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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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(00:52):
love putting this content out for you every single night. Well,
two big quarterbacks to get to here. For the next
couple minutes, We'll start with Monday night foot fall and
work backwards, because that's the best way to do. Starry
here and work backwards, work backwards. They would always tell
you that at ESPN when you're editing highlights, work backwards,
work backwards. Tell me what you have to tell me,
and then work backwards. Yeah, backpedaling's a good skill. Yeah,
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the Jets defensive backs can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So hey man, you guys might have zero interceptions for
a year. I mean, it's like a record. You bang
a banner for that. We almost have to try. We
fired our DC today because it's that bad. I mean,
come on, man, I mean he's got to have a
fall guy, Harry Glenn. Not my guys, I'm defensive guy.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Not my fault. He's going to be the only one
left at the end.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I have no coaches because I fired them because everybody
else's fault of mine.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
What's the spread after the game? I don't know. We
fired the kitchen staff too.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
But we talked about Rogers and the Steelers a few
minutes ago, and likely the best case scenario for them
is they win the division, they play one playoff game,
they lose, just like the last ten years, and they
move on. But Tonight should be the night watching this game.
And yes, his stats look good, but that was not
the story of the way Tonight went for two. A
tongue of I low. If you are the Dolphins, you
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know that when you get to the end of the season.
You have trouble winning in December. You have trouble winning
on the road. Yes, you can take a look back
at the beginning of the year and say, well, we
started out one and six. If we had started out better,
yeah no, but you didn't. And you know you're gonna
have to win games in December all the time. Anyway,
You watch TWA tonight, and I don't think there's any
way you can come back next year and say we're
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gonna run it back with Tua as the quarterback. This
should be the game that tells you we need to
move on and get a different quarterback. Tua will have
some kind of value around the NFL because he's the
draft class this year is not that great. So someone
who's already got a couple you know what you're paying
him for the next couple of years. You've seen him
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flash before, but it's just not working. And you know
in Miami you have a tough time winning when it's
under forty degrees. Anyway, you can see Tua can barely
throw the football right. It's not like he's got the
strongest hard to begin with. And it's even come pound
and it looks even worse. How many times you just
threw the ball up tonight, didn't They can't. They can't
cut down the field. He's not dynamic. You need to
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move on at quarterback, right, you've seen it, You've seen
the mess. And Mike McDaniel, you know he's coming back
because when the team was won in six hey, they
won a bunch of games in a row. Things were terrific. Right, hey, Okay,
they didn't quit on me. I still have things going
I still got stuff going on here, right, I still
have the team buying in all right, great, but to
what you are limited and you can't win by trying
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to win around what your quarterback can do. When you
were at a full volume and it was Tyreek Hill
and you had a really good running game, okay, but
you still had trouble winning on the road. You wanted
to Kansas City and and like you even show up
for that game, well it's zero degrees, called this game
on record. You knew you weren't winning that game. You
need a quarterback back, and you need an all weather
quarterback that can throw the football in the elements. You
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can't have somebody that's got a noodle alarm anyway, And
when it gets to the when when you get to
the late part of the season, they look like Dylan
Gabriel right, just throwing the ball up in the regular
part of the regular season. He just you need something
else at quarterback. And you can see at the end
of the year when you need your quarterback to win
games for you, he's not gonna do that. You schemed
up around Tua, and it's awesome, right, You're able to
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scheme up and get as far as you could.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
But you've gone there.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You've gone as far as you can get with twa
tongue of Iloa as your quarterback.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
It's time to.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Move on and figure out something different at that position,
and baby become quarterback driven. Maybe you make you cut
a deal for somebody else, or you go up in
the draft five, but you can't come back next year.
You can't sell your team on Well, we're just gonna
run it back with two again again again. Now we're
not gonna have Tyreek Hill. Who knows what's gonna be
up with him and when he's gonna get to play again.
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If he plays again, if he plays with the Dolphins again,
I wouldn't be surprised. There's some sort of reunion with
the Chiefs. We talked about the Chiefs last hour and
what they're gonna do. Maybe reunion with Tyreek Hill is
the way to go. But you can't go into next
year saying yes, Tua is our guy and we're going forward.
You know, at the end of the year he's not
even gonna look legitimate and you need something else a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, it's a difficult proposition for sure, because you're now
looking at another year, another whole run of paying him
at the high rate, right to four year two hundred
and twelve million dollars deal, a couple of years left
on it. So that's really one of the sticky points
is you know who's paying it out and who's gonna
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eat whether the Dolphins will eat a bunch of that
money to get him off the books and move on
from him. But the touchdown to interception ratio is back
to being abysmal. It's been an odd even kind of
thing where he's either been in control of his turnovers
and not putting the ball in harm's way. And for today,
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the interception he threw was awful. The bigger thing for
me was a couple of the sacks he took, like,
how do you not throw it away?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
The one in the beginning of the second half when
he's rolling out to his left and he has a
chance to throw the football away and he doesn't, and
he just gets shoulder to the ground, Like what.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Do you He did do Jedi training, but he did.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It multiple times, Like you're rolling to your throwing arm side,
you're out of the pocket. You know you're out of
the pocket, and you don't throw it away. Instead, you
change the down and distance, limit your playbook and handcuff
what McDaniel can do with a HM and the run
game that's been strong for you, Like it's just just
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made no sense. Defense also had been stronger. They gave
up touchdowns on four straight possessions. It's been since twenty eighteen.
That was the last time a Steelers offense was able
to put that together. So you have all of this,
you have to change up. But your offensive line needs
to be better. He needs to be better about getting
rid of the ball and being more accurate. But that's
the problem is he can't cut through you know, Aaron Rodgers.
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For as much as we can mock the short game,
he made the pass that he had what was it
to Metcalf over the middle. Right, he had to zip
it into a spot safety was coming up over the
top and ran through it, and then it becomes a touchdown.
You also had an MVS sighting, which I think was
the nicest shot. Hey, look, Steeler side, welcome, Welcome to Pittsburgh.
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But for the Dolphins side of it, offensively, Wattle is
not that go get it big play.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, he's a one A. He's a one A. Wattle's
a one A.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You look at Darren wallerwell, can you trust he's gonna
stay healthy and be on the.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Field career batch his career er, right.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
But going back through his time with the Giants and
his entire run has been all right, what am I
getting on a week three basis? So uh, it becomes
the shut it, shut it down. If you're McDaniel, you
want something more dynamic. He's the wonder kin, right, he
was the guy that was gonna revolutionize offense. And when
you had a guy that could take it off over
the top and allow him to throw timing routes over
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the middle, it worked. Well, that's not there. He's got
to make plays, he's got to be able to drive
it into spots. Today he had fifteen to twenty mile
an hour wins, So that ain't happening. I would be
remiss if we didn't at least acknowledge this point in
the game, because in the fourth quarter the Waller heroics.
Ten points were scored in the first half, seven to
three Steelers over under. It was forty two and a half.
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Game total finished at forty three.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, you got that.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
A lot of angry folks says that, wait, they're trying
in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Even Troy Aikman was wondering, it's like, all right, you.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Just stood around and let the plate clock run, because
this is this goes back to the larger picture of
game management and what are you at this point of
all right, we're gonna run the plate clock down and
grind while we're down huge, and now we're gonna call
time out to have an onside kick and all this
other stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Still down multiple scores, Like well, which is it? Yeah, Like,
what are we doing here? Yeah? That's tough either way.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
The overhit. So congratulations. If you played that on a
wish and a dare, if you had the underploy, you're salty.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Jason Smith Mike Harbon live from the Fox Sports radio studios.
Now another quarterback getting a lot of ink today, and
we talked a lot about it is Philip Rivers, and
I'm gonna be as I'm gonna be as accurate as
I need to be.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You want to Philip Rivers, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Philip Rivers played as well as you could possibly expect
him to play.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
All all. I was happy.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Come on, man, it's not like the guy through for
three through for one hundred and twenty bleeping yards.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Man. But should have been a winner, Philip Rivers? What
was he yesterday?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean they almost won, right, Philip Rivers played how
you would expect a back, how you were back to Well,
I didn't think you make it to the end of
the game exactly. I thought the Seahawks would wind up
knocking him out in the middle of the second quarter, which,
you know what, kind of disappointed the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
They had a.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Craptastic defensive effort. But Philip Rivers played like that. You
want to be accurate for Philip Rivers. Do you see
this all the time?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
In the NFL?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Number one quarterback on a team plays all the reps,
all the reps, all the reps gets hurt suddenly and
the little used backup who's never started a game has
to go in and start the next week. Right, what's
your best case scenario? Well, I hope we can throw
for one hundred one hundred and fifty yards, he doesn't
turn the ball over, doesn't cost us the game, and
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we really suck it up and we get a big effort,
big circle the wagons, like Chris Bover would always say,
a big circle of the wagons, effort from the Buffalo Bills,
and a big effort in which we can pull out
a game at the end. Right, we're not going to
win because of our quarterback. We got to be able
to We know our offenses limited, and we hope that
that's the kind of effort we can get. And that's
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what they got from Philip Rivers. He looked like a
guy that hadn't had never started a game, but he
gets thrust into the lineup and he again, he played
well enough, one hundred and twenty yards. He had a
touchdown pass, but in the end it wasn't quite good
enough because they got a fifty six yard field goal
from Jason Myers. At the end of regulation. Rivers throws
the pick in the final drive, but he kind of
had to. There wasn't a lot of time left. I'm
(11:04):
not going to ding him on that, but overall, that's.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
How Rivers played.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Now he's already gotten the go ahead to play on
Monday night against the forty nine ers, which tells you
the Colts don't want to put Anthony Richardson out there
because he's clear to return to practice. I would have
thought they'd want to get Riley Leonard out there because
he looked pretty good and jumping in for Daniel Jones.
But he's already gotten the okay to go in. It's
a great story, but let's not confuse a great story
with the reality, which is that's how Philip Rivers looked
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like an untested second string or third string quarterback who
was thrust in that didn't lose the game and gave
you the bare minimum of offense you needed to pull
things out. They almost pull it out, but they didn't.
That's what Philip Rivers did on Sunday. Didn't do anymore,
didn't do any less. He did as best as you
could expect the situation to be. So I am happy
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because he was upright, He finished the game healthy. He's
going to get to start again again. Great story, great story,
but I'm not going to confuse great story with performance.
So I am glad that I was only sort of
wrong about Philip Rivers, very wrong. I was sort of wrong,
sort of wrong. And I'm glad because he again, he's
a fun story. I want to see him. I want
to see him do I want to see him keep
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paying it's awesome. But I was only sort of wrong.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, he still had almost double the yardage of the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
How difficult does that to do? Really?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
How difficult does that to do? How still an NFL
team that you still dominated?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Coming on? They really in NFL?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
It was a battle of former Super Bowl champions. Kenny
Ticket and Jalen Hurts. Square it off, Pete Carroll, Ye,
once upon a time. All right, let's let's do this.
As we look at Philip Rivers. We were just talking
about too a tongue of ila arm strength and the
ability to cut through. Well, that's not there, clearly. Uh,
there were a number of throws that could have been
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made if he could have pushed the ball down the field.
I don't know that he would have been able to
do that five years ago when he was finishing things
with Indianapolis, so that hasn't changed. Did they scheme it
up well enough to where they still should have walked
away with a victory? Yeah, defense showed up. They held
the Seahawks to fifty rushing yards, moved the ball fairly effectively.
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Taylor twenty five carries, look grind clock right, twenty five
carries eighty seven yards. Make it a shorter game. They
actually did the work for the Seahawks for them and
then McDonald then they did a great job with their
timeouts and clock management down the stretch to get to
that final possession and the opportunity for the field goal.
But for Philip Rivers, you didn't blitz him, You didn't
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get after me at one sack, so he stood up right.
Completed eighteen passes, Yeah, only on one hundred and twenty yards,
and that was thirty three and a half yards short
of what the over hunderd was set. So you cash
that comfortably. But moved the ball enough, eight up enough
clock to where it should have had a win. And
this week against San Francisco Marquee game Monday night football,
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glorious for us. They don't have a pass rush either,
so and then look, Seattle has one and they couldn't
get to him San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That's not even part of the game plan. So for
old Philip here, I don't know if he's got some
magic in that arm.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
One last fifty five passes on Monday night against them, Yeah,
twenty seven off the couch again the under hit because
it was thirty and a half. But exit out, bout
of Fresca, exit swallen do so that that's realistically, that's
a realistic breakdown of what Philip.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But you got the over on the completions. You can
say you're sorry. Now. What we showed people to keep
fighting was an apology.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I said. I was glass, I was sort of wrong.
I was sort of wrong. You went full Phonsie sort of.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
They didn't win.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
He didn't go for three point fifty and three but
for one hundred and twenty and they lost.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
You're not apologizing to the team. I'm not.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Exactly. Their failure to support his efforts is not his fault.
He threw for one hundred and twenty yards and it
was one hundred winning. Brady Cook threw for more yards.
Not sound if doubt apologized exit out about a Fresca
exit swalling' dove. We got more quarterback news coming up.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Yep, we'll get back into big quarterback
story coming up in a couple of minutes. But look
it's hard what we've gone through the last twenty four
hours or so when and we're still dealing with the
(16:19):
aftermath of the death of Robin Michelle Reiner were found
dead in their homes yesterday. The story started to leak
out middle of the day where the body of a
seventy eight and a sixty eight year old person were
found in their homes.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You know how old rob.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Michelle Reiner were, and we find out it was them,
and now their son is in custody.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
In regards to their murder.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And look, there's lots of developments and there's lots of
details on it that are continuing to come out as
we speak. We're in the early days of this story,
and I've seen lots of the worst of humanity over
the course of the last three hours on social media.
With this, it's hard to talk about because and this
is the first time we've talked about it tonight, and
(17:05):
I know you think, wow, Jason, you guys usually talk
about stuff like this earlier. It's hard because when I
want to talk when when legends pass on, you know,
if it's at the end of a long life, you
like to say they had a good run, and we
can talk about their bodies of work and what they
left us that will live forever like that. That's the
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kind of conversations that when you talk about somebody's career,
and Rob Reiner clearly has done that. I mean, is
movies of the soundtrack to a lot of our lives.
And it's hard because I want to talk about that
part of it, but just the rawness of what happened
and how this went down just it's it's still shocking
that this is what we're talking about, that this is
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how this this is how Rob Reiner and his wife died,
that they were allegedly killed by their son, who has
had a wealth of difficulties over the course of the
past few years. And it's hard for me to sit
here and say, hey, let's let's look at his filmography
when this is still so fresh in everybody's mind. It's
a really difficult thing to balance to talk about because
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I know people want to talk about it and here
is it and talk about the life and the career
that he had. It's just it's a really hard thing
to do.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, I mean, the news as it broke right in
the middle of the football Sunday and you start seeing
some details and waiting for more information. They did a
press conference that really didn't add to anything, which has
been why and roundly criticized for Okay, we're here, but
why and people came away with more questions, right because
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there was a lot of speculation, much like the stories
we've been talking about for in the Sporting Universe, all
the rumors starts spreading about different paths and then we
finally get to the point where their son's in custody,
So trying to make sense of it all. And over
the course of the day the mere he had stars
(19:01):
that you know, had put out tributes about their careers
and everything that they owed to Rob Reiner, Prosperg and
I we're talking about a little bit Castle Rock Entertainment
was he was a founding member of that production company.
They saved Seinfeld, So Seinfeld doesn't exist to the level
it does, right, So, like you talk about the grandiose
scope of all the impacted lives in Hollywood and people
(19:25):
that just knew him and the outpouring of love, and
that's kind of where where we're at trying to make
sense of this, right And you know, obviously check in
on your loved ones and and help people as you
can is always the story of the day. But yeah,
in this trying to make sense of it in a
town that often doesn't make a lot of sense Los
(19:47):
Angeles as a whole, especially if you're not living here
you look at it from the thirty thousand foot stare.
I know, you know, talking to my parents earlier today,
they brought it up, and it's you know, you're just
trying to make sense of it, because, let's face it,
humanity as a whole doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, and you realize how active he still was where
he had he was in the barrier, A great three
run episode. Running the Bear is the the power of
positive thinking. Guy he was trying to get in on
a on an investment opportunity.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Now scam most likely a scam artist that was coming in.
I literally watched This is Spinal Tap two Saturday night. Yeah, yeah,
I just added to HBO two or HBO Max, I
should say, so. I had literally watched that before getting
ready for my you know, a little nap before my
show on Sunday morning here at the Network. So, like
all of it, just amazing. Even in Hollywood, there are
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a lot of good writers. There are a lot of
good actors and there are a lot of good directors,
but I think he was maybe the only one that
did all three amazingly.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I mean, look, my first experience with him was when
he was on All in the Family. Sure it was
look All in the Family is just still an incredible
experience to watch. And he was such a good actor then,
and he picked his spots acting wise, like everything he's
been in, Like in Frostburg. We talked about Wolf of
Wall Street, you know earlier like every twenty six side,
what is a cure cancer? It actually does cure cancer.
(21:09):
That's why it costs so much money. Uh, Like all
his spots have been sleepless in Seattle, Tiramisu, what is that?
You'll find out what? A woman's gonna want me to
do it too. I'm not gonna know what it is?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The County of Me Award nomination for a few good men.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Sure well, And that's the thing that's I want to
get princess proudly that all of the movies that he
has done, and all the movies that he gets that
he is credited for, and his run as a director,
which is incredible and is run from from This is
Spinal Tap, stand by Me, Princess Bride, when Harry met
Sally Misery, you know, American President, right, all of these
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things that he did, and I don't think he nearly
gets enough credit for a Few Good Men because what
movie has aged better in the last thirty years than
A Few Good Men? A Few Good Men is still
on TV all the time. It's all of these stars
at the high of their powers and the height of
their acting performance. And that's what he doesn't get enough
(22:05):
credit for. Because okay, yeah, here's a Few good Men
and it's a play written by Aaron Sorkin, is directed
by Rob Reiner. Now, in anything Rob Reiner directed, when
you think of a great director, you think, oh, they
use these angles, and they use this, and they use
this and this piece of music and this cuts and this. Okay,
that's great. But also part of being a director and
people lose lose focus on, is that getting the best
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performance you could possibly get out of your actors is
a really big deal, and it's like nobody understands it.
That's part of what it is being a director. It's
not just look at these camera angles and look at
this camera cut and look at what we did here.
It's getting the big performance. And that's something that is
that is left out. It's like for a head coach
in sports, where it's like, well, they don't really have
a great system, they don't really have something that they
(22:48):
do that is setting the NFL on its ear. But
they get the best performances out of their players. And
there's something to be said for that. And think of
all these movies where how great are the performance is
that you got from Tom Hanks and Ryan and Billy
Crystal and James Kahn and turning Kathy Bates and starting
her career. Like all his movies are quoted and revisited
(23:10):
a time and time again, and the one that stands
for mostman is A Few Good Men. You Nicholson's performance
and Tom Cruise and Demean Mourn and Kevin Bacon. There's
nobody in this movie that you don't say, Wow, they
were outstanding. They were the best at their time. I
don't know how it didn't win Best Picture. I mean,
if you were doing the Academy Awards for nineteen ninety
two all over again, I'm pretty sure that would win
Best Picture. I'm pretty sure he would win Best Director.
(23:31):
I'm pretty sure he didn't get nominated for that was
nominated for A good Men he was nominated for. But okay,
but okay, I thought one of them wasn't nominated. Either
he wasn't nominated or a few he was he was nominate.
If your good Man was nominate Okay, if you did
that again nineteen ninety two, and I'm trying to think,
well that might have been unforgiven that year that won
Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman, if you did that, which
(23:53):
still holds up, Yeah, but if you did that again, Okay,
what's you know what's had a bigger impact than people
that that that wow you more than a few good Men,
there's I mean, there's not many, especially in that year.
You know, so of all the all the movies that
he gets is getting credit for all the all the
lines you've quoted for that run like if the beds
like just understand how much a few good Men is
on and how many people have seen that's a that's
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a conversation started with someone who's sixty and someone who's
thirty and someone who's fifteen seen movies for the first.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You want the truth, you can't handle it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
The one liners, uh and quick monologues and backs and forth.
I mean Pollock and to me Moore and I mean
everybody's got a line. Kevin Bacon, right, he was in tears,
you know, kind of talking about you know, that set
and his filmography quite extensive. He's like, that's the only
time I ever had lunch with the director. Every day,
(24:44):
Like he just was. We that's how we got anybody comfortable, right,
normal guy. We were talking about it before, like normally
you're out and about, you go to an event, you know,
suit up whatever. He was always in a ball cap,
a flannel shirt that was unbuttoned and jeans like that was.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Just who the guy was.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
And I know a lot of it has been politically
fueled over the course of the day, but you pull
it away from that into a guy that cared about,
you know, people cared about, you know, the the environment
and what you know, being good stewart to the other
people and just to a person like all these Hollywood
(25:21):
heavyweights and actors and actresses go back to the cast
from stand by Me, Jerry O'Connell, he goes, I don't
have my life without him, Yeah, right, and just go
on down the line. I would be remiss. You mentioned Nicholson.
The bucket List was also a Rob Reiner there, and
as you get a little bit older, you appreciate that
film perhaps a little bit more so. And don't forget
(25:42):
he was an avid baseball fan, Yeah, a long time
Dodger fan.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah yeah, I mean you forget about the tonnage of
what he's done during his career.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I saw. My favorite part of the Jerk was Rob Reiner.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
He's like, he picks up Steve Martin the hitchhik and
he goes, how far are you going? And Steve Martin's
I'm going to Saint Louis. How far are you going?
Rod rynand goes end of this fence? Okay, And he gets.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
To the car.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
He drive you in Fisicos, So what's your name? And
he goes, we're here, and I of the Jerk. It's hysterical,
like you'd something that always had the right always struck
the right note as an actor and as a director
and writer, Like I don't know anybody that has that
many just solid hits and and and that kind of
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legacy throughout his entirety of his career. Because Frostburg, you
hit on the head there all three of those things
that he did. None he did them beyond well, yes,
not many people can do what can do what he
did just one of them, and he's able to do
all three of those things. And whatever challenged him was
what he wanted to do. He wanted to be the way,
and he turned out to be one of the greatest
directors we've ever seen. I mean, these movies are all
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the soundtracks to a lot of our lives. That that
mid eighties to mid nineties run that he had. It's
just insane.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
American President kind of a big deal. You would have
been the most popular history professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Postcard from the Edge, I mean, you just keep going
on down the line between the acting, directing, producing, writing.
It's it's really just a heavyweight back and forth. One
of my favorite pieces, you know, when COVID when folks
(27:17):
were bored out of their mind and just trying to
do whatever they could entertain you and a lot of
dramatic readings or whatever. Thing he did with his dad,
the great Carl Reiner. Most folks remember in Promotions eleven. Yeah,
but they did the Princess Bride because he had originally
given him the book, and he decided, I'm gonna make
this movie. So they did the whole thing where Carl's
(27:39):
the grandpa and he's laying in the bed and you know,
the as you wish is the file, Like I must
have had that come up in my time, bline about
five hundred times.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, I read the Princess Bride book not too long ago.
The Carry always wrote, who was Westling the Star? And
he said that, you know, he said, And this was
Rob Reiner's genius was when it got to the sword
fight scene with him and Inigo, right, you know, the
big sea of the sword fight sceneya ro Rob Ryner
said to him, Carry says, a, right, what are you
(28:08):
thinking of for the you know, what are you thinking
of the scene? Because they have to block it out
and all the action goes. He goes, it's supposed to
be the greatest sword fight in the history of the world.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
And that was what he gave them.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
And Carry always like, oh my god, I don't know
anything about sword fighting all this, so like he busted
his ass and trained and they shot it and it was,
you know, instead done with such a way where he
was so in tune with his performance and at the
end it was I can't believe we did that, Like,
I can't believe we pulled that off. And it was
as simple as Rob Ryan are saying it needs to
be the greatest, but not putting pressure on them by
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saying you need to come through with the greatest thing.
It says it's got to be the greatest sword fight
in the history of the world. Okay, So and carry
always wrote something to the to the to the extent
of it, I'm trying to recap here, like he empowered
me to be able to do it, empowered us to
do it, but there was enough fear in doing it
that we had to do it great. And what if
we didn't do it great?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
How do it?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So the pressure was on us, but it was such
a way where we knew we could achieve and make
it something great. Like all those are subtle things that
that you do when you're in charge of something as
like as as a director or coach, and it doesn't
show up in the box score, but it's it. But
you don't get those performances without any of that. You
just simply don't well.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
And he gave the world Andre the Giant as a
master thespian.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Wallace Shawan said that he thought every day he was
getting replaced by Danny DeVito. Like he thought every day
he's just gonna bring in Danny DeVito, and Rob Ryder
never really a showed him from it because he was
doing so well whatever motivatever it was. And then he
finally told him at the end. Okay, but like I
remember one time, like he's Danny DeVito came to visit
the set and he made sure he'd been, like, he
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made sure he could see him and Danny DeVito having
dinner together, and Wallace was like, Oh, that's it, I'm
getting replaced, right, He replaced right, but all this time
and Wallace Shawn's character is one of the greatest characters
in comedic film history. Vessini, uh, but that was the way.
Then he finally told him, you're not getting replaced. He
was like, oh, but you know, it was a way.
He got a great performance out of him, and it's
absolutely legendary and that made Wallace Shawn's career and he's
(30:03):
gone on to do all the different things in his
life because of that.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, I'm gonna go watch some battles between he and
Carol O'Connor. Maybe a little bit later on tonight, and
remember just the breadth and scope of what he gave us.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Carmon Lot from the Fox Sports Radio Studios, Time
to find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports from special delivery, Steve to say, Heresidy, what do
you got for us?
Speaker 5 (30:26):
You mentioned that Rob Reiner's dad was the great Carl Reiner,
who created The Dick Van Dyke Show, one of the
great shows, a comedy from the nineteen sixties, and that
was based on Carl Reiner's life as a comedy writer
for a network TV show based in New York. And
so Rob Petrie played by Dick Van Dyke, was the
comedy writer. You'd always see him in the office working
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for the show in New York and coming home to
New Rochelle, which is where Carl Reiner and Rob Reiner
grew up, and coming through the door and the little
kid running him and say, hey, daddy, did you bring
me anything? Little toy candy? That was Rob Reiner in
real life. When Carl Reiner would come home, when you would.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You trip on the ottomn and every time as well,
well we just had Dick Van Dyt turn one hundred.
So yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
By the way, Rob Reiner got his OSCAR nomination as
a producer since A Few Good Men was nominated for
Best Picture. I specifically remember his buddy Billy Crystal was
yet again hosting the Oscars that night and his opening
monologue and songs saying Rob Reiner was somehow not nominated
for Best Director for that movie, and yes, that was
(31:32):
the big year.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
That's what I remember him doing that going to the
movie direct itself, like I remember.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
That kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Yes, an unforgiven with Clint Eastwood did win Best Picture
and Best Director. And add Clint Eastwood's name to guy
who's been superb in multiple categories in his career. But
if you'd have just a couple of minutes solo to
find the opening scene that Rob Reiner directed for a
Few good Men with the military drill team on the
(31:59):
grounds I mentioned this on the show last night, that
is excellent. You're right, he was not a showy director
that taking a play to a movie. That was an
excellent start to that movie. The Monday night football matchup
at Pittsburgh went to the Steelers over Miami. Tonight twenty
eight to fifteen. The Steelers had trailed three nothing late
first half Aaron Rodgers two touchdown passes. The Jets fired
(32:20):
defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes. The Colts will start quarterback Philip
Rivers again next Monday night. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the
Chiefs had surgery this evening on his torn to acl.
The Falcons are hopeful wide receiver Drake London will return
this Sunday. He's missed four straight games with the sprain
pcl Rams. Wide receiver DeVante Adams could miss Thursday's game
(32:41):
at Seattle with his bad hamstring. He's considered week to week.
Bill's kicker Matt Prater is out this week with a
quad injury. Florida Gators quarterback DJ Lagway will enter the
transfer portal next month. Reportedly, Nebraska QB Dylan Royola will also.
Former South Carolina quarterback Steve Tananahill died at the age
of fifty two. No cause of death provided this Tannehill
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led South Carolina to its first Bowl victory in program
history in nineteen ninety four. Former cal and Raiders head
coach Mike White died at the age of eighty nine.
He also coached Illinois in the NBA Utah in overtime
beat Dallas. Cooper Flag forty two points in defeat. Denver
won in overtime against Houston. Nikola Jokic thirty nine points
in a triple double road wins from Memphis, Toronto, and Detroit,
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which is twenty one and five after winning at Boston
won twelve one oh five. Kate Cunningham thirty two points,
ten assists the NBA Cup finalist Tuesday in Vegas, Spurs
against the Knicks, and the NHL wins for Anaheim and Florida.
Dallas beat LA four to one. The Sabers fired general
manager Kevin Adams and Scotti. Scheffler was voted PGA Tour
(33:47):
Player of the Year for the fourth straight year.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
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Harman live in the Fox Sports Radio studios, coming up
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love putting this content out for you every single night. Well,
two big quarterbacks to get to here. For the next
couple minutes, We'll start with Monday night foot fall and
work backwards, because that's the best way to do. Starry
here and work backwards, work backwards. They would always tell
you that at ESPN when you're editing highlights, work backwards,
work backwards. Tell me what you have to tell me,
and then work backwards. Yeah, backpedaling's a good skill. Yeah,
(01:13):
the Jets defensive backs can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
So hey man, you guys might have zero interceptions for
a year. I mean, it's like a record. You bang
a banner for that. We almost have to try. We
fired our DC today because it's that bad. I mean,
come on, man, I mean he's got to have a
fall guy, Harry Glenn. Not my guys, I'm defensive guy.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Not my fault. He's going to be the only one
left at the end.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I have no coaches because I fired them because everybody
else's fault of mine.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
What's the spread after the game? I don't know. We
fired the kitchen staff too.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
But we talked about Rogers and the Steelers a few
minutes ago, and likely the best case scenario for them
is they win the division, they play one playoff game,
they lose, just like the last ten years, and they
move on. But Tonight should be the night watching this game.
And yes, his stats look good, but that was not
the story of the way Tonight went for two. A
tongue of I low. If you are the Dolphins, you
(02:03):
know that when you get to the end of the season.
You have trouble winning in December. You have trouble winning
on the road. Yes, you can take a look back
at the beginning of the year and say, well, we
started out one and six. If we had started out better,
yeah no, but you didn't. And you know you're gonna
have to win games in December all the time. Anyway,
You watch TWA tonight, and I don't think there's any
way you can come back next year and say we're
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gonna run it back with Tua as the quarterback. This
should be the game that tells you we need to
move on and get a different quarterback. Tua will have
some kind of value around the NFL because he's the
draft class this year is not that great. So someone
who's already got a couple you know what you're paying
him for the next couple of years. You've seen him
(02:46):
flash before, but it's just not working. And you know
in Miami you have a tough time winning when it's
under forty degrees. Anyway, you can see Tua can barely
throw the football right. It's not like he's got the
strongest hard to begin with. And it's even come pound
and it looks even worse. How many times you just
threw the ball up tonight, didn't They can't. They can't
cut down the field. He's not dynamic. You need to
(03:09):
move on at quarterback, right, you've seen it, You've seen
the mess. And Mike McDaniel, you know he's coming back
because when the team was won in six hey, they
won a bunch of games in a row. Things were terrific. Right, hey, Okay,
they didn't quit on me. I still have things going
I still got stuff going on here, right, I still
have the team buying in all right, great, but to
what you are limited and you can't win by trying
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to win around what your quarterback can do. When you
were at a full volume and it was Tyreek Hill
and you had a really good running game, okay, but
you still had trouble winning on the road. You wanted
to Kansas City and and like you even show up
for that game, well it's zero degrees, called this game
on record. You knew you weren't winning that game. You
need a quarterback back, and you need an all weather
quarterback that can throw the football in the elements. You
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can't have somebody that's got a noodle alarm anyway, And
when it gets to the when when you get to
the late part of the season, they look like Dylan
Gabriel right, just throwing the ball up in the regular
part of the regular season. He just you need something
else at quarterback. And you can see at the end
of the year when you need your quarterback to win
games for you, he's not gonna do that. You schemed
up around Tua, and it's awesome, right, You're able to
(04:15):
scheme up and get as far as you could.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
But you've gone there.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You've gone as far as you can get with twa
tongue of Iloa as your quarterback.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
It's time to.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Move on and figure out something different at that position,
and baby become quarterback driven. Maybe you make you cut
a deal for somebody else, or you go up in
the draft five, but you can't come back next year.
You can't sell your team on Well, we're just gonna
run it back with two again again again. Now we're
not gonna have Tyreek Hill. Who knows what's gonna be
up with him and when he's gonna get to play again.
(04:44):
If he plays again, if he plays with the Dolphins again,
I wouldn't be surprised. There's some sort of reunion with
the Chiefs. We talked about the Chiefs last hour and
what they're gonna do. Maybe reunion with Tyreek Hill is
the way to go. But you can't go into next
year saying yes, Tua is our guy and we're going forward.
You know, at the end of the year he's not
even gonna look legitimate and you need something else a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, it's a difficult proposition for sure, because you're now
looking at another year, another whole run of paying him
at the high rate, right to four year two hundred
and twelve million dollars deal, a couple of years left
on it. So that's really one of the sticky points
is you know who's paying it out and who's gonna
(05:24):
eat whether the Dolphins will eat a bunch of that
money to get him off the books and move on
from him. But the touchdown to interception ratio is back
to being abysmal. It's been an odd even kind of
thing where he's either been in control of his turnovers
and not putting the ball in harm's way. And for today,
(05:46):
the interception he threw was awful. The bigger thing for
me was a couple of the sacks he took, like,
how do you not throw it away?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
The one in the beginning of the second half when
he's rolling out to his left and he has a
chance to throw the football away and he doesn't, and
he just gets shoulder to the ground, Like what.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Do you He did do Jedi training, but he did.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It multiple times, Like you're rolling to your throwing arm side,
you're out of the pocket. You know you're out of
the pocket, and you don't throw it away. Instead, you
change the down and distance, limit your playbook and handcuff
what McDaniel can do with a HM and the run
game that's been strong for you, Like it's just just
(06:26):
made no sense. Defense also had been stronger. They gave
up touchdowns on four straight possessions. It's been since twenty eighteen.
That was the last time a Steelers offense was able
to put that together. So you have all of this,
you have to change up. But your offensive line needs
to be better. He needs to be better about getting
rid of the ball and being more accurate. But that's
the problem is he can't cut through you know, Aaron Rodgers.
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For as much as we can mock the short game,
he made the pass that he had what was it
to Metcalf over the middle. Right, he had to zip
it into a spot safety was coming up over the
top and ran through it, and then it becomes a touchdown.
You also had an MVS sighting, which I think was
the nicest shot. Hey, look, Steeler side, welcome, Welcome to Pittsburgh.
(07:08):
But for the Dolphins side of it, offensively, Wattle is
not that go get it big play.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
No, he's a one A. He's a one A. Wattle's
a one A.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You look at Darren wallerwell, can you trust he's gonna
stay healthy and be on the.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Field career batch his career er, right.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
But going back through his time with the Giants and
his entire run has been all right, what am I
getting on a week three basis? So uh, it becomes
the shut it, shut it down. If you're McDaniel, you
want something more dynamic. He's the wonder kin, right, he
was the guy that was gonna revolutionize offense. And when
you had a guy that could take it off over
the top and allow him to throw timing routes over
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the middle, it worked. Well, that's not there. He's got
to make plays, he's got to be able to drive
it into spots. Today he had fifteen to twenty mile
an hour wins, So that ain't happening. I would be
remiss if we didn't at least acknowledge this point in
the game, because in the fourth quarter the Waller heroics.
Ten points were scored in the first half, seven to
three Steelers over under. It was forty two and a half.
(08:13):
Game total finished at forty three.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, you got that.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
A lot of angry folks says that, wait, they're trying
in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Even Troy Aikman was wondering, it's like, all right, you.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Just stood around and let the plate clock run, because
this is this goes back to the larger picture of
game management and what are you at this point of
all right, we're gonna run the plate clock down and
grind while we're down huge, and now we're gonna call
time out to have an onside kick and all this
other stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Still down multiple scores, Like well, which is it? Yeah, Like,
what are we doing here? Yeah? That's tough either way.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
The overhit. So congratulations. If you played that on a
wish and a dare, if you had the underploy, you're salty.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Jason Smith Mike Harbon live from the Fox Sports radio studios.
Now another quarterback getting a lot of ink today, and
we talked a lot about it is Philip Rivers, and
I'm gonna be as I'm gonna be as accurate as
I need to be.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
You want to Philip Rivers, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Philip Rivers played as well as you could possibly expect
him to play.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
All all. I was happy.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Come on, man, it's not like the guy through for
three through for one hundred and twenty bleeping yards.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Man. But should have been a winner, Philip Rivers? What
was he yesterday?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean they almost won, right, Philip Rivers played how
you would expect a back, how you were back to Well,
I didn't think you make it to the end of
the game exactly. I thought the Seahawks would wind up
knocking him out in the middle of the second quarter, which,
you know what, kind of disappointed the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
They had a.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Craptastic defensive effort. But Philip Rivers played like that. You
want to be accurate for Philip Rivers. Do you see
this all the time?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
In the NFL?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Number one quarterback on a team plays all the reps,
all the reps, all the reps gets hurt suddenly and
the little used backup who's never started a game has
to go in and start the next week. Right, what's
your best case scenario? Well, I hope we can throw
for one hundred one hundred and fifty yards, he doesn't
turn the ball over, doesn't cost us the game, and
(10:22):
we really suck it up and we get a big effort,
big circle the wagons, like Chris Bover would always say,
a big circle of the wagons, effort from the Buffalo Bills,
and a big effort in which we can pull out
a game at the end. Right, we're not going to
win because of our quarterback. We got to be able
to We know our offenses limited, and we hope that
that's the kind of effort we can get. And that's
(10:44):
what they got from Philip Rivers. He looked like a
guy that hadn't had never started a game, but he
gets thrust into the lineup and he again, he played
well enough, one hundred and twenty yards. He had a
touchdown pass, but in the end it wasn't quite good
enough because they got a fifty six yard field goal
from Jason Myers. At the end of regulation. Rivers throws
the pick in the final drive, but he kind of
had to. There wasn't a lot of time left. I'm
(11:04):
not going to ding him on that, but overall, that's.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
How Rivers played.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Now he's already gotten the go ahead to play on
Monday night against the forty nine ers, which tells you
the Colts don't want to put Anthony Richardson out there
because he's clear to return to practice. I would have
thought they'd want to get Riley Leonard out there because
he looked pretty good and jumping in for Daniel Jones.
But he's already gotten the okay to go in. It's
a great story, but let's not confuse a great story
with the reality, which is that's how Philip Rivers looked
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like an untested second string or third string quarterback who
was thrust in that didn't lose the game and gave
you the bare minimum of offense you needed to pull
things out. They almost pull it out, but they didn't.
That's what Philip Rivers did on Sunday. Didn't do anymore,
didn't do any less. He did as best as you
could expect the situation to be. So I am happy
(11:49):
because he was upright, He finished the game healthy. He's
going to get to start again again. Great story, great story,
but I'm not going to confuse great story with performance.
So I am glad that I was only sort of
wrong about Philip Rivers, very wrong. I was sort of wrong,
sort of wrong. And I'm glad because he again, he's
a fun story. I want to see him. I want
to see him do I want to see him keep
(12:10):
paying it's awesome. But I was only sort of wrong.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Well, he still had almost double the yardage of the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
How difficult does that to do? Really?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
How difficult does that to do? How still an NFL
team that you still dominated?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Coming on? They really in NFL?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
It was a battle of former Super Bowl champions. Kenny
Ticket and Jalen Hurts. Square it off, Pete Carroll, Ye,
once upon a time. All right, let's let's do this.
As we look at Philip Rivers. We were just talking
about too a tongue of ila arm strength and the
ability to cut through. Well, that's not there, clearly. Uh,
there were a number of throws that could have been
(12:48):
made if he could have pushed the ball down the field.
I don't know that he would have been able to
do that five years ago when he was finishing things
with Indianapolis, so that hasn't changed. Did they scheme it
up well enough to where they still should have walked
away with a victory? Yeah, defense showed up. They held
the Seahawks to fifty rushing yards, moved the ball fairly effectively.
(13:09):
Taylor twenty five carries, look grind clock right, twenty five
carries eighty seven yards. Make it a shorter game. They
actually did the work for the Seahawks for them and
then McDonald then they did a great job with their
timeouts and clock management down the stretch to get to
that final possession and the opportunity for the field goal.
But for Philip Rivers, you didn't blitz him, You didn't
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get after me at one sack, so he stood up right.
Completed eighteen passes, Yeah, only on one hundred and twenty yards,
and that was thirty three and a half yards short
of what the over hunderd was set. So you cash
that comfortably. But moved the ball enough, eight up enough
clock to where it should have had a win. And
this week against San Francisco Marquee game Monday night football,
(13:55):
glorious for us. They don't have a pass rush either,
so and then look, Seattle has one and they couldn't
get to him San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That's not even part of the game plan. So for
old Philip here, I don't know if he's got some
magic in that arm.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
One last fifty five passes on Monday night against them, Yeah,
twenty seven off the couch again the under hit because
it was thirty and a half. But exit out, bout
of Fresca, exit swallen do so that that's realistically, that's
a realistic breakdown of what Philip.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But you got the over on the completions. You can
say you're sorry. Now. What we showed people to keep
fighting was an apology.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I said. I was glass, I was sort of wrong.
I was sort of wrong. You went full Phonsie sort of.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
They didn't win.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
He didn't go for three point fifty and three but
for one hundred and twenty and they lost.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
You're not apologizing to the team. I'm not.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Exactly. Their failure to support his efforts is not his fault.
He threw for one hundred and twenty yards and it
was one hundred winning. Brady Cook threw for more yards.
Not sound if doubt apologized exit out about a Fresca
exit swalling' dove. We got more quarterback news coming up.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Yep, we'll get back into big quarterback
story coming up in a couple of minutes. But look
it's hard what we've gone through the last twenty four
hours or so when and we're still dealing with the
(16:19):
aftermath of the death of Robin Michelle Reiner were found
dead in their homes yesterday. The story started to leak
out middle of the day where the body of a
seventy eight and a sixty eight year old person were
found in their homes.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You know how old rob.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Michelle Reiner were, and we find out it was them,
and now their son is in custody.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
In regards to their murder.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And look, there's lots of developments and there's lots of
details on it that are continuing to come out as
we speak. We're in the early days of this story,
and I've seen lots of the worst of humanity over
the course of the last three hours on social media.
With this, it's hard to talk about because and this
is the first time we've talked about it tonight, and
(17:05):
I know you think, wow, Jason, you guys usually talk
about stuff like this earlier. It's hard because when I
want to talk when when legends pass on, you know,
if it's at the end of a long life, you
like to say they had a good run, and we
can talk about their bodies of work and what they
left us that will live forever like that. That's the
(17:27):
kind of conversations that when you talk about somebody's career,
and Rob Reiner clearly has done that. I mean, is
movies of the soundtrack to a lot of our lives.
And it's hard because I want to talk about that
part of it, but just the rawness of what happened
and how this went down just it's it's still shocking
that this is what we're talking about, that this is
(17:49):
how this this is how Rob Reiner and his wife died,
that they were allegedly killed by their son, who has
had a wealth of difficulties over the course of the
past few years. And it's hard for me to sit
here and say, hey, let's let's look at his filmography
when this is still so fresh in everybody's mind. It's
a really difficult thing to balance to talk about because
(18:09):
I know people want to talk about it and here
is it and talk about the life and the career
that he had. It's just it's a really hard thing
to do.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, I mean, the news as it broke right in
the middle of the football Sunday and you start seeing
some details and waiting for more information. They did a
press conference that really didn't add to anything, which has
been why and roundly criticized for Okay, we're here, but
why and people came away with more questions, right because
(18:39):
there was a lot of speculation, much like the stories
we've been talking about for in the Sporting Universe, all
the rumors starts spreading about different paths and then we
finally get to the point where their son's in custody,
So trying to make sense of it all. And over
the course of the day the mere he had stars
(19:01):
that you know, had put out tributes about their careers
and everything that they owed to Rob Reiner, Prosperg and
I we're talking about a little bit Castle Rock Entertainment
was he was a founding member of that production company.
They saved Seinfeld, So Seinfeld doesn't exist to the level
it does, right, So, like you talk about the grandiose
scope of all the impacted lives in Hollywood and people
(19:25):
that just knew him and the outpouring of love, and
that's kind of where where we're at trying to make
sense of this, right And you know, obviously check in
on your loved ones and and help people as you
can is always the story of the day. But yeah,
in this trying to make sense of it in a
town that often doesn't make a lot of sense Los
(19:47):
Angeles as a whole, especially if you're not living here
you look at it from the thirty thousand foot stare.
I know, you know, talking to my parents earlier today,
they brought it up, and it's you know, you're just
trying to make sense of it, because, let's face it,
humanity as a whole doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well, and you realize how active he still was where
he had he was in the barrier, A great three
run episode. Running the Bear is the the power of
positive thinking. Guy he was trying to get in on
a on an investment opportunity.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Now scam most likely a scam artist that was coming in.
I literally watched This is Spinal Tap two Saturday night. Yeah, yeah,
I just added to HBO two or HBO Max, I
should say, so. I had literally watched that before getting
ready for my you know, a little nap before my
show on Sunday morning here at the Network. So, like
all of it, just amazing. Even in Hollywood, there are
(20:38):
a lot of good writers. There are a lot of
good actors and there are a lot of good directors,
but I think he was maybe the only one that
did all three amazingly.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I mean, look, my first experience with him was when
he was on All in the Family. Sure it was
look All in the Family is just still an incredible
experience to watch. And he was such a good actor then,
and he picked his spots acting wise, like everything he's
been in, Like in Frostburg. We talked about Wolf of
Wall Street, you know earlier like every twenty six side,
what is a cure cancer? It actually does cure cancer.
(21:09):
That's why it costs so much money. Uh, Like all
his spots have been sleepless in Seattle, Tiramisu, what is that?
You'll find out what? A woman's gonna want me to
do it too. I'm not gonna know what it is?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The County of Me Award nomination for a few good men.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Sure well, And that's the thing that's I want to
get princess proudly that all of the movies that he
has done, and all the movies that he gets that
he is credited for, and his run as a director,
which is incredible and is run from from This is
Spinal Tap, stand by Me, Princess Bride, when Harry met
Sally Misery, you know, American President, right, all of these
(21:42):
things that he did, and I don't think he nearly
gets enough credit for a Few Good Men because what
movie has aged better in the last thirty years than
A Few Good Men? A Few Good Men is still
on TV all the time. It's all of these stars
at the high of their powers and the height of
their acting performance. And that's what he doesn't get enough
(22:05):
credit for. Because okay, yeah, here's a Few good Men
and it's a play written by Aaron Sorkin, is directed
by Rob Reiner. Now, in anything Rob Reiner directed, when
you think of a great director, you think, oh, they
use these angles, and they use this, and they use
this and this piece of music and this cuts and this. Okay,
that's great. But also part of being a director and
people lose lose focus on, is that getting the best
(22:26):
performance you could possibly get out of your actors is
a really big deal, and it's like nobody understands it.
That's part of what it is being a director. It's
not just look at these camera angles and look at
this camera cut and look at what we did here.
It's getting the big performance. And that's something that is
that is left out. It's like for a head coach
in sports, where it's like, well, they don't really have
a great system, they don't really have something that they
(22:48):
do that is setting the NFL on its ear. But
they get the best performances out of their players. And
there's something to be said for that. And think of
all these movies where how great are the performance is
that you got from Tom Hanks and Ryan and Billy
Crystal and James Kahn and turning Kathy Bates and starting
her career. Like all his movies are quoted and revisited
(23:10):
a time and time again, and the one that stands
for mostman is A Few Good Men. You Nicholson's performance
and Tom Cruise and Demean Mourn and Kevin Bacon. There's
nobody in this movie that you don't say, Wow, they
were outstanding. They were the best at their time. I
don't know how it didn't win Best Picture. I mean,
if you were doing the Academy Awards for nineteen ninety
two all over again, I'm pretty sure that would win
Best Picture. I'm pretty sure he would win Best Director.
(23:31):
I'm pretty sure he didn't get nominated for that was
nominated for A good Men he was nominated for. But okay,
but okay, I thought one of them wasn't nominated. Either
he wasn't nominated or a few he was he was nominate.
If your good Man was nominate Okay, if you did
that again nineteen ninety two, and I'm trying to think,
well that might have been unforgiven that year that won
Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman, if you did that, which
(23:53):
still holds up, Yeah, but if you did that again, Okay,
what's you know what's had a bigger impact than people
that that that wow you more than a few good Men,
there's I mean, there's not many, especially in that year.
You know, so of all the all the movies that
he gets is getting credit for all the all the
lines you've quoted for that run like if the beds
like just understand how much a few good Men is
on and how many people have seen that's a that's
(24:14):
a conversation started with someone who's sixty and someone who's
thirty and someone who's fifteen seen movies for the first.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You want the truth, you can't handle it.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
The one liners, uh and quick monologues and backs and forth.
I mean Pollock and to me Moore and I mean
everybody's got a line. Kevin Bacon, right, he was in tears,
you know, kind of talking about you know, that set
and his filmography quite extensive. He's like, that's the only
time I ever had lunch with the director. Every day,
(24:44):
Like he just was. We that's how we got anybody comfortable, right,
normal guy. We were talking about it before, like normally
you're out and about, you go to an event, you know,
suit up whatever. He was always in a ball cap,
a flannel shirt that was unbuttoned and jeans like that was.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Just who the guy was.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
And I know a lot of it has been politically
fueled over the course of the day, but you pull
it away from that into a guy that cared about,
you know, people cared about, you know, the the environment
and what you know, being good stewart to the other
people and just to a person like all these Hollywood
(25:21):
heavyweights and actors and actresses go back to the cast
from stand by Me, Jerry O'Connell, he goes, I don't
have my life without him, Yeah, right, and just go
on down the line. I would be remiss. You mentioned Nicholson.
The bucket List was also a Rob Reiner there, and
as you get a little bit older, you appreciate that
film perhaps a little bit more so. And don't forget
(25:42):
he was an avid baseball fan, Yeah, a long time
Dodger fan.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah yeah, I mean you forget about the tonnage of
what he's done during his career.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I saw. My favorite part of the Jerk was Rob Reiner.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
He's like, he picks up Steve Martin the hitchhik and
he goes, how far are you going? And Steve Martin's
I'm going to Saint Louis. How far are you going?
Rod rynand goes end of this fence? Okay, And he gets.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
To the car.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
He drive you in Fisicos, So what's your name? And
he goes, we're here, and I of the Jerk. It's hysterical,
like you'd something that always had the right always struck
the right note as an actor and as a director
and writer, Like I don't know anybody that has that
many just solid hits and and and that kind of
(26:27):
legacy throughout his entirety of his career. Because Frostburg, you
hit on the head there all three of those things
that he did. None he did them beyond well, yes,
not many people can do what can do what he
did just one of them, and he's able to do
all three of those things. And whatever challenged him was
what he wanted to do. He wanted to be the way,
and he turned out to be one of the greatest
directors we've ever seen. I mean, these movies are all
(26:47):
the soundtracks to a lot of our lives. That that
mid eighties to mid nineties run that he had. It's
just insane.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
American President kind of a big deal. You would have
been the most popular history professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Postcard from the Edge, I mean, you just keep going
on down the line between the acting, directing, producing, writing.
It's it's really just a heavyweight back and forth. One
of my favorite pieces, you know, when COVID when folks
(27:17):
were bored out of their mind and just trying to
do whatever they could entertain you and a lot of
dramatic readings or whatever. Thing he did with his dad,
the great Carl Reiner. Most folks remember in Promotions eleven. Yeah,
but they did the Princess Bride because he had originally
given him the book, and he decided, I'm gonna make
this movie. So they did the whole thing where Carl's
(27:39):
the grandpa and he's laying in the bed and you know,
the as you wish is the file, Like I must
have had that come up in my time, bline about
five hundred times.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, I read the Princess Bride book not too long ago.
The Carry always wrote, who was Westling the Star? And
he said that, you know, he said, And this was
Rob Reiner's genius was when it got to the sword
fight scene with him and Inigo, right, you know, the
big sea of the sword fight sceneya ro Rob Ryner
said to him, Carry says, a, right, what are you
(28:08):
thinking of for the you know, what are you thinking
of the scene? Because they have to block it out
and all the action goes. He goes, it's supposed to
be the greatest sword fight in the history of the world.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
And that was what he gave them.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
And Carry always like, oh my god, I don't know
anything about sword fighting all this, so like he busted
his ass and trained and they shot it and it was,
you know, instead done with such a way where he
was so in tune with his performance and at the
end it was I can't believe we did that, Like,
I can't believe we pulled that off. And it was
as simple as Rob Ryan are saying it needs to
be the greatest, but not putting pressure on them by
(28:40):
saying you need to come through with the greatest thing.
It says it's got to be the greatest sword fight
in the history of the world. Okay, So and carry
always wrote something to the to the to the extent
of it, I'm trying to recap here, like he empowered
me to be able to do it, empowered us to
do it, but there was enough fear in doing it
that we had to do it great. And what if
we didn't do it great?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
How do it?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So the pressure was on us, but it was such
a way where we knew we could achieve and make
it something great. Like all those are subtle things that
that you do when you're in charge of something as
like as as a director or coach, and it doesn't
show up in the box score, but it's it. But
you don't get those performances without any of that. You
just simply don't well.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
And he gave the world Andre the Giant as a
master thespian.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Wallace Shawan said that he thought every day he was
getting replaced by Danny DeVito. Like he thought every day
he's just gonna bring in Danny DeVito, and Rob Ryder
never really a showed him from it because he was
doing so well whatever motivatever it was. And then he
finally told him at the end. Okay, but like I
remember one time, like he's Danny DeVito came to visit
the set and he made sure he'd been, like, he
(29:42):
made sure he could see him and Danny DeVito having
dinner together, and Wallace was like, Oh, that's it, I'm
getting replaced, right, He replaced right, but all this time
and Wallace Shawn's character is one of the greatest characters
in comedic film history. Vessini, uh, but that was the way.
Then he finally told him, you're not getting replaced. He
was like, oh, but you know, it was a way.
He got a great performance out of him, and it's
absolutely legendary and that made Wallace Shawn's career and he's
(30:03):
gone on to do all the different things in his
life because of that.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, I'm gonna go watch some battles between he and
Carol O'Connor. Maybe a little bit later on tonight, and
remember just the breadth and scope of what he gave us.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Carmon Lot from the Fox Sports Radio Studios, Time
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Speaker 5 (30:26):
You mentioned that Rob Reiner's dad was the great Carl Reiner,
who created The Dick Van Dyke Show, one of the
great shows, a comedy from the nineteen sixties, and that
was based on Carl Reiner's life as a comedy writer
for a network TV show based in New York. And
so Rob Petrie played by Dick Van Dyke, was the
comedy writer. You'd always see him in the office working
(30:47):
for the show in New York and coming home to
New Rochelle, which is where Carl Reiner and Rob Reiner
grew up, and coming through the door and the little
kid running him and say, hey, daddy, did you bring
me anything? Little toy candy? That was Rob Reiner in
real life. When Carl Reiner would come home, when you would.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You trip on the ottomn and every time as well,
well we just had Dick Van Dyt turn one hundred.
So yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
By the way, Rob Reiner got his OSCAR nomination as
a producer since A Few Good Men was nominated for
Best Picture. I specifically remember his buddy Billy Crystal was
yet again hosting the Oscars that night and his opening
monologue and songs saying Rob Reiner was somehow not nominated
for Best Director for that movie, and yes, that was
(31:32):
the big year.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
I remember.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
That's what I remember him doing that going to the
movie direct itself, like I remember.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
That kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Yes, an unforgiven with Clint Eastwood did win Best Picture
and Best Director. And add Clint Eastwood's name to guy
who's been superb in multiple categories in his career. But
if you'd have just a couple of minutes solo to
find the opening scene that Rob Reiner directed for a
Few good Men with the military drill team on the
(31:59):
grounds I mentioned this on the show last night, that
is excellent. You're right, he was not a showy director
that taking a play to a movie. That was an
excellent start to that movie. The Monday night football matchup
at Pittsburgh went to the Steelers over Miami. Tonight twenty
eight to fifteen. The Steelers had trailed three nothing late
first half Aaron Rodgers two touchdown passes. The Jets fired
(32:20):
defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes. The Colts will start quarterback Philip
Rivers again next Monday night. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the
Chiefs had surgery this evening on his torn to acl.
The Falcons are hopeful wide receiver Drake London will return
this Sunday. He's missed four straight games with the sprain
pcl Rams. Wide receiver DeVante Adams could miss Thursday's game
(32:41):
at Seattle with his bad hamstring. He's considered week to week.
Bill's kicker Matt Prater is out this week with a
quad injury. Florida Gators quarterback DJ Lagway will enter the
transfer portal next month. Reportedly, Nebraska QB Dylan Royola will also.
Former South Carolina quarterback Steve Tananahill died at the age
of fifty two. No cause of death provided this Tannehill
(33:04):
led South Carolina to its first Bowl victory in program
history in nineteen ninety four. Former cal and Raiders head
coach Mike White died at the age of eighty nine.
He also coached Illinois in the NBA Utah in overtime
beat Dallas. Cooper Flag forty two points in defeat. Denver
won in overtime against Houston. Nikola Jokic thirty nine points
in a triple double road wins from Memphis, Toronto, and Detroit,
(33:27):
which is twenty one and five after winning at Boston
won twelve one oh five. Kate Cunningham thirty two points,
ten assists the NBA Cup finalist Tuesday in Vegas, Spurs
against the Knicks, and the NHL wins for Anaheim and Florida.
Dallas beat LA four to one. The Sabers fired general
manager Kevin Adams and Scotti. Scheffler was voted PGA Tour
(33:47):
Player of the Year for the fourth straight year.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
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