariners. And we know
the Dodgers defense is also gonna have something to say
about this. Is the bullpen gonna be this good? Right?
The defense especially a little leaky. They kind of remind
me of the twenty fifteen Mets where the Mets win.
Take that right now. The Mets went through the NLCS

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against You can't just bring the Mets into the playoff base.
That's who they remind me, Man, what do you do?
One soda is listening right now? Uh, look, when it
was Harvey the Grom Matt's cinder guard. The Mets just
hot knife through butter through the cup, just talking about
right all all the way through. And then what happened
in the World Series. They didn't pitch quite as well.
Their defense was bad, and the Royals win the bleeping

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World The Kansas City Royals win the bleeping World Series.
I thought I thought you were gonna go run and
jump in the ocean that night. That's the uh, that
that's the that's the the team. That's the comp for
the Dodgers right now, which is which is not great,
but it's a World Series team. But you know they're
gonna get a bounce and they're still not hitting. Like
you can only sit here and say, hey, yo, look

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the Dodgers going to the World Series. That's why we're
talking about what will be next. You only sit back
and say, oh, it will hit, will hit, will hit.
It's been the entire playoffs. It's you hit the first
couple of games against the Reds. Haven't really hit since, right,
so it's all, okay, well, now we gotta get off.
You know, it's been two rounds in the world. You're
not gonna suddenly start hitting in the world and inspect
we're gonna flip that switch. So that's a big concern

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going forward if you're the dogs. Yeah, certainly you're not
expecting to cruise through as you have here. And we
talk about just the stylistic difference between what you're facing
now in the Brewers versus the next rounds. We talked
a little bit with JP about that as well. It's like,
it's not a power laden team that you're going after now, right,
It's a station to station try to play for a beginning,

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which is a rarity in twenty twenty five baseball for sure,
but it yielded ninety seven wins. For as much belly
aching about payroll and everything else as everybody's doing. You
won ninety seven games. You put yourself in the best
position to get through the playoffs, and right now you're
down three to zero. You want to complain about the

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Go have a fundraiser, okay, go ask the good have
a car wash, whatever you need to do, or get
your ownership to actually put money back on the field.
The bake sale in the gym will begin at three
point thirty pm. Missus Ulterman is going to have the
doors open. We had three twenty four. Anyone who wants
to get in before and by, but the bake sale
starts at three thirty because we've seen those videos. Hey,

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do you want this four star cornerback to get out
of our state? You can't do that. Donate now, I'll
make sure the money goes w weren't supposed to Uh huh,
sure you will, okay all of it. To say that
with the Blue Jays and Mariners, they erase everything in
one mistake, right, that's how quickly with the number of

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guys that hit for power in that lineup. They're not
nickel diming like and it's fun. The Peskey Brewers, they
were a great, great story, A lot a lot of
great players were still waiting for the first at the
RBI from Yelli since what is it twenty eighteen in
the playoffs and all of those things that you've got
a couple of guys with twenty plus home runs, but

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otherwise it's a station to station draw walks. Well, guess
what to this point, the Dodgers haven't done that next round? Yeah,
I would suspect that the Blue Jays and Mariners are
a little little bit more selective work counts and try
to stretch these starters a bit and wait for the
mistake to be made because they're there, all right. We

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talked about it a couple of times, like, ah, he
was on him on that one, okay, And then you
got the out, but like it's a waffer thin margin
of error, and in the next round, maybe they're not
so fortunate. Do I expect the Dodgers to suddenly be
doing a Congo line around the bases. No, but just

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like you know, we've watched both Seattle and Toronto in
this series. They've they've harbornated alternately, you know, the first
two games and the the next two. How it's home
and home that way is very odd. But you know,
the Dodgers stringing together a few hits, timely hits, and

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Mookie Betts is a Golden Glove finalist, So I mean
there's something there. Come on, man, really, come on, he
was Come on, man, Max Mounts, He's made some plays defensively,
and Freddy Freeman's not there. Freddy Jason, what do you
know about I know my team was in the playoffs
last year. Look, I've watched a lot with the wandering
eye to being lured to the dark side of another team,

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and we almost made it this year. Almost. You literally
compared this Dodger team to to the like a team
that went to the World Series. That's the same the
same way the Dodgers doing right now with great pitching,
not as great hitting and defense, it's a little questionable.
Sometimes do get lucky. You know that the twenty two Angels, right, yeah,

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they won a World Series. Yeah no, that doesn't mean
they're good. Okay, sometimes better team though, that was a
great lineup. Man, that was one through nine. Those guys hit,
they were two. Yeah they hit monkey. Yeah. Oh, Scott's speezy.
Oh sure, sure. Now if that's the concern for the Dodgers,
who are going to be headed to the World Series
probably in twenty four hours, uh, the team they beat

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last year, Oh boy, I love the Maylocks moment for
every Yankee fan today after Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman
did their end of season Yankee press conference in which
they basically said everything's gonna be the same next year. Yeah. Well,
to be fair, I mean, the Mets fired all of

(08:17):
the stat I mean, you were the leading the horse
race and then fell down just ahead of the finish line.
You brought your manager back. The Yankees did the Sean
McVay run it back, run it back. Anthony Volpi is
still there starting shortstop when he's healthy at two twelve
this year, right, Aaron Judge is gonna be fine. He's
coming back. We're okay, Gacarlo, Stan's gonna be fine. We'll

(08:38):
get Garrett Cole back. Yeah, it's gonna be another year
of the Yankees doing the same thing, banging your head
against the wall, just thinking well, next year will be different,
because well it has to be. And I just said
there going okay, that's great. It's not been good enough
for the Yankees for the past few years. This year
ended way earlier than last year. But no, the Yankees
are gonna run it back. Oh, this is the question

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is the best. I love this because every Yankee fan
is so mad. We're not gonna get any change. Cash
Man stinks boons to Boon's coming back. We're just gonna
be the same as last time. You know what, it
time before. It's time to bring back a scout and
a coach from years and years ago. He worked for

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the Astros, he worked for the Pirates, and he worked
for the Yankees. The drills that Tom Amansky can teach
these players to get them back on the right path.
Fred McGriff wearing the high damn right, tom Amansky gets
my full endorsement. What's only seventy seven, let's go. He's
still got a couple of steps in him. What's Fred
McGriff is in seventy seven? I love the one really

(09:42):
did where it's it's the relay drill and that kid
throws into like the trash bar and the buckets. Ya
tom Amansky gets my full endorsement. Uh no, you want
to know who they should bring back? Think about this
for a second, right, We talked about it at the time,
and I don't know if he was kind of auditioning
for the game during the playoffs, but clearly he had
no problem criticizing the Yankees, no problem criticized in the

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front office. Derek Jeter should come back as the Yankee manager.
You have to change something right, and you see Aaron Boone.
Aaron Boone's doesn't done an okay job, but something's got
to change. You're not gonna spend money on players. You
spent the money last year. It wasn't good enough. If
you're bent on bringing the same guys back. Something needs

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to change, right And and Derek Jeter is someone who
can I trust him to be the GM. Maybe not
because the moves he made with the Marlins weren't great,
but if he's a manager and he's managing the team
with the cachet he's got and input, just some input
on players that I can trust. And he could go
out and get Max Scherzer off that damn mount. And

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you are talking about a guy that would take a
lot of the pressure on himself, that knows you, that
can carry the pressure with big shoulders. Doesn't quite has
bigger shoulders than Aaron Boone does. When guys are Jeter's
got trust, he would keep everything in an even keel.
He's the guy to manage the Yankees. And you know,
at this point he's been doing he's been doing TV
for a few years now. You'll try to work with

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the Marlins. If the Yankees came and said, Derek Jeter
come back, I think he would come back. Now. He
would worry about his legacy a little bit, because, well,
I'm already one of the greatest Yankees of all time
and people are gonna talk about me for fifty years
and I like that. If I come back and manage
and it doesn't work, maybe I ruin that a little bit.
But look at this way. No one remembers Magic Johnson

(11:28):
as eerror coaching the Lakers. There's mumber. Magic Johnson is
being the big superstar, but best point guard we've ever seen. Right,
I think Jeter, even if it doesn't work, would still
be fine. So if that's the only thing that would
keep him away from Adca, people will forget that because
you always have the four World Series, you have the
three thousand etch, you have what you did, you have
the dominating the Red Sox all the way through your

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your rivalry. That's the guy to go get if you're
not gonna make a big change player wise, bringing the
guy that say, Okay, I'm gonna hold these guys accountable.
I'm gonna be able to make sure we play better fundamentally,
we do X, Y and Z that we didn't do
this year. We're not going to be the lazy Yankees.
We're going to run the bases better because Jeter was
always a great base runner as well. We're gonna do

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things a little bit differently than you've done in the past.
And Jeter's got the cachet to make that happen. And
I man, I wouldn't say that Jeter would be up
for it if I didn't see him so proactively criticizing
the Yankees. Which way you gotta be that way? On Fox?
Right when you're on the postgame show and you're talking
about the Yankees. He talked very freely. I can't believe

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the Yankees are doing this, not doing this knowing full well, Hey,
my relationship with the Yankees, I want it to be good.
So the fact that he was able to step out
of that comfort zone and give that sort of of
criticism on television tells me you approach him about being
the manager, A manager with input. I think Derek Jeter
would say, Okay, let's sign a contract, let's get it done.
Certainly a conversation that is worth exploring. Whether he leaves

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you on red remains to be seen. He does have
four kids, uh, with his wife Hannah Davis Jeter. They're
all eight and under. So I wonder how much that
always weighs into the decision right of guys changing up
from the studio gig to getting back in the dugout
and on the road. How about that that other guy

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we talked about, former Yankee slugger. Unfortunately his career felled
by the bad back bench coach for your Blue Jays.
We saw him doused with champagne about Donnie Basement. Oh yeah, look,
I always thought don Maddley would wind up being the
Yankee manager at some point. But are you gonna get

(13:36):
rid of Are you gonna get rid of of Boone?
For Mattingly? I don't know that that's quite the the
difference making the movie. I mean, look, you you win
more headlines your way, like for sure point. Can I
see Maddingly going back to the Yankees. Yeah, but maybe
in a couple in a few years, maybe he's the
next manager after whoever replaces Boone if they don't win.

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I can see, Hey, we're bringing Donnie Baseball back. I
could see that. But man, how do you how do
you not go after Jeter?

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No?

Speaker 1 (14:04):
I like your big swing back just uh, you know,
historically guys of that level. Uh, it doesn't doesn't play
so well. Exit Ou about a Fresca exit swallen down
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(14:24):
geta Gita. I say this even though man and I
don't want the Yankees to win because a met fan,
it sucks when it happens. I'd rather see geta playing
short vote shouldn't be out there. The manager should just
insert himself in the game. It's why I'm having a
great playoff because the Yankees and the Phillies are out.
I'm enjoying. Yeah, you're getting more my met stuff this week,
and I was excited. Man, it was great. You're bouncing
around like the whiz. Nobody beats me. Coming up next,

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friend Mike Harmon. Hello, a big nun on Thursday Night football,
especially if you are over the age of forty. Yeah.
Aaron Rodgers four touchdowns, Joe Flacco three touchdowns over three
hundred yards passing the ramble. Yeah, and that naked bootleg

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that will live and burned into Tomlin's brain forever. Bengals
winning over the Steelers thirty three thirty one. Now we'll
get to Flacco in a second, but just because this
was so fun, Rogers throws the big touchdown to Pat
Fryermuth to give them the lead in the final couple
of minutes. Right sixty eight yard pass, a broken coverage

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and Rogers just rolls out and threads the ball perfectly
to him frying Mouth all the way down the field
for a touchdown. Rogers comes running off the field doing
his little Hey jump and night, I put my fist
in the air like Superman, right, like he does that
little bit so he's running off the field. This is
a great piece of video because you know how mad
he is. He's running and then Broderick Jones, one of

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his offensive linemen, comes running behind him and wants to
celebrate with him. Right, here's a go ahead touchdown in
the final couple of minutes, and he kind of jumps
on his back and tackles him. So here's a three
hundred pound offensive lineman Aaron Rodgers, and Rogers gets up
and shows him and yells in his face. This wasn't
one of those yeah we did it. This was come on,

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what are you doing to me? Like rogers helmet really
is and he just yells at him and push because
his helmet did that squished thing like remember that famous
photo when he was on the ground. Yeah, so this
is gonna be mimeable. This is great. I mean, just
Aaron Rodgers ripped his shoulder when he was tackled the

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what and he gots something shoves and you know, he
shoves Jones and Jones because you know, Jones is three
und pounds just stands there, doesn't even move him. But like, yeah,
so mad. Initially I get yeah, don't tackle me because
I'm forty and I'm the quarterback, Like, that's not the
smartest thing to do. But man, for him to get
up and he's so mad in that moment he's celebrating,

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and he goes from celebrating the piste off so fast. Yeah,
he does the little leap. Come on, I mean, that's
that's great. We need the reverse angle of it, that
one because that could live forever. That would become a
sticker and a gift for all of it. But hey man,
when we're talking about how do you keep these guys
upright right, we celebrate the back and forth and their

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arm strength or intelligence between the lines to be potentially
taken out by your own guy after you throw a
touchdown pass. The game's in the balance, don't tackle be mad.
Where'd that truck come from? Who was that? Who was Oh?
It was our guy. You know what he said when
he got up right, what he saying, I'm a man,
I'm forty. That's about right. That was the night. It

(18:36):
was a night if you were forty, tonight was your night.
Rogers Flacco, Max Schurzer. Oh, these guys, if you've had
a pretty good show, I hit forty time, you dude.
Tomorrow Tomorrow everybody wearing the old Guy's rule T shirts
and hats like the stuff you get at though, like
the old Guy's rule stuff that you get like from
big Dogs, like when you go to the the UH
to the outlet, the allot malls and like, oh, I

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got this old Guy's Rule T shirt for eight dollars.
Like I wear it. It's awesome, I feel great. I
drive past those quite often for soccer tournaments and games
in the league. I don't stop. Yeah, no, no, no,
I think it's gonna end badly for me if I stopped.
Not not just at the big Dog store. I'm just
saying in general. No, yeah, well look the allat malls
are awesome. I love, but yeah, the big dogs, the

(19:20):
old guys rule stuff in the hats, and the old
Guys Rule hats all with pictures of dogs on them
or bass fish or stuff like that. Like that's like, yeah,
you know, I don't. I don't want to get caught
wearing that stuff. I don't that that's no, I don't
want to get caught wearing But yet you'll wear ugly
ass mets and jets gear. Hey, blue and orange are
great color schemes. Man color blocking. Color blocking it looks good.

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Blue and orange is good color blocking you. You leave
them out there for free and people still don't take it.
I wear them because it's Knicks colors as well, and
we're going to the finals this year. I just have
to wait. The Knicks just at the Jets, and the
Mets just have to get me to the Knicks. At
this point, when you're gonna say I never said that,
you just it's not happening. We're either gonna be great

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at the deadline and everything is great, or we're gonna
be underachieving and we're gonna get Yannis. Championship onds Oklahoma
City done. Heer two to one, beat will beat them
Cavaliers and plus six fifteen nine yet plus six fifteen
Nicks ten to one dollar. We're either gonna be really
good at the deadline, in which case, hey, get ready
because the Knicks are great or again, or we're gonna

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get Yannis, in which case then we're gonna be great again.
Houston Rockets fourteen to one, Lakers at fifteen to one.
That's after they trade Lebron James. But being over forty,
it's all his own fault anyway. Now you see why
Mike Tomlin was so mad at the Browns trading Joe
Flacco within division. Right, he had the big Monday press

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conference where he was kind of duh, you guys pissed
me off today. I don't know why Andrew Berry, you know,
calling out the Browns gym, why would trade Joe Flacco
within the division? And it's like, well, no, his ex
y was he must be smarter than me. He's like, yeah,
well he was because he's sent to take you down. Yeah. Yeah,
we gotta catch you because you guys are in first place.
I'm gonna give the quarterback to a team to give

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you that loss that brings you back to the pack.
That's how it's gonna work, Mike Tomlin. I mean, look, Tomlin,
you could again when he said that, I could tell
that he really was concerned, right, And I told her
at the beginning, Flacco's gonna come in and he's gonna
be good, right. I mean, look, I'm from the future.
Right October seventh, we talked about it. I tweeted it out.

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He fits with this system of whatever they want to do,
right with what the Bengals with the system for everybody
offensively in the NFL, and Flacco his intelligence knows where
to put the football. He's gonna take advantage right away
of Jamar Chase T Higgins and Chase Brown. And what happened.
Jamar Chase to Knight nearly set the record for receptions

(21:49):
in a game. He had sixteen. Right t Higgins had
a big game as well. Right caught the big pass
at the end that set it up and he was
six for sixty. Chase Brown ran for one hundred yards,
his fir one hundred yard game of the year. Flack
come in sprinkled that that magic dust because yeah, this
system works for Flacco. It's why it was the great
move to go get him. Now. Clearly the Browns they
thought Flacco was done. And if you watch Flacco play

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the beginning of this year, okay, yeah he didn't look great,
but he also didn't have weapons. When you put you
can put a lot of quarterbacks with guys that are
good and they're gonna suddenly look better. And Jamar Chase
and t Higgins are two of them that maybe the
best wide receiver duo in the NFL. Maybe Lamb and
Pickens will wind up giving a run for the money
with with Lamb coming back this week, but These guys
are both terrific, both big contracts. Man, there's lots of

(22:34):
guys that would show up great. They decided to go
for a leader who can keep the team afloat that
when Burrow comes back, it's gonna be I'll tip my
cap and I'll go back and sit on the bench.
And Flaco's got this was gonna work, and it works
for Flacco. Right, We told you was gonna happen. You
see why Mike Tomlin is upset. The Bengals are fine now.
Now defensively they're terrible, but they needed to score points

(22:54):
because the last three games of Jake Browning gets three
points the first three quarters of every game. That's unforgivable
with what they have going on in offense, and now
here they are. They win a big game at home
and now they can stay afloat. Right, huge, huge w
tonight for the Bengals. Three and four now on the season.
Remember they started two and zero inexplicably because they didn't
play particularly well. Probably should have lost both those games,

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but they succeed and proceed. Now you move forward. Hey,
look who's on the schedule next? Jetscho. I just thought
you'd put it out there we're gonna watch the Joe
Flacco revenge game again. We're gonna watch it a game. Well,
I mean, look, you always got to keep a chip
on your shoulder and keep yourself motivated, There's no question
about it. But you know, when we talk about Flacco
and the arm strength has always been there. We've watched

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them shine into each spot. The overall team's success has
been roller coaster, shall we say, But when we come
into this situation, it's about getting the ball out quickly effectively.
Look what they did Dan Pitcher, their offensive coordinator, and
Flacco getting the ball into Chase's hands early sixteen catches

(24:01):
on twenty three targets over the course of the night,
a couple of drops, couple of just slightly behind him
on the routes. I mean there were opportunities for some
more yaks. So I mean that's timing's only going to
get better. They kept the Steelers pass rush at Bay.
Good job with the offensive line plus the getting it
out quickly. I mean, it's a recipe for success. And

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if you can get Chase Brown jump started, the guy
that we thought the world of coming into the season
with Joe Burrow under center, well now you really got
something defensively, They're going to continue to give up points. Right,
Hendrickson didn't play tonight, but they weren't terribly effective with
him on the field. Still trying to figure out that
side of the ball. But I don't know, it's fun
to watch Joe Flacco out there and be in another spot.

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You know, we got forty four quarterbacks have taken a
snap as a starter this year, and he's done it
for two different teams. And you know this is the thing. Okay,
you mentioned it, and we can't ignore it. The number
of guys and this what do I say? What if
I said the last couple of weeks, Yes, this for
the Jets. But whatever the Jets do is wrong, No

(25:06):
matter what they do is wrong. And you see, that's
why it was tough tonight watching Flacco and Rogers, two
guys the Jets got in their late thirties, and guess
what they go to the Jets, they both stink. They
go someplace else, they're good again. Like the number of
the number of people that get good once they leave
the Jets is just what I mean. Whatever the Jets

(25:26):
do is wrong. It's really it's like their cursed whether
it's Sam Dartol gets away from the Jets, eventually finds
a place to go right. Geno Smith away from the Jets,
eventually finds a place to go right. We see it
all the time, all for everybody except for Zach Wilson,
but for everybody else. He Todd Bowles gets away from
the Jets. Now three straight NFC South titles and probably
gonna have another one. Right now, you have Flacco and Rogers,

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who were great, got to the Jets. Jets, they were
terrible with the Jets. Jets let them go. You thought
their careers are done. Look guess what Rogers is throwing
four touchdowns again, and Flacco was going to quarterback the
Bengals all the way to the end of the year
when the Jets are saying, is justin Field's even gonna
be our guy through the by right, whatever the Jets
do is wrong, and the number of players that get there,

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no matter who's coaching or the general manager, it doesn't matter.
The Jets have turned over the last few years, but
it makes no difference whoever shows up their quarterback or
head cut. Now. You know what, Yeah, if you whatever
your career was before, now don't worry because now it's
gonna suck. But the good news is when you leave
in a year or two, it's gonna be great again
because you're gonna be good. Don't worry. Yes, just understand.

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It's gonna suck now while you're here, but eventually you
leave and it's gonna be good again. I can't explain it.
All I know is that everybody the Jets get, every
star player that comes in here, the Jets quarterback they have,
whoever they are draft, whoever the next guy is right.
They get to the Jets and they stink, and then
they get someplace else and they show they're still good.
I mean Aaron Rodgers, is he gonna be this good

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all the way through the season.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
No.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
I think by the time you get towards December he's
gonna break down a bit. We said it was. I
thought it would be good for the first half ish
of the season. The same thing with Flacco. He's the
one that's when Joe Burrow comes back. He's not going
to keep the job. But just the fact that you
can start over again. Sign all these quarterbacks and when
they get they get there, it doesn't matter they're going
to be bad. Justin fields. Hey, I kind of jump
started my career a little bit playing well for the

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Steelers last year. No, he stinks, No doesn't. The point
we do it on a curve where you're maybe really good,
maybe great to good to the Jets, and then you
have that whatever that time is, that becomes an extended
inflection point because once you get out of there, you're
either into your retirement life where life is good because

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you're not a Jet, or you've gone to another team
in a better situation where you're not a Jet. Right. Yes,
the old phrase X jet now good right in point
X jet still good. That's pretty much because that's Flacco
and Ross X Jets still good. I mean, it's like
there's some kind of curse. Man, it's got to leave

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this franchise to die your career the Jets. It comes
down to this.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Johnson is very happy that Jerry Jones exists. You don't
go there to die. You go there to have some
inflection and think about your life and the choices you've made.
Die and then you just come back better. No, you
think about your choices, understand you need to atone and repent.
You get someplace else and realize, okay, I really took
some stuff for granted. Jets killed Carl I was. I
was a Jet. They did. Now I'm here and I'm better,

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and I'm okay, Now, okay, good that. You know what, Hey,
those two years I was a Jet, whoever long I
was there, you know, that was really valuable to me. Mentally,
I knew, you know, okay, don't take things for granted.
Understand I'm still good. The great things can be taken
away from you in an instant. I'm smart enough, and
you know I can sometimes people like me. Just think
about it. Just this, that's a very valuable time if

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you really, if you're a football star and you feel, hey,
maybe I'm riding a little too high on the holl
of it, go to the Jets, be humbled, and then
come back out of It's gonna be great, or be
careful when three hundred pound linemen come creeping up from
behind objects and mirror exit out bout a Fresca exit
swallen down on the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, Time not to find out what's trending

(29:05):
in the wide world of sports From Monsey Belanos, who
is going to win her fantasy matchup this week because
she started Aaron Rodgers on a dare she that woke
her up, and she'll tell us what's trending.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
No, my back is killing me.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
That's why you saw me kind of slumping on this chair.
Oh my upper back is killing me right now the
last hour or so. Now I'm good, good, right.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
You're not as old as Joe Flacco.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
And Aaron Rodgers' yes, correct, healthier elthier.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
But I worked out today, Okay, okay, okay, there's some weights.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Okay, my body doesn't like weights. I usually run. That's
all I do. I run and play volleyball. So every
time I doing something, back rise. Anyway, enough about my back.
I do feel like the unks. It was the Night
of the Unks. What unks am I talking about?

Speaker 5 (29:45):
There's three we'll start in the NFL because three unks
in the night delivered. But Thursday night football, Bengals and Steelers,
they went down to the wires. Cincinnati pulls off the upset,
winning it on a thirty six yard field goal from
Evan McPherson. Thirty three to thirty one was the final score.
The first unk we're going to talk about is Joe Flacco.
He was thirty one and forty seven three hundred and
forty two yards, three touchdowns, One of them went to

(30:07):
Jamar Chase. He kept looking for Jamar Chase the entire night.
So it's like, Jake Browning, did you not know you
had Chase Chase on your team?

Speaker 4 (30:14):
Or Te Higgins? I don't understand, But Chase had sixteen catches.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Ronnie would make a great jet, maybe a great.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Jetjet nice Nice.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
Chase had sixteen catches, one hundred and sixty one yards
and a touchdown. The other unk, well, that's Aaron Rodgers,
who was twenty three of thirty four, two hundred and
forty nine yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
The novelty, I think it's great to right for all
the old guys.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
I know that when I watch other sports. Maybe it's
because I'm the older guy. I tend to to pull
for the older guys to win the win championships.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
You know, he was so man having to talk after
this game, but he was pulling for the old guys.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
He would have loved it if they won.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
That's I don't know, per set, he would have loved it.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
The other unk we're gonna talk about is Max Scherzer
in his five hundredth career start that includes both regular
and postseason.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
But the Blue Jays even.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
The series behind Shuzer in the ALCS after defeating the
Mariners eight to two. Vladimir Guerrero Junior also hit his
fifth home run of the postseason in this one. Game.
Five is Tomorrow Friday or Friday right now if you're
on the East Coast at seven Eastern time. Also, the
Dodgers could bring out the brooms Tomorrow Friday. They topped

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the Brewers three to one. They're now one went away
from advancing to the World Series. It's the first time
Milwaukee is zero to three in a seven game series.
They've struggled offensively, only nine hits through the first three games,
compared to La who has had twenty three hits.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Went out there.

Speaker 5 (31:46):
A little NBA news, The Athletic reports that the Hawks
and Trey Young will not agree to a contract extension
before the start of the regular season. Sixers forward Paul
George is not expected to be ready for their season
opener next week, but could return.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
You are a following knee surgery this summer.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
This story Monsey did last year, recorded and just playing
it back then.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
And on the ice guy some of the final scores.

Speaker 5 (32:10):
When it came to the NHL games, Penguins over the
Kings forward to two, Golden Knight's edge the Bruins six
to five. Coming into today's game, there were two teams
or today's games, two teams were undefeated.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Now only one stands.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yes, Hurricanes.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
Yeah, they beat the Ducks ford to one, and the
Stars were the other team that were undefeated.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
But they lost to the Canucks today five to two.
So just the Hurricanes.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
That's all hockey, all.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
Right, Just go put like an ice packer.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
What am I doing?

Speaker 4 (32:39):
Icy hot? The what are you guys? Unks?

Speaker 1 (32:41):
No, tonight was the icy Hot Bowl, So icy hot?

Speaker 4 (32:44):
I see. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Actually, you know what tens If you get the tens,
the uh all the ten tens, it's called tens, t
E n s and it's all different like nodes that
you just just stick on and it and stick on
your back and they stick, you pull them off, put.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Them back on there there like a salon pause.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
No, no, it's not a salon pause. Any stimulant. You
turn up the student. It's fantastic. I was just gonna say,
get the icy hot suburban. Yeah, Okay. I think if
you have that, you don't need the ice.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
I don't mean the hot and I like that. I
like that good good plans.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Guys, thank you value you got them one by really honestly, though,
I talk about the Knicks, I think this is the
Hurricanes here. I did everything they needed to do to
be a Stanley Cup champion team. They've done it in
the off seat did at the end of last year
at the trade deadline, I written, Lockwood, I think this
is our year. Well, I mean, you didn't predict the

(33:39):
Jets to win the Super two years ago, Not this year,
not when they're owen six and make stink. And I'm
looking at Dante more Fernando Mendoza. I am going to
start watching more of their games, more of their games.
Coming up next, Mike and I remember an absolute legend
that we lost today. That's next, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
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