December 24, 2024 • 39 mins
Mike Harmon and Dan Beyer, in for Jason Smith, explore the biggest storylines around the NFL as the end of the regular season approaches. Did Mike McCarthy get himself an extension this weekend? The WNBA is making a big change next season. Plus, the whole family gets together as the guys play the latest edition of The Feud!
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Gradies and welcome in final hour of the program here
at a beautiful Monday night. Thanks for being with us
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serious XP Channel eighty three, whatever it is, however it is,
we appreciate you. Thanks for being with us. Dan is
in for Jason Smith tonight. Smith beginning the holiday holiday
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holiday and no doubt still shaking his head after the
Jets loss to the Rams. Another no show effort there.
We'll get into the Jets and some comments from their
quarterback a little bit later, but Dan, thanks for sitting
in tonight, coming back from your holidays and jumping in
the Eyewatch Flex podcast that you and I do. That'll
be up and going later on tonight early Tuesday morning
(01:13):
as we recap the week that was but at Dan
Byron Fox at Dan Byron Blue Sky, back from the Midwest,
reacclimating to weather and the flight and all that fun stuff. Yeah,
we always hear the horror stories how to go.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I think the Ears finally popped a little while ago,
still dealing with some sinus stuff, but it is quite
different when you go from the West coast when we
had about seventy degrees and then enter it during a
winter storm warning. But it made for a white Christmas
that we got to celebrate a little early and again
made it back from the Twin Cities today. Vikings playing
really good football. So everybody we saw in Minnesota wearing
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their purple. Obviously back home in Wisconsin, everyone's wearing their
green and gold, and they were wearing it on Monday
as well with that victory over the New Orleans Saints.
But good time to be in the Midwest. The NFC
North maybe the best conference or excuse me, division in
the entire National Football League. So yeah, in a pretty
interesting matchup coming up in week seventeen between those two teams.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And that's even with the Bears being the train wreck
and disaster that they are riding the midnight train to
nowhere in particular, as the season has gone off the rails.
But three playoff teams, and all of them you can
legitimately say, are contending. It's one thing to win a
division or be a wildcard team. It's another to say, yeah,
I don't think you're really going far, but you're going
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to get a participation trophy, kind of like showing up
in the twelve team college football playoff, Who did we
really believe could win it? Yeah, no, it's not one
through twelve, and that was never going to be the case.
And we used to have arguments about which team would
fill the fourth spot and whether they could actually contend
for a title. But to be able to say you're
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playing meaningful football into December into January really should be
the goal of everyone. So the fact that we still
had teams that were technically still alive, Sure they were
technically still alive and hanging on on life support. For
many teams, they were put out of their miseries this
week in the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yeah, there are certain teams that technically had hope and
never should have had hope. And that's the heck.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, no, that's it right to the still, Hey, we're
still got a puncher's chance. We're still hanging around the
periphery of things, mathematically still alive, but now eliminated San
Francisco forty nine Ers. They can now go begin their
off season and try to figure out whose stays, who
goes with that schedule of events.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Looks like, how awesome was that? How awesome was that
to finally have that storyline be eliminated. And I'm sure
that there's some within the forty nine ers organization that
maybe just had a sigh of relief for how strenuous
this season is, Ben Mike. But that's what I was
so sick of hearing, was just just wait for the
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forty nine ers. They'll turn it around. They'll turn it around.
They'll turn it around. They're the forty nine ers, they'll
turn it around. Wait till so and so it comes back.
They'll turn it around. And it never did. And now
in the eliminated box, my Seahawks may join them sooner
rather than later. Who cares to see the forty nine
ers eliminated? Oh? How great it is?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
They play the Bears on Thursday night. Can we just
add you have that a tie, I'd be done with it,
sure because both teams it's men like Seahawks are eight
and seven.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It doesn't feel it. I mean, I've lived it through
seen I've said this. They may make the playoffs, but
they are not a playoff team. And there's and that's
what we get now with I think the expanded NFL playoffs,
when we've gone to seventeen, we've seen year in and
year out, teams that are maybe the seventh seed or
teams that win a division that maybe necessarily should have.
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The Rams are better than Seattle. The Rams beat them
earlier this season in Seattle, and the Rams will host
Seattle in Week eighteen, and that game could have a
lot to have the entire division and playoffs spot on
the line, depending on how things go this weekend. But
the fact is, I just I think that the Rams
are just a better team than Seattle. See it. Seawks
are up and down. They may make the playoffs, but
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they're not a playoff team. And how we normally look.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
At it, and in that same division, looking at what
the Arizona Cardinals were this year, it's not done, but
it's done. Seven and eight and you have you know,
Trey McBride and others going, Ah, that team's stunk and
whatever you lost, you move on.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Seven and eight.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Kyler Murray finally makes plays with his legs. Doesn't matter
your seven and eight and your season is done. James
Connor was great for fantasy owners all year long. A
tip of the cap to him, but probably one of
the more frustrating teams because oftentimes, and what do we say,
after the first quarter of the season, we can usually
peg what you are. What your final record is one thing,
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but your identity is pretty well established. Yes, for Arizona,
I don't know that we ever got to a definitive
mark otherwise, other than to say, you're a mediocre team
that on any given Sunday might give me a decent
effort and just as easily could disappear.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I I and in so many words, Mike, it's also
just the difference of being an underdog in a favorite.
I don't think they played the role of the favorite. Well. No,
they would play teams that you would think that would
beat them and maybe play up to their capabilities, and
then on the second half of the season sometimes it
wasn't even that I felt that their physicality with James
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Connor and I felt that the team represented him, which
is why at one point they were in first place
was who they were there, there, there is there, There
may be something with the Kyler Murray Marvin Harrison Junior
connection in terms of it was something that had even
rumbled through the throughout the season. Mike and Ear the
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comments of Kyler Murray being like, well, it's you know,
not my job to only throw it to him. I'm
basically paraphrasing. But yeah, for the Cardinals, I think on
the surface, people would look at it and say that, well,
if they went nine and eight or they went eight
to nine, as they're now sitting there at seven and eight,
that would be a good record. But you know, Marvin
Arrison Junior had four catches for thirty nine yards against
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the Panthers on Sunday on eight targets, so they are
throwing in the ball. But there's just something that's not
connecting there with.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Arizona, inefficiency still reigned Supreme, losers of four of their
last five. You go back to the schedule when they
were in first place, where things had clicked. They win
that nail bider against the Chargers at home. They go
and beat Miami again, another nail bider, one point victory
on the road. They beat down the Bears. Bears terrible.
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They beat the Jets, So there's gifts at home. Back
to back week. I almost traveled for that game, and
I was really glad I decided not to. I had
several family members who had traveled to Arizona to watch
the Bears in that contest, and they said the Bars
were really good afterwards.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
That was the only point to it. Yeah, that was
the high point the Cardinal season. Not to make this
the Cardinals the postgame show, but I feel that it
ended up really really turning like it was over when
they didn't beat Minnesota in the game where they had
felt like they had taken the Vikings to the limit,
had to settle for field goals, and then Minnesota comes
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back and steals one. At that point, you're just kind
of like, all right, they lost to the Seahawks the
next week and what was a key divisional game, and
at that point, I felt, all right, there's where Arizona
season has gone.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And it's fun in the AFC side of things that
we still have several teams mathematically still live for those
final spots. Chargers in the sixth seed right now at
nine and six, Broncos at nine and six, A nice story. Again,
Sean Payton had some coaching decisions that I think I
might have been the only guy to really raise my
hand and ask questions at the end of the half
(09:06):
because that you know, fair catch free kick was really
cool and it was a great story how it got there. Yeah,
really they got a free pass. Okay, so fine. So
le Broncos are nine and six, overachieving but still in
the hunt. The Colts still mathematically alive. How why whatever?
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Miami and Cincinnati rounding things out, All of those final
three teams all seven and eight bangles an interesting story.
If they'd just start actually playing football in September, maybe
things would be a bit better for them. Playing a
little defense every now and again helps too. And Miami
still mathematically alive, wins the tiebreak over Cincinnati based on
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best win percentage in conference games as it stood right now,
and Indianapolis would win the tie break based on their
conference winning percentage as well. But you know, still along
road to go. But the fact that we still have
teams available to us to kind of wish and hope
and root for and against in the Final week, Week Final,
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two weeks, but certainly into Week seventeen, it's still good.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Cincinnati's played better football as of late, and they could
have been out of it for a while. Honestly, the
AFC playoff picker could have been set about two weeks ago.
But the Dolphins have started to win and the Bengals
continue to win, so they are in it. The Dolphins
the Dolphins conundrum, and they have a nice win against
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the Rams earlier this season when they went in LA,
and that is probably the game that you point to,
like if you're a Mike McDaniel's supporter, in terms of, well,
look at what he did here, look at what he
was able to put together for a season. They went
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on the road and they beat the Rams, who very
well could be a team that wins the NFC West.
But it feels like it's the same story with the
Dolphins of you're just not gonna beat a team that's
better than you, and it's not in any given Sunday,
Like we look at the NFC playoff picture right now,
and you could give me any scenario with the top
five teams in that conference, and I would believe you.
(11:16):
I would I would say okay, and it could be
Packers beat Lions, Lions beat Packers, Vikings beat Lions, Vikings
beat Eagles, Eagles beat Vikings. All of those would be like, Okay,
I could see that, and that's not the case. I
quit with the Dolphins. I can't sit there and say
if you went up and down the list of teams
in the AFC of who the Dolphins could beat, I
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can't do that with them. And that's that's the that's
the bugaboo on Mike McDaniel's resumes. For as great as
eight Chan's numbers looked and in previous years to his
numbers and Tyreek Hill's numbers, the fact that they just
don't beat good teams or teams that are better than
they are. That's that's who they're gonna be. And you're
you're not gonna escape out of ten and seven nine
and eight and eight nine playing that sort of football.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Beauty for them is for the final two weeks of
the season, they can punch down at Cleveland at the Jets,
and it may not, it may not matter right, but
they at least have the opportunity to finish strongly. And
I guess we'd take something maybe a little way from
the viral video of McDaniel with the game balls after
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the forty nine Ers win where he gets.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
One from the owner the vote of confidence.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Maybe that's a vote of confidence and getting a football flown,
you know, flipped your way.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Sure there is. It's perception is reality. And if Stephen
Ross feels that that Mike McDaniel is doing a good
job and this is his way of doing it, then
so be it. Perception is reality. Touched on this just
a little bit earlier, but it's the point of not
to jump back to the to the NFC MIC. But
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Minnesota a couple of years ago played in what eleven
to one score games? They went eleven and zero. Then
they end up losing in the playoffs. So the Giants
who are like, we all saw that coming, why aren't
we doing that with the Commanders? Is it solely because
of what Jason locking Forrest said earlier in the show
with Jayden Daniels, because they have the quarterback. But you
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go up and down that Washington Commander's schedule, look at
how many games they should have lost. Oh yeah, and
where they are now, they're firmly in the In this
past weekend, Devonte Smith you catch that pass on third
down and it's game over. I don't have to tell
you about it. Bears game. What about the game where
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the Giants didn't have a kicker right because they didn't
plan ahead and felt that Graham Gano was good enough.
That was in week two? Like you go back to
these games where the Commanders. Now Commander's fan may point out, well,
what about the Steelers game? But I still think that
the Commanders are coming out ahead more often than they
are behind than these one score games, and we do
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look at them and we're in amazement and being like, man,
what a great story. Look out for the Commanders, But
for a team right now that's ten and five, they
very easily could be eight and seven or seven and
eight if certain things don't go their way.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
No, you're right, and it goes to the whole you know,
we could tie it to the college side of things
really quick with the scheduling of you know, who's on
your schedule, who do you beat? Beat the teams that
you're supposed to along the way. I mean, that's what
Denver's done, right. They're only quote quality win if we're
gonna play that game is Tampa otherwise you're beating a
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bunch of nobody's and just go on down the line.
So you know, we play that game, mix and match
as we were. But perception becomes reality. If you've got
a quarterback that looks the part and Jayden Daniels, it's
going to cure a lot of that, right, it's not
the right versus. You're running the ball and playing good defense,
and your special teams has been on point, your field
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goal kickers having a good year. That if your quarterback's
not good, we talk about luck, talk about whatever else here.
If it's got style points to it. Because the head
i e. The quarterback is good, you get the benefit
of the doubt.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Yeah, And or if you have Kirk Cousins a quarterback
like the Vikings did two years ago, it's not thought
of as.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Nobody liked j Yeah, which is funny because you like Kirk,
but you don't like Kirk. Does that make sense? Like
in our national media, yes, Like there's the liking of
Kirk Cousins the guy. But I mean even as a player,
it was all right, He's solid, not spectacular. Didn't win
in prime time, then he did a couple of times.
It's like at those are outliers because here's the track history.
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And then this year had a couple of good games,
wasn't world beating, but that last stretcherrun became a well,
you've got the shiny new toy over here in Michael
Pennix junior. You've got all this talent that you haven't
been able to maximize. So yeah, the crowd sourcing of
information became the well, you have to make the change,
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like whereas normally historically it's like, well, you got to
let the veteran finish it out.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Sure, and a veteran with a new achilles or at
least a repaired achilles right still doesn't move.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Laterally, Yeah, he didn't look right at all. So I
think somebody will get him on the cheap because the
Falcons will either cut him or absorb a ton of
the money. And next year Kirk Cousins will be a
guy that'll be like, wow, look at him performing.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, well, you know in the Vikings, the Vikings may
even be Mike victim of their own of who they
are for compared to who they were two years ago,
because I think we look at them now and I'm
guilty of it as anybody else. I don't put them
in my they can win a super Bowl sort of group.
I don't have them there. And they had I don't know,
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it's not heroics, but they came back. Seattle took a
lead late and then the Vikings went down the field.
Justin Jefferson got behind the defense, and Justin Jefferson had
had a big game. You know, at some point, Kevin
O'Connor will probably win Coach of the Year. I think
it's probably gonna end up being that way, but could
be wrong. But the it's just the fact of how
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we look at things. When the Vikings lost two years
ago to the Giants, we were like, Okay, I'm not surprised,
and I don't think of the Vikings losing the playoffs
will be surprised. But if it's Washington, you know, like we're,
oh my goodness, look at all these shin.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
H.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, Quinn's got his head backwards. Cliff Kingsbury, like Kingsbury
should be a head coach. See the look he gave.
Should have seen the look.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I'm hearing it out of my fun people in Chicago.
He'll fix everything, unless he won't, because two weeks ago,
won't we lamenting that the commander's offense installed. Yes, it's
a very short time ago. I've got a long memory.
He's Dan Byer and for Jason Smith, I'm Mike Harmon.
As we come to you live from the Tirak dot
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their NBA counterpart, And would you like to give us
a tease of what the feudd.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yes, we had Monday Night football on week sixteen with
all of our rowdy friends coming over. But who came
over the most? That's the question we'll answer next.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I like that, we'll answer it next to here on Fox.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
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Speaker 3 (18:34):
That's what we got here at Fox Sports Radio Jason
Smith Show with me, Mike Carmea Dan Byer in for
Jason Smith. We're having a blast ty shirt really finding
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We appreciate you giving us a few minutes of your
time on the highways and my ways, trying to find
(18:55):
a little bit of peace and quiet ahead of the
bustle of the holidays. He's in earnest here with Christmas
rapidly approaching. The Christmas Eve. I can't even sit in
a chair anymore. Here's the problem when it's too high
because I'm a short man. I'm very honest about it.
I am a fire plug of a human being. So
Rob Parker for whatever reason, you know, maybe just because
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it's a nice easy tilt from him, he's a taller man.
It's this, This adjustable chair was at its peak, and
I didn't quite slide back as easily as I could,
which is why you have a little chaos and why
Dan Byer is laughing at me.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
And I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
No no, Even if it was no no, he could
be at me like like, because you know at me
is you know I'm okay with playing the part of
a clown, as many of our NFL teams have over
the years, no question about it. One team that's not
going out without a fight, and we'll get to the
feud here momentarily, is the Dallas Cowboys, which is an
(19:55):
interesting piece, and we talked a little bit with Jason
lock andfora earlier talked about the end of the season
and the presscott, you know, Cooper Rush kind of stuff.
It's just interesting when you've got a team that is
playing with more pride towards the back end of a schedule,
or we're trying to look for gut, guts and grits
and determination. Where you had some games in the margins
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earlier in the year, it's like, did you give me
a hundred there or did you think your quarterback was
going to bail you out? Now that he's not there,
maybe it's a little different, just in terms of the
mechanism there, or trying to save your coach's job because
while he's not may not be the guy you love,
you're afraid of what's behind door number two.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I think I think that is I think that's the
takeaway from it. I think that they maybe are playing
for his job. Maybe that's too melancho Collie or storybook,
however you want to put it, Mike, but that would
be my takeaway, not as much about what they didn't
do in the first half of the year thinking Dak
would save them, but what they are trying to do
and saving Mike McCarthy's job and how they're playing for him,
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and Dak's words of support that he's had in the
media of Mike McCarthy. I think all of that is
in play, and whether the Raiders came out with a
spirited an effort or they're just a better bad team
than the Jaguars. You know, they got a win, ruining
their draft pick situation and scenario. It's much more costly
for them. But Dallas is just playing out the string
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and doing so playing good football, and I think that
the thing that they have to play for is to
save Mike McCarthy's job.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And in doing so, they created a little bit of
spoiler alert kind of situation because they put that NFC
self back into turmoil as well with a win over
the Buccaneers because atlantaut while Michael Pennix you know, did
the job and they throttled the Giants, we still have
some meaningful football in that division, and the Cowboys win
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helped push that forward another week. All right, you ready
to do it?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Can we do it? After my Why why don't we
get Dan?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
We'll get in the floor to do a quick update
of what all happened here in our Monday Night Mike.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
He finally had a shutout in the NFL twenty twenty
four campaign. There was a lot of offense as well,
it was just completely one Saturday, Green Bay Theirs showing.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
A scrimmage on first in goal hand off, Jacob's blasting
off the left side, fighting his way to the.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Ends up touchdown, fourteenth touchdown of the season for Josh Jacobs,
a personal best ninety seven point three of the game
WR and W and the Packers Radio Network with the
College Josh Jacobs one hundred and seven total yards, sixty
nine of those on the ground, thirty eight of those receiving,
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Packers clinching a playoff berth now eleven and four on
the season, Mike, I don't have a lot of good
things to say about the Saints as sid from the shutout.
There now five and ten.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
But they hold a record. They were the victims of
a first shutout.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yes, congratulations New Orleans Saints. College football news Georgia quarterback
Carson Beck is not going to play in the college
football Playoff. He will need surgery to repair the torn
UCL in his elbow. Kid Cunningham twenty points ten assists.
Pistons win in La against the Lakers one seventeen to
one fourteen. Denver was all over Phoenix one seventeen to
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ninety Well, Indiana wins at Golden State one eleven to
one oh five, and Dallas a one thirty two one
oweight victor against Portland. Luca had twenty seven the Pistons.
Excuse me. The Celtics lost to the Magic one o
eight till one oh four, Sixers top the Spurs one
eleven till one oh six. College hoops number one Tennessee
holds off Middle Tennessee. Doesn't sound like it, Mike, This
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is a close game all the way, midway through the
second half, falls pull away though, eighty two to sixty four.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Back to you, they finished the job. Eighteen point differential
did they cover? We'll have to go check out the
early odds off of that one. But you know, Dan,
whenever you come to play here. Fox Sports Radio Jason
Smith Show from the tire rack dot Com Studio, Jason's
Bit Show with me of course, Mike Rman. Make sure
we get the name in branding right, We get the
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family together and in this holiday what better way to
do it.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Let's get the family together and play the f Mike Carmen,
it is a Fox family abbreviated Family Tonight Mike Carmen
with the gay Alex tysher Ryan Persinger making up our
Fox team. We need it a little bit more air,
little room to breathe, So we move the feud to
this point because there are nine nine answers on the board,
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the top nine answers on the board. There is one
caveat This came from stat Muse, which is always wrong.
So I do not want to guarantee that these if
you come back to me and say, damn, this was wrong.
Not by fault, my fault. It's the only place that
I could get this information. But I think that there
is some nuance in this. I want to know the
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top nine teams that have appeared the most on Monday
Night Football. Oo, okay, top nine teams that have appeared
the most on Monday Night football. You have three strikes.
Three strikes. Game is over. There is a pass a
a the Alex Tyshirt rule where you can use the pass.
We'll reveal an answer, but it cannot be used again
in the game. Are you guys ready to play? Let's
(25:09):
do it?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
All right, Mike Carmen, you are first up on the board.
Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh Steelers man. In their heyday, they were
quite the team and heck not too shabby right now,
show me the Pittsburgh Steelers, yes, tied for the second
most appearances eighty nine appearances on Monday Night football or
the Pittsburgh Steelers. Let's go over to the big a
Alex Alex tyshirt.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Dan, I feel like Monday Night is supposed to be
one of the fame, glitz and glory, but for some reason,
I think a lot of the worst teams have played.
So I'm gonna shout out the Saints right now since
they're so terrible.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
All the Saints for the most often being played on
Monday Night. You went for an awful Saints team. Yes,
is it the Saints? No, it is not the Saints. Day,
it is not the Saints. I feel like that was
a bit of a waste, just a guess, big swing though, Yeah,
it was, It's quite the swing. Let's go over to
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Ryan Berschinger Bursch Well.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Hopefully this isn't as much of a swing, because I'm
going to stick with the game tonight, and let's say
the Packers.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
All right, is it the green Bay Packers?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
No, it is not sitting there. It is Jordan love Jersey.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
He's like.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Rogers.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I had debated expanding this, but again I don't trust
stat mus and so I needed to cut it off
at nine. They would have been ten. If there were
top ten answers on the board, Packers would have been there.
Here's the deal, and I wanted to get this point in.
Monday night football used to be the game of the week,
right when Mike and I were growing up. Maybe not
you guys, green Bay stunk. They weren't playing a lot
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of Monday night games back then. Now it's not the
game of the week, so you're not getting the marquee
teams that maybe you once were. So Green Bay is
probably playing more on Sunday Night than they are actually
on Monday Night.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
That leads me to the forty nine ers.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Show me the forty nine ers eighty four times on
Monday Night football. For the San Francisco forty nine Ers,
it's two strikes. We need a perfect game from here
on out. Alex Tyshirt, You're up, Dan.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
I see the car the pit waiting for me to
jump in and to slam on the gas. But I
will not yet because we have a lot of guesses
to come. I'm gonna go with the Jerry Dome. Give
me the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
How about them Cowboys? Show me the Cowboys. Let's go
all right? Number one? Answer the Dallas Cowboys ninety one
times again according to stat mues. So these could be
entirely wrong. Let's go over to Ryan Berschinger. Oo, Yeah,
that's true. I used them every once in a while.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I go, no, one doesn't look good.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
So that's all I can find.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Well, okay, so now I feel now I'm feeling the
pressure here. Let's go Okay this I'm gonna say the
rate Let's put the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
All righty, show me alright? Is seventy nine times. That
is tied for eighth on our list, the Raiders appearing
on Monday Night Football, Mike Carmon, back around to you.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Been good a long long time and even in the
in those days.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
How about the Eagles? What the Philadelphia Eagles? Is it
the Philadelphia Eagles? It is not the Eagles. They were
eleven or tied for tenth. If stat Muse didn't update.
The Packers number seventy five times they appeared. Yes, Broncos,
the Broncos on the list. Yes, yes, all right, there
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you go, big A Birst. Do you want to play
out the string? The Bears? The Bears were on the list.
Just think of great eighties football, Mike Washington, Washington on
the list, Commanders, Redskins football team, Miami all over the place.
(29:05):
All right, can you get last one? There's just one left? Yes?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
The Rams? Actually, yeah, the Rams. It's not the Rams.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
To guess again before it's over, okay, big and feeling lucky, crap,
I kind of got nervous.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Giants.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's the Giants manning giants ill forty nine ers. Yeah,
the Parcels era. Yes, okay, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
So that's according to Statney, it seem most frequently the
infrequently appears. I have to pay for it, so we
don't know so that this would be to lock the
rest of the top thre too. It only went down
to twenty five, but that's what we've got for appearances.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, I mean, I guess the Eagles because of the
McNab era. Just figuring we had a good decade there, sure,
which gives us a lot of potential sample size. But again,
you're not flexing, you're running against Washington and Dallas in
this Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
And the Eagles there was a little cunning hand, but
it was so forty nine Ers, forty nine Ers, Bears,
Cowboys driven in that time that those teams that shined
in the eighties and Monday night football taking over and
are beginning in nineteen seventy. So you didn't have teams
in the past. But that's so jad Denver obviously with
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their great success. A lot of NFC teams on this list.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So the Metal Stand was number one.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Was Dallas number one, ninety one, Then the Dolphins and
Steelers tied at eighty nine, and then forty nine Ers,
eighty four, Bears eighty two, Giants eighty one, Commanders eighty
and the Broncos and Raiders tied at seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
There you go, and we ran through it, but you
know we were right on the periphery there.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Packers. Yeah, your guess is your guesses were again if
we could have on top eleven, but at some point
I got to leave somebody out. Oh no, absolutely, Yeah,
Rams were twelve, and the Vikings ended up being thirteenth,
and the Patriots they're great success again really weren't a
good team in the eighties and nineties. Sands their appearance
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in Super Bowl twenty and then later mid nineties going
to Super Bowl under Bill Parcells, but early nineties they stunk,
so they weren't appearing on Monday Night Football either.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
But then we also get into the fight over the
last decade plus protected games, like when you get into
all of those kind of rules that would have precluded
teams from showing up on Monday Night right ABC or
I should say CBS and Fox certainly fighting tooth and
nail for their their top centers along the way, so
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that would have precluded the Patriots. I would guess CBS
raising hell a bunch during the Brady period as well.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
And that you know the team that is my favorite team,
the Seahawks. They'd play about one game a year, but
they would always it would be a home game because
the atmosphere was good inside the Kingdome. They'd play about
one game a year. I know it was maybe a
possible consideration. They're winning percentage, according to these numbers, is
the best of any team on Monday Night Football, but
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I think that played a part. They haven't played as
many games as these other teams as.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well well, as soon as we get through a legitimate
sample size, though statistically speaking for science, it all counts
the same.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
We'll do this again next week. Dan. We'll be back
in next Monday Night in for Smith as we get
into the final days of twenty twenty four. Can't wait
to see what kind of chaos. Maybe we'll double up,
Maybe we'll go full New Year's Eve kind of New
Year's Eve's Eve, kind of celebration of all things that
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acknowledged the latest crazy report about his current team or
was he throwing shade at the reporters. We'll try to
(33:09):
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coming out of a sports business journal report. We've got
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Speaker 2 (33:19):
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Speaker 3 (33:27):
Thank you, mister Belichick, and we will two last things
we want to talk about. Thanks to Dan Byer for
sitting in for Jason Smith tonight. He'll be back with
me next Monday night. Thanks to Alex. Thanks to Ryan
making a sound pretty Ian, getting us sound in the back.
Steve Disager started the night with us on updates a
little under the weather, but Dan doing double duty here
(33:50):
as the show went on. So thanks for the yeoman
like work that you've done tonight and obviously for a
great year that we've had here at Fox Sports.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Absolutely, Mike, it was a pleasure tonight and throughout the year,
whether we be doing the podcast or getting together when
Jason is out, it's it's been my pleasure. Thanks for
having me. It's fun.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
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and I'll be back here on Monday. I'll be back
Sunday on Fox Football Sunday as well with Bucky Brooks
and Andy Furman. All Right, two last things for you, Dan,
I wanted to run the flagpole? What about the flagpole?
Speaker 4 (35:17):
For you?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
One is a w NBA story the Sports Business Journal
saying that they're tinkering with playing some games in Europe.
I'm wondering if the NBA shouldn't do the same, maybe
to juice the regular season a little bit.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Well, we've seen games in London, you know, they they
they'll they'll play, you know, a game or two over
there from time to time, I just wonder on how
big the Caitlin Clark explosion is and if this is
a too fast, too soon sort of thing. I didn't
realize that it went internationally as opposed to domestically, but
just right while.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
The iron's hot, see what you have there. You know,
we talk about international basketball, certainly from the men's side
of things. When we're talking and and b A MVPs
and just you put your short list together, it's like, Wow,
it's all guys international players, So why not try to
wrap your arms around that a little bit. Maybe the
w NBA trying to see if they can't cultivate a
(36:10):
game there as well and capitalize on the Caitlin Clark thing. Certainly,
I've heard a number of folks going, well, we should
be monitoring Juju Smith or Juju Watkins and others the
same way. It's like, if if the money is there
and the marketing is there, and they realize that there's
money to be had, they're not leaving that on the
table or smarter than that. So don't don't think as
(36:34):
this college basketball season, because we had Page Beckers in
Yukon against uc USC this weekend. If the money is
there and the and they know the eyeballs will follow. Yeah,
you're gonna get an overload. There was a reason that
that game was played even as it was and scheduled
for an NFL weekend.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
If there's if there's enough popularity and it could be
a foreign, foreign born player coming over here within that
country to go over and play, why not try it.
But I just feel that the feeling is that because
of all the popularity that Caitlin Clark has brought to
the league. And if you think it's injuries, that's fine too,
(37:14):
But I don't know how much that translates internationally. I
just wonder if it could be too fast, too soon. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, it's trying to figure out where that pendulum is
swinging and you know, if the iron is really hot
over there.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Here's Here's The other deal is that the NBA WNBA
is even looking to expand to more teams, and there
are plenty of teams in the United States that would
that want teams. Now, Cleveland wants back in. Sure, I
know Milwaukee wants back or wants in they weren't in previously. Obviously,
Golden State has their expansion. It's going to be a
(37:47):
sixteen League sixteen team league in a couple of years
max out the US, I think before maybe trying to
go internationally. There you go.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
The other one was Aaron Rodgers doing his McAfee spot
respond to some of the discussion of the last few
days that Brick Johnson, the seventeen year old son of
Woody Johnson, is helping and maybe at times really being
the driving force of a lot of player personnel decisions
and kind of joked about the fact that it would
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be the first to be fired by a teenager along
the way part of it is he throwing shades at
the report or is he confirming that the kid really
has that much clout inside for.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Both or a little bit of both. And I'm about
three quarters of the way through the Amazon Madden series
that they had. I think I'm in episode three, so
maybe two thirds of the way. But it's funny. These
guys love that product. But to think that they would
then be directly responsible for Aaron Rodgers or other moves
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being made in the NFL is pretty hilarious.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Thought you might have gotten some juice out of Jerry
Judy coming out of that report that a trade was
nixed because of Maddie and he was an absolute bust
for fantasy purposes.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
What are you Gonna do?
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We'll get into the Jets and some comments from their
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(01:13):
as we recap the week that was but at Dan
Byron Fox at Dan Byron Blue Sky, back from the Midwest,
reacclimating to weather and the flight and all that fun stuff. Yeah,
we always hear the horror stories how to go.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I think the Ears finally popped a little while ago,
still dealing with some sinus stuff, but it is quite
different when you go from the West coast when we
had about seventy degrees and then enter it during a
winter storm warning. But it made for a white Christmas
that we got to celebrate a little early and again
made it back from the Twin Cities today. Vikings playing
really good football. So everybody we saw in Minnesota wearing
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their purple. Obviously back home in Wisconsin, everyone's wearing their
green and gold, and they were wearing it on Monday
as well with that victory over the New Orleans Saints.
But good time to be in the Midwest. The NFC
North maybe the best conference or excuse me, division in
the entire National Football League. So yeah, in a pretty
interesting matchup coming up in week seventeen between those two teams.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And that's even with the Bears being the train wreck
and disaster that they are riding the midnight train to
nowhere in particular, as the season has gone off the rails.
But three playoff teams, and all of them you can
legitimately say, are contending. It's one thing to win a
division or be a wildcard team. It's another to say, yeah,
I don't think you're really going far, but you're going
(02:34):
to get a participation trophy, kind of like showing up
in the twelve team college football playoff, Who did we
really believe could win it? Yeah, no, it's not one
through twelve, and that was never going to be the case.
And we used to have arguments about which team would
fill the fourth spot and whether they could actually contend
for a title. But to be able to say you're
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playing meaningful football into December into January really should be
the goal of everyone. So the fact that we still
had teams that were technically still alive, Sure they were
technically still alive and hanging on on life support. For
many teams, they were put out of their miseries this
week in the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yeah, there are certain teams that technically had hope and
never should have had hope. And that's the heck.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, no, that's it right to the still, Hey, we're
still got a puncher's chance. We're still hanging around the
periphery of things, mathematically still alive, but now eliminated San
Francisco forty nine Ers. They can now go begin their
off season and try to figure out whose stays, who
goes with that schedule of events.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Looks like, how awesome was that? How awesome was that
to finally have that storyline be eliminated. And I'm sure
that there's some within the forty nine ers organization that
maybe just had a sigh of relief for how strenuous
this season is, Ben Mike. But that's what I was
so sick of hearing, was just just wait for the
(04:01):
forty nine ers. They'll turn it around. They'll turn it around.
They'll turn it around. They're the forty nine ers, they'll
turn it around. Wait till so and so it comes back.
They'll turn it around. And it never did. And now
in the eliminated box, my Seahawks may join them sooner
rather than later. Who cares to see the forty nine
ers eliminated? Oh? How great it is?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
They play the Bears on Thursday night. Can we just
add you have that a tie, I'd be done with it,
sure because both teams it's men like Seahawks are eight
and seven.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It doesn't feel it. I mean, I've lived it through
seen I've said this. They may make the playoffs, but
they are not a playoff team. And there's and that's
what we get now with I think the expanded NFL playoffs,
when we've gone to seventeen, we've seen year in and
year out, teams that are maybe the seventh seed or
teams that win a division that maybe necessarily should have.
(04:53):
The Rams are better than Seattle. The Rams beat them
earlier this season in Seattle, and the Rams will host
Seattle in Week eighteen, and that game could have a
lot to have the entire division and playoffs spot on
the line, depending on how things go this weekend. But
the fact is, I just I think that the Rams
are just a better team than Seattle. See it. Seawks
are up and down. They may make the playoffs, but
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they're not a playoff team. And how we normally look.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
At it, and in that same division, looking at what
the Arizona Cardinals were this year, it's not done, but
it's done. Seven and eight and you have you know,
Trey McBride and others going, Ah, that team's stunk and
whatever you lost, you move on.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Seven and eight.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Kyler Murray finally makes plays with his legs. Doesn't matter
your seven and eight and your season is done. James
Connor was great for fantasy owners all year long. A
tip of the cap to him, but probably one of
the more frustrating teams because oftentimes, and what do we say,
after the first quarter of the season, we can usually
peg what you are. What your final record is one thing,
(05:59):
but your identity is pretty well established. Yes, for Arizona,
I don't know that we ever got to a definitive
mark otherwise, other than to say, you're a mediocre team
that on any given Sunday might give me a decent
effort and just as easily could disappear.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I I and in so many words, Mike, it's also
just the difference of being an underdog in a favorite.
I don't think they played the role of the favorite. Well. No,
they would play teams that you would think that would
beat them and maybe play up to their capabilities, and
then on the second half of the season sometimes it
wasn't even that I felt that their physicality with James
(06:37):
Connor and I felt that the team represented him, which
is why at one point they were in first place
was who they were there, there, there is there, There
may be something with the Kyler Murray Marvin Harrison Junior
connection in terms of it was something that had even
rumbled through the throughout the season. Mike and Ear the
(07:00):
comments of Kyler Murray being like, well, it's you know,
not my job to only throw it to him. I'm
basically paraphrasing. But yeah, for the Cardinals, I think on
the surface, people would look at it and say that, well,
if they went nine and eight or they went eight
to nine, as they're now sitting there at seven and eight,
that would be a good record. But you know, Marvin
Arrison Junior had four catches for thirty nine yards against
(07:22):
the Panthers on Sunday on eight targets, so they are
throwing in the ball. But there's just something that's not
connecting there with.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Arizona, inefficiency still reigned Supreme, losers of four of their
last five. You go back to the schedule when they
were in first place, where things had clicked. They win
that nail bider against the Chargers at home. They go
and beat Miami again, another nail bider, one point victory
on the road. They beat down the Bears. Bears terrible.
(07:53):
They beat the Jets, So there's gifts at home. Back
to back week. I almost traveled for that game, and
I was really glad I decided not to. I had
several family members who had traveled to Arizona to watch
the Bears in that contest, and they said the Bars
were really good afterwards.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
That was the only point to it. Yeah, that was
the high point the Cardinal season. Not to make this
the Cardinals the postgame show, but I feel that it
ended up really really turning like it was over when
they didn't beat Minnesota in the game where they had
felt like they had taken the Vikings to the limit,
had to settle for field goals, and then Minnesota comes
(08:31):
back and steals one. At that point, you're just kind
of like, all right, they lost to the Seahawks the
next week and what was a key divisional game, and
at that point, I felt, all right, there's where Arizona
season has gone.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And it's fun in the AFC side of things that
we still have several teams mathematically still live for those
final spots. Chargers in the sixth seed right now at
nine and six, Broncos at nine and six, A nice story. Again,
Sean Payton had some coaching decisions that I think I
might have been the only guy to really raise my
hand and ask questions at the end of the half
(09:06):
because that you know, fair catch free kick was really
cool and it was a great story how it got there. Yeah,
really they got a free pass. Okay, so fine. So
le Broncos are nine and six, overachieving but still in
the hunt. The Colts still mathematically alive. How why whatever?
(09:27):
Miami and Cincinnati rounding things out, All of those final
three teams all seven and eight bangles an interesting story.
If they'd just start actually playing football in September, maybe
things would be a bit better for them. Playing a
little defense every now and again helps too. And Miami
still mathematically alive, wins the tiebreak over Cincinnati based on
(09:48):
best win percentage in conference games as it stood right now,
and Indianapolis would win the tie break based on their
conference winning percentage as well. But you know, still along
road to go. But the fact that we still have
teams available to us to kind of wish and hope
and root for and against in the Final week, Week Final,
(10:08):
two weeks, but certainly into Week seventeen, it's still good.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Cincinnati's played better football as of late, and they could
have been out of it for a while. Honestly, the
AFC playoff picker could have been set about two weeks ago.
But the Dolphins have started to win and the Bengals
continue to win, so they are in it. The Dolphins
the Dolphins conundrum, and they have a nice win against
(10:31):
the Rams earlier this season when they went in LA,
and that is probably the game that you point to,
like if you're a Mike McDaniel's supporter, in terms of, well,
look at what he did here, look at what he
was able to put together for a season. They went
(10:53):
on the road and they beat the Rams, who very
well could be a team that wins the NFC West.
But it feels like it's the same story with the
Dolphins of you're just not gonna beat a team that's
better than you, and it's not in any given Sunday,
Like we look at the NFC playoff picture right now,
and you could give me any scenario with the top
five teams in that conference, and I would believe you.
(11:16):
I would I would say okay, and it could be
Packers beat Lions, Lions beat Packers, Vikings beat Lions, Vikings
beat Eagles, Eagles beat Vikings. All of those would be like, Okay,
I could see that, and that's not the case. I
quit with the Dolphins. I can't sit there and say
if you went up and down the list of teams
in the AFC of who the Dolphins could beat, I
(11:36):
can't do that with them. And that's that's the that's
the bugaboo on Mike McDaniel's resumes. For as great as
eight Chan's numbers looked and in previous years to his
numbers and Tyreek Hill's numbers, the fact that they just
don't beat good teams or teams that are better than
they are. That's that's who they're gonna be. And you're
you're not gonna escape out of ten and seven nine
and eight and eight nine playing that sort of football.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Beauty for them is for the final two weeks of
the season, they can punch down at Cleveland at the Jets,
and it may not, it may not matter right, but
they at least have the opportunity to finish strongly. And
I guess we'd take something maybe a little way from
the viral video of McDaniel with the game balls after
(12:22):
the forty nine Ers win where he gets.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
One from the owner the vote of confidence.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Maybe that's a vote of confidence and getting a football flown,
you know, flipped your way.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Sure there is. It's perception is reality. And if Stephen
Ross feels that that Mike McDaniel is doing a good
job and this is his way of doing it, then
so be it. Perception is reality. Touched on this just
a little bit earlier, but it's the point of not
to jump back to the to the NFC MIC. But
(12:52):
Minnesota a couple of years ago played in what eleven
to one score games? They went eleven and zero. Then
they end up losing in the playoffs. So the Giants
who are like, we all saw that coming, why aren't
we doing that with the Commanders? Is it solely because
of what Jason locking Forrest said earlier in the show
with Jayden Daniels, because they have the quarterback. But you
(13:15):
go up and down that Washington Commander's schedule, look at
how many games they should have lost. Oh yeah, and
where they are now, they're firmly in the In this
past weekend, Devonte Smith you catch that pass on third
down and it's game over. I don't have to tell
you about it. Bears game. What about the game where
(13:35):
the Giants didn't have a kicker right because they didn't
plan ahead and felt that Graham Gano was good enough.
That was in week two? Like you go back to
these games where the Commanders. Now Commander's fan may point out, well,
what about the Steelers game? But I still think that
the Commanders are coming out ahead more often than they
are behind than these one score games, and we do
(13:57):
look at them and we're in amazement and being like, man,
what a great story. Look out for the Commanders, But
for a team right now that's ten and five, they
very easily could be eight and seven or seven and
eight if certain things don't go their way.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
No, you're right, and it goes to the whole you know,
we could tie it to the college side of things
really quick with the scheduling of you know, who's on
your schedule, who do you beat? Beat the teams that
you're supposed to along the way. I mean, that's what
Denver's done, right. They're only quote quality win if we're
gonna play that game is Tampa otherwise you're beating a
(14:32):
bunch of nobody's and just go on down the line.
So you know, we play that game, mix and match
as we were. But perception becomes reality. If you've got
a quarterback that looks the part and Jayden Daniels, it's
going to cure a lot of that, right, it's not
the right versus. You're running the ball and playing good defense,
and your special teams has been on point, your field
(14:53):
goal kickers having a good year. That if your quarterback's
not good, we talk about luck, talk about whatever else here.
If it's got style points to it. Because the head
i e. The quarterback is good, you get the benefit
of the doubt.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Yeah, And or if you have Kirk Cousins a quarterback
like the Vikings did two years ago, it's not thought
of as.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Nobody liked j Yeah, which is funny because you like Kirk,
but you don't like Kirk. Does that make sense? Like
in our national media, yes, Like there's the liking of
Kirk Cousins the guy. But I mean even as a player,
it was all right, He's solid, not spectacular. Didn't win
in prime time, then he did a couple of times.
It's like at those are outliers because here's the track history.
(15:34):
And then this year had a couple of good games,
wasn't world beating, but that last stretcherrun became a well,
you've got the shiny new toy over here in Michael
Pennix junior. You've got all this talent that you haven't
been able to maximize. So yeah, the crowd sourcing of
information became the well, you have to make the change,
(15:55):
like whereas normally historically it's like, well, you got to
let the veteran finish it out.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Sure, and a veteran with a new achilles or at
least a repaired achilles right still doesn't move.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Laterally, Yeah, he didn't look right at all. So I
think somebody will get him on the cheap because the
Falcons will either cut him or absorb a ton of
the money. And next year Kirk Cousins will be a
guy that'll be like, wow, look at him performing.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, well, you know in the Vikings, the Vikings may
even be Mike victim of their own of who they
are for compared to who they were two years ago,
because I think we look at them now and I'm
guilty of it as anybody else. I don't put them
in my they can win a super Bowl sort of group.
I don't have them there. And they had I don't know,
(16:43):
it's not heroics, but they came back. Seattle took a
lead late and then the Vikings went down the field.
Justin Jefferson got behind the defense, and Justin Jefferson had
had a big game. You know, at some point, Kevin
O'Connor will probably win Coach of the Year. I think
it's probably gonna end up being that way, but could
be wrong. But the it's just the fact of how
(17:05):
we look at things. When the Vikings lost two years
ago to the Giants, we were like, Okay, I'm not surprised,
and I don't think of the Vikings losing the playoffs
will be surprised. But if it's Washington, you know, like we're,
oh my goodness, look at all these shin.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
H.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, Quinn's got his head backwards. Cliff Kingsbury, like Kingsbury
should be a head coach. See the look he gave.
Should have seen the look.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I'm hearing it out of my fun people in Chicago.
He'll fix everything, unless he won't, because two weeks ago,
won't we lamenting that the commander's offense installed. Yes, it's
a very short time ago. I've got a long memory.
He's Dan Byer and for Jason Smith, I'm Mike Harmon.
As we come to you live from the Tirak dot
Com studios. Coming up next, we'll talk a little bit
(17:57):
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Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yes, we had Monday Night football on week sixteen with
all of our rowdy friends coming over. But who came
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Speaker 3 (18:21):
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Speaker 2 (18:24):
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Speaker 3 (18:34):
That's what we got here at Fox Sports Radio Jason
Smith Show with me, Mike Carmea Dan Byer in for
Jason Smith. We're having a blast ty shirt really finding
some of the creativity in the holiday holiday holiday music.
We appreciate you giving us a few minutes of your
time on the highways and my ways, trying to find
(18:55):
a little bit of peace and quiet ahead of the
bustle of the holidays. He's in earnest here with Christmas
rapidly approaching. The Christmas Eve. I can't even sit in
a chair anymore. Here's the problem when it's too high
because I'm a short man. I'm very honest about it.
I am a fire plug of a human being. So
Rob Parker for whatever reason, you know, maybe just because
(19:17):
it's a nice easy tilt from him, he's a taller man.
It's this, This adjustable chair was at its peak, and
I didn't quite slide back as easily as I could,
which is why you have a little chaos and why
Dan Byer is laughing at me.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
And I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
No no, Even if it was no no, he could
be at me like like, because you know at me
is you know I'm okay with playing the part of
a clown, as many of our NFL teams have over
the years, no question about it. One team that's not
going out without a fight, and we'll get to the
feud here momentarily, is the Dallas Cowboys, which is an
(19:55):
interesting piece, and we talked a little bit with Jason
lock andfora earlier talked about the end of the season
and the presscott, you know, Cooper Rush kind of stuff.
It's just interesting when you've got a team that is
playing with more pride towards the back end of a schedule,
or we're trying to look for gut, guts and grits
and determination. Where you had some games in the margins
(20:16):
earlier in the year, it's like, did you give me
a hundred there or did you think your quarterback was
going to bail you out? Now that he's not there,
maybe it's a little different, just in terms of the
mechanism there, or trying to save your coach's job because
while he's not may not be the guy you love,
you're afraid of what's behind door number two.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
I think I think that is I think that's the
takeaway from it. I think that they maybe are playing
for his job. Maybe that's too melancho Collie or storybook,
however you want to put it, Mike, but that would
be my takeaway, not as much about what they didn't
do in the first half of the year thinking Dak
would save them, but what they are trying to do
and saving Mike McCarthy's job and how they're playing for him,
(20:55):
and Dak's words of support that he's had in the
media of Mike McCarthy. I think all of that is
in play, and whether the Raiders came out with a
spirited an effort or they're just a better bad team
than the Jaguars. You know, they got a win, ruining
their draft pick situation and scenario. It's much more costly
for them. But Dallas is just playing out the string
(21:17):
and doing so playing good football, and I think that
the thing that they have to play for is to
save Mike McCarthy's job.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And in doing so, they created a little bit of
spoiler alert kind of situation because they put that NFC
self back into turmoil as well with a win over
the Buccaneers because atlantaut while Michael Pennix you know, did
the job and they throttled the Giants, we still have
some meaningful football in that division, and the Cowboys win
(21:46):
helped push that forward another week. All right, you ready
to do it?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Can we do it? After my Why why don't we
get Dan?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
We'll get in the floor to do a quick update
of what all happened here in our Monday Night Mike.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
He finally had a shutout in the NFL twenty twenty
four campaign. There was a lot of offense as well,
it was just completely one Saturday, Green Bay Theirs showing.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
A scrimmage on first in goal hand off, Jacob's blasting
off the left side, fighting his way to the.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Ends up touchdown, fourteenth touchdown of the season for Josh Jacobs,
a personal best ninety seven point three of the game
WR and W and the Packers Radio Network with the
College Josh Jacobs one hundred and seven total yards, sixty
nine of those on the ground, thirty eight of those receiving,
(22:36):
Packers clinching a playoff berth now eleven and four on
the season, Mike, I don't have a lot of good
things to say about the Saints as sid from the shutout.
There now five and ten.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
But they hold a record. They were the victims of
a first shutout.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yes, congratulations New Orleans Saints. College football news Georgia quarterback
Carson Beck is not going to play in the college
football Playoff. He will need surgery to repair the torn
UCL in his elbow. Kid Cunningham twenty points ten assists.
Pistons win in La against the Lakers one seventeen to
one fourteen. Denver was all over Phoenix one seventeen to
(23:09):
ninety Well, Indiana wins at Golden State one eleven to
one oh five, and Dallas a one thirty two one
oweight victor against Portland. Luca had twenty seven the Pistons.
Excuse me. The Celtics lost to the Magic one o
eight till one oh four, Sixers top the Spurs one
eleven till one oh six. College hoops number one Tennessee
holds off Middle Tennessee. Doesn't sound like it, Mike, This
(23:32):
is a close game all the way, midway through the
second half, falls pull away though, eighty two to sixty four.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Back to you, they finished the job. Eighteen point differential
did they cover? We'll have to go check out the
early odds off of that one. But you know, Dan,
whenever you come to play here. Fox Sports Radio Jason
Smith Show from the tire rack dot Com Studio, Jason's
Bit Show with me of course, Mike Rman. Make sure
we get the name in branding right, We get the
(24:00):
family together and in this holiday what better way to
do it.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Let's get the family together and play the f Mike Carmen,
it is a Fox family abbreviated Family Tonight Mike Carmen
with the gay Alex tysher Ryan Persinger making up our
Fox team. We need it a little bit more air,
little room to breathe, So we move the feud to
this point because there are nine nine answers on the board,
(24:25):
the top nine answers on the board. There is one
caveat This came from stat Muse, which is always wrong.
So I do not want to guarantee that these if
you come back to me and say, damn, this was wrong.
Not by fault, my fault. It's the only place that
I could get this information. But I think that there
is some nuance in this. I want to know the
(24:47):
top nine teams that have appeared the most on Monday
Night Football. Oo, okay, top nine teams that have appeared
the most on Monday Night football. You have three strikes.
Three strikes. Game is over. There is a pass a
a the Alex Tyshirt rule where you can use the pass.
We'll reveal an answer, but it cannot be used again
in the game. Are you guys ready to play? Let's
(25:09):
do it?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
All right, Mike Carmen, you are first up on the board.
Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh Steelers man. In their heyday, they were
quite the team and heck not too shabby right now,
show me the Pittsburgh Steelers, yes, tied for the second
most appearances eighty nine appearances on Monday Night football or
the Pittsburgh Steelers. Let's go over to the big a
Alex Alex tyshirt.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Dan, I feel like Monday Night is supposed to be
one of the fame, glitz and glory, but for some reason,
I think a lot of the worst teams have played.
So I'm gonna shout out the Saints right now since
they're so terrible.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
All the Saints for the most often being played on
Monday Night. You went for an awful Saints team. Yes,
is it the Saints? No, it is not the Saints. Day,
it is not the Saints. I feel like that was
a bit of a waste, just a guess, big swing though, Yeah,
it was, It's quite the swing. Let's go over to
(26:01):
Ryan Berschinger Bursch Well.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Hopefully this isn't as much of a swing, because I'm
going to stick with the game tonight, and let's say
the Packers.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
All right, is it the green Bay Packers?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
No, it is not sitting there. It is Jordan love Jersey.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
He's like.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Rogers.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I had debated expanding this, but again I don't trust
stat mus and so I needed to cut it off
at nine. They would have been ten. If there were
top ten answers on the board, Packers would have been there.
Here's the deal, and I wanted to get this point in.
Monday night football used to be the game of the week,
right when Mike and I were growing up. Maybe not
you guys, green Bay stunk. They weren't playing a lot
(26:42):
of Monday night games back then. Now it's not the
game of the week, so you're not getting the marquee
teams that maybe you once were. So Green Bay is
probably playing more on Sunday Night than they are actually
on Monday Night.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
That leads me to the forty nine ers.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Show me the forty nine ers eighty four times on
Monday Night football. For the San Francisco forty nine Ers,
it's two strikes. We need a perfect game from here
on out. Alex Tyshirt, You're up, Dan.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
I see the car the pit waiting for me to
jump in and to slam on the gas. But I
will not yet because we have a lot of guesses
to come. I'm gonna go with the Jerry Dome. Give
me the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
How about them Cowboys? Show me the Cowboys. Let's go
all right? Number one? Answer the Dallas Cowboys ninety one
times again according to stat mues. So these could be
entirely wrong. Let's go over to Ryan Berschinger. Oo, Yeah,
that's true. I used them every once in a while.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I go, no, one doesn't look good.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
So that's all I can find.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Well, okay, so now I feel now I'm feeling the
pressure here. Let's go Okay this I'm gonna say the
rate Let's put the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
All righty, show me alright? Is seventy nine times. That
is tied for eighth on our list, the Raiders appearing
on Monday Night Football, Mike Carmon, back around to you.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Been good a long long time and even in the
in those days.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
How about the Eagles? What the Philadelphia Eagles? Is it
the Philadelphia Eagles? It is not the Eagles. They were
eleven or tied for tenth. If stat Muse didn't update.
The Packers number seventy five times they appeared. Yes, Broncos,
the Broncos on the list. Yes, yes, all right, there
(28:43):
you go, big A Birst. Do you want to play
out the string? The Bears? The Bears were on the list.
Just think of great eighties football, Mike Washington, Washington on
the list, Commanders, Redskins football team, Miami all over the place.
(29:05):
All right, can you get last one? There's just one left? Yes?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
The Rams? Actually, yeah, the Rams. It's not the Rams.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
To guess again before it's over, okay, big and feeling lucky, crap,
I kind of got nervous.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Giants.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It's the Giants manning giants ill forty nine ers. Yeah,
the Parcels era. Yes, okay, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
So that's according to Statney, it seem most frequently the
infrequently appears. I have to pay for it, so we
don't know so that this would be to lock the
rest of the top thre too. It only went down
to twenty five, but that's what we've got for appearances.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, I mean, I guess the Eagles because of the
McNab era. Just figuring we had a good decade there, sure,
which gives us a lot of potential sample size. But again,
you're not flexing, you're running against Washington and Dallas in
this Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
And the Eagles there was a little cunning hand, but
it was so forty nine Ers, forty nine Ers, Bears,
Cowboys driven in that time that those teams that shined
in the eighties and Monday night football taking over and
are beginning in nineteen seventy. So you didn't have teams
in the past. But that's so jad Denver obviously with
(30:30):
their great success. A lot of NFC teams on this list.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So the Metal Stand was number one.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Was Dallas number one, ninety one, Then the Dolphins and
Steelers tied at eighty nine, and then forty nine Ers,
eighty four, Bears eighty two, Giants eighty one, Commanders eighty
and the Broncos and Raiders tied at seventy nine.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
There you go, and we ran through it, but you
know we were right on the periphery there.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Packers. Yeah, your guess is your guesses were again if
we could have on top eleven, but at some point
I got to leave somebody out. Oh no, absolutely, Yeah,
Rams were twelve, and the Vikings ended up being thirteenth,
and the Patriots they're great success again really weren't a
good team in the eighties and nineties. Sands their appearance
(31:17):
in Super Bowl twenty and then later mid nineties going
to Super Bowl under Bill Parcells, but early nineties they stunk,
so they weren't appearing on Monday Night Football either.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
But then we also get into the fight over the
last decade plus protected games, like when you get into
all of those kind of rules that would have precluded
teams from showing up on Monday Night right ABC or
I should say CBS and Fox certainly fighting tooth and
nail for their their top centers along the way, so
(31:47):
that would have precluded the Patriots. I would guess CBS
raising hell a bunch during the Brady period as well.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
And that you know the team that is my favorite team,
the Seahawks. They'd play about one game a year, but
they would always it would be a home game because
the atmosphere was good inside the Kingdome. They'd play about
one game a year. I know it was maybe a
possible consideration. They're winning percentage, according to these numbers, is
the best of any team on Monday Night Football, but
(32:15):
I think that played a part. They haven't played as
many games as these other teams as.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well well, as soon as we get through a legitimate
sample size, though statistically speaking for science, it all counts
the same.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
We'll do this again next week. Dan. We'll be back
in next Monday Night in for Smith as we get
into the final days of twenty twenty four. Can't wait
to see what kind of chaos. Maybe we'll double up,
Maybe we'll go full New Year's Eve kind of New
Year's Eve's Eve, kind of celebration of all things that
we're twenty twenty four at Dan Byer on Fox, at
(32:47):
Dan Byer on Blue Sky, find me at Swollen Dome
on X at Mike Harmon on Blue Sky. And to
finish things out, we had a quarterback make another appearance
and he says some controversial thing. But he may have
acknowledged the latest crazy report about his current team or
was he throwing shade at the reporters. We'll try to
(33:09):
decide that. And the Amadus pro proposal for the NBA
coming out of a sports business journal report. We've got
those two things. As we close out a big Monday
night here on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Thank you, mister Belichick, and we will two last things
we want to talk about. Thanks to Dan Byer for
sitting in for Jason Smith tonight. He'll be back with
me next Monday night. Thanks to Alex. Thanks to Ryan
making a sound pretty Ian, getting us sound in the back.
Steve Disager started the night with us on updates a
little under the weather, but Dan doing double duty here
(33:50):
as the show went on. So thanks for the yeoman
like work that you've done tonight and obviously for a
great year that we've had here at Fox Sports.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Absolutely, Mike, it was a pleasure tonight and throughout the year,
whether we be doing the podcast or getting together when
Jason is out, it's it's been my pleasure. Thanks for
having me. It's fun.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
We got one more next Monday Night. For all of
you out there, we appreciate you being part of the
extended family. You know, my kids laugh at me, they
say I've gotten far more sentimental as the years go on,
and certainly here in radio, we appreciate the ability to
commune with you guys on social media, the phones and
just you listening on whatever device it may be. We
(34:32):
appreciate it's not taken for granted. We thank you for
the opportunity to maybe enrage, enrage you a little bit,
make you laugh, whatever it is. We know the power
of the radio medium. And again it's not taken for granted.
We appreciate the ability to be part of your lives
and you part of ours. So we thank you. Next
(34:55):
couple of days, I'll take some time with my girls.
So you'll have some folks sitting in. Be kind to them,
and I thank them in advance for sitting in for us, Dan,
and I'll be back here on Monday. I'll be back
Sunday on Fox Football Sunday as well with Bucky Brooks
and Andy Furman. All Right, two last things for you, Dan,
I wanted to run the flagpole? What about the flagpole?
Speaker 4 (35:17):
For you?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
One is a w NBA story the Sports Business Journal
saying that they're tinkering with playing some games in Europe.
I'm wondering if the NBA shouldn't do the same, maybe
to juice the regular season a little bit.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Well, we've seen games in London, you know, they they
they'll they'll play, you know, a game or two over
there from time to time, I just wonder on how
big the Caitlin Clark explosion is and if this is
a too fast, too soon sort of thing. I didn't
realize that it went internationally as opposed to domestically, but
just right while.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
The iron's hot, see what you have there. You know,
we talk about international basketball, certainly from the men's side
of things. When we're talking and and b A MVPs
and just you put your short list together, it's like, Wow,
it's all guys international players, So why not try to
wrap your arms around that a little bit. Maybe the
w NBA trying to see if they can't cultivate a
(36:10):
game there as well and capitalize on the Caitlin Clark thing. Certainly,
I've heard a number of folks going, well, we should
be monitoring Juju Smith or Juju Watkins and others the
same way. It's like, if if the money is there
and the marketing is there, and they realize that there's
money to be had, they're not leaving that on the
table or smarter than that. So don't don't think as
(36:34):
this college basketball season, because we had Page Beckers in
Yukon against uc USC this weekend. If the money is
there and the and they know the eyeballs will follow. Yeah,
you're gonna get an overload. There was a reason that
that game was played even as it was and scheduled
for an NFL weekend.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
If there's if there's enough popularity and it could be
a foreign, foreign born player coming over here within that
country to go over and play, why not try it.
But I just feel that the feeling is that because
of all the popularity that Caitlin Clark has brought to
the league. And if you think it's injuries, that's fine too,
(37:14):
But I don't know how much that translates internationally. I
just wonder if it could be too fast, too soon. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah, it's trying to figure out where that pendulum is
swinging and you know, if the iron is really hot
over there.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Here's Here's The other deal is that the NBA WNBA
is even looking to expand to more teams, and there
are plenty of teams in the United States that would
that want teams. Now, Cleveland wants back in. Sure, I
know Milwaukee wants back or wants in they weren't in previously. Obviously,
Golden State has their expansion. It's going to be a
(37:47):
sixteen League sixteen team league in a couple of years
max out the US, I think before maybe trying to
go internationally. There you go.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
The other one was Aaron Rodgers doing his McAfee spot
respond to some of the discussion of the last few
days that Brick Johnson, the seventeen year old son of
Woody Johnson, is helping and maybe at times really being
the driving force of a lot of player personnel decisions
and kind of joked about the fact that it would
(38:20):
be the first to be fired by a teenager along
the way part of it is he throwing shades at
the report or is he confirming that the kid really
has that much clout inside for.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Both or a little bit of both. And I'm about
three quarters of the way through the Amazon Madden series
that they had. I think I'm in episode three, so
maybe two thirds of the way. But it's funny. These
guys love that product. But to think that they would
then be directly responsible for Aaron Rodgers or other moves
(38:52):
being made in the NFL is pretty hilarious.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Thought you might have gotten some juice out of Jerry
Judy coming out of that report that a trade was
nixed because of Maddie and he was an absolute bust
for fantasy purposes.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
What are you Gonna do?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
He's Dan Bayer at Dan Byer on Fox Here on
mid Days with The Doug Gottlieb Show and Cavino and Rich.
He'll be doing some hosting this week. Back with Me
next Monday, and obviously Red Zone Radio on Sunday. Follow
me over at Swollen Dome. Still answer your fantasy questions
ahead of those big fantasy games coming up on Wednesday.
(39:25):
Ben Maller coming in to do his show coming up
next year on Fox Sports Radio. Thanks everybody, have a
blessed Christmas and happy Honukkah
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