November 4, 2025 • 32 mins
No chance Lebron James thought the Lakers would play this well without him starting the season. The guy’s debate if the Arizona Cardinals should trade Kyler Murray ahead of the trade deadline. And Jason thinks the Blue Jays lost the World Series because they were lazy!
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Speaker 2 (01:03):
After the night.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Don't you wish you were Nick Smith instead of Jason Smith,
Nick Smith Junior.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I would take throwing up at halftime and scoring twenty
five off the bench every night. That would do it.
He is the Steam and Willie Beaman of the NBA.
That's nicely done, right there, the Laker look and again
it's the most miserable start of the season for Lebron James,
who thought the first ten games of the season, while
I'm out, the Lakers are gonna see how much they
need me. Maybe they don't, right, maybe they don't need
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uh Luca or awesome? Oh whoa, hey, okay kick the
maybe out. But with hout, Luca and Reeves tonight right again,
without four of their starters tonight, they go win and
win in Portland. They are now six and two on
the year, four and zero on the road. That and
Lebron is sacking. Maybe they don't need me at all.
Maybe maybe maybe we don't need Lebron. Nick Smith Junior
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comes off the bench tonight twenty five points and twenty
five minutes, and apparently he was sick. He threw up
in the hallway at halftime. It's the Nick Smiths junior
flu game. Boy, let's go. I will say there are
many times in my life where I have thrown up
immediately felt better, and I was able to have my
normal day and get right back to it the right time,
to the next hamburgers, you know, shovel of whatever you're eating.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Mostly after a Jets game, right, Yeah, oh well that's
actually before a Jets game.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
During a Jets game. After a Jets game. Yeah yeah,
watching the highlights at the end. But no, there's times Okay,
I'm sick and I'm down for the company. They hey, no,
I'm good. I go, man, I'm good. I can do
it boot and rally as long as there's enough stuff
around the area or motivation. Right, you gotta you gotta
finish the shift, you gotta go to work. You gotta
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take care of the kids. I mean we've all done that, right,
people with kids. Oh yeah, sure, eve been sick. They
brought something home from the daycare center or whatever. You
got a rally, Lebron is showing. Yeah, the guys need me.
The guys dab. Here are the high scores okay games
this year by the Lakers. Luca forty three, forty nine,
forty four, twenty nine, Reeves forty one, fifty one, twenty nine.
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Like that's what these guys are doing without Lebron I
mean not suddenly. Okay, Lebron is terribly his but for
a team that's been trying to find a way to
move on, and each side would be happy if he
went away, if he won someplace else, and the Lakers
want to go forward, we can take his money and
use whatever pieces we need to throw in here, Like
this is a this is a nightmare beginning for Lebron.
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Not only are the Lakers winning, they're scoring tons of points.
They're not winning these games like, hey, ninety eight, ninety four,
you know what you know? One on one ninety one
they're rolling up one, twenty eight, one, twenty seven, one
twenty two, one sixteen, one seventeen, one thirty, one thirty
Like they're rolling up all kinds of points without Lebron.
Like no matter how you slice the Lebron, I don't
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know if I'm Lebron, if I want to get back
in action faster, or if I want to say I'm
hurt longer, maybe they'll start losing in net dot need
be like this what a nightmare stort. I don't know.
It also doesn't help that you got guys like Charles
Barkley saying, ah, he got nothing wrong with them, he's
just old. But all of that to say, right that
the thing you wanted was to have some struggles, maybe
(04:16):
to win a couple of games, but to have to
struggle to do so where it's like, all right, Lebron
puts them over the top versus where you sit right
now going maybe maybe it flows better without having to
be you know, have him do I say a ball
stopper at times to where you know he's got the ball.
And because I remember a lot of times last year
where once once we had the what at times looked
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very uncomfortable between him and Luca, where Luke could just
be standing off on the side with his hands on
his hips. Not that he's tired, he just knows he's
not getting the ball back, so he's out of that sequel. Well,
look just think of because you're vice versa. You bring
up a great point, and to reward you, I'm going
to talk about your team on it is because when
Lebron does come back, he's gonna a guy that needs
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the basketball. So what's got when he does come back?
The effect because Lebron gets a bad I'm not saying
it's awful, but the effect of the bat like you know,
guys like Ruey Hotchimura aren't going to get the ball
as much. Austin Reeves is not gonna have now Lucas
always going to get the ball and have his points,
but like m is not going to get the ball,
and Nick Laarravey is not going to get the ball.
And when you're going down the list of all these players,
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these are a lot of guys who are contributing that
aren't getting the basketball. Now, look at the Chicago Bulls
for a second. Did they make any crazy moves from
last year to this year? Not really, right, They kept
their same team and right now they're playing without their
best player. The last undefeated team in the NBA finally
went down yesterday to the Knicks. And again I'm ready
(05:42):
for the Knicks Bulls Eastern Conference finals. Boy, what a
great throwback. That's gonna be one. But the Bulls, what
they've done is what they did well the thunder undefeated,
but they don't care. Everybody expects that, right, everybody expects
that last undefeated team in the Eastern Conference. But the
Bulls when they hit the trade deadline last year, they
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really leaned into we have a lot of guys we
want to play. We're gonna move the ball around. Nobody
is gonna be really ball dominant, and we're gonna make
sure that. Hey, we play eleven guys and we play
at a hectic pace, paid the big pace. That's gonna
be a pain in the ass. Are other teams to
play against, right, So what do we see it from
the Bulls? Because they've changed their style a little bit
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and no one is so ball dominant. They're a better team, right,
all of a sudden, did Josh Giddy get so much
better that? No, But the way they're playing, he is
freed up a lot more. And again they're best player
Kobe White, But when he comes back, he's not gonna
be someone that says, no, I'm a ball stopper. No,
you're fitting in with the with the way the offense goes.
But Lebron's gonna come in and suddenly I have to
be the folk. The ball is gonna move through me.
(06:45):
This is who I've been throughout my career. I guarantee
you this, Lakers, all, whatever we see before Lebron gets back,
it just hits the skids when Lebron comes back because
they're used to playing one way and now here's Lebron
coming in playing another way, and maybe that's not the
right way going forward. The Lakers have always wanted to
move on and surround Luca with the players he needs
(07:08):
to be able to win games, right, That's why when
Lebron's salary goes, it's going to be They wanted a
rim runner, so they got DeAndre Ayton in. Now, now,
would there be some better choices to bring guys in
to be support players? Yeah? Sure, But By and Lard's like,
you see these players, these support guys. Well, wait a minute.
We've seen Luca make this work with a worse team
in Dallas and drag them all the way deep in
(07:29):
the playoffs to the NBA Finals. Moving on from Lebron
has never been much more enticing or even seems any
more easier than it does right now.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yes, we're eight games into the season. Is it going
to be like this in game twenty, game twenty five,
game third, they're gonna continue to win like this? Yes,
But they're seeing they're seeing the blueprint out there for
what the team should be, and this is we have
unselfish guys that can all score, and it's just it's
just a different way that takes advantage of the talent
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the Lakers have on this roster. This takes more advantage
of Luca being someone who can be ball dominant. Doesn't
have to be right when you're a point guard. You
can be ball dominant. You don't have to be Lebron's
a guy that needs a ball. I gotta be able
to make my moves, gotta be able what to do
in the paint. I reinvented myself as a point guard
a few years ago. But he's someone that's gonna that's
gonna be that's gonna stop the ball. And the Lakers
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are gonna see a big difference in their offense, and
they're gonna scratch your heads and go, boy, what do
we do now? What do we do? Can we move Lebron?
Should we move Bron? Do we have to wait to
see how things go? Are we still gonna get is
Jake Larravi is still gonna be this good in a
few ways? Marcus Smart is still gonna fit in the
way he does. They have a lot of big moving
parts that are stepping in that are really starting to
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hit a stride here again, this is the early part
of the season. Undefeated on the road, they're winning with
with Luca, without Luca, with Reeves without Reeves, Like all
of a sudden, Lebron is like, man, all of a sudden,
I'm a I'm like a spare part sitting around here,
because just because you know where the Lakers want to
go with their team roster wise, not just because oh
they've won three games, let's get rid of Lebron. It's
(09:07):
you know, they want to get there eventually. So this
may hasten that a lot. Yeah, it's the curiosity of
once he comes back, how do guys transition back into
the roles that you would have drawn up on the
whiteboard early on, right, because your offensive and defensive sets
completely different, your minutes rotation completely Hell, we saw Bronnie
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in six minutes into the game today. Yeah, that ain't happening. Okay,
Bronni Wait, we got a guy named James going in.
We're in the first quarter. Yeah, I need you. It's
the first quarter. Yeah, okay, I'm ready in the fourth.
I mean, you had some moments, but but all of
that to say, right that that changes and guys have
now adapted and adopted new roles on this squad and
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even tonight, like you're putting up and you're getting out
and running like that's the thing that's got to be exciting. Right,
you got fresh legs, young legs, and a deeper rotation.
You can get after it outside of eight and smart
of course. But all of that to say that changes
when Lebron comes back in right, become more half court sets.
Not that he won't get out and run on occasion,
but that's not going to be your mo for this
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squad by any stretch of the imagination. We talk about
where he is defensively, he can make a play every
now and again. Unfortunately it's dot dot every now and again.
So you're now changing changing the look that chase down
block ain't coming back anytime soon, not okay, So all
of that to say it now creates a great grab
(10:36):
your popcorn kind of moment here in LA because they're
playing well, putting up big point totals for JJ Reddick.
He's got the best of both worlds. I mean, it
is nice to be able to say, hey, I got
a Lebron James still top ten, top fifteen, wherever you
want to rank him in the guy in the game
to come back. But then you also have and you've
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got a bunch of run in your winning games early,
but then you've got that eat spot in the middle
where it's like, all right, how do we transition back
between them? I'd like to think it'll be fairly seamless
for a while, but guys have eagles. Guys like to
see their name in the box score. Fill up. It's
all of a sudden, all these is gonna slowly dry up,
dry up when you're suddenly you're only getting two shots
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that you get to try to make, as opposed to
all right, I'm not banished to the bench if I
miss one, you know that kind of thing. It becomes
a puckering effect, as it were. What do you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
What makes you think it's up to Lebron James to
get back on the court with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh what he said?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
If he says I'm sciatic to come back, not after
this he's played his last game with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Wow, that's a hot take. I don't know. Look, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Lebron's messed with this gel right now, you know, but
you got to throw him in the mix. That's three
l's in a row.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Trade. Who's trading for Lebron in that cond that the contract,
but that contract just kills everything. The contract thing. But
you know, we've talked about.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Money work there. There's gonna be teams.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
He might not get it back on the court with
the Lakers after this.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It's it's gonna be Look, I will, I will, I
will say this, it's gonna be ugly when he first
gets back on because this is what the Lakers are
doing offensively is gonna change. And when you're going one way,
you're gonna need other ways to adjust. And if you
have too many bad games in a row. I mean,
we talked about this by the deadline, because the Lakers
are gonna Look, you don't want to get into some
(12:26):
kind of panic mode. Now we're just moving on from Lebron.
You want to be able to say, okay, we to
be to be the one guy with the with with
the you know, to to think for a second instead
of being reactionary, just to think, okay, when Lebron does
come back, you want to give it every chance to
see if it works, because maybe it does. Right, maybe
Lebron decides, you know what, I don't need to be
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that guy. I can facilitate the offense and things are good.
The more guys right, he is Lebron, he is Lebron James,
and when he does, whatever happens becomes a story with
the Lakers without it. You want to make sure that
if you're gonna move on from Lebron James era, you
are more than ready to do so. So when Lebron
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does come back, he's going to get more than enough
chance to get because the Lakers are seeing, now, this
is what the offense is gonna be without him. We
see it now, we see where things are gonna go.
They're gonna give him a chance. And they also want
to make sure that people know he's a great player still,
because if you want to trade Lebron, teams want to
know I'm still getting someone who's really good. So you
want Lebron to be able to go out there and
score twenty eight and pick up ten rebounds and dish
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out seven. It's systet he needs to be goes Okay, hey,
we feel we're still getting a good Lebron. We can
give you that big center you need. We can give
you whatever you feel you need to make the money work,
a couple of doubt, whatever the Lakers feel they need
coming off of moving Lebron. So you also want to
say we exhausted all possibilities and now it's time to
go forward. Because the last thing you want to for
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the Lakers to do a panic trade and we don't
need him, we can move on. Oh boy, a couple
of guys got hurt. Now Luca's not in the lineup
for a little while for whatever reason, or often Reeves
is out really use Lebron. You want to make sure
this works. It's not just a reactionary Hey it's five
six game thing works great with him on the bench.
So yeah, but you're gonna want to make all these things.
It's not just it's not just about the Lakers trading Lebron,
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which you know they want to move on from. It's
doing it the right way to say, Okay, we've done
it the right way. We've moved on from a legend
and traded Lebron. We've traded Lebron James. We've done that
the right way with all the best information we have
at our disposal moving forward, and there's gonna be teams
that as long as Lebron is still Lebron, you get
close to the deadline, they're gonna say you have any
(14:33):
Lebron you think Cleveland's gonna say, Man, we get killed
by the Knicks again, we get killed by the Bulls again.
We're not gonna want to go get Lebron. So okay,
let's go for pieces to make that work. You're not
gonna have rotation. No one, no, no contending team is
gonna make that. They're gonna make a trade where hey,
you're gonna get a piece or two, but it's gonna
make the money work. You're moving on from Lebron that trade.
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Those trades can happen. Those trades can happen. It's I
do like the Lakers position. They say, we're done with
it all together.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
We enter without Lebron James, the Lakers being better without
Lebron James, no spot for Lebron coming back.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Get you a take from the World Series.
I guarantee you haven't heard coming up in about seven minutes.
But tonight on Monday Night Football, the Cowboys potentially had
a trade in place before the game began with the
Arizona Cardinals. Well they probably should have made that trade. Uh.
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They get crunched by Jacoby Brissett and company. Say that again,
crunched by Jacoby Brissett and company couldn't stop. Jacoby Brissett
and the Murray Demarcado cowboy Candy Statham and the Cowboys lose.
We'll have more on them coming up in a little bit.
Bum sixty one in two. I mean it's at the
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rushing touchdown boom. We are hours away from the trade
deadline in the NFL and the Cardinals win tonight. Not
that they're going crazy all of a sudden, we're going places.
But if we talked last week, the tow a tongue
of Iiloa should be dealt by the Dolphins. It's clear
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he needs to he needs a fresh start. The Dolphins
need to move on. That's something that's got to happen
right now. Probably won't, but it should. If I give
you another category of trades, that should happen, but it
won't buy tomorrow. The Cardinals trading Kyler Murray and moving
on from him is something that should happen. He's been
in the league now since twenty nineteen. It's been a
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long time and the Cardinals are still in a rebuild right.
He's been through how many head coaches, how many coordinators,
how many go to receivers and still the Cardinals are
trying to figure out their identity. You paid him, and
you're getting the same kind of production from Jacoby Brissett
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that he has given you, right, same thing with the
forty nine ers, Mac Jones and Brock Purty. You've seen
the best of Kyler Murray. You've seen the best of
them in the first three years in the league. He thought, Wow,
he's he's gonna be the next great quarterback. But he
hasn't been even pretty good since twenty twenty one. Well,
he had a pretty good year last year. He was okay,
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twenty one and eleven with near that thirty nine hundred
passing area. Yeah, but you get that from a lot
of guys. Now. Mac Jones is gonna give you that
for seven million dollars, right, I mean, you can get
that from a lot of guys. Now. Twenty touchdowns is
down on mac Jones. I mean, mac Jones is a
big deal. You can get most every quarterback except for
Justin Fields can throw for four thousand yards to give
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you twenty tons. You can't throw for four Actually, Caleb
Williams might get there. DJ Moore might get there. Let
him throw the football. Good to see him back at
the box scoring ja oh Man, Yeah yeah, Hey. Oh,
by the way, hey, mister adoonsay, you don't want to
talk about your kid not getting the football. If you
score over forty points in a game, that's not gonna
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go over. Well. You know, he did have a target
that hit him in the hands, it was behind him.
Wait until you score thirteen and lose. That's what you
want to say. Hey, gotta get the foot. There are
plenty of opportunities for that on the schedule coming out,
but keep going. You've seen the best of Kyler Murray
and it's not like he's bereft of talent, but it's
just not working there. And there's a system for one
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thing we've learned, right, what do we say in the show?
There is a system for everybody. There's a system for
Sam Darnold. There's a system for Mac Jones. There's a
system for Baker Mayfield. It's a system for Gino Smith.
Gino Smith, who oh, by the way, he was dead
and buried. Hey four touchdowns yesterday by Gino Swell come back,
brock Bauer. There is a system for everybody. There's a system,
and there's a coach out there that's saying Hey, I'll
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go in on Kyler Murray. I'm not sold on getting
our guy in the draft.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I'll go it.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I can. I can fix Kyler Murray. I know. But
Kyler Murray's had a problem staying on the field and
the Cardinals. If this is where you sit as a
franchise right now, where you're still trying to take that
next step into respectability, yeah, it's time for a change
of quarterback, just to have some new kind of energy
coming in and to start over where again twenty nineteen.
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This is not year three for Kyler Murray. Twenty nineteen,
twenty twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four,
it's twenty eight years old. Man, you've seen it. But
the biggest thing with Kyler Murray is not that he's
bereft of talent and that you can't potentially put up
some numbers. The problem is he's not gonna be there
with great regularity. Right you're looking at twenty twenty four.
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Twenty twenty four was his seventeen game or seventeen games
played otherwise just five this year, eight and twenty twenty three,
eleven and twenty twenty two, fourteen and twenty twenty one
that he just can't stay healthy and as you get older,
this one coming off a foot injury. What's what made
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him a difference maker the fact that you could hit
the turbo button and off he'd run turbo turbo. I
have no turbo left. I can't do it, but that's it. Right,
Then it sputtered out. He'd get hurt and that'd be
the end of it because he'd take a big hit
or five and he'd be out for a run and
then and that's the hard part, and we've talked about it.
That's the greatness of some of these players that you
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run it until you can't run it anymore. Right, Cam Newton,
you ran that until the wheels fell off. You look
at players that some can reinvent themselves, right, That's why
everybody wants to keep forcing. Hey, Lamar Jackson pocket packer,
and he's he's a good pocket maaster. But what separates
him and makes him that much better. What makes Josh
Allen that much better the ability to run. What's making
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Patrick Mahomes that much better this year going into this
weekend's game, you know, you had more rushing yards than
Josh Allen did under that for a moment. But that
that's the thing with Kyler Murray, that's always been the separator.
Well that's starting to dissipate, right, that's coming back down
to basic. Now, it's what's the next Kyler Murray look like?
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And is he going to be given that chance to
become that guy in Arizona? Probably not. No, you've got
a good defense, right, we saw that and they took
care of the Cowboys today. This first seven points coming
out of block punt, so you know, nothing that they
got driven on. They came into the game twelve in
total defense, given up twenty two points per game. They
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drafted heavy defense. So going forward with their coach, assuming
they don't, you know, make a haphazard move and get
rid of him, they're gonna be a defensive squad. So
lean in on that. A guy like Jacoby Brissett might
just be what the doctor or any He's giving you
the same production you're getting out of Kyler Murray. It's
not like he's he's we're barely getting the offensive. You
(22:45):
had a bunch of guys tonight, man, I mean, finally
Marvin Harrison, but Jacoby Brissette found him when he needed to,
Like what are you getting from Kyler Murray? What are
you getting from Jacoby Brissett. You're not getting from Kyler Murray.
This should Tonight should be the game where they realized, Okay,
we have to move on from the Kyler. We're gonna
get what we need from Trey McBride. So long as
he's healthy. He's a mismatch all the time. Great. Marvin
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Harrison Junior, that's great. He became the guy that became
the picture on the pro program for the Hey, here's
the promo for the next six weeks or whatever they're
playing and where they go for it because you can't
put the quarterback there and you're not gonna put Gay
in it up because he's not Mike Tomlin or Bill Belichick.
Remember that graphic and coming up, Hey, it's gonna be
Pittsburgh and New England.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I just put the coach, which shouldn't Belichick smack Syracuse
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They didn't play this week That was it was that
was part of that was part of a really wild Friday.
Yeah yeah, I mean between the World Series, that game
going on, the Bulls Nicks did a lot going wild
Friday Syracuse still wild. It was a wild Friday for me.
So Belichick was winning a football game, man Kyler Murray
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on a different team. It should happen. Cardinals got to
do it. We get to the World Series coming up
in sixty seconds. But first, Martin Wise has what's running
tonight in the wide world of sports. Cardinal's breaking five
game losing street beating the Cowboys. All right, thanks a
bunch of m dub So the Dodgers parade today. World Series. Right,
we've had time to digest one of the greatest games
(24:13):
we'll ever see in so much drama with Game seven
and how Game seven ended. But uh, you want something,
because I boy, do I have something for you off
the final play of the World Series that I guarantee
you haven't heard yet. Dodgers win the World Series. And
you can say the same thing and the same reason
why the Dodgers won this year. So why they won
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last year? Runs? That is good. They did score and
they allowed less runs, and that was good because of
the greatest team ever assembled, and they spent all that money.
Don't you know what did we say last year? And
what was said last year about the World Series? The
lazy Yankees? Right, Joe Kelly, the laziest, the Yankees who
are horrendous fundamentally running the bases in the field, especially
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lazy Yankees. Fundamentally. He couldn't do it well defensively, lackadaisical,
I mean, go, nothing exemplifies it more than the Aaron
Judge fly ball. And same thing this year with the Yankees, right,
lazy Yankees, Lazy Yankees bad fundamentally. You can say lazy
Blue Jays bad fundamentally because base running fundamentally. They killed
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themselves in Game six and Game seven, including one play
that no one's talked about, which we're gonna get to.
You go back to Game six and Addison Barger, who
is caught too far off of second base the game
ending double play by Key k a her Nannis. All
you gotta do is really say the Dodgers defensively made
game setting plays and go, man, we really blew it
because the Dodgers defense is terrible. But Barger is caught
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way off a second base shouldn't be when the play
is in front of me, can see it. You have
to know where that ball Isn't what you're gonna do.
You weren't getting, you weren't scoring because the runner was
back on third you were only getting to third base
at most, but look like keik aar Nannis is gonna
catch it and you cost yourself. Right, that was that's awful,
fundamental play. Awful fundamental play. Should have been able to
walk back in the second. Right. Then you get to
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Game seven and Isaiah Connor Faloffel's foulful his base running.
I couldn't believe it when he got thrown out at
the plate, and I was happy that Will Smith, you
could see on replay, made the right play and it
was the correct call. You don't want the World Series
to end on a call that boy, it looked like
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Will Smith wasn't on the back. He took his foot off,
but you can see his foot comes back down and
it touches the base before ikf gets there. And it
was a great screen grab today that someone did cleaning
up the dirt and you could see that his foot
was not quite at home plate. So they got the
play right, all right, So that was good When that
play happened, I said, how do you get that bad
a jump? Right? Miguel Rojas's World Series legacy should be even,
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it should be not what it is now because he
caught the ball, he fell down, he felt backwards, he
double clutched, did not get felt at home. You should
not get him at home. There's no way he should be.
He should be sliding into home plate and standing up
in the Blue Jays win the World Series instead, because
he's only off the bag by a couple of feet,
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he gets thrown out at the plate. Now, he says
after the game, the coaches didn't want us getting doubled
off the base line drive there, so we're close. So
they didn't like our primary or secondary leads to be
that much. Okay, I understand that, but you gotta be
more than two feet off the base. You gotta at
least be at the end of the If you're at
the edge of the dirt, you're scoring easily and you're
winning the World Series. Okay, So Falaith has got to
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be a koner. Fliff has got to be able to
get off the bag and score. But he doesn't. And
it's a huge fundamental mistake because that's where coaching. I
don't know what the third base coach is saying, get
off the bag a little more of a but you're
playing scared at that point. So that's two really bad
fundamental plays base running plays by the Blue Jays that
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cost them the World Series. Right now, you don't know
how Game six would have ended if Barger gets back
to second base. But I know it ended. I know,
and they didn't win, and this game would have ended, right.
He scores, He scores on that play easy, and Miguel
Rojas goes from World Series zero two. He couldn't catch
the ground ball. He falls down. He's thirty six. The
guy's done. The guy's done. He can't do it anymore.
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We lost the World Series because he couldn't feel the
ground ball and throw it home. Now, the ball got
on him fast. It was a tough play, but there's
no way when you fall backwards after catching ground ball
and double clutch at it, you should be able to
throw a guy, a guy who was in the game.
Two pinch run, pinch run. Right, those are two plays.
But I'm gonna give you something else. Okay, to think
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you want to say lazy Blue Jay's funny? Wait there,
watch the you and you brought in the all twenty
two version of the final play. I think that's the
easiest way to make a translate between all sports. The
way we talk about it from the overhead. There's a
couple of angles of the final play, and there's one
from the right field stands as one from behind home plate.
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Vlad Junior on this double play that Allejandra Kirk hits
right where Mookie Betts gets the ball, steps on second,
throws for his base right, the double play that ends
the World Series. Vlad Junior's on third, the ball is
hit to Mookie Betts, who is coming in to get it.
Vlad Junior kind of lopes home looking back at the play,
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and when Freddie Freeman catches the ball, games of he
doesn't even try to score. He he's still not at
home plate. Freddy Freeman catches the ball to end the
World Series, he's still not even at the dirt, and
he just turns to go to the dugout because the
game is over. Right, he turns to go to the
dug because the game is over. Vlad Junior, I am
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baffled that that was the play he made. But this
shows you bad defensive, bad fundamental play, because when that
ball is hit on the ground, bust your ass to
get home because you don't know what that play is
gonna be. But he's thinking, Okay, I'm gonna try to score.
What are they to try to go for two? What
if Mookie Betts clutches at the ball or doesn't get
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close enough to the bag to be able to get
there and make the play right, All of a sudden,
he's going forward. He sees I got Vlad Junior dead
to rights at home because Vlad Junior is loafing it
down the line to get to home plate. This is
bad fundamental base running by Vlad Junior. That could have
really changed his legacy. If let's just say, oh, Mookie
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Bets bobbles it. Oh again, look he's got Lad Junior.
Led Junior is out at home plate. It's not even close. Yes, heady, George,
second been could have been an easy pivot right throw
and you know none, you don't know. Maybe he bobbles
the ball, but what you don't know? Bust your ass
and score. But instead, I want to look back at
the play, and again it ends so early for him.
I don't even try to score. I just go to
the dugout. That could have been a much different legacy
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for Vlad Junior. Now, obviously the plays dont have to
be a double play, but there's three examples of the
blue Jays absolutely throwing up on themselves running the bases.
That are bad fundamental plays. You say, bet you know
the lazy Yankees, lazy Blue Jays. What's just crazy Blue Jays?
E l East. Let's see who represents the next year
against the Dodgers so they can complete the trifecta. But
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all of it to say, I mean, you had so
many instances of runners left on base, big pitches, and
this is where you decide which narrative you want right
Toronto giving it away or La taking taking it by
the throat and just taking it and shaking them down
with big plays in the field, the defense of the Dodgers,
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things we did not look at for one hundred and
sixty two games plus and here we are with big
defensive plays. I want to ask one last question. Who
got the broken bat, oh, the broad as a trophy
off the final double player. I don't know that it
was Yamamoto because like when I saw at the end
where Mookie Betts had to tell him, dude, that's your trophy,
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you're the MVPL and then he like you wouldn't touch
like that. He said he couldn't lift his arms like
he was so sore but then he picked it up
when Mookie betsaid, hey, dude, that's your trophy. Oh okay,
So I don't think it was Yamamoto, Baby Will Smith.
I just I just hope someone took that bad as
a trophy. You know, Freddie Freeman's got the ball? Yeah, okay,
I mean, but I would have given it to you. See,
I was a father's son. Caught the two home run balls. Yeah,
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crazy asking for two point five million dollars. Lazy Blue Jays.
Lazy Blue Jays, Lazy Blue Jays. That's not why they lost, though.
The ruck guy is an interesting way to put it.
What the Cowboys need more than any other team in
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After the night.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Don't you wish you were Nick Smith instead of Jason Smith,
Nick Smith Junior.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I would take throwing up at halftime and scoring twenty
five off the bench every night. That would do it.
He is the Steam and Willie Beaman of the NBA.
That's nicely done, right there, the Laker look and again
it's the most miserable start of the season for Lebron James,
who thought the first ten games of the season, while
I'm out, the Lakers are gonna see how much they
need me. Maybe they don't, right, maybe they don't need
(01:32):
uh Luca or awesome? Oh whoa, hey, okay kick the
maybe out. But with hout, Luca and Reeves tonight right again,
without four of their starters tonight, they go win and
win in Portland. They are now six and two on
the year, four and zero on the road. That and
Lebron is sacking. Maybe they don't need me at all.
Maybe maybe maybe we don't need Lebron. Nick Smith Junior
(01:54):
comes off the bench tonight twenty five points and twenty
five minutes, and apparently he was sick. He threw up
in the hallway at halftime. It's the Nick Smiths junior
flu game. Boy, let's go. I will say there are
many times in my life where I have thrown up
immediately felt better, and I was able to have my
normal day and get right back to it the right time,
to the next hamburgers, you know, shovel of whatever you're eating.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Mostly after a Jets game, right, Yeah, oh well that's
actually before a Jets game.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
During a Jets game. After a Jets game. Yeah yeah,
watching the highlights at the end. But no, there's times Okay,
I'm sick and I'm down for the company. They hey, no,
I'm good. I go, man, I'm good. I can do
it boot and rally as long as there's enough stuff
around the area or motivation. Right, you gotta you gotta
finish the shift, you gotta go to work. You gotta
(02:45):
take care of the kids. I mean we've all done that, right,
people with kids. Oh yeah, sure, eve been sick. They
brought something home from the daycare center or whatever. You
got a rally, Lebron is showing. Yeah, the guys need me.
The guys dab. Here are the high scores okay games
this year by the Lakers. Luca forty three, forty nine,
forty four, twenty nine, Reeves forty one, fifty one, twenty nine.
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Like that's what these guys are doing without Lebron I
mean not suddenly. Okay, Lebron is terribly his but for
a team that's been trying to find a way to
move on, and each side would be happy if he
went away, if he won someplace else, and the Lakers
want to go forward, we can take his money and
use whatever pieces we need to throw in here, Like
this is a this is a nightmare beginning for Lebron.
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Not only are the Lakers winning, they're scoring tons of points.
They're not winning these games like, hey, ninety eight, ninety four,
you know what you know? One on one ninety one
they're rolling up one, twenty eight, one, twenty seven, one
twenty two, one sixteen, one seventeen, one thirty, one thirty
Like they're rolling up all kinds of points without Lebron.
Like no matter how you slice the Lebron, I don't
(03:53):
know if I'm Lebron, if I want to get back
in action faster, or if I want to say I'm
hurt longer, maybe they'll start losing in net dot need
be like this what a nightmare stort. I don't know.
It also doesn't help that you got guys like Charles
Barkley saying, ah, he got nothing wrong with them, he's
just old. But all of that to say, right that
the thing you wanted was to have some struggles, maybe
(04:16):
to win a couple of games, but to have to
struggle to do so where it's like, all right, Lebron
puts them over the top versus where you sit right
now going maybe maybe it flows better without having to
be you know, have him do I say a ball
stopper at times to where you know he's got the ball.
And because I remember a lot of times last year
where once once we had the what at times looked
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very uncomfortable between him and Luca, where Luke could just
be standing off on the side with his hands on
his hips. Not that he's tired, he just knows he's
not getting the ball back, so he's out of that sequel. Well,
look just think of because you're vice versa. You bring
up a great point, and to reward you, I'm going
to talk about your team on it is because when
Lebron does come back, he's gonna a guy that needs
(05:00):
the basketball. So what's got when he does come back?
The effect because Lebron gets a bad I'm not saying
it's awful, but the effect of the bat like you know,
guys like Ruey Hotchimura aren't going to get the ball
as much. Austin Reeves is not gonna have now Lucas
always going to get the ball and have his points,
but like m is not going to get the ball,
and Nick Laarravey is not going to get the ball.
And when you're going down the list of all these players,
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these are a lot of guys who are contributing that
aren't getting the basketball. Now, look at the Chicago Bulls
for a second. Did they make any crazy moves from
last year to this year? Not really, right, They kept
their same team and right now they're playing without their
best player. The last undefeated team in the NBA finally
went down yesterday to the Knicks. And again I'm ready
(05:42):
for the Knicks Bulls Eastern Conference finals. Boy, what a
great throwback. That's gonna be one. But the Bulls, what
they've done is what they did well the thunder undefeated,
but they don't care. Everybody expects that, right, everybody expects
that last undefeated team in the Eastern Conference. But the
Bulls when they hit the trade deadline last year, they
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really leaned into we have a lot of guys we
want to play. We're gonna move the ball around. Nobody
is gonna be really ball dominant, and we're gonna make
sure that. Hey, we play eleven guys and we play
at a hectic pace, paid the big pace. That's gonna
be a pain in the ass. Are other teams to
play against, right, So what do we see it from
the Bulls? Because they've changed their style a little bit
(06:24):
and no one is so ball dominant. They're a better team, right,
all of a sudden, did Josh Giddy get so much
better that? No, But the way they're playing, he is
freed up a lot more. And again they're best player
Kobe White, But when he comes back, he's not gonna
be someone that says, no, I'm a ball stopper. No,
you're fitting in with the with the way the offense goes.
But Lebron's gonna come in and suddenly I have to
be the folk. The ball is gonna move through me.
(06:45):
This is who I've been throughout my career. I guarantee
you this, Lakers, all, whatever we see before Lebron gets back,
it just hits the skids when Lebron comes back because
they're used to playing one way and now here's Lebron
coming in playing another way, and maybe that's not the
right way going forward. The Lakers have always wanted to
move on and surround Luca with the players he needs
(07:08):
to be able to win games, right, That's why when
Lebron's salary goes, it's going to be They wanted a
rim runner, so they got DeAndre Ayton in. Now, now,
would there be some better choices to bring guys in
to be support players? Yeah? Sure, But By and Lard's like,
you see these players, these support guys. Well, wait a minute.
We've seen Luca make this work with a worse team
in Dallas and drag them all the way deep in
(07:29):
the playoffs to the NBA Finals. Moving on from Lebron
has never been much more enticing or even seems any
more easier than it does right now.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yes, we're eight games into the season. Is it going
to be like this in game twenty, game twenty five,
game third, they're gonna continue to win like this? Yes,
But they're seeing they're seeing the blueprint out there for
what the team should be, and this is we have
unselfish guys that can all score, and it's just it's
just a different way that takes advantage of the talent
(08:04):
the Lakers have on this roster. This takes more advantage
of Luca being someone who can be ball dominant. Doesn't
have to be right when you're a point guard. You
can be ball dominant. You don't have to be Lebron's
a guy that needs a ball. I gotta be able
to make my moves, gotta be able what to do
in the paint. I reinvented myself as a point guard
a few years ago. But he's someone that's gonna that's
gonna be that's gonna stop the ball. And the Lakers
(08:25):
are gonna see a big difference in their offense, and
they're gonna scratch your heads and go, boy, what do
we do now? What do we do? Can we move Lebron?
Should we move Bron? Do we have to wait to
see how things go? Are we still gonna get is
Jake Larravi is still gonna be this good in a
few ways? Marcus Smart is still gonna fit in the
way he does. They have a lot of big moving
parts that are stepping in that are really starting to
(08:45):
hit a stride here again, this is the early part
of the season. Undefeated on the road, they're winning with
with Luca, without Luca, with Reeves without Reeves, Like all
of a sudden, Lebron is like, man, all of a sudden,
I'm a I'm like a spare part sitting around here,
because just because you know where the Lakers want to
go with their team roster wise, not just because oh
they've won three games, let's get rid of Lebron. It's
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you know, they want to get there eventually. So this
may hasten that a lot. Yeah, it's the curiosity of
once he comes back, how do guys transition back into
the roles that you would have drawn up on the
whiteboard early on, right, because your offensive and defensive sets
completely different, your minutes rotation completely Hell, we saw Bronnie
(09:29):
in six minutes into the game today. Yeah, that ain't happening. Okay,
Bronni Wait, we got a guy named James going in.
We're in the first quarter. Yeah, I need you. It's
the first quarter. Yeah, okay, I'm ready in the fourth.
I mean, you had some moments, but but all of
that to say, right that that changes and guys have
now adapted and adopted new roles on this squad and
(09:51):
even tonight, like you're putting up and you're getting out
and running like that's the thing that's got to be exciting. Right,
you got fresh legs, young legs, and a deeper rotation.
You can get after it outside of eight and smart
of course. But all of that to say that changes
when Lebron comes back in right, become more half court sets.
Not that he won't get out and run on occasion,
but that's not going to be your mo for this
(10:14):
squad by any stretch of the imagination. We talk about
where he is defensively, he can make a play every
now and again. Unfortunately it's dot dot every now and again.
So you're now changing changing the look that chase down
block ain't coming back anytime soon, not okay, So all
of that to say it now creates a great grab
(10:36):
your popcorn kind of moment here in LA because they're
playing well, putting up big point totals for JJ Reddick.
He's got the best of both worlds. I mean, it
is nice to be able to say, hey, I got
a Lebron James still top ten, top fifteen, wherever you
want to rank him in the guy in the game
to come back. But then you also have and you've
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got a bunch of run in your winning games early,
but then you've got that eat spot in the middle
where it's like, all right, how do we transition back
between them? I'd like to think it'll be fairly seamless
for a while, but guys have eagles. Guys like to
see their name in the box score. Fill up. It's
all of a sudden, all these is gonna slowly dry up,
dry up when you're suddenly you're only getting two shots
(11:17):
that you get to try to make, as opposed to
all right, I'm not banished to the bench if I
miss one, you know that kind of thing. It becomes
a puckering effect, as it were. What do you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
What makes you think it's up to Lebron James to
get back on the court with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh what he said?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
If he says I'm sciatic to come back, not after
this he's played his last game with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Wow, that's a hot take. I don't know. Look, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Lebron's messed with this gel right now, you know, but
you got to throw him in the mix. That's three
l's in a row.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Trade. Who's trading for Lebron in that cond that the contract,
but that contract just kills everything. The contract thing. But
you know, we've talked about.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
It a lot.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Money work there. There's gonna be teams.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
He might not get it back on the court with
the Lakers after this.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It's it's gonna be Look, I will, I will, I
will say this, it's gonna be ugly when he first
gets back on because this is what the Lakers are
doing offensively is gonna change. And when you're going one way,
you're gonna need other ways to adjust. And if you
have too many bad games in a row. I mean,
we talked about this by the deadline, because the Lakers
are gonna Look, you don't want to get into some
(12:26):
kind of panic mode. Now we're just moving on from Lebron.
You want to be able to say, okay, we to
be to be the one guy with the with with
the you know, to to think for a second instead
of being reactionary, just to think, okay, when Lebron does
come back, you want to give it every chance to
see if it works, because maybe it does. Right, maybe
Lebron decides, you know what, I don't need to be
(12:47):
that guy. I can facilitate the offense and things are good.
The more guys right, he is Lebron, he is Lebron James,
and when he does, whatever happens becomes a story with
the Lakers without it. You want to make sure that
if you're gonna move on from Lebron James era, you
are more than ready to do so. So when Lebron
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does come back, he's going to get more than enough
chance to get because the Lakers are seeing, now, this
is what the offense is gonna be without him. We
see it now, we see where things are gonna go.
They're gonna give him a chance. And they also want
to make sure that people know he's a great player still,
because if you want to trade Lebron, teams want to
know I'm still getting someone who's really good. So you
want Lebron to be able to go out there and
score twenty eight and pick up ten rebounds and dish
(13:30):
out seven. It's systet he needs to be goes Okay, hey,
we feel we're still getting a good Lebron. We can
give you that big center you need. We can give
you whatever you feel you need to make the money work,
a couple of doubt, whatever the Lakers feel they need
coming off of moving Lebron. So you also want to
say we exhausted all possibilities and now it's time to
go forward. Because the last thing you want to for
(13:51):
the Lakers to do a panic trade and we don't
need him, we can move on. Oh boy, a couple
of guys got hurt. Now Luca's not in the lineup
for a little while for whatever reason, or often Reeves
is out really use Lebron. You want to make sure
this works. It's not just a reactionary Hey it's five
six game thing works great with him on the bench.
So yeah, but you're gonna want to make all these things.
It's not just it's not just about the Lakers trading Lebron,
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which you know they want to move on from. It's
doing it the right way to say, Okay, we've done
it the right way. We've moved on from a legend
and traded Lebron. We've traded Lebron James. We've done that
the right way with all the best information we have
at our disposal moving forward, and there's gonna be teams
that as long as Lebron is still Lebron, you get
close to the deadline, they're gonna say you have any
(14:33):
Lebron you think Cleveland's gonna say, Man, we get killed
by the Knicks again, we get killed by the Bulls again.
We're not gonna want to go get Lebron. So okay,
let's go for pieces to make that work. You're not
gonna have rotation. No one, no, no contending team is
gonna make that. They're gonna make a trade where hey,
you're gonna get a piece or two, but it's gonna
make the money work. You're moving on from Lebron that trade.
(14:55):
Those trades can happen. Those trades can happen. It's I
do like the Lakers position. They say, we're done with
it all together.
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We enter without Lebron James, the Lakers being better without
Lebron James, no spot for Lebron coming back.
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They get crunched by Jacoby Brissett and company. Say that again,
crunched by Jacoby Brissett and company couldn't stop. Jacoby Brissett
and the Murray Demarcado cowboy Candy Statham and the Cowboys lose.
We'll have more on them coming up in a little bit.
Bum sixty one in two. I mean it's at the
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rushing touchdown boom. We are hours away from the trade
deadline in the NFL and the Cardinals win tonight. Not
that they're going crazy all of a sudden, we're going places.
But if we talked last week, the tow a tongue
of Iiloa should be dealt by the Dolphins. It's clear
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he needs to he needs a fresh start. The Dolphins
need to move on. That's something that's got to happen
right now. Probably won't, but it should. If I give
you another category of trades, that should happen, but it
won't buy tomorrow. The Cardinals trading Kyler Murray and moving
on from him is something that should happen. He's been
in the league now since twenty nineteen. It's been a
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long time and the Cardinals are still in a rebuild right.
He's been through how many head coaches, how many coordinators,
how many go to receivers and still the Cardinals are
trying to figure out their identity. You paid him, and
you're getting the same kind of production from Jacoby Brissett
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that he has given you, right, same thing with the
forty nine ers, Mac Jones and Brock Purty. You've seen
the best of Kyler Murray. You've seen the best of
them in the first three years in the league. He thought, Wow,
he's he's gonna be the next great quarterback. But he
hasn't been even pretty good since twenty twenty one. Well,
he had a pretty good year last year. He was okay,
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twenty one and eleven with near that thirty nine hundred
passing area. Yeah, but you get that from a lot
of guys. Now. Mac Jones is gonna give you that
for seven million dollars, right, I mean, you can get
that from a lot of guys. Now. Twenty touchdowns is
down on mac Jones. I mean, mac Jones is a
big deal. You can get most every quarterback except for
Justin Fields can throw for four thousand yards to give
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you twenty tons. You can't throw for four Actually, Caleb
Williams might get there. DJ Moore might get there. Let
him throw the football. Good to see him back at
the box scoring ja oh Man, Yeah yeah, Hey. Oh,
by the way, hey, mister adoonsay, you don't want to
talk about your kid not getting the football. If you
score over forty points in a game, that's not gonna
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go over. Well. You know, he did have a target
that hit him in the hands, it was behind him.
Wait until you score thirteen and lose. That's what you
want to say. Hey, gotta get the foot. There are
plenty of opportunities for that on the schedule coming out,
but keep going. You've seen the best of Kyler Murray
and it's not like he's bereft of talent, but it's
just not working there. And there's a system for one
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thing we've learned, right, what do we say in the show?
There is a system for everybody. There's a system for
Sam Darnold. There's a system for Mac Jones. There's a
system for Baker Mayfield. It's a system for Gino Smith.
Gino Smith, who oh, by the way, he was dead
and buried. Hey four touchdowns yesterday by Gino Swell come back,
brock Bauer. There is a system for everybody. There's a system,
and there's a coach out there that's saying Hey, I'll
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go in on Kyler Murray. I'm not sold on getting
our guy in the draft.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I'll go it.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I can. I can fix Kyler Murray. I know. But
Kyler Murray's had a problem staying on the field and
the Cardinals. If this is where you sit as a
franchise right now, where you're still trying to take that
next step into respectability, yeah, it's time for a change
of quarterback, just to have some new kind of energy
coming in and to start over where again twenty nineteen.
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This is not year three for Kyler Murray. Twenty nineteen,
twenty twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four,
it's twenty eight years old. Man, you've seen it. But
the biggest thing with Kyler Murray is not that he's
bereft of talent and that you can't potentially put up
some numbers. The problem is he's not gonna be there
with great regularity. Right you're looking at twenty twenty four.
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Twenty twenty four was his seventeen game or seventeen games
played otherwise just five this year, eight and twenty twenty three,
eleven and twenty twenty two, fourteen and twenty twenty one
that he just can't stay healthy and as you get older,
this one coming off a foot injury. What's what made
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him a difference maker the fact that you could hit
the turbo button and off he'd run turbo turbo. I
have no turbo left. I can't do it, but that's it. Right,
Then it sputtered out. He'd get hurt and that'd be
the end of it because he'd take a big hit
or five and he'd be out for a run and
then and that's the hard part, and we've talked about it.
That's the greatness of some of these players that you
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run it until you can't run it anymore. Right, Cam Newton,
you ran that until the wheels fell off. You look
at players that some can reinvent themselves, right, That's why
everybody wants to keep forcing. Hey, Lamar Jackson pocket packer,
and he's he's a good pocket maaster. But what separates
him and makes him that much better. What makes Josh
Allen that much better the ability to run. What's making
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Patrick Mahomes that much better this year going into this
weekend's game, you know, you had more rushing yards than
Josh Allen did under that for a moment. But that
that's the thing with Kyler Murray, that's always been the separator.
Well that's starting to dissipate, right, that's coming back down
to basic. Now, it's what's the next Kyler Murray look like?
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And is he going to be given that chance to
become that guy in Arizona? Probably not. No, you've got
a good defense, right, we saw that and they took
care of the Cowboys today. This first seven points coming
out of block punt, so you know, nothing that they
got driven on. They came into the game twelve in
total defense, given up twenty two points per game. They
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drafted heavy defense. So going forward with their coach, assuming
they don't, you know, make a haphazard move and get
rid of him, they're gonna be a defensive squad. So
lean in on that. A guy like Jacoby Brissett might
just be what the doctor or any He's giving you
the same production you're getting out of Kyler Murray. It's
not like he's he's we're barely getting the offensive. You
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had a bunch of guys tonight, man, I mean, finally
Marvin Harrison, but Jacoby Brissette found him when he needed to,
Like what are you getting from Kyler Murray? What are
you getting from Jacoby Brissett. You're not getting from Kyler Murray.
This should Tonight should be the game where they realized, Okay,
we have to move on from the Kyler. We're gonna
get what we need from Trey McBride. So long as
he's healthy. He's a mismatch all the time. Great. Marvin
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Harrison Junior, that's great. He became the guy that became
the picture on the pro program for the Hey, here's
the promo for the next six weeks or whatever they're
playing and where they go for it because you can't
put the quarterback there and you're not gonna put Gay
in it up because he's not Mike Tomlin or Bill Belichick.
Remember that graphic and coming up, Hey, it's gonna be
Pittsburgh and New England.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I just put the coach, which shouldn't Belichick smack Syracuse
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They didn't play this week That was it was that
was part of that was part of a really wild Friday.
Yeah yeah, I mean between the World Series, that game
going on, the Bulls Nicks did a lot going wild
Friday Syracuse still wild. It was a wild Friday for me.
So Belichick was winning a football game, man Kyler Murray
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on a different team. It should happen. Cardinals got to
do it. We get to the World Series coming up
in sixty seconds. But first, Martin Wise has what's running
tonight in the wide world of sports. Cardinal's breaking five
game losing street beating the Cowboys. All right, thanks a
bunch of m dub So the Dodgers parade today. World Series. Right,
we've had time to digest one of the greatest games
(24:13):
we'll ever see in so much drama with Game seven
and how Game seven ended. But uh, you want something,
because I boy, do I have something for you off
the final play of the World Series that I guarantee
you haven't heard yet. Dodgers win the World Series. And
you can say the same thing and the same reason
why the Dodgers won this year. So why they won
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last year? Runs? That is good. They did score and
they allowed less runs, and that was good because of
the greatest team ever assembled, and they spent all that money.
Don't you know what did we say last year? And
what was said last year about the World Series? The
lazy Yankees? Right, Joe Kelly, the laziest, the Yankees who
are horrendous fundamentally running the bases in the field, especially
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lazy Yankees. Fundamentally. He couldn't do it well defensively, lackadaisical,
I mean, go, nothing exemplifies it more than the Aaron
Judge fly ball. And same thing this year with the Yankees, right,
lazy Yankees, Lazy Yankees bad fundamentally. You can say lazy
Blue Jays bad fundamentally because base running fundamentally. They killed
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themselves in Game six and Game seven, including one play
that no one's talked about, which we're gonna get to.
You go back to Game six and Addison Barger, who
is caught too far off of second base the game
ending double play by Key k a her Nannis. All
you gotta do is really say the Dodgers defensively made
game setting plays and go, man, we really blew it
because the Dodgers defense is terrible. But Barger is caught
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way off a second base shouldn't be when the play
is in front of me, can see it. You have
to know where that ball Isn't what you're gonna do.
You weren't getting, you weren't scoring because the runner was
back on third you were only getting to third base
at most, but look like keik aar Nannis is gonna
catch it and you cost yourself. Right, that was that's awful,
fundamental play. Awful fundamental play. Should have been able to
walk back in the second. Right. Then you get to
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Game seven and Isaiah Connor Faloffel's foulful his base running.
I couldn't believe it when he got thrown out at
the plate, and I was happy that Will Smith, you
could see on replay, made the right play and it
was the correct call. You don't want the World Series
to end on a call that boy, it looked like
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Will Smith wasn't on the back. He took his foot off,
but you can see his foot comes back down and
it touches the base before ikf gets there. And it
was a great screen grab today that someone did cleaning
up the dirt and you could see that his foot
was not quite at home plate. So they got the
play right, all right, So that was good When that
play happened, I said, how do you get that bad
a jump? Right? Miguel Rojas's World Series legacy should be even,
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it should be not what it is now because he
caught the ball, he fell down, he felt backwards, he
double clutched, did not get felt at home. You should
not get him at home. There's no way he should be.
He should be sliding into home plate and standing up
in the Blue Jays win the World Series instead, because
he's only off the bag by a couple of feet,
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he gets thrown out at the plate. Now, he says
after the game, the coaches didn't want us getting doubled
off the base line drive there, so we're close. So
they didn't like our primary or secondary leads to be
that much. Okay, I understand that, but you gotta be
more than two feet off the base. You gotta at
least be at the end of the If you're at
the edge of the dirt, you're scoring easily and you're
winning the World Series. Okay, So Falaith has got to
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be a koner. Fliff has got to be able to
get off the bag and score. But he doesn't. And
it's a huge fundamental mistake because that's where coaching. I
don't know what the third base coach is saying, get
off the bag a little more of a but you're
playing scared at that point. So that's two really bad
fundamental plays base running plays by the Blue Jays that
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cost them the World Series. Right now, you don't know
how Game six would have ended if Barger gets back
to second base. But I know it ended. I know,
and they didn't win, and this game would have ended, right.
He scores, He scores on that play easy, and Miguel
Rojas goes from World Series zero two. He couldn't catch
the ground ball. He falls down. He's thirty six. The
guy's done. The guy's done. He can't do it anymore.
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We lost the World Series because he couldn't feel the
ground ball and throw it home. Now, the ball got
on him fast. It was a tough play, but there's
no way when you fall backwards after catching ground ball
and double clutch at it, you should be able to
throw a guy, a guy who was in the game.
Two pinch run, pinch run. Right, those are two plays.
But I'm gonna give you something else. Okay, to think
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you want to say lazy Blue Jay's funny? Wait there,
watch the you and you brought in the all twenty
two version of the final play. I think that's the
easiest way to make a translate between all sports. The
way we talk about it from the overhead. There's a
couple of angles of the final play, and there's one
from the right field stands as one from behind home plate.
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Vlad Junior on this double play that Allejandra Kirk hits
right where Mookie Betts gets the ball, steps on second,
throws for his base right, the double play that ends
the World Series. Vlad Junior's on third, the ball is
hit to Mookie Betts, who is coming in to get it.
Vlad Junior kind of lopes home looking back at the play,
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and when Freddie Freeman catches the ball, games of he
doesn't even try to score. He he's still not at
home plate. Freddy Freeman catches the ball to end the
World Series, he's still not even at the dirt, and
he just turns to go to the dugout because the
game is over. Right, he turns to go to the
dug because the game is over. Vlad Junior, I am
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baffled that that was the play he made. But this
shows you bad defensive, bad fundamental play, because when that
ball is hit on the ground, bust your ass to
get home because you don't know what that play is
gonna be. But he's thinking, Okay, I'm gonna try to score.
What are they to try to go for two? What
if Mookie Betts clutches at the ball or doesn't get
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close enough to the bag to be able to get
there and make the play right, All of a sudden,
he's going forward. He sees I got Vlad Junior dead
to rights at home because Vlad Junior is loafing it
down the line to get to home plate. This is
bad fundamental base running by Vlad Junior. That could have
really changed his legacy. If let's just say, oh, Mookie
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Bets bobbles it. Oh again, look he's got Lad Junior.
Led Junior is out at home plate. It's not even close. Yes, heady, George,
second been could have been an easy pivot right throw
and you know none, you don't know. Maybe he bobbles
the ball, but what you don't know? Bust your ass
and score. But instead, I want to look back at
the play, and again it ends so early for him.
I don't even try to score. I just go to
the dugout. That could have been a much different legacy
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for Vlad Junior. Now, obviously the plays dont have to
be a double play, but there's three examples of the
blue Jays absolutely throwing up on themselves running the bases.
That are bad fundamental plays. You say, bet you know
the lazy Yankees, lazy Blue Jays. What's just crazy Blue Jays?
E l East. Let's see who represents the next year
against the Dodgers so they can complete the trifecta. But
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all of it to say, I mean, you had so
many instances of runners left on base, big pitches, and
this is where you decide which narrative you want right
Toronto giving it away or La taking taking it by
the throat and just taking it and shaking them down
with big plays in the field, the defense of the Dodgers,
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things we did not look at for one hundred and
sixty two games plus and here we are with big
defensive plays. I want to ask one last question. Who
got the broken bat, oh, the broad as a trophy
off the final double player. I don't know that it
was Yamamoto because like when I saw at the end
where Mookie Betts had to tell him, dude, that's your trophy,
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you're the MVPL and then he like you wouldn't touch
like that. He said he couldn't lift his arms like
he was so sore but then he picked it up
when Mookie betsaid, hey, dude, that's your trophy. Oh okay,
So I don't think it was Yamamoto, Baby Will Smith.
I just I just hope someone took that bad as
a trophy. You know, Freddie Freeman's got the ball? Yeah, okay,
I mean, but I would have given it to you. See,
I was a father's son. Caught the two home run balls. Yeah,
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crazy asking for two point five million dollars. Lazy Blue Jays.
Lazy Blue Jays, Lazy Blue Jays. That's not why they lost, though.
The ruck guy is an interesting way to put it.
What the Cowboys need more than any other team in
the NFL after their loss tonight and exorcism that's next? Yet,
well that would help. That's next, Jason and Mike Fox
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