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college football, because oh boy, do we have something to
bring up we first talked about a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Maybe the biggest video you're going to see tonight comes
to his courtesy of following Ohio States win over Notre Dame,
where there was a woman whose job it was to
take Ryan Day, Will Howard, some of the other big
stars to and from the postgame press conference and obviously
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she's in the bowels of the stadium. So she's riding around,
you know, the bottom of the stadium, and they're all
in this big, oversized golf car.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
And there's people everywhere, yeah, the people, and there's lots
of folks wandering around.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
She gets, she gets, she gets in the she gets
in the driver's seat. And if you've ever driven a
golf car, you know, okay, you turn, there's two, there's two,
there's there's forward in reverse, and you turn and you
turn the wheel right. That's it. And she gets in
and they're all saying Ryan Days sitting in the front
and the players are kind of sitting in the back.
And she takes it and she drives it right into
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the wall. She doesn't turn enough and it goes right
in the wall and it's bam, and they all just
kind of fly back in this. She hits it a
pretty good clip. Oh and and and they all sit
there for a second and she has trouble kind of
getting it out of getting get back into the river,
and so they all just get out and walk away
the hell with it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
But you know, you hear someone yelling, are you all okay?
He's looking at the wall, as if like a chunk
of the wall's been taken out.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
She doesn't turn the wheel enough and she goes you
know what I don't. What's crazy is there's no reaction
to her at the end, like, Oh, I'm gonna hit
the wall, I gotta turn it more. It's just nope,
we're turning.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
A lamb the wall. It did happen pretty fast. I
don't think she had a lot of time to process.
I have now the national champions, including the coach, on
this cart, and I just ran it into a la.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I'm waiting for the way. It's like when you're waiting
for Bill Murray and Groundhog Day, when he's driving over
the cliff, He's gonna stop right, No, just keeps going
right over the cliff.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Don't drive angry, don't drive half waited for to pop
out and have a lepercat outfit out underneath what she
was waiting.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
How do you how do you drive and not make
that turn? You know the turn radius of a golf cart,
and obviously if you're driving a golf cart, if you're
driving the team, you've driven a golf cart before.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Similarly, me that I was waiting for the abrupt stop
just ahead of the wall.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
And now we're doing a three point turn or something. Nope,
I got it. I got it. The old rule of
you gotta know your car's turn radius. Man, that's someone
who failed their first driver's test.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I to you, Oh, oh okay, bumped the car.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I'm sorry, this is gonna be a fail. So you
want to reschedule sometime in the next three months. They
just say you head back, here's your paper. They don't
say anything else other than we're heading back. Let's let's
go back towards. It's like, really, if I can remember,
because remember I told you I was a horrible driver.
I was the only one in my in my car
and all my all my friends that passed the first time.
Nobody waried me. I mean I was. I mean it
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was really a clutch. I come up clutch with a
lot of things, and I really I had never driven
before as the worst driver in the car, worst drive
of all my friends. And I passed because I because
I parallel parked and right in the first try k turn. Everything.
I'm like, I can't believe I passed. It was awesome,
and I was all I wanted to say to my friends.
Blank you blank you blank, you black. I believe you
probably did. But I think the way it worked with
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I remember some of my friends going when they knew
they failed, they asked, they said, can I still pass?
And basically the driver's instructor just didn't say anything, said
let's finish here, let's do the turn. Here, let's do
the turn, and they knew, they knew they failed. So
I don't think the guy the instructor tells you that
you fail, like, oh, that's a fail unless you didn't.
Because that was the thing in New York was if
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you didn't automatic, if you didn't parallel park on your
first try, it was an automatic fail. I don't know
if that's still the case, if other states do that,
but that's what's a big thing, was parallel park right
on the first try, or it's an automatic.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I don't think that parallel parking is actually done in
every state because in California generally not, no.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
They do they Uh, Zoe and her friends for her
friends who taking the driver's test, already, you said they
had to parallel. Okay, the parallel had to k turn.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I don't know if it's an automatic, but I'm just
saying that not everybody's gotten that part and whether you
have it or not, But what I do what.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
First are the tests that you get? Oh I got
the one without the parallel.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But I did talk to an instructor when I was
waiting for my older daughter to do hers? What was
that a little over two years ago and now or
a little about two years ago, and he goes, oh, yeah,
we the most common fail, the automatic fail, is the
rolling California stop.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I gotta admit I would say
the same thing. What if I could if I see
where I'm I don't want to ruin my brakes, I see.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But that, that's what he said, is where they failed
most of the kids. And they just go right around
the block and they take them back in and they're like,
what did I do? Like because they don't tell them
like you said, they don't tell them, just take it
back into the parking lot.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
It's like, you know what you did?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And it was about about eighty percent of them will
immediately put their head down, gun and stop.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I mean, those aren't illegal, they're just frowning part.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
No, they're more suggest than they are anything else. It's
not you don't have to do it.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Although I'd like to see him taket all the damn
bicyclists that just ride wherever they feel like it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Two or three months ago, I went to the store
for PAM during the day and I'm driving back home,
just driving back listening. Went for your wife, Pam, or
you went for a can of pans. I went for Pam.
Sent me to buy PAM, and I bought Pam. Pam, Pam,
Pam like Pam, you know the Pam nonstick grease stuff
you know by Pam. So send me to the store
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and I come back and I I you know, I
parked car and I come in. I go hey, She
goes hey. She goes, how was getting back? And I
said good, why She goes Joe bas sedop signs. I go, yeah,
what are you talking about? And it shows me a
video One of our friends just happened to be driving
behind me on this straightaway and she started taking video
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and she goes, watch Jason's rolling stock through these three stuffs.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So he said, I'm like, hey, watching me taking the
video eat more illegal than what I did.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And I said, I saw everybody, but there was no
And it was a big residential streets where you know.
It was around where we used to live. And I'm like,
I know the streets. I know the streets. I'm like, okay,
I did rolling start. I gotta work on that. I
gotta work on that. But here's the video of you
just rolling, going, rolling, going, rolling go.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, but they're taking the video, man, Yeah, it's far
more egregious.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yeah, hey, here's the video. It's so what sent you
that text? Tiffany?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Chip job cop tiff I, Tiffany, I'll get video you
next time you're driving, See what happens.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
See if that you like it. It didn't sound creepy at all,
if you like it. She took video of me draw.
I don't take video of her drive as long as
you can driving. I didn't see any no hand signals
on your turn. I didn't see it. You just made
a turn. I didn't see you even hit your turn signal.
You know, pet Peeve number seven California rolling stop. Uh
So with that going on, and it looks like everybody
in Ohio state is okay after the big golf cart
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hitting the wall, uh something? Now for the fire Ryan
Day crowd, blank you blank you blank you blank all
of you because we told you after the Michigan game,
You're not getting a better head coach. For everybody who
wanted Ryan Day out, and a huge, huge portion of
the fan base wanted about he can't beat Michigan, he
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can't win, he can't win, he can't win this game.
We got, we got to win. Ryan Day's record is impeccable. Yes,
has he not beaten Michigan. Yeah, but you know what,
it goes in cycles, and you're not gonna beat Michigan
seventeen out of eighteen like it did with Tressel and
urban Meyer. It's just not gonna happen. Eventually, it's gonna
change a bit. And everybody wanted to fire Ryan Day.
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What do we say at the time. Okay, tell me
who are you gonna replace Ryan Day with that's going
to a win all those games that he needs to
win and is good enough to beat Michigan and win
a national championship. Tell me who that guy is gonna
take the job. Tell me, tell me who that guy is,
and I'll say, you're right, fire Ryan Day. But tell
me who that guy's gonna take you from an eleven
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to one team and to oh, I'll get you to
thirteen and oh, because I'll beat Michigan, and I'll win
the playoffs and I'll win the national title. Who's that guy?
We told you that guy does not exist. The guy
does not.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It's that old rule of thumb, right with any coaching
job as much as we can. And a promo has
me firing everybody, Yeah, which I generally don't do.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
But we could talk it now with you. I think
the audio evidence is there. I think you can't say
it's not.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Me over over eleven years, though I'm saying that is
no isolated incident. The promo says, I mean I could.
I could call for guys to be fired every night.
I mean though, but but I generally don't, but I could.
Is is just that it's like, if.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
You're gonna want of dan Quinn fired going into last
week's game, I did not. It's not true. It's categorically untrue.
You knows this, growing Pinocchio. I picked them to win
the game, unlike you. But you still want a dan Quinn.
You said, I like Washington to pull the upset, but then.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
He should get the needles. Yeah, no, that's exactly what
I said.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Right after the game. They win the game, fire by
right there.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But the the idea of being what what else are
you gonna go find in the marketplace?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
It's why every time we have the Pittsburgh Steelers conversation,
and my friends in Baltimore this week are having a
little bit of that conversation John Harbaugh and another early exit.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
It's the okay, but what's on the other side of that?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Right, You've got stability, continuity of program that you've built.
But what's on the other side, like, unless there's an
egregious violation of rules, be it ncublea whatever that is
at this point, or you know, society and laws at
large that you need to get rid of someone Like
if they're winning eight, nine, ten games a year, it's
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awful hard to make the argument that someone's gonna come
along and do something better.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
We did this for the Jim Harbaugh years where people
were trying to run him out of town. It's like, no, no, no,
remember what you were, right, There's a lot of years
between Schim Beckler and Lloyd Carr and Lloyd Carr to
present day Michigan. A lot of lean years, a couple
of nice runs, don't get me wrong, but there were
a lot of years where you weren't also ran in
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the Big ten and then go play Ohio State. But
it's the idea that you're gonna go find someone better
than him at building a program because it's not microwavable.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, not always.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
One year and you're gonna go, And nobody's got the
patience anymore after two or three years, like, ah, this
guy's gotta go. It's like he's barely getting his own
players in there at this point. Now it's a little
easier now when we talk about the transfer portal and
nil and committing you a pot of money from whatever
the source is and however you term it, that you
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can convince guys to come on over to your party.
But it's still trying to get that to coalesce in
a very short amount of time. It's not gonna happen
overnight for Ryan day. You've built a program, you've built
a system, and you've got what are the equivalent of
the old analogy I used was the shark teeth, right,
the old joke of hey, you take a bite, couple
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fall up. I guess what that next row is growing
and it's ready to dive right in. They're gonna lose
some plays off the squad. Yet, what are they the
odds on favorite to come back and be in the
same spot a year from now.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
He's he's lost ten games in seven years. He's lost
ten now, granted, yes, the last three year to Michigan,
and that sucks, right, I understand that, But he's won
the national time. Now, not only that he lost to
Michigan and went on and won the national championship. He's
lost seven who's going to come in and better that.
Who's gonna lose less than ten games in the next
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seven years? Now? There are great coaches out there, but
it's who's coming to Ohio State? No one, No one's
gonna there's that doesn't person doesn't exist. That person doesn't
there's nobody in that. You can't create somebody out of
AI to be that person. Yes, you can't do it.
What do you got?
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Real question is, but what's more important to Ohio State
fans winning a national championship or beating Michigan.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, I'll tell you a third of the fan base.
If you ask the Michigan they're honest answer tonight, you're
still winning this game. They're gonna say, yeah, we won, Yeah,
but we lost a mission. So Okay, I'll give Ryan
da Mulligan for this year. I'll give it now. Now,
two thirds of the crowd, now, probably sixty seventy percent
of Ohio State fans are going to be exciting. One
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the title, great, blank you Michigan. You won it last year,
we won it this year. But I'm not telling you
thirty thirty forty percent of the fan base is gonna go, yeah,
but we lost to Michigan. Like, it's not complete unless
we lose him, unless we beat Michigan too. Which I
get it. I understand, I understand. I've lived the rivalry
for the last thirty some odd years. But every year
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I would rather lose to the rival and win the
national title than beat the rival and not win the
national title. It's it's it's too old school a way
of thinking. But I guarantee you there's a and and
you'll see tomorrow in Columbus Columbus radio. It will trend
and you'll see all the Hey, look at all these
people that are unhappy that Ohios date won. Still get
rid of Ryan Day, Still get rid of him because
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he couldn't beat Michigan.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Still one in four against Michigan. Man, you know, it's
people get salty. Once he lost six six Big ten games. Yeah,
and he's again four of them in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
His losses by year zero one, one, two, two to
two national champions.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
For a second there, I thought you were writing code.
Now I was going to ask you what you were programming?
Zero zero two one zero zero one one.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Uh it really it doesn't make sense. But we told you,
We told you it happened. Ryan Days a great coach.
If you fire him, he will go someplace else and
win right away. He's got it. He's got it. I
do like that.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
The stars are already firing back on Twitter. There was
a Notre Dame beat Ohio State Twitter. It's like, ah,
he's coming into the no fly zone. Jeremiah Smith responds
with a bunch of crying, laughing emojis and the thumbs down.
So they've already hit their socials to respond to the
quote unquote haters.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's so sad. Exit. How about a fresc ax swan
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
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got more on the college football National Championship coming up
in a few minutes. Final thoughts on Ohio State, the
biggest play of the game, the most head scratching play
of the game. Wow, coaches who need my class every year?
(17:03):
My weekend here twenty five thousand dollars a coach. I
teach you all about when to go for touchdowns, when
to kick field goals, end of game clock maintenance, Like
we cover all of it, just twenty five grand. It's
gone up. It was ten a coach a couple of
years ago, but now it's been so in demand it's
not twenty five.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Well, it's an epidemic, and you're doing the opposite of
most infomercials. Yeah, most start high. Yeah, and then if
you're still there, I haven't gotten you yet.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It's kind of like leaving a concert.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It's forty five dollars T shirt inside, but as you're leaving,
band might still be selling it, but now it's ten
or fifteen bucks. Once you get past the people selling
the sausage and pepper sandwiches and the bacon rappites, I
still have a problem.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, why smells so good when you walk out?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Though I don't have a sense of smell, dude, just
more than you can kind of sell and do whatever
you want. I don't know that anybody's permitted or as
food handlers.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Or anything, but there they are.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
You don't even need a nose to smell that stuff, dude.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I went to them the last Red Sox game I
went to, and I lived in in Connecticut. I went
to a Red Sox game in nineteen ninety five, and
I still remember the sausage and pepper sandwich. I got
outside of like, this is one of the greatest things
I've ever had. Was your stomach still hurt? Oh dude,
I still think about that. There's certain sandwiches I've had
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at certain points in my life that I still think.
I remember having a people bell can't pull your fingers.
I had a corn beef sandwich once late night after
I was out drinking in college, and it was like
the night before all my roommates got back from break
and I was the only one there, and I took
this corn beef sandwich back to the dorm with me,
and I am like, oh my god, I'm not even
a big corn beef sandwich fan. This is the best
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sandwich I've ever had in my life. Like I remember
certain sandwiches like my Hall of Fame of sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I remember, you got to write a mini book. There's
a new he book from Smith. Greatest Sands, Greatest sandwiches
I ever had? Those were the top funny kind of
to take off of a Food Network show.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
But that's okay, that corn beef sandwich. This is a
nineteen ninety one and the sausage and pepper sandwich outside
Fenway Park in nineteen ninety five, and the.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Tuna sandwich from the subway, right, you know, I'm trying
to that where with that sandwich, Pee's.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
So metal standard sandwiches sandwich I've ever eaten. So Lamar
Jackson is the topic of conversation coming off this weekend
in the NFL, because look, we told you on Friday,
no matter what happened on Sunday, the loser of this
game was going to see the narrative of he stinks,
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he's overrated, he can't do it. So Josh Allen or
Lamar Jackson was going to get that and get that venom.
And now Lamar Jackson is the last day or so
oh through to two turnovers in the first quarter. Always
over rate, doesn't do what he can't do it in
big games. All of this stuff. But to give you
something a little bit different and to really understand why
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Lamar Jackson has not gotten the super Bowl, it's not
always it's it's actually when you understand what it takes
to win, you get why he hasn't been there. And
the reason Lamar Jackson hasn't been there is because he's
never been on the best team in the AFC. And
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that's how you get there. Because if you want to
look back, just since the Brady era began, right in
the early two thousand and two thousand and one, you
had the Patriots and nine Super Bowls. They were the
best team in the AFC every year. Doesn't mean they
always got to the Super Bowl, but they were the
best team and they got there a little more than
once every two and a half years. I got to
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Super Bowl, Brady leaves and goes to Tampa Bay, and
what happens. Then the Chiefs become the best team in
the AFC and their dynasty four Super Bowls has gone
on since Lamar Jackson came into the league right in
twenty eighteen. Only one time has the best team in
the AFC not gotten the Super Bowl. And that's when
the Bengals upset the Chiefs a couple of years ago
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at Burrowhead. Uh you know, McPherson kicks the big field goal.
Oh my goodness. But the Patriots were the best team
in the NFL when Lamar Jackson was a rookie, right,
they got they got to the Super Bowl and net
last couple of times and they won, and then Brady
goes off to Tampa Bay. At that point, the Chiefs
became the best team in the AFC, and what happens now?
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Super Bowl, Super Bowl lost win two in a row,
and now they're going for a three peat and they're
the ones left hosting the Buffalo Bills. Great quarterbacks, you
have to play on a great team or your chances
of getting to the Super Bowl are greatly diminished. This
doesn't mean Lamar Jackson's never getting to the super Bowl.
But you're talking about two teams that what twelve or
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of the last thirteen Super Bowls it's been the Patriots
or the Chiefs that have represented the AFC. It's just possible, right, Well,
but I mean the Ravens had one year. I mean
it's a blip year, one hundred points more than anybody
had one year. They went fourteen into right, but in
no year were they able to say, hey, we're going
to beat these So if there's less if there's only
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a couple of times when the door is gonna be
open because the best team isn't getting there, I mean,
it's just math, right, It's just wow. But it's incredibly
difficult because when you got to knock them off, right,
But here's the thing, Lamar Jackson, even when he has
a plus games in the playoffs, they don't win because
they're not the best team. But when Patrick Mahomes has
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an off game, when Tom Brady had an off game
in the playoffs, guess what, they still won because their
defense was really good or in supplementary play on offense
is good. They ran the football. Well, that's why when
you win, you can't just be a great quarterback. You
have to be on the best team because that's how
you get there. Doesn't mean every year, but it's just
once in a while where that Indianapolis team will sneak through,
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right one one year, where the Baltimore's is one year.
So when when you're looking at a super Bowl period
of ten to twelve years and you're saying, hey, you
know what, two times you're gonna have a chance to
get to the super Bowl because because the best team
is going to get knocked off and not going to
get there. Right, the team that's fourteen and two in
the regular season's going to lose early in the playoffs,
like the Lions this year. Right, the Lions are the
best team in the NFL this year, they lose this
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past weekend. Hey, it's one of those years. So when
you understand that about Lamar Jackson, You get why he
hasn't been able to get to a super Bowl because,
like I said, even games where he's playing great, he
doesn't get there. And even a game like yesterday which
was not his best, but he still did enough. Hey, okay,
a ninety yard drive touchdown in the final minute and
a half through the two point conversion. Mark Andrews dropped it,
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but I mean should have been caught at that point.
Maybe you're going to overtime Lamar jacks due he's supposed
to in a hostile environment's a tie game in the
final two minutes of the game. But understand that the
best team in the conference usually gets there. More often
than not, they get there. There's no upsets all the
way through. And look at this. Look at this team
that squeaks in as a wildcard, Like it's been a
long time since the Giants did that whole nine and seven,
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win our last four games and get to the super Bowl.
That again, it's so rare. So it's not that every
year Lamar Jackson has a chance to get the super Bowl.
It's hey, how many years is he going to be
on the best team in the AFC? And yeah, you
want to go back from your fourteen to two and
you have home field advantage. Yeah, that's a missed opportunity,
But it's not a missed opportunity every year because woo's
he losing to He's losing the better teams. I thought
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Lamar was going to be the guy when I picked
the game this week, I said, listen, he's fantastic. This
is his year. He's going to beat the Buffalo Bills.
But what do we see? The Bills were better, The
Bills defense was better. They're able to force turnovers, they're
able to make big plays, able to run the football
more effectively than we thought. They won that game. So
how many chances is Lamar Jackson really going to get where? Hey,
this door is open for you to go to the
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super Bowl? Right, Not many missed opportunities. It's more, Hey,
can you overachieve for three games and carry your team
there by yourself? And that's a hard thing to do.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Well.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
This is where we get into the discussions of your
division and the schedule that you play and go on,
you know, and how big a difference it is, Mike,
we're talking about with college football right where we're parsing
between you know, here's one one loss differential. What was
your schedule that much harder than the others, you know,
mutual opponents and all of those kind of things. Because
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the Ravens hosted the AFC title game last year and
put up ten points. Right, so you've had two opportunities.
You eventually lost to the Chiefs and they're all rolling through.
Which are your point's well taken? You're you're winning double
digit games each.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And every year.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
And this is why I broached the Harbaugh conversation. Something
I was talking with my guy out of Baltimore, what
are the big topics coming out of this? In Baltimore,
there's a bit of a reluctance to say, hey, Lamar's
our guy.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
As much as they love the.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Week to week thrill ride of MVP conversations, that when
the calendar turns that things could eventually go bad for
John Harbaugh. That Super Bowl is long in the rear
view mirror at this point, much like Mike Tomlin all
those years ago. So you know, wondering if that's gonna
do it. Obviously, the Mark Andrews drop what could have
should have been?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
And what might not have?
Speaker 3 (26:00):
You know, you still could could have lost the game,
but the point is you would have been tied and
battled back after an early Lamar Jackson Gaff helped to
build that big lead for.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This Lamar Jack. But you're not. But it's hard enough
to overcome when you're not the best team when you
play great. You certainly aren't doing it when you have
a B or B plus game.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Well but as we look at it, right, you're missing
Zay Flowers. Fine, but you're still a twelve win team.
And all I've heard all year was, you know, the
Chiefs aren't nearly as good as the record?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Right? Has that not been the narrative the entire year?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Though?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Doubt them all the way to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But it's just like last year, before the air, I
was like, all right, it's chalk, but people are jumping
off from the narrative.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
So I picked the Chiefs and away they went. This year,
I said, all right, this is the Bills.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Potential option and then obviously attrition on this squad whatever,
But Josh Allen superman. They get their defense healthy enough
for this one and they take down the Ravens to
set up the date that we get this week. But
it's you know, I was told all year this Chiefs
team isn't any good. I think all they do is win.
So does that constitute best team or do we still
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look at you know, Derreck Henry and Lamar Jackson should
have been able to get over kind of thing against Buffalo.
So yeah, it's tough, but that it's top heavy, right,
It's it's top heavy and everything's got to go right.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
It's the magic formula. There's no guarantee you're getting back.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Look, and so when you have an opportunity like they
did at home last year and you score ten points,
that's gonna stick around a lot, right.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I'm not saying that it is bereft of there's no blame,
but it's not that every year it's Lamar Jacksons fall,
I'm sure because now this is Hey, if the Chiefs
win this weekend and they'll look they'll be favored to win,
it's another year where and it's one year in Lamar
Jackson's career where again the Chiefs were the Patriots weren't
the best team, the Chiefs dynasty ended and the Patriots
the Patriots dynasty ended, and the Chiefs dynasty began. So
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it's rich the same thing for the NFC. Right, really,
it's really hard to do that. But just the last
twenty years, the two most dominant teams in the NFL
have both been in the AFC.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Well, what's funny though, is like we go through and
we look at the Brady era and it's always trying
to figure out, how do you properly rate the career
that Peyton Manning had the Colts part of it. Denver's
a whole other animal as to how that came together
because they won a lot of games every year, and
that would be out of the playoffs, either losing to
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Brady head to head or in other spots sitting down
and doing the Queen's Wave and in the final week
of the season then coming out and getting beat. But
it was always all right, well during the regular season,
I know what I'm gonna get. And that's where we're
at with Lamar Jackson. So we're starting to see some
of those comparisons of well, Peyton didn't break through till
year X, and here's the comparisons all the way through,
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and maybe that's where we end.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Up going with this.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Drew Brees on the other side going to the NFC,
then he popped up on occasion, your.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Clock ticks a little bitter. When you're a dual thread quarterback,
you don't always have that. I mean, eventually, certain skills
that quarterbacks shop are going to be good till they're
thirty five, and certain are going to evaporate. Now, Lamar
Jackson doesn't take a ton of hits, but he runs
the ball a lot. How long when it happens when
you hit the walls as a dual threat quarterback, you
hit it fast. How many more years does he have?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yester?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
All right? I mean maybe maybe he's got three more years.
Maybe you can say, but that's but that's still I mean,
he's still a Hall of Famer. He's still in one
of the five great quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's the question of also as he adapts, because we
saw it right, it's the elusiveness and finding the mint.
Can he still do that even if he's not running
the ball ten times a game? Because you saw with Bateman,
you saw with some of those throws still creating good
throwing lanes and still has a cannon for an arm.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
So is the evolution still upon him? Exit out about
a Fresca exit swollen dome The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Carmon live from the tirec dot Com studios. Tom
how to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from a guy who's been called the Lamar
Jacks Fox Sports Radio. Oh wow. Generally he's really good.
But when it matters you questioned your question, huts, what
is he really doing?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
It's Steve de said, he left us just when we
needed a most. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Pass was there? That's all I've got to say. Okay,
it was a little careful, maybe a little bit high.
It was there. Meanwhile, no, they're not playing you filled
out without catching it. I didn't.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
It's Buffalo at Kansas City and the AFC Championship Game
this Sunday. And remember the Bills beat him in Buffalo
in November. In fact, Bill's at home were undefeated this year,
ten and zero. As for the NFC Championship game, it's
on Fox TV Sunday, three pm Eastern Time, Washington at Philadelphia.
They split their two regular season meetings. No snow in
the forecast this weekend. In Philly, Eagles defensive back Quinnon
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Mitchell left against the Rams yesterday with a shoulder injury.
Washington guard Sam Cosmy suffered a torn acl Saturday night.
The Chicago Bears new head coach is Ben Johnson, who
is Detroit's offensive coordinator in the past three years. The
Colts new defensive coordinator is lou Anarumo x of the Bengals.
Tennessee's new special teams coordinator is John Fossil from Dallas.
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The Jets will have a second interview tomorrow with Aaron
Glenn for their head coach opening Jacksonville will reportedly have
a second interview with Robert Sala on Friday. And as
we've been talking about tonight, Ohio State is your national
champion in college football after beating Notre Dame thirty four
to twenty three. Remember what a great opening drive touchdown
that was from the Irish eighteen play drive nine minutes
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forty five seconds. Quarterback Riley Leonard on third and fourth
downs ran for four first downs to keep that opening
drive going. But Ohio State's first drive was about six
minutes and a TD and the second drive about six
minutes and another TD. Eventually, the Buckeye scored on their
first five drives, led thirty one to seven. In the
third quarter, thirty four to twenty three Buckeyes. The final
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quinch on Judkins with three total touchdowns. As for the
NBA News, the late game in LA went to the
Chicago Bulls, ending a five game losing streak, beating the
Clippers one twelve ninety nine, thirty five points for Zach
Lavine at New Orleans, a comeback win for the Pelicans
in overtime over Utah. The Pels were down eighty to
fifty seven early third quarter. C J McCollum forty five
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points as Zion Williamson was out due to illness. Boston
dominated at Golden State one twenty five to eighty five.
It was Golden State's most lopsided home loss since nineteen
eighty five. Draymond Green is out at least a week,
by the way, with a string calf at Cleveland. Thirty
three points for Donovan Mitchell in a win over Phoenix.
New York got thirty four from Jalen Brunson and beat Atlanta.
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Victories for Memphis and Detroit and Charlotte beat Dallas today
one ten, one oh five despite Kyrie Irvings thirty three points.
In college hoops, Georgetown won at Villanova on a last
second layup sixty four to sixty three. The Hoyas had
trailed by eight with about two and a half minutes left.
Penn State beat Rutgers eighty to seventy two. Rutgers freshman
Ace Bailey did have thirty points on thirteen of fifteen
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shooting from the floor. Auburn is now unanimous as the
number one team in men's couchoops in the New Apeopole.
Michigan State is up to number eight. In women's basketball
holiday doubleheader in New Jersey, Number one UCLA beat number
twenty five Baylor seventy five to fifty seven is Baylor
shot nineteen of sixty nine from the floor, and number
seven Texas beat up number eight Maryland eighty nine fifty
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one Maryland with twenty seven turnovers. The late NHL game
to Pittsburgh winning five to one at La Carolina with
an overtime win at Chicago for to three. The Blue
Jays are signing outfielder Anthony Santander and number three seed
Cocoa golf lost her quarterfinal at the Australian Open. And
by the way, guys, it's tomorrow that we find out
the new class for the baseball Hall of Fame. Echiro
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Suzuki seems a lock. C. C. Sabbathia. Maybe we'll see
if controversially Carlos Beltron.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Will be a Hall of Famer at this time tomorrow.
Back to you, Thank you, Steve a a Hall of
Fame cheater. The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend
beating a trash can Mike Harmon coming up next, our
final big thought from the National Championship game, including an
absolutely indefensible decision that helped cost Notre Dame the National
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Championship against Ohio State. What was it? We'll tell you
next Jason.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike
Carmon Livethetireck dot Com Studios. Congratulations to Ohio State, they
are your national champions holding off Notre Dame thirty four
to twenty three. Give you three big takeaways from this game.
But first, the first takeaway is really the toughest, because boy,
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did Marcus Freeman really blow it for the Notre Dame
chances to come back in the fourth quarter of this game. Look,
Ohio State was one knee away, was ten inch away
from salting the game away. In the fourth quarter, you
saw the big catch that was gonna put the ball
at the twenty yard line of Notre Dame when they
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were already up by two touchdowns and two turns point version.
But it's a fumble. Notre Dame picks it up and
they get back in the game. Notre Dame has the
ball and they're down thirty one to fifteen. It is
a sixteen point game with nine minutes left to go.
They're faced with a fourth and goal on the Ohio
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State nine yard line and Marcus Freeman sends out the
field goal unit to kick a field goal. The ball
diks off the upright so it's no good. But it
made absolutely no sense to kick that field goal. It's
a sixteen point game, there's nine minutes to go. You
are two scores back and to two point conversions, so
kicking a field goal is still going to make it
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a two touchdown game. You still need two touchdowns. Now,
do you need the two point conversions? No, But what
you're telling me is you're okay kicking a field goal
and still in the final nine minutes, kicking it to them,
stopping them getting a touchdown, stopping them getting another touchdown. Yeah,
you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
That in the last nine Failing here at the end
of a twelve play drive, right, twelve plays seventy yards
ends with a doink over five minutes to elapse off
the clock. You're telling me, after failing there that the
next two possessions that you have, yeah, you're gonna score
touchdown and you're gonna say they're gonna stop them and
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they're not gonna run enough clock off to gut you
the ensuing. Now they did force a punt, right, they did.
Now they missed a field goal. Ohio State gets the
ball back. Guess what them, But you're still down to
five plays nineteen yards. They took three minutes off the clock.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
I mean, you still need two more squares. This is
like when I sit there in the fourth quarter of
the Jets game and go, boy, great, great job. All
we need that is a touchdown on sidekick, touchdown on
sidekick touchdown and we're back in this game. Yeah, Like
that's so. I mean, you're able to get the kind
to happen. You think we're gonna we're going to kick
a field goal, stop them score a touchdown, stop them
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score a touchdown. That's not gonna happen. Now, he did
try to explain his philosophy behind kicking the field goal
there and here he was a little bit while ago.
This off college football on Fox. This is Marcus Treeman
explaining the decision to kick that field goal at that
point because I'm an idiot. Then when everybody calmed down, boy,
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you're admitting that this was what Marcus Freeman said in
a little more detail.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I just thought, you know, instead of being down sixteen,
let's try to go down thirteen. And I know it's
still a two score game, but you have better better
probability of getting fourteen points, and you do sixteen points.
And so if it was a shorter fourth and goal situation,
I probably would have gone for it. But I just
felt fourth and nine was not a great chance for
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us to make that, and you know, and decided to
kick it and we didn't make it.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
What a word salad? You know, Yeah, going down thirteen
is better than going down sixteen, of course it is.
Of course it is. Having a million dollars is better
than having five hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah, but that's telling me you went down the decision
tree and you had the choice of all right, I
can go the positive. We make the first down, we
get into the end zone, and now we're in a
one possession game and we're scrambling to call the two
point conversion try versus Well, we're not gonna get it,
so we're still down sixteen, so I might as well
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try the field goal.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I don't get that whole philosophy from him. Yes, it's fourth,
it's not fourth and twenty five. It's fourth and nine.
You can dial something up and worse comes to worse. Okay,
we leave at the nine yard line, right, maybe closer
whatever to but that costs them because then when they
cut it to one, they could never cut it further. Ahouse,
they'd held onto the football. They got a big first down,
and boy, wouldn't you like to have that back again?
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I guarantee if you got to bid them with truth
serum or some kind of sodium pentath fall, whatever it is,
he would say, Yeah, I wish I could do that again.
I'd go for it on fourth and nine. Of course
he would, because that's what you needed to do. That
was the guys that are up in the booth for him,
I don't know, but but I tell you.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
We know we got a lot of those people up
there now that are doing their down distance and game analytics.
That was Lou Holtz. It was Louholtz was doing from
his calendar. Wow, he was in the stadium. Yeah, I
think football karma got him. Oh you're gonna kick a
field goal.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
That's a stupid decision and miss and the football got
just put a little bit of pixie dust on it
and said.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Miss aw he kicked it off the upright. Yeah, so
he twenty seven yard field goal. Jeter, he caught in
the playoffs. In the playoffs, I'll tell you he's not
He's He's not Master October anymore.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
That gen he's not good. Final. Now, look, Ohio State
wins this game, and in a weird way, Notre Dame
scoring on that first possession was great for them. They
held the ball for ten minutes, they got in the
end zone, and Ohio State we didn't have to worry
about the risk of them feeling their way into the
game and getting a little you know, and puckering a
little bit. When when they puckered late, right, I've seen
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Ohio State do that in games where they pucker and
stuff and don't get aggressive. And what Notre Dame did
by by getting that touch that that took that off
the table. Well, now we got to be aggressive.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
What say, everybody's got a plan until you get punched
in the face. They've held the ball for ten minutes
and now we're now we're down seven. We got to
get out there and get these scores. And their offense
was terrific all the way you'll have time. So that helped.
That help them, I think in a weird way. But
in the end, yes, Notre Dame could have done a
couple of things, but in the end, Ohio State was
just the better team. We talked about that's why they're
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more talented. They were the better team. Was a great
run by Notre Dame to make it this far, but
ohisk there's a reason why we say it's one hundred
million dollars roster. They're just they're they're line up there
better than everybody else's and they won. It's the way
the game should have ended, and it's the way the
game did it.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Ryan dam had it interesting, but it ended the way.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
It should have certainly made it interesting. Thirty four to
twenty three year final. They covered the number and send
everybody home happy, and then they stormed the shoe.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
The students got in, they got inside the shoe. Yeah yeah.
Did they try to plant the flag in the middle
of the field too soon? Too soon? Too soon?
Speaker 3 (41:08):
That would be their own flag at least, I don't
think Sawyer wants to stop that.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Coming up next, my buddy Ben Mallory. This is Fox
Sports Radio.