September 11, 2025 • 34 mins
What college football should do and it's a no-brainer - Own Friday night like the NFL owns Thursday. And Lamar Jackson apologized to the Bills fan that Lamar shoved in retaliation to the fan shoving him and DeAndre Hopkins in the head.
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Speaker 4 (01:04):
The at Jason Smith Show is just like you would
add something on your apps. The ampersands not eighteen, like
you at attacking it, you know, I just wanted to
say Ampersand you know, I worry about that sometimes that
I think, like, you know what when I say stuff
like do I sound like I'm the really old guy?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Do I not? Do I feel?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Or do I do I sound like I'm the older
guy that's trying to sound hip? Like I just learned
yesterday what six seven means, like six seven, like the
whole big thing?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Now the kids do six seven?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, I wish it was a height, No, six seven,
it's just yours, this whole big thing, mean, the whole
big thing that has become popular and all my daughter's friends,
you know, it's it's saying six seven and like you
move your hands like you're weighing options on something, and
I'm like, okay, what does that mean? And and being
replaced mid No, Basically it means nothing, like it can
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mean various degrees of nothing, like hey, how badly do
you want to go to go to see this movie tonight?
As six seven? Like I don't really care either way,
or hey, hey how'd you do on that test?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Today?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Six seven.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I don't really want to talk about it. I don't
want to man like. It can mean anything from from
I don't know, you know, I don't want to talk
about it too. It doesn't mean anything to it means nothing,
but that's it did. The whole six seven has become
this whole thing. So it's a less profane version of smurf.
Uh okay, sure, sure, okay, yeah, a little bit where.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You just gotta throw that.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I mean, I just remember when we were in my
Spanish classes, if you didn't know what you really wanted
to say, you just keep going twas pas. At one
point we had to do a skit about running a
grocery store. We had all the verbs and everything that
we're doing, uh, and one girl decided she wasn't going
to do any of the work, so she just kept
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yelling k ganga.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And what does that mean? What a bargain?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Really? K ganga?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And also she was like different levels of excitement, and
teacher walked over to us because what the hell happened there?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I'm saying that why does she keep saying that sounds
like a w W wrestler, Kay ganga? Well, no, you
have Elande Americano making the way to the ring, k donga.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You like this bit all right, So you have Chad Gable,
who is an Olympic wrestler, who little guy i'd stocky
but ripped whatever, and he's doing the bit, but he
can't speak Spanish. Well, then he gets hurt and rips
up his shoulders, but they will. The bit's going over
pretty well. So they bring in a guy Ludvig Kaiser
was hanging out with Gunter and he's actually his name
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is Marcel Bartheli. He's a Frenchman, but he speaks fluent Spanish.
So now it's he's become a hero because he can
speak fluent Spanish. He shows up to one of their
cards they did a couple of weeks in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
He gets a standing ovation of the crowds losing their mind.
This guy. He's going through the airport in a suit
with the mask on and people are stopping.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
That's great, you're the guy.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, so I got him a big deal. Yeah, just.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Exactly because SmackDown will come into the conversation we're about
to have. You know, Jason, so when we ask you
what what number game the Mets are playing?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Six seven? Yeah? How good? It doesn't matter anymore. How
good to the Mets. Sixth seventh, sixth seven.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So you know, because I told you how good I
was in Spanish right when I was in high like
I remember, like I went to the United Nations. They
sent me there by schools. I was one of them
to listen because they thought it was going to be
a translator. Like all my Spanish teaps out. Jason's gonna
wind up in a translate. He's going to work in
New York, the United nas I a guy, so.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I so they so they said, they said a few
of us.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
There who did who did really well in each uh,
in each language that they taught. Right, So we go there,
we get to listen in to, you know, stuff that's
being said and hear what someone is translating, and they're.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Like, hey, do you want to listen? Can you can
you listen? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Sure, yeah, sure, okay listening And they're like, so, well,
what'd you think? What a Oh I have no idea
what does this mean? Oh well that's kind of the
that's kind of the conversational way they say this. Oh okay,
I didn't know what this meant either. Oh that's kind
of the conversational way they say this. I go, uh, yeah,
I'm having a little. That's not how you were taught,
because that's not how you're taught in school. You're not
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taught the conversation. And I remember going back and I
felt so bad. All my I love my Spanish teacher,
and he said to me, how did you do?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Howd you do?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I go?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I really didn't understand a lot because they they weren't
doing the colloquial Spanish like we do. They were doing
the conversational Spanish, and it was.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Just and he could tell that.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
My look was like Mike, the light went out in
my eyes, like yeah, I mean, I'll be good in
Spanish here. And he was like, okay, okay, but did
you enjoy yourself? Yeah, okay, okay. And I felt so bad,
but I'm like it was again, teach conversational, don't don't
teach that.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And that's just it.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The guy that we had for first year, which was
the King Ganga scenario, learned a ton of stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And you'd be on the bus and you'd start laughing
because guys are joking back and forth and with each
other whatever, and then they'd get scared because they realized
you understood what.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
They were saying.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Well, then okay, but that wasn't the next three years. Now,
I ended up winning an award like you as the
best non native speaker, and then you don't use it
for a while, so I got pieces. Yeah, it's terrible,
Like I'm trying to get myself back into it. I
used to when when I stan the world, when I
coached soccer. You know, a lot of a lot of
the girls that I coach were Latina, and so there
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was one there was one girl that always when she
would play, I could tell when she would get frustrated
in the game. And the best way that I was
able to calm her down and get her back was
you know, people and people yell stuff out because it's
all different. You know, people yell languages all the time,
and and parents yelled at their kids in Spanish, and
usually a lot of the parents yell in Spanish because
they don't want them to know that they don't want me,
the coach, to know that they're coaching them, so they
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yell in Spanish and I'm like, okay, all right, I
know what you're saying. Don't don't tell her to move
closer to the ball. Okay, I don't want to move
I don't want to be close to the ball on that.
I want to be far away because there's no offside
and we can make that's where you need the giant
singer fingerwack. So I said, uh so, I would. I
could always tell when she would get frustrated. I would
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yell at her, just nonsense stuff in Spanish, and I
would say, I would it was yami, and I go
yami lo mucco, gusto, I go lo ciento muco ke sukabayo.
And then like the parents would laugh and she would
look in a paaril go did you just say you
were sorry about the horse? I said, yeah, yeah, I did,
and that would just get her out of it. Yeah,
and I would. They'd be ready for a big throw
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and I would go yami lex i go Aleskrettorio asked
ween not anha. Did you just say the desk was
an orange?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yes, like you know, And I would just said that
would get her to okay, let me, let me get
out of this and get back to play. And that
became a thing. And so there became a time the
game when when one of the parents got to go yeah,
yell me thing and had any nonsense in Spanish. Yet
Oh okay, I will, I'll get something at some point
she I mean she doesn't need it, so six.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Seven Yeah, that's six six seven six seven six seven.
Uh so how about this?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You know, I was thinking about this today reading There
was one of the big articles on now the weekend's coming,
uh with the NBA season approaching, and that with no
NBA Friday nights on ESPN, ESPN is excited because they
have the ACC that they can put more good games,
put football games on Friday night. Now it's the ACC,
so it's not the SEC or the Big Ten, but
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it's still football on Friday.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
But as Adam Silver told us, they're just a highlight league.
Anything different, it doesn't matter, right, the NBA has always
been a highlight league. Well, but he said the quiet
part again, look on socials watch that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The big the biggest pain in the butt for the
NBA's actually have to play the games right. They don't
want to have to play the games right. We just
want to be able to go so uh. And ESPN
talked about how they're going to be able to put
you know, more games on they can put some games
on Friday night, and they got Belichick on Friday night.
And that's something they're excited about this year because now
they don't have to worry about a beginning of November,
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end of October. The NBA comes in right now. Now
here's and this is where this is. This is where
college football needs to do this because this is something
they can dominate a night of the.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Week they need.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
College football needs to own Friday night, like the NFL
owns Thursday night. The NFL put football on Thursday night,
and when they started putting it on Thursday night, it was, well,
there's still a lot of great musty TV on NBC
in different channels, and after a few years of it, it's, well,
what is it? No one wants to put any shows
on because the NFL is on on Thursday night. The
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NFL wasn't satisfied with owning Sunday. They knew we can
own Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night. There's only seven
nights in the week. Okay, only seven.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Nights in the week. Only a few nights your world.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
College football owns Saturday, right, that's absolutely the case. But
it's nice that we get a handful of games on
Friday night. We don't always get great matchups. Sometimes we
get lucky and once in a while we get a
good game, but sometimes we just get Hey, here's the
PAC twelve after dark. Right, it's not something that you
really done. It's great for us. College football needs to
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make Friday night like the NFL does for Thursday. They
need to come out with the schedule in the preseason.
This is our Friday night slate of games. And forget
about having hey, these six seven eight games at six
seven six seven, forget about having these games across. You
need one a list game every Friday night because you
know what people are going to watch already.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
For the whatever games you.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Have out there on Friday night, you get three to
four million viewers, which is that's the big deal.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
You go back last year, right you had Illinois Nebraska
was well over four or four million Illinois Nebraska and
of others that look at a minimum, you're coming at
two million viewers, which based on the ratings for the
first half of the twenty twenty five campaign. When you
look at actual network TV shows, that puts them at
(10:48):
like twenty first.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yet you put you put really big teams on there
on a Friday night and it becomes even bigger. And
that's why where it's at, where it's a slam dunk
for college football because number one, if you have a
package of games, you can sell that, right, you can
sell that now and make more money. Conferences can make
more money. And it's an honor to play on a Friday.
You know ahead of time we're playing Friday night. We're
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the only game Friday night. We're the big game on
Friday night. We are playing here, and it's an SEC,
SCC game or a Big ten game. You get Michigan
playing on a Friday. And the thing is you could
just weave in the bunch of teams. Michigan can play
one Friday. Ohios, Dakend play on a Friday. Penn State
could play on a Friday SEC teams. You get a
good ACC game, you can get a good twelve weeks
of football where you get an a list matchup on
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Friday night and it becomes part of the calendar and
it's something that everybody would watch. The ratings would go
through the roof and everybody would win. For the longest time,
college football didn't want to play on Friday nights because
they said, well, we want to respect the tradition of
Friday night football. Okay, that's just stupid, because if your
team is playing on a Friday Night, you're going to
the game, You're not staying home to watch. And even
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when that's the case, many people aren't going to see
high school football on Friday night. They will stay home
to watch a great college football game. Why don't you
do that? You have to be ruthless, and you know
there's only you are fighting for every second you're on
the year. Every sport is fighting for every second to
stay relevant. You can own Friday night with a football package,
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one big game every Friday Night, stars studded teams, big matchups.
And again, you do it before the season, so teams, no,
you can even say, hey, it's your only Friday game
of the year. Because there's enough teams, enough great teams
for twelve weeks, you can get twelve big games out
of the SEC and the Big Ten and the ACC.
You can get twelve big down I'm not too worried
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about that. And it would be such a boon for
college football. Who now owns two consecutive days on the calendar.
Friday night at prime time. You own that all the
way up until early in the morning. The next day
in college football all day Saturday. How do you not
do that? How do you not do it?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean we've always had it in drabs and drips
along the way, right, smackdowns now gone, that's off to
the USA Network. So that was part of the Fox
Friday lineup for five years and that's moved on. So
now you look at rescheduling and trying to own real estate.
It's like our business and many others. If you have
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the opportunity, in this case the big microphone or in
this case, the potential for a massive viewing audience, what.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Do you do.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You don't give that away, right, You don't let other
people start talking. You don't give away your time. This
is my time, this is your time for college football. Look,
we had a team right down the street for me
for high school football. They had to forfeit their season
because of some improper benefits. There's a lot of people
that are now sitting on their asses in southern California
on a Friday night, don't watch UCLA maybe against New
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Mexico on the Big Ten network. You got Arizona, Kansas State,
Colorado and their new quarterback. We had the Rusty Stob jokes. Yesterday,
they've got Houston, Syracuse, Colgate, Indiana, State, Indiana. Either way,
you've got some big names, some big brands. But then
we get a couple of matchups that you shift into
that spot.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's an opportunity, right.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Because Friday Night is generally not where you have a
heavy dosage of first run programming that you're fighting against
either right, this is not when Full House and Family
Matters and Dinosaurs or whatever the hell that was called
Rule the Rule the Earth right Friday Night, that block
that they once had.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
No, those are gone. Those are gone now.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
It's little bits and pieces and occasionally just reruns of
shows from the day before, the Wednesday or whatever else.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That's what you're competing against. Go and take it and
take their money.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Exit out about a Fresco exit, swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend in my Carmett. It
makes too much sense, think of it, too much sense?
Right again, If you start it now, it becomes a
tradition very soon, very quickly, people can say, Wow, Michigan,
Penn State Friday Night, what's next week? Call Ohio State, Wisconsin,
what's the week after that? Alabama? LSU, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
When it's another window of time, right, That's what we
fight about. And what do we look forward to when
the NFL schedule comes out? How many times our team
are in primetime before we look at win totals. We
want to see that because the more you're on those slots,
the more likely it is they either realize you're going
to be a huge dumpster fire or that there might
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be greatness ahead.
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Speaker 1 (16:31):
From Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Control Room. Hobo
got a big story out of the NFL coming up
in a second. But hey, want to make sure everybody
knows the NBA has decided players, we're gonna take care
of you again.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, what do we got now?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The heaves that go up at the end of quarters,
that that players throw up at the end of quarters,
you know at times supposed.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
To the heaves in the locker room? Has a bad
POI bad boy boy?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Everybody was that from everybody's eating more? A bad poy?
Was that? Out of the naked gun? I think it
might have been a bad boy. I'll tell you a
bad boy.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
The heaves that players throw up that you know don't
go will no longer count against their stats. It will
go as a missed team shot. But the player is
not going to have that honest statuet that here's a
field goal miss when you throw it up from three
quarters away and it doesn't go in.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That's almost like it was influenced either by prop bets
or by someone who feels like they were jobbed out
of a multi million dollar extension because they failed to
reach some threshold so it cost them that third team
All NBA and the Supermax.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And the thing is, this is just stupid.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Okay, this is so stupid because they're doing it because
players are so whiny and complaining about their stats. Now,
like they really think that, hey, I took seven of
these shots over the course of the season, and now
I'm not going to get a contract, right like they
think that's going to happen, right like that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's that is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
If you have any viability that that's such a microscopic. Yeah,
but I do want to say this is that this
was not this is not the real problem when it
comes to players worried about their stats. I don't know
when the last time I saw a game where a
player refused to shoot from three quarters.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't know that I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I really, I don't know that I've seen a play
at the end of a quarter when you inbound the ball,
they don't try to throw it all the way down.
And I don't know that I've seen a player not
You guys eat it once in a while and just
kind of drop the ball and walk over. But for
the most part, they shoot it. They try to find
a way to shoot it. That's not the stat they
want to take care The one you got to take
care of is at the end of games. Guys don't
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want the ball because they get a turnover. Right Like
if it's in the final minute of a game that's
a blowout that you know, one team will dribble out
the shot clock it's a turnover, or they will dribble
out the clock to the end of the game. Whoever
has the basketball at the time it's a turnover, nobody
wants the ball. Sometimes they try to pass it to
somebody or they go in for a shot, and this
is where fights happen. That's the stat they got to fix, right,
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That's The stat you gotta fix is those those violations
at the end where it's turnovers. Right, that's the one
all the way through final minute of the game. Like,
not just if you want to do it for the
last possession, right, but that's the one.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
This one. I'm like, I don't know that players don't
shoot it.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Really, I don't know the last time I can remember
seeing a player go, oh wow, how did you just
hold onto the ball?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Like I can see where if you're inbounding it and
you know there's like two tenths of a second left
on the clock and you inbound it to a player
and he's three feet from from the basket, he's not
going to turn and try to chuck it all the
way down, like I can see that. And that's another
one where you don't want to give anybody a turnover.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
But to your point about the turnover thing, right in theory,
if that's happening, you won the game. So the only
guy or woman that's gonna go after you for that
is someone who's just doing a box score reading.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
He's like, wow, they won the game.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
But you know what, he had six turnovers, all right,
he might have had five, but that's six to one.
They get tagged with, tell me you didn't watch the game,
because you should still caveat it out right. But all
of that to say, if this is the the lengths
to which you've got to try to appease a players union,
there's something else in your fight that they are missing
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that is obvious. Like if they're worried about this little
thing over here, like sure you could have the extra
tartar sauce here, go ahead. What happened now? They took
our dental plan? I mean, I mean that's why we're
looking at here.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
All those things should be team turnovers, right, There should
all be a team turnover teams, but it doesn't go
to a player's individual stand I think of the shot
clock at the end of a game. If I want
to think now that I'm thinking back, I think maybe
that that did turn into a team turnover. But you
want everything to be something where you don't want players
thinking about there. Yeah, you have enough time where players
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are thinking about their stats. Sometimes you got players shoot
at their own hoop because they get a rebound and try.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
To Davis alone. Like, I mean, it's it's just but
it's just keep going.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's just embarrassing that the NBA has gotta do this right,
that that players are so so panicked about their stats. Okay,
well you know you don't have it, and the NBA's
actually got the rule. It's like, if it's a certain
amount of feet from the hoop with a certain amount
of time left in a quarter, it's gonna be a
team field goal attempt.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
To know, you get credit.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
If it goes in, right, But like, really, who's not
getting contracts? Who's who's seeing themselves seen out of the
NBA because of plays like this? You don't think that
the that the the agent when they talk to a
team and they look at a field goal percent say, remember, hey,
twelve of these misshots were because they were at the
end of a quarter. Really, his shooting percentage is another
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twelve points on whatever.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
It's like stopping you got boris David m Yeah, they're
letting that one slip past as like, oh, I forgot
to put that page in that for us to caveat
those kind of circumstances out come on, Hey, any missed
field goal by a player goes to a team miss, Like,
there's no miss. Everybody's gonna be perfect from the floor now, well,
now we're gonna have like a handicap tracker, Like you're
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a golfer if you're a bad free throw shooter. It's
like I can't be expected to hit seventy percent. You
knew what I was coming in. What's my handicap?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Come on, I I can't do this, man, I I
I you know me at the free throw line, I
can't two bounce as I throw. It doesn't mind.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I mean, I really like.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
This is like the fact that this that nobody cares
about their stats and they're more than NBA players do,
and they're so brazen about it. Like that's the thing
is that I get that. Look, dude, do all players
care about their status? Of course, not all they do,
but but like NFL players care about their stats, looking
for the next contract, getting a contract, but like all
(22:55):
that same thing, major League Baseball players care about their stats.
But I don't see one NFL quarterbacks saying, hey, man,
I'm not taking a knee because I don't want to
lose two yards off my rushing total. Like there's now
we see there's nobody running around in the backfields that
are taking a knee and going forward seven yards.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I've just got seven yards. I've added my rushing.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Now now we see plenty of guys who don't throw
the ball because they don't want the negative play. I'm
thinking about a couple of quarterbacks that may or may
not have played in Chicago currently or formerly.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
There's negative plays during a game that you don't want,
and there's no but oh, I don't want this at
the end because now my rushing total goes down.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
But also in game right, all right, I'll take the
sack versus putting the ball up and potentially either getting
an incompletion or or the interception right or throwing you
could have thrown the ball out of bounce. How many
how many quarterbacks that you watch don't do that. They'd
rather take the sack and run around. I'm gonna evade
these four guys. This is gonna be great. Like the
(23:54):
zombies coming after me in The Walking Dead.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I watch this and really it's like, like we're really
that really that big a deal. All the heaves at
the end of quarters don't mean wow.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Like I said, man, if this is the level that
they're concentrating on, there's something in the bigger picture that's
getting lost. This is also a nice talking point for
Adam Silver. We're just gonna keep throwing stuff out there
because maybe we won't have to talk any more about
Kawhi or Brunson or anywhere else that we may have
some level of concern with contracts, the CBA Salary Cap
(24:29):
Avoidance ETCA. Time notw to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports of someone who's been called
the Jalen Brunson of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I didn't take a pay cut.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Then, then it's just Moncey blog. It's just Moncey.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Just mancy here, we take a pay with a legal
pay cut, not planting trees anywhere for extra money. We're
saying she's planting trees. We're saying it. I'm not planting trees.
I'm not doing it. Why is it that NBA players
care so much about their field? Good guys, they just do. Man,
I don't know, just so check care about every so much,
(25:06):
so much so.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I love when the news came out and all the
people brought up.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Videos of players like as time expires right before the half,
where you have an opportunity to take a wild shot
just for funzies, and they just run it out because
we're not gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I don't want to go eight for twenty one. That
eight for twenty was bad enough, right, we want to keep.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
It at eight for twenty one.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Ridiculous baseball was happening literally until about three minutes ago
in Seattle, but the Mariners just walked it off on
a two run home run from Leo Revs in the
thirteenth inning as they beat the Cardinals four to two
in Seattle. Earlier today, the Astros defeated the Blue Jays
three to two. Carlos Career hit his two hundredth career
home run, So right now, Seattle is still one game
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back of the Astros for the AL West, they are
now one and a half games ahead of the Rangers,
they also won earlier today, they beat the Brewers, completing
the sweep, but they have now a one and a
half game lead over the Rangers for that final Wald
card spot in the AL.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Mookie Bets hit a grand slam.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
The Dodgers shut out the Rockies nine to zero to
complete the three games sweep. Phillies crushed the Mets eleven
to three. Reds held on two to one against the Padres.
Diamondbacks top the Giants five to three. San Francisco Cincinnati
two games back of the Mets for the final wildcard
spot in the National League, and the Reds have the
tiebreaker over the Mets. Cubs edge the Braves three to two,
Orioles defeated the Pirates two to one.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
I know we don't care about that, but Paul Skins
we care about.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
He became the third pitcher of this season to reach
more than two hundred strikeouts.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
He's at two hundred and three.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
He pitched five innings today, gave up two hits and
struck out eight, So now.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
He's at two hundred and three.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
When it comes to the NFL, the Cowboys could be
without their cornerback Drawn Bland for a couple of weeks
because of a right foot injury that he suffered in
Monday's practice.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
He did not practice Wednesday.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
This injury is unrelated to the foot issue that limited
him to seven games last season. Forty nine Ers maybe
without their quarterback Brock Party for a couple of games
as well. Head coach Kyle Shanahan says that it's a
long shot for him to play in Week two against
the Saints because of toe and shoulder injuries, and he
could miss multiple games. The Packers gave wide receiver Christian
Watson a one year extension. He's now under contract through
(27:06):
the twenty twenty six season, and Steelers signed free agent
safety Jabrill Peppers.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Back to you, guys, thank.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
You very much, min appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
What a day.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Now this out
of the NFL late late breaking story today because Lamar
Jackson talked about the issue.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
In which he is.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Responsible for pushing a Bills fan following the big one
handed catch by DeAndre Hopkins in the Ravens shocking loss
to the Bills on Sunday night. This is a video
that went viral. DeAndre Hopkins catches a touchdown. He's kind
of walking along the stands in the back of the
end zone and a fan reaches over and hits DeAndre
Hopkins in the helmet. Lamar Jackson doesn't like it, pushes
(27:49):
the fan, who goes back to their seat. Now we
knew the other day the fan was banned from the stadium,
and Lamar Jackson talked about it today and said he
apologizes to the fan, but says next time, quote just
chill out, Just chill next time you can trash talk
and stuff, but don't tell him sell me no lines
and keep your hand hears. I'm sorry, he just said,
(28:11):
but keep your hands.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
My wedding rain.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So he also said that he's not been spoken to
by the NFL for any sort of fine for pushing
the fan. Now, look, this is a case where both
sides were wrong. The guy you can't touch a player,
and he got banned. Great player, you can't touch a fan. Okay,
if I thought he was defending DeAndre Hopkins who was
(28:39):
in trouble, I would say, okay, he's defense. But the
guy it pushes Hopkins in the helmet and he's gone.
He's walking up and Lamar Jackson pushes him, So yeah,
he's wrong.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
There.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
The thing though, the takeaway from this and I wish
I had I wish I had something more positive or
something more I can solve this. But sometimes these are
the converse, and this is where they sit. Stuff like
this is just going to happen again.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Right now. We got lucky.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Usually when something happens, whereas interaction with fans and and
and a team and okay, uh everybody, all right, all right,
we can just blow this off, go on to what's next,
but this is going to happen again, and it may
not end so well for either the player or the
fan because we're in an era where fans feel like
they're part of the game more, and they feel more
emboldened and more brazen to interact with players physically at
(29:29):
a game, whether it is in baseball. When you saw
the fans along the right field wall pulling the ball
out of Mookie Bets's glove last year and basically saying,
we have the right to do that, and they becameros,
which was stupid, which I can't believe that no one
came down to them more and they actually turned out
to me, hey, hey, of course they're standing up for
the Yankees, like, no, you could have hurt Mookie Bets,
so you could have really hurt his hand. We see
(29:51):
it in the NBA, right, We've seen in basketball, we've
seen all kinds of interactions with players and fans that
are getting more emboldened.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
We've seen a number of players that they may they
walk over in point and you've got guys getting injected,
women getting ejected all the time.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And and and.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
To to take it further, is it partly a social
media thing? Because play because fans feel closer to players
than ever before because that wall has kind of been
torn down a bit because I yay if a player
says something on social media, I can quote tweet them.
Maybe they get back at me and say something like
for whatever it is psychologically the line between fan and
(30:27):
player is in a lot of fans minds is not
quite there. But now you have the NFL where fans
are the most passionate, and you have NFL players who
play the game at a very high level of emotion.
And the combination of when you're in the away team
and you want to score a touchdown and walk by
the team's fans right next to their trolling all of them, uh,
(30:52):
you know, maybe not the smartest thing, right, and because
maybe you don't want because you don't want to to
have a fan go all that guy and then a
guy punches you or throw something at you. Right, who
had a water bottle thrown at him a game Like,
there's a certain thing where be smart and don't try
to antagonize an opposing crowd by walking by them. Now
(31:14):
you should be able to. And trash talk is great,
and Lamar Jackson even said, hey, if it's trash talk,
that's great with fans say stuff. We say stuff, that's great,
and I get that, but I no longer trust that
the fans in that spot are gonna stick to trash
talk and it can escalate really really quick. So look,
I wish I had a better answer, but the answer
is really okay, it's just gonna happen again, and it's
(31:35):
gonna keep happening, and just have to hope that it
doesn't get real serious. But what's gonna happen is something's
gonna happen at some point, and then the NFL or
the NBA or Major League base is gonna have to
come out with some sort of statement about if this
happens to an opposing player, the team is gonna lose
something from this game. Either you're gonna get a big
penalty called against you, or you're gonna get technical fouls
(31:57):
go to the other team, or for a baseball team,
if something else is gonna lose a challenge, there's gonna
be some sort of discipline that if a fan is
caught doing this or interacting with the player, interacting with
the game, your team is gonna get penalized. And that's
where we're I can't believe we're not there yet. The
teams haven't been a little more, leagues haven't been more
proactive with saying that. But like, that's gonna wind up
being the next step. I just hope it's not too
(32:18):
expensive a lesson for a league or a player or
a fan to larn Well.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
We've watched how the escalation of fans running on the field,
particularly when it comes to college football, and what the
conferences are now putting up in terms of penalties. In
the SEC, it's five hundred grand to where there's a
time limit, it's like, all right, you got to give
them three minutes to get off the field, and if
the players are still kind of stragglers, then so be it.
(32:43):
But you know, after that three minutes, like all right,
the fine goes out the window. Okay, so you got that.
I have the solution though, and I'm gonna take you
all the way back to one of the greatest movies
ever made, my hometown, Sweet Home Chicago, Chicken Wire. They're
gonna say the breakup, Well, we celebrate all Vince Vaughn,
all my daughters, don't the untouchables.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Well, that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Baseball bat team team, Team, No chicken wire, Blues Brothers,
A man stands, start flying whatever else.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I mean, it's gonna get hitting the chickens.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
They were the good Old Blues Boys Brothers band, shows
me a pack of cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
We're here. We're the Good Old Boys.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
You know a funny story. The guy from the Good
Old Boys and we were the Good Old Boys. He
was a lead singer. He has that cameo in that movie.
He's been a actress for a long time. I remember
he did a few years ago. He did a local
commercial here in Los Angeles for a matt like a
local mattress company. And uh and I'm sure they gave
him like a free mattress to the commercial. It's a
(33:48):
local commercial. He is, Hey, you know me, I've I've
been a bad guy in the movies for a long time.
But I'll tell you, when I work hard, I like
to go here. I get mattresses from here. And I'm like,
it's the guy the Good Old Boys.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
It's the lead singer the Good Old Boys in this commercial. Raw,
We're the good Old Blue Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
It's hard, and then when they sing amazing grace, I'll
take their hats off. Exit up about a Fresca exit
swalling down The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon coming up next with a good old blue
coming up next. We are less than twenty four hours,
about eighteen hours away from the beginning of Week two
in the NFL. We got a great game to kick
(34:27):
it off with with the Commanders and the Packers, who
walks away.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
With the win.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
We got a Bowl prediction for this game.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
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Speaker 4 (01:04):
The at Jason Smith Show is just like you would
add something on your apps. The ampersands not eighteen, like
you at attacking it, you know, I just wanted to
say Ampersand you know, I worry about that sometimes that
I think, like, you know what when I say stuff
like do I sound like I'm the really old guy?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Do I not? Do I feel?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Or do I do I sound like I'm the older
guy that's trying to sound hip? Like I just learned
yesterday what six seven means, like six seven, like the
whole big thing?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Now the kids do six seven?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, I wish it was a height, No, six seven,
it's just yours, this whole big thing, mean, the whole
big thing that has become popular and all my daughter's friends,
you know, it's it's saying six seven and like you
move your hands like you're weighing options on something, and
I'm like, okay, what does that mean? And and being
replaced mid No, Basically it means nothing, like it can
(01:59):
mean various degrees of nothing, like hey, how badly do
you want to go to go to see this movie tonight?
As six seven? Like I don't really care either way,
or hey, hey how'd you do on that test?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Today?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Six seven.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I don't really want to talk about it. I don't
want to man like. It can mean anything from from
I don't know, you know, I don't want to talk
about it too. It doesn't mean anything to it means nothing,
but that's it did. The whole six seven has become
this whole thing. So it's a less profane version of smurf.
Uh okay, sure, sure, okay, yeah, a little bit where.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You just gotta throw that.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I mean, I just remember when we were in my
Spanish classes, if you didn't know what you really wanted
to say, you just keep going twas pas. At one
point we had to do a skit about running a
grocery store. We had all the verbs and everything that
we're doing, uh, and one girl decided she wasn't going
to do any of the work, so she just kept
(02:52):
yelling k ganga.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And what does that mean? What a bargain?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Really? K ganga?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And also she was like different levels of excitement, and
teacher walked over to us because what the hell happened there?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I'm saying that why does she keep saying that sounds
like a w W wrestler, Kay ganga? Well, no, you
have Elande Americano making the way to the ring, k donga.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
You like this bit all right, So you have Chad Gable,
who is an Olympic wrestler, who little guy i'd stocky
but ripped whatever, and he's doing the bit, but he
can't speak Spanish. Well, then he gets hurt and rips
up his shoulders, but they will. The bit's going over
pretty well. So they bring in a guy Ludvig Kaiser
was hanging out with Gunter and he's actually his name
(03:37):
is Marcel Bartheli. He's a Frenchman, but he speaks fluent Spanish.
So now it's he's become a hero because he can
speak fluent Spanish. He shows up to one of their
cards they did a couple of weeks in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
He gets a standing ovation of the crowds losing their mind.
This guy. He's going through the airport in a suit
with the mask on and people are stopping.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
That's great, you're the guy.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, so I got him a big deal. Yeah, just.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Exactly because SmackDown will come into the conversation we're about
to have. You know, Jason, so when we ask you
what what number game the Mets are playing?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Six seven? Yeah? How good? It doesn't matter anymore. How
good to the Mets. Sixth seventh, sixth seven.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
So you know, because I told you how good I
was in Spanish right when I was in high like
I remember, like I went to the United Nations. They
sent me there by schools. I was one of them
to listen because they thought it was going to be
a translator. Like all my Spanish teaps out. Jason's gonna
wind up in a translate. He's going to work in
New York, the United nas I a guy, so.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I so they so they said, they said a few
of us.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
There who did who did really well in each uh,
in each language that they taught. Right, So we go there,
we get to listen in to, you know, stuff that's
being said and hear what someone is translating, and they're.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Like, hey, do you want to listen? Can you can
you listen? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Sure, yeah, sure, okay listening And they're like, so, well,
what'd you think? What a Oh I have no idea
what does this mean? Oh well that's kind of the
that's kind of the conversational way they say this. Oh okay,
I didn't know what this meant either. Oh that's kind
of the conversational way they say this. I go, uh, yeah,
I'm having a little. That's not how you were taught,
because that's not how you're taught in school. You're not
(05:15):
taught the conversation. And I remember going back and I
felt so bad. All my I love my Spanish teacher,
and he said to me, how did you do?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Howd you do?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I go?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I really didn't understand a lot because they they weren't
doing the colloquial Spanish like we do. They were doing
the conversational Spanish, and it was.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Just and he could tell that.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
My look was like Mike, the light went out in
my eyes, like yeah, I mean, I'll be good in
Spanish here. And he was like, okay, okay, but did
you enjoy yourself? Yeah, okay, okay. And I felt so bad,
but I'm like it was again, teach conversational, don't don't
teach that.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And that's just it.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
The guy that we had for first year, which was
the King Ganga scenario, learned a ton of stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And you'd be on the bus and you'd start laughing
because guys are joking back and forth and with each
other whatever, and then they'd get scared because they realized
you understood what.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
They were saying.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Well, then okay, but that wasn't the next three years. Now,
I ended up winning an award like you as the
best non native speaker, and then you don't use it
for a while, so I got pieces. Yeah, it's terrible,
Like I'm trying to get myself back into it. I
used to when when I stan the world, when I
coached soccer. You know, a lot of a lot of
the girls that I coach were Latina, and so there
(06:23):
was one there was one girl that always when she
would play, I could tell when she would get frustrated
in the game. And the best way that I was
able to calm her down and get her back was
you know, people and people yell stuff out because it's
all different. You know, people yell languages all the time,
and and parents yelled at their kids in Spanish, and
usually a lot of the parents yell in Spanish because
they don't want them to know that they don't want me,
the coach, to know that they're coaching them, so they
(06:44):
yell in Spanish and I'm like, okay, all right, I
know what you're saying. Don't don't tell her to move
closer to the ball. Okay, I don't want to move
I don't want to be close to the ball on that.
I want to be far away because there's no offside
and we can make that's where you need the giant
singer fingerwack. So I said, uh so, I would. I
could always tell when she would get frustrated. I would
(07:05):
yell at her, just nonsense stuff in Spanish, and I
would say, I would it was yami, and I go
yami lo mucco, gusto, I go lo ciento muco ke sukabayo.
And then like the parents would laugh and she would
look in a paaril go did you just say you
were sorry about the horse? I said, yeah, yeah, I did,
and that would just get her out of it. Yeah,
and I would. They'd be ready for a big throw
(07:26):
and I would go yami lex i go Aleskrettorio asked
ween not anha. Did you just say the desk was
an orange?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yes, like you know, And I would just said that
would get her to okay, let me, let me get
out of this and get back to play. And that
became a thing. And so there became a time the
game when when one of the parents got to go yeah,
yell me thing and had any nonsense in Spanish. Yet
Oh okay, I will, I'll get something at some point
she I mean she doesn't need it, so six.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Seven Yeah, that's six six seven six seven six seven.
Uh so how about this?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
You know, I was thinking about this today reading There
was one of the big articles on now the weekend's coming,
uh with the NBA season approaching, and that with no
NBA Friday nights on ESPN, ESPN is excited because they
have the ACC that they can put more good games,
put football games on Friday night. Now it's the ACC,
so it's not the SEC or the Big Ten, but
(08:18):
it's still football on Friday.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
But as Adam Silver told us, they're just a highlight league.
Anything different, it doesn't matter, right, the NBA has always
been a highlight league. Well, but he said the quiet
part again, look on socials watch that.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The big the biggest pain in the butt for the
NBA's actually have to play the games right. They don't
want to have to play the games right. We just
want to be able to go so uh. And ESPN
talked about how they're going to be able to put
you know, more games on they can put some games
on Friday night, and they got Belichick on Friday night.
And that's something they're excited about this year because now
they don't have to worry about a beginning of November,
(08:51):
end of October. The NBA comes in right now. Now
here's and this is where this is. This is where
college football needs to do this because this is something
they can dominate a night of the.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Week they need.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
College football needs to own Friday night, like the NFL
owns Thursday night. The NFL put football on Thursday night,
and when they started putting it on Thursday night, it was, well,
there's still a lot of great musty TV on NBC
in different channels, and after a few years of it, it's, well,
what is it? No one wants to put any shows
on because the NFL is on on Thursday night. The
(09:25):
NFL wasn't satisfied with owning Sunday. They knew we can
own Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night. There's only seven
nights in the week. Okay, only seven.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Nights in the week. Only a few nights your world.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
College football owns Saturday, right, that's absolutely the case. But
it's nice that we get a handful of games on
Friday night. We don't always get great matchups. Sometimes we
get lucky and once in a while we get a
good game, but sometimes we just get Hey, here's the
PAC twelve after dark. Right, it's not something that you
really done. It's great for us. College football needs to
(09:59):
make Friday night like the NFL does for Thursday. They
need to come out with the schedule in the preseason.
This is our Friday night slate of games. And forget
about having hey, these six seven eight games at six
seven six seven, forget about having these games across. You
need one a list game every Friday night because you
know what people are going to watch already.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
For the whatever games you.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Have out there on Friday night, you get three to
four million viewers, which is that's the big deal.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
You go back last year, right you had Illinois Nebraska
was well over four or four million Illinois Nebraska and
of others that look at a minimum, you're coming at
two million viewers, which based on the ratings for the
first half of the twenty twenty five campaign. When you
look at actual network TV shows, that puts them at
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like twenty first.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yet you put you put really big teams on there
on a Friday night and it becomes even bigger. And
that's why where it's at, where it's a slam dunk
for college football because number one, if you have a
package of games, you can sell that, right, you can
sell that now and make more money. Conferences can make
more money. And it's an honor to play on a Friday.
You know ahead of time we're playing Friday night. We're
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the only game Friday night. We're the big game on
Friday night. We are playing here, and it's an SEC,
SCC game or a Big ten game. You get Michigan
playing on a Friday. And the thing is you could
just weave in the bunch of teams. Michigan can play
one Friday. Ohios, Dakend play on a Friday. Penn State
could play on a Friday SEC teams. You get a
good ACC game, you can get a good twelve weeks
of football where you get an a list matchup on
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Friday night and it becomes part of the calendar and
it's something that everybody would watch. The ratings would go
through the roof and everybody would win. For the longest time,
college football didn't want to play on Friday nights because
they said, well, we want to respect the tradition of
Friday night football. Okay, that's just stupid, because if your
team is playing on a Friday Night, you're going to
the game, You're not staying home to watch. And even
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when that's the case, many people aren't going to see
high school football on Friday night. They will stay home
to watch a great college football game. Why don't you
do that? You have to be ruthless, and you know
there's only you are fighting for every second you're on
the year. Every sport is fighting for every second to
stay relevant. You can own Friday night with a football package,
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one big game every Friday Night, stars studded teams, big matchups.
And again, you do it before the season, so teams, no,
you can even say, hey, it's your only Friday game
of the year. Because there's enough teams, enough great teams
for twelve weeks, you can get twelve big games out
of the SEC and the Big Ten and the ACC.
You can get twelve big down I'm not too worried
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about that. And it would be such a boon for
college football. Who now owns two consecutive days on the calendar.
Friday night at prime time. You own that all the
way up until early in the morning. The next day
in college football all day Saturday. How do you not
do that? How do you not do it?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean we've always had it in drabs and drips
along the way, right, smackdowns now gone, that's off to
the USA Network. So that was part of the Fox
Friday lineup for five years and that's moved on. So
now you look at rescheduling and trying to own real estate.
It's like our business and many others. If you have
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the opportunity, in this case the big microphone or in
this case, the potential for a massive viewing audience, what.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Do you do.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You don't give that away, right, You don't let other
people start talking. You don't give away your time. This
is my time, this is your time for college football. Look,
we had a team right down the street for me
for high school football. They had to forfeit their season
because of some improper benefits. There's a lot of people
that are now sitting on their asses in southern California
on a Friday night, don't watch UCLA maybe against New
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Mexico on the Big Ten network. You got Arizona, Kansas State,
Colorado and their new quarterback. We had the Rusty Stob jokes. Yesterday,
they've got Houston, Syracuse, Colgate, Indiana, State, Indiana. Either way,
you've got some big names, some big brands. But then
we get a couple of matchups that you shift into
that spot.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's an opportunity, right.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Because Friday Night is generally not where you have a
heavy dosage of first run programming that you're fighting against
either right, this is not when Full House and Family
Matters and Dinosaurs or whatever the hell that was called
Rule the Rule the Earth right Friday Night, that block
that they once had.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
No, those are gone. Those are gone now.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
It's little bits and pieces and occasionally just reruns of
shows from the day before, the Wednesday or whatever else.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
That's what you're competing against. Go and take it and
take their money.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Exit out about a Fresco exit, swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend in my Carmett. It
makes too much sense, think of it, too much sense?
Right again, If you start it now, it becomes a
tradition very soon, very quickly, people can say, Wow, Michigan,
Penn State Friday Night, what's next week? Call Ohio State, Wisconsin,
what's the week after that? Alabama? LSU, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
When it's another window of time, right, That's what we
fight about. And what do we look forward to when
the NFL schedule comes out? How many times our team
are in primetime before we look at win totals. We
want to see that because the more you're on those slots,
the more likely it is they either realize you're going
to be a huge dumpster fire or that there might
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be greatness ahead.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
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Speaker 2 (15:41):
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Speaker 1 (16:31):
From Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Control Room. Hobo
got a big story out of the NFL coming up
in a second. But hey, want to make sure everybody
knows the NBA has decided players, we're gonna take care
of you again.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Yeah, what do we got now?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The heaves that go up at the end of quarters,
that that players throw up at the end of quarters,
you know at times supposed.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
To the heaves in the locker room? Has a bad
POI bad boy boy?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Everybody was that from everybody's eating more? A bad poy?
Was that? Out of the naked gun? I think it
might have been a bad boy. I'll tell you a
bad boy.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
The heaves that players throw up that you know don't
go will no longer count against their stats. It will
go as a missed team shot. But the player is
not going to have that honest statuet that here's a
field goal miss when you throw it up from three
quarters away and it doesn't go in.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
That's almost like it was influenced either by prop bets
or by someone who feels like they were jobbed out
of a multi million dollar extension because they failed to
reach some threshold so it cost them that third team
All NBA and the Supermax.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
And the thing is, this is just stupid.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Okay, this is so stupid because they're doing it because
players are so whiny and complaining about their stats. Now,
like they really think that, hey, I took seven of
these shots over the course of the season, and now
I'm not going to get a contract, right like they
think that's going to happen, right like that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That's that is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
If you have any viability that that's such a microscopic. Yeah,
but I do want to say this is that this
was not this is not the real problem when it
comes to players worried about their stats. I don't know
when the last time I saw a game where a
player refused to shoot from three quarters.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I don't know that I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I really, I don't know that I've seen a play
at the end of a quarter when you inbound the ball,
they don't try to throw it all the way down.
And I don't know that I've seen a player not
You guys eat it once in a while and just
kind of drop the ball and walk over. But for
the most part, they shoot it. They try to find
a way to shoot it. That's not the stat they
want to take care The one you got to take
care of is at the end of games. Guys don't
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want the ball because they get a turnover. Right Like
if it's in the final minute of a game that's
a blowout that you know, one team will dribble out
the shot clock it's a turnover, or they will dribble
out the clock to the end of the game. Whoever
has the basketball at the time it's a turnover, nobody
wants the ball. Sometimes they try to pass it to
somebody or they go in for a shot, and this
is where fights happen. That's the stat they got to fix, right,
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That's The stat you gotta fix is those those violations
at the end where it's turnovers. Right, that's the one
all the way through final minute of the game. Like,
not just if you want to do it for the
last possession, right, but that's the one.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
This one. I'm like, I don't know that players don't
shoot it.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Really, I don't know the last time I can remember
seeing a player go, oh wow, how did you just
hold onto the ball?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Like I can see where if you're inbounding it and
you know there's like two tenths of a second left
on the clock and you inbound it to a player
and he's three feet from from the basket, he's not
going to turn and try to chuck it all the
way down, like I can see that. And that's another
one where you don't want to give anybody a turnover.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
But to your point about the turnover thing, right in theory,
if that's happening, you won the game. So the only
guy or woman that's gonna go after you for that
is someone who's just doing a box score reading.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
He's like, wow, they won the game.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
But you know what, he had six turnovers, all right,
he might have had five, but that's six to one.
They get tagged with, tell me you didn't watch the game,
because you should still caveat it out right. But all
of that to say, if this is the the lengths
to which you've got to try to appease a players union,
there's something else in your fight that they are missing
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that is obvious. Like if they're worried about this little
thing over here, like sure you could have the extra
tartar sauce here, go ahead. What happened now? They took
our dental plan? I mean, I mean that's why we're
looking at here.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
All those things should be team turnovers, right, There should
all be a team turnover teams, but it doesn't go
to a player's individual stand I think of the shot
clock at the end of a game. If I want
to think now that I'm thinking back, I think maybe
that that did turn into a team turnover. But you
want everything to be something where you don't want players
thinking about there. Yeah, you have enough time where players
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are thinking about their stats. Sometimes you got players shoot
at their own hoop because they get a rebound and try.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
To Davis alone. Like, I mean, it's it's just but
it's just keep going.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It's just embarrassing that the NBA has gotta do this right,
that that players are so so panicked about their stats. Okay,
well you know you don't have it, and the NBA's
actually got the rule. It's like, if it's a certain
amount of feet from the hoop with a certain amount
of time left in a quarter, it's gonna be a
team field goal attempt.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
To know, you get credit.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
If it goes in, right, But like, really, who's not
getting contracts? Who's who's seeing themselves seen out of the
NBA because of plays like this? You don't think that
the that the the agent when they talk to a
team and they look at a field goal percent say, remember, hey,
twelve of these misshots were because they were at the
end of a quarter. Really, his shooting percentage is another
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twelve points on whatever.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
It's like stopping you got boris David m Yeah, they're
letting that one slip past as like, oh, I forgot
to put that page in that for us to caveat
those kind of circumstances out come on, Hey, any missed
field goal by a player goes to a team miss, Like,
there's no miss. Everybody's gonna be perfect from the floor now, well,
now we're gonna have like a handicap tracker, Like you're
(22:17):
a golfer if you're a bad free throw shooter. It's
like I can't be expected to hit seventy percent. You
knew what I was coming in. What's my handicap?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Come on, I I can't do this, man, I I
I you know me at the free throw line, I
can't two bounce as I throw. It doesn't mind.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I mean, I really like.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
This is like the fact that this that nobody cares
about their stats and they're more than NBA players do,
and they're so brazen about it. Like that's the thing
is that I get that. Look, dude, do all players
care about their status? Of course, not all they do,
but but like NFL players care about their stats, looking
for the next contract, getting a contract, but like all
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that same thing, major League Baseball players care about their stats.
But I don't see one NFL quarterbacks saying, hey, man,
I'm not taking a knee because I don't want to
lose two yards off my rushing total. Like there's now
we see there's nobody running around in the backfields that
are taking a knee and going forward seven yards.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I've just got seven yards. I've added my rushing.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Now now we see plenty of guys who don't throw
the ball because they don't want the negative play. I'm
thinking about a couple of quarterbacks that may or may
not have played in Chicago currently or formerly.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
There's negative plays during a game that you don't want,
and there's no but oh, I don't want this at
the end because now my rushing total goes down.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
But also in game right, all right, I'll take the
sack versus putting the ball up and potentially either getting
an incompletion or or the interception right or throwing you
could have thrown the ball out of bounce. How many
how many quarterbacks that you watch don't do that. They'd
rather take the sack and run around. I'm gonna evade
these four guys. This is gonna be great. Like the
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zombies coming after me in The Walking Dead.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
I watch this and really it's like, like we're really
that really that big a deal. All the heaves at
the end of quarters don't mean wow.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Like I said, man, if this is the level that
they're concentrating on, there's something in the bigger picture that's
getting lost. This is also a nice talking point for
Adam Silver. We're just gonna keep throwing stuff out there
because maybe we won't have to talk any more about
Kawhi or Brunson or anywhere else that we may have
some level of concern with contracts, the CBA Salary Cap
(24:29):
Avoidance ETCA. Time notw to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports of someone who's been called
the Jalen Brunson of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I didn't take a pay cut.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Then, then it's just Moncey blog. It's just Moncey.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Just mancy here, we take a pay with a legal
pay cut, not planting trees anywhere for extra money. We're
saying she's planting trees. We're saying it. I'm not planting trees.
I'm not doing it. Why is it that NBA players
care so much about their field? Good guys, they just do. Man,
I don't know, just so check care about every so much,
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so much so.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
I love when the news came out and all the
people brought up.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Videos of players like as time expires right before the half,
where you have an opportunity to take a wild shot
just for funzies, and they just run it out because
we're not gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I don't want to go eight for twenty one. That
eight for twenty was bad enough, right, we want to keep.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
It at eight for twenty one.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Ridiculous baseball was happening literally until about three minutes ago
in Seattle, but the Mariners just walked it off on
a two run home run from Leo Revs in the
thirteenth inning as they beat the Cardinals four to two
in Seattle. Earlier today, the Astros defeated the Blue Jays
three to two. Carlos Career hit his two hundredth career
home run, So right now, Seattle is still one game
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back of the Astros for the AL West, they are
now one and a half games ahead of the Rangers,
they also won earlier today, they beat the Brewers, completing
the sweep, but they have now a one and a
half game lead over the Rangers for that final Wald
card spot in the AL.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Mookie Bets hit a grand slam.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
The Dodgers shut out the Rockies nine to zero to
complete the three games sweep. Phillies crushed the Mets eleven
to three. Reds held on two to one against the Padres.
Diamondbacks top the Giants five to three. San Francisco Cincinnati
two games back of the Mets for the final wildcard
spot in the National League, and the Reds have the
tiebreaker over the Mets. Cubs edge the Braves three to two,
Orioles defeated the Pirates two to one.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
I know we don't care about that, but Paul Skins
we care about.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
He became the third pitcher of this season to reach
more than two hundred strikeouts.
Speaker 6 (26:29):
He's at two hundred and three.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
He pitched five innings today, gave up two hits and
struck out eight, So now.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
He's at two hundred and three.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
When it comes to the NFL, the Cowboys could be
without their cornerback Drawn Bland for a couple of weeks
because of a right foot injury that he suffered in
Monday's practice.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
He did not practice Wednesday.
Speaker 7 (26:44):
This injury is unrelated to the foot issue that limited
him to seven games last season. Forty nine Ers maybe
without their quarterback Brock Party for a couple of games
as well. Head coach Kyle Shanahan says that it's a
long shot for him to play in Week two against
the Saints because of toe and shoulder injuries, and he
could miss multiple games. The Packers gave wide receiver Christian
Watson a one year extension. He's now under contract through
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the twenty twenty six season, and Steelers signed free agent
safety Jabrill Peppers.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Back to you, guys, thank.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
You very much, min appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
What a day.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Now this out
of the NFL late late breaking story today because Lamar
Jackson talked about the issue.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
In which he is.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Responsible for pushing a Bills fan following the big one
handed catch by DeAndre Hopkins in the Ravens shocking loss
to the Bills on Sunday night. This is a video
that went viral. DeAndre Hopkins catches a touchdown. He's kind
of walking along the stands in the back of the
end zone and a fan reaches over and hits DeAndre
Hopkins in the helmet. Lamar Jackson doesn't like it, pushes
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the fan, who goes back to their seat. Now we
knew the other day the fan was banned from the stadium,
and Lamar Jackson talked about it today and said he
apologizes to the fan, but says next time, quote just
chill out, Just chill next time you can trash talk
and stuff, but don't tell him sell me no lines
and keep your hand hears. I'm sorry, he just said,
(28:11):
but keep your hands.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
My wedding rain.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So he also said that he's not been spoken to
by the NFL for any sort of fine for pushing
the fan. Now, look, this is a case where both
sides were wrong. The guy you can't touch a player,
and he got banned. Great player, you can't touch a fan. Okay,
if I thought he was defending DeAndre Hopkins who was
(28:39):
in trouble, I would say, okay, he's defense. But the
guy it pushes Hopkins in the helmet and he's gone.
He's walking up and Lamar Jackson pushes him, So yeah,
he's wrong.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
There.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
The thing though, the takeaway from this and I wish
I had I wish I had something more positive or
something more I can solve this. But sometimes these are
the converse, and this is where they sit. Stuff like
this is just going to happen again.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Right now. We got lucky.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Usually when something happens, whereas interaction with fans and and
and a team and okay, uh everybody, all right, all right,
we can just blow this off, go on to what's next,
but this is going to happen again, and it may
not end so well for either the player or the
fan because we're in an era where fans feel like
they're part of the game more, and they feel more
emboldened and more brazen to interact with players physically at
(29:29):
a game, whether it is in baseball. When you saw
the fans along the right field wall pulling the ball
out of Mookie Bets's glove last year and basically saying,
we have the right to do that, and they becameros,
which was stupid, which I can't believe that no one
came down to them more and they actually turned out
to me, hey, hey, of course they're standing up for
the Yankees, like, no, you could have hurt Mookie Bets,
so you could have really hurt his hand. We see
(29:51):
it in the NBA, right, We've seen in basketball, we've
seen all kinds of interactions with players and fans that
are getting more emboldened.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
We've seen a number of players that they may they
walk over in point and you've got guys getting injected,
women getting ejected all the time.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
And and and.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
To to take it further, is it partly a social
media thing? Because play because fans feel closer to players
than ever before because that wall has kind of been
torn down a bit because I yay if a player
says something on social media, I can quote tweet them.
Maybe they get back at me and say something like
for whatever it is psychologically the line between fan and
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player is in a lot of fans minds is not
quite there. But now you have the NFL where fans
are the most passionate, and you have NFL players who
play the game at a very high level of emotion.
And the combination of when you're in the away team
and you want to score a touchdown and walk by
the team's fans right next to their trolling all of them, uh,
(30:52):
you know, maybe not the smartest thing, right, and because
maybe you don't want because you don't want to to
have a fan go all that guy and then a
guy punches you or throw something at you. Right, who
had a water bottle thrown at him a game Like,
there's a certain thing where be smart and don't try
to antagonize an opposing crowd by walking by them. Now
(31:14):
you should be able to. And trash talk is great,
and Lamar Jackson even said, hey, if it's trash talk,
that's great with fans say stuff. We say stuff, that's great,
and I get that, but I no longer trust that
the fans in that spot are gonna stick to trash
talk and it can escalate really really quick. So look,
I wish I had a better answer, but the answer
is really okay, it's just gonna happen again, and it's
(31:35):
gonna keep happening, and just have to hope that it
doesn't get real serious. But what's gonna happen is something's
gonna happen at some point, and then the NFL or
the NBA or Major League base is gonna have to
come out with some sort of statement about if this
happens to an opposing player, the team is gonna lose
something from this game. Either you're gonna get a big
penalty called against you, or you're gonna get technical fouls
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go to the other team, or for a baseball team,
if something else is gonna lose a challenge, there's gonna
be some sort of discipline that if a fan is
caught doing this or interacting with the player, interacting with
the game, your team is gonna get penalized. And that's
where we're I can't believe we're not there yet. The
teams haven't been a little more, leagues haven't been more
proactive with saying that. But like, that's gonna wind up
being the next step. I just hope it's not too
(32:18):
expensive a lesson for a league or a player or
a fan to larn Well.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
We've watched how the escalation of fans running on the field,
particularly when it comes to college football, and what the
conferences are now putting up in terms of penalties. In
the SEC, it's five hundred grand to where there's a
time limit, it's like, all right, you got to give
them three minutes to get off the field, and if
the players are still kind of stragglers, then so be it.
(32:43):
But you know, after that three minutes, like all right,
the fine goes out the window. Okay, so you got that.
I have the solution though, and I'm gonna take you
all the way back to one of the greatest movies
ever made, my hometown, Sweet Home Chicago, Chicken Wire. They're
gonna say the breakup, Well, we celebrate all Vince Vaughn,
all my daughters, don't the untouchables.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Well, that's a good one.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Baseball bat team team, Team, No chicken wire, Blues Brothers,
A man stands, start flying whatever else.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
I mean, it's gonna get hitting the chickens.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
They were the good Old Blues Boys Brothers band, shows
me a pack of cigarettes.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
We're here. We're the Good Old Boys.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
You know a funny story. The guy from the Good
Old Boys and we were the Good Old Boys. He
was a lead singer. He has that cameo in that movie.
He's been a actress for a long time. I remember
he did a few years ago. He did a local
commercial here in Los Angeles for a matt like a
local mattress company. And uh and I'm sure they gave
him like a free mattress to the commercial. It's a
(33:48):
local commercial. He is, Hey, you know me, I've I've
been a bad guy in the movies for a long time.
But I'll tell you, when I work hard, I like
to go here. I get mattresses from here. And I'm like,
it's the guy the Good Old Boys.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
It's the lead singer the Good Old Boys in this commercial. Raw,
We're the good Old Blue Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
It's hard, and then when they sing amazing grace, I'll
take their hats off. Exit up about a Fresca exit
swalling down The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon coming up next with a good old blue
coming up next. We are less than twenty four hours,
about eighteen hours away from the beginning of Week two
in the NFL. We got a great game to kick
(34:27):
it off with with the Commanders and the Packers, who
walks away.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
With the win.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
We got a Bowl prediction for this game.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Absolutely, that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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