October 6, 2022 • 32 mins
In hour four of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike share a sweet moment from the Oakland Athletics game earlier today. Earlier in the show, NBA insider Ric Bucher joined the show and the guys talk about something significant he said regarding Draymond Green perception. Then, the Dallas Cowboys could be about five or six weeks away from a franchise altering decision.
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one of the great moments of the day, Stephen Vote
retiring from the A's his last game today. His kids
got to announce him batting in the lineup. It was
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his final game and his last at bad as an A.
He goes deep for a home run and this is
where I know that potentially doing the show as long
as we have with Alex TI shirt. He is becoming
a sports fan because it sounds like Alex tie shirt
is in the back of this call. Let's play the
Stephen vote home run call. Listen for when you hear
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Alex TI shirt, who may be jumping in to show
his excitement for votes home run. We'll get that right now,
because it really, it really is. It really is shocking.
For a second, I could just see him in the
back putting his arms up and yelling. I could see
that from There's no question about it. It screams him.
And you know what, Alex is a man of the people.
He would be at an AS game. Oh yeah, yeah,
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that that would be the place to see him. At
the A's or the Raise or the Pirates, And that's
exactly where he's kind of people. Yeah, U c l
a football. He'd be one of the hundred people at
the games. Wow. Wow, they're five and oh and you're
you're still kicking them in the teeth. Oh, the more
winds they have, the less fans to come. That's how
it works, all right. So here it is, here's votes
home run. See if you can listen to hear Alex
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Tyshert right, it are you kidding? Yeah, let's tell that.
Let's go the tight shirt rallying cry so great, and
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you know what, I appreciate the hell out of him
for it. Some nights, man, you need that extra juice
and you get It's like Northwestern's got that jacked up
coach on the sideline. Same thing here. We need that
guy who's been in the gym hanging and banging and
getting after it yelled, let's go just love that yell.
Let's go like it's tyshert after he gets a question
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right in the Magic Johnson twitter game. That is a
Magic Johnson tweet. Let's it's true. Find your ways right
a t always man, Hey, and I do agree with you.
The most recent episode of House of the Dragon more
dragon and less house. It was episode yeah, like yeah,
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like so much more dragon. I felt like they've used
up the entire budget surplus to to have to show
that much dragon. Uh sho. It cost a lot of
money for the effects. I said, wow, that was They
used a lot of money for that. It was a
lot of money. It was so worth it. Though it
was it was much, It was much more. I always
say there's too much house and not enough Dragon. Now
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there's enough Dragon and and not and and less House,
which is pretty sure you got you gotta payoff that
a little bit. Yeah, I mean it's still it's still
just okay, Like it started out with all this promise
and now they just keep churning through storyline and you
can't really attach yourself to any characters, and everybody wants
the crown and you you can't really you can't really
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differentiate while you're rooting for one character over another, and
it's just it's it's difficult, it's not it's it's not
quite what you think it was going to be. Like
I thought it would be put together like Better Call Saul,
Like if you're gonna do a prequel to Breaking Bad,
which one of the top five TV shows of all
time on television, it's got to be buttoned down. And
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Better Call Saul was so good, it's one of the
top ten shows all time on TV. Like that's really
something I was kind of expecting that. From House to
the Dragon, here's a Game of Thrones is a really
big deal. Man. Game of Thrones is It's it for
so many people over the last decade. I'm like, all right,
they're really gonna go to the next level on this
and it's kind of not quite. It's like, yeah, it's
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not bad, but I really if you're gonna if you're
gonna do something that is piggyback, is something that's a
really big deal, you you gotta go all out and
make it that really big deal. And they just haven't
done that with this. That's gonna start yelling, Hey, sending
the dragons ins those give me more dragons that I
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don't have to worry about who I'm rooting for or not,
because I'm rooting for the damn dragon. Like, I just
want to see more dragons fighting. I just want to
see more dragon. Want more dragons, more names, more dragons,
because the dragons are really freaking I gotta have more dragon, dude.
The dragons are aweso cool. That's one thing I will
say I can't every episode is this dragon? Is there
a dragon? Is this a dragon? The dragons are amazing.
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They really show you the majestic level of a dragon.
This one too, Like when the kid rides that dragon,
it's insane to see, like how big and captivating these
things are. Dude, it was unreal ride the dragons and
wait a minute, no, wait a minute, remember dragons, dragons
not a real thing, very majestic, very remember dragon not
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not a real how do you know? Not a real thing?
T shirt suggesting an alternate timeline, Fox, have you seen
dragons in your sleep? Not? Not not not a not
a real thing. But but they yes, they do look
very majestic. I think they were a real thing. Okay,
all right, okay, we would have had we would have
had some kind of dragon. They would have found some
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kind of bones or something, just like they do in
the movies and tv O. What if you're like the
bones and they just evaporate over time? Back dash, how
can you how can you generate fire in your body
that doesn't burn your body? I mean, how how can
you do that? Dragon scales the scales are on the
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special but outside whereby the no, see, Mike's got it.
The dragon scales hold the heat inside. That's why they're
on the outside. Hurts on the inside. So it's like
so it's like a couzy for right. It's a dragon
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couzy available this holiday season from Tyshert co A Dragons
by Anything the cuzy. Oh that may be the best
thing we've ever done on this He explained to you
how a dragon works. Now you see this drink right here,
it's a diet pepsi. The diet pepsi is very cold.
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You want to be cold. What happens when you touch
it with your hand? The pepsi gets warmer. Do warm
drinks taste well? Well, some do a hot toddy of coffee,
But diet pepsi diet coke, you want to make sure
stays cold. Now here's your invention. Here is a couzy.
You put it on the drink. The drink stays cold inside,
and it's a buffer for all the temperatures outside. This
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is how a dragon works. And when it reaches the
proper temperature, a dragon will appear. Not to be confused
with jutcuzy that holds water like on the course light bottle.
When the mountain goes blunt, the dragon shows, look out,
and here come the dragons. Temperature in the arena right
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where we need it to be. That was their arrival.
It was a very dense scully, and here come the dragons.
You know, the last time I actually interviewed a dragon
about ten years ago. Here comes the dragon. His name
was Pete Pete yez at t j Pete Dragon here
in the third set against Andre Agassy t J all Right,
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So earlier in the show, we talked to Rick Buker,
Fox Sports NBA Insider Extraordinaire and the Draymond Green story
that broke tonight is just insane. Draymond Green and Jordan
Pool involved in an altercation of practice where Draymond Green
threw a punch at Pool that connected. Now Pool turned
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out to be okay. He actually finished his workout and
then left, so everything turned out to be all right.
Draymond Green was very apologetic after, but the Warriors feel
that Draymond Green crossed the line and now there could
be some kind of discipline for him. Here was Rick
Buker breaking down the relationship between Draymond Green and Jordan
Pool and what potentially maybe this all could be about.
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So there's Rick Bucker saying that potentially, uh, look great stuff.
They're great insight that Iguadala and Draymond Green play good
cop bad cop with Jordan Pool, specifically when it comes
to playing defense, because Pool has not seen motivated enough
to play defense. And if you remember in the playoffs
last year, before they started, we talked about, Hey, Jordan
Pool is like the biggest X factor in the playoffs
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because of the player he turned into in the regular season. Yeah,
he was great, right, exactly what you need, right, he
became that guy. Like they what they started out twenty
nine and nine with him when he was starting, and
then Clay came back and they were a five hundred
team after Right, that's kind of what they were. But
in the playoffs, you saw his minutes getting cut drastically,
and a lot of that was at the root of
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they didn't like the fact that Warriors didn't like the
fact that he was very blah about playing defense, so
his minutes wound up getting cut. So you know, this
has been a storyline going on here. But for Draymond
Green to do that and you you punch one of
your players. Look, there's no truer phrase has ever been
uttered about Draymond Green. Draymond Green can ruin your season,
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and he can ruin his own season. He's a guy
with a with a big uh console in front of
him and two buttons, and one button says go win,
and one button says press this and see what happens. Hey,
I'm about a president, and see what happens. He is
someone he is a complete wild card when he has
wanted to win, he is someone who is the backbone
of that team, and he's done that over the course
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of the past better part of the past decade. But
there's also times where Draymond Green will cost you because
he doesn't think or he doesn't realize the ramifications of
his actions, doesn't know that, Hey, I'm gonna go crazy
and kick Lebron and get tossed out of the NBA
Finals and now instead of another ring, we don't have
it and the Cavaliers have it when our team is
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not gonna be very good because we have Clay injured
and we're losing dray and we're losing Kevin Durant. Oh
you know what, I'm just not gonna play for two years.
I'm just I'm just gonna hang out and do nothing
and people are gonna think my career is over. And
oh yeah, did I help push Kevin Durant out? Yeah,
wait a minute, why would you do that? Well, you know,
he and I didn't get along, you know, Okay, all
the reports Himan Katie didn't get along. I had to
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get out, I had to get away. Uh yeah, this
is who Draymond Green is. And then last year he's
on an upswing because he came back. He played well
last year, he was really good of all the different
editions they made and the the the amplifications of importance
for Andrew Wiggins, and once we saw from other players,
it was great. It was great Jordan Pool, but Draymond
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Green deciding to rededicate himself was a really big deal.
But this is who Draymond Green is. He's complete and
total wife wild card. I'm pressing the play to win
button or I'm pressing the chaos button. That would make
it better. It's either play to win or chaos. Play
to win. Oh, I love that chaos button. Chaos chaos.
I'm pressing that chaos button. Chaos guys, boom chaos button.
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That's who Draymond Green is. He can ruin your season,
he can ruin his own season. I enjoy that analogy.
That's good. The shiny red button, don't touch it, don't
touch you don't know what's gonna happen. I am groot now, No,
don't touch the red button. Yeah, it's just that curiosity,
you know of sustainability, right, everybody commerheads prevailing. I know
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Jason on on Twitter, thanks for chiming in actual and
do Matt, how about a fresca bringing back the old
Michael Jordan and Steve Kerr. And you're talking about guys
that have one together curve further along in his career,
Jordan's bing. Jordan's uh that You've got plenty of stories
through NBA history of guys having it out. I don't
think you've had it this early in camp that whatever
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still held over from last season. And we talked extensively
with Rick during the postseason, he and Dan Wicky about pools,
minutes and defense being you know, that huge issue because
you didn't trust him even as good and as well
and he was scoring and giving you that lift that
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he was that he had to hide him on defense.
So you've got that. And I find it interesting, Jason
that most of the articles that started to give you
little bits and pieces of this story and and starting
to at least just make sure, all right, we've entered
the fray Uh and acknowledge that this issue existed. Many
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of them points straight to contracts Draymond and and having
one more year after this, so two years left down
the deal. And then Jordan Poole hitting that point where
you're gonna have to pay him an awful lot of
money as well. So those decisions that start getting into
the play. And Draymond strikes me as a guy, not
that he's counting guys dollars, but just from a steward
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of the team that he might be, Hey, this guy
is not playing both ends. You know you want you
want to be what that next guy? You want to
be the guy that pushes us forward. We need you
all in. And I'd be curious to hear what other
details flow out of this altercation, this interaction, and really
what precipitated it, because it could have been just as
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simple as a as a play that got chippy, or
you add all this backstory and angst and maybe acting
like a guy that has already made it. I don't know.
I don't know Jordan Pool. I hadn't heard anything you
know about him in terms of attitude and such. But
certainly you're trying to pull it all together. We do
know Draymond's history, and so you you put that uh
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in the bank and wait to see what the next
details are. But either way, a juicy start for the Warriors,
and I agree with Rick Bucker. I said it. I'd
rather have guys coming out swinging ready for a season,
with fighting fire in the belly than worrying about whether
guys are actually gonna want to take the court. So
when we saw the Anthony Davis news tonight, I know,
I shook my head and I'm gonna pull out my
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theory gun when I'm done here and give the little
neck massage. I don't I don't know whether you had
the same reaction or if you just took another sip
of diet coke, but the point is you had a
disceral reaction to here we go again. Yeah, here we go. Hey,
what a surprise for everybody who thinks things are gonna
be different for the Lakers already? Yeah a d s
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iraq dot com studios. Everybody thinks this is it for
Tom Brady, right, Yes, the guy hasn't played great, but
he's played pretty good. All the Bucks are done, they're
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there too and too they're not owing four. But every
day the narrative shifts to this is it is Brady
bought in? Can the Bucks still win with him? Because
every day something new comes up that just makes his life,
both personal and professional, seem like it's too hard from
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to navigate on the football field. Right, the last few
days has been there's they're getting divorced, right, Brady and
Giselle are gonna get divorced. They've hired their own lawyers.
There's pictures in the New York Post of Giselle bunching
without her wedding ring. Oh, no wedding ring for Giselle.
Amits reports of divorce from Tom Brady, and all these
things are happening. And then professionally, what do we get
from Brady today? He didn't practice. Shoulder was a little sore,
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but it's okay. Wednesdays is a day that he's getting
a veteran's day off when he needs it. But he
practiced last week, but he didn't practice today. All of
it seems like it's pointing. Today Brady's professional life is
circling the drain, and this is gonna be it. Just wait,
just wait. By week ten, we're not having these conversations
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and the Bucks are back to being a team that
can win the NFC and get to the Super Bowl,
and Brady's playing back to the normal Tom Brady level,
and the conversation will be Hey, Brady's gotten past all
the early season drama and the difficulty he had Matt
managing his personal and professional lives, and look at where
the Bucks are now. Just wait, this has not been
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an off season that any of us thought was coming.
And as we mentioned last night, yeah, your personal life
bleeds over into your professional life when something very serious
like a divorce is what hangs over you, very difficult.
Like I said, show me a star having a bad season,
I'll show you a guy going through a divorce. Happens
all the time. Now, this is where Brady's got to
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find a new normal. And in five or six weeks
after he's found that, Okay, how do I go forward?
With where we're at right now and still be the
quarterback that I was. He will figure that out. Why
because he's Tom bleep and Brady and he's not going
out like this. He needs some time. He didn't have
the right or the normal regular off season, didn't have
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the normal presects, was away from the team for two weeks.
He comes back, he's not practicing as much. He's got
a lot of drama. As he even said, I got
a lot of blank going on. They need a little
bit of time. He's had. His weapons were hurt. They're
just coming back. Even though they lost to the Chiefs.
The Chiefs look came out right away and put points
on the board and made the Bucks play catch up.
Brady still put a lot of points on the board.
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The weapons are coming back, Godwin Evans, everything is gonna
be fine. And five or six weeks from now, middle
of the season, when the Bucks, after they got an
easy schedule, now coming up easy part of their schedule
is coming. When the Bucks are gonna be seven and three,
it's gonna be uh look at look at Tampa. They're
right where we thought. Look at Brady now he's got
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twenty touchdowns, trust me, Brady's not ending this way. He
just needs some time to find that new normal. He's
not going to circle the drain and spot I roll
and and suddenly wind up not being a guy that
can even get the team down the field. If that
was the case, Brady would have really retired. He's not
someone that's gonna go out there and play when he
can't do it anymore. He he's got too much to
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risk with his reputation and everything else he wants to
do after the National Football He's not gonna have a
bad year. He's not gonna have a year. It looks like,
oh boy, Brady looks like he's forty five. He looks
like he's sixty five. Not going to happen. He just
needs a little bit of time. So all the stuff
that's happening right now, just wait, we get around week ten,
You'll see how the conversation is gonna shift about Tom
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Brady in the bucks. You just have so much swirling
around the team, not even going into his personal life. Right,
There's been so many things and so many variables. Todd
Bowles was away from the team for a day for
personal reasons, right, and you have the hurricane that comes through.
You don't use it as an excuse, but you've got
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reasons for why things aren't clicking. You got an offensive line,
you had a guy, one guy retire, another guy left,
You've had injuries, so you're trying to find five capable
guys up front to keep him upright. You mentioned the
weapons and injuries and the suspension when Mike Evans stuck
up from so anybody that goes to attack what he
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does and doesn't do with and four teammates, how about
we circle that again of what Mike Evin said to
the official, that's Tom Brady man. You gotta you gotta
do this right. So clearly there's the relationship and rapport there,
and so that bleeds in because everybody gets affected. The
whole energy gets off and you try to bring it
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out and you might only bring in one percent. Well
that's still enough of the shift when you're trying to
run the operational efficiency that you are in Tampa. And
for Tom Brady, Brady and Giselle, I you know, I
hope the family they find whatever level of peace and
acceptance of whatever is reality right now between them. Clearly
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something Giselle had expressed concerns about Brady's health and everything
years ago in interviews. So you know that only gets
exacerbated when you add another couple of seasons to play.
But you you had the off season, as you said,
away from the team, took the sabbatical, whatever those eleven
days were, family trip or whatever reality was during training camp.
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And so there's just a lot of moving parts to
this internally and externally that they've got a coalesce and
it's not unlike things he did for twenty years in
New England, Jason for the first month of the season,
what works, what doesn't? What plays do we like? What
what don't we Going back to the Super Bowl year,
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they have a bye week, they're a middling team, They
go back, revalue, reevaluate the playbook across a bunch of
stuff out, rip some pages off, maybe you have a
ceremonial burning of some of it, and then they go
on fire h and win the thing in front of
the home crowd. So you've got the opportunity here. Same
You've take your weather the storm here. You've got a
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division that, for all intents and purposes, stinks. So you're
gonna be in the dance. It's just a matter of
seating at that point, and I don't care where he is.
As long as I got Brady under center, I'm feeling
pretty good about my chances. So whether the storm second
half of the season, look out, Yeah, the look, the
only thing I worry about this is the only thing
to worry about with Brady is injury, right, because he's
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gotten dinged up a couple of time, tator cuff and
finger and whatever is I mean, because that's the other
part of taking the day off today. You can't just
dismiss it to all the swirling tabloidal stuffs like no legitimately,
remember when he got he looked like he was pretty
jacked up on that first hit that he took on
Sunday night. Yeah, that's the only thing that worries me
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that that I would say, maybe you don't get as
if somehow Brady got hurt. But I can't sit here
and bank on it because outside of two thousand and eight,
he has been remarkably healthy for his entire career. He's
figured out a way, right. He doesn't take a lot
of big hits, you know, the kind of shape he
keeps himself in, right, because he doesn't eat anything that's
not ice cubes or or cucumbers. So yeah, I feel
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pretty good about this. I fee you know, suddenly is
he gonna get He's out all the time. He's getting
hit harder than he's gotten hit during his during his career.
It's happening. Yeah, I'm I'm okay with that. I We're
gonna get to week ten. It's gonna be fine because
people forget that the first four weeks of the season
with Brady it was remember, guys were hurt, right, and
they want they you know, they and and there two
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and two, which is what the rest of the league is, right,
that's yeah, and the and the Bucks have never been
with Brady, They've never been. Uh we are. We are
roaring out of the gate to a big record. Right
when they won the Super Bowl two years ago, they
hit the bye week twelve of hey they're good, but
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boy they're not great. Then they fixed everything because Bruce
Arian said, Tom, what plays do you want to run?
Tom said, it's run these and then Brady was the
highest rated quarterback in the NFL the last month and
I went to the super Bowl. So it's not like
they've gotten out to a seven and one right now. Suddenly, oh,
here they are two and two. Yeah, the rest of
the league is two and two, and the Bucks have
always been a team that's gotten better as the season's
gone on. Everything is fine, I know. It's it's you
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get that people seem that like they have that excitedness
of oh, this could be it for Brady, and watching
the downfall of Brandy, I wanted to say Brady stink
for years. I wanted to say this, and now I
get to see it. Just wait, just just be just
be patient, just wait. And if we're still saying this
around week ten, I'll be the most surprised guy in
the world. But we're not. And we're gonna be looking
at the Bucks saying, here they are at the top.
They got all their weapons back, and Mike Evans is healthy,
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he didn't get suspended again, and God wins back and
they're throwing the ball up and down the field. Everything's
gonna be just fine. Can I just add the the
one last point you mentioned, you know, just as a generalization,
everybody's two and two. We we started the regular season
by going, all right, if we're doing our top ten right,
how many n f SEE teams legitimately found their way
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into the top ten. Is it has that changed at all? No? No,
it's it's Philadelphia. And you get down to the bucks
pretty fast. Yeah you do? You do? Do you get
down here? Even if you don't like it, You get
down to the bucks pretty damn fast. Yeah, and you
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get off the top of your head. How many teams
do you really think? Or two and two? How many
of the thirty two teams are two and two? Almost
half the league? Literally one one away from take the
tie away from the Texans and Colts. Losers bought few
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losers in that game. You couldn't even win a tie game?
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Show with my bast friend Mike Harmake. Let me stop
you right there. The Mets suck. Just wait, see you
on Friday. See now you're getting chesty again. Couldn't mention
the Mats. You're all salty. Cues cues cues, Jets, Jets, Jets. Now,
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all of a sudden, it's like, yeah, I'm backing, I'm ready.
Never mind. Did you see Jet the flash? Now? Now
they added that video where they put the Mets logo
and then or what's that what's that guy's name that
sprints on the warning track and then chases guys down?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you're talking about
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whatever it is. Yeah. They they added the Mets and
Braves logo. Two yeah. And I saw a dk Metcalf too,
chasing down Buddha Baker. Yeah yeah, I saw that. Well,
but you've got a batting champion. See you on Friday.
See you on Friday. That's all I'm gonna say. Um,
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the Dallas annything, but the Dallas Cowboys could be about
five or six weeks away from a franchise and NFL
altering decision. I know it doesn't look like that Dak
Prescott is gonna be back this week. Mike McCarthy wants
him to have a full week of practice and he's
still not practicing with the team. So we're gonna get
(27:52):
Cooper Rush again on Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams. Okay, fine,
when Dak is healthy, he takes the job back. Because
Dak's getting forty million dollars a year. There's there's no
none of this. Well keep it no, Dak's getting the
job back, right, But if Dak Prescott struggles, suddenly Cooper Russian.
(28:15):
Dak Prescott turned into Nick Foles and Carson Wentz with
the Eagles, where for whatever reason, the Cowboys played better
with Cooper Rush then they have with Dak Prescott. And
then the Cowboys are at a really big decision that
Jerry Jones has already talked about because he said, well,
Cooper Rush wins a bunch of starts in a row.
I would be a great contract controversy to have going on. Uh,
(28:38):
do you stick with Dak Prescott or do you go
back to Cooper Rush? Because with him the team was
much more balanced and we played terrific. Everything is great
for the Cowboys so far, but you are gonna be
faced with a really big dilemma at that point if
Dak Prescott's not good And you know what, I got
news for you. If it doesn't work and you get
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to the off sea, Sason, Cowboys are gonna sit back
and go, hmmm, if we trade Doc, we'll get a
couple of first round picks, in the second round pick
and a player, and boy, we'd love to have those,
especially if we see that we can win and we
don't have to have Dak. We're gonna free up forty
million dollars a year to go spend on other positions
to fortify the team. Were suddenly not as thin as
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we need to be. Um, I can see the Cowboys
doing that in the off season. Other teams are lining
up for whether it's the Patriots or the Falcons or somebody,
Hey yeah, dad, because that's a good quarterback. But Cowboys
are thinking big and they have seen that, Okay, we're
able to get along without Dak Prescott. Doesn't mean Cooper
rushes the answer. It means Cooper rush is fine for now.
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They'll draft a quarterback next season, or they'll go get
Jimmy Garoppolo. Whatever it is, Hey, we'll bring somebody in
because we don't need to overpay for a quarterback. We
don't need to keep Dak around. And suddenly that becomes
the the direction for the Dallas Cowboys. I can I
can see that happening. I can talk you into that
scenario with the Cowboys pretty easy. If Dak Prescott comes
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back and struggles, then suddenly it's Wentz and Folds all
over again, and the Cowboys got a big decision to make. Wow,
look at you. You were going for the hot take.
You got Ricky carving this out as a take in
a promo. Uh so you can. I mean, look what
you're gonna do to fellow hosts here at Fox Sports
Radio and FS one. Are you thinking about them at all?
(30:28):
Do you care about your colleagues at all? Because right
now you're literally the fire story here. It's like the
guy that was sending me, Hey, if you see this
thing with this wand that uses flash paper, Yeah you're
gonna get that and you're gonna start fire. Don't play
that thing. But the idea of years, uh, you got
a defense that's playing well and a schedule that that
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was pretty good. I still don't think Kellen Moore, ever,
had to answer for the asinine play calling an option
and all the nonsense they were doing in week one.
He got away with it because Deck got hurt. So
we'll we'll eventually have to see what what they have
once Prescott's back. Don't forget, You'll also have Dalton Schultz
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and Michael Gallup back in your offense, which will help
things alleviate a little bit of the pain and the
pressure to you know, not drop past his ceedee lamb
uh and all the way down the line. Eventually, James
Washington the second half of the year, agoy. They were
hoping would be a number three. But it's like we
were talking about with the Bucks, better days are ahead
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and Cooper Rush is completing six of his passes. The
offense isn't exactly humming. So anybody that's you know, getting
lost in the Cooper Cooper, Cooper Cooper, they need to
calm down a little bit. It's a great story because
we love one backups do well. It gives us content,
but we also still have to be realistic. It's like
people shouting at the clouds about home runs at all
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time records put the guy on your list that you
want you want to put bonds on? They're great, You
don't fine, whatever's gonna get you to sleep a little
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one of the great moments of the day, Stephen Vote
retiring from the A's his last game today. His kids
got to announce him batting in the lineup. It was
(01:05):
his final game and his last at bad as an A.
He goes deep for a home run and this is
where I know that potentially doing the show as long
as we have with Alex TI shirt. He is becoming
a sports fan because it sounds like Alex tie shirt
is in the back of this call. Let's play the
Stephen vote home run call. Listen for when you hear
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Alex TI shirt, who may be jumping in to show
his excitement for votes home run. We'll get that right now,
because it really, it really is. It really is shocking.
For a second, I could just see him in the
back putting his arms up and yelling. I could see
that from There's no question about it. It screams him.
And you know what, Alex is a man of the people.
He would be at an AS game. Oh yeah, yeah,
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that that would be the place to see him. At
the A's or the Raise or the Pirates, And that's
exactly where he's kind of people. Yeah, U c l
a football. He'd be one of the hundred people at
the games. Wow. Wow, they're five and oh and you're
you're still kicking them in the teeth. Oh, the more
winds they have, the less fans to come. That's how
it works, all right. So here it is, here's votes
home run. See if you can listen to hear Alex
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Tyshert right, it are you kidding? Yeah, let's tell that.
Let's go the tight shirt rallying cry so great, and
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you know what, I appreciate the hell out of him
for it. Some nights, man, you need that extra juice
and you get It's like Northwestern's got that jacked up
coach on the sideline. Same thing here. We need that
guy who's been in the gym hanging and banging and
getting after it yelled, let's go just love that yell.
Let's go like it's tyshert after he gets a question
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right in the Magic Johnson twitter game. That is a
Magic Johnson tweet. Let's it's true. Find your ways right
a t always man, Hey, and I do agree with you.
The most recent episode of House of the Dragon more
dragon and less house. It was episode yeah, like yeah,
(03:18):
like so much more dragon. I felt like they've used
up the entire budget surplus to to have to show
that much dragon. Uh sho. It cost a lot of
money for the effects. I said, wow, that was They
used a lot of money for that. It was a
lot of money. It was so worth it. Though it
was it was much, It was much more. I always
say there's too much house and not enough Dragon. Now
(03:39):
there's enough Dragon and and not and and less House,
which is pretty sure you got you gotta payoff that
a little bit. Yeah, I mean it's still it's still
just okay, Like it started out with all this promise
and now they just keep churning through storyline and you
can't really attach yourself to any characters, and everybody wants
the crown and you you can't really you can't really
(04:00):
differentiate while you're rooting for one character over another, and
it's just it's it's difficult, it's not it's it's not
quite what you think it was going to be. Like
I thought it would be put together like Better Call Saul,
Like if you're gonna do a prequel to Breaking Bad,
which one of the top five TV shows of all
time on television, it's got to be buttoned down. And
(04:20):
Better Call Saul was so good, it's one of the
top ten shows all time on TV. Like that's really
something I was kind of expecting that. From House to
the Dragon, here's a Game of Thrones is a really
big deal. Man. Game of Thrones is It's it for
so many people over the last decade. I'm like, all right,
they're really gonna go to the next level on this
and it's kind of not quite. It's like, yeah, it's
(04:41):
not bad, but I really if you're gonna if you're
gonna do something that is piggyback, is something that's a
really big deal, you you gotta go all out and
make it that really big deal. And they just haven't
done that with this. That's gonna start yelling, Hey, sending
the dragons ins those give me more dragons that I
(05:02):
don't have to worry about who I'm rooting for or not,
because I'm rooting for the damn dragon. Like, I just
want to see more dragons fighting. I just want to
see more dragon. Want more dragons, more names, more dragons,
because the dragons are really freaking I gotta have more dragon, dude.
The dragons are aweso cool. That's one thing I will
say I can't every episode is this dragon? Is there
a dragon? Is this a dragon? The dragons are amazing.
(05:25):
They really show you the majestic level of a dragon.
This one too, Like when the kid rides that dragon,
it's insane to see, like how big and captivating these
things are. Dude, it was unreal ride the dragons and
wait a minute, no, wait a minute, remember dragons, dragons
not a real thing, very majestic, very remember dragon not
(05:50):
not a real how do you know? Not a real thing?
T shirt suggesting an alternate timeline, Fox, have you seen
dragons in your sleep? Not? Not not not a not
a real thing. But but they yes, they do look
very majestic. I think they were a real thing. Okay,
all right, okay, we would have had we would have
had some kind of dragon. They would have found some
(06:11):
kind of bones or something, just like they do in
the movies and tv O. What if you're like the
bones and they just evaporate over time? Back dash, how
can you how can you generate fire in your body
that doesn't burn your body? I mean, how how can
you do that? Dragon scales the scales are on the
(06:32):
special but outside whereby the no, see, Mike's got it.
The dragon scales hold the heat inside. That's why they're
on the outside. Hurts on the inside. So it's like
so it's like a couzy for right. It's a dragon
(06:52):
couzy available this holiday season from Tyshert co A Dragons
by Anything the cuzy. Oh that may be the best
thing we've ever done on this He explained to you
how a dragon works. Now you see this drink right here,
it's a diet pepsi. The diet pepsi is very cold.
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You want to be cold. What happens when you touch
it with your hand? The pepsi gets warmer. Do warm
drinks taste well? Well, some do a hot toddy of coffee,
But diet pepsi diet coke, you want to make sure
stays cold. Now here's your invention. Here is a couzy.
You put it on the drink. The drink stays cold inside,
and it's a buffer for all the temperatures outside. This
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is how a dragon works. And when it reaches the
proper temperature, a dragon will appear. Not to be confused
with jutcuzy that holds water like on the course light bottle.
When the mountain goes blunt, the dragon shows, look out,
and here come the dragons. Temperature in the arena right
(07:58):
where we need it to be. That was their arrival.
It was a very dense scully, and here come the dragons.
You know, the last time I actually interviewed a dragon
about ten years ago. Here comes the dragon. His name
was Pete Pete yez at t j Pete Dragon here
in the third set against Andre Agassy t J all Right,
(08:19):
So earlier in the show, we talked to Rick Buker,
Fox Sports NBA Insider Extraordinaire and the Draymond Green story
that broke tonight is just insane. Draymond Green and Jordan
Pool involved in an altercation of practice where Draymond Green
threw a punch at Pool that connected. Now Pool turned
(08:39):
out to be okay. He actually finished his workout and
then left, so everything turned out to be all right.
Draymond Green was very apologetic after, but the Warriors feel
that Draymond Green crossed the line and now there could
be some kind of discipline for him. Here was Rick
Buker breaking down the relationship between Draymond Green and Jordan
Pool and what potentially maybe this all could be about.
(09:04):
So there's Rick Bucker saying that potentially, uh, look great stuff.
They're great insight that Iguadala and Draymond Green play good
cop bad cop with Jordan Pool, specifically when it comes
to playing defense, because Pool has not seen motivated enough
to play defense. And if you remember in the playoffs
last year, before they started, we talked about, Hey, Jordan
Pool is like the biggest X factor in the playoffs
(09:25):
because of the player he turned into in the regular season. Yeah,
he was great, right, exactly what you need, right, he
became that guy. Like they what they started out twenty
nine and nine with him when he was starting, and
then Clay came back and they were a five hundred
team after Right, that's kind of what they were. But
in the playoffs, you saw his minutes getting cut drastically,
and a lot of that was at the root of
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they didn't like the fact that Warriors didn't like the
fact that he was very blah about playing defense, so
his minutes wound up getting cut. So you know, this
has been a storyline going on here. But for Draymond
Green to do that and you you punch one of
your players. Look, there's no truer phrase has ever been
uttered about Draymond Green. Draymond Green can ruin your season,
(10:09):
and he can ruin his own season. He's a guy
with a with a big uh console in front of
him and two buttons, and one button says go win,
and one button says press this and see what happens. Hey,
I'm about a president, and see what happens. He is
someone he is a complete wild card when he has
wanted to win, he is someone who is the backbone
of that team, and he's done that over the course
(10:29):
of the past better part of the past decade. But
there's also times where Draymond Green will cost you because
he doesn't think or he doesn't realize the ramifications of
his actions, doesn't know that, Hey, I'm gonna go crazy
and kick Lebron and get tossed out of the NBA
Finals and now instead of another ring, we don't have
it and the Cavaliers have it when our team is
(10:50):
not gonna be very good because we have Clay injured
and we're losing dray and we're losing Kevin Durant. Oh
you know what, I'm just not gonna play for two years.
I'm just I'm just gonna hang out and do nothing
and people are gonna think my career is over. And
oh yeah, did I help push Kevin Durant out? Yeah,
wait a minute, why would you do that? Well, you know,
he and I didn't get along, you know, Okay, all
the reports Himan Katie didn't get along. I had to
(11:10):
get out, I had to get away. Uh yeah, this
is who Draymond Green is. And then last year he's
on an upswing because he came back. He played well
last year, he was really good of all the different
editions they made and the the the amplifications of importance
for Andrew Wiggins, and once we saw from other players,
it was great. It was great Jordan Pool, but Draymond
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Green deciding to rededicate himself was a really big deal.
But this is who Draymond Green is. He's complete and
total wife wild card. I'm pressing the play to win
button or I'm pressing the chaos button. That would make
it better. It's either play to win or chaos. Play
to win. Oh, I love that chaos button. Chaos chaos.
I'm pressing that chaos button. Chaos guys, boom chaos button.
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That's who Draymond Green is. He can ruin your season,
he can ruin his own season. I enjoy that analogy.
That's good. The shiny red button, don't touch it, don't
touch you don't know what's gonna happen. I am groot now, No,
don't touch the red button. Yeah, it's just that curiosity,
you know of sustainability, right, everybody commerheads prevailing. I know
(12:15):
Jason on on Twitter, thanks for chiming in actual and
do Matt, how about a fresca bringing back the old
Michael Jordan and Steve Kerr. And you're talking about guys
that have one together curve further along in his career,
Jordan's bing. Jordan's uh that You've got plenty of stories
through NBA history of guys having it out. I don't
think you've had it this early in camp that whatever
(12:38):
still held over from last season. And we talked extensively
with Rick during the postseason, he and Dan Wicky about pools,
minutes and defense being you know, that huge issue because
you didn't trust him even as good and as well
and he was scoring and giving you that lift that
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he was that he had to hide him on defense.
So you've got that. And I find it interesting, Jason
that most of the articles that started to give you
little bits and pieces of this story and and starting
to at least just make sure, all right, we've entered
the fray Uh and acknowledge that this issue existed. Many
(13:20):
of them points straight to contracts Draymond and and having
one more year after this, so two years left down
the deal. And then Jordan Poole hitting that point where
you're gonna have to pay him an awful lot of
money as well. So those decisions that start getting into
the play. And Draymond strikes me as a guy, not
that he's counting guys dollars, but just from a steward
(13:44):
of the team that he might be, Hey, this guy
is not playing both ends. You know you want you
want to be what that next guy? You want to
be the guy that pushes us forward. We need you
all in. And I'd be curious to hear what other
details flow out of this altercation, this interaction, and really
what precipitated it, because it could have been just as
(14:06):
simple as a as a play that got chippy, or
you add all this backstory and angst and maybe acting
like a guy that has already made it. I don't know.
I don't know Jordan Pool. I hadn't heard anything you
know about him in terms of attitude and such. But
certainly you're trying to pull it all together. We do
know Draymond's history, and so you you put that uh
(14:30):
in the bank and wait to see what the next
details are. But either way, a juicy start for the Warriors,
and I agree with Rick Bucker. I said it. I'd
rather have guys coming out swinging ready for a season,
with fighting fire in the belly than worrying about whether
guys are actually gonna want to take the court. So
when we saw the Anthony Davis news tonight, I know,
I shook my head and I'm gonna pull out my
(14:52):
theory gun when I'm done here and give the little
neck massage. I don't I don't know whether you had
the same reaction or if you just took another sip
of diet coke, but the point is you had a
disceral reaction to here we go again. Yeah, here we go. Hey,
what a surprise for everybody who thinks things are gonna
be different for the Lakers already? Yeah a d s
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(15:37):
drop there you go, yeah, yeah, the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harman live from the ti
iraq dot com studios. Everybody thinks this is it for
Tom Brady, right, Yes, the guy hasn't played great, but
he's played pretty good. All the Bucks are done, they're
(15:59):
there too and too they're not owing four. But every
day the narrative shifts to this is it is Brady
bought in? Can the Bucks still win with him? Because
every day something new comes up that just makes his life,
both personal and professional, seem like it's too hard from
(16:19):
to navigate on the football field. Right, the last few
days has been there's they're getting divorced, right, Brady and
Giselle are gonna get divorced. They've hired their own lawyers.
There's pictures in the New York Post of Giselle bunching
without her wedding ring. Oh, no wedding ring for Giselle.
Amits reports of divorce from Tom Brady, and all these
things are happening. And then professionally, what do we get
from Brady today? He didn't practice. Shoulder was a little sore,
(16:42):
but it's okay. Wednesdays is a day that he's getting
a veteran's day off when he needs it. But he
practiced last week, but he didn't practice today. All of
it seems like it's pointing. Today Brady's professional life is
circling the drain, and this is gonna be it. Just wait,
just wait. By week ten, we're not having these conversations
(17:06):
and the Bucks are back to being a team that
can win the NFC and get to the Super Bowl,
and Brady's playing back to the normal Tom Brady level,
and the conversation will be Hey, Brady's gotten past all
the early season drama and the difficulty he had Matt
managing his personal and professional lives, and look at where
the Bucks are now. Just wait, this has not been
(17:27):
an off season that any of us thought was coming.
And as we mentioned last night, yeah, your personal life
bleeds over into your professional life when something very serious
like a divorce is what hangs over you, very difficult.
Like I said, show me a star having a bad season,
I'll show you a guy going through a divorce. Happens
all the time. Now, this is where Brady's got to
(17:49):
find a new normal. And in five or six weeks
after he's found that, Okay, how do I go forward?
With where we're at right now and still be the
quarterback that I was. He will figure that out. Why
because he's Tom bleep and Brady and he's not going
out like this. He needs some time. He didn't have
the right or the normal regular off season, didn't have
(18:10):
the normal presects, was away from the team for two weeks.
He comes back, he's not practicing as much. He's got
a lot of drama. As he even said, I got
a lot of blank going on. They need a little
bit of time. He's had. His weapons were hurt. They're
just coming back. Even though they lost to the Chiefs.
The Chiefs look came out right away and put points
on the board and made the Bucks play catch up.
Brady still put a lot of points on the board.
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The weapons are coming back, Godwin Evans, everything is gonna
be fine. And five or six weeks from now, middle
of the season, when the Bucks, after they got an
easy schedule, now coming up easy part of their schedule
is coming. When the Bucks are gonna be seven and three,
it's gonna be uh look at look at Tampa. They're
right where we thought. Look at Brady now he's got
(18:51):
twenty touchdowns, trust me, Brady's not ending this way. He
just needs some time to find that new normal. He's
not going to circle the drain and spot I roll
and and suddenly wind up not being a guy that
can even get the team down the field. If that
was the case, Brady would have really retired. He's not
someone that's gonna go out there and play when he
can't do it anymore. He he's got too much to
(19:13):
risk with his reputation and everything else he wants to
do after the National Football He's not gonna have a
bad year. He's not gonna have a year. It looks like,
oh boy, Brady looks like he's forty five. He looks
like he's sixty five. Not going to happen. He just
needs a little bit of time. So all the stuff
that's happening right now, just wait, we get around week ten,
You'll see how the conversation is gonna shift about Tom
(19:34):
Brady in the bucks. You just have so much swirling
around the team, not even going into his personal life. Right,
There's been so many things and so many variables. Todd
Bowles was away from the team for a day for
personal reasons, right, and you have the hurricane that comes through.
You don't use it as an excuse, but you've got
(19:55):
reasons for why things aren't clicking. You got an offensive line,
you had a guy, one guy retire, another guy left,
You've had injuries, so you're trying to find five capable
guys up front to keep him upright. You mentioned the
weapons and injuries and the suspension when Mike Evans stuck
up from so anybody that goes to attack what he
(20:15):
does and doesn't do with and four teammates, how about
we circle that again of what Mike Evin said to
the official, that's Tom Brady man. You gotta you gotta
do this right. So clearly there's the relationship and rapport there,
and so that bleeds in because everybody gets affected. The
whole energy gets off and you try to bring it
(20:36):
out and you might only bring in one percent. Well
that's still enough of the shift when you're trying to
run the operational efficiency that you are in Tampa. And
for Tom Brady, Brady and Giselle, I you know, I
hope the family they find whatever level of peace and
acceptance of whatever is reality right now between them. Clearly
(20:57):
something Giselle had expressed concerns about Brady's health and everything
years ago in interviews. So you know that only gets
exacerbated when you add another couple of seasons to play.
But you you had the off season, as you said,
away from the team, took the sabbatical, whatever those eleven
days were, family trip or whatever reality was during training camp.
(21:23):
And so there's just a lot of moving parts to
this internally and externally that they've got a coalesce and
it's not unlike things he did for twenty years in
New England, Jason for the first month of the season,
what works, what doesn't? What plays do we like? What
what don't we Going back to the Super Bowl year,
(21:44):
they have a bye week, they're a middling team, They
go back, revalue, reevaluate the playbook across a bunch of
stuff out, rip some pages off, maybe you have a
ceremonial burning of some of it, and then they go
on fire h and win the thing in front of
the home crowd. So you've got the opportunity here. Same
You've take your weather the storm here. You've got a
(22:05):
division that, for all intents and purposes, stinks. So you're
gonna be in the dance. It's just a matter of
seating at that point, and I don't care where he is.
As long as I got Brady under center, I'm feeling
pretty good about my chances. So whether the storm second
half of the season, look out, Yeah, the look, the
only thing I worry about this is the only thing
to worry about with Brady is injury, right, because he's
(22:28):
gotten dinged up a couple of time, tator cuff and
finger and whatever is I mean, because that's the other
part of taking the day off today. You can't just
dismiss it to all the swirling tabloidal stuffs like no legitimately,
remember when he got he looked like he was pretty
jacked up on that first hit that he took on
Sunday night. Yeah, that's the only thing that worries me
(22:49):
that that I would say, maybe you don't get as
if somehow Brady got hurt. But I can't sit here
and bank on it because outside of two thousand and eight,
he has been remarkably healthy for his entire career. He's
figured out a way, right. He doesn't take a lot
of big hits, you know, the kind of shape he
keeps himself in, right, because he doesn't eat anything that's
not ice cubes or or cucumbers. So yeah, I feel
(23:12):
pretty good about this. I fee you know, suddenly is
he gonna get He's out all the time. He's getting
hit harder than he's gotten hit during his during his career.
It's happening. Yeah, I'm I'm okay with that. I We're
gonna get to week ten. It's gonna be fine because
people forget that the first four weeks of the season
with Brady it was remember, guys were hurt, right, and
they want they you know, they and and there two
(23:34):
and two, which is what the rest of the league is, right,
that's yeah, and the and the Bucks have never been
with Brady, They've never been. Uh we are. We are
roaring out of the gate to a big record. Right
when they won the Super Bowl two years ago, they
hit the bye week twelve of hey they're good, but
(23:54):
boy they're not great. Then they fixed everything because Bruce
Arian said, Tom, what plays do you want to run?
Tom said, it's run these and then Brady was the
highest rated quarterback in the NFL the last month and
I went to the super Bowl. So it's not like
they've gotten out to a seven and one right now. Suddenly, oh,
here they are two and two. Yeah, the rest of
the league is two and two, and the Bucks have
always been a team that's gotten better as the season's
gone on. Everything is fine, I know. It's it's you
(24:17):
get that people seem that like they have that excitedness
of oh, this could be it for Brady, and watching
the downfall of Brandy, I wanted to say Brady stink
for years. I wanted to say this, and now I
get to see it. Just wait, just just be just
be patient, just wait. And if we're still saying this
around week ten, I'll be the most surprised guy in
the world. But we're not. And we're gonna be looking
at the Bucks saying, here they are at the top.
They got all their weapons back, and Mike Evans is healthy,
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he didn't get suspended again, and God wins back and
they're throwing the ball up and down the field. Everything's
gonna be just fine. Can I just add the the
one last point you mentioned, you know, just as a generalization,
everybody's two and two. We we started the regular season
by going, all right, if we're doing our top ten right,
how many n f SEE teams legitimately found their way
(25:02):
into the top ten. Is it has that changed at all? No? No,
it's it's Philadelphia. And you get down to the bucks
pretty fast. Yeah you do? You do? Do you get
down here? Even if you don't like it, You get
down to the bucks pretty damn fast. Yeah, and you
(25:22):
get off the top of your head. How many teams
do you really think? Or two and two? How many
of the thirty two teams are two and two? Almost
half the league? Literally one one away from take the
tie away from the Texans and Colts. Losers bought few
(25:42):
losers in that game. You couldn't even win a tie game?
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you get your podcasts, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith
Show with my bast friend Mike Harmake. Let me stop
you right there. The Mets suck. Just wait, see you
on Friday. See now you're getting chesty again. Couldn't mention
the Mats. You're all salty. Cues cues cues, Jets, Jets, Jets. Now,
(26:49):
all of a sudden, it's like, yeah, I'm backing, I'm ready.
Never mind. Did you see Jet the flash? Now? Now
they added that video where they put the Mets logo
and then or what's that what's that guy's name that
sprints on the warning track and then chases guys down?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know you're talking about
(27:10):
whatever it is. Yeah. They they added the Mets and
Braves logo. Two yeah. And I saw a dk Metcalf too,
chasing down Buddha Baker. Yeah yeah, I saw that. Well,
but you've got a batting champion. See you on Friday.
See you on Friday. That's all I'm gonna say. Um,
(27:31):
the Dallas annything, but the Dallas Cowboys could be about
five or six weeks away from a franchise and NFL
altering decision. I know it doesn't look like that Dak
Prescott is gonna be back this week. Mike McCarthy wants
him to have a full week of practice and he's
still not practicing with the team. So we're gonna get
(27:52):
Cooper Rush again on Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams. Okay, fine,
when Dak is healthy, he takes the job back. Because
Dak's getting forty million dollars a year. There's there's no
none of this. Well keep it no, Dak's getting the
job back, right, But if Dak Prescott struggles, suddenly Cooper Russian.
(28:15):
Dak Prescott turned into Nick Foles and Carson Wentz with
the Eagles, where for whatever reason, the Cowboys played better
with Cooper Rush then they have with Dak Prescott. And
then the Cowboys are at a really big decision that
Jerry Jones has already talked about because he said, well,
Cooper Rush wins a bunch of starts in a row.
I would be a great contract controversy to have going on. Uh,
(28:38):
do you stick with Dak Prescott or do you go
back to Cooper Rush? Because with him the team was
much more balanced and we played terrific. Everything is great
for the Cowboys so far, but you are gonna be
faced with a really big dilemma at that point if
Dak Prescott's not good And you know what, I got
news for you. If it doesn't work and you get
(28:59):
to the off sea, Sason, Cowboys are gonna sit back
and go, hmmm, if we trade Doc, we'll get a
couple of first round picks, in the second round pick
and a player, and boy, we'd love to have those,
especially if we see that we can win and we
don't have to have Dak. We're gonna free up forty
million dollars a year to go spend on other positions
to fortify the team. Were suddenly not as thin as
(29:21):
we need to be. Um, I can see the Cowboys
doing that in the off season. Other teams are lining
up for whether it's the Patriots or the Falcons or somebody,
Hey yeah, dad, because that's a good quarterback. But Cowboys
are thinking big and they have seen that, Okay, we're
able to get along without Dak Prescott. Doesn't mean Cooper
rushes the answer. It means Cooper rush is fine for now.
(29:44):
They'll draft a quarterback next season, or they'll go get
Jimmy Garoppolo. Whatever it is, Hey, we'll bring somebody in
because we don't need to overpay for a quarterback. We
don't need to keep Dak around. And suddenly that becomes
the the direction for the Dallas Cowboys. I can I
can see that happening. I can talk you into that
scenario with the Cowboys pretty easy. If Dak Prescott comes
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back and struggles, then suddenly it's Wentz and Folds all
over again, and the Cowboys got a big decision to make. Wow,
look at you. You were going for the hot take.
You got Ricky carving this out as a take in
a promo. Uh so you can. I mean, look what
you're gonna do to fellow hosts here at Fox Sports
Radio and FS one. Are you thinking about them at all?
(30:28):
Do you care about your colleagues at all? Because right
now you're literally the fire story here. It's like the
guy that was sending me, Hey, if you see this
thing with this wand that uses flash paper, Yeah you're
gonna get that and you're gonna start fire. Don't play
that thing. But the idea of years, uh, you got
a defense that's playing well and a schedule that that
(30:50):
was pretty good. I still don't think Kellen Moore, ever,
had to answer for the asinine play calling an option
and all the nonsense they were doing in week one.
He got away with it because Deck got hurt. So
we'll we'll eventually have to see what what they have
once Prescott's back. Don't forget, You'll also have Dalton Schultz
(31:10):
and Michael Gallup back in your offense, which will help
things alleviate a little bit of the pain and the
pressure to you know, not drop past his ceedee lamb
uh and all the way down the line. Eventually, James
Washington the second half of the year, agoy. They were
hoping would be a number three. But it's like we
were talking about with the Bucks, better days are ahead
(31:30):
and Cooper Rush is completing six of his passes. The
offense isn't exactly humming. So anybody that's you know, getting
lost in the Cooper Cooper, Cooper Cooper, they need to
calm down a little bit. It's a great story because
we love one backups do well. It gives us content,
but we also still have to be realistic. It's like
people shouting at the clouds about home runs at all
(31:52):
time records put the guy on your list that you
want you want to put bonds on? They're great, You
don't fine, whatever's gonna get you to sleep a little
better tonight, Twitter and at about a Fresca, Mike gets
swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my bass friend
Mike Harmon. So there it is. Get ready, it's the
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new Winston Falls, Dak and Rush coming up next, my
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