February 25, 2023 • 33 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss Derek Carr, Arron Rodgers, and Russell Wilson are starting to have stories released about their work life and egos, and so much more!
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Bing bong. So, the first start of the year for
Russell Westbrook has results in one of the games of
the year in the NBA. First start for the Clippers,
his first game, he's having a pretty decent game, all right,
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I mean Russell Westbrook start to everybody's shock because everything
that makes me like this trade to the Clippers, because
he's got a defined role. Now he's not gonna come in,
he's not going to be part of the Big three.
He's not going to be shuttled back and forth from
the starting lineup. All the reasons I like, it's got
a defined role, his egos in check. No, hey, we're
gonna start him, and the Clippers started him and offensively
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pretty good. One hundred and fifty three points through four quarters.
Westbrook with twelve points in ten Assis Kawai goes for forty,
Paul George goes for thirty two. Here's the issue. Russell
Westbrook is not a great defender, so the Kings were
able to score one hundred and fifty three points in
four quarters as well. Maleek Monk, with thirty one points
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in thirty one minutes off the bench, hits a three
with two seconds left to tie the game to send
it to overtime at one fifty three a pct. Aaron
Fox has thirty seven video game numbers for everybody in
this game so far. That's a wonderful thing for the NBA.
Get everybody all excited in the tongue's wagon. Lakers win
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Clippers with Russell Westbrook, and everybody smiles, especially because you
got those big performances as you read them off from
Kawai and Fotbaul George. And since so many media members
were on board what the Clippers could be. Remember that
mid season thing we talked about with Mark Medina NBA
dot com, longtime friend of the show. How many people
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thought the Clippers would suddenly have a run. They like
to be proven right, and when they are, what do
they do They go into they're flapping their guns. I
told you the Clippers were going to rise, So this
is good. They might have been saying the other thing
when Westbrook is he really coming that make torpedo what
they're trying to do, But no, I said the Clippers
were gonna be great. Sola again. Amazing game so far
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four minutes ago and over time Clippers leaded one fifty
seven to one fifty four. We'll keep you updated on
this game throughout the rest of the night. Really a
night of absolute insanity. Now, a little bit more in
the Russell Wilson story, because we talked a few minutes
ago about the athletic report today phenomenal report that Russell
Wilson tried to get Pete Carroll and John Schneider as
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head coach and GM in Seattle fired shortly before he
was traded to the Broncos. The power play happened, it
didn't work. He went to Denver. Also, part of the
report from the Athletic was that he had an office
on the second floor last year with all the players
on the first floor in the locker room, and Russell
was up at the second floor, and he had an
open door policy. You have offensive plays, bring him to me.
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This is just a horrendous idea. All the positivity cookies
you get about fortune cookies, what'd you get? Would you
like a positivity cookie? Positivity cookies? You know what you know,
inspirational messages in stat instead of cryptic stuff that you
always just said in bed too. Dude, I'll tell you this,
and I'm being one hundred percent honest with you. If
you said to me, hey, what quarterback in the in
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the NBA do you think would have positivity cookies? It
would be Russell Wilson. He would have the positivity cookies.
By the way, I'm looking into the whether this is
actually a thing, because if it's not, we're finding a
baker and we're gonna have these damn things. Have a
positivity cookie what have a positivity cookie? Okay, fine, I
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guess positivity See there you go, positivity cookies to keep
spirits up. It's an Etsy thing. I guess I'll have
a positivity cookie, all right? Do I have to have one? Look?
He's completely out of touch, you know, something like this
is a really bad idea and it was never gonna work,
and it's just being embarrassing right now. But the first
bit of advice I have for Russell Wilsons, then I
got some advice for Aaron Rodgers is m dude, you're
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not good at power plays because you pull the power
play in Seattle. You try to pull a power play
twice in Seattle by saying I need to be involved
in the offense more, and you weren't. And then it
was I need Pete Carroll and John Schneider fired, and
they weren't. Now it's I'm starting to run things in Denver,
and then the head coach gets fired, and now you're
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not You're bad at power plays, all right? If you
were a television character, you would be like the worst
guy on Succession? Right? Who is? I can't get anything right?
I can't figure out. I don't know how to I
don't know how to pull the right power play. You're
bad at it, so stop doing it, because you got it.
It's a skill right to have a power play and
be able to pull it be successful. You have to
know your leverage. You have to know what you have
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over the team. You know, I know you can get
away with them what you can't, And he clearly doesn't
because all the power plays he has tried to pull
have not worked, have not worked. I got to be
more involved. No, I want these guys fired. No, all right,
I want to get trade fined. You're traded. Hey, well
my office up here. Yeah, no, that's not gonna work. Sorry.
Sean Payton says, that's not happening anymore. You're bad at
power plays, you're so stop with them anymore. Stop with them,
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just be real right that. That's my one bit of
advice is that Russell Wilson strikes me as a person.
You know, he's thirty five years old, and I don't
know does he have any idea of who he really is?
Because you get to Russell Wilsons, you get the Russell
Wilson in the image of Hey, here's iamy On, mister
positivity and all these great things, and here this is
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the image I want you to have of me. And
then there's the stories we get where there's the other
Russell Wilson who's conniving and power plays and I got
an office in in my team's above my team's locker room. Um,
just be real, don't If you're elitist and people may
you know, you may rub people the wrong way, that's okay.
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As long as that's who you are. Players will still
follow you. If you're a really good quarterback man, they
don't have to love you, they just have to respect
your talent and who you are. You think Tom Brady,
every one of his teammates love playing with Tom Brady. Now,
tom Brady was elitist. Tom Brady was someone who rubbed
people the wrong way. But as long as you respect
their talent, fun but be real, bed, that's all you
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could say about someone. The best thing you could do
is be who you are. And I know that Russell Wilson.
I don't know who he is because I know the
image he wants to put out there of him. And
then you get these other stories that are too numerous
to discount, where you go, okay, he's this other guy too.
Now I get that. No one has always one part
of what image they put out there. But I feel
like if Russell Wilson was just real and if he
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was a bit of a jerk, okay, they'd be a
bit of a jerk. It's fine, Aaron Rodgers, a bit
of a jerk gets worked. You know, it works for everybody,
well just about everybody. A selfish athlete is really good
because they are selfish and they are part of a jerk,
and they have a belief in themselves being able to
do things right. It's part of what goes into being
a great player in any sport. But just be who
you are when you try to put this image out
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and then we find out stuff behind closed doors. Who's
gonna buy into you, who's gonna do who's gonna want
to be around you, who's gonna be someone said, yeah,
this is great, I really want to be hanging out
with you because I don't know the kind of person
you are. Just be real whatever that is it is,
and every everything will work out fine. You will still
be able to be a star quarterback. You will get
more players who like you, even if they even if
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they don't, I shouldn't say like you. You will get
more players who will respect you and play for you,
regardless as to how much they like you or don't
like you. But be real, that's the biggest piece of
advice I can give. Yeah, I mean, and that's just it.
There's a chasm and a wide berth between you know,
being liked and being respected. I don't have to like you,
but I can respect that you come to work prepared
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every day. I'm not saying you, I'm you know, people
are gonna read into that. You know, just in general,
your jobs, your relationship whatever, be present and give you
know what you're you need to to the equation and
folks don't have to like your methodology, your terminology, how
you treat folks right at times if you if you're
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performing and you're a bit of a hard ass, that works.
Look at Brady. I'm sure there are plenty of times
guys thought, you know what, I'd really like to hammer
him upside the head. But he's Brady, he's doing his thing.
We're gonna win this game, and he's he's got these
the pelts on the wall. You know, there was a
video making the rounds like I never noticed this before.
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You know, you're scrolling through mindlessly as you're sitting waiting
for dinner to finish in the oven, and all of
a sudden, like I never noticed, you know, the Hulk.
Watch him in the background here as Loki walks into
the room and you see him clench his fist like
he's gonna punch him in the back. Man, you might
have a lot of those moments with someone in your life,
in your work life, but if they're getting the job done,
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you say, all right, yeah, I guess it works right.
It's in every profession, all the way up and down.
Don't have to be liked, just respect that you're putting
the effort in and that you're the way you're operating.
It's for the betterment of the squad and not your
self glorification. And that's where the line sometimes that line
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of demarcation when it comes to certain athletes, and again
through every walk of life. But we're talking sports, so
where where that line kind of gets drawn, and that's
where the media turns on in Russell went from a
quirky curiosity guy and then suddenly it was open season
on him. Like we were doing a lot of the
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commentary about the guy, the public versus private persona, how
much is real? How much has imagined? All of that
when he was still in Seattle, and then as soon
as it started to turn south in Denver, suddenly, all
of a sudden, you had these giant thought slash hit
pieces one after another on Russell Wilson's like, it's the
same guy he always was. Just here. He hit a
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situation where you got people that are learning how to
do the job, and he took full advantage of it
to ask for everything he wanted. I mean, it was
and so Gloria has moved by him. Unfortunately, if an
alienate's folks and you're not performing and you're playing terribly,
making bad decisions, etc. You start losing that locker room fast.
So you're starting from ground zero here, So you might
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as well go get a lot of paint and start
going over the mural. Now Twitter to Fresca, Mike had
swollen to him the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. And you know the other part of
it is this and this, this is a pretty interesting
thing that I really take away is that if there's
anything that would keep Aaron Rodgers from to stay in
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Green Bay, right, I think about this Russell Wilson. We're
getting all these stories about him now since he's left Seattle,
they don't have to protect him anymore. They don't have
to all the stories of things that upset them, the
back and forth, and so these stories can get out,
and because he's still playing, these stories continue to dog
him and they follow him around the league, and it's
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made Look, do you really think he had a happy
season last year playing quarterback? With the different stories about
how things went in Seattle, with all the struggles he
had going on in Denver. Now he figured, okay, I'm
done with that him into year two in Denver, I
got Sean Baton. Nope, here comes the story about how
you tried to get your coach and GM fired, all
of these things following you. All right, that's a big deal.
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Aaron Rodgers has to sit there and say, Hm, when
I leave Green Bay, is this what's gonna happen to me?
Because you know, there's stuff that happened behind closed doors
that Aaron Rodgers wouldn't want out, whether it's certain things
he said, demands he made. Look, just because the guy's
been there for you know, eighteen years, and now it
has been the starting quarterback there since two thousand and eight,
two thousand and nine, So there's lots of stuff. I'm
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sure that's gone on the Packers front office and people
affected by this are going the second that guy gets traded,
I'm calling my source and I'm saying, hey, you didn't
get it from me, but this is what happened. And
these stories are going to follow Aaron Rodgers to his
new team, and whether he goes to the Jets or
the Raiders or the Jets or someplace else or the Jets,
whatever it is, he's gonna get questions about this and
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this is going to follow him. And he cares deeply
about what people think about him because he goes on
Pat McAfee show and when someone says something critical of him,
he gets really mad. He won't address that person directly,
but he'll get mad at that person through his appearance
on Pat McAfee show. So, yeah, does he want to
go through that the next two years while he's trying
to restart his career. No, that this is more time
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he had in Green Bay than Russell Wilson had in Seattle.
I don't want this stuff getting out. I don't want
someone to tell a story about x Y or Z
on me. Even though lots of my life is an
open book. The Ayahuasca Tee, the darkness retreats what's going
on behind closed doors. Here's a shocker, right, You didn't
think Russell Wilson tried to get my coach and GM fired.
What's out there or there in Rogers? Is that going
to be worth it to him? Or is he going
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to say, you know what, maybe I stay in Green Bay,
we try to make it work. I don't want this
to follow me and ruin my image because he loves
the image he has. He loves what people think about
him and how irreverend he is and what a superstar
he is. He doesn't want anything to damage that. So
maybe I stay in Green Bay another year and see
if it works and we bring new players in. Guys
are restructuring their deals and I can figure out a
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way to potentially win here. That's the one thing I
can see him deciding to do that would keep him
in Green Bay. Yeah. I mean, we've talked about it a
a bunch. What's real, what's imagined in terms of what
the local reporters McGinn and others we're putting out about
what the Packers feel and their sentiments of hey, we're
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done with Rogers and blah blah blah versus Pellicero Center. Yeah, no,
that's not true. They would certainly work through it as
long as he's ready to come in, do some of
the offseason you know, ota drills and work with the
young guys as they're now going into their second year,
maybe with a little a bit of a retooled old line, etc.
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And recommit to being their guy, especially when you're paying
him fifty to sixty million dollars. The other part is
obviously contractually on both sides, and Rogers is addressed that
a bit of whether they need to dial it back.
As for his image, Look, the only thing that would
be bad is if he's had an office on the
second floor in the Green Bay facilities all along, and
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they go up there and they find that everything has
just been a very carefully crack crafted persona and it's
all on the white boards for everybody to read. What
if what if he does have his own office and
everybody has to go through a darkness retreat. Maybe maybe,
and maybe the whole floor has to be a darkness retreat. Well,
you know what, maybe everybody comes out a little bit
better and more in touch with themselves, their needs and
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how they fit into this great sphere of influence and
how they fit into the game of life. I can't
wait for Rogers to get traded. Why I keep banging
my knees on my door trying to get out? I
got bruises all over. Turn the lights on. You said
something about what was that your knees? I kept banging
my knees on the door. Enunciate properly, bangings. Gotten in
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trouble with stun the door, banging my knees on the door.
It's what I said. A guy, can't it hurt through them?
A big foulon? Yeah, So I'm telling you the one thing,
Aaron Rod, Oh, maybe I don't want that stuff out
there about me. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten
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Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Oh oh oh,
you did it? Take off your uniform? I am really
hoping for one more overtime because we could get to
a two hundred point game right now. The Kings and
the Clippers there are thirty six seconds left in double overtime.
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Kings lead the Clippers one seventy six to one seventy five.
All right, here are the big numbers you need to know.
Dearon Fox with forty two points and twelve assists for
the Kings. Right. Malik Monk, who hit a three with
two seconds left to send the game to overtime, has
forty five points in forty minutes tonight for the Kings.
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For the Clippers, Kawai's got forty four. Paul George has
thirty four, and in his first game starting for the Clippers,
he's played thirty nine minutes. Russell Westbrooks seventeen points, fourteen assists,
and five rebounds played out exactly how you thought with him,
did yeah? All right? Exactly. Well. Look, look when I
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came out out and i'm and I'm watching the beginning
part of the game, and I said, boy, the Clippers
are playing at a pretty hyped up pace. Maybe they're
excited Westbrook is here. I don't know why he's starting,
but hey, I can't argue with the offense for the
Clippers in this game because they're shooting sixty one percent,
but they're also losing now by a point. Right, they
scored one hundred and seventy five points, and they're shot
sixty one percent, they're fifty nine percent from three point range,
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and they could lose this game. That's insane. It's like
an All Star game right here. Clippers currently have seven
guys in double figures stif only played nine. Gorgon has eight,
Morris has nine. Yeah, how do you feel if in
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a game like this, you have a bad game, like
you you score like, you know, six or eight points,
you got to feel pretty bad about well? I mean,
right now, if you're Harrison Barnes, right, he's one of
six from the field in his forty minutes eleven eleven points,
six boards. But I mean he's one of six. Yeah,
a bit of operational efficiency, maybe maybe you get the
job done. I mean, this is just I mean, this
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is craziness. One seventy oh five seconds left now, Uh
still one seventy six, one seventy five kings with the lead. Uh.
Kawai just missed a seventeen footer. Uh. Daron Fox missed
a shot with five seconds left to follow that up,
and now the Clippers have the ball five seconds left.
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The game is in the time out, calling up one
final play. Um, how much do you hope that Russell
Westbrook just takes a shot right here, just waves everybody
off and takes just wave everybody. I'm gonna shoot on
the fresh Prince. I'm gonna show Will has that massive game.
And then Carlton from half court No, not even clues.
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Uh no, Well, actually Westbrook foul out of the game
a couple minutes ago. He had a he had a
foul that was a six foul of the game, So
it can't be Westbrook. But King again, one seventy six,
one seventy five, five seconds left to go and double
over time. We'll have more on this from Special Delivery
Steve de Sager coming up in a couple of minutes.
But if you thought all the drama today was Russell
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Wilson and trying to get people fired, well how about
this double shot of Derek carr One. Reports have come
out that he wants thirty five million dollars a year. Okay,
I believe that the guy had a contract that was
between thirty and forty million for each of the next
three years. Thirty five million a year, Okay, I get that.
And if I'm really desert for a quarterback, and I
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teld Derek Carr, how about two years and seventy million? Okay,
I believe that part of it. Here's a part of
the story I don't believe. And again, I hate to
say I told you so. Was Some sources, including Jeff Darlington,
said that three new teams are in the mix for
Derek Carr. But they're mystery teams. Yes, mystery teams. One
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in Chicago that operates that we don't know who any
of these teams are, which is where I tell you
when I say I hate to say I told you so,
Because there's no market for Derek Carr, at least not
the market that team Derek Carr, which his car as
brother and everybody else thought was going to be there
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for him. So here's suddenly, oh, three mystery teams for
the mix. First of all, nobody needs to be a
mystery team for Derek Carr. If you're in for Derek
Cart means you need a quarterback, right. The only time
you're a mystery team is if you have a pretty
established starter and there's a big time superstar becoming available,
like hey, Tom Brady could be available. Well, we want
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to be a mystery team because we have a pretty
good quarterback that we got to kick to the curb,
and if we don't make this trade, we don't want
to have ill feelings and have to repair our relationship.
That's the only time there's mystery teams involved someone of
such a high status as is involved. But if you're
going after Derek Cart means you got nobody man on.
It's not like the Bengals are going you know what
a boy. I like Joe Burrow, but I really would
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love to get Derek Carr. No, it's not happening. So no,
I don't believe for a second there's more teams in
on Derek Carr. What did I say from the beginning,
Derek Carr is mishandling his free agency. He became a
free agent two weeks before anybody else. This is your
time to get a deal, This is your time to
make people fall in love with you. And what have
we heard from Derek Carr? He talked to the Saints
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when he was potentially could have gotten traded there. He
wanted more money. The Saint said, yeah, thanks, we're not
doing it. Okay, since he's become a free agent, he
should be on his fourth or fifteen he's talking to
right now. Instead, it was just the Jets. The Jets
brought him in, had a great weekend. Did the Jets
sign him? They're just no, they didn't. I don't know
what Derek Carr is waiting for. I don't know. Does
he think the market's going to heat up from at
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some point? It's not. He's running unopposed right now. What's
going to happen when the beginning of March shows up
and Lamar Jackson's going to be dangled out there for
a trade, and Tannehill is available, and Garoppolo is available
and all these other quarters, It's not going to get
better for Derek Carr. Teams are looking at him right now, going, yeah,
thirty five million a year, okay, But is he that
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much better than Jimmy Garoppolo, who I can get for
a lot cheaper for maybe less years. Yeah, Because that's
part of it. It's not just about who's the best quarterback,
it's what can we fit in Because if we can
get Garoppolo for twenty million a year, boy, that gives
us another fifteen eighteen million dollars to figure out some
other positions on the team. I really want to do that. So, yeah,
it's not suddenly gonna be Yeah, we got all this
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money for you. Derek Carr, I don't get what he's doing.
I don't get the whole Oh, I'm taking a long
time to decide. The only reason that's going on is
because there's not interest in him. It's lukewarm at best.
So now he's got to push the narrative of hey,
I'm holding out, I'm holding out on my free agency
and there's mystery teams involved. They're just trying to drum
up more interest in Derek Carr when it's not there.
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Because anybody else, if Aaron Rodgers was a free agent,
he'd have been on his seventh team by now. He'd
be talking to everybody. If it's somebody else that if
it's somebody you want people, teams will have gone nuts
scheduling interviews with them, scheduling time at the facility. Make
sure you get on that plane and get here. We
don't want to hear that you're staying because you want
to sign a contract. We want to get you into
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our building right now and show you our culture and
show you what we're all about. There's been none of
that with Derek Carr. There's been absolutely What does that
tell you about what the league thinks about Derek Carr?
So now here they are drumming, trying to drum up
interest on Derek Carr by saying, oh, we got three
mystery time, not one mystery team, not too three mystery
teams now because one mystery team? Okay too? No, no,
three teams and they all don't want to be identified?
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Are they all? They all for some reason we don't
know their identity? Come on, man, I mean really, come on,
I don't care. I'm not gonna believe that for a second.
Three teams don't want to be identified? Stop? Yeah, it
makes makes for fun theoreticals though, right the anonymous source, okay, cool?
Three teams? Huh hey, David, should I just add it forth?
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I mean, this is David Carr calling all those guys. Guys.
You wouldn't believe this. There's so many teams going after
Why stop at three? Might make it seven? Make it eight?
Make it why stop at three? Why three teams? Half
the league is coming. But the melody is, as we
go through, right, we can order them end them up.
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And we've talked about this a bunch. You and I
the three guys that you'd like most all have strings attached,
whether it's Fields, whether it's Rogers, whether it's Lamar Jackson.
When you start getting into the free and clear, we
can bring a guy in Jimmy Garoppolo injury, Ryan Tannehill.
Do you love him? Do you not? Baker Mayfield, Mike White.
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It starts to go down pretty fast, right, Jacoby Brissette
in there somewhere you decide where he slots. And then
you got Derek Carr, who, by his own estimation, I'm
sure and I think you and I sitting here we
could be reasonable about it and say, yeah, he might
be the best, But what's that margin and what's the
differential if we put it in the algorithm to decide
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about the dollars and cents. Look, I don't blame a
guy for asking for whatever he wants and never get
into the man's pocket. But you're also trying to do
a little bit of an advisement service here of you
got opportunities potentially here. And now Boomer Sisson the other
day had the report and he was talking about that
Derek Carr might not be enthralled at going to the
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Jets because they still love them some Zach Wilson, So
he may not be anything but a mentor slash placeholder.
And you're not going to break the bank for a
guy who's just coming in as mentor slash placeholder if
you still believe that Zach and his mom have a
long tenure with the Jets. So three mystery teams, I
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mean that's great. I mean that's about as good as
it gets right there. You couldn't have just said, you
know what he's talked to at least one other team.
You don't just say at least one other team, and
then everybody can start specula is it Atlanta? Is it Carolina?
Is it? Instead it's there's three teams, like you say
it like that and like nobody nobody believes you anymore.
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I'll tell you. I mean, there's certain things you can
ask me to believe where I say, okay, I'll go
with that. But just the fact that it was three teams,
I mean think but none of they all we all
want to be identified. We aughtot, we were all were Yeah,
I mean we're all in for suspension of disbelief. I mean,
we love Modoc all of those things. It's great, But
telling me there's at least three other teams interest. It
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is like, really in a day of transparency, where every
team is going we've talked and talked to everybody we
possibly can about every job down to our latest water
boy that they're not gonna say, hey, we're gonna happen.
We're talking to Derek Carr. What do you think fans
give us your feedback? No, come on, man, you be
better than that. I'm telling you, man, it's just I
(26:50):
really the whole Derek Carr thing, he's completely mismanaging this.
If he doesn't sign by the beginning of free agency,
look out, he's gonna be well, he's gonna wind up
taking whatever's left because other teams are gonna say, ah,
yeah we liked you, but yeah you want a little
too much money in so opportunities out there, Watch watch
what happens. Watch I know thee whoever is the worst
(27:11):
guy to whoever's the worst fit, that's who the Jets
are gonna get. I don't know who the worst fit
is because we haven't hit free agency yet. You don't
know who. But whoever the worst fit is, that's who
the Jets are gonna get. Is one of the evaluation
criterion the ability to put up motivational speeches. If I
were to give you a room to deck rate and said,
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give me five of the greatest inspirational quote sports or
not that you've ever had in your life, please men,
And that's part of the interview process. There you go.
We got a whole TV show that we could work
out of this twitter at How about a fresca? Mike
gets small and doll to Derek car you should have
taken my advice. I told you. And now look where
you are you're gonna be. You're gonna sit there and go, Hey, Raiders,
(27:53):
you didn't get anybody, and what what do you think
we can get back together for a year high. I
know you guys didn't have a plan. Suck them while, Hey,
we could do it. I still love being a Raider.
I say that they don't really have a plan. Be
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Night comes to us from the game of the year
in the NBA second highest scoring game in NBA history,
the famous game Pistons and Nuggets one six eighty four
back in nineteen eighty three, one seventy six, one seventy five.
(28:58):
The Kings in doublet last the Clippers, and here's how
it ended. Checks it out to batoom, launches for three
misses it three b los kames, trafic bulak bunk, hasn't.
That's Sacramento fourteen down late in regulation, has come back
and double overtime to win one of the most memorable
games in their thirty eight year history. And Sacramento one
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seventy six one seventy five is the final score. King's
Radio Network on the call, just an absolute thriller of
the game. I wish the Clippers had a better play
for the end of the game because it look like
we're gonna in bout it to Kawai now one on one,
I don't have it back out and Batoomb takes a
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really bad three, Like were they just tired? I listen,
we're going home. We're gonna make this, We're gonna go.
I really wanted them to have a better play set
for the end of like going for two at the
end of the game. Yeah, it's like, listen, we're done,
We're just we're just ready to go home. Now the
Clippers party. This is a lot of things that takes.
We're gonna hit you with some rapid fire stuff. If
this is this is probably the best performance we've seen
(30:03):
from Kawhi Leonard in quite some time. And if this
is the kind of Kawhi Leonard we're going to get
the rest of the way, then yes, I'm in with
everybody that says watch out for the Clippers rising in
the Western Conference. But we got to see it a
little bit more. How gassed is he by playing all
these minutes tonight? But if if this is a guy,
if he can still be this guy, I'm on board
with that. Yeah, that's a giant. If let's see, they've
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now played sixty two games, we've got twenty remaining. How
many of those twenty of these guys playing together. What
you're over under. Let's go and look, you played this
well and you still lost. That's the hard part, right.
You want to take all the positives. You scored a
lot of points offensive efficiency. Look at the three points shooting.
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You still took a giant l when it was all
said done. You expended all that energy, all that effort
on the offensive end and lost. There. I have Joe
positivity here. Yeah, one hundred seventy of my points and
you lose. You can't have now Here's the other thing
(31:10):
is with is Russell Westbrook tonight? Look at like they
scored one hundred and seventy five points in his debut
starting for the Clippers. Hey, okay, this team is a
little bit deeper than the Lakers. And I think maybe
that's one other reason why I like the Westbrook situation
a little bit more, is that he's not coming in
where he's got to be the guy. He's not even
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one of the top two there. It's okay, just be
you know, one of our Just just be one guy
that's contributing. You don't need to worry about the pressure
being on you because we're much deeper. We have guys
like the Tune that can score a lot of points
off the bench. We're pretty deep roster. We can go
eight nine deep, pretty good. It's why we've been able
to win as many games we have the last couple
of years. So suddenly Russell Westbrook on a deeper team
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than the Lakers that's really thin. He can fit in
and they can still play well. It's why one of
the reasons why I like this move. Yeah, it's going
to be an interesting final twenty games here in the
Western Conference. We had the other game of the night
that was alongside and in a lot of high scoring
games along the way, you saw a pretty good effort
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from the Phoenix Suns, the other team everybody's paying attention to,
the Bulls actually won a game your Knicks with a victory.
The Hawks score one hundred and thirty six points in
their first game since unceremoniously dumping Nate McMillan. So there's
a lot in the Bucks score one hundred and twenty
eight points and blow out the Heat. But Jannis has
a knee injury. Is it did he not play because
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it was a blowout or is there more there? We'll
have to keep an eye out the other two things
of this game. From the King's side of it, yeah
is oh boy, Malik Monk just the latest former Laker
to disappoint and go somewhere and say, hey, he's pretty good,
right the shotmaker Lebron needed. Malik Monk made forty five three,
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had forty five points and forty minutes off the bed.
The just they have a litany of guys that disappoint
with the Lakers and go someplace else. It's amazing And
what we talked about a month ago, Mike is still
true right now. Kings now nine games over five hundred,
there is one choice for NBA Coach of the Year,
and that's Mike Brown. That's it. He is. He is runaway.
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He's the runaway pick without a doubt. Yeah, fantastic. Ever,
two guys over forty points. You know, all your starters
in double figures tonight, pulling all the strings again, not
a textbook. Hey, I'm gonna put this one up in
the louver in terms of a masterpiece. But outwit, out last,
out play here we go. So there it is. Game
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Bing bong. So, the first start of the year for
Russell Westbrook has results in one of the games of
the year in the NBA. First start for the Clippers,
his first game, he's having a pretty decent game, all right,
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I mean Russell Westbrook start to everybody's shock because everything
that makes me like this trade to the Clippers, because
he's got a defined role. Now he's not gonna come in,
he's not going to be part of the Big three.
He's not going to be shuttled back and forth from
the starting lineup. All the reasons I like, it's got
a defined role, his egos in check. No, hey, we're
gonna start him, and the Clippers started him and offensively
(01:30):
pretty good. One hundred and fifty three points through four quarters.
Westbrook with twelve points in ten Assis Kawai goes for forty,
Paul George goes for thirty two. Here's the issue. Russell
Westbrook is not a great defender, so the Kings were
able to score one hundred and fifty three points in
four quarters as well. Maleek Monk, with thirty one points
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in thirty one minutes off the bench, hits a three
with two seconds left to tie the game to send
it to overtime at one fifty three a pct. Aaron
Fox has thirty seven video game numbers for everybody in
this game so far. That's a wonderful thing for the NBA.
Get everybody all excited in the tongue's wagon. Lakers win
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Clippers with Russell Westbrook, and everybody smiles, especially because you
got those big performances as you read them off from
Kawai and Fotbaul George. And since so many media members
were on board what the Clippers could be. Remember that
mid season thing we talked about with Mark Medina NBA
dot com, longtime friend of the show. How many people
(02:33):
thought the Clippers would suddenly have a run. They like
to be proven right, and when they are, what do
they do They go into they're flapping their guns. I
told you the Clippers were going to rise, So this
is good. They might have been saying the other thing
when Westbrook is he really coming that make torpedo what
they're trying to do, But no, I said the Clippers
were gonna be great. Sola again. Amazing game so far
(02:59):
four minutes ago and over time Clippers leaded one fifty
seven to one fifty four. We'll keep you updated on
this game throughout the rest of the night. Really a
night of absolute insanity. Now, a little bit more in
the Russell Wilson story, because we talked a few minutes
ago about the athletic report today phenomenal report that Russell
Wilson tried to get Pete Carroll and John Schneider as
(03:22):
head coach and GM in Seattle fired shortly before he
was traded to the Broncos. The power play happened, it
didn't work. He went to Denver. Also, part of the
report from the Athletic was that he had an office
on the second floor last year with all the players
on the first floor in the locker room, and Russell
was up at the second floor, and he had an
open door policy. You have offensive plays, bring him to me.
(03:45):
This is just a horrendous idea. All the positivity cookies
you get about fortune cookies, what'd you get? Would you
like a positivity cookie? Positivity cookies? You know what you know,
inspirational messages in stat instead of cryptic stuff that you
always just said in bed too. Dude, I'll tell you this,
and I'm being one hundred percent honest with you. If
you said to me, hey, what quarterback in the in
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the NBA do you think would have positivity cookies? It
would be Russell Wilson. He would have the positivity cookies.
By the way, I'm looking into the whether this is
actually a thing, because if it's not, we're finding a
baker and we're gonna have these damn things. Have a
positivity cookie what have a positivity cookie? Okay, fine, I
(04:30):
guess positivity See there you go, positivity cookies to keep
spirits up. It's an Etsy thing. I guess I'll have
a positivity cookie, all right? Do I have to have one? Look?
He's completely out of touch, you know, something like this
is a really bad idea and it was never gonna work,
and it's just being embarrassing right now. But the first
bit of advice I have for Russell Wilsons, then I
got some advice for Aaron Rodgers is m dude, you're
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not good at power plays because you pull the power
play in Seattle. You try to pull a power play
twice in Seattle by saying I need to be involved
in the offense more, and you weren't. And then it
was I need Pete Carroll and John Schneider fired, and
they weren't. Now it's I'm starting to run things in Denver,
and then the head coach gets fired, and now you're
(05:14):
not You're bad at power plays, all right? If you
were a television character, you would be like the worst
guy on Succession? Right? Who is? I can't get anything right?
I can't figure out. I don't know how to I
don't know how to pull the right power play. You're
bad at it, so stop doing it, because you got it.
It's a skill right to have a power play and
be able to pull it be successful. You have to
know your leverage. You have to know what you have
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over the team. You know, I know you can get
away with them what you can't, And he clearly doesn't
because all the power plays he has tried to pull
have not worked, have not worked. I got to be
more involved. No, I want these guys fired. No, all right,
I want to get trade fined. You're traded. Hey, well
my office up here. Yeah, no, that's not gonna work. Sorry.
Sean Payton says, that's not happening anymore. You're bad at
power plays, you're so stop with them anymore. Stop with them,
(05:55):
just be real right that. That's my one bit of
advice is that Russell Wilson strikes me as a person.
You know, he's thirty five years old, and I don't
know does he have any idea of who he really is?
Because you get to Russell Wilsons, you get the Russell
Wilson in the image of Hey, here's iamy On, mister
positivity and all these great things, and here this is
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the image I want you to have of me. And
then there's the stories we get where there's the other
Russell Wilson who's conniving and power plays and I got
an office in in my team's above my team's locker room. Um,
just be real, don't If you're elitist and people may
you know, you may rub people the wrong way, that's okay.
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As long as that's who you are. Players will still
follow you. If you're a really good quarterback man, they
don't have to love you, they just have to respect
your talent and who you are. You think Tom Brady,
every one of his teammates love playing with Tom Brady. Now,
tom Brady was elitist. Tom Brady was someone who rubbed
people the wrong way. But as long as you respect
their talent, fun but be real, bed, that's all you
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could say about someone. The best thing you could do
is be who you are. And I know that Russell Wilson.
I don't know who he is because I know the
image he wants to put out there of him. And
then you get these other stories that are too numerous
to discount, where you go, okay, he's this other guy too.
Now I get that. No one has always one part
of what image they put out there. But I feel
like if Russell Wilson was just real and if he
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was a bit of a jerk, okay, they'd be a
bit of a jerk. It's fine, Aaron Rodgers, a bit
of a jerk gets worked. You know, it works for everybody,
well just about everybody. A selfish athlete is really good
because they are selfish and they are part of a jerk,
and they have a belief in themselves being able to
do things right. It's part of what goes into being
a great player in any sport. But just be who
you are when you try to put this image out
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and then we find out stuff behind closed doors. Who's
gonna buy into you, who's gonna do who's gonna want
to be around you, who's gonna be someone said, yeah,
this is great, I really want to be hanging out
with you because I don't know the kind of person
you are. Just be real whatever that is it is,
and every everything will work out fine. You will still
be able to be a star quarterback. You will get
more players who like you, even if they even if
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they don't, I shouldn't say like you. You will get
more players who will respect you and play for you,
regardless as to how much they like you or don't
like you. But be real, that's the biggest piece of
advice I can give. Yeah, I mean, and that's just it.
There's a chasm and a wide berth between you know,
being liked and being respected. I don't have to like you,
but I can respect that you come to work prepared
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every day. I'm not saying you, I'm you know, people
are gonna read into that. You know, just in general,
your jobs, your relationship whatever, be present and give you
know what you're you need to to the equation and
folks don't have to like your methodology, your terminology, how
you treat folks right at times if you if you're
(08:42):
performing and you're a bit of a hard ass, that works.
Look at Brady. I'm sure there are plenty of times
guys thought, you know what, I'd really like to hammer
him upside the head. But he's Brady, he's doing his thing.
We're gonna win this game, and he's he's got these
the pelts on the wall. You know, there was a
video making the rounds like I never noticed this before.
(09:04):
You know, you're scrolling through mindlessly as you're sitting waiting
for dinner to finish in the oven, and all of
a sudden, like I never noticed, you know, the Hulk.
Watch him in the background here as Loki walks into
the room and you see him clench his fist like
he's gonna punch him in the back. Man, you might
have a lot of those moments with someone in your life,
in your work life, but if they're getting the job done,
(09:27):
you say, all right, yeah, I guess it works right.
It's in every profession, all the way up and down.
Don't have to be liked, just respect that you're putting
the effort in and that you're the way you're operating.
It's for the betterment of the squad and not your
self glorification. And that's where the line sometimes that line
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of demarcation when it comes to certain athletes, and again
through every walk of life. But we're talking sports, so
where where that line kind of gets drawn, and that's
where the media turns on in Russell went from a
quirky curiosity guy and then suddenly it was open season
on him. Like we were doing a lot of the
(10:09):
commentary about the guy, the public versus private persona, how
much is real? How much has imagined? All of that
when he was still in Seattle, and then as soon
as it started to turn south in Denver, suddenly, all
of a sudden, you had these giant thought slash hit
pieces one after another on Russell Wilson's like, it's the
same guy he always was. Just here. He hit a
(10:32):
situation where you got people that are learning how to
do the job, and he took full advantage of it
to ask for everything he wanted. I mean, it was
and so Gloria has moved by him. Unfortunately, if an
alienate's folks and you're not performing and you're playing terribly,
making bad decisions, etc. You start losing that locker room fast.
So you're starting from ground zero here, So you might
(10:54):
as well go get a lot of paint and start
going over the mural. Now Twitter to Fresca, Mike had
swollen to him the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. And you know the other part of
it is this and this, this is a pretty interesting
thing that I really take away is that if there's
anything that would keep Aaron Rodgers from to stay in
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Green Bay, right, I think about this Russell Wilson. We're
getting all these stories about him now since he's left Seattle,
they don't have to protect him anymore. They don't have
to all the stories of things that upset them, the
back and forth, and so these stories can get out,
and because he's still playing, these stories continue to dog
him and they follow him around the league, and it's
(11:36):
made Look, do you really think he had a happy
season last year playing quarterback? With the different stories about
how things went in Seattle, with all the struggles he
had going on in Denver. Now he figured, okay, I'm
done with that him into year two in Denver, I
got Sean Baton. Nope, here comes the story about how
you tried to get your coach and GM fired, all
of these things following you. All right, that's a big deal.
(11:57):
Aaron Rodgers has to sit there and say, Hm, when
I leave Green Bay, is this what's gonna happen to me?
Because you know, there's stuff that happened behind closed doors
that Aaron Rodgers wouldn't want out, whether it's certain things
he said, demands he made. Look, just because the guy's
been there for you know, eighteen years, and now it
has been the starting quarterback there since two thousand and eight,
two thousand and nine, So there's lots of stuff. I'm
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sure that's gone on the Packers front office and people
affected by this are going the second that guy gets traded,
I'm calling my source and I'm saying, hey, you didn't
get it from me, but this is what happened. And
these stories are going to follow Aaron Rodgers to his
new team, and whether he goes to the Jets or
the Raiders or the Jets or someplace else or the Jets,
whatever it is, he's gonna get questions about this and
(12:40):
this is going to follow him. And he cares deeply
about what people think about him because he goes on
Pat McAfee show and when someone says something critical of him,
he gets really mad. He won't address that person directly,
but he'll get mad at that person through his appearance
on Pat McAfee show. So, yeah, does he want to
go through that the next two years while he's trying
to restart his career. No, that this is more time
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he had in Green Bay than Russell Wilson had in Seattle.
I don't want this stuff getting out. I don't want
someone to tell a story about x Y or Z
on me. Even though lots of my life is an
open book. The Ayahuasca Tee, the darkness retreats what's going
on behind closed doors. Here's a shocker, right, You didn't
think Russell Wilson tried to get my coach and GM fired.
What's out there or there in Rogers? Is that going
to be worth it to him? Or is he going
(13:22):
to say, you know what, maybe I stay in Green Bay,
we try to make it work. I don't want this
to follow me and ruin my image because he loves
the image he has. He loves what people think about
him and how irreverend he is and what a superstar
he is. He doesn't want anything to damage that. So
maybe I stay in Green Bay another year and see
if it works and we bring new players in. Guys
are restructuring their deals and I can figure out a
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way to potentially win here. That's the one thing I
can see him deciding to do that would keep him
in Green Bay. Yeah. I mean, we've talked about it a
a bunch. What's real, what's imagined in terms of what
the local reporters McGinn and others we're putting out about
what the Packers feel and their sentiments of hey, we're
(14:06):
done with Rogers and blah blah blah versus Pellicero Center. Yeah, no,
that's not true. They would certainly work through it as
long as he's ready to come in, do some of
the offseason you know, ota drills and work with the
young guys as they're now going into their second year,
maybe with a little a bit of a retooled old line, etc.
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And recommit to being their guy, especially when you're paying
him fifty to sixty million dollars. The other part is
obviously contractually on both sides, and Rogers is addressed that
a bit of whether they need to dial it back.
As for his image, Look, the only thing that would
be bad is if he's had an office on the
second floor in the Green Bay facilities all along, and
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they go up there and they find that everything has
just been a very carefully crack crafted persona and it's
all on the white boards for everybody to read. What
if what if he does have his own office and
everybody has to go through a darkness retreat. Maybe maybe,
and maybe the whole floor has to be a darkness retreat. Well,
you know what, maybe everybody comes out a little bit
better and more in touch with themselves, their needs and
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how they fit into this great sphere of influence and
how they fit into the game of life. I can't
wait for Rogers to get traded. Why I keep banging
my knees on my door trying to get out? I
got bruises all over. Turn the lights on. You said
something about what was that your knees? I kept banging
my knees on the door. Enunciate properly, bangings. Gotten in
(15:32):
trouble with stun the door, banging my knees on the door.
It's what I said. A guy, can't it hurt through them?
A big foulon? Yeah, So I'm telling you the one thing,
Aaron Rod, Oh, maybe I don't want that stuff out
there about me. 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 The Jason
(15:52):
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Oh oh oh,
you did it? Take off your uniform? I am really
hoping for one more overtime because we could get to
a two hundred point game right now. The Kings and
the Clippers there are thirty six seconds left in double overtime.
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Kings lead the Clippers one seventy six to one seventy five.
All right, here are the big numbers you need to know.
Dearon Fox with forty two points and twelve assists for
the Kings. Right. Malik Monk, who hit a three with
two seconds left to send the game to overtime, has
forty five points in forty minutes tonight for the Kings.
(16:39):
For the Clippers, Kawai's got forty four. Paul George has
thirty four, and in his first game starting for the Clippers,
he's played thirty nine minutes. Russell Westbrooks seventeen points, fourteen assists,
and five rebounds played out exactly how you thought with him,
did yeah? All right? Exactly. Well. Look, look when I
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came out out and i'm and I'm watching the beginning
part of the game, and I said, boy, the Clippers
are playing at a pretty hyped up pace. Maybe they're
excited Westbrook is here. I don't know why he's starting,
but hey, I can't argue with the offense for the
Clippers in this game because they're shooting sixty one percent,
but they're also losing now by a point. Right, they
scored one hundred and seventy five points, and they're shot
sixty one percent, they're fifty nine percent from three point range,
(17:23):
and they could lose this game. That's insane. It's like
an All Star game right here. Clippers currently have seven
guys in double figures stif only played nine. Gorgon has eight,
Morris has nine. Yeah, how do you feel if in
(17:44):
a game like this, you have a bad game, like
you you score like, you know, six or eight points,
you got to feel pretty bad about well? I mean,
right now, if you're Harrison Barnes, right, he's one of
six from the field in his forty minutes eleven eleven points,
six boards. But I mean he's one of six. Yeah,
a bit of operational efficiency, maybe maybe you get the
job done. I mean, this is just I mean, this
(18:05):
is craziness. One seventy oh five seconds left now, Uh
still one seventy six, one seventy five kings with the lead. Uh.
Kawai just missed a seventeen footer. Uh. Daron Fox missed
a shot with five seconds left to follow that up,
and now the Clippers have the ball five seconds left.
(18:27):
The game is in the time out, calling up one
final play. Um, how much do you hope that Russell
Westbrook just takes a shot right here, just waves everybody
off and takes just wave everybody. I'm gonna shoot on
the fresh Prince. I'm gonna show Will has that massive game.
And then Carlton from half court No, not even clues.
(18:50):
Uh no, Well, actually Westbrook foul out of the game
a couple minutes ago. He had a he had a
foul that was a six foul of the game, So
it can't be Westbrook. But King again, one seventy six,
one seventy five, five seconds left to go and double
over time. We'll have more on this from Special Delivery
Steve de Sager coming up in a couple of minutes.
But if you thought all the drama today was Russell
(19:13):
Wilson and trying to get people fired, well how about
this double shot of Derek carr One. Reports have come
out that he wants thirty five million dollars a year. Okay,
I believe that the guy had a contract that was
between thirty and forty million for each of the next
three years. Thirty five million a year, Okay, I get that.
And if I'm really desert for a quarterback, and I
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teld Derek Carr, how about two years and seventy million? Okay,
I believe that part of it. Here's a part of
the story I don't believe. And again, I hate to
say I told you so. Was Some sources, including Jeff Darlington,
said that three new teams are in the mix for
Derek Carr. But they're mystery teams. Yes, mystery teams. One
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in Chicago that operates that we don't know who any
of these teams are, which is where I tell you
when I say I hate to say I told you so,
Because there's no market for Derek Carr, at least not
the market that team Derek Carr, which his car as
brother and everybody else thought was going to be there
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for him. So here's suddenly, oh, three mystery teams for
the mix. First of all, nobody needs to be a
mystery team for Derek Carr. If you're in for Derek
Cart means you need a quarterback, right. The only time
you're a mystery team is if you have a pretty
established starter and there's a big time superstar becoming available,
like hey, Tom Brady could be available. Well, we want
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to be a mystery team because we have a pretty
good quarterback that we got to kick to the curb,
and if we don't make this trade, we don't want
to have ill feelings and have to repair our relationship.
That's the only time there's mystery teams involved someone of
such a high status as is involved. But if you're
going after Derek Cart means you got nobody man on.
It's not like the Bengals are going you know what
a boy. I like Joe Burrow, but I really would
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love to get Derek Carr. No, it's not happening. So no,
I don't believe for a second there's more teams in
on Derek Carr. What did I say from the beginning,
Derek Carr is mishandling his free agency. He became a
free agent two weeks before anybody else. This is your
time to get a deal, This is your time to
make people fall in love with you. And what have
we heard from Derek Carr? He talked to the Saints
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when he was potentially could have gotten traded there. He
wanted more money. The Saint said, yeah, thanks, we're not
doing it. Okay, since he's become a free agent, he
should be on his fourth or fifteen he's talking to
right now. Instead, it was just the Jets. The Jets
brought him in, had a great weekend. Did the Jets
sign him? They're just no, they didn't. I don't know
what Derek Carr is waiting for. I don't know. Does
he think the market's going to heat up from at
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some point? It's not. He's running unopposed right now. What's
going to happen when the beginning of March shows up
and Lamar Jackson's going to be dangled out there for
a trade, and Tannehill is available, and Garoppolo is available
and all these other quarters, It's not going to get
better for Derek Carr. Teams are looking at him right now, going, yeah,
thirty five million a year, okay, But is he that
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much better than Jimmy Garoppolo, who I can get for
a lot cheaper for maybe less years. Yeah, Because that's
part of it. It's not just about who's the best quarterback,
it's what can we fit in Because if we can
get Garoppolo for twenty million a year, boy, that gives
us another fifteen eighteen million dollars to figure out some
other positions on the team. I really want to do that. So, yeah,
it's not suddenly gonna be Yeah, we got all this
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money for you. Derek Carr, I don't get what he's doing.
I don't get the whole Oh, I'm taking a long
time to decide. The only reason that's going on is
because there's not interest in him. It's lukewarm at best.
So now he's got to push the narrative of hey,
I'm holding out, I'm holding out on my free agency
and there's mystery teams involved. They're just trying to drum
up more interest in Derek Carr when it's not there.
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Because anybody else, if Aaron Rodgers was a free agent,
he'd have been on his seventh team by now. He'd
be talking to everybody. If it's somebody else that if
it's somebody you want people, teams will have gone nuts
scheduling interviews with them, scheduling time at the facility. Make
sure you get on that plane and get here. We
don't want to hear that you're staying because you want
to sign a contract. We want to get you into
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our building right now and show you our culture and
show you what we're all about. There's been none of
that with Derek Carr. There's been absolutely What does that
tell you about what the league thinks about Derek Carr?
So now here they are drumming, trying to drum up
interest on Derek Carr by saying, oh, we got three
mystery time, not one mystery team, not too three mystery
teams now because one mystery team? Okay too? No, no,
three teams and they all don't want to be identified?
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Are they all? They all for some reason we don't
know their identity? Come on, man, I mean really, come on,
I don't care. I'm not gonna believe that for a second.
Three teams don't want to be identified? Stop? Yeah, it
makes makes for fun theoreticals though, right the anonymous source, okay, cool?
Three teams? Huh hey, David, should I just add it forth?
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I mean, this is David Carr calling all those guys. Guys.
You wouldn't believe this. There's so many teams going after
Why stop at three? Might make it seven? Make it eight?
Make it why stop at three? Why three teams? Half
the league is coming. But the melody is, as we
go through, right, we can order them end them up.
(24:16):
And we've talked about this a bunch. You and I
the three guys that you'd like most all have strings attached,
whether it's Fields, whether it's Rogers, whether it's Lamar Jackson.
When you start getting into the free and clear, we
can bring a guy in Jimmy Garoppolo injury, Ryan Tannehill.
Do you love him? Do you not? Baker Mayfield, Mike White.
(24:38):
It starts to go down pretty fast, right, Jacoby Brissette
in there somewhere you decide where he slots. And then
you got Derek Carr, who, by his own estimation, I'm
sure and I think you and I sitting here we
could be reasonable about it and say, yeah, he might
be the best, But what's that margin and what's the
differential if we put it in the algorithm to decide
(24:59):
about the dollars and cents. Look, I don't blame a
guy for asking for whatever he wants and never get
into the man's pocket. But you're also trying to do
a little bit of an advisement service here of you
got opportunities potentially here. And now Boomer Sisson the other
day had the report and he was talking about that
Derek Carr might not be enthralled at going to the
(25:21):
Jets because they still love them some Zach Wilson, So
he may not be anything but a mentor slash placeholder.
And you're not going to break the bank for a
guy who's just coming in as mentor slash placeholder if
you still believe that Zach and his mom have a
long tenure with the Jets. So three mystery teams, I
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mean that's great. I mean that's about as good as
it gets right there. You couldn't have just said, you
know what he's talked to at least one other team.
You don't just say at least one other team, and
then everybody can start specula is it Atlanta? Is it Carolina?
Is it? Instead it's there's three teams, like you say
it like that and like nobody nobody believes you anymore.
(26:06):
I'll tell you. I mean, there's certain things you can
ask me to believe where I say, okay, I'll go
with that. But just the fact that it was three teams,
I mean think but none of they all we all
want to be identified. We aughtot, we were all were Yeah,
I mean we're all in for suspension of disbelief. I mean,
we love Modoc all of those things. It's great, But
telling me there's at least three other teams interest. It
(26:27):
is like, really in a day of transparency, where every
team is going we've talked and talked to everybody we
possibly can about every job down to our latest water
boy that they're not gonna say, hey, we're gonna happen.
We're talking to Derek Carr. What do you think fans
give us your feedback? No, come on, man, you be
better than that. I'm telling you, man, it's just I
(26:50):
really the whole Derek Carr thing, he's completely mismanaging this.
If he doesn't sign by the beginning of free agency,
look out, he's gonna be well, he's gonna wind up
taking whatever's left because other teams are gonna say, ah,
yeah we liked you, but yeah you want a little
too much money in so opportunities out there, Watch watch
what happens. Watch I know thee whoever is the worst
(27:11):
guy to whoever's the worst fit, that's who the Jets
are gonna get. I don't know who the worst fit
is because we haven't hit free agency yet. You don't
know who. But whoever the worst fit is, that's who
the Jets are gonna get. Is one of the evaluation
criterion the ability to put up motivational speeches. If I
were to give you a room to deck rate and said,
(27:32):
give me five of the greatest inspirational quote sports or
not that you've ever had in your life, please men,
And that's part of the interview process. There you go.
We got a whole TV show that we could work
out of this twitter at How about a fresca? Mike
gets small and doll to Derek car you should have
taken my advice. I told you. And now look where
you are you're gonna be. You're gonna sit there and go, Hey, Raiders,
(27:53):
you didn't get anybody, and what what do you think
we can get back together for a year high. I
know you guys didn't have a plan. Suck them while, Hey,
we could do it. I still love being a Raider.
I say that they don't really have a plan. Be
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or call one eight hundred Progressive Well. The Play the
Night comes to us from the game of the year
in the NBA second highest scoring game in NBA history,
the famous game Pistons and Nuggets one six eighty four
back in nineteen eighty three, one seventy six, one seventy five.
(28:58):
The Kings in doublet last the Clippers, and here's how
it ended. Checks it out to batoom, launches for three
misses it three b los kames, trafic bulak bunk, hasn't.
That's Sacramento fourteen down late in regulation, has come back
and double overtime to win one of the most memorable
games in their thirty eight year history. And Sacramento one
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seventy six one seventy five is the final score. King's
Radio Network on the call, just an absolute thriller of
the game. I wish the Clippers had a better play
for the end of the game because it look like
we're gonna in bout it to Kawai now one on one,
I don't have it back out and Batoomb takes a
(29:41):
really bad three, Like were they just tired? I listen,
we're going home. We're gonna make this, We're gonna go.
I really wanted them to have a better play set
for the end of like going for two at the
end of the game. Yeah, it's like, listen, we're done,
We're just we're just ready to go home. Now the
Clippers party. This is a lot of things that takes.
We're gonna hit you with some rapid fire stuff. If
this is this is probably the best performance we've seen
(30:03):
from Kawhi Leonard in quite some time. And if this
is the kind of Kawhi Leonard we're going to get
the rest of the way, then yes, I'm in with
everybody that says watch out for the Clippers rising in
the Western Conference. But we got to see it a
little bit more. How gassed is he by playing all
these minutes tonight? But if if this is a guy,
if he can still be this guy, I'm on board
with that. Yeah, that's a giant. If let's see, they've
(30:27):
now played sixty two games, we've got twenty remaining. How
many of those twenty of these guys playing together. What
you're over under. Let's go and look, you played this
well and you still lost. That's the hard part, right.
You want to take all the positives. You scored a
lot of points offensive efficiency. Look at the three points shooting.
(30:48):
You still took a giant l when it was all
said done. You expended all that energy, all that effort
on the offensive end and lost. There. I have Joe
positivity here. Yeah, one hundred seventy of my points and
you lose. You can't have now Here's the other thing
(31:10):
is with is Russell Westbrook tonight? Look at like they
scored one hundred and seventy five points in his debut
starting for the Clippers. Hey, okay, this team is a
little bit deeper than the Lakers. And I think maybe
that's one other reason why I like the Westbrook situation
a little bit more, is that he's not coming in
where he's got to be the guy. He's not even
(31:31):
one of the top two there. It's okay, just be
you know, one of our Just just be one guy
that's contributing. You don't need to worry about the pressure
being on you because we're much deeper. We have guys
like the Tune that can score a lot of points
off the bench. We're pretty deep roster. We can go
eight nine deep, pretty good. It's why we've been able
to win as many games we have the last couple
of years. So suddenly Russell Westbrook on a deeper team
(31:53):
than the Lakers that's really thin. He can fit in
and they can still play well. It's why one of
the reasons why I like this move. Yeah, it's going
to be an interesting final twenty games here in the
Western Conference. We had the other game of the night
that was alongside and in a lot of high scoring
games along the way, you saw a pretty good effort
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from the Phoenix Suns, the other team everybody's paying attention to,
the Bulls actually won a game your Knicks with a victory.
The Hawks score one hundred and thirty six points in
their first game since unceremoniously dumping Nate McMillan. So there's
a lot in the Bucks score one hundred and twenty
eight points and blow out the Heat. But Jannis has
a knee injury. Is it did he not play because
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it was a blowout or is there more there? We'll
have to keep an eye out the other two things
of this game. From the King's side of it, yeah
is oh boy, Malik Monk just the latest former Laker
to disappoint and go somewhere and say, hey, he's pretty good,
right the shotmaker Lebron needed. Malik Monk made forty five three,
(32:57):
had forty five points and forty minutes off the bed.
The just they have a litany of guys that disappoint
with the Lakers and go someplace else. It's amazing And
what we talked about a month ago, Mike is still
true right now. Kings now nine games over five hundred,
there is one choice for NBA Coach of the Year,
and that's Mike Brown. That's it. He is. He is runaway.
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He's the runaway pick without a doubt. Yeah, fantastic. Ever,
two guys over forty points. You know, all your starters
in double figures tonight, pulling all the strings again, not
a textbook. Hey, I'm gonna put this one up in
the louver in terms of a masterpiece. But outwit, out last,
out play here we go. So there it is. Game
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of the Year in the NBA one seventy six, one
seventy five coming up next, a guy who had the
under on this game. It's Bernie Fratto. This is Fox
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