November 8, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike previewed some of the weekend’s big games including 49ers-Rams. And Jason explains that if Falcons lose big to the Colts, it might be Raheem Morris' last game as head coach.
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Greenings.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Welcome inside final hour tonight, The Jason Smith Show with
my bass friend Mike Hart. Six seven seven that kind
of night positivity Friday mid extra cockfight. That's two six
seven six seven six seven on a big football Friday
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headed into Week ten of the National Football League. Also
look NBA Cup Night tonight. Yeah it is. If your
team lost tonight, clearly you do not have what it
takes to really cut through this year and have a
great season. I am rethinking everything I knew about the
Chicago Bulls tonight. I thought they were really good, but
now clearly they are not because they just face planted
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on NBA Cup Night. Mike Harmon, I'm embarrassed for you.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Very disappointing effort in that fourth quarter against the Milwaukee Bucks.
On a floor that made no sense. The color really
didn't match up with anything, as opposed to some of
those neon jobbers where it's like I think their X raying.
It's like we were talking about the betting scandal in
the NBA where they had those X ray tables. There
are a couple of times guys were falling on the
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on the ground. I'm like, I don't think that's a
good look. Where it looks like the guy's being X
rayed and his face is now glowing green. That's not good.
So yeah, some doubious decisions in terms of that. Some
of the neon greens and fluorescent highlighter yellow colors for quarts.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Hurt my eyes, man, hurt my eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I was looking to, you know, get bear of those
glasses they give you when you go into a three
D movie to maybe help with the aesthetics.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hey, can I get one of those courts make it
look like I'm going inside an MRI machine. That's what
I want to here. Drink this.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
It makes the insides glow so we can see the
bad stuff come on.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Look like that for me, man, that's what I really
what happened.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I just grew seven inches by falling on the court.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Oh, we forgot to tell you there was actually a
gamma raise being dispersed.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Boy, I'll tell you good lord. Uh So, let's take
a look at some of the biggest games in the
NFL this weekend. Look Big Football Friday preview. We have
big stuff in college football coming up in a few minutes.
But look one of the big topics today we find
out it's gonna be another day for Alabama. Mac mac
Jones will start a quarterback for the forty nine ers
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against the Rams, as brock Perty continues to heal, we're
getting mac Jones. Now, before we get to the game,
let's revisit something we talked about a few weeks ago
because it plays into what we talked about earlier a
couple of days ago about Jacoby Brissett and Kyler Murray. Look,
we said on Monday, this is it for Kyler Murray.
(03:12):
Kyler Murray's played his last game as an Arizona Cardinal
because they're going to have to move on from him
in the offseason, and you can't bring him back out
and get him hurt, right, He's got to be healthy
in the off season. If you're going to trade him,
you don't want to just buy him out. There's gonna
be somebody out there that wants him, and the Cardinals
know they have to move on because they're getting the same,
if not better impact from Jacoby Brissett. Not that Jacoby
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Brissett's the guy, but when your backup quarterback is moving
the team better and it's more cohesive than you're starting,
you know you got.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
To move on the offense with a backup quarterback averaging
five more points per game. And Marvin Harrison Junior smiled, Yeah,
and he was part of the offense. He was very
excited to have his number called.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's it, And congratulations everybody on ESPN who took that
take today. Kyler Murray's played his last down as a
member of the Arizona Cardinals. You're welcome. You thought it'd
be four days after I'm safer to take out that
take I stole from Jason to Mike. Yeah, it's okay. Congratulations,
Hope that take worked out for you well on social media.
But look, this is the situation with the Cardinals, and
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this is what is the toughest lesson and maybe the
hardest story this year in the NFL, is that forty
nine Ers fans have to look and say, we paid
all kinds of money for the Brocolypse. Right, We paid
the money for brock perty He was a great story
for a long time, and we gave him a lot
of money and we are getting the same stuff from
Mac Jones at a fraction of the cost, which a
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The good news is it tells you how great a
head coach a Kyle Shanahan is. Offensive head coach. You
can bring in a guy that was bouncing around the
league after it didn't work with the New England Patriots
and suddenly, hey, wait a minute, he's just as good
as a guy we gave fifty million dollars to the
downside is you gave fifty million dollars to a guy
you didn't need to give fifty million dollars to. Right,
And we said it from the beginning, you're gonna overpay
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brock Purty. And that's exactly what the Niners because what
are they gonna do, and they're gonna let him go.
They're stuck, they're stuck, and they have to pay the guy.
And now they're finding out we didn't have to because
Mac Jones is just as good. He's putting up the
same kind of numbers, the same kind of win loss record,
and oh, by the way, he's doing it without all
the weapons that made brock Purty great. Right, people thought
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brock Purty was great because he had Debo and Ayuk
in their prime and McCaffrey and Kittle and just you know,
rolling through guys. And now now it's Piersalt. But mac
Jones is doing it with all of these guys hurt. Right,
No more Debo, Ricky, Piersol can't get on the field.
Brandon Ayuk is still on the pup list, right, Hey,
it's Christian. McCaffrey's making sure you're behind me, Christian, because
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I want to give you the ball every single play.
But there's nobody else out there. Kittle was hurt for
a long time before he came back, and mac Jones
is doing the same thing. And it's a tough lesson
to go. Man. We so overpaid for brock Purdy. Because
mac Jones is really the same guy. We could be
getting the same stuff, except not paying a guy fifty
million in decase. We could take a lot of that
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money and fill the holes that we had to get
rid of because we had older, overpriced guys. We had
to move on from a year ago. It's a better
year than San Francisco thought they were gonna have this year. Hey,
we're five and three. We're competing a little bit better
than we thought. We thought would be like one of
those reset years. And now it's like, man, if we
could have filled some of those holes with some guys
telling me, Man, the brock Party contract just looks worse
(06:26):
and worse with each passing day. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
The hard part is there was that divide between all, right,
how good is brock Party because you get some of
that of well, he's only.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Good if these guys are on the field.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And look, I've talked to enough and watched enough people
that are former quarterbacks film experts that would disagree with that. Right,
This is where we separate the hot take nonsense versus
what's really happening on a field. Sometimes and for brock Party,
when it came time to get paid, you know, you
don't know what's behind door number two. Necessarily, you trust
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your system to a degree, but you're also at a
point whether it's from goodwill and underpaid and overcompensating, you know,
on the on the back end, or just deciding, hey,
we've got a pretty good thing going. He's learning and
getting better incrementally to where we don't need all those
A list guys out there that we want to lock
him up, Right, that's been the trend. Maybe maybe there's
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enough evidence going forward between this circumstance and a couple
others where you just say, you know what, if the
guy's a middling option, we're not going to do it
right Because a couple of years ago there were many arguing, Hey,
the Cowboys shouldn't pay Dak Prescott blank him. Well, I
think they all would probably write no, no, But I
mean you remember those takes. He's just a guy, Why
pay him? Like you know there's there's something else going
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on there? Okay, take nonsense. Bus certainly got out of
the station on that one. So we we go team
to team and you're trying to ascertain that for mac Jones,
like I always contended, he got a raw deal in
New England with the way Bill Belichick handled things the
last couple of years there, got cute with the coordinator
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rolled he didn't have a bunch. You missed on every
wide receiver, you drafted every one of them. Right, there
was a murderer's row of guys first second round picks
that didn't work out. After that, core with Brady dissipated
into the ether. So for mac Jones, then a couple
of stops, and here he is in an opportunity and
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growing in a system that clearly it fits right, the
system for everybody. Theory espoused down the show very vocally
this year and certainly many times in the years past.
So you had that guy, Well, now you got a
decision of riches to where you like mac Jones enough,
because if brock Birdy were healthy, he'd be back under center.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Right, is my understanding? Is he close?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Maybe he's close, and you just say, hey, we can
buy one more week with an opportunity here, because the
offense still goes Kittles there, McCaffrey there. Jennings has battled
through injury and some complaints. I remember, Instagram is in everything.
It's a fantasy land in terms of guys happiness and unhappiness.
Sometimes people vent. You vent when you have a bad meal,
(09:15):
and I mean the collective you not you, Jason Smith.
You know you post a picture and say this is
not a great burger. It was six to seven, and
then you move on.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yeah, So with mac Jones. He's having a good run.
Here are they explosive? Is the offense necessarily churning? No,
but they're also not getting that same level of support
from the defense, which has been a hallmark of this squad.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Now, so you would think though, Okay, so here you are, Jason.
I know you love the Rams. You can't stand the
forty nine ers. You're not believing in them? Yeah, no, no, no,
all that is true. I said last lie. I expect
over the next month the Rams to prove they're the
best team in the NFC. But for Sunday, this is
one of those gay everything's telling me how much better
at team the Rams are. They're better, They're not as injured.
(10:03):
I love them, But these are games that San Francisco
generally finds away in. Right, I've seen I've seen it
this year against the Rams. I can see this being
one of those games where the forty nine Ers they
force enough turnovers, they win a low scoring ball control
game by a field goal. I look, I love the
under more than anything in this but these are those
(10:25):
gut check division games where the Niners seem to play
their best football, and it's gonna be a big clutch
game from Christian McCaffrey. Is gonna do it in the
passing game, do it in the running game. It's gonna
be tough, it's gonna be physical. This is one of
those games I can see the Niners win and it
doesn't make sense that the Rams, I think are gonna
be this good, but they're gonna lose both games to
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the forty nine ers. But this is a game I
see the Rams winning field goal. Take the under. I
feel weird. I feel like I'm going against something I love.
But give me the forty.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Nine ers Rams four and a half point favorites on
the road. I think special teams is where it's at right.
That's the thing that will fell the Rams once again
in this one. Forty nine and a half is the
total that seems a little rich based on the acumen
of both these defense although Stafford has the opportunity with
Adams with Nikua back and of course the backfield and
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ball security is really the question there for both Williams
and for Blake Korum that might fill them in this one.
Can they get enough of a pass rush San Francisco
to make things happen? That remains to be seen, But
I'll take mac Jones and the weapons that are lining
up with him. McCaffrey is over under for total yards
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one hundred and fifteen and a half.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I would go way over on both of them. I'll
go way over on the on the total yards, I'll
go over on the passing yards. I'll go over on
everything for him in this game.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, I mean his receiving yards over under is nearly
the same as his rushing yards.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah. Yeah. Uh. Meanwhile, outside of that, another big game
of the week. And and I'll tell you what, because
we could wind up seeing our next head coach fired
in the NFL depending on how this game goes. The
early game on Sunday, wake up early to make sure
you get all your Falcons and Colts ready to go.
Don't be like me where you went to bed last
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one game earlier this year. Hey, Jalen Warren's gonna play.
Everything is fine. Wait, but he's a zero. I lost
because of that. Yes, there's a few of us who
can tell you.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That, Oh you took the l off Jalen deactivation.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I was so mad. I was so mad, you know, won.
I could have put anybody in my lineup that game.
And and I did, and that's why I hate the
early games.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I hate it. Harmon Consulting Service for twenty twenty six,
what do you do?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yes, I just put a guy that's got a pulse
for a game lineup for all these pesky European games.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I give you control over my Uh yeah, I just
get just locked.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Right into my German as they make the change, and
I send you a video highlight to show you the
me doing the the quick lineup change. If we're in
jolly old England, I I dress maybe maybe like a
King of Old or maybe someone out of Shakespeare play.
You just don't know what you're gonna get. That's the
kind of service you get from Harmon Consulting your lineup expert.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So, Atlanta, Indianapolis, it's gonna be the Sauce Gardner debut.
Looking forward to that. But here's the thing. If Atlanta
loses big, we've seen coaches not return from Europe as
head coaches anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
We have seen that happen, right, so we saw it
last year. We have seen you get back. You touch
your foot on American soil, you're fired. Uh that could
happen for Raheem Morris. All right, this offense is too
talented to be this bad, right, they still have games
they can't get Jon Robinson going, and there too talented
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with with with Michael Pennix, jun you got to get
the most out of him and Robinson. Drake London's a
top wide out. You have some other good pieces of
the puzzle here. This division is not great. And the
Falcons continue to not be able to put points on
the board. That's gonna get Raheem Morris fired. They lose
this game and Indianapolis wins this game like thirty one
to seven or thirty four to ten or something like that. Yeah,
(14:24):
I know the end of the year is gonna wind
up being we need to change. But I can see
Arthur Blank, I can see the Falcons saying, you know what, Yeah,
we're not gonna give the rest of this season away.
We still think we're close enough in the in the
in the NFC South, We're gonna make a move and
Raheem Morris is gonna be out, because really that that's
the biggest thing, right, It's not about the defense, It's
not about anything else other than how is a team
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with these kind of weapons And Kyle Pitts continuing to underachieve?
How is a team with these kind of weapons this bad? Offensively?
They've scored five more points this year than the Saints,
and the Saints have been playing Spencer Ratler and Tyler
shuck and I'm pretty sure Art is gonna come and play.
I mean the kid not but they're not the Grandfather.
I mean, this is how bad? How have you scored
five more points in the Saints? How is your offense
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with all of these dudes? How is it that bad?
They get boat raced on Sunday. It could be a
new head coach for Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Drake London, Bijon Robinson and a giant question mark with
the rest of the receiving court. Darnell Mooney will play
is over under his like thirty three and a half.
I think remember Ray Ray McLeod was there, he got cut.
And Kyle Pitts is one of the great enigmas. He
just looks like he should be dominant, and once in
a while he does. And from Michael Pennix Junior. Look,
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we talked about it a lot, and certainly on the
iWatch Flex podcast, Ian and Dan and I about Penix
and some expectations to push forward, and it's been sorely
disappointing watching on a week to week basis this thing role. Defensively,
They've had some big efforts, they've had some no shows.
It's it's been just wildly inconsistent over the course of
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the year. See Penix go against lou Anoumo's defense with
the zone and whatever Sauce Gardner's doing here, and how
they just choose to play Drake London particularly in this one.
But offensively, I'm looking for them to get back to
brass tacts with Jonathan Taylor uh and ludging them and
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then eventually Daniel Jones will take advantage of that fact
with the myriad weapons he's got out there. Josh Down's
on a heater of late, You've got Michael Pittman Junior
who's been fantastic for them, and of course Warren the
tight end. So you pick your poison, your prediction may
(16:40):
very well come true. I got to see what the
odds are the next next NFL coach. Not that you
know we we we want to see people on the unemployed.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No no, no, but clearly, but you never know what
the odds are gonna.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Say as we try to pull that up by Clack
clac clac clac clack.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I do not believe the odds are ever in Raheem Morris's.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
No, I would agree. I would agree.
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Night Group Play all across the board this evening.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
How great is this? We have hit the big time
with two full months ahead of the new year.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I mean, sell, sell, sell, I mean, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You look seeing now? This is this is what year
fifteen of NBA Group Cup play. And I really do
think that if you really want to make it something right,
you really want to make this something in the NBA season.
All right, here's a Group Cup play, and we're gonna
chang change the we're gonna change the floor, and the
teams are gonna play and then we're gonna oh, this
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is a cup game. This is a cup game. Figuring
it out. I feel like the NBA has gone halfway
in like this is a real lazy thing. What are
we gonna do? Well, we're gonna play the same games.
We still have to play the same games. Eighty two games. Okay,
how are we gonna differentiate them. We're gonna have them
all play in the same night. No, no, can't do that. Okay,
what do we do. We're gonna make the floor look better. Yeah,
(19:26):
that's right, We're gonna make the floors look better so
people know it's an NBA Cup game, right, right? Right?
But still the same games, right, Yes, the same NBA games. Yes,
the same eighty two games season. Yes, yes, it's all
the same, all the same. I mean, really, if you
really want to win, if you really want to do
this right, you want to do it right, you can't.
And it's making it its own thing. Right, it can.
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It can still count in the standings. It doesn't have
to not count or it however you want to do it,
however you want to do it, It doesn't matter. But
make it a month of the schedule where you're playing
these games and just take, Hey, we're gonna play the
first like like soccer does. Does stuff like this the best, right,
I meanable the soccer seasons are like eleven months long,
(20:08):
like the MLS. I think is gonna end, uh sometime
in the next couple of weeks, and then it's gonna
start again on Christmas Day. But like you play for
a few months, however it is, you know, you kick
you kick off the season in in you know, November
and December, and then in January or February if you
want to make it fift think February is a great
month to do it, right. You play through January, well,
(20:30):
NFL Playoffs is going on, and then in February, I say, okay,
this month is NBA Cup time, and and we're playing,
and this is outside of the schedule, and we're playing,
and everybody's playing these games, and they move on and
it's a true champion and you win, and it feels
like something, right, it really it feels like something if
your team wins the NBA Cup, because then is it
(20:52):
winning the NBA title. No, But you're still winning a
pretty fun title midway through the season, right, you can say,
and this way, you're not cutting a ton of games
out of the schedule because you're still playing the games.
They just don't count in the standings. Hey, we played
twenty five games in the standings. Now we play the
Cup schedule, which is eight games per team. Let's just
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say that. And the teams that make it really far.
Play an extra two games, all right, big deal, Right,
teams playing an extra two games or in the semi
finals of the NBA Cup. I don't think that's that
big a deal. But everybody plays the eight or ten games.
Whatever you want to do to make it this tournament
and make it that month, and everybody would be into it.
Everybody would love it. Winning the championship would mean something.
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It would be and it would start to feel like
when teams are winning in soccer, Hey, we want to
we want to win the trifecta this year. Right, we're
gonna win the championship. We're gonna English Premier League. We're
gonna do that, and we're gonna win the FA Cup.
Like it becomes part of the calendar, and it becomes
a big event, not just something that is kind of
stapled together at the end and we're gonna you're gonna
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throw some paint on it and and and cover some
stuff up and hey, look we had a brand new
room for you in your house. Oh that's awesome if
you did that. And you're not cutting games out of
this people, You're still having games, People are still coming
to the games. There are still games that go on Okay,
you're not cutting games off the schedule, so owners don't
have to say, oh, we're gonna have non field arenas. No,
(22:13):
but you just make it part of it. And if
the NBA, if the NBA schedule when it comes down
to the end of the season is the best record
in seventy games instead of eighty two games because you
play twelve games for the whatever it is, you know,
seventy you know, seventy four games, whatever you want to do. Like, okay,
so you're you're you're building the playoffs on a seventy
(22:34):
four game regular season and these eight other games that
you play are outside of it. Like if you did
that and made it a month, that's revolutionary and it's
something that that that would that would cut through the
clutter of all star games and and and and stuff
that's just noise in the NBA, Like it's NBA Cup,
Like I mean, come on, man, I mean you really
think everybody's gonna gonna buy in and dive into this now?
(22:56):
Like the players like winning yeather, like the extra bit
of money. Okay, that's great, but that's not all of
a sudden saying hey, look at the ratings for these
NBA Cup games. You can basically have a playoff month
in February and it really works. I mean, if you
really want to do it, hop go full bore on
it and do it. It'll be great. You would be
surprised how much the fans love it.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah, you're always just trying to sell extra man. Look,
Adam Silver is worried about the highlight reel, I mean,
then come on now. I mean they're gonna get that
no matter what the court looks like or the games,
So that rolls through it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Trying to find the different innovations and where it fits
on the schedule is always the fun thing, right is
you know you take the week here for the All
Star Break, i e. All the business meetings you do that,
you know for the Olympics, when you go to hockey,
all all of that. You're you're trying to piece it
together to where there's a natural part to it. You
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mentioned for soccer, oftentimes you're wondering which of the leagues
is playing When you wake up on a Saturday.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's like, yeah, we and Champions League.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
We just.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
What's going on? Who are we playing? Where? Where does
this game fall? What am I rooting for?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
You?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
What are we doing? Are we in the Nation's Cup?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Like, I don't know, but when we look at the NBA,
it's like, should you do this just the first month
of the season, Right, here's our jumping off point, you know,
on October fifteenth or seventeenth or whatever. We're doing at
this point because it used to be on Halloween or thereabouts,
and it just gets earlier to add the extra days
(24:27):
off so you don't have the back to backs and whatever.
So you're trying to massage that as best you can.
Does this mean that you'd get more buy in from
players early in the season to participate, you know, if
this time it counts because it's part of a cup
tournament to start the season. I think the dumbest thing
they do, and it's part of the Cup experience, is
(24:48):
the stats for the championship game don't count.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
The rest of them do.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
But if you play that championship game, no, no, not,
we're not giving you. You know, you might fall short
of all of these different bonuses in your contract and all,
but you know you're not getting that twenty three points
and eight assists that you had there.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Nope, not for you.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But you know you get a nice little paycheck for participating.
So that's good, But I.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I grapple with it because you're stunt casting right when
you're adding these kind of elements. Because in the end
it's one of eighty two for the fans, they're not
going to be enamored with it other than their eyes
may hurt from looking at the floor.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Just make it big, Make it big, man, make it big,
and you would see how people are gonna do.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
You add a rock and jock element, do you as
like in Oceans twelve?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You add the height to the basket depending on how
many points a team needs the final minute of a game,
a ten point game, however many points they need, that's
how many feet you raise the basket. We're down ten,
raise it ten feet, we're down fifteen, raise it fifteen feet.
It's a fifteen foot basket. You make it with that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Watch your foot don't step on the line. Why ring
of fire. The ring of fire for the final minute.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
There will be no accidental on reviews of a two
or a three point shot here because your toes getting
nowhere near that line.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
We got more from the NFL now that we figured
out how to solve the NBA Cup issue coming up
in ninety ten the money but first special delivery. Steve
Desager has what's trending in the wide world of sports?
Are casty all the money he won tonight betting that
usc would execute a fake punt with their quarterback. He's
got what's trending, Steve.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
To say, who actually got in the game later as
a quarterback, and I believe was leading the band at
the end of this where yeah, we'll get to college
football and Rome and guys you were talking NBA. We
had eleven games tonight. Not a single one was decided
by single digits, all by more than ten points each.
The most games played on a single night without any
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of them being decided by single days.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's in fact, I was looking I was looking at
that tonight when I'm looking at the scores of you know,
some of the games that I wasn't paying attention to,
I'm like, what, wows a blowout?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Whether were some of the opponents paying attention?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It was a blowout? Yeah, I mean Cleveland Washington was
over in the middle of the first quarter. Who was
that like one fifty to one ten?
Speaker 5 (27:16):
I mean, my goodness, Miami scored fifty three just in
the first quarter. And be sure AP looked it up.
In NBA history, how many times have they had a
calendar date with at least ten games played. It's almost
one thousand, seven hundred different days with at least ten
games played. The margin of victory tonight was second highest.
(27:37):
It was twenty one points per game. The Cleveland win
you mentioned was one forty eight to one fourteen at Washington.
Wizards are one in eight. The Miami game against Charlotte
after the first quarter heat up fifty three thirty three.
They beat the Charlotte Hornets one twenty six, one oh eight.
Orlando over Boston one twenty three, one ten, kind of
(27:58):
a close one. Celtics are only four and six. Jalen
Brown of the Celtics thirty two points in the loss
San Antonio. Andy Houston's five game winning streak one twenty
one to one ten. Spurs guard de Aaron Fox will
reportedly debut Saturday after hamstring surgery. Detroit has won five
in a row. They're up to seven and two after
winning at Brooklyn one twenty five one oh eight. Nets
(28:19):
are one and eight. Cam Thomas of the Nets could
miss three to four weeks with a strain hamstring Toronto
and Memphis with wins Minnesota all over Utah one thirty
seven to ninety seven. Anthony Edwards in only twenty six
minutes on the court, scored thirty seven points at Milwaukee
forty one for Janis Santanacoumpo in a victory against the Bulls,
(28:40):
who had been six and one. Fox took that win
one twenty six one ten. Jannis not only had forty
one points, he had fifteen rebounds nine assists as well.
Oklahoma City is nine and one after winning one of
the late games at Sacramento one thirty two one oh one.
Shay Gilgi Alexander in three quarters scored thirty points en
Verse six and two now after ripping Golden State one
(29:02):
twenty nine to one oh four. Nikola Jokic in limited
time twenty six points, nine rebounds, nine assist. Steph Curry
of the Warriors was out due to illness. For the Lakers,
Austin Reeves with a strang groin, will miss another game. Saturday,
college hoops North Carolina beat Kansas. NHL wins for San
Jose and Chicago. Japanese third baseman Munataka Morocami was posted
(29:23):
to start the process of free agency. The American League
Silver Slugger winners for offense include Cleveland third baseman Jose Ramirez,
also Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, Mariners catcher Cal Raley, and
A's rookie first baseman Nick Kurtz. By the way, the
Big MLB Award results come out next week, starting with
Monday's Rookie of the Year announcements. In women's tennis, number one,
(29:47):
Arena Sablenka advanced to the championship at the season ending
WTA finals. The other semi you went to Elena Rebakan,
who was four and o this week after eliminating American
Jessica Bagula. And you mentioned the football nineteenth ranke USC
on Fox TV tonight beating Northwestern at the LA Coliseum
thirty eight seventeen. Trojans five and one in conference Houston
(30:08):
eight and two overall, needing two field goals in the
fourth quarter to win at UCF thirty to twenty seven.
Tulane pulled off the upset at Memphis thirty eight thirty two.
Memphis had been eight and one this year. The forty
nine ers will start quarterback Mac Jones again Sunday, hosting
the Rams Texans QB C. J. Stroud is out this
weekend with a concussion. Quarterback for Washington Jaden Daniels will
(30:30):
not need surgery on his dislocated elbow. Running back for
the Bucks. Bucky Irving out with foot and shoulder injuries.
Running back for the Patriots, Ramandre Stevenson out again this
weekend with a toe injury. Aaron Jones Vikings running back,
questionable with shoulder and toe injuries. The Raiders fired special
teams coach Tom McMahon.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Bock to you, Yeah, that was that special teams last night?
Wasn't great? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Again, not that special?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, Now you gotta have a fall guy.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Uh Now, I have kind of a backhanded compliment for
one team here, back at a compliment. Because this week
being trade deadline in the NFL, we've talked a lot
about the Sauce Gardner trade, the Quinn Williams trade, look
the Jets aspect of it, and the Colts and the Cowboys,
and but one of the I'll tell you the trade
I really like the most that is going to affect
(31:24):
a big time contender is I like the Seahawks getting
Rashid Shiheed from the Saints. I like this move because
Sam Donald, as good as he is, is still kind
of overrated, all right, Like Sam Darnold has shown that
he is good when he is throwing to the best
wide receiver in the NFL. Last year it was Justin Jefferson.
(31:48):
This year it's Jackson Smith and Jigba. Right, these are
the last two years. These are the two best receivers
of the NFL. Sam Donald does well when he has
the best receiver of the NFL throwing to. Now, eventually
you think, okay, something's gonna come up and teams are
gonna figure out how to cover JSN. That's why getting
Shaheed was such a big deal. Right, this guy's fast.
(32:09):
He's gonna be a great number two because look, I
think what JSN is catching what eighty eight percent of
every ball that's thrown of all his passes. So they
absolutely needed to make a move here. And look that
they're a really solid team, right. I've been stock up
on Seattle for a while now. They're a better version
of the Steelers, where they play defense pretty well, they
(32:30):
run the ball pretty well, they throw the ball pretty well.
Nothing is overly elite, but they do everything really well.
And that's good enough, and that's good enough to make
a deep run and get into the playoffs, but you
need a little bit more to make sure that offense
doesn't stall out at some point. And that's why that's
one of the that's my move that a contender made that.
I said, that's the biggest move that's gonna help them
(32:50):
more so than Sauce Gardner the Colts, because I told
you what, just wait, you think sauce Gardner's great, just wait,
just wait till you see him. So this is the
move I really like the most.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yeah, it's interesting with this one, is there there was
a report coming out of Pittsburgh that the Steelers made
a similar offer and that Shahed wanted to go back
to Kubiak. So that that's kind of a curiosity and
needs some more more vetting. But certainly that relationship and
its history does play into this. We'd seen Shahed was
(33:22):
having a pretty good year despite the inconsistency.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I just don't want to say bad football.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
I don't want to disrespect Spencer Rattler or Tyler Shuck altogether.
But he'd had a pretty good year in New Orleans.
So now an opportunity to go with Sam Darnold. They
need a little more in the passing game, because as
you say, it's been a lot of JSN, and then
a little wishing and hoping the run game has sputtered
all year, something we've talked about in the Fantasy realm
(33:50):
quite a bit when you talk about Walker and he'll
have a couple of big plays and then all of
a sudden he'll be on ice because they start calling
a bunch of pass plays, or suddenly Sharvion A creeps in,
particularly around the goal line situation. So yeah, a little
bit of extra a guy that's gonna stretch the field
can only help to unlock maybe.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Some of these other players.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Maybe Arroyo becomes a bigger part of their offense in
the second half, or someone else sweeping under the over
the middle because you're you're taking the top off with Shaheed.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I like the move. Curious to see Sam Darnold. I
think he got a lot of a lot of bad
I mean, the still had to wash that jets off him.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I know it's been at spots.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
You know famously those photos from Carolina. Eventually I need
one of those on my wall of him at Baker
Mayfield signed. Just say remember when, uh, And then all
of that to say in Minnesota, I think they made
him the fall guy there too. Uh, the love of
JJ McCarthy and all notwithstanding, So opportunity here, good defense
(34:51):
and an opportunity to stretch the stretch the field, something
we know Sam can do.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Coming up next, we finish with a flourish on Football Friday.
Say that three times fast. I just said it once.
Mike Harmon's either gonna love me or hate me. Plus,
the game of the week in the NFL might not
be the game you think it is. That's next, Jason
and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I'm
standing up in the studio Football Friday, Mike Harmon, I'm
gonna make you extremely happy right now.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Okay, not.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Giants Bears this weekend. This is going to be the
week where we step out of this and everybody comes
around to the conclusion that we had earlier this year
when I told you it is the era of good
feeling in Chicago.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Go.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Ben Johnson's the right guy for Caleb Williams. Give it
a little bit of time, and Ben Johnson clearly needed
a couple of weeks to kind of get being a
head coach under his belt. Some of his decisions things happening.
But everything that's gone on since the Bears are absolutely fine.
They're kind of like the Lions light with the way
their weapons are lined up now. Now Colston Lovelin has
(36:22):
broken out. He's somebody. That's why they drafted him in
the first round as high as they did. They have
two running backs can do a lot of damage. You
got two really good wide receivers. Caleb Williams has done
everything you hoped he would do this year. He has
pushed the ball down the field. He has had big games.
He has brought you from behind. He has directed game
winning drives late in the fourth quarter. The era of
(36:44):
good feeling is here for the Bears. They're a good team.
Are they great?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Not yet. They're not quite the level of teams like
the Lions or the Eagles, but they're getting there. They're young.
This should be a blowout win over the Giants. Look.
I like Jackson Dart to put up a lot of points.
I love him in fantasy this week. But Chicago's becoming
a complete team, the running game, especially working now it
is a full service offense. They should win big and
suddenly you'll hear more of Hey, why I told you
(37:10):
Caleb Williams was great from the beginning. No, no, you
hated the guy. Oh but I told you was great?
Oh no, no, no, no, Caleb willis Now he's gonna
start getting all the flowers that he should be getting.
Caleb Williams is really good. He's on his way up.
He's been on his way up. He's doing everything you
possibly expect. It'll happen again this weekend.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Four and a half point favorites at home, forty six
and a half the total. Obviously, No Scatamo, no Molik, neighbors.
So it's Wan del Robinson, Tyron Cruz.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Yeah no, no, Hakeem Nicks, Yeah no, it's a tough weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah no, keep on going on down the line.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
No Mario Manningham, no Burris no, yeah, sure, yeah no,
all those guys are going. You know, you're looking at
at an opportunity here for the Bears to really make
some noise. Thirty mile an hour wins and snow potentially
on the horizon for you, but they're plus thirteen in
the turnover differential for ahead of Pittsburgh, who's number two
(38:04):
in that category for the year with nineteen takeaways thus far.
The year of living dangerously, Look, there's still some starting
stop herky jerky motion to it. At times, it's not
always clean. I do love the cold de sac hot
take nonsense of folks that it's the greatest or the worst.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
I don't know what. You need to kind of mellow
and kind of find some happy medium in your mood.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
But you know, hold on cold a sack, just find
a space and park for a minute, opportunity to hear
him and young guy's been fantastic. He's probably gonna be
your lead back once again. DeAndre Swift didn't practice on
They cite some personal stuff going on, so he's probably
not there. But you mentioned Lovelin defending player of the week,
was waiting for him to take a big step forward,
(38:48):
still waiting for Luther Burden to come along with him,
but expecting a big game out of my guy. At
doingsay after the week, he had to reward him for
that super cut they did of all his blocks and
cheering for his teammates last week as they rolled up
the forty seven points. He should have caught that ball
in the end zone, by the way, he would be
the first to tell you that. But he'll shut his
(39:09):
dad up with a big day here in the Bears role.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
They may need it just to make sure his dad
does it, okay, if we could throw the ball to him,
so his dad stays quiet. Great that we appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Yeah, I think Ben Johnson likes when guys are like that, though.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
He likes when their dad's do no, no, no, it's
like that.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
He's fine the chirp because he knows what's going on
in that room, and he's got a room right now.
That's that's united, right, good, better best, all of that
kind of stuff, and the starting to get the trick
plays tossed in. You saw a few of them very
early last week. So starting to implement that. Keep defenses
on their toes, keep defensive coordinators guessing as to where
(39:47):
and how the ball is gonna come out. Yeah, Caleb
Williams has some opportunities to step forward. Here is another
one on the slate against a middling to less than
effective Giant squad roam.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Your dad is texting me. Please tell them to stop
texting me. Okay, sorry, coach, I'll tell them. I'll tell
him now. Meanwhile, the game of the week. You didn't
think it was gonna be Patriots Bucks, but here we are.
Patriots Bucks is a game of the week forty eight
and a half. Told well, I'll tell you this. It
is about time they played a good team, and it's
about time they take a big l and they will
Tampa coming off the buy. Baker Mayfield's gonna play with
(40:23):
his hair on fire. It's not been a great last
couple of weeks. Their offenses slowed down. They win big
and beat the Patriots and show you that the Patriot's
taking advantage of the easiest schedule the last twenty years
in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Drake may wins churned in the campus says.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
You like that.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
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Greenings.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Welcome inside final hour tonight, The Jason Smith Show with
my bass friend Mike Hart. Six seven seven that kind
of night positivity Friday mid extra cockfight. That's two six
seven six seven six seven on a big football Friday
(00:53):
headed into Week ten of the National Football League. Also
look NBA Cup Night tonight. Yeah it is. If your
team lost tonight, clearly you do not have what it
takes to really cut through this year and have a
great season. I am rethinking everything I knew about the
Chicago Bulls tonight. I thought they were really good, but
now clearly they are not because they just face planted
(01:16):
on NBA Cup Night. Mike Harmon, I'm embarrassed for you.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Very disappointing effort in that fourth quarter against the Milwaukee Bucks.
On a floor that made no sense. The color really
didn't match up with anything, as opposed to some of
those neon jobbers where it's like I think their X raying.
It's like we were talking about the betting scandal in
the NBA where they had those X ray tables. There
are a couple of times guys were falling on the
(01:39):
on the ground. I'm like, I don't think that's a
good look. Where it looks like the guy's being X
rayed and his face is now glowing green. That's not good.
So yeah, some doubious decisions in terms of that. Some
of the neon greens and fluorescent highlighter yellow colors for quarts.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Hurt my eyes, man, hurt my eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I was looking to, you know, get bear of those
glasses they give you when you go into a three
D movie to maybe help with the aesthetics.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hey, can I get one of those courts make it
look like I'm going inside an MRI machine. That's what
I want to here. Drink this.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
It makes the insides glow so we can see the
bad stuff come on.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Look like that for me, man, that's what I really
what happened.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I just grew seven inches by falling on the court.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Oh, we forgot to tell you there was actually a
gamma raise being dispersed.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Boy, I'll tell you good lord. Uh So, let's take
a look at some of the biggest games in the
NFL this weekend. Look Big Football Friday preview. We have
big stuff in college football coming up in a few minutes.
But look one of the big topics today we find
out it's gonna be another day for Alabama. Mac mac
Jones will start a quarterback for the forty nine ers
(02:52):
against the Rams, as brock Perty continues to heal, we're
getting mac Jones. Now, before we get to the game,
let's revisit something we talked about a few weeks ago
because it plays into what we talked about earlier a
couple of days ago about Jacoby Brissett and Kyler Murray. Look,
we said on Monday, this is it for Kyler Murray.
(03:12):
Kyler Murray's played his last game as an Arizona Cardinal
because they're going to have to move on from him
in the offseason, and you can't bring him back out
and get him hurt, right, He's got to be healthy
in the off season. If you're going to trade him,
you don't want to just buy him out. There's gonna
be somebody out there that wants him, and the Cardinals
know they have to move on because they're getting the same,
if not better impact from Jacoby Brissett. Not that Jacoby
(03:36):
Brissett's the guy, but when your backup quarterback is moving
the team better and it's more cohesive than you're starting,
you know you got.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
To move on the offense with a backup quarterback averaging
five more points per game. And Marvin Harrison Junior smiled, Yeah,
and he was part of the offense. He was very
excited to have his number called.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That's it, And congratulations everybody on ESPN who took that
take today. Kyler Murray's played his last down as a
member of the Arizona Cardinals. You're welcome. You thought it'd
be four days after I'm safer to take out that
take I stole from Jason to Mike. Yeah, it's okay. Congratulations,
Hope that take worked out for you well on social media.
But look, this is the situation with the Cardinals, and
(04:16):
this is what is the toughest lesson and maybe the
hardest story this year in the NFL, is that forty
nine Ers fans have to look and say, we paid
all kinds of money for the Brocolypse. Right, We paid
the money for brock perty He was a great story
for a long time, and we gave him a lot
of money and we are getting the same stuff from
Mac Jones at a fraction of the cost, which a
(04:39):
The good news is it tells you how great a
head coach a Kyle Shanahan is. Offensive head coach. You
can bring in a guy that was bouncing around the
league after it didn't work with the New England Patriots
and suddenly, hey, wait a minute, he's just as good
as a guy we gave fifty million dollars to the
downside is you gave fifty million dollars to a guy
you didn't need to give fifty million dollars to. Right,
And we said it from the beginning, you're gonna overpay
(05:02):
brock Purty. And that's exactly what the Niners because what
are they gonna do, and they're gonna let him go.
They're stuck, they're stuck, and they have to pay the guy.
And now they're finding out we didn't have to because
Mac Jones is just as good. He's putting up the
same kind of numbers, the same kind of win loss record,
and oh, by the way, he's doing it without all
the weapons that made brock Purty great. Right, people thought
(05:22):
brock Purty was great because he had Debo and Ayuk
in their prime and McCaffrey and Kittle and just you know,
rolling through guys. And now now it's Piersalt. But mac
Jones is doing it with all of these guys hurt. Right,
No more Debo, Ricky, Piersol can't get on the field.
Brandon Ayuk is still on the pup list, right, Hey,
it's Christian. McCaffrey's making sure you're behind me, Christian, because
(05:42):
I want to give you the ball every single play.
But there's nobody else out there. Kittle was hurt for
a long time before he came back, and mac Jones
is doing the same thing. And it's a tough lesson
to go. Man. We so overpaid for brock Purdy. Because
mac Jones is really the same guy. We could be
getting the same stuff, except not paying a guy fifty
million in decase. We could take a lot of that
(06:04):
money and fill the holes that we had to get
rid of because we had older, overpriced guys. We had
to move on from a year ago. It's a better
year than San Francisco thought they were gonna have this year. Hey,
we're five and three. We're competing a little bit better
than we thought. We thought would be like one of
those reset years. And now it's like, man, if we
could have filled some of those holes with some guys
telling me, Man, the brock Party contract just looks worse
(06:26):
and worse with each passing day. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
The hard part is there was that divide between all, right,
how good is brock Party because you get some of
that of well, he's only.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Good if these guys are on the field.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
And look, I've talked to enough and watched enough people
that are former quarterbacks film experts that would disagree with that. Right,
This is where we separate the hot take nonsense versus
what's really happening on a field. Sometimes and for brock Party,
when it came time to get paid, you know, you
don't know what's behind door number two. Necessarily, you trust
(06:57):
your system to a degree, but you're also at a
point whether it's from goodwill and underpaid and overcompensating, you know,
on the on the back end, or just deciding, hey,
we've got a pretty good thing going. He's learning and
getting better incrementally to where we don't need all those
A list guys out there that we want to lock
him up, Right, that's been the trend. Maybe maybe there's
(07:21):
enough evidence going forward between this circumstance and a couple
others where you just say, you know what, if the
guy's a middling option, we're not going to do it
right Because a couple of years ago there were many arguing, Hey,
the Cowboys shouldn't pay Dak Prescott blank him. Well, I
think they all would probably write no, no, But I
mean you remember those takes. He's just a guy, Why
pay him? Like you know there's there's something else going
(07:44):
on there? Okay, take nonsense. Bus certainly got out of
the station on that one. So we we go team
to team and you're trying to ascertain that for mac Jones,
like I always contended, he got a raw deal in
New England with the way Bill Belichick handled things the
last couple of years there, got cute with the coordinator
(08:05):
rolled he didn't have a bunch. You missed on every
wide receiver, you drafted every one of them. Right, there
was a murderer's row of guys first second round picks
that didn't work out. After that, core with Brady dissipated
into the ether. So for mac Jones, then a couple
of stops, and here he is in an opportunity and
(08:27):
growing in a system that clearly it fits right, the
system for everybody. Theory espoused down the show very vocally
this year and certainly many times in the years past.
So you had that guy, Well, now you got a
decision of riches to where you like mac Jones enough,
because if brock Birdy were healthy, he'd be back under center.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Right, is my understanding? Is he close?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Maybe he's close, and you just say, hey, we can
buy one more week with an opportunity here, because the
offense still goes Kittles there, McCaffrey there. Jennings has battled
through injury and some complaints. I remember, Instagram is in everything.
It's a fantasy land in terms of guys happiness and unhappiness.
Sometimes people vent. You vent when you have a bad meal,
(09:15):
and I mean the collective you not you, Jason Smith.
You know you post a picture and say this is
not a great burger. It was six to seven, and
then you move on.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yeah, So with mac Jones. He's having a good run.
Here are they explosive? Is the offense necessarily churning? No,
but they're also not getting that same level of support
from the defense, which has been a hallmark of this squad.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Now, so you would think though, Okay, so here you are, Jason.
I know you love the Rams. You can't stand the
forty nine ers. You're not believing in them? Yeah, no, no, no,
all that is true. I said last lie. I expect
over the next month the Rams to prove they're the
best team in the NFC. But for Sunday, this is
one of those gay everything's telling me how much better
at team the Rams are. They're better, They're not as injured.
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I love them, But these are games that San Francisco
generally finds away in. Right, I've seen I've seen it
this year against the Rams. I can see this being
one of those games where the forty nine Ers they
force enough turnovers, they win a low scoring ball control
game by a field goal. I look, I love the
under more than anything in this but these are those
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gut check division games where the Niners seem to play
their best football, and it's gonna be a big clutch
game from Christian McCaffrey. Is gonna do it in the
passing game, do it in the running game. It's gonna
be tough, it's gonna be physical. This is one of
those games I can see the Niners win and it
doesn't make sense that the Rams, I think are gonna
be this good, but they're gonna lose both games to
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the forty nine ers. But this is a game I
see the Rams winning field goal. Take the under. I
feel weird. I feel like I'm going against something I love.
But give me the forty.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Nine ers Rams four and a half point favorites on
the road. I think special teams is where it's at right.
That's the thing that will fell the Rams once again
in this one. Forty nine and a half is the
total that seems a little rich based on the acumen
of both these defense although Stafford has the opportunity with
Adams with Nikua back and of course the backfield and
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ball security is really the question there for both Williams
and for Blake Korum that might fill them in this one.
Can they get enough of a pass rush San Francisco
to make things happen? That remains to be seen, But
I'll take mac Jones and the weapons that are lining
up with him. McCaffrey is over under for total yards
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one hundred and fifteen and a half.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I would go way over on both of them. I'll
go way over on the on the total yards, I'll
go over on the passing yards. I'll go over on
everything for him in this game.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, I mean his receiving yards over under is nearly
the same as his rushing yards.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah. Yeah. Uh. Meanwhile, outside of that, another big game
of the week. And and I'll tell you what, because
we could wind up seeing our next head coach fired
in the NFL depending on how this game goes. The
early game on Sunday, wake up early to make sure
you get all your Falcons and Colts ready to go.
Don't be like me where you went to bed last
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one game earlier this year. Hey, Jalen Warren's gonna play.
Everything is fine. Wait, but he's a zero. I lost
because of that. Yes, there's a few of us who
can tell you.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That, Oh you took the l off Jalen deactivation.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I was so mad. I was so mad, you know, won.
I could have put anybody in my lineup that game.
And and I did, and that's why I hate the
early games.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I hate it. Harmon Consulting Service for twenty twenty six,
what do you do?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yes, I just put a guy that's got a pulse
for a game lineup for all these pesky European games.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I give you control over my Uh yeah, I just
get just locked.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Right into my German as they make the change, and
I send you a video highlight to show you the
me doing the the quick lineup change. If we're in
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You just don't know what you're gonna get. That's the
kind of service you get from Harmon Consulting your lineup expert.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So, Atlanta, Indianapolis, it's gonna be the Sauce Gardner debut.
Looking forward to that. But here's the thing. If Atlanta
loses big, we've seen coaches not return from Europe as
head coaches anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
We have seen that happen, right, so we saw it
last year. We have seen you get back. You touch
your foot on American soil, you're fired. Uh that could
happen for Raheem Morris. All right, this offense is too
talented to be this bad, right, they still have games
they can't get Jon Robinson going, and there too talented
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with with with Michael Pennix, jun you got to get
the most out of him and Robinson. Drake London's a
top wide out. You have some other good pieces of
the puzzle here. This division is not great. And the
Falcons continue to not be able to put points on
the board. That's gonna get Raheem Morris fired. They lose
this game and Indianapolis wins this game like thirty one
to seven or thirty four to ten or something like that. Yeah,
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I know the end of the year is gonna wind
up being we need to change. But I can see
Arthur Blank, I can see the Falcons saying, you know what, Yeah,
we're not gonna give the rest of this season away.
We still think we're close enough in the in the
in the NFC South, We're gonna make a move and
Raheem Morris is gonna be out, because really that that's
the biggest thing, right, It's not about the defense, It's
not about anything else other than how is a team
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with these kind of weapons And Kyle Pitts continuing to underachieve?
How is a team with these kind of weapons this bad? Offensively?
They've scored five more points this year than the Saints,
and the Saints have been playing Spencer Ratler and Tyler
shuck and I'm pretty sure Art is gonna come and play.
I mean the kid not but they're not the Grandfather.
I mean, this is how bad? How have you scored
five more points in the Saints? How is your offense
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with all of these dudes? How is it that bad?
They get boat raced on Sunday. It could be a
new head coach for Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Drake London, Bijon Robinson and a giant question mark with
the rest of the receiving court. Darnell Mooney will play
is over under his like thirty three and a half.
I think remember Ray Ray McLeod was there, he got cut.
And Kyle Pitts is one of the great enigmas. He
just looks like he should be dominant, and once in
a while he does. And from Michael Pennix Junior. Look,
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we talked about it a lot, and certainly on the
iWatch Flex podcast, Ian and Dan and I about Penix
and some expectations to push forward, and it's been sorely
disappointing watching on a week to week basis this thing role. Defensively,
They've had some big efforts, they've had some no shows.
It's it's been just wildly inconsistent over the course of
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the year. See Penix go against lou Anoumo's defense with
the zone and whatever Sauce Gardner's doing here, and how
they just choose to play Drake London particularly in this one.
But offensively, I'm looking for them to get back to
brass tacts with Jonathan Taylor uh and ludging them and
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then eventually Daniel Jones will take advantage of that fact
with the myriad weapons he's got out there. Josh Down's
on a heater of late, You've got Michael Pittman Junior
who's been fantastic for them, and of course Warren the
tight end. So you pick your poison, your prediction may
(16:40):
very well come true. I got to see what the
odds are the next next NFL coach. Not that you
know we we we want to see people on the unemployed.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
No no, no, but clearly, but you never know what
the odds are gonna.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Say as we try to pull that up by Clack
clac clac clac clack.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I do not believe the odds are ever in Raheem Morris's.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
No, I would agree. I would agree.
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Speaker 1 (18:08):
Six six seven six seven six six seven six seven
six six Fox Sports Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon, Happy Positivity Friday Night and NBA Cup
Night Group Play all across the board this evening.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
How great is this? We have hit the big time
with two full months ahead of the new year.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I mean, sell, sell, sell, I mean, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You look seeing now? This is this is what year
fifteen of NBA Group Cup play. And I really do
think that if you really want to make it something right,
you really want to make this something in the NBA season.
All right, here's a Group Cup play, and we're gonna
chang change the we're gonna change the floor, and the
teams are gonna play and then we're gonna oh, this
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is a cup game. This is a cup game. Figuring
it out. I feel like the NBA has gone halfway
in like this is a real lazy thing. What are
we gonna do? Well, we're gonna play the same games.
We still have to play the same games. Eighty two games. Okay,
how are we gonna differentiate them. We're gonna have them
all play in the same night. No, no, can't do that. Okay,
what do we do. We're gonna make the floor look better. Yeah,
(19:26):
that's right, We're gonna make the floors look better so
people know it's an NBA Cup game, right, right? Right?
But still the same games, right, Yes, the same NBA games. Yes,
the same eighty two games season. Yes, yes, it's all
the same, all the same. I mean, really, if you
really want to win, if you really want to do
this right, you want to do it right, you can't.
And it's making it its own thing. Right, it can.
(19:47):
It can still count in the standings. It doesn't have
to not count or it however you want to do it,
however you want to do it, It doesn't matter. But
make it a month of the schedule where you're playing
these games and just take, Hey, we're gonna play the
first like like soccer does. Does stuff like this the best, right,
I meanable the soccer seasons are like eleven months long,
(20:08):
like the MLS. I think is gonna end, uh sometime
in the next couple of weeks, and then it's gonna
start again on Christmas Day. But like you play for
a few months, however it is, you know, you kick
you kick off the season in in you know, November
and December, and then in January or February if you
want to make it fift think February is a great
month to do it, right. You play through January, well,
(20:30):
NFL Playoffs is going on, and then in February, I say, okay,
this month is NBA Cup time, and and we're playing,
and this is outside of the schedule, and we're playing,
and everybody's playing these games, and they move on and
it's a true champion and you win, and it feels
like something, right, it really it feels like something if
your team wins the NBA Cup, because then is it
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winning the NBA title. No, But you're still winning a
pretty fun title midway through the season, right, you can say,
and this way, you're not cutting a ton of games
out of the schedule because you're still playing the games.
They just don't count in the standings. Hey, we played
twenty five games in the standings. Now we play the
Cup schedule, which is eight games per team. Let's just
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say that. And the teams that make it really far.
Play an extra two games, all right, big deal, Right,
teams playing an extra two games or in the semi
finals of the NBA Cup. I don't think that's that
big a deal. But everybody plays the eight or ten games.
Whatever you want to do to make it this tournament
and make it that month, and everybody would be into it.
Everybody would love it. Winning the championship would mean something.
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It would be and it would start to feel like
when teams are winning in soccer, Hey, we want to
we want to win the trifecta this year. Right, we're
gonna win the championship. We're gonna English Premier League. We're
gonna do that, and we're gonna win the FA Cup.
Like it becomes part of the calendar, and it becomes
a big event, not just something that is kind of
stapled together at the end and we're gonna you're gonna
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throw some paint on it and and and cover some
stuff up and hey, look we had a brand new
room for you in your house. Oh that's awesome if
you did that. And you're not cutting games out of
this people, You're still having games, People are still coming
to the games. There are still games that go on Okay,
you're not cutting games off the schedule, so owners don't
have to say, oh, we're gonna have non field arenas. No,
(22:13):
but you just make it part of it. And if
the NBA, if the NBA schedule when it comes down
to the end of the season is the best record
in seventy games instead of eighty two games because you
play twelve games for the whatever it is, you know,
seventy you know, seventy four games, whatever you want to do. Like, okay,
so you're you're you're building the playoffs on a seventy
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four game regular season and these eight other games that
you play are outside of it. Like if you did
that and made it a month, that's revolutionary and it's
something that that that would that would cut through the
clutter of all star games and and and and stuff
that's just noise in the NBA, Like it's NBA Cup,
Like I mean, come on, man, I mean you really
think everybody's gonna gonna buy in and dive into this now?
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Like the players like winning yeather, like the extra bit
of money. Okay, that's great, but that's not all of
a sudden saying hey, look at the ratings for these
NBA Cup games. You can basically have a playoff month
in February and it really works. I mean, if you
really want to do it, hop go full bore on
it and do it. It'll be great. You would be
surprised how much the fans love it.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah, you're always just trying to sell extra man. Look,
Adam Silver is worried about the highlight reel, I mean,
then come on now. I mean they're gonna get that
no matter what the court looks like or the games,
So that rolls through it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Trying to find the different innovations and where it fits
on the schedule is always the fun thing, right is
you know you take the week here for the All
Star Break, i e. All the business meetings you do that,
you know for the Olympics, when you go to hockey,
all all of that. You're you're trying to piece it
together to where there's a natural part to it. You
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mentioned for soccer, oftentimes you're wondering which of the leagues
is playing When you wake up on a Saturday.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's like, yeah, we and Champions League.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
We just.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
What's going on? Who are we playing? Where? Where does
this game fall? What am I rooting for?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
You?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
What are we doing? Are we in the Nation's Cup?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Like, I don't know, but when we look at the NBA,
it's like, should you do this just the first month
of the season, Right, here's our jumping off point, you know,
on October fifteenth or seventeenth or whatever. We're doing at
this point because it used to be on Halloween or thereabouts,
and it just gets earlier to add the extra days
(24:27):
off so you don't have the back to backs and whatever.
So you're trying to massage that as best you can.
Does this mean that you'd get more buy in from
players early in the season to participate, you know, if
this time it counts because it's part of a cup
tournament to start the season. I think the dumbest thing
they do, and it's part of the Cup experience, is
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the stats for the championship game don't count.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
The rest of them do.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
But if you play that championship game, no, no, not,
we're not giving you. You know, you might fall short
of all of these different bonuses in your contract and all,
but you know you're not getting that twenty three points
and eight assists that you had there.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Nope, not for you.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But you know you get a nice little paycheck for participating.
So that's good, But I.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I grapple with it because you're stunt casting right when
you're adding these kind of elements. Because in the end
it's one of eighty two for the fans, they're not
going to be enamored with it other than their eyes
may hurt from looking at the floor.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Just make it big, Make it big, man, make it big,
and you would see how people are gonna do.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
You add a rock and jock element, do you as
like in Oceans twelve?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You add the height to the basket depending on how
many points a team needs the final minute of a game,
a ten point game, however many points they need, that's
how many feet you raise the basket. We're down ten,
raise it ten feet, we're down fifteen, raise it fifteen feet.
It's a fifteen foot basket. You make it with that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Watch your foot don't step on the line. Why ring
of fire. The ring of fire for the final minute.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
There will be no accidental on reviews of a two
or a three point shot here because your toes getting
nowhere near that line.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
We got more from the NFL now that we figured
out how to solve the NBA Cup issue coming up
in ninety ten the money but first special delivery. Steve
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Are casty all the money he won tonight betting that
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got what's trending, Steve.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
To say, who actually got in the game later as
a quarterback, and I believe was leading the band at
the end of this where yeah, we'll get to college
football and Rome and guys you were talking NBA. We
had eleven games tonight. Not a single one was decided
by single digits, all by more than ten points each.
The most games played on a single night without any
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of them being decided by single days.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
It's in fact, I was looking I was looking at
that tonight when I'm looking at the scores of you know,
some of the games that I wasn't paying attention to,
I'm like, what, wows a blowout?
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Whether were some of the opponents paying attention?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It was a blowout? Yeah, I mean Cleveland Washington was
over in the middle of the first quarter. Who was
that like one fifty to one ten?
Speaker 5 (27:16):
I mean, my goodness, Miami scored fifty three just in
the first quarter. And be sure AP looked it up.
In NBA history, how many times have they had a
calendar date with at least ten games played. It's almost
one thousand, seven hundred different days with at least ten
games played. The margin of victory tonight was second highest.
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It was twenty one points per game. The Cleveland win
you mentioned was one forty eight to one fourteen at Washington.
Wizards are one in eight. The Miami game against Charlotte
after the first quarter heat up fifty three thirty three.
They beat the Charlotte Hornets one twenty six, one oh eight.
Orlando over Boston one twenty three, one ten, kind of
(27:58):
a close one. Celtics are only four and six. Jalen
Brown of the Celtics thirty two points in the loss
San Antonio. Andy Houston's five game winning streak one twenty
one to one ten. Spurs guard de Aaron Fox will
reportedly debut Saturday after hamstring surgery. Detroit has won five
in a row. They're up to seven and two after
winning at Brooklyn one twenty five one oh eight. Nets
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are one and eight. Cam Thomas of the Nets could
miss three to four weeks with a strain hamstring Toronto
and Memphis with wins Minnesota all over Utah one thirty
seven to ninety seven. Anthony Edwards in only twenty six
minutes on the court, scored thirty seven points at Milwaukee
forty one for Janis Santanacoumpo in a victory against the Bulls,
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who had been six and one. Fox took that win
one twenty six one ten. Jannis not only had forty
one points, he had fifteen rebounds nine assists as well.
Oklahoma City is nine and one after winning one of
the late games at Sacramento one thirty two one oh one.
Shay Gilgi Alexander in three quarters scored thirty points en
Verse six and two now after ripping Golden State one
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twenty nine to one oh four. Nikola Jokic in limited
time twenty six points, nine rebounds, nine assist. Steph Curry
of the Warriors was out due to illness. For the Lakers,
Austin Reeves with a strang groin, will miss another game. Saturday,
college hoops North Carolina beat Kansas. NHL wins for San
Jose and Chicago. Japanese third baseman Munataka Morocami was posted
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to start the process of free agency. The American League
Silver Slugger winners for offense include Cleveland third baseman Jose Ramirez,
also Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge, Mariners catcher Cal Raley, and
A's rookie first baseman Nick Kurtz. By the way, the
Big MLB Award results come out next week, starting with
Monday's Rookie of the Year announcements. In women's tennis, number one,
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Arena Sablenka advanced to the championship at the season ending
WTA finals. The other semi you went to Elena Rebakan,
who was four and o this week after eliminating American
Jessica Bagula. And you mentioned the football nineteenth ranke USC
on Fox TV tonight beating Northwestern at the LA Coliseum
thirty eight seventeen. Trojans five and one in conference Houston
(30:08):
eight and two overall, needing two field goals in the
fourth quarter to win at UCF thirty to twenty seven.
Tulane pulled off the upset at Memphis thirty eight thirty two.
Memphis had been eight and one this year. The forty
nine ers will start quarterback Mac Jones again Sunday, hosting
the Rams Texans QB C. J. Stroud is out this
weekend with a concussion. Quarterback for Washington Jaden Daniels will
(30:30):
not need surgery on his dislocated elbow. Running back for
the Bucks. Bucky Irving out with foot and shoulder injuries.
Running back for the Patriots, Ramandre Stevenson out again this
weekend with a toe injury. Aaron Jones Vikings running back,
questionable with shoulder and toe injuries. The Raiders fired special
teams coach Tom McMahon.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Bock to you, Yeah, that was that special teams last night?
Wasn't great? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Again, not that special?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah, Now you gotta have a fall guy.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Uh Now, I have kind of a backhanded compliment for
one team here, back at a compliment. Because this week
being trade deadline in the NFL, we've talked a lot
about the Sauce Gardner trade, the Quinn Williams trade, look
the Jets aspect of it, and the Colts and the Cowboys,
and but one of the I'll tell you the trade
I really like the most that is going to affect
(31:24):
a big time contender is I like the Seahawks getting
Rashid Shiheed from the Saints. I like this move because
Sam Donald, as good as he is, is still kind
of overrated, all right, Like Sam Darnold has shown that
he is good when he is throwing to the best
wide receiver in the NFL. Last year it was Justin Jefferson.
(31:48):
This year it's Jackson Smith and Jigba. Right, these are
the last two years. These are the two best receivers
of the NFL. Sam Donald does well when he has
the best receiver of the NFL throwing to. Now, eventually
you think, okay, something's gonna come up and teams are
gonna figure out how to cover JSN. That's why getting
Shaheed was such a big deal. Right, this guy's fast.
(32:09):
He's gonna be a great number two because look, I
think what JSN is catching what eighty eight percent of
every ball that's thrown of all his passes. So they
absolutely needed to make a move here. And look that
they're a really solid team, right. I've been stock up
on Seattle for a while now. They're a better version
of the Steelers, where they play defense pretty well, they
(32:30):
run the ball pretty well, they throw the ball pretty well.
Nothing is overly elite, but they do everything really well.
And that's good enough, and that's good enough to make
a deep run and get into the playoffs, but you
need a little bit more to make sure that offense
doesn't stall out at some point. And that's why that's
one of the that's my move that a contender made that.
I said, that's the biggest move that's gonna help them
(32:50):
more so than Sauce Gardner the Colts, because I told
you what, just wait, you think sauce Gardner's great, just wait,
just wait till you see him. So this is the
move I really like the most.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yeah, it's interesting with this one, is there there was
a report coming out of Pittsburgh that the Steelers made
a similar offer and that Shahed wanted to go back
to Kubiak. So that that's kind of a curiosity and
needs some more more vetting. But certainly that relationship and
its history does play into this. We'd seen Shahed was
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having a pretty good year despite the inconsistency.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I just don't want to say bad football.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
I don't want to disrespect Spencer Rattler or Tyler Shuck altogether.
But he'd had a pretty good year in New Orleans.
So now an opportunity to go with Sam Darnold. They
need a little more in the passing game, because as
you say, it's been a lot of JSN, and then
a little wishing and hoping the run game has sputtered
all year, something we've talked about in the Fantasy realm
(33:50):
quite a bit when you talk about Walker and he'll
have a couple of big plays and then all of
a sudden he'll be on ice because they start calling
a bunch of pass plays, or suddenly Sharvion A creeps in,
particularly around the goal line situation. So yeah, a little
bit of extra a guy that's gonna stretch the field
can only help to unlock maybe.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Some of these other players.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Maybe Arroyo becomes a bigger part of their offense in
the second half, or someone else sweeping under the over
the middle because you're you're taking the top off with Shaheed.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I like the move. Curious to see Sam Darnold. I
think he got a lot of a lot of bad
I mean, the still had to wash that jets off him.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I know it's been at spots.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
You know famously those photos from Carolina. Eventually I need
one of those on my wall of him at Baker
Mayfield signed. Just say remember when, uh, And then all
of that to say in Minnesota, I think they made
him the fall guy there too. Uh, the love of
JJ McCarthy and all notwithstanding, So opportunity here, good defense
(34:51):
and an opportunity to stretch the stretch the field, something
we know Sam can do.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Coming up next, we finish with a flourish on Football Friday.
Say that three times fast. I just said it once.
Mike Harmon's either gonna love me or hate me. Plus,
the game of the week in the NFL might not
be the game you think it is. That's next, Jason
and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (35:26):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I'm
standing up in the studio Football Friday, Mike Harmon, I'm
gonna make you extremely happy right now.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Okay, not.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Giants Bears this weekend. This is going to be the
week where we step out of this and everybody comes
around to the conclusion that we had earlier this year
when I told you it is the era of good
feeling in Chicago.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Go.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Ben Johnson's the right guy for Caleb Williams. Give it
a little bit of time, and Ben Johnson clearly needed
a couple of weeks to kind of get being a
head coach under his belt. Some of his decisions things happening.
But everything that's gone on since the Bears are absolutely fine.
They're kind of like the Lions light with the way
their weapons are lined up now. Now Colston Lovelin has
(36:22):
broken out. He's somebody. That's why they drafted him in
the first round as high as they did. They have
two running backs can do a lot of damage. You
got two really good wide receivers. Caleb Williams has done
everything you hoped he would do this year. He has
pushed the ball down the field. He has had big games.
He has brought you from behind. He has directed game
winning drives late in the fourth quarter. The era of
(36:44):
good feeling is here for the Bears. They're a good team.
Are they great?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Not yet. They're not quite the level of teams like
the Lions or the Eagles, but they're getting there. They're young.
This should be a blowout win over the Giants. Look.
I like Jackson Dart to put up a lot of points.
I love him in fantasy this week. But Chicago's becoming
a complete team, the running game, especially working now it
is a full service offense. They should win big and
suddenly you'll hear more of Hey, why I told you
(37:10):
Caleb Williams was great from the beginning. No, no, you
hated the guy. Oh but I told you was great?
Oh no, no, no, no, Caleb willis Now he's gonna
start getting all the flowers that he should be getting.
Caleb Williams is really good. He's on his way up.
He's been on his way up. He's doing everything you
possibly expect. It'll happen again this weekend.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Four and a half point favorites at home, forty six
and a half the total. Obviously, No Scatamo, no Molik, neighbors.
So it's Wan del Robinson, Tyron Cruz.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Yeah no, no, Hakeem Nicks, Yeah no, it's a tough weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Yeah no, keep on going on down the line.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
No Mario Manningham, no Burris no, yeah, sure, yeah no,
all those guys are going. You know, you're looking at
at an opportunity here for the Bears to really make
some noise. Thirty mile an hour wins and snow potentially
on the horizon for you, but they're plus thirteen in
the turnover differential for ahead of Pittsburgh, who's number two
(38:04):
in that category for the year with nineteen takeaways thus far.
The year of living dangerously, Look, there's still some starting
stop herky jerky motion to it. At times, it's not
always clean. I do love the cold de sac hot
take nonsense of folks that it's the greatest or the worst.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
I don't know what. You need to kind of mellow
and kind of find some happy medium in your mood.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
But you know, hold on cold a sack, just find
a space and park for a minute, opportunity to hear
him and young guy's been fantastic. He's probably gonna be
your lead back once again. DeAndre Swift didn't practice on
They cite some personal stuff going on, so he's probably
not there. But you mentioned Lovelin defending player of the week,
was waiting for him to take a big step forward,
(38:48):
still waiting for Luther Burden to come along with him,
but expecting a big game out of my guy. At
doingsay after the week, he had to reward him for
that super cut they did of all his blocks and
cheering for his teammates last week as they rolled up
the forty seven points. He should have caught that ball
in the end zone, by the way, he would be
the first to tell you that. But he'll shut his
(39:09):
dad up with a big day here in the Bears role.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
They may need it just to make sure his dad
does it, okay, if we could throw the ball to him,
so his dad stays quiet. Great that we appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Yeah, I think Ben Johnson likes when guys are like that, though.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
He likes when their dad's do no, no, no, it's
like that.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
He's fine the chirp because he knows what's going on
in that room, and he's got a room right now.
That's that's united, right, good, better best, all of that
kind of stuff, and the starting to get the trick
plays tossed in. You saw a few of them very
early last week. So starting to implement that. Keep defenses
on their toes, keep defensive coordinators guessing as to where
(39:47):
and how the ball is gonna come out. Yeah, Caleb
Williams has some opportunities to step forward. Here is another
one on the slate against a middling to less than
effective Giant squad roam.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Your dad is texting me. Please tell them to stop
texting me. Okay, sorry, coach, I'll tell them. I'll tell
him now. Meanwhile, the game of the week. You didn't
think it was gonna be Patriots Bucks, but here we are.
Patriots Bucks is a game of the week forty eight
and a half. Told well, I'll tell you this. It
is about time they played a good team, and it's
about time they take a big l and they will
Tampa coming off the buy. Baker Mayfield's gonna play with
(40:23):
his hair on fire. It's not been a great last
couple of weeks. Their offenses slowed down. They win big
and beat the Patriots and show you that the Patriot's
taking advantage of the easiest schedule the last twenty years
in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Drake may wins churned in the campus says.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
You like that.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
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