November 1, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if Garrett Wilson's catch was the best catch since the Odell Beckham catch. Vegas Insider Todd Fuhrman joins the show to talk all things wagering ahead of a huge Week 9 NFL and College Football weekend. And Bob Costas is retiring from MLB play-by-play broadcasting duties!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight The Jason Smith Show
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it was a scary game Halloween, first half of the
Jets and the Texans. Nothing for anyone to say, hey,
I watched that game. However, there's really a lot of
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complaining about it, though, It's like, you know what, you
got a million things you can do. You know sometimes yeah,
you know, hey, don't have to watch b Sometimes when
you drink cayenne pepper and water, maybe it takes a
half to get go.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Maybe, because maybe Aaron Rodgers is just a second half
kyenne pepper and water guy. Maybe not hasn't gotten to
the proper dosagy. Maybe maybe he's drinking that whatever the
concoction was that they kept giving to the girl in
the hereditary. Just keep drinking it. Just keep drinking it.
Just keep drinking it, keep drinking it. Again. Third act
doesn't work for me. But the Jets beat the Texans tonight.
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And look what I told you last night. Why I
like the Jets tonight? And they showed you that maybe
they are too big to fail. They needed a come
together kind of win, and they got one. They didn't
need to just win the game. They need to find
a way where they could all come together and and
how a point where hey, we're not just a bunch
of individuals in the locker room. Now we have something
in common. We have a rallying point. And they certainly
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got one in the second half tonight that was supposed
to be the thing when Robert Salik got fired. There
was so many and supposed to be when they brought
in DeVonta YadA, and when they signed us on red yes,
when they put Greg Zerlin and I are yeah, when
Reddick actually came back into the rule. But they needed
a moment and they said, who are you You look
that that guy's locker has been empty all year. And
they especially needed a moment after one of the most
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embarrassing plays in franchise history in the first half. The
Jets were out playing the Texans in the first quarter
of this game, and it looked like they were going
to take the lead because Malachai Corley gets the ball
on a reverse. He's a guy they drafted this year,
third round pick. And you know, listening to Mike Mayock
talk about this because he's doing the game with Iron Eagle,
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and he says, hey, Malachai Corley on the reverse. He
goes into the end zone untouched, and and Mike Mayot
goes on a whole tangent about how, hey, the Jets
love Malachai. He didn't want to give him playing time
until he really understood and practiced with the consistency needed
in the National Football League, and now now he got
to that level, now they're put him in the games.
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Except Malachi Corley dropped the football before he got in
the end zone. It didn't get knocked out of his hands. No, no, no,
Henson dropped the ball. Did he did the whole Oh
I'm cool. I'm going to cross the goal line and
drop the football right away. Except Corley dropped the football
before he crossed the goal line.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Malacat Corley, as he got into the end zone, dropped
the football. And they are going to make sure that
he didn't drop the ball before he broke the plane.
Malakay Corley, It turns out mix a rookie mistake. He
dropped the ball before he broke the plane at the
end zone celebrating his touchdown. The ball was loose and
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went through the back of the end zone, and because
the ball was live, it becomes a touchback. It's a turnover,
and now Houston has the ball at their own twenty
yard line, so this game stays scoreless.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Suit jetsho Jets Radio Network on the call. So rookie
mistake is the euphemism for colossal stupidity on the playing game.
You know what, It's not a rookie mistake because we
have seen that play before many times in college football.
We've seen it in the NFL where it's a play
where they run and I want to look cool and
I want to drop the football as soon as I
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cross the goal line. Except here, Hey, Malachi Corley drops
it inside the one yard line. It goes out of
bounds instead of a touchdown, the Texans got the football.
It's so maddening because we have seen it so many times.
We've seen teams fall victim to this all. We've seen
teams snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because they
have done this. You know not to do that. And
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the fact he still does it. Jet's gonna Jet And
I'm watching this going.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So many times I say things like, oh, you think
that play is a bad play in Jets history. That's
not even in the top one hundred when that play happened.
What did I tell you? Oh, that's one of the
top ten worst plays. That is a typical, that's play.
That play stands for the franchise for the past decade. Hey,
here they are, We're going to the end zone for
a touchdown, but nope, untouched I'm gonna drop the ball
going in because i want to look cool. And instead
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of a touchdown, it's a touchback. Yeah, it sounds sums
it up nice. So it was a nice six play,
sixty eight yard drive. I mean, that was fantastic, A
great play design, blade in great execution except for sticking
the landing as it were. A guy fighting to get
on the field, a guy that you were hoping would
be a contributor second half of the season. Again, another
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speed guy for Aaron Rodgers. And there was his entry, uh,
guaranteeing he won't touch the ball again. Like that's something
like like that that gets you cut. And they invested
a third round pick in him, and he's got some talent,
but boy, that's something that the second player this week
is Tyreek Stevens in the same way, uh se contract
blowing that play, you get cut into fact and he's
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probably not gonna start now. Yeah. The thing is Stevenson's
pretty good. Like it's not like he's pretty good, he's
not getting he got paid a pretty good contract. And again,
Corley's a rookie with talent, but but those are plays
that get you cut. And it was so embarrassing and
I'm saying myself, this is the play that's gonna stand
for the Jets season. It's I can't believe where we
can't just hit rock bottom and stop. No, No, we
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gotta get to rock bottom and go. We can get
under the ground here, we can get under the ground,
and we gotta keep going. Bring that drill. Bring one
of those Arma getting drills in, so we're gonna drill
into that meteor and blow it out. We got dom.
I got to drill as low as I can. Let's
keep going. And I'm just saying, it's like slots in
my head going, We're gonna talk about this play standing
for the Jets season and the Jets franchise, and it's
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so unbelievably embarrassing. I thought that was the way we're
going to go. Tonight certainly started down that path. Rogers
finished the half seven of fourteen for thirty two yards,
which mind boggling that you get to that point and
you go back and you watch some of the throws.
A couple of drops right bresee Hall right off the
jump drops a pass you had to drop from Adams,
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what was a pretty good pass from Rogers. He actually
dropped it twice because it slipped through his hands. It
seemed like he resecured it and before he hit the
ground the ball slipped out again. So you had a
couple of plays that betrayed him, a couple of run
plays that he thought they saw daylight, and you could
see he was mad at Breeze Hall for making the
wrong cut, like those kind of things. So it was
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a lot of eye rolling and eyes to the sky
from Aaron Rodgers in that first half. It was bad
body language, it was bad everything. And then the Jets
season and maybe their franchise turned around on one play
in the second half where look the Jets defense. I
gotta say they could have quit so many times in
this game. The Jets made so many mistakes. They made
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mistakes with penalties, they made mistakes on the field, but
the Jets defense still kept pinning their ears back and
getting after and sacking CJ. Stroud eight times that they
kept giving the football back to the offense. And then
Aaron Rodgers does this, or should I say Garrett Wilson
does this, takes.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
The snap, four man rush blobs one left in at
the end zone for Garrett Wilson, what hit it?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Touch? Incredible?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Did he get two feet down. Four. Well, you may
have heard the ruling.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Just as we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What you are.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Certainly hearing in the background his MetLife Stadium coming apart
at the seams and celebrating an incredible touchdown catch by
Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Very Odell Beckham esque in that he dislodges from the
defensive back and look, well and Rogers just throws this up,
thinking I'm throwing this up to my best wide receiver
and he's going to make a play. And he disengaged
himself from the defensive back near the back of the
end zone, leaps up, catches the ball with one hand
with his right hand, brings it in and is able
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to get his shin down before he falls out of bounds,
in complete control of the football. It was initially rule
an incomplete pass. They went back and looked at it,
and sure enough, he got his shin in bounds and
he was able to get his other foot down almost simultaneous.
Says he got his arm down, but it doesn't matter.
The shin is what counts, and he comes down and bounds.
It's a touchdown. The Jets get another touchdown from Devonte Adams.
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It was actually Wilson's second touchdown at the night. He
had a great catch on the first one that was
a one hand to play. But this catch was just
crazy good. And I'm telling you it's the best catch
that I've ever seen anybody in the Jets ever make.
I'm telling you from forty five to fifty years of
being a fan. Well, he gets the call because the
rule is foot or body part. Yes, he gets the
body part because he had the same thing ye that
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we saw with George Pickens, except he hopped on the
same foot twice hot here it was the same leg
body part from one foot to shin and so on Halloween,
body parts count more on him. Oh but yeah, just
a little bit best catch I've ever seen anybody in
the Jets ever make, and I don't think I've seen
a better catch since Odell Beckham. Beckham's catch, the degree
of difficulty on it was a little bit more. Beckham
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actually catches the ball with his with his right hand
behind him and like when you can't even see the
ball anymore as he's falling down like that. Look, the
Beckham catch is still the greatest catch that I've ever seen,
and even showed it as soon as he made the catches. Oh,
it's like Odell Beckham. He caught it with one hand.
But this is the best catch I've seen since that moment.
And once that happened, everything changed for the Jets. They
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played with confidence, the defense still played well. Rogers able
to find DeVante Adams for a touchdown and a great
play where Adams runs a great pattern, separates himself from
the dB and gets into the end zone. All of
a sudden, Aaron Rodgers has a great night with three touchdowns.
Kyenne Pepper and water is working great. And I'm telling
you there are certain wins that are galvanizing wins, that
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are springboard wins. And I know I'm buying back in,
but I've been buying back into the Jets from the
whole my whole life. Just what I know, I gotta
walk away. Nope, I'm buying back in because that was
that kind of win that a the team is now
all together. Rogers is that they when you get your
big players doing big things, this is where the team understands.
This is how good we can be. Our defense is
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really good. Rogers is our leader. He gets the football
where he needs to. We have two great guys making
plays at wide receiver. Now the Jets have come they
needed that come together win and they got it. No,
it's good, but you're forgetting one very important sequence in
terms of the Houston Texans and what they did or
what your deal with the devil hath brought you, and
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that the ensuing possession after the crazy ass catch from Wilson,
Texas goes straight down the field right, and they decide
they're gonna try to They're gonna kick a field goal.
And then you have a penalty now for beating up
on the long snapper. So they take the ball first
down and eventually have to settle for a twenty seven
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yard field goal. Only a normally reliable kicker hooks it
and misses it, as if you know there was some
supernatural force, some gust of wind well that suddenly pushes
This is what tells you how the Jets franchise has
turned earned. The Jets made a totally Jets play when
they rough the snapper on a field goals like you're
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gonna give up the lead right back, giving the Texans
a first down. No no, but they hold them on
three downs again. Again, the defense was great all night.
And then Fairburan comes out and misses a field. They
take the points off the board the Jets, and it
worked out in their favor. This hit every course three
and six, your season's over, but it was tonight. It
changed tonight. But tonight he has a sequence as he
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goes into All Saints stay tomorrow. It's because he's feeling
good about life. Kyler Murray's gonna throw for four hundred
and run for one hundred and fifty in ten days.
But tonight, I mean, honestly, I feel like this was
a special win for the Jets. It wasn't just a
hey we won a seventeen ten game or a twenty
three to twenty game. No, they needed that, Hey, we're
all in the same. We're not just a bunch of
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guys in the locker room that are talented, right we are.
We are a team and and and the come together
moments happened differently, right For sometimes it's when Grimace comes
and throws out the first pitch. For other teams it's
something different. Or it's when Grimace and then hawked to
a show. Yeah, I was gonna say, you can't forget her.
There's all different things, and the Jets just didn't have that,
and it looked awful in the first half, and it
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looked like a continuation of the year. But then that
Garrett Wilson catch everything changed for the Jets after that.
I have one last question for you. Did you buy
the Garrett Wilson shirt yet? Maybe I'm on eBay right
now just saying maybe they're starting to make their ways
around snapshot photo t shirts. I told you about a
couple of weeks ago. There you go, Exit up, out
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Two unbelievable plays that you gotta just see to believe.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
We'll have more.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
NFL on the way. You got a big retirement to
talk about as well. But straight ahead, we had to
Vegas who take a look back at tonight and look
ahead at the big action this weekend. What do we
see from some of the big goings on in college
football in the NFL. Keep it right here, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (14:07):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live Fromthetirack dot Com studios. We watched
the Jets beat the Texans tonight twenty one thirteen thirty
two yards passing for Aaron Rodgers in the first half,
three touchdowns in the second. Look out, here come the Jet.
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Don't do it. Don't do it to yourself.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I know I'm just but I take your hand away
from the fire. I can't help myself. I'm back in.
I'm back in. It was that kind of window. I
think we've got someone that can try to talk you
off the ledge. Luckily that person is on the line
with us right now. Our insider in Las Vegas, former
odds maker at Caesar's. Check him out of the Bet
the Board podcast. You can see him on CBS as well.
(14:52):
He's on Twitter at Todd Furman. It is Todd Furman, Tom.
What's happening, Bud.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
I'm living to dream my friends trying to pull up
the Super Bowl od and see if the Jets have
gone from five hundred to one to a much more
manageable number. Zeroe Smith, there's still one hundred and one
to win the Lombardi Trophy despite that heroic comeback today
against the Houston Texans team that looked like they were
the thirtieth most talented team in the NFL by the
time that came ended.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So, wait, from five hundred to one to one hundred
and one, and that's pretty good. I like that.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Here spoiler, they were never five hundred to one. They
were about one hundred and twenty five to one. Number
gets shaved down a touch. But hey, don't stand in
the way of the eternal Jets optimism because that second half,
if it's a harbinger of things to come, this will
be the most dynamic offense that we've seen all season long.
And I couldn't even say that with a straight face.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well, I exe coming off tonight, obviously you're looking ahead
of teams playoff wise, and yeah, the Jets found a
way to get themselves back in it and maybe save
their season, and they do have a couple of great playmakers.
But wow, you know, we talked about the other side
of this, and you know, Houston was such a big
Darling favorite going into the year. They were the big
trendy pick, and you know, what do you make of
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them now? Here's a game they didn't have any good
wide receivers outside of Tank Dell, and now they fall
to six and three to a team that had lost
five in a row.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
You know, this is a team in the Houston Texans
that I think was a little bit overhyped and overvalued
coming into the year. Their ats results have definitely shown up.
They've gotten by, you know, by the swimst of Margins
not going out there and taking care of inferior foes.
Now they've worked with the deck kind of stacked against them.
You mentioned some of the weaponry that they're down. We
know Stefon Diggs, Torney cl He's not coming back, but
Nico Collins, barring a setback, should be back in the fold,
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and not a moment too soon, knowing that they're going
to need all of their playmakers at full speed to
take on the Lions next Sunday night. The offensive line, though,
for the Texans, has been the real problem.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I mean, this was a group.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
We knew how much money they spent on the likes
of Shaq Mason, Titus Howard, Laramie Tunsel and was expected
to be the fortress to keep the face of the franchise.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
The CJ.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Stroud upright. You saw tonight it was on full display
with some of the injuries they had, I mean the
Jets more or less tree of the Houston Texans offensive
line like a turnstile went out there. It paid dividends.
But I don't think this is the addition of the
Texans we're going to see going or are they elite? No,
not right now, but I do think they'll look significantly
better and we see them on primetime again next weekend.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The line Todd, let me hit through your on button
with you last night? World Series ends game five? How
did Vegas make out with the Dodgers ultimately toisting the ground.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
I think the consensus amongst odds makers they would have
loved the series to go a little bit longer. I
mean ending in five games. You don't get the incremental
betting handle that you would have picked up on a
baseball game on Friday night that would have drawn all
the eyes of the sporting world on it, given the
stakes that were there from a betting standpoint game to game,
not a ton of liability. You get a good amount
of two way action. Given how prominent the two franchises were,
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and when we saw the series price, with the Dodgers
a modest favorite, the Yankees attracted a little bit of attention,
to say the least. And I don't think it'll surprise
anybody who's out there listening. When you look at odds
to win the twenty twenty five World Series, the Dodgers
are indeed installed in the favorite price tag right around
the lowest four to one upwards of five to one,
followed by the Yankees in that seven and a half
eight range, and then the Atlanta Braves. So I think
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most of us anticipate being significantly more fortunate with health.
That kind of derailed their season before they can get
out of the starting gates in the postseason.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You're already made a trade today, like the World Series
has over had good trade We're gonna make a trade.
You're ready for next season. They're gonna jump on twenty
five by trade war. It's a lair to the Angels.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I mean, this is how fast things have to move.
And then it's a question of how many zeros the
potential contract offer that your beloved Steve Cohen will make
to lurewan Soto across the great City of New York.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
All right, Now, you mentioned the Bet the Board podcast,
you take a look at some of the biggest games
of the week, one of them the Lions and Packers. Obviously,
we're still waiting to find out about the health of
Jordan Love, although he said all week long, yeh, I'm fine,
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. How do you look
at this game knowing that you're still trying to figure
out whether or not one of the best quarterbacks in
the game is going to play.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
You know, my approach a little bit more counterintuitive than
I think the way most folks will look at it.
They assume if Jordan Love gets upgraded, that it makes
the Packers a potentially better bet or more of a
live home underdog, Whereas for me, I feel much more
comfortable taking a slightly more aggressive number in that three
and a half four range if I got Malik Willis
at one hundred percent, knowing that he can run the offense,
at least in smaller sample sizes effectively and efficiently against
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the Detroit run defense that hasn't been as stout as
what we've seen in the past, potentially slick surface and
play at Lambeau. I just don't want Jordan Love at
a sixty five percent capacity, not being able to protect
himself if I'm going to try and go to the
window with a home underdog. But an interesting schedule wrinkle
in play here as well. This will be the first
time all year that Detroit Lions will actually play a
game outside on natural grass. You do wonder in the
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elements how Jared Goff and an offense that is clicking
on an unsustainable pace we'll be able to hold up.
But the historical numbers don't lie in terms of the
Lions scoring more touchdowns over the last five weeks than
they've thrown incomplete passes and doing something that we haven't
seen since before nineteen forty last week, hanging in north
of fifty points on the scoreboard despite not aclipsing two
hundred and thirty yards of total offense.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Now something I didn't think I'd be saying in Week nine.
But here we have an intriguing AFC matchup as the
Broncos go to Baltimore to face the Ravens. How much
is Lamar Jackson worth to the poids spread a.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Substantial amount, and much more than the betting markets suggests
right now. With Lamar missing practice on Wednesday and Thursday,
if we see Lamar hand off the baton to Josh Johnson.
You're talking about this Baltimore Ravens number that did get
us high as nine and a half, probably dipping down
right around three. And for me, if I was still
behind the counter, I'd actually make the number two and
a half and see if I could get some folks
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itching to lay that number with the Ravens. This Denver team,
to your point, has been a surprise, but you begin
to dig in the resume that the Denver Broncos have
been able to compile so far this season, and it
leaves an awful lot to be desired. It's far from
a murderer's row by any stretch of the imagination. When
you go through some of the recent opponents they face,
the Carolina Panthers, the Saints, the Chargers, who twenty three
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to sixteen doesn't really do the final score justice, the
Vegas Raiders, the New York Jets, and the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers at the time probably their season defining wins. So
I think the Broncos a little bit overvalued, and if
they're able to pull off an outright upset on the road,
either of the next two weeks against the Ravens or Chiefs,
then we have to take them a little bit more
seriously in the AFC than I do now given what
I've seen from bon Nickson his rookie season.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
God. So there's the Bet the Board podcast where the
NFL your college football Bet the Board podcast is up.
You break down Florida, Georgia, pidt SMU, Oregon, Michigan, Ole,
miss Arkansas, Ohio State, Penn State the game of the week,
this huge Big ten showdown. I know there's a lot
of people wondering is Penn State readly this good Todd?
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How do you see this one?
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I think that's a great question that we're all wondering
leading up to Big newon kickoff. And the other question
as far as the Nitney Lions, who will be the
man under center?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
We know James.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Franklin loves to play his cards as tight to the
best as he can, so I'm sure we won't know
until about twelve oh two when the Penn State offense
goes out there potentially for its first snap in the game.
What I find interesting in this matchup Smith when you
see Ohio State as a field goal favorite and Penn
State's taking money from three and a half down to three.
This is a similar price that Ohio State was laying
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on the road at night at Austin Stadium against a
Ducks team, but right now on a neutral field, I
make a full field goal favorite over Penn State if
that game was to take place this weekend. Both these
teams question marks on the offensive line they're going to
have to answer, and we'll see if the Buckey's being
a little bit more battle tested can raise to the
occasion because you go through Penn State and the strength
to schedule for them against the posing passing offenses with
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a pulse, we'll call USC and Bowling Green the only
two sample sizes. The New Lion's defense struggled a bit,
so for me, as it gets towards three and pretty
much painted across the board, I may get a little
bit greedy and see what this number trends to two
and a half before I want to nibble and make
a value bet on the Buckeye.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Get the links to the Bet the Board podcast. Todd
is on Twitter at Todd Furman, that is at Todd Furman.
And speaking of Todd's Twitter account, my favorite tweet Todd
had tonight quote. If I have to hear about this
Jets team somehow being back half of the win tonight,
I'm gonna lose my mind. Todd, the Jets are back well.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
You know know what, Sometimes you have to subtweet the
people that you're going to interact four hours later and
target officially landed here ar. I'm sorry we didn't have
time for a deep dive of Northwestern Perdue. I know
that's what all eyes on the Big ten will be
focused on. Forget that Ohio State Penn State game. The
battle of mediocrity there between two teams just fighting and
get the five wins.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Well, and then you add the battle for Eberflus, you know,
I mean, there's so much going on in my world.
We'll do that therapy session another time.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Always a pleasure, boys, You guys, enjoy your weekend, and
look you get to relax in peace.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Smith.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
The Jets already have a win in the bank this weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
All good, Thanks a bunch toime, Happy Halloween. Thank them
hard buddy. All right, great stuff there from Todd Freman
again on Twitter at Todd Furman. Yeah, but you got
the win, so I got the shot. Well, okay, all right,
the Northwestern. Yeah, slack, I'm sorry. I'm sorry they won tonight.
I'm sorry they won. Not my fault they won tonight. Well,
but it was it was really more just the examination
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into your psyche of the Jets are back, the great
catapult win, Jets are back, the Jets to bank time,
not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from a man who actually got a head
of tattoo tonight that says the Jets are back. It
is Steve de Sager with what's trending? Wow, just kill
me now it's a head attatchoo. I mean it goes away.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Still, so you would choose Jets tattoo or death? You
would choose death. Ay's decision.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Well, we've had a good life. I don't know I
can change, Yeah exactly what if.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I killed you?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Before the Dodgers parade tomorrow, which I'm not going to
because as we discussed last hour, nobody's gonna be able
to be able to walk through downtown LA. You can
still go to one of the two events. You just
can't go to both of them, I think, And you
can wear a disguise.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Anybody's gonna attempt one and be late for either one
they pick. I think that's how it's going because you know,
the parade's only going to be an hour or less downtown.
It's not like they're going all the way to Orange
County or something. It's just a slow parade for they
think forty five to fifty minutes. We'll see.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
But yeah, the crowd should be big.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
You know about your Jets with this comeback win tonight
here they were down seven to nothing at the half
against Houston but beat them twenty one to thirteen. They
had three whole drives in the second half, but got
touchdowns on all three and wound up winning to end
the five game losing streak. In fact, Aaron Rodgers the
only NFL quarterback in the last thirty years to have
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his team get shut out in the first half but
then throw a touchdown pass on every one of his
team's drives in the second half.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Not including that little Neil down at the end.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, take back for that stat last week for the
only team in NFL history to hold the team the
lesson two hundred and fifty yards and not commit a
turnover on a Sunday when it's sunny again.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Jets stats are quite obvious.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
For example, I recently saw a list of all the
NFL quarterbacks who have thrown for three hundred yards more
recently than Aaron Rodgers. The list is over fifty. Now
I mean Bryce Young, Bailey z Appy, It's it goes
on and on. But the Jets defense had eight sacks tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Come on, Bryce Young, That is correct, Bryce Young, Yes,
thrown am Obama stats don't count.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
In the NFL.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
DeVante Adams was checked for a concussion in the second half,
came back, got a late TD catch, two touchdown receptions
for Garrett Wilson, including the spectacular jump man catch.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
You mentioned in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Wide receiver Alan Lazard was placed on ir today with
a chest injury, So the Jets three and six, Houston
six and three Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson missp practice again.
Rams White out Pokinakua left practice with a knee injury
said not to be serious. Seattle wide receiver dk Metcalf
misspractice again with his knee injury. Bengals wide out T
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Higgins did not practice again quad injury. Eagles tight end
Dallas Goddard did not practice due to the bad hamstring
Dallas kicker Brandon Aubrey returned to practice after the two
weeks of jury duty. Detroit quarterback Jared Goff returned to
practice today after an ankle injury. It's Lions at Backers
Sunday on Fox TV. We'll see about the weather. Green
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Bay quarterback Jordan Love returned to limited practice today after
his groin injury. Packers running back Josh Jacobs was limited
with an ankle injury, Washington QB Jaden Daniels was limited
with the rib injury, and Patriots quarterback Drake May was
limited again after a concussion. Hall of Fame coaching semi
finalists include Mike Shanahan, Mike Holmgren, and Tom Coughlin. A
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list of fourteen was cut down to nine. This committee
will meet in about three weeks to select one finalist.
Dan Reeves, Chuck Knox and others are also on the
list for now, but eventually to get into the Hall
of Fame. Twenty finalists will be presented to the selection
committee's meeting before the Super Bowl. That's twenty total names
from all the various committees, one from the Coaches Committee,
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one contributor, three seniors, and a list of fifteen modern
era players who become finalists and yes. In college football
this Saturday on Fox TV, it's number four Ohio State
at number three Penn State noon Eastern time. In the
late NBA game, the Clippers were leading Phoenix by twenty
one early in the contest, and it winds up a
Sun's win one twenty five to one nineteen Devin Booker
(28:04):
forty points, San Antonio a winner at zero to five
Utah as Victor wemben Yama had twenty five points, seven assists,
five blocks, and five steals. Houston held on for a
win at Dallas one o eight, one oh two. Memphis
rip Milwaukee. The Bucks are one and four NHL wins
for Washington and for Carolina. Toronto beat Seattle four to one,
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and yes, the Braves traded dh Horges.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
So lair to the Angels back to you?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
All right? Is the World Series over? Let's move on now.
They wanted to get out from under his contract. He
was owed a lot of money. They got Griffin Canning back,
but obviously Ronald Lacuna coming back from injury, so they
need to make sense.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
We'll see if they get Max freed.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
We'll find out all the qualifying offers and all of
those for the Winters free agents by Monday.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I think the Dodgers should get Max Freed so they
can have Freed and Freeman everything with free and at free.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
You know, if they don't have free, if they don't
have Flaherty, but do get Freed, they'd be getting two
guys from the exact same high school.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
There were teammates.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
And how about that? Hey, you know Clayton Kershaw and
Matthew Stafford were teammates, not Jared You know that? Did
you know that?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I've heard that Kershaw was his center for head school football.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You know, tomorrow's Fernando Valenzuela's birthday. Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It is on the Dodger victory parade day? November one?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You know Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard? Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Joe Dart?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Did you the Jets are contenders? Did you do that?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
That's all we yeah, Hey, the show is tonight. As
Mike Harbon likes to say, that is true. Thank you,
Steve O. Hey, we got a big basketball story coming
your way in a few minutes. But today we saw
the retirement of Bob Costas, who is no longer going
to call baseball games. Done after a forty year career
of calling baseball play by player, not retiring from the media.
(29:46):
He's still going strong seventy two, doing a lot of interviews,
doing political interviews. He still wants to announce the Olympics.
I mean, I don't think anybody who is nearing the
end of their career is gonna walk away until the
Olympics in Los Angeles in twenty twenty eighty thing. That's
and you're gonna see a lot of the the the
aging uh people who have been on TV for a
long time saying Okay, this is it. My the Olympics
(30:06):
are in. I'm done after this. But Costas leaves and
so his last baseball game will be the Yankees Royals
Game four of the Alds. And I understand the anti
Bob Costas backlash. I get that when you watch Bob Costas,
you get like you're feeling a lecture, and and it's
I get it right, Like you know, I feel like
way sometimes with John Smoltz, as good as he is,
(30:28):
I feel like he's lecturing me a little bit. There's
the line between history lessons, which Costas is brilliant at right,
the length of time he's been doing this, the encyclopedic
knowledge of everything anything sports really uh that, but then
it crosses over into finger waging at times. But this
is where I feel bad for Costas and others like him.
(30:50):
But that I mean guys like Chris Berman and Joe
Tessitore and Steve Levy and Booger McFarlane. Because whenever social media,
for whatever reason, hate somebody who does play by play,
it never ends well. It always ends with these people
losing jobs. And anytime Bob Costas did a game, social
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media is a flutter. The biggest trending topics are not
the game but Bob Costas. And we're in such a
society where, you know, look, social media is not that
big a deal, but yet it's viewed as such a
big thing that when that happens, these guys all lose
their jobs. Right, Chris Berman is barely on ESPN. Why
because every time he's on TV. But oh, I can't
stand ground. People been watching Chris Berman for forty years,
(31:32):
same thing with Bob Costas, the the other just seeing
them on TV for too long, And so places like
ESPN or MLB Network or TBS whatever, it is when
they see this happen, they go, this is taking away
from the enjoyment of the game. We don't want this
to be a trending thing, so we're gonna move on
from these guys in these jobs. It's why ESPN moved
on from that Monday Night Football group, because they thought,
(31:54):
we can't keep having this overshadow the product. We gotta
pay too much attention to what people say on social media,
which is ridiculous. And Bob Costs is that latest guy
because look at last week, like he biffed that one
call on when he thought it was a base hit
that was out and suddenly Cossus doesn't know what he's doing.
You watch Bob Cossas broadcast. He still has his fastball,
he's still fine, but it doesn't matter because the general
(32:16):
consensus form many people and again on social media and
it looks like Bob Costas is awful and no one
enjoys his broadcast. So I am sure that Bob Costas,
who is still gonna work, still do stuff. Got out
before you could get pushed out. He's saying, you know what,
I can see the writing on the wall, I can
see where it's going. I can see that whenever I
do a game, there's gonna be people who just don't
like it, and that's what social media is gonna be there.
(32:36):
So he's walking away while he can walk away. I
would do the Charles Barkley route if I were him.
You know what, I'm gonna save all these people's job
by walking away. Look at what I'm doing. Like Charles
came back and then he told everybody who would listen
that he saved all these people job, all these family
members whatever. For Cossus, he could say, you know, I'm
walking away because I care about everybody that I work
(32:58):
with and they shouldn't get the heat awful and deflected
off of me. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmer. Just a quick
thought on Bob Costas retiring from calling baseball games. Coming
up next. We told you last hour, big story. Doc
Rivers may not have until December to be a head
coach in the NBA anymore, But why the middle of
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the season is a much bigger timeline for one NBA star?
What is it that's next? Right here? Jason and Mike,
Happy Halloween, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
For you too.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Don't be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
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Speaker 1 (33:42):
Happy Halloween, You filthy Animal. Fox Sports Radio. The Jason
Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon Live fromthetire
rack dot Com studios. Are we going trick or treating
after this? It's eleven o'clock?
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Why not? O?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
People will call the cops if you knock on their
door at eleven o'clock. But I look like a look
trigger tree. Who are you? You're wearing a green white
Sox shirt that's not even the team's colors. Get out
of my house. Maybe I'll change into a giant sweater
and looked like the dude he didn't wear any orange today?
How did you not wear any orange today? Why would
I need to wear orange? Because it's Halloween? You wear
(34:15):
orange on Halloween? Nobody pinches me like it's you know
Wednesdays we wear pink on on on Halloween? You wear orange?
How goes wear orange? Okay, I'd have brought in some
Syracuse or Metz gear for ordered it. Put you on it.
You don't think I have orange? Bear would have stapled
it to your chest wearing that. Why is Jason assaulting
(34:38):
Harmy He's not wearing enough orange. He's got a staple gun. Uh.
We had some big performances tonight on Halloween, and maybe
none bigger than the catch Garrett Wilson had in the
Jets win Thursday night, probably the best catch in the
NFL since Odell Beckham's catch. It's worth the price of
admission just to see him come down with one hand
(35:00):
with the ball, very Beckham like. They showed it on
the broadcast right after unbelievable play by Beckham, best catch
I've ever seen a Jets wide receiver make. That is
a springboard moment for the Jets. They win the game
over the Texans. I'm telling you, I'm back to believe
in This was one of those come together nights where hey,
maybe they are gonna coalesce and things are well. They're
not just gonna be a collection of individuals and they
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will get going. I'm sure it's fools gold, but I'm
back because I ride the lightning.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Now, we'll see over the next couple of weeks what happens.
The Bears will soften up the Cardinals for you this weekend. Sure, sure,
thank you, for that and then you have that game.
The schedules not insurmountable. And that's the thing when we
look at it as we're in week nine of the season,
and I think, I think for the most part, we
can look at most of the teams of the National
Football League and say, I think I know what they
(35:49):
are at this point. Yeah, most teams are creeping around
five hundred. So maybe they're a little deceptive and they
can sneak up and bite you once in a while,
But for the most part, I mean, there's a lot
of bad football being played, let's just be honest about that.
But for the Jets, if you look at the remaining schedule,
there's no game that you just say, all right, that's
an automatic l No, there's a couple of tough ones.
(36:11):
They're not they're not games to go. Oh they got
They showed you their big players can make big plays. Tonight,
DeVante Adams had a big night. Wilson at They still
need to apologize for Sunday, Well, well, there's more than
that to apologize for. Let's just let's not we can't
rehash decades of ineptitude, suckitude, whatever else you wanted to
throw out there. But even though Wilson had that catch,
(36:35):
that may not be the best performance of the night.
We saw in Halloween tonight, Victor wembin Yama had the
second five by five game of his career. And this
is a game in which an NBA player has at
least five in five statistical categories twenty five points, nine rebounds,
seven assists, five steals, and five blocks. Doing this on
(36:57):
Thursday night, this is his second five by five game
of his not even two year career. So does that
mean he went to in and out? What does that
mean He's not? I do fantasy him in a dynasty
five by five league. I got a question about an
old school baseball hurders. He is the third player in
the history of the game with multiple five by five
(37:19):
games all time. Keem Elijawan has six, Andre Kerlinko has three.
This is wemby early in his second year and he
already has well. He did show up as Kanashi from
Spirited Away. Yeah, he went to one of those to
a giant collectors convention and went and got pictures with
(37:41):
all the Star Wars actors this weekend, So I mean
he's living his best life. Well, now you gotta dress
like that if you're gonna have a five by five game,
you gotta dress giant, giant rowe you know, Cape going
down and sped away here I am, but I gotta
say this, his timeline has speed it up. What timeline
am I talking about? I remember the end of last
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year saying, man, by the end of his second year,
he's one of the top five players. In the end,
it's gonna be easily being one of the top five
players in the NBA. We know talented he is. He
just has to put it together seeing how he started out.
Now seeing this game tonight. By the middle of the season,
all right, when you get to the All Star break,
it is going to be widely accepted that Wemby is
(38:25):
the best player in the NBA, widely accepted that, well, yeah,
these guys are all great, but Wemby's the best player.
I mean well, I mean, look, he's doing Giannison tennant.
Coopball got screwed by bringing in Doc so he can
put up a bunch of empty buckets. I was singing,
if we make it through December, and that's whether Doc's
still there or I'm not holding you back. Don't you
(38:47):
think I'm holding you back? I'm not was it was
my idea to get Lillard. I wanted somebody else. I
wanted Lebron, I want. But we're gonna say Wemby is
by face. He's the best player in the NBA, and
it's going to be a consent. It's not gonna be well,
maybe he's not. It's a fight between him and Yokich.
It's gonna be Wemby. It's it's gonna be Wemby as
good as Yo Kitch is. It's gonna be weird CDs
(39:07):
online too. AD's great. AD's also thirty two. He's also
the MVP this day a ad. I don't know. Dodgers
twenty twenty four, I don't know. Brownie scored a bucket
and he got to take the net home. Yeah, it's
pretty nice. Huh you score? But that's pretty cool. I
like to stop everything for you and celebrate you. I
(39:29):
need that more of that in my life. It's my
great Everybody applaud me. I mean, you had a guy
bowing to you in the hallway before that was weird
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it was a scary game Halloween, first half of the
Jets and the Texans. Nothing for anyone to say, hey,
I watched that game. However, there's really a lot of
(01:10):
complaining about it, though, It's like, you know what, you
got a million things you can do. You know sometimes yeah,
you know, hey, don't have to watch b Sometimes when
you drink cayenne pepper and water, maybe it takes a
half to get go.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Maybe, because maybe Aaron Rodgers is just a second half
kyenne pepper and water guy. Maybe not hasn't gotten to
the proper dosagy. Maybe maybe he's drinking that whatever the
concoction was that they kept giving to the girl in
the hereditary. Just keep drinking it. Just keep drinking it.
Just keep drinking it, keep drinking it. Again. Third act
doesn't work for me. But the Jets beat the Texans tonight.
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And look what I told you last night. Why I
like the Jets tonight? And they showed you that maybe
they are too big to fail. They needed a come
together kind of win, and they got one. They didn't
need to just win the game. They need to find
a way where they could all come together and and
how a point where hey, we're not just a bunch
of individuals in the locker room. Now we have something
in common. We have a rallying point. And they certainly
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got one in the second half tonight that was supposed
to be the thing when Robert Salik got fired. There
was so many and supposed to be when they brought
in DeVonta YadA, and when they signed us on red yes,
when they put Greg Zerlin and I are yeah, when
Reddick actually came back into the rule. But they needed
a moment and they said, who are you You look
that that guy's locker has been empty all year. And
they especially needed a moment after one of the most
(02:29):
embarrassing plays in franchise history in the first half. The
Jets were out playing the Texans in the first quarter
of this game, and it looked like they were going
to take the lead because Malachai Corley gets the ball
on a reverse. He's a guy they drafted this year,
third round pick. And you know, listening to Mike Mayock
talk about this because he's doing the game with Iron Eagle,
(02:50):
and he says, hey, Malachai Corley on the reverse. He
goes into the end zone untouched, and and Mike Mayot
goes on a whole tangent about how, hey, the Jets
love Malachai. He didn't want to give him playing time
until he really understood and practiced with the consistency needed
in the National Football League, and now now he got
to that level, now they're put him in the games.
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Except Malachi Corley dropped the football before he got in
the end zone. It didn't get knocked out of his hands. No, no, no,
Henson dropped the ball. Did he did the whole Oh
I'm cool. I'm going to cross the goal line and
drop the football right away. Except Corley dropped the football
before he crossed the goal line.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Malacat Corley, as he got into the end zone, dropped
the football. And they are going to make sure that
he didn't drop the ball before he broke the plane.
Malakay Corley, It turns out mix a rookie mistake. He
dropped the ball before he broke the plane at the
end zone celebrating his touchdown. The ball was loose and
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went through the back of the end zone, and because
the ball was live, it becomes a touchback. It's a turnover,
and now Houston has the ball at their own twenty
yard line, so this game stays scoreless.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Suit jetsho Jets Radio Network on the call. So rookie
mistake is the euphemism for colossal stupidity on the playing game.
You know what, It's not a rookie mistake because we
have seen that play before many times in college football.
We've seen it in the NFL where it's a play
where they run and I want to look cool and
I want to drop the football as soon as I
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cross the goal line. Except here, Hey, Malachi Corley drops
it inside the one yard line. It goes out of
bounds instead of a touchdown, the Texans got the football.
It's so maddening because we have seen it so many times.
We've seen teams fall victim to this all. We've seen
teams snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because they
have done this. You know not to do that. And
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the fact he still does it. Jet's gonna Jet And
I'm watching this going.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So many times I say things like, oh, you think
that play is a bad play in Jets history. That's
not even in the top one hundred when that play happened.
What did I tell you? Oh, that's one of the
top ten worst plays. That is a typical, that's play.
That play stands for the franchise for the past decade. Hey,
here they are, We're going to the end zone for
a touchdown, but nope, untouched I'm gonna drop the ball
going in because i want to look cool. And instead
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of a touchdown, it's a touchback. Yeah, it sounds sums
it up nice. So it was a nice six play,
sixty eight yard drive. I mean, that was fantastic, A
great play design, blade in great execution except for sticking
the landing as it were. A guy fighting to get
on the field, a guy that you were hoping would
be a contributor second half of the season. Again, another
(05:32):
speed guy for Aaron Rodgers. And there was his entry, uh,
guaranteeing he won't touch the ball again. Like that's something
like like that that gets you cut. And they invested
a third round pick in him, and he's got some talent,
but boy, that's something that the second player this week
is Tyreek Stevens in the same way, uh se contract
blowing that play, you get cut into fact and he's
(05:54):
probably not gonna start now. Yeah. The thing is Stevenson's
pretty good. Like it's not like he's pretty good, he's
not getting he got paid a pretty good contract. And again,
Corley's a rookie with talent, but but those are plays
that get you cut. And it was so embarrassing and
I'm saying myself, this is the play that's gonna stand
for the Jets season. It's I can't believe where we
can't just hit rock bottom and stop. No, No, we
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gotta get to rock bottom and go. We can get
under the ground here, we can get under the ground,
and we gotta keep going. Bring that drill. Bring one
of those Arma getting drills in, so we're gonna drill
into that meteor and blow it out. We got dom.
I got to drill as low as I can. Let's
keep going. And I'm just saying, it's like slots in
my head going, We're gonna talk about this play standing
for the Jets season and the Jets franchise, and it's
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so unbelievably embarrassing. I thought that was the way we're
going to go. Tonight certainly started down that path. Rogers
finished the half seven of fourteen for thirty two yards,
which mind boggling that you get to that point and
you go back and you watch some of the throws.
A couple of drops right bresee Hall right off the
jump drops a pass you had to drop from Adams,
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what was a pretty good pass from Rogers. He actually
dropped it twice because it slipped through his hands. It
seemed like he resecured it and before he hit the
ground the ball slipped out again. So you had a
couple of plays that betrayed him, a couple of run
plays that he thought they saw daylight, and you could
see he was mad at Breeze Hall for making the
wrong cut, like those kind of things. So it was
(07:22):
a lot of eye rolling and eyes to the sky
from Aaron Rodgers in that first half. It was bad
body language, it was bad everything. And then the Jets
season and maybe their franchise turned around on one play
in the second half where look the Jets defense. I
gotta say they could have quit so many times in
this game. The Jets made so many mistakes. They made
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mistakes with penalties, they made mistakes on the field, but
the Jets defense still kept pinning their ears back and
getting after and sacking CJ. Stroud eight times that they
kept giving the football back to the offense. And then
Aaron Rodgers does this, or should I say Garrett Wilson
does this, takes.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
The snap, four man rush blobs one left in at
the end zone for Garrett Wilson, what hit it?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Touch? Incredible?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Did he get two feet down. Four. Well, you may
have heard the ruling.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Just as we come back.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What you are.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Certainly hearing in the background his MetLife Stadium coming apart
at the seams and celebrating an incredible touchdown catch by
Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Very Odell Beckham esque in that he dislodges from the
defensive back and look, well and Rogers just throws this up,
thinking I'm throwing this up to my best wide receiver
and he's going to make a play. And he disengaged
himself from the defensive back near the back of the
end zone, leaps up, catches the ball with one hand
with his right hand, brings it in and is able
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to get his shin down before he falls out of bounds,
in complete control of the football. It was initially rule
an incomplete pass. They went back and looked at it,
and sure enough, he got his shin in bounds and
he was able to get his other foot down almost simultaneous.
Says he got his arm down, but it doesn't matter.
The shin is what counts, and he comes down and bounds.
It's a touchdown. The Jets get another touchdown from Devonte Adams.
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It was actually Wilson's second touchdown at the night. He
had a great catch on the first one that was
a one hand to play. But this catch was just
crazy good. And I'm telling you it's the best catch
that I've ever seen anybody in the Jets ever make.
I'm telling you from forty five to fifty years of
being a fan. Well, he gets the call because the
rule is foot or body part. Yes, he gets the
body part because he had the same thing ye that
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we saw with George Pickens, except he hopped on the
same foot twice hot here it was the same leg
body part from one foot to shin and so on Halloween,
body parts count more on him. Oh but yeah, just
a little bit best catch I've ever seen anybody in
the Jets ever make, and I don't think I've seen
a better catch since Odell Beckham. Beckham's catch, the degree
of difficulty on it was a little bit more. Beckham
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actually catches the ball with his with his right hand
behind him and like when you can't even see the
ball anymore as he's falling down like that. Look, the
Beckham catch is still the greatest catch that I've ever seen,
and even showed it as soon as he made the catches. Oh,
it's like Odell Beckham. He caught it with one hand.
But this is the best catch I've seen since that moment.
And once that happened, everything changed for the Jets. They
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played with confidence, the defense still played well. Rogers able
to find DeVante Adams for a touchdown and a great
play where Adams runs a great pattern, separates himself from
the dB and gets into the end zone. All of
a sudden, Aaron Rodgers has a great night with three touchdowns.
Kyenne Pepper and water is working great. And I'm telling
you there are certain wins that are galvanizing wins, that
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are springboard wins. And I know I'm buying back in,
but I've been buying back into the Jets from the
whole my whole life. Just what I know, I gotta
walk away. Nope, I'm buying back in because that was
that kind of win that a the team is now
all together. Rogers is that they when you get your
big players doing big things, this is where the team understands.
This is how good we can be. Our defense is
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really good. Rogers is our leader. He gets the football
where he needs to. We have two great guys making
plays at wide receiver. Now the Jets have come they
needed that come together win and they got it. No,
it's good, but you're forgetting one very important sequence in
terms of the Houston Texans and what they did or
what your deal with the devil hath brought you, and
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that the ensuing possession after the crazy ass catch from Wilson,
Texas goes straight down the field right, and they decide
they're gonna try to They're gonna kick a field goal.
And then you have a penalty now for beating up
on the long snapper. So they take the ball first
down and eventually have to settle for a twenty seven
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yard field goal. Only a normally reliable kicker hooks it
and misses it, as if you know there was some
supernatural force, some gust of wind well that suddenly pushes
This is what tells you how the Jets franchise has
turned earned. The Jets made a totally Jets play when
they rough the snapper on a field goals like you're
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gonna give up the lead right back, giving the Texans
a first down. No no, but they hold them on
three downs again. Again, the defense was great all night.
And then Fairburan comes out and misses a field. They
take the points off the board the Jets, and it
worked out in their favor. This hit every course three
and six, your season's over, but it was tonight. It
changed tonight. But tonight he has a sequence as he
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goes into All Saints stay tomorrow. It's because he's feeling
good about life. Kyler Murray's gonna throw for four hundred
and run for one hundred and fifty in ten days.
But tonight, I mean, honestly, I feel like this was
a special win for the Jets. It wasn't just a
hey we won a seventeen ten game or a twenty
three to twenty game. No, they needed that, Hey, we're
all in the same. We're not just a bunch of
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guys in the locker room that are talented, right we are.
We are a team and and and the come together
moments happened differently, right For sometimes it's when Grimace comes
and throws out the first pitch. For other teams it's
something different. Or it's when Grimace and then hawked to
a show. Yeah, I was gonna say, you can't forget her.
There's all different things, and the Jets just didn't have that,
and it looked awful in the first half, and it
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looked like a continuation of the year. But then that
Garrett Wilson catch everything changed for the Jets after that.
I have one last question for you. Did you buy
the Garrett Wilson shirt yet? Maybe I'm on eBay right
now just saying maybe they're starting to make their ways
around snapshot photo t shirts. I told you about a
couple of weeks ago. There you go, Exit up, out
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of Fresca, Exit swelling down. The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Carmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
Two unbelievable plays that you gotta just see to believe.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
We'll have more.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
NFL on the way. You got a big retirement to
talk about as well. But straight ahead, we had to
Vegas who take a look back at tonight and look
ahead at the big action this weekend. What do we
see from some of the big goings on in college
football in the NFL. Keep it right here, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with My Carmen weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (14:07):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live Fromthetirack dot Com studios. We watched
the Jets beat the Texans tonight twenty one thirteen thirty
two yards passing for Aaron Rodgers in the first half,
three touchdowns in the second. Look out, here come the Jet.
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Don't do it. Don't do it to yourself.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I know I'm just but I take your hand away
from the fire. I can't help myself. I'm back in.
I'm back in. It was that kind of window. I
think we've got someone that can try to talk you
off the ledge. Luckily that person is on the line
with us right now. Our insider in Las Vegas, former
odds maker at Caesar's. Check him out of the Bet
the Board podcast. You can see him on CBS as well.
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He's on Twitter at Todd Furman. It is Todd Furman, Tom.
What's happening, Bud.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
I'm living to dream my friends trying to pull up
the Super Bowl od and see if the Jets have
gone from five hundred to one to a much more
manageable number. Zeroe Smith, there's still one hundred and one
to win the Lombardi Trophy despite that heroic comeback today
against the Houston Texans team that looked like they were
the thirtieth most talented team in the NFL by the
time that came ended.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So, wait, from five hundred to one to one hundred
and one, and that's pretty good. I like that.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Here spoiler, they were never five hundred to one. They
were about one hundred and twenty five to one. Number
gets shaved down a touch. But hey, don't stand in
the way of the eternal Jets optimism because that second half,
if it's a harbinger of things to come, this will
be the most dynamic offense that we've seen all season long.
And I couldn't even say that with a straight face.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Well, I exe coming off tonight, obviously you're looking ahead
of teams playoff wise, and yeah, the Jets found a
way to get themselves back in it and maybe save
their season, and they do have a couple of great playmakers.
But wow, you know, we talked about the other side
of this, and you know, Houston was such a big
Darling favorite going into the year. They were the big
trendy pick, and you know, what do you make of
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them now? Here's a game they didn't have any good
wide receivers outside of Tank Dell, and now they fall
to six and three to a team that had lost
five in a row.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
You know, this is a team in the Houston Texans
that I think was a little bit overhyped and overvalued
coming into the year. Their ats results have definitely shown up.
They've gotten by, you know, by the swimst of Margins
not going out there and taking care of inferior foes.
Now they've worked with the deck kind of stacked against them.
You mentioned some of the weaponry that they're down. We
know Stefon Diggs, Torney cl He's not coming back, but
Nico Collins, barring a setback, should be back in the fold,
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and not a moment too soon, knowing that they're going
to need all of their playmakers at full speed to
take on the Lions next Sunday night. The offensive line, though,
for the Texans, has been the real problem.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I mean, this was a group.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
We knew how much money they spent on the likes
of Shaq Mason, Titus Howard, Laramie Tunsel and was expected
to be the fortress to keep the face of the franchise.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
The CJ.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Stroud upright. You saw tonight it was on full display
with some of the injuries they had, I mean the
Jets more or less tree of the Houston Texans offensive
line like a turnstile went out there. It paid dividends.
But I don't think this is the addition of the
Texans we're going to see going or are they elite? No,
not right now, but I do think they'll look significantly
better and we see them on primetime again next weekend.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The line Todd, let me hit through your on button
with you last night? World Series ends game five? How
did Vegas make out with the Dodgers ultimately toisting the ground.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
I think the consensus amongst odds makers they would have
loved the series to go a little bit longer. I
mean ending in five games. You don't get the incremental
betting handle that you would have picked up on a
baseball game on Friday night that would have drawn all
the eyes of the sporting world on it, given the
stakes that were there from a betting standpoint game to game,
not a ton of liability. You get a good amount
of two way action. Given how prominent the two franchises were,
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and when we saw the series price, with the Dodgers
a modest favorite, the Yankees attracted a little bit of attention,
to say the least. And I don't think it'll surprise
anybody who's out there listening. When you look at odds
to win the twenty twenty five World Series, the Dodgers
are indeed installed in the favorite price tag right around
the lowest four to one upwards of five to one,
followed by the Yankees in that seven and a half
eight range, and then the Atlanta Braves. So I think
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most of us anticipate being significantly more fortunate with health.
That kind of derailed their season before they can get
out of the starting gates in the postseason.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You're already made a trade today, like the World Series
has over had good trade We're gonna make a trade.
You're ready for next season. They're gonna jump on twenty
five by trade war. It's a lair to the Angels.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
I mean, this is how fast things have to move.
And then it's a question of how many zeros the
potential contract offer that your beloved Steve Cohen will make
to lurewan Soto across the great City of New York.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
All right, Now, you mentioned the Bet the Board podcast,
you take a look at some of the biggest games
of the week, one of them the Lions and Packers. Obviously,
we're still waiting to find out about the health of
Jordan Love, although he said all week long, yeh, I'm fine,
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. How do you look
at this game knowing that you're still trying to figure
out whether or not one of the best quarterbacks in
the game is going to play.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
You know, my approach a little bit more counterintuitive than
I think the way most folks will look at it.
They assume if Jordan Love gets upgraded, that it makes
the Packers a potentially better bet or more of a
live home underdog, Whereas for me, I feel much more
comfortable taking a slightly more aggressive number in that three
and a half four range if I got Malik Willis
at one hundred percent, knowing that he can run the offense,
at least in smaller sample sizes effectively and efficiently against
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the Detroit run defense that hasn't been as stout as
what we've seen in the past, potentially slick surface and
play at Lambeau. I just don't want Jordan Love at
a sixty five percent capacity, not being able to protect
himself if I'm going to try and go to the
window with a home underdog. But an interesting schedule wrinkle
in play here as well. This will be the first
time all year that Detroit Lions will actually play a
game outside on natural grass. You do wonder in the
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elements how Jared Goff and an offense that is clicking
on an unsustainable pace we'll be able to hold up.
But the historical numbers don't lie in terms of the
Lions scoring more touchdowns over the last five weeks than
they've thrown incomplete passes and doing something that we haven't
seen since before nineteen forty last week, hanging in north
of fifty points on the scoreboard despite not aclipsing two
hundred and thirty yards of total offense.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Now something I didn't think I'd be saying in Week nine.
But here we have an intriguing AFC matchup as the
Broncos go to Baltimore to face the Ravens. How much
is Lamar Jackson worth to the poids spread a.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Substantial amount, and much more than the betting markets suggests
right now. With Lamar missing practice on Wednesday and Thursday,
if we see Lamar hand off the baton to Josh Johnson.
You're talking about this Baltimore Ravens number that did get
us high as nine and a half, probably dipping down
right around three. And for me, if I was still
behind the counter, I'd actually make the number two and
a half and see if I could get some folks
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itching to lay that number with the Ravens. This Denver team,
to your point, has been a surprise, but you begin
to dig in the resume that the Denver Broncos have
been able to compile so far this season, and it
leaves an awful lot to be desired. It's far from
a murderer's row by any stretch of the imagination. When
you go through some of the recent opponents they face,
the Carolina Panthers, the Saints, the Chargers, who twenty three
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to sixteen doesn't really do the final score justice, the
Vegas Raiders, the New York Jets, and the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers at the time probably their season defining wins. So
I think the Broncos a little bit overvalued, and if
they're able to pull off an outright upset on the road,
either of the next two weeks against the Ravens or Chiefs,
then we have to take them a little bit more
seriously in the AFC than I do now given what
I've seen from bon Nickson his rookie season.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
God. So there's the Bet the Board podcast where the
NFL your college football Bet the Board podcast is up.
You break down Florida, Georgia, pidt SMU, Oregon, Michigan, Ole,
miss Arkansas, Ohio State, Penn State the game of the week,
this huge Big ten showdown. I know there's a lot
of people wondering is Penn State readly this good Todd?
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How do you see this one?
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I think that's a great question that we're all wondering
leading up to Big newon kickoff. And the other question
as far as the Nitney Lions, who will be the
man under center?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
We know James.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Franklin loves to play his cards as tight to the
best as he can, so I'm sure we won't know
until about twelve oh two when the Penn State offense
goes out there potentially for its first snap in the game.
What I find interesting in this matchup Smith when you
see Ohio State as a field goal favorite and Penn
State's taking money from three and a half down to three.
This is a similar price that Ohio State was laying
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on the road at night at Austin Stadium against a
Ducks team, but right now on a neutral field, I
make a full field goal favorite over Penn State if
that game was to take place this weekend. Both these
teams question marks on the offensive line they're going to
have to answer, and we'll see if the Buckey's being
a little bit more battle tested can raise to the
occasion because you go through Penn State and the strength
to schedule for them against the posing passing offenses with
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a pulse, we'll call USC and Bowling Green the only
two sample sizes. The New Lion's defense struggled a bit,
so for me, as it gets towards three and pretty
much painted across the board, I may get a little
bit greedy and see what this number trends to two
and a half before I want to nibble and make
a value bet on the Buckeye.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Get the links to the Bet the Board podcast. Todd
is on Twitter at Todd Furman, that is at Todd Furman.
And speaking of Todd's Twitter account, my favorite tweet Todd
had tonight quote. If I have to hear about this
Jets team somehow being back half of the win tonight,
I'm gonna lose my mind. Todd, the Jets are back well.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
You know know what, Sometimes you have to subtweet the
people that you're going to interact four hours later and
target officially landed here ar. I'm sorry we didn't have
time for a deep dive of Northwestern Perdue. I know
that's what all eyes on the Big ten will be
focused on. Forget that Ohio State Penn State game. The
battle of mediocrity there between two teams just fighting and
get the five wins.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Well, and then you add the battle for Eberflus, you know,
I mean, there's so much going on in my world.
We'll do that therapy session another time.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Always a pleasure, boys, You guys, enjoy your weekend, and
look you get to relax in peace.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Smith.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
The Jets already have a win in the bank this weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
All good, Thanks a bunch toime, Happy Halloween. Thank them
hard buddy. All right, great stuff there from Todd Freman
again on Twitter at Todd Furman. Yeah, but you got
the win, so I got the shot. Well, okay, all right,
the Northwestern. Yeah, slack, I'm sorry. I'm sorry they won tonight.
I'm sorry they won. Not my fault they won tonight. Well,
but it was it was really more just the examination
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into your psyche of the Jets are back, the great
catapult win, Jets are back, the Jets to bank time,
not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from a man who actually got a head
of tattoo tonight that says the Jets are back. It
is Steve de Sager with what's trending? Wow, just kill
me now it's a head attatchoo. I mean it goes away.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Still, so you would choose Jets tattoo or death? You
would choose death. Ay's decision.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Well, we've had a good life. I don't know I
can change, Yeah exactly what if.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I killed you?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Before the Dodgers parade tomorrow, which I'm not going to
because as we discussed last hour, nobody's gonna be able
to be able to walk through downtown LA. You can
still go to one of the two events. You just
can't go to both of them, I think, And you
can wear a disguise.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Anybody's gonna attempt one and be late for either one
they pick. I think that's how it's going because you know,
the parade's only going to be an hour or less downtown.
It's not like they're going all the way to Orange
County or something. It's just a slow parade for they
think forty five to fifty minutes. We'll see.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
But yeah, the crowd should be big.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
You know about your Jets with this comeback win tonight
here they were down seven to nothing at the half
against Houston but beat them twenty one to thirteen. They
had three whole drives in the second half, but got
touchdowns on all three and wound up winning to end
the five game losing streak. In fact, Aaron Rodgers the
only NFL quarterback in the last thirty years to have
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his team get shut out in the first half but
then throw a touchdown pass on every one of his
team's drives in the second half.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Not including that little Neil down at the end.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, take back for that stat last week for the
only team in NFL history to hold the team the
lesson two hundred and fifty yards and not commit a
turnover on a Sunday when it's sunny again.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Jets stats are quite obvious.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
For example, I recently saw a list of all the
NFL quarterbacks who have thrown for three hundred yards more
recently than Aaron Rodgers. The list is over fifty. Now
I mean Bryce Young, Bailey z Appy, It's it goes
on and on. But the Jets defense had eight sacks tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Come on, Bryce Young, That is correct, Bryce Young, Yes,
thrown am Obama stats don't count.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
In the NFL.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
DeVante Adams was checked for a concussion in the second half,
came back, got a late TD catch, two touchdown receptions
for Garrett Wilson, including the spectacular jump man catch.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
You mentioned in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Wide receiver Alan Lazard was placed on ir today with
a chest injury, So the Jets three and six, Houston
six and three Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson missp practice again.
Rams White out Pokinakua left practice with a knee injury
said not to be serious. Seattle wide receiver dk Metcalf
misspractice again with his knee injury. Bengals wide out T
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Higgins did not practice again quad injury. Eagles tight end
Dallas Goddard did not practice due to the bad hamstring
Dallas kicker Brandon Aubrey returned to practice after the two
weeks of jury duty. Detroit quarterback Jared Goff returned to
practice today after an ankle injury. It's Lions at Backers
Sunday on Fox TV. We'll see about the weather. Green
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Bay quarterback Jordan Love returned to limited practice today after
his groin injury. Packers running back Josh Jacobs was limited
with an ankle injury, Washington QB Jaden Daniels was limited
with the rib injury, and Patriots quarterback Drake May was
limited again after a concussion. Hall of Fame coaching semi
finalists include Mike Shanahan, Mike Holmgren, and Tom Coughlin. A
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list of fourteen was cut down to nine. This committee
will meet in about three weeks to select one finalist.
Dan Reeves, Chuck Knox and others are also on the
list for now, but eventually to get into the Hall
of Fame. Twenty finalists will be presented to the selection
committee's meeting before the Super Bowl. That's twenty total names
from all the various committees, one from the Coaches Committee,
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one contributor, three seniors, and a list of fifteen modern
era players who become finalists and yes. In college football
this Saturday on Fox TV, it's number four Ohio State
at number three Penn State noon Eastern time. In the
late NBA game, the Clippers were leading Phoenix by twenty
one early in the contest, and it winds up a
Sun's win one twenty five to one nineteen Devin Booker
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forty points, San Antonio a winner at zero to five
Utah as Victor wemben Yama had twenty five points, seven assists,
five blocks, and five steals. Houston held on for a
win at Dallas one o eight, one oh two. Memphis
rip Milwaukee. The Bucks are one and four NHL wins
for Washington and for Carolina. Toronto beat Seattle four to one,
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and yes, the Braves traded dh Horges.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
So lair to the Angels back to you?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
All right? Is the World Series over? Let's move on now.
They wanted to get out from under his contract. He
was owed a lot of money. They got Griffin Canning back,
but obviously Ronald Lacuna coming back from injury, so they
need to make sense.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
We'll see if they get Max freed.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
We'll find out all the qualifying offers and all of
those for the Winters free agents by Monday.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I think the Dodgers should get Max Freed so they
can have Freed and Freeman everything with free and at free.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
You know, if they don't have free, if they don't
have Flaherty, but do get Freed, they'd be getting two
guys from the exact same high school.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
There were teammates.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
And how about that? Hey, you know Clayton Kershaw and
Matthew Stafford were teammates, not Jared You know that? Did
you know that?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I've heard that Kershaw was his center for head school football.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You know, tomorrow's Fernando Valenzuela's birthday. Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It is on the Dodger victory parade day? November one?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You know Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard? Do you know that?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Joe Dart?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Did you the Jets are contenders? Did you do that?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
That's all we yeah, Hey, the show is tonight. As
Mike Harbon likes to say, that is true. Thank you,
Steve O. Hey, we got a big basketball story coming
your way in a few minutes. But today we saw
the retirement of Bob Costas, who is no longer going
to call baseball games. Done after a forty year career
of calling baseball play by player, not retiring from the media.
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He's still going strong seventy two, doing a lot of interviews,
doing political interviews. He still wants to announce the Olympics.
I mean, I don't think anybody who is nearing the
end of their career is gonna walk away until the
Olympics in Los Angeles in twenty twenty eighty thing. That's
and you're gonna see a lot of the the the
aging uh people who have been on TV for a
long time saying Okay, this is it. My the Olympics
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are in. I'm done after this. But Costas leaves and
so his last baseball game will be the Yankees Royals
Game four of the Alds. And I understand the anti
Bob Costas backlash. I get that when you watch Bob Costas,
you get like you're feeling a lecture, and and it's
I get it right, Like you know, I feel like
way sometimes with John Smoltz, as good as he is,
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I feel like he's lecturing me a little bit. There's
the line between history lessons, which Costas is brilliant at right,
the length of time he's been doing this, the encyclopedic
knowledge of everything anything sports really uh that, but then
it crosses over into finger waging at times. But this
is where I feel bad for Costas and others like him.
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But that I mean guys like Chris Berman and Joe
Tessitore and Steve Levy and Booger McFarlane. Because whenever social media,
for whatever reason, hate somebody who does play by play,
it never ends well. It always ends with these people
losing jobs. And anytime Bob Costas did a game, social
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media is a flutter. The biggest trending topics are not
the game but Bob Costas. And we're in such a
society where, you know, look, social media is not that
big a deal, but yet it's viewed as such a
big thing that when that happens, these guys all lose
their jobs. Right, Chris Berman is barely on ESPN. Why
because every time he's on TV. But oh, I can't
stand ground. People been watching Chris Berman for forty years,
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same thing with Bob Costas, the the other just seeing
them on TV for too long, And so places like
ESPN or MLB Network or TBS whatever, it is when
they see this happen, they go, this is taking away
from the enjoyment of the game. We don't want this
to be a trending thing, so we're gonna move on
from these guys in these jobs. It's why ESPN moved
on from that Monday Night Football group, because they thought,
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we can't keep having this overshadow the product. We gotta
pay too much attention to what people say on social media,
which is ridiculous. And Bob Costs is that latest guy
because look at last week, like he biffed that one
call on when he thought it was a base hit
that was out and suddenly Cossus doesn't know what he's doing.
You watch Bob Cossas broadcast. He still has his fastball,
he's still fine, but it doesn't matter because the general
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consensus form many people and again on social media and
it looks like Bob Costas is awful and no one
enjoys his broadcast. So I am sure that Bob Costas,
who is still gonna work, still do stuff. Got out
before you could get pushed out. He's saying, you know what,
I can see the writing on the wall, I can
see where it's going. I can see that whenever I
do a game, there's gonna be people who just don't
like it, and that's what social media is gonna be there.
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So he's walking away while he can walk away. I
would do the Charles Barkley route if I were him.
You know what, I'm gonna save all these people's job
by walking away. Look at what I'm doing. Like Charles
came back and then he told everybody who would listen
that he saved all these people job, all these family
members whatever. For Cossus, he could say, you know, I'm
walking away because I care about everybody that I work
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with and they shouldn't get the heat awful and deflected
off of me. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmer. Just a quick
thought on Bob Costas retiring from calling baseball games. Coming
up next. We told you last hour, big story. Doc
Rivers may not have until December to be a head
coach in the NBA anymore, But why the middle of
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the season is a much bigger timeline for one NBA star?
What is it that's next? Right here? Jason and Mike,
Happy Halloween, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
For you too.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Don't be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
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Speaker 1 (33:42):
Happy Halloween, You filthy Animal. Fox Sports Radio. The Jason
Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon Live fromthetire
rack dot Com studios. Are we going trick or treating
after this? It's eleven o'clock?
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Why not? O?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
People will call the cops if you knock on their
door at eleven o'clock. But I look like a look
trigger tree. Who are you? You're wearing a green white
Sox shirt that's not even the team's colors. Get out
of my house. Maybe I'll change into a giant sweater
and looked like the dude he didn't wear any orange today?
How did you not wear any orange today? Why would
I need to wear orange? Because it's Halloween? You wear
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orange on Halloween? Nobody pinches me like it's you know
Wednesdays we wear pink on on on Halloween? You wear orange?
How goes wear orange? Okay, I'd have brought in some
Syracuse or Metz gear for ordered it. Put you on it.
You don't think I have orange? Bear would have stapled
it to your chest wearing that. Why is Jason assaulting
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Harmy He's not wearing enough orange. He's got a staple gun. Uh.
We had some big performances tonight on Halloween, and maybe
none bigger than the catch Garrett Wilson had in the
Jets win Thursday night, probably the best catch in the
NFL since Odell Beckham's catch. It's worth the price of
admission just to see him come down with one hand
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with the ball, very Beckham like. They showed it on
the broadcast right after unbelievable play by Beckham, best catch
I've ever seen a Jets wide receiver make. That is
a springboard moment for the Jets. They win the game
over the Texans. I'm telling you, I'm back to believe
in This was one of those come together nights where hey,
maybe they are gonna coalesce and things are well. They're
not just gonna be a collection of individuals and they
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will get going. I'm sure it's fools gold, but I'm
back because I ride the lightning.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Now, we'll see over the next couple of weeks what happens.
The Bears will soften up the Cardinals for you this weekend. Sure, sure,
thank you, for that and then you have that game.
The schedules not insurmountable. And that's the thing when we
look at it as we're in week nine of the season,
and I think, I think for the most part, we
can look at most of the teams of the National
Football League and say, I think I know what they
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are at this point. Yeah, most teams are creeping around
five hundred. So maybe they're a little deceptive and they
can sneak up and bite you once in a while,
But for the most part, I mean, there's a lot
of bad football being played, let's just be honest about that.
But for the Jets, if you look at the remaining schedule,
there's no game that you just say, all right, that's
an automatic l No, there's a couple of tough ones.
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They're not they're not games to go. Oh they got
They showed you their big players can make big plays. Tonight,
DeVante Adams had a big night. Wilson at They still
need to apologize for Sunday, Well, well, there's more than
that to apologize for. Let's just let's not we can't
rehash decades of ineptitude, suckitude, whatever else you wanted to
throw out there. But even though Wilson had that catch,
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that may not be the best performance of the night.
We saw in Halloween tonight, Victor wembin Yama had the
second five by five game of his career. And this
is a game in which an NBA player has at
least five in five statistical categories twenty five points, nine rebounds,
seven assists, five steals, and five blocks. Doing this on
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Thursday night, this is his second five by five game
of his not even two year career. So does that
mean he went to in and out? What does that
mean He's not? I do fantasy him in a dynasty
five by five league. I got a question about an
old school baseball hurders. He is the third player in
the history of the game with multiple five by five
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games all time. Keem Elijawan has six, Andre Kerlinko has three.
This is wemby early in his second year and he
already has well. He did show up as Kanashi from
Spirited Away. Yeah, he went to one of those to
a giant collectors convention and went and got pictures with
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all the Star Wars actors this weekend, So I mean
he's living his best life. Well, now you gotta dress
like that if you're gonna have a five by five game,
you gotta dress giant, giant rowe you know, Cape going
down and sped away here I am, but I gotta
say this, his timeline has speed it up. What timeline
am I talking about? I remember the end of last
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year saying, man, by the end of his second year,
he's one of the top five players. In the end,
it's gonna be easily being one of the top five
players in the NBA. We know talented he is. He
just has to put it together seeing how he started out.
Now seeing this game tonight. By the middle of the season,
all right, when you get to the All Star break,
it is going to be widely accepted that Wemby is
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the best player in the NBA, widely accepted that, well, yeah,
these guys are all great, but Wemby's the best player.
I mean well, I mean, look, he's doing Giannison tennant.
Coopball got screwed by bringing in Doc so he can
put up a bunch of empty buckets. I was singing,
if we make it through December, and that's whether Doc's
still there or I'm not holding you back. Don't you
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think I'm holding you back? I'm not was it was
my idea to get Lillard. I wanted somebody else. I
wanted Lebron, I want. But we're gonna say Wemby is
by face. He's the best player in the NBA, and
it's going to be a consent. It's not gonna be well,
maybe he's not. It's a fight between him and Yokich.
It's gonna be Wemby. It's it's gonna be Wemby as
good as Yo Kitch is. It's gonna be weird CDs
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online too. AD's great. AD's also thirty two. He's also
the MVP this day a ad. I don't know. Dodgers
twenty twenty four, I don't know. Brownie scored a bucket
and he got to take the net home. Yeah, it's
pretty nice. Huh you score? But that's pretty cool. I
like to stop everything for you and celebrate you. I
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need that more of that in my life. It's my
great Everybody applaud me. I mean, you had a guy
bowing to you in the hallway before that was weird
exit out about a Fresca exit, Swollen Dome and the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen live
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