September 5, 2024 • 39 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike make their very early NFC, AFC, and Super Bowl picks for the NFL season. Next, the guys examine Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' contract negotiations with QB Dak Prescott. Finally, Jason and Mike preview the first game of the 2024-2025 NFL season: Ravens vs. Chiefs. Don’t miss it!
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com is the way tire buying should be. Well, before
we get to our Super Bowl picks, you gon to
give them to you in a second. Just a couple
minutes on the come behind no hitter tonight from the
Chicago Cubs, and starter showed to Imnaga. He combined with
two relievers on a no hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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It was a game that was never in doubt. The
Cubs led this game twelve nothing. Imanaga comes out of
the game after seven hitless innings ninety five pitches, Craig
Council Cobs managers, saying he didn't even know he had it,
but we wanted to take him out and make sure
we're doing the right thing for him. It's not fun
to do, but when you're prioritizing the player's health, you
don't know what's gonna happen moving forward. We want him
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to stay healthy, hence removing him at ninety five pitches. Now, look,
I get it, I understand, I do. I mean, I understand. Hey,
it's a difficult decision to make. You want guys to
stay healthy. But this, this one hundred pitch limit has
always just been arbitrary. It's it's always some guys are
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still throwing gas and ninety eight at you know, at
ninety seven, ninety eight, ninety nine, hundred pitches. Some guys
are not right. Some guys get tired after seventy five
pitches and you think, well, you got another twenty five pitches.
It's just always been so arbitrary. Now, I get when
you get when you get up into the one fifteen,
one twenty, because if you're throwing that many pitches, it
means you have had a lot of innings that are stressful,
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and that means you know, innings of twenty pitches or more.
And Ema Naga did have a stressful second inning, but
he kind of cruise after that. And if if the
Cubs had stopped making errors, then maybe it would have
been a little bit easier on it. But they kept
making errors, right, third Basement made three errors tonight. But
if you have a no hitter after seven innings, you're
at ninety five pitches, You're not a fireball. You're not
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someone going out there throwing ninety nine because that's not
what Imanaga is. He's a guy that fools and deceives everybody.
You can send him back out there in eleven nothing
game for the beginning of the eighth inning, and if
it takes him too many pitches and suddenly he's up
over one hundred into one oh five, one ten and
there's one out or two, okay, then you can take
them out of the game. Right, But you win the
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locker room so much more if you say, hey, I'm
gonna give you a chance at absolute immortality, right, I mean,
Blake Snell's gonna talk about all the no hitter because
they're all hardly any no hitters anymore are by one pitcher.
They're all by a group of people because all they
threw too many pitches. Here says who says me, okay, great,
im Minagua is not gonna blow out his arm by
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going out there for the eighth thing. The guy's never
pitched the eighth inning before. I think again, I think
he's thirty one years old, he's throwing a lot of pitches.
I think he's safe to pitch in the eighth inning.
He's not a rookie. He's not just up and just
navigating the minor leagues where you're worried about his inning count.
Is he getting here's guy. You can send him back
out there for the eighth inning, and if he does
get in trouble, gives up it and take him right
out of the game. Right it's eleven nothing At that point,
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it doesn't matter. You get okay, great, we gotta lever
all warmed up, ready to come in to finish the game.
You could have done that, and and the number of
managers who don't do that, I go, you're not. You're
not protecting these pitchers against something that you know is
gonna happen, right, you're not. I mean, no, nobody is
in the game for one hundred and five pitches, where
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all that's too many. If one hundred and five is
too many pitches for a guy, you know, the guy
shouldn't be starting. Yeah, when you get up into the
one twenty and one thirty and John Santana's no hitters,
the Mets ruined him for the rest of their careers.
And how we haven't had a no hitter ever, Let's
leave him in there on hundred and twenty hundred and thirty.
And there's reports that, hey, maybe he was never the
same after that. That I understand, But this arbitrary ninety
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five pit. You could have sent him out with at
least a chance to have a quick inning and then
maybe out for the ninth inning with a chance to
maybe get out of there up up close to one
ten and that's it. Without a stressful eighth or ninth.
You could have give him a chance in the eighth.
They need to go do it. And I'm always a
fan of doing that. And and and you understand that, Okay,
once we hit a certain a certain point where it
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seems stressful, you're coming out of the game. Harmon's not
answering because he's not a Cubs fan. That that's what
Cups fan. You're upset that the White Sox finally won
a game and the Cubs overshadow you at Chicago by
pitching a combined noe h.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well, the Cubs just need to flip on the lights
on a given night and it overshadows anything the White
Sox will do.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, the Cubs look out great. The lights are boy,
they look sharp under the light.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And you know what you know, the other day Pearl
Jam did a couple of concerts at Wrigley Field, So
you know, the whit whit so getting a lot of
run though nationally and locally. I gotta imagine if you're
doing local radio at some point, like can we talk
about something other than the White Sox when they just
stinking in Although if you're the score, you're just taking
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a bunch of Shriffin audio and just playing it back
and having laughs with you your fan base, So I
mean that works out too well.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
This is also going to be a two day no
loose streak for the White Sox because they're off tomorrow.
You're putting together two days of no losses, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Very good for Grady size More and he had an
early exit yesterday, so I mean you add that, that's good.
And now they're on the road at Boston. They'll head
to defend Way Park. Tick on the Red Sox, but for.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
The it's off after getting swept by the Mets.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Good luck, buddy, eh, you know they got to win
the day. Thirty two on the year for the White Sox.
For the Cubs still in the wild card chase. As
we've chronicled over the course of the night, they had
those few weeks where things went awry, didn't matter because
everybody was either excited about Caleb Williams being on a
field or they were excited about the White Sox and
how much they're terrible and trying to run their best
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three minutes like they're at the Chuckle Hut. So you
got that. But for im Andaga, it's been a ridiculous season. Right,
what is he six plus strikeouts per walk on the year?
You know, he's only thrown over one hundred pitches three times. Yeah,
so number of times where he'd gotten into the nineties.
And well, all right, you're out after six innings when
you are probably still perfectly capable of coming out for
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the seventh. But they didn't bother so they've been consistent
to that degree. You know, to your point, give him
the shot because the game's not it's not within a slam, right,
it's not hey, one or two mistakes. Oh no, we're
a game further back in the wildcard standings. I certainly
understand that logic to it. Bring him out for the eighth.
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See if you get some first ball swinging guys, uh
to give you a couple of quick outs and then
roll from there and just be judicious with it and
have someone up and warm and ready to go. I
see both sides obviously as baseball fans like we are,
Cubs included. I like when there's a no hitter and
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it's just got a picture of one guy on the
trading card. I like a bunch of relievers that have
to come in combine no hitter. How many got five
in this case? Just three? We get to the specialization
and everything else, and you record your three outs and
move on. So, yeah, you get you get a bit
salty of that, but you'll live to see another day.
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If they think whether it's true or misguided about health
and some magic number of one hundred right. They made
agreements with the baseball gods to never go past that mark,
and when you do, you feel the pain. And then
I guess right, it's like the Jason Cold and hexes
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and whatever earlier. I don't know. I don't know what's
going on, but certainly for Imanaga, he's been everything they
hope for and then some I know here in Los Angeles,
every once in a while I hear the side decide
comparison of what the Cubs gave and his performance in
Chicago versus Yamamoto pre and post injury, so that that
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kind of flows as they both entered the major league
strata this year. But you know, for the Cubs, they've
got a gem and they've got a guy who's embraced
Chicago and all the quirkiness of the food and traditions
and fan base and whatever else. So it looks like
they've got a winner going forward.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swelling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I'm not
a do it. Mike and I are going to give
you our picks for the NFC Championship Game and who
is going to the Super Bowl From the NFC. Mike,
why don't you kick things off because I know you
got a doozy coming for us.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well you know it's the Philadelphia Eagles, rife with controversy
and chaos coming off of a miserable back end of
the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You're not selling me so far. You're not selling me.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Look, man, look I gotta build up. I can't give
you the I'm not going spoiler alert giving you the
ending to the movie. No, we're building. They're building sat
Gun Barkley, an offense that's ready to roll. Sirianni and
Hurts don't have to be best friends.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Neither is a J.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Brown. You know all of those guys. But you've got
a lot of talent on that squad. Goddard, I expected
to go in Brazil looking for them to make hay
and run away with the NFC East now their opponent
in the championship game. If not now, oh oh boy,
why not us? That's right, I've already got my bear
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head on order. The Jerseys, Yeah, you dame it. The
monsters in the Midway return in this the year of
Steve McMichael and Devin Hester entering the Hall of Fame,
the Bears led by Caleb Williams, a reconstructed offense, Waldron
as your OC, depth at running back, a great wide
receiver corps, and a top ten defense. Let's go causing
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chaos in the North and ready to battle the Eagles
for the NFC title.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, if I'm not right with mine, I want you
to be right with yours, because then we'll get a
retrospect on the Fog Bowl. Okay, nineteen eight, it'll be yeah,
here we receive Yeah, it'll be here. We go Bears
in the Eagles for the right to go to the
Super Bowl. Last time they met with these kind of
stakes on the line, we go back to the Fog Bowl.
We'll get an interviewed with Randall Cunningham and oh yeah,
Jackson all be fantastic. All the fuck.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well, we'll get him on the show too. I will stalk.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Them, Okay, very okay, I think you want to say
I will call them. I don't know if you want
to say stock Well.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Stark was just the I mean, will be aggressive on
the phone to try to help help our cause. All right,
very good, I am going he got a rematch in
the NFC Championship game, and I mean an NFC Championship
matchup we have seen twice before in history, team number
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one team that everybody is sleeping on. And I'll tell
you what, I love them because they play in a
really down division and no one understands.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
How good they are. The Panthers. The Yes, the Panthers.
I believe it in. Dave Canalis, give me the bucks
in the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay, right, let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
The offense is loaded, and the two things to wonder
about this is, okay, is Baker Mayfield for real? Baker
Mayfield is one of those guys who when he fits
with what a team does, Boy, he really fits with
what they do. There was a time when he did
it in Cleveland, but little immature didn't really get a
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lot of what it meant to be a quarterback. Now
he's getting his third bite at the apple. He's a
little bit smarter about it, right. He was smart about
it last year. He's been smart in the offseason. Just
because you fail once when you're giving a big chance,
doesn't mean you're gonna fail again. He was terrific thirty
touchdowns last year. Again, they're loaded offensively, and Mayfield fits
with what they do. Running back. I'm more than happy
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with what they have. I'm not the biggest fan of
Sean White because I know fantasy owners love him because
he's a volume guy, but he's not great. Right guards
per carry is low, he's not dynamic. They drafted Bucky Irving,
they have Sean Tucker. Both these guys look good in
the preseason. They're both dynamic type players. So the running
game is in pretty good hands. But offensively, they're loaded
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and their defense is terrific. They have a great rush defense,
so you're not gonna run the ball against them. Give
me ten Tampa Bay to get to the NFC title game,
and waiting on the other side of the field the
Los Angeles Rams. Oh, look at you. I know I've
kind of let it out of the bag that I
want to pick the Rams with telling you the last
couple of weeks. But look, the Rams are also loaded offensively,
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and they got young so fast they're gonna be faster
than so many teams. They went for one of the
oldest teams in the NFL to one of the youngest.
I think they were the youngest for a while last year,
and they're still one of the three youngest teams in
the NFL. Yes, Matthew Stafford's in his mid to late thirties,
but you could see he still got plenty left in
the tank. Last year, last eight games, they're one of
the top teams in the NFL. They have everything they
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need Offensively, whoever you put it running back runs the
ball well, whether it was Cam Akers who's gone, Karen Williams,
who's a flavor of the moment, or Blake Korm, who
is the flavor of the next moment. If he gets hurt,
Blake Orm's coming in.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah, now they got him kicking doing kick returns. What
are we doing?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It'll be for a little while and then then he'll
be getting some reps at running back. But defensively, I
yet your questions, know, Aaron Donald, how are they gonna
do this? Yes, a bit of an overhaul defensively, but
it was needed. And you're telling me you don't trust
Sean McVeigh and what the front office does with the Rams.
When's the last time the Rams have made any sort
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of move player wise, personnel wise, big moves, impact moves
that have not worked. They've all worked, and anything that
doesn't look like it works, they move on from it
pretty fast. The Rams make the right decisions more than
any other franchise. So I have confidence that the defensive
issues they had last year trying to come in without
Aaron Donald, they're going to fix them. And the forty
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nine ers are making a big run this year. I
understand that they're gonna be the overwhelming favorites because they
have an incredibly talented roster. The Rams are going to
breathe down their next all season long, but their youth,
the defense will come together. Give me the Rams and
the Bucks in the NFC Championship game and it's the
Rams winning and getting back to the Super Bowl for
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the third time under Sean McVeigh. And get ready for
all the plaudits and the laudatory of Sean McVay. Is
this guy really the best coach in the NFL? Now,
bar not as you're gonna see that, because three super
Bowls with three different inventions of a team, that's really something.
So Bucks and the Rams and give me the Rams
to go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Look at you, I mean, he certainly has enough cheerleaders,
so you can just join the chorus line. I'll take
that thing you were trying to do earlier on the
on the Hockey's So you gotta listen to the whole show.
Folks to Rich Tapestry.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swollen Dome. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen's there. It
is our NFC picks for the NFC Championship Game and
the Super Bowl. How about a Fresca Mike at Swollen Dome?
Coming up next? Got more NFL on the way. The
two teams that are now the betting favorites for the
Super Bowl not Cleveland. Of course you love one, the
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other I don't love as much. And boy, my family's
gonna be really pissed at me when we talk about
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Speaker 1 (16:56):
We are now, let's say, twelve thirty fourteen, fifteen eighteen
hours away.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
One two, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, teen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Eighteen eighteen hours away from the beginning of the NFL season,
be breaking down the Chiefs and the Ravens tomorrow night.
And well, Mike and I just gave you our NFC
picks for the Super Bowl this season. The two teams
that Vegas likes the most we found we found out
today and they're really exposed on one of them. The
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two betting favorites are the Chiefs and the Lions. And
of course you like the Chiefs. How could you not? Right?
Of course, of course you have to make the Chiefs
the favorite. Everybody loves the chief Yes, they should be
the favorites. I mean, come on, they have to.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Be well to be the man you gotta beat the
man one so like preseason number one in college football,
but here they're actually putting money on it to make
them the betting favorite. And that's because last year, carried
by the defense, the offense clunky for much of the season.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And then finally come playoff time, old number fifteen delivers
time and time again.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
The other team they like and oh boy, I really
hope my wife's family is not listening.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
The other team they really like are the Lions, and
there is some exposure there. You know. We saw some
people talking about it today about hey, you know the
Lions and the Lion. The Lions had to move on them. Uh.
I am not in on the Lions like I was
in on the Lions. I know, I know. I know
my wife's fan, I know, and it's not about them.
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And my wife's family's gonna hate me. They're gonna go,
I heard you didn't pick the Lions.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It's not you, it's me.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
No, no, no, They're gonna be upset because they're gonna say, like,
you didn't pick the Lions this year, Like suddenly I
have to pick them every year. Like once I pick
them once, now I gotta pick them every year. Right,
I'm like.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
John, I mean, they're still pissed you didn't take them
before that.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm like John paulmer Rossi with the Mariners. I'm gonna
pick them Mariners every year to go to the World
Eventually they're gonna be mad. But it's not that I
don't like the Lions because of the Lions, because everything
they've done, they've gotten better in the offseason. Right, You've
seen a team that that jumped to the forefront last
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year and their offense is still loaded. I expect a
huge step up from Jamison Williams this year. You have
two really good running backs. You made the necessary changes
defensively so you wouldn't wilt in the second half of
the NFC Championship game, and they love Dan Campbell. Everything
is great. It's it's nothing to do with the Lions.
Why am I not in on them? Last year when
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you got to the playoffs, they were really only two
teams to go to the Super Bowl. It was the
forty nine ers and the Lions because they were the
only teams that were really, really good, Right, Like I
picked the lines to go to the Super Bowl last year,
if you remember, and all I was was just one
bad second half away from making that happen. I could
have retired and lived on royalties the rest of my life. Yeah,
Jason Smith, he had a big He picked the lines
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and go to the Super Bowl, and man.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
The dude was right. You to the party, Yeah, to
the parade. You would have had your own float. All
the other teams and who was that guy. Oh, that's
the guy that picked the Lions and go to the
Super Bowl. Look how great that is.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
All the other teams in the NFC that were quote
contenders weren't great or they weren't playing good football. It
was a down year in the NFC. Well, remember going
into the last year, was hey, look at all this
competition in the AFC. Everything is loaded. Now you got
Aaron Rodgers with the Jets and and X, Y and Z. Yeah,
all of a sudden, it was the AFC was the
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crowded path and the NFC was the path of least resistance. Yeah,
it was a down year in the NFC last year.
By the time he got to the playoffs, the Cowboys
were done, the Eagles were done. All right, that's it.
The Rams got as far as they could, but the
forty nine ers were still the best team overall, and
the Lions were the second best team. It's no surprise
that's where they got. Packers surprised the Cowboys, then they
went home. The Tampa Bay Bucks MA had surprised. They
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went home. So it was easy. It was easier last year.
This year, just getting out of their division is going
to be really tough, because both the Packers and the
Bears got better. And the Packers were really good to
begin with men and suddenly they solved their running back issues,
one of the top running backs in the game, and
Josh Jacobs and the Bears redid their entire team, and
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they got a stud quarterback and a stud receiver in
the draft, and they have no problems. Man, they have
what could be a top ten defense all of a sudden.
In their division is more difficult. But then you think
about the other teams and two that I mentioned a
couple seconds ago, the Rams and the Bucks who were
getting younger and better. Atlanta went out and got Kirk
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Cousins that they're gonna be a big threat. So you're
talking about five teams now in the NFC that are
all some sort of conference threat, whereas at this time
last year was yeah, maybe the Cowboys. Maybe the Cowboys
will be goet well the Eagles. Wait, no, okay, it
doesn't turn out to be any good. So there these
are now five teams that you can say, hey, I
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can see a great path forward for them, and they
can easily ruin a lot of team season, including the Lions.
So it's not that I don't like the Lions. It's
that I'm just I'm just more in on the conference
because the conference got better, which is gonna make it
much more difficult for the Lions to get back to
where they were a year ago.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Over undrawn wins for the Lions is ten and a half.
We know the decidedly that vastly different stats for Jared
Goff indoors versus outdoors, and they play fourteen indoor games.
You've got at Green Bay is week nine, so in theory,
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the skies haven't opened up one way or another, and
you actually get an okay temperature there, so no real advantage.
Week sixteen, you're at Chicago, better team and curiosity of
what the hell you're gonna get along the lakefront, and
then you've got San Francisco in there as well. At
San Francisco going up to Santa Clara. So you've got
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a very favorable schedule, But your point about the division
is certainly well taken and well put because you forgot
to even talk about your guy Sam Donald in the
Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You think I forgot that, really I do. I mean,
I can't just say everybody. I mean, I gotta draw
the line somewhere, man, I can't let everybody in.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah, no, I think it just from the point of
they're good enough to just screw things up. Like it's
a pretty good roster. Assuming Hawkinson comes back healthy, You've
got Aaron Jones defected from Green Bay, he goes to Minnesota.
You've got Justin Jefferson, who, depending on who you talk to,
is either the first, second, or third best wide receiver
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in the game. Addison, if you could stay out of trouble,
stay on the field, stay healthy, he'll be fine and
is a good number two. So for Sam Donald, it's
set up to have some modicum of success. I'm not
predicting them to go to the playoffs or anything crazy
like that, just saying they're good enough to maybe add
a wrinkle to what the Lions are doing. Still have
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the Lions in as a wild card squad. But I
think when you look at the NFC, yeah, there's more
optimism that the conference as a whole is better. I
don't know what the Cowboys will be. I think the
Eagles run away with that division and hide, but a
lot of people are high even if it's just for
the theatricality and performative on the Washington Commanders maybe sort of.
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I don't know, but you know, you get them, and well,
the Giants will be terrible, but by default don't they
normally win at least two or three games. Maybe they
win one that screws things up. So all of this
to say, hopefully a little bit of enough people. If
you look at the over underwind totals in the NFC,
forty nine Ers are at eleven and a half, and
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then you've got the Eagles at ten and a half,
The Lions are at ten and a half. You've got
the Packers ten and a half or nine and a
half in some books, but you know the those are
the leaders in the clubhouse. So I think got a
lot of teams at nine or eight and a half.
So a little bit of a muddled mess, but making
for some better football and hopefully down the stretch. You
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know when they overloaded with division games, there's still some
meaning there.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up
in ninety seconds. Evidence that Jerry Jones really may be
playing chess with Dak Prescott while all of us are
playing checkers. But first let's find out what Brian Finley
has with what's trending b Yef, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
You could use that analogy to what Caitlin Clark is
doing the defenses in the WNBA, and you were talking
about both of you guys are talking about Clark and
her heroics tonight and what did you do a second
triple double on her rookie campaign. As the Fever win
over the Sparks ninety three to eighty nine, and Major
League Baseball, everything from Wednesday has gone final. The final
(25:54):
game on the slate to wrap up saw the Padres
win six to five over the Tigers. That was in
ten inning, so that restores first place by themselves for
San Diego in the NL Wildcard race. The Pods have
a half game lead over the Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks one six
to four against the Giants tonight, and in that third
an NL wild card position would be the Atlanta Braves
(26:15):
five to two. They are winners against the Rockies. The
Mets are half game back of Atlanta. And yeah, the
Mets continue to win eight to three against the Red Sox.
They have swept the Red Sox. As that series concludes.
Al side of things, you've got the Twins falling to
the race. That's nine to four a final there also,
notably the New York Yankees, they go into Texas and
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they lose to the Rangers ten to six. So and
also the Dodgers losing to the Angels ten to one.
If you look at what's going on when it comes
to the AL wild card picture right now, the Orioles
have that first positioning AL wild Card and the Dodger
or not the Dodgers, the Yankees have a half game
lead for first in the ALE East. As it pertains
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to what's going on right now now, Twins number two
in the AL l card picture, and the Royals are
number three. Royals, by the way, tonight a game that
was on FS one, they snapped a seven game losing streak,
so the Royals are back in the win column in
regards to what else is going on. Yeah, let's end
with this here at the US Open, the American women
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and men will have representation in the final four in
the semifinals of the final grand Slam of the tennis
calendar season. And on the women's side, Jessica Pegoula, the
sixth seed, the daughter of the owner of the Buffalo
Bills and the Buffalo Sabers, Jessica Pagoula onto the semifinals
with a straight set win over the number one ranked
(27:41):
women's player in the world, IGAs Fiatek in a straight
ceter so she is into the semifinals and Pagula for
the first time in her career. As any Grand Slam event,
she goes to the final four for the inaugural time.
And then lastly, guys number one overall on the men's
and Janick sinner the Italians in four sets in his
quarterfinal about against the five seed the Russian and de
(28:05):
Neil Medvedev, so Janick center for the first time in
his storied but young career, the young twenty something is
into the semifinal of the US Open for the first
time in his young career. As mentioned with that, let's
get it back to two guys who are about to
bring it. I'm looking forward to hearing this. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Thank you very much, Brian Fenley. So every day there
seems to be a new update, which means there is
no update about the negotiations between the Cowboys and Dak
Prescott for whatever new contract he may or may not
get from the team. Every day Jerry Jones is asked
about it. Every day he gives us word salad and
it's like, come on, man. But after tonight, I think
(28:49):
he's doing it on purpose. This is him. He's on
Stephen A. Smith Show, and he's asked about the contract
that Dak could be making and where they're at as
far as negotiating it. And this is what Jerry Jones
said to where the Cowboys were with regards to this situation.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
So we have the challenge of not only recouping what
we have spent on him over the last four years,
we've got to add that to what we're going to
be paying him for the future. Now that's not Dak's
problem only in that it's the Dallas Cowboys problem.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Okay, Okay, I know a good line.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Okay, No, it was a good line, but I don't
know what any of that means. Well, okay, we have
the challenge of recouping what we spent on over the
last four years. They want Doak to give him money back. No, noy,
we didn't make it to We didn't make it as
far as we needed to. Dak, you really screwed us
in those two playoff games, So we want you to
give us the money back. As soon as you make
out that check for seventy five eighty million, we can
(29:52):
talk about a sixty million dollar contract. We can do that.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
And it just comes back to however, they're counting their
their funds off Dak, whether it's you know, Jerry Bucks
with his face on it or whatever the dollars are.
You know, they're trying to figure out in their metrics
what a break even point is off his performance and
the money that he brings in to the business and saying, hey,
(30:17):
we need to be financially prudent going forward. And it's
not Dak's fault. It's something that we have to figure
out because we're the cowboys, and Dak is a cowboy.
It's not his fault, but he's here, so it affects.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Him, I don't understand what he said. I don't understand
what you said. You gave me a word. Salad, trying
to explain Jerry Jones's plausible, explained, we have to we
have recouped the money we spent on the last four
years and adding that to what we're gonna be paying
him for the future. What does that mean dollars a year?
(30:54):
But now we're gonna add Now we're gonna pay him
sixty million. Yeah, so we're adding the forty that we
paid onto the sixties, so it's on million or they
always pay you forty. So now we're just gonna give
you twenty and that's sixty million dollars a year. But
it's only the last four years. Like what is he?
What is it?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
What is how do we get an ROI? What's a
proper return are our investment going forward? If we're to
extend Dak Prescott? Are we going to be able to
with money in arrears? Maybe maybe they decided whatever the
metrics are that they're down in the Dak Prescott game.
So say it's a negative ten million for rounding, and
(31:28):
then it's gonna cost them another, say two forty to
make it work. Can you get an eat a quarter
billion dollars out of your continued association with Dak Prescott? Okay,
let me trying to say.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Let me ask you, No, he's not because what is
what is what he's done have anything to do with anything?
What is what he has done have anything to do
with signing him to a new contract. If you don't
give him sixty million, someone else is gonna give him
sixty million and he's done nothing for them. If you
don't sign Dak Prescott, you're gonna give somebody fifty million
dollars a year to play quarterback, doesn't matter what they've
done in the past. You're not gonna say and go, well,
(32:00):
Kirk Cousins, was he he was good? And then did
traded him? And you know did you lost the job
to the Penix kid? And so trying to figure out
what his value was there with the Falcons for that
half a season and what he had in Minnesota before
he got hurt. And this is where we come at
this number that we're gonna offer to Kirk Cousins. What
what happened in the past is a relevant You paid
him this money, it's gone.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
It's I understand you and I both understand the concept
of shunk costs. But that's that's why Jersey Jones is
through disrepeatedly.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
He's giving us a word salt because it doesn't matter
what he's paid him before. Dak Prescott's not going to say, oh, yeah, well,
here's where what you paid me before and where I
think I was worth. Here's where I think. No, it's
gonna be someone's gonna give me sixty or sixty five
million dollars a year. Are you gonna give it to
me or not? Okay, I'm going somewhere else that is
no bearing on what it is. I feel like Jerry
(32:48):
Jones is just saying things like this now it's like, well,
I could say it and still keeps us in the
news and Dak's contract extension. We keep talking about the
Dallas Cowboys, but I'm not really giving you any information
about at all. I'm just gonna say stuff that takes
time to figure out. Before people realize it makes no sense,
they get headaches and then they move on to something else.
But at least they spend time talking about the Cowboys.
(33:10):
That's what this is.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
See. I kind of enjoy this though. I think it's
a great word salad. And I understand it, you know,
from the concept of you know, it's as psychological as
much as it is financial. Right of all, Right, has
it pained me enough that I want to do another
four years of it?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
What we gotta do is gotta look at what I
paid for the franchise back when I bought at eighty nine,
and then we're gonna go, We're gonna extrapol eight forward
and we're gonna jump to the bledsoe years. And then
I was like, okay, thanks Jerry, We're just gonna go. Now,
just whatever you want to say, we can't make. Okay,
let us know when the contract's done or not. Let
us know when you're either gonna sign them or not.
Let let us know. And at least the season is
(33:58):
starting soon, so this is not gonna be that big
a story. People won't care as much because now we'll
have real games to talk about.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
No, it'll just be hey, Dak in that game, you know,
Week one at Cleveland. There it is at Cleveland. He's
got to come up with a big effort otherwise it's
gonna be all the contracts weighing on him. Or if
he has a huge game, look at him spurred on
because he wants to make sixty five million dollars. It's
all gonna be about his contract. And we ride the
(34:25):
roller coaster each and every week.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
So there you go, Jerry Jones, word salad in full effect.
I loved it. Word salad. Coming up next, speaking of games,
we have the NFL opener tomorrow, the Chiefs and the Ravens.
Who's walking away with the win? Mike and I give
you our fearless predictions. Coming up next right here, Jason
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Speaker 1 (35:27):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. I do have to say, Alex Heisher, while
you were gone the last couple weeks on vacation, we
did get Tears for Fears, but I did not get
this song very much. Sorry, I realize this.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
It's okay. I haven't gotten this this much, so I
enjoyed the two week break from it.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
That's disappointing.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
It wasn't in the training notes. You forgot to. You
got to put the prescribed playlist.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
It's his here. Play all these songs and don't listen
to Jason when he says he hates them. Okay, we'll
do it. Okay, that's great, So we are set to go.
After these next few minutes. The next time you hear
our voices, the NFL will be here and we'll be
breaking down a game Chiefs and the Ravens Tomorrow night,
(36:14):
NBC Peacock, you get it. No matter what cable company
you provide, everything is fined for tomorrow. Don't worry. It's
all good. You're all good for tomorrow night. Who wins
this game? I will tell you right away. I love
the over in this game. I know forty six and
a half, the tendency for early season games to be ugly,
(36:36):
to be difficult, especially when first team offenses don't play.
I understand this is Mahomes and Lamar Jackson and the
Chiefs are gonna come out big. They're gonna throw the
football up and down the field. I love the over
in this I know I gotta get to a twenty
seven to twenty kind of game for it to happen,
but I feel good about it, and I will take
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the Chiefs in this one. They're gonna be explosive. They
don't want they know the memory of last year and
losing their first game to the Lions, which I told
you was gonna happen. But again, I could have retired
if the lines just made it the Super Bowl. But
they know they want to start out big. They will
start out being on a Baltimore team that's had a
lot of losses in the offseason, and Baltimore will get
(37:17):
it going. I'm not sold on Derrick Henry and I'm
really not sold on Derek Henry running the football on
this Chiefs defense. So I think the Chiefs are gonna
get out to a lead and then Lamar Jackson will
start grooving, but he'll be playing from behind most of
the game, and that's not going to do it. I'm
looking at Mahomes to have a big night. Jackson, have
a good night when it's all said and done. But
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I'll take the Chiefs thirty one twenty three. Mahomes spreads
the ball around. Maybe it's Worthy, maybe it's Kelsey, maybe
it's Juju Smith Schuster, maybe it's Tyreek kill back into trade,
maybe it's Carlos Carson, but he will spread that ball around.
Have a big night. Chiefs thirty one, Ravens twenty three,
get you.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm gonna go thirty four, twenty seven. I'm gonna take
thens Lamar Jackson thirteen and one against the number as
an underdog ten and four straight up. Zay Flowers Mark
Andrews will be available. He and Isaiah likely one of
the best tag team duos at the tight end position
you've got in the National Football League. And I don't
need Derek Henry to get through Week sixteen. No, I
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need you forget one. I need him for a week one.
Between him, you got a couple of other backups got
a young rookie named Ali in the in the backfield
as well, But looking for Lamar Jackson leaner, meaner for
that offense under Todd Monkin to be a little more explosive,
get a little play action going and push the ball
downfield defensively. Yeah, I think Patrick Mahomes will be able
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to make his plays. Curious to see how often they'd
go for the downs and try to get Xavier Worthy involved.
And certainly Isaah Pacheko acquitted himself quite nicely. No, Clyde
Edwards Hilaire, good thoughts to him, going through some stuff
and he'll miss a few weeks before he's back in
the mix for the Chiefs. Uh. And then Travis Kelcey,
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I mean, coming off of the summer of travel and exploration,
how much can they ride the goodwill of Ring Night
and the likely appearance of Taylor Swift A loss.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
That was very Victor Brick Jacobs, How you just did
that right there? That's as long as you like, word
for words you took from Victor Brick right there.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
I didn't like anything from Victor Brick. He may have
Speaker 1 (39:27):
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we get to our Super Bowl picks, you gon to
give them to you in a second. Just a couple
minutes on the come behind no hitter tonight from the
Chicago Cubs, and starter showed to Imnaga. He combined with
two relievers on a no hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
(01:09):
It was a game that was never in doubt. The
Cubs led this game twelve nothing. Imanaga comes out of
the game after seven hitless innings ninety five pitches, Craig
Council Cobs managers, saying he didn't even know he had it,
but we wanted to take him out and make sure
we're doing the right thing for him. It's not fun
to do, but when you're prioritizing the player's health, you
don't know what's gonna happen moving forward. We want him
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to stay healthy, hence removing him at ninety five pitches. Now, look,
I get it, I understand, I do. I mean, I understand. Hey,
it's a difficult decision to make. You want guys to
stay healthy. But this, this one hundred pitch limit has
always just been arbitrary. It's it's always some guys are
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still throwing gas and ninety eight at you know, at
ninety seven, ninety eight, ninety nine, hundred pitches. Some guys
are not right. Some guys get tired after seventy five
pitches and you think, well, you got another twenty five pitches.
It's just always been so arbitrary. Now, I get when
you get when you get up into the one fifteen,
one twenty, because if you're throwing that many pitches, it
means you have had a lot of innings that are stressful,
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and that means you know, innings of twenty pitches or more.
And Ema Naga did have a stressful second inning, but
he kind of cruise after that. And if if the
Cubs had stopped making errors, then maybe it would have
been a little bit easier on it. But they kept
making errors, right, third Basement made three errors tonight. But
if you have a no hitter after seven innings, you're
at ninety five pitches, You're not a fireball. You're not
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someone going out there throwing ninety nine because that's not
what Imanaga is. He's a guy that fools and deceives everybody.
You can send him back out there in eleven nothing
game for the beginning of the eighth inning, and if
it takes him too many pitches and suddenly he's up
over one hundred into one oh five, one ten and
there's one out or two, okay, then you can take
them out of the game. Right, But you win the
(03:01):
locker room so much more if you say, hey, I'm
gonna give you a chance at absolute immortality, right, I mean,
Blake Snell's gonna talk about all the no hitter because
they're all hardly any no hitters anymore are by one pitcher.
They're all by a group of people because all they
threw too many pitches. Here says who says me, okay, great,
im Minagua is not gonna blow out his arm by
(03:22):
going out there for the eighth thing. The guy's never
pitched the eighth inning before. I think again, I think
he's thirty one years old, he's throwing a lot of pitches.
I think he's safe to pitch in the eighth inning.
He's not a rookie. He's not just up and just
navigating the minor leagues where you're worried about his inning count.
Is he getting here's guy. You can send him back
out there for the eighth inning, and if he does
get in trouble, gives up it and take him right
out of the game. Right it's eleven nothing At that point,
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it doesn't matter. You get okay, great, we gotta lever
all warmed up, ready to come in to finish the game.
You could have done that, and and the number of
managers who don't do that, I go, you're not. You're
not protecting these pitchers against something that you know is
gonna happen, right, you're not. I mean, no, nobody is
in the game for one hundred and five pitches, where
(04:04):
all that's too many. If one hundred and five is
too many pitches for a guy, you know, the guy
shouldn't be starting. Yeah, when you get up into the
one twenty and one thirty and John Santana's no hitters,
the Mets ruined him for the rest of their careers.
And how we haven't had a no hitter ever, Let's
leave him in there on hundred and twenty hundred and thirty.
And there's reports that, hey, maybe he was never the
same after that. That I understand, But this arbitrary ninety
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five pit. You could have sent him out with at
least a chance to have a quick inning and then
maybe out for the ninth inning with a chance to
maybe get out of there up up close to one
ten and that's it. Without a stressful eighth or ninth.
You could have give him a chance in the eighth.
They need to go do it. And I'm always a
fan of doing that. And and and you understand that, Okay,
once we hit a certain a certain point where it
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seems stressful, you're coming out of the game. Harmon's not
answering because he's not a Cubs fan. That that's what
Cups fan. You're upset that the White Sox finally won
a game and the Cubs overshadow you at Chicago by
pitching a combined noe h.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well, the Cubs just need to flip on the lights
on a given night and it overshadows anything the White
Sox will do.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, the Cubs look out great. The lights are boy,
they look sharp under the light.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And you know what you know, the other day Pearl
Jam did a couple of concerts at Wrigley Field, So
you know, the whit whit so getting a lot of
run though nationally and locally. I gotta imagine if you're
doing local radio at some point, like can we talk
about something other than the White Sox when they just
stinking in Although if you're the score, you're just taking
(05:33):
a bunch of Shriffin audio and just playing it back
and having laughs with you your fan base, So I
mean that works out too well.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
This is also going to be a two day no
loose streak for the White Sox because they're off tomorrow.
You're putting together two days of no losses, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Very good for Grady size More and he had an
early exit yesterday, so I mean you add that, that's good.
And now they're on the road at Boston. They'll head
to defend Way Park. Tick on the Red Sox, but for.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
The it's off after getting swept by the Mets.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Good luck, buddy, eh, you know they got to win
the day. Thirty two on the year for the White Sox.
For the Cubs still in the wild card chase. As
we've chronicled over the course of the night, they had
those few weeks where things went awry, didn't matter because
everybody was either excited about Caleb Williams being on a
field or they were excited about the White Sox and
how much they're terrible and trying to run their best
(06:25):
three minutes like they're at the Chuckle Hut. So you
got that. But for im Andaga, it's been a ridiculous season. Right,
what is he six plus strikeouts per walk on the year?
You know, he's only thrown over one hundred pitches three times. Yeah,
so number of times where he'd gotten into the nineties.
And well, all right, you're out after six innings when
you are probably still perfectly capable of coming out for
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the seventh. But they didn't bother so they've been consistent
to that degree. You know, to your point, give him
the shot because the game's not it's not within a slam, right,
it's not hey, one or two mistakes. Oh no, we're
a game further back in the wildcard standings. I certainly
understand that logic to it. Bring him out for the eighth.
(07:09):
See if you get some first ball swinging guys, uh
to give you a couple of quick outs and then
roll from there and just be judicious with it and
have someone up and warm and ready to go. I
see both sides obviously as baseball fans like we are,
Cubs included. I like when there's a no hitter and
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it's just got a picture of one guy on the
trading card. I like a bunch of relievers that have
to come in combine no hitter. How many got five
in this case? Just three? We get to the specialization
and everything else, and you record your three outs and
move on. So, yeah, you get you get a bit
salty of that, but you'll live to see another day.
(07:53):
If they think whether it's true or misguided about health
and some magic number of one hundred right. They made
agreements with the baseball gods to never go past that mark,
and when you do, you feel the pain. And then
I guess right, it's like the Jason Cold and hexes
(08:14):
and whatever earlier. I don't know. I don't know what's
going on, but certainly for Imanaga, he's been everything they
hope for and then some I know here in Los Angeles,
every once in a while I hear the side decide
comparison of what the Cubs gave and his performance in
Chicago versus Yamamoto pre and post injury, so that that
(08:36):
kind of flows as they both entered the major league
strata this year. But you know, for the Cubs, they've
got a gem and they've got a guy who's embraced
Chicago and all the quirkiness of the food and traditions
and fan base and whatever else. So it looks like
they've got a winner going forward.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swelling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. I'm not
a do it. Mike and I are going to give
you our picks for the NFC Championship Game and who
is going to the Super Bowl From the NFC. Mike,
why don't you kick things off because I know you
got a doozy coming for us.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well you know it's the Philadelphia Eagles, rife with controversy
and chaos coming off of a miserable back end of
the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You're not selling me so far. You're not selling me.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Look, man, look I gotta build up. I can't give
you the I'm not going spoiler alert giving you the
ending to the movie. No, we're building. They're building sat
Gun Barkley, an offense that's ready to roll. Sirianni and
Hurts don't have to be best friends.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Neither is a J.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Brown. You know all of those guys. But you've got
a lot of talent on that squad. Goddard, I expected
to go in Brazil looking for them to make hay
and run away with the NFC East now their opponent
in the championship game. If not now, oh oh boy,
why not us? That's right, I've already got my bear
(10:04):
head on order. The Jerseys, Yeah, you dame it. The
monsters in the Midway return in this the year of
Steve McMichael and Devin Hester entering the Hall of Fame,
the Bears led by Caleb Williams, a reconstructed offense, Waldron
as your OC, depth at running back, a great wide
receiver corps, and a top ten defense. Let's go causing
(10:27):
chaos in the North and ready to battle the Eagles
for the NFC title.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, if I'm not right with mine, I want you
to be right with yours, because then we'll get a
retrospect on the Fog Bowl. Okay, nineteen eight, it'll be yeah,
here we receive Yeah, it'll be here. We go Bears
in the Eagles for the right to go to the
Super Bowl. Last time they met with these kind of
stakes on the line, we go back to the Fog Bowl.
We'll get an interviewed with Randall Cunningham and oh yeah,
Jackson all be fantastic. All the fuck.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well, we'll get him on the show too. I will stalk.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Them, Okay, very okay, I think you want to say
I will call them. I don't know if you want
to say stock Well.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Stark was just the I mean, will be aggressive on
the phone to try to help help our cause. All right,
very good, I am going he got a rematch in
the NFC Championship game, and I mean an NFC Championship
matchup we have seen twice before in history, team number
(11:25):
one team that everybody is sleeping on. And I'll tell
you what, I love them because they play in a
really down division and no one understands.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
How good they are. The Panthers. The Yes, the Panthers.
I believe it in. Dave Canalis, give me the bucks
in the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay, right, let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
The offense is loaded, and the two things to wonder
about this is, okay, is Baker Mayfield for real? Baker
Mayfield is one of those guys who when he fits
with what a team does, Boy, he really fits with
what they do. There was a time when he did
it in Cleveland, but little immature didn't really get a
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lot of what it meant to be a quarterback. Now
he's getting his third bite at the apple. He's a
little bit smarter about it, right. He was smart about
it last year. He's been smart in the offseason. Just
because you fail once when you're giving a big chance,
doesn't mean you're gonna fail again. He was terrific thirty
touchdowns last year. Again, they're loaded offensively, and Mayfield fits
with what they do. Running back. I'm more than happy
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with what they have. I'm not the biggest fan of
Sean White because I know fantasy owners love him because
he's a volume guy, but he's not great. Right guards
per carry is low, he's not dynamic. They drafted Bucky Irving,
they have Sean Tucker. Both these guys look good in
the preseason. They're both dynamic type players. So the running
game is in pretty good hands. But offensively, they're loaded
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and their defense is terrific. They have a great rush defense,
so you're not gonna run the ball against them. Give
me ten Tampa Bay to get to the NFC title game,
and waiting on the other side of the field the
Los Angeles Rams. Oh, look at you. I know I've
kind of let it out of the bag that I
want to pick the Rams with telling you the last
couple of weeks. But look, the Rams are also loaded offensively,
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and they got young so fast they're gonna be faster
than so many teams. They went for one of the
oldest teams in the NFL to one of the youngest.
I think they were the youngest for a while last year,
and they're still one of the three youngest teams in
the NFL. Yes, Matthew Stafford's in his mid to late thirties,
but you could see he still got plenty left in
the tank. Last year, last eight games, they're one of
the top teams in the NFL. They have everything they
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need Offensively, whoever you put it running back runs the
ball well, whether it was Cam Akers who's gone, Karen Williams,
who's a flavor of the moment, or Blake Korm, who
is the flavor of the next moment. If he gets hurt,
Blake Orm's coming in.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yeah, now they got him kicking doing kick returns. What
are we doing?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It'll be for a little while and then then he'll
be getting some reps at running back. But defensively, I
yet your questions, know, Aaron Donald, how are they gonna
do this? Yes, a bit of an overhaul defensively, but
it was needed. And you're telling me you don't trust
Sean McVeigh and what the front office does with the Rams.
When's the last time the Rams have made any sort
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of move player wise, personnel wise, big moves, impact moves
that have not worked. They've all worked, and anything that
doesn't look like it works, they move on from it
pretty fast. The Rams make the right decisions more than
any other franchise. So I have confidence that the defensive
issues they had last year trying to come in without
Aaron Donald, they're going to fix them. And the forty
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nine ers are making a big run this year. I
understand that they're gonna be the overwhelming favorites because they
have an incredibly talented roster. The Rams are going to
breathe down their next all season long, but their youth,
the defense will come together. Give me the Rams and
the Bucks in the NFC Championship game and it's the
Rams winning and getting back to the Super Bowl for
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the third time under Sean McVeigh. And get ready for
all the plaudits and the laudatory of Sean McVay. Is
this guy really the best coach in the NFL? Now,
bar not as you're gonna see that, because three super
Bowls with three different inventions of a team, that's really something.
So Bucks and the Rams and give me the Rams
to go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Look at you, I mean, he certainly has enough cheerleaders,
so you can just join the chorus line. I'll take
that thing you were trying to do earlier on the
on the Hockey's So you gotta listen to the whole show.
Folks to Rich Tapestry.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swollen Dome. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen's there. It
is our NFC picks for the NFC Championship Game and
the Super Bowl. How about a Fresca Mike at Swollen Dome?
Coming up next? Got more NFL on the way. The
two teams that are now the betting favorites for the
Super Bowl not Cleveland. Of course you love one, the
(15:56):
other I don't love as much. And boy, my family's
gonna be really pissed at me when we talk about
Why sure, that's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
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Speaker 3 (16:20):
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Speaker 1 (16:40):
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A gun blow hot dogs into the stands.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
We are now, let's say, twelve thirty fourteen, fifteen eighteen
hours away.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
One two, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, teen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Eighteen eighteen hours away from the beginning of the NFL season,
be breaking down the Chiefs and the Ravens tomorrow night.
And well, Mike and I just gave you our NFC
picks for the Super Bowl this season. The two teams
that Vegas likes the most we found we found out
today and they're really exposed on one of them. The
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two betting favorites are the Chiefs and the Lions. And
of course you like the Chiefs. How could you not? Right?
Of course, of course you have to make the Chiefs
the favorite. Everybody loves the chief Yes, they should be
the favorites. I mean, come on, they have to.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Be well to be the man you gotta beat the
man one so like preseason number one in college football,
but here they're actually putting money on it to make
them the betting favorite. And that's because last year, carried
by the defense, the offense clunky for much of the season.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And then finally come playoff time, old number fifteen delivers
time and time again.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
The other team they like and oh boy, I really
hope my wife's family is not listening.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
The other team they really like are the Lions, and
there is some exposure there. You know. We saw some
people talking about it today about hey, you know the
Lions and the Lion. The Lions had to move on them. Uh.
I am not in on the Lions like I was
in on the Lions. I know, I know. I know
my wife's fan, I know, and it's not about them.
(18:39):
And my wife's family's gonna hate me. They're gonna go,
I heard you didn't pick the Lions.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It's not you, it's me.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
No, no, no, They're gonna be upset because they're gonna say, like,
you didn't pick the Lions this year, Like suddenly I
have to pick them every year. Like once I pick
them once, now I gotta pick them every year. Right,
I'm like.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
John, I mean, they're still pissed you didn't take them
before that.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm like John paulmer Rossi with the Mariners. I'm gonna
pick them Mariners every year to go to the World
Eventually they're gonna be mad. But it's not that I
don't like the Lions because of the Lions, because everything
they've done, they've gotten better in the offseason. Right, You've
seen a team that that jumped to the forefront last
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year and their offense is still loaded. I expect a
huge step up from Jamison Williams this year. You have
two really good running backs. You made the necessary changes
defensively so you wouldn't wilt in the second half of
the NFC Championship game, and they love Dan Campbell. Everything
is great. It's it's nothing to do with the Lions.
Why am I not in on them? Last year when
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you got to the playoffs, they were really only two
teams to go to the Super Bowl. It was the
forty nine ers and the Lions because they were the
only teams that were really, really good, Right, Like I
picked the lines to go to the Super Bowl last year,
if you remember, and all I was was just one
bad second half away from making that happen. I could
have retired and lived on royalties the rest of my life. Yeah,
Jason Smith, he had a big He picked the lines
(20:02):
and go to the Super Bowl, and man.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
The dude was right. You to the party, Yeah, to
the parade. You would have had your own float. All
the other teams and who was that guy. Oh, that's
the guy that picked the Lions and go to the
Super Bowl. Look how great that is.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
All the other teams in the NFC that were quote
contenders weren't great or they weren't playing good football. It
was a down year in the NFC. Well, remember going
into the last year, was hey, look at all this
competition in the AFC. Everything is loaded. Now you got
Aaron Rodgers with the Jets and and X, Y and Z. Yeah,
all of a sudden, it was the AFC was the
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crowded path and the NFC was the path of least resistance. Yeah,
it was a down year in the NFC last year.
By the time he got to the playoffs, the Cowboys
were done, the Eagles were done. All right, that's it.
The Rams got as far as they could, but the
forty nine ers were still the best team overall, and
the Lions were the second best team. It's no surprise
that's where they got. Packers surprised the Cowboys, then they
went home. The Tampa Bay Bucks MA had surprised. They
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went home. So it was easy. It was easier last year.
This year, just getting out of their division is going
to be really tough, because both the Packers and the
Bears got better. And the Packers were really good to
begin with men and suddenly they solved their running back issues,
one of the top running backs in the game, and
Josh Jacobs and the Bears redid their entire team, and
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they got a stud quarterback and a stud receiver in
the draft, and they have no problems. Man, they have
what could be a top ten defense all of a sudden.
In their division is more difficult. But then you think
about the other teams and two that I mentioned a
couple seconds ago, the Rams and the Bucks who were
getting younger and better. Atlanta went out and got Kirk
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Cousins that they're gonna be a big threat. So you're
talking about five teams now in the NFC that are
all some sort of conference threat, whereas at this time
last year was yeah, maybe the Cowboys. Maybe the Cowboys
will be goet well the Eagles. Wait, no, okay, it
doesn't turn out to be any good. So there these
are now five teams that you can say, hey, I
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can see a great path forward for them, and they
can easily ruin a lot of team season, including the Lions.
So it's not that I don't like the Lions. It's
that I'm just I'm just more in on the conference
because the conference got better, which is gonna make it
much more difficult for the Lions to get back to
where they were a year ago.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Over undrawn wins for the Lions is ten and a half.
We know the decidedly that vastly different stats for Jared
Goff indoors versus outdoors, and they play fourteen indoor games.
You've got at Green Bay is week nine, so in theory,
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the skies haven't opened up one way or another, and
you actually get an okay temperature there, so no real advantage.
Week sixteen, you're at Chicago, better team and curiosity of
what the hell you're gonna get along the lakefront, and
then you've got San Francisco in there as well. At
San Francisco going up to Santa Clara. So you've got
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a very favorable schedule, But your point about the division
is certainly well taken and well put because you forgot
to even talk about your guy Sam Donald in the
Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You think I forgot that, really I do. I mean,
I can't just say everybody. I mean, I gotta draw
the line somewhere, man, I can't let everybody in.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Yeah, no, I think it just from the point of
they're good enough to just screw things up. Like it's
a pretty good roster. Assuming Hawkinson comes back healthy, You've
got Aaron Jones defected from Green Bay, he goes to Minnesota.
You've got Justin Jefferson, who, depending on who you talk to,
is either the first, second, or third best wide receiver
(23:41):
in the game. Addison, if you could stay out of trouble,
stay on the field, stay healthy, he'll be fine and
is a good number two. So for Sam Donald, it's
set up to have some modicum of success. I'm not
predicting them to go to the playoffs or anything crazy
like that, just saying they're good enough to maybe add
a wrinkle to what the Lions are doing. Still have
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the Lions in as a wild card squad. But I
think when you look at the NFC, yeah, there's more
optimism that the conference as a whole is better. I
don't know what the Cowboys will be. I think the
Eagles run away with that division and hide, but a
lot of people are high even if it's just for
the theatricality and performative on the Washington Commanders maybe sort of.
(24:26):
I don't know, but you know, you get them, and well,
the Giants will be terrible, but by default don't they
normally win at least two or three games. Maybe they
win one that screws things up. So all of this
to say, hopefully a little bit of enough people. If
you look at the over underwind totals in the NFC,
forty nine Ers are at eleven and a half, and
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then you've got the Eagles at ten and a half,
The Lions are at ten and a half. You've got
the Packers ten and a half or nine and a
half in some books, but you know the those are
the leaders in the clubhouse. So I think got a
lot of teams at nine or eight and a half.
So a little bit of a muddled mess, but making
for some better football and hopefully down the stretch. You
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know when they overloaded with division games, there's still some
meaning there.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up
in ninety seconds. Evidence that Jerry Jones really may be
playing chess with Dak Prescott while all of us are
playing checkers. But first let's find out what Brian Finley
has with what's trending b Yef, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
You could use that analogy to what Caitlin Clark is
doing the defenses in the WNBA, and you were talking
about both of you guys are talking about Clark and
her heroics tonight and what did you do a second
triple double on her rookie campaign. As the Fever win
over the Sparks ninety three to eighty nine, and Major
League Baseball, everything from Wednesday has gone final. The final
(25:54):
game on the slate to wrap up saw the Padres
win six to five over the Tigers. That was in
ten inning, so that restores first place by themselves for
San Diego in the NL Wildcard race. The Pods have
a half game lead over the Diamondbacks. Diamondbacks one six
to four against the Giants tonight, and in that third
an NL wild card position would be the Atlanta Braves
(26:15):
five to two. They are winners against the Rockies. The
Mets are half game back of Atlanta. And yeah, the
Mets continue to win eight to three against the Red Sox.
They have swept the Red Sox. As that series concludes.
Al side of things, you've got the Twins falling to
the race. That's nine to four a final there also,
notably the New York Yankees, they go into Texas and
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they lose to the Rangers ten to six. So and
also the Dodgers losing to the Angels ten to one.
If you look at what's going on when it comes
to the AL wild card picture right now, the Orioles
have that first positioning AL wild Card and the Dodger
or not the Dodgers, the Yankees have a half game
lead for first in the ALE East. As it pertains
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to what's going on right now now, Twins number two
in the AL l card picture, and the Royals are
number three. Royals, by the way, tonight a game that
was on FS one, they snapped a seven game losing streak,
so the Royals are back in the win column in
regards to what else is going on. Yeah, let's end
with this here at the US Open, the American women
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and men will have representation in the final four in
the semifinals of the final grand Slam of the tennis
calendar season. And on the women's side, Jessica Pegoula, the
sixth seed, the daughter of the owner of the Buffalo
Bills and the Buffalo Sabers, Jessica Pagoula onto the semifinals
with a straight set win over the number one ranked
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women's player in the world, IGAs Fiatek in a straight
ceter so she is into the semifinals and Pagula for
the first time in her career. As any Grand Slam event,
she goes to the final four for the inaugural time.
And then lastly, guys number one overall on the men's
and Janick sinner the Italians in four sets in his
quarterfinal about against the five seed the Russian and de
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Neil Medvedev, so Janick center for the first time in
his storied but young career, the young twenty something is
into the semifinal of the US Open for the first
time in his young career. As mentioned with that, let's
get it back to two guys who are about to
bring it. I'm looking forward to hearing this. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Thank you very much, Brian Fenley. So every day there
seems to be a new update, which means there is
no update about the negotiations between the Cowboys and Dak
Prescott for whatever new contract he may or may not
get from the team. Every day Jerry Jones is asked
about it. Every day he gives us word salad and
it's like, come on, man. But after tonight, I think
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he's doing it on purpose. This is him. He's on
Stephen A. Smith Show, and he's asked about the contract
that Dak could be making and where they're at as
far as negotiating it. And this is what Jerry Jones
said to where the Cowboys were with regards to this situation.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
So we have the challenge of not only recouping what
we have spent on him over the last four years,
we've got to add that to what we're going to
be paying him for the future. Now that's not Dak's
problem only in that it's the Dallas Cowboys problem.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Okay, Okay, I know a good line.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Okay, No, it was a good line, but I don't
know what any of that means. Well, okay, we have
the challenge of recouping what we spent on over the
last four years. They want Doak to give him money back. No, noy,
we didn't make it to We didn't make it as
far as we needed to. Dak, you really screwed us
in those two playoff games, So we want you to
give us the money back. As soon as you make
out that check for seventy five eighty million, we can
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talk about a sixty million dollar contract. We can do that.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
And it just comes back to however, they're counting their
their funds off Dak, whether it's you know, Jerry Bucks
with his face on it or whatever the dollars are.
You know, they're trying to figure out in their metrics
what a break even point is off his performance and
the money that he brings in to the business and saying, hey,
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we need to be financially prudent going forward. And it's
not Dak's fault. It's something that we have to figure
out because we're the cowboys, and Dak is a cowboy.
It's not his fault, but he's here, so it affects.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Him, I don't understand what he said. I don't understand
what you said. You gave me a word. Salad, trying
to explain Jerry Jones's plausible, explained, we have to we
have recouped the money we spent on the last four
years and adding that to what we're gonna be paying
him for the future. What does that mean dollars a year?
(30:54):
But now we're gonna add Now we're gonna pay him
sixty million. Yeah, so we're adding the forty that we
paid onto the sixties, so it's on million or they
always pay you forty. So now we're just gonna give
you twenty and that's sixty million dollars a year. But
it's only the last four years. Like what is he?
What is it?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
What is how do we get an ROI? What's a
proper return are our investment going forward? If we're to
extend Dak Prescott? Are we going to be able to
with money in arrears? Maybe maybe they decided whatever the
metrics are that they're down in the Dak Prescott game.
So say it's a negative ten million for rounding, and
(31:28):
then it's gonna cost them another, say two forty to
make it work. Can you get an eat a quarter
billion dollars out of your continued association with Dak Prescott? Okay,
let me trying to say.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Let me ask you, No, he's not because what is
what is what he's done have anything to do with anything?
What is what he has done have anything to do
with signing him to a new contract. If you don't
give him sixty million, someone else is gonna give him
sixty million and he's done nothing for them. If you
don't sign Dak Prescott, you're gonna give somebody fifty million
dollars a year to play quarterback, doesn't matter what they've
done in the past. You're not gonna say and go, well,
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Kirk Cousins, was he he was good? And then did
traded him? And you know did you lost the job
to the Penix kid? And so trying to figure out
what his value was there with the Falcons for that
half a season and what he had in Minnesota before
he got hurt. And this is where we come at
this number that we're gonna offer to Kirk Cousins. What
what happened in the past is a relevant You paid
him this money, it's gone.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
It's I understand you and I both understand the concept
of shunk costs. But that's that's why Jersey Jones is
through disrepeatedly.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
He's giving us a word salt because it doesn't matter
what he's paid him before. Dak Prescott's not going to say, oh, yeah, well,
here's where what you paid me before and where I
think I was worth. Here's where I think. No, it's
gonna be someone's gonna give me sixty or sixty five
million dollars a year. Are you gonna give it to
me or not? Okay, I'm going somewhere else that is
no bearing on what it is. I feel like Jerry
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Jones is just saying things like this now it's like, well,
I could say it and still keeps us in the
news and Dak's contract extension. We keep talking about the
Dallas Cowboys, but I'm not really giving you any information
about at all. I'm just gonna say stuff that takes
time to figure out. Before people realize it makes no sense,
they get headaches and then they move on to something else.
But at least they spend time talking about the Cowboys.
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That's what this is.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
See. I kind of enjoy this though. I think it's
a great word salad. And I understand it, you know,
from the concept of you know, it's as psychological as
much as it is financial. Right of all, Right, has
it pained me enough that I want to do another
four years of it?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
What we gotta do is gotta look at what I
paid for the franchise back when I bought at eighty nine,
and then we're gonna go, We're gonna extrapol eight forward
and we're gonna jump to the bledsoe years. And then
I was like, okay, thanks Jerry, We're just gonna go. Now,
just whatever you want to say, we can't make. Okay,
let us know when the contract's done or not. Let
us know when you're either gonna sign them or not.
Let let us know. And at least the season is
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starting soon, so this is not gonna be that big
a story. People won't care as much because now we'll
have real games to talk about.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
No, it'll just be hey, Dak in that game, you know,
Week one at Cleveland. There it is at Cleveland. He's
got to come up with a big effort otherwise it's
gonna be all the contracts weighing on him. Or if
he has a huge game, look at him spurred on
because he wants to make sixty five million dollars. It's
all gonna be about his contract. And we ride the
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roller coaster each and every week.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
So there you go, Jerry Jones, word salad in full effect.
I loved it. Word salad. Coming up next, speaking of games,
we have the NFL opener tomorrow, the Chiefs and the Ravens.
Who's walking away with the win? Mike and I give
you our fearless predictions. Coming up next right here, Jason
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Speaker 2 (35:17):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (35:27):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. I do have to say, Alex Heisher, while
you were gone the last couple weeks on vacation, we
did get Tears for Fears, but I did not get
this song very much. Sorry, I realize this.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
It's okay. I haven't gotten this this much, so I
enjoyed the two week break from it.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
That's disappointing.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
It wasn't in the training notes. You forgot to. You
got to put the prescribed playlist.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
It's his here. Play all these songs and don't listen
to Jason when he says he hates them. Okay, we'll
do it. Okay, that's great, So we are set to go.
After these next few minutes. The next time you hear
our voices, the NFL will be here and we'll be
breaking down a game Chiefs and the Ravens Tomorrow night,
(36:14):
NBC Peacock, you get it. No matter what cable company
you provide, everything is fined for tomorrow. Don't worry. It's
all good. You're all good for tomorrow night. Who wins
this game? I will tell you right away. I love
the over in this game. I know forty six and
a half, the tendency for early season games to be ugly,
(36:36):
to be difficult, especially when first team offenses don't play.
I understand this is Mahomes and Lamar Jackson and the
Chiefs are gonna come out big. They're gonna throw the
football up and down the field. I love the over
in this I know I gotta get to a twenty
seven to twenty kind of game for it to happen,
but I feel good about it, and I will take
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the Chiefs in this one. They're gonna be explosive. They
don't want they know the memory of last year and
losing their first game to the Lions, which I told
you was gonna happen. But again, I could have retired
if the lines just made it the Super Bowl. But
they know they want to start out big. They will
start out being on a Baltimore team that's had a
lot of losses in the offseason, and Baltimore will get
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it going. I'm not sold on Derrick Henry and I'm
really not sold on Derek Henry running the football on
this Chiefs defense. So I think the Chiefs are gonna
get out to a lead and then Lamar Jackson will
start grooving, but he'll be playing from behind most of
the game, and that's not going to do it. I'm
looking at Mahomes to have a big night. Jackson, have
a good night when it's all said and done. But
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I'll take the Chiefs thirty one twenty three. Mahomes spreads
the ball around. Maybe it's Worthy, maybe it's Kelsey, maybe
it's Juju Smith Schuster, maybe it's Tyreek kill back into trade,
maybe it's Carlos Carson, but he will spread that ball around.
Have a big night. Chiefs thirty one, Ravens twenty three,
get you.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm gonna go thirty four, twenty seven. I'm gonna take
thens Lamar Jackson thirteen and one against the number as
an underdog ten and four straight up. Zay Flowers Mark
Andrews will be available. He and Isaiah likely one of
the best tag team duos at the tight end position
you've got in the National Football League. And I don't
need Derek Henry to get through Week sixteen. No, I
(38:18):
need you forget one. I need him for a week one.
Between him, you got a couple of other backups got
a young rookie named Ali in the in the backfield
as well, But looking for Lamar Jackson leaner, meaner for
that offense under Todd Monkin to be a little more explosive,
get a little play action going and push the ball
downfield defensively. Yeah, I think Patrick Mahomes will be able
(38:42):
to make his plays. Curious to see how often they'd
go for the downs and try to get Xavier Worthy involved.
And certainly Isaah Pacheko acquitted himself quite nicely. No, Clyde
Edwards Hilaire, good thoughts to him, going through some stuff
and he'll miss a few weeks before he's back in
the mix for the Chiefs. Uh. And then Travis Kelcey,
(39:04):
I mean, coming off of the summer of travel and exploration,
how much can they ride the goodwill of Ring Night
and the likely appearance of Taylor Swift A loss.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
That was very Victor Brick Jacobs, How you just did
that right there? That's as long as you like, word
for words you took from Victor Brick right there.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
I didn't like anything from Victor Brick. He may have
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Inspired what makes my buddy Ben Mallar this is fox
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