Let's Not Make Picking These NFL Games Difficult

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Part of me wants to do all three hours on
what Jerry Rice just tweeted out, but we will have to. Yes,
it is about that, and it's not about eating goats.
It's not about eating goats. I want to roasted goat

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meat delicious. No, No, that's that's I should you can
get a good fire going. That's a quick that's a
quick appearance for that drop. He's the hero of the day.
What are you talking about? And t J. The hero
of the giro is Jerry Rice. And what both you

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and I think are the goats. I like that the hero.
But but do you think that got through what I did?
The U people understood you. E W, E think people
got I think we have a fairly intelligent audience. I
think they understand that. And and and you're it's it's lamb.
First of all, that's lamb. Yeah you know you're not

(02:13):
eating all right, Just so everybody wants a gheiro is lamb.
I understand that. Allegedly, Yeah, unless if mc McDonald's is
serving are they serving? You know, it took me till
I was like thirty to realize it. We're in Giros.
By the way, Euros can be any type of meat. No,
it doesn't have to be the style really a chicken euro.

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There's a getto No, No, it's a it's good to
g g y r o. You know it's not a giro. No,
but it's not. It's a it's a ghetto year, it's
a geo. But you said it could be anything. You
just said it could be anything. It could be anything.
Then but call whatever and I want to know what,
and you'll get smashed with one of those why do

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you prove? Why are you? Why are you standing on
this hill to get upset about? I got three hours
a hill and this is the beginning, and the loser
goes into fire, but you're going after the sanctity of
the meat. We all have to get into what the
goat said about being the goat coming up later on
this the loser goes on the fire. I could also

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listen to that for I think that's also gonna play
a local promo. If not, it should be. But another night,
another loss for the Cleveland Cavaliers before we get to yeah,
I know, before we get to the big result outside

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of Cleveland. I told you the Knicks were just slowly fading.
Now we're gonna be a team that's six seven games
out of the final playoff spot for the most of
the season. That's what we're gonna be. I thought, no, no, no,
there's a bigger Oh yeah, one that's gonna get a
lot of people. Really he fired up. But first, a

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twenty two point first half lead for the Cavaliers disappeared
against the Pacers and Land Stevenson. It's like it's four
years ago. Land Stevenson agitating Lebron James into a technical
foul in the third quarter nine The Pacers have the lead. Late,
Lebron James with the basketball with a chance to tie

(04:22):
it or win it that the Jr spent pop to
Lebron James. Now in the corner. Lebron goes baseline on
calls it bags it up, missed it did he stepped
on the base so I guess he did. One second
remains Pacers ninety six Cavaliers ninety five Pacers Radio network
on the call. Lebron James steps out of bounds on

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the attempted lane. He missed this shot anyway, Pacers hit
one of two free throws, Lebron misses a desperation three
at the buzzer, and the Pacers beat the Cavaliers. Cavaliers
lose again. All suddenly it's the same as it was
last night. Don't fall for the fake drama, the fake everything,
the fake Torontolu going. Guys have agendas. It's this is

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just what happens in the middle of January, especially when
you play in the second half of back to back nights.
Of course you're gonna run out of gas in the
second half. That's exactly what happened. Cavaliers are up big,
Pacers boat racing in the third quarter and hold on
to win at the end. That's what it's gonna be.
Anytime you talk about second night of back to backs,
you can throw stuff out the window because if one
team is playing it and one team is not, I mean,

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of course, there's gonna be inherent disadvantage the team that's
played it has. This is it's just fine, the Lebron
and the Cavaliers losing. Everything is fine. Well, and this
one also you have Isaiah Thomas who's scheduled rest. He's
not playing the back end to back to backs as
we watch Dwayne Wade still out Lebron James. You mentioned
the technical fall. We're really getting soft in terms of

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what constitutes technical fall these days. I mean that was
it was really bad acting well by Lance Stevenson. He
got good acting to get the call. He got the call.
But you get the call. It's a good act. No,
I think I think it's it's really more in indictment
on the referees for falling for what was a really
bad acting job. That was one of those I got
hit and then looked around. Okay, he got me. Man,

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the loser goes in the fire. You know what, he
almost stumbled like, he goes on the fire. There's no question.
Lebron eleven assists eight boards on the night, five turnovers,
including the baseline stepping out, which was contentious at least
for a moment. But you know he goes after Lance

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Stevenson starts talking about him in the post game as
an agitator and and how much their history plays in
let's hear him just a little dirty dust, me a
little dirty we I mean, we got history. So I
already know that, you know, so I should have known
though that I'll know since to school to it's not

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the guy who tells the joke to get gets called
us to guy who laughs call they called me on
a retaliation, whoa, I'm blowing in Lebron's here. It's the
guy that tells the joke, of the guy that laughs,
the guy that left. And in this case, the laugh

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substitute a week four arms shiver. So I said, loser,
the loser goes in the fire. That's detention for you
laughing at that, the loser goes on the fire. It
sounds like a line you could throw for Walace shot
he didn't fall inconceivable easy. It's January. Relaxed when said

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it last night, things are You're gonna look back at
this in June and go, yeah, I remember when all
that fake drama came up, Just like last year, all
the fake drama in January. Trust me, it's fine. Meanwhile,
you would think that playing without Steph Curry was gonna
be very dangerous once again for the Golden State Warriors
are times you know, Lou Williams puts fifty on them

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the other night. But the good news for Golden State
they were not playing Lou Williams and the cast. They're
playing a much better team trying to go into Milwaukee
and beat Greek freak. Well, this one turned out okay
for Golden State Blass their will sound and this one
is over. Final score. The Warriors win gave one of
the wind Chill road Trip one late to ninety four

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Warrior Radio Network. On the call, Durant goes for twenty
six and six. Draymond Green a near triple double, ten rebounds,
seven assists. Clay Thompson had twelve and five. As they
start the wind Chill road Trip? Did they get t
shirts made? I would have. I survived the Great wind
Chill road Trip. That's pretty good. You can show a
couple of thousands. Why don't you make a I don't

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think they have wind Chill road trip? Yeah, I don't
think so. And the loser of the wind Chill road
Trip goes into five. Now the loser goes on the fire.
Given the history of expeditions and cannibalism, I think you're
going a little too dark there. Hey, we can get
a wrong turn marathon if you want. With the first one.
The last last night, so was number four you were competing.

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It was a marathon. Yeah, the movies get a little
bit just like the The Hunger Game movies, they get
a little bit worse each one that goes out. That's
where it goes. Well on the first one had yes, yes,
and yeah, I'm guessing not Usually people don't make it
that far. But so here are the Warriors. They go
out and they win a game against a pretty good

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Bucks team, not great, they're okay. And they go on
the road and they play with one. Uh maybe Steve
Kerr actually tried in this one, because he didn't seem
to try. He didn't. I think he just gave that
game away. But as I say, and as I always say,
Steph Curry is fantastic. But the Warriors could win the

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NBA title without him out again with a sprained ankle.
He doesn't play. They win tonight in Milwaukee, and they
win going away. They they close out Milwaukee in the
fourth quarter, outscoring them twenty eight to twelve, and they
never were threatened. Look, you can tell me all you
want about how gray step is. I see it about
all how all the shots he can make from thirty

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five ft. Yes, my first part of my sentence with
Steph Curry is he is terrific, but the Warriors system
has elevated him to the levels of stardom that he
likes to enjoy. And what can you tell me if
you're a Warriors fan. Well, you know, with Steph Curry
we score a hundred and twenty points a game. Without them,
we score a hundred and five. Yeah, what's your win losses?

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You know, with Steph Curry we win by by fifteen.
Without him, we only win by eight. What were you
gonna say tonight, Oh, if we had step they would
instead of winning by sixteen, that it won by thirty.
I mean, really, you're you're not talking about the difference
between winning and losing. You're talking about being able to
continue to win a championship whether or not a guy
who people just the best player in the game is
in the lineup or out of the lineup. You take

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Lebron James out of the Cavaliers lineup and the Cavaliers
go into five. You take Porzing gets out, Well, the
Knick's lose anyway. But you take all these great players
out and all these other teams have trouble. But what
teams keep winning despite the fact that great players play
or great players sit out the Warriors and the Spurs.

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Why because of the systems they have in place. Because
the Warriors system of ball movement and screens it works.
What the Spurs have been doing for the last fifteen years.
Now they're starting to hit threes. Gregg Popovic never wanted
to shoot three. I hate that, but he knows we
gotta start shooting threes. Those are the two best systems
in the NBA. Kawhi Leonard plays, he doesn't play, doesn't matter.

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Spurs win. Look where they're at. Look how well they're
playing this year, and he's missed the majority of time.
This is just how it goes you. When you have
a great system, good players, really good players get their
status elevated because this is what the system takes advantage
of their strengths. But without the system, they're not as good.
Steph Curry's first team grades at player in the end

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be a right now. His five years before Steve Kerr
showed up. He was a borderline All Star player, but
real which is good, which is fantastic. But you go
from borderline All Star player to top two three players
in the league and and it's just normal growth. It's
not the system. Well, oh, by the way when you
were that player, the best you could finish was six
in the Western Conference, and three years you finished thirteen,

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twelve and thirteen before Steve Kerr showed up. I'm sorry,
but that's exactly how it breaks down. But it's time
to give him m v P consideration or is it not?
Isn't that what we always do? We have the the
battle of him. It's like, is it him or is
it Kevin Durant? Why because of a five game stretch
he missed his time and they're still winning by twenty
they win, They can win without Durant. The only guy
they've proven they can't win games without is Draymond Green.

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But if they missed him for long stretch, they can
win without Draymond. And we need that agitator though, Yeah,
because then he'll say things like we should not have
referees and we should get all new referees. Ya. That's
one of the interesting stories that's flowing to referee up Adam.
Does he get to be in that meeting over the break?

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Does he get to be in that meeting to charge
he gets to chair the meeting? Yeah? I would have
him a big gavel. I would just sit back and go, Draymond,
you just talk for like forty five minutes, and we're
gonna write down everything you say instead of a Gaveley
as one of those toy Thor's hammers that they sell
makes sound effects, and he just takes over hashtag system quarterback.

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How do I do with the first hill? Okay, we
did good, buddy, We've got good on that first hill.
I'll tell you, And I'm ready for my interview KNBR Frostberg.
If you need to put Drew Brees off the hold
to call KNBR about my Steph Curry interview, that would
be great. Yeah, he just won't go. He won't go,
all right, all right, well all right, we'll see what
happens after. Yes, what are you gonna do? The loser
goes on the fire Twitter? How about a better beat

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the Vikings? Then those picks coming up later NFL Divisional Playoffs. Hey,
we're gonna do it next. We're gonna pick all four
games this weekend. And I will tell you how simple
it is to pick the games in the divisional playoff.
It does not involve Tim Tebow. No, it does not
involve you. As far as you know. That's coming up

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from the Geico Studios. I mean, yeah, I mean it's
amazing here that this is how James Headfield used to sing,
like in the in the eighties. Yeah, but you get
to go do a lot of smoking. Yeah, a lot
of singing, blow your vocal cords out and have to
actually learn how to sing. This is like eighty three.
Then by the time one came out, it was I
can remember anything. Come on the Jack Daniels smoking that'll

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do it to you. What he got Frostburg, this is
actually Maroon fives cover. Okay, all right, that's like that
sounds like Adam Lavin. He can pull that off. You
think he's hitting the notes. Welcome inside. I'm Jason, He's Mike.
That is our trepid producer, Justin Frostberg and sounds sexy
at the controls tonight as always Alex tight Shirt, who

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is always ready with a quip or a drop, sometimes
way too soon. But this is how it works. Uh,
we're chasing a big NBA story that we're gonna have
a very curious story, very curious story that we are
waiting for confirmation publication on. Pretty interesting, especially if you

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live in the Los Angeles area. How did you want
to talk like the guy that was talking about the
loser and the loser going and the the loser of
the ball brothers goes in the fire. The loser goes
on the fire. And it's today's a big anniversary. Oh
it's a bit years years ago. What was that? The Bats? Oh? Yeah,

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no, no no, no, forty nine years ago? More dancing. Do
I have a story about Super Bowl three that will
just burn the hair off your arms, I'll tell you
lately the only game the Jets of everyone. H no, no, no, no, no.
We we beat the Chiefs this year, remember yeah you remember? Yes,
it did that helped you guys underbelly. But boy, yeah,

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I got a great story about the Super Bowl three. Uh,
since it is forty nine years ago today, the New
York Jets, So you've been lying about you have a
story about having witnessed No, no, no, I have a
story about a player who played in the game that,
to my face told me the game was fixed. About that.
He played in the game and he told me to

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my face it was fixed. Did you ask him what
his payoff was. I'll just say this, I said, if
you're telling me this game is fixed, and I'll tell
you the player after if you're telling me this because
you know, no, no, no, I like that. He's gonna
name names. No, no, no doing now we do it?
Why not? I I'll do it right now. So yeah,
forty nine years ago today the Jets. We will pick

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the A f C and NFC playoff games coming up
in a couple minutes. But I gotta tell forty nine
years ago today, the Jets win the Super Bowl? Right,
super Bowl three, biggest upset in sports history. No, no, no,
it happened. Stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop.
I understand that. I just said the other night. When
you go, you know ten years past, you know, you

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lose people. But Super Bowl three was such a big deal.
I'm going to relive the game. I'm gonna tell you
a story surrounding it that happened to me a few
years ago. Did it end with a butt fumble? The
story or the game? The game? The game with a fumble?
Doesn't even what the butt fumble game should have ended
right there. That should have been the Jets should have

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disbanded after the Super Bowl. So this is about I
don't know about ten or twelve years ago. I want
to say that I'm working on sports list show that
was on Fox for a long time because I love
the eighties for sports, Top ten shortstops of all time,
and celebrities would come on and talk about it. Which
show great plays, Big Countdown, show cat Yes, all, yeah,

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So Bubba Smith comes in one day because we're interviewing
all kinds of celebrities for different shows, and I was
the producer of this one show where we counted down
the greatest super Bowls. So we got in a bunch
of people who had lived in the l A area
that had played. You know, Bubba Smith came in. Other
players who had played in big games came in to

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talk about Super Bowls. So Bubba Smith played for the
Cults and Super Bowl three, and of course then became
much more well known as Moses High Tower in the
Police Academy movies. So I'm interviewing Bubba Smith and the
subject of Super Bowl three comes up, and he is hot, hot, hot,

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and he is so hot. He talks about and the
first thing he says to me is we turned the
cameras on. He said, you know this game was fixed, right?
And I said, what are you talking about? He goes,
this game was fixed. Uh, it was fixed for the
Jets to beat us. And I know that Don Shula
and a couple other people in moral Earl Morrall, who
was a quarterback of the Colts, they had to be
in on it. I said, whoa, whoa, what are you?

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What are you talking about? And he said, I know it,
I know it. I'll tell you why. I said, okay,
I go now. You realize, Bubba, if you're telling me this,
I'm kind of trying to joke around with him. Now.
If you're telling me this, you know, my life is
a lie, because this is the biggest one I've ever had.
And he looked at me and said, well, Jason, your
life is a lie. And I said, all right, what's
going on? What did you start doing that? That next day?

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You must have done something really crazy. Ass he's been
charts because everything had been torn us under. Yeah, and
Bubba Smith, who you know, passed away a few years ago.
This is probably about five or six years before he died.
It starts telling me that I know and he and
he has tried under the radar to try to prove
that Super Bowl three was fixed for the majority of
his post professional life. A lot of articles about it.

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He felt, and he told me, and this is this
is what he told me. He said that the league
knew they had to merge with the a f L
to succeed because the a f L was popular, but
the a f L couldn't beat the NFL teams and
if they keep losing Super Bowls, no one would be
interested in the merger. So it was the A couple
of people were in on the fix. It was Don Shula,

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Earl Morral, the quarterback in a couple of years. I
don't know who it was. And apparently a lot of
people on the team supposedly knew as well. They had
to fix the game so the Jets could win. Now,
this is a game where the Colts are the best
team in the NFL. The Jets were upstart AFL team.
The Colts made many mistakes during the game. Earl Moral
missed a wide open wide receiver on a flee flicker
that could have changed the course of the game, but

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Bubba Smith said, and I'll just kind of button you know,
I'll give you the highlights. Once the game started, he
didn't understand what was going on because Don Shula supposedly
had them playing a defensive technique that that was not
to their strengths. At halftime, when they were losing, he
would and said, move me to play me here and
I'll get to the quarterback. I'll disrupt the defensive line.
Moved me here, and Sula told him, shut up, go

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play your position, and he he went back and the
whole game he was Then he started watching on defense,
how not into it the Baltimore Colts players were. After
the game was over, he went to the post party
after he I didn't want to go to the party,
but I went there and there were Colts players that
were dancing and having fun and they're running back. Tom

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Maddy was dancing, having a good time, and he got
in a fight with him at the post game party
because he felt that Tom Maddy should have been more upset,
but that Maddy knew that the game was fixed. Did
you take money? And they got in a fight and
he got thrown out of his own team's post Super
Bowl party because he got in a fight with their
star running back and he got in the cab and

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he says, I wish I could prove this, and and
the cab driver recognized and he says, what are you
talking about? And he says, oh, he goes, hey, you
played in the game, didn't He goes yeah, He goes, oh,
I want a lot of money today, but against you guys,
because what are you talking He goes, Oh, everybody knew
the money was in onto the Jets. Everybody knew everybody
that fixes in for the Jets. And since that day,
he said, on that cab ride, I decided I had
to try to one spend up by time proving that

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this game was fixed. Did you ever find the real killer?
I mean? And he said that, and he went there
and he said, but it was fixed. I know it was,
And he started he actually went into more details on
certain plays that didn't show the Colts way that should
have went their way, and certain things not covering uh,
you know, they they knew that the jets best wide
receiver was dinged up with a hamstring injury, but they

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still put an injured guy on the other side of
the field on a on another player George Sower, who
had like eight catches for a hundred and fifty yards,
and he was yelling to move stuff around. They never did,
so he gotten a lot of minutia of the of
the plays, but he said, yeah, you know, Shula moral
and and you know, and we won the super Bowl
the next year, and I felt like I couldn't even
celebrate it because we should have had to. That was

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Bubba Smith swore his entire life that game was super
Bowl three was fixed. Do you have any idea what
you've just done? What you probably just got the one
jet super Bowl taken away after telling the story, I'm
not saying we're gonna away from Yeah, I'm take away scholarships.

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You realize what you've just done. How his name is struggling.
What's he gonna do? Half his ring away and then
he loses all his mojo and the loser goes into
it would really upset the time continue. I cannot believe
you would tell that story on air. You know your
mic was on. I was stunned when he said, I'm
going okay, okay, And now look now I know super

(23:26):
Bowl three obviously because I've seen it, but it was
before I was alive and he's telling me all these plays.
I'm going okay, and I don't doubt what he's telling
me about. You know. That's why I had to kind
of just you know, go over you know, gloss little bit.
When he was talking about playing different positions and moving
guys around, he said, it was all things that we
would have that we would have done and we kept.
And the one thing he kept yelling to put Johnny

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uniteds in. You know what happens here it really yelling
and crushing to But it crushes all of the times
that we've heard Tom Looney yell about halftime adjustment. Really
just pros that all day. How do we tell fire
men at this story, I don't know. I I it's
it's a it's I'm gonna have to see see you
on it. Yeah. But as we were researching, right, the

(24:07):
link was up from a New York Look I'm up
in the middle of the night. New York newspapers are
flipped over. So I was like, hey, guys, here's a
story for tomorrow anniversary. And you start reading a little more,
and you start right because you just start getting curious
as the way things are described. Talk about a huge
point spread move that happened. And normally, unless somebody's hurt
and it's disclosed, you don't you don't see a very

(24:29):
large points point spread swing. Maybe a half point here
one way or the other, maybe a full point, uh,
if the professionals decide they're leaning aside. This was over
three or four points that the point spread move without
any new information. Granted you didn't have those fraudulent injury
reports like you have now, but still, you know, he

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normally would at least have some information. So it's interesting
that the cab driver gets into it. I mean, it's
everybody in Miami, New Ever, we all I feel like
there should be a documentary about this part. And and
Earl Morrall, who was the quarterback Johnny United is one
of the greatest quarterbacks NFL history, was on the bench
with a sore arm, and Bubba Smith said they all
were screaming to put Johnny Unitus in. But he said

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afterwards people he talked to knew they wouldn't put Uniteds
in until the game was out of reach because he
knew if he put Unitus in after he warmed up,
they would start scoring points. And they finally put Uniteds
in the fourth quarter when it was sixteen nothing. Second
time they get the ball back, he goes down the field,
throws a touchdown, cuts the sixteen seven. Then the Colts
made a ridiculously stupid play on they had it down

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sixteen seven with four minutes to go and on fourth
on fourth and ten, they went for it. Said of
kicking a thirty yard field goal, they need two scores. Anyway,
that was just dumb. But that's another reason to Bubba
Smith's going, Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, but
they knew that they wouldn't put Unitus in until the
game was out of it. I gotta take the win back. No,

(25:57):
no, no no, no like this. The Statute of Limitations is
up on my mailbox, thievery. It's no, no, no, no no no.
That's still a federal crime. Um. But to talk about this,
I found an article from the New York Times in
talking about this, because Bubba had put this in his
autobiography kill Bubba kill Uh talked to Playboy magazine and
then didn't television interview with Marv Albert, Yes and the

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foul twitter at how about a fresco The Jason Smiths Show,
Jason Mike Carmon live from the Geico Studios. Coming up
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to pick all four NFC Divisional playoff games this weekend.
But first, a guy who has never fixed anything. Well,
that's because no one in boxing will take his phone
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that you have there? Wow? All four games? Okay, got
nattering name Bob's of NBA numbers, Pacers Cavaliers came down
to the final shot, passed the length of the floor,
James has it e turn and missed it off the
back of the rim. Boy James is about the only
player in the league that could have even come close
to that. He caught the ball facing the Indiana bench

(27:08):
over on the far sideline, and as he twisted in
mid air, he actually got off a three point shot
that clanked off the back of the rim. At Indiana
beats Cleveland to extended dance remix and Mark Boyle on
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(27:29):
a uniform. On the other side, Warriors out chuck the
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one fifteen one ten Wizards hogwarted the Magic one nineteen Hornets,
Solonious Monk the Jazz Night eight Pelicans folded the Blazers
one nineteen one third Team Chamber Wolves blitzerd the next
one eight Team one oh three one of the Fineral Nuggets,

(27:50):
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thank you, Thank you Big. Are you gonna tweet out

(28:12):
a picture of a big fan? Is there? You gonna
not that cheesy cheesy word puns? I would have a
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games this weekend in the NFL, and it's very easy

(28:33):
to pick these games. It's very simple at this point
in the season, when you get past the wild card
round where teams squeak in because we have a strong
defense and maybe we can't throw the football that well,
but we have a good running game and that's how
we get Yeah, all the t all the pretenders kind
of are are shown the gate the first playoff week.

(28:54):
Certainly some teams move on that aren't strong enough offensively,
but as you see, as the playoffs go on, the
strong offensive teams stay on and the weaker offensive teams
go home. Here's how easy it is to pick the
playoff games this weekend. At this point, if there is
a big difference between the quarterbacks of each team, you

(29:17):
know who you're picking. And that's this weekend in spades
Tomorrow Atlanta and Philadelphia. Matt Ryan or Nick Foles. It's
really that simple. Matt Ryan, Really, Nick Foles is gonna
show up and suddenly is gonna catch fire and and
beat a really good, well rounded Falcons team. No, I'm
not gonna take Nick Foles to somehow beat Matt Ryan.

(29:39):
Tennessee in New England, Tom Brady, Marcus Mariota, Really, Markus
Mario is gonna go on the road and it is
gonna beat New England. Is gonna outplay Tom Brady and
put more points on the board than Tom Brady. Not
happening Sunday. I know the Jaguars beat the crap out
of the Steelers the last time they played. Blake Bortles
is not going into Pittsburgh and beating Ben roethlis Per.

(30:00):
Ben Roethlisberger clearly is the better quarterback in all of
these games. There is a clear difference at quarterback for
all of them. New Orleans, Minnesota. We spent most of
the time this week on this game. Drew Brees is
much better than Case Keenum. Case Keenum is having a
moment now the bullets start flying for real in the
playoffs against the most well rounded, complete team in the NFL.

(30:23):
I'm not taking Case Keenum to win a game over
Drew Brees. Breeze is better than Keenum. Roethlisberger is better
than Bordles, Brady over Mariota, Ryan over Folds. Those are
your winners, Atlanta, New England, Pittsburgh, and New Orleans. I
like your theory, however, this is where you always say that,
how I like your theory. However, Now the a f C,

(30:46):
it really just comes down to points breads. Let's just
call that one. Like New England, given nearly two touchdowns
Pittsburgh depending on where you're shopping, somewhere between seven and eight.
So a question of how much you you like the
the favorites in those games when you look at Pittsburgh
figure Jacksonville hangs around, but Blake Bortles, the recency bias

(31:10):
always comes in. Right. For a month, it was look
how well Blake Bortles is playing, and then he wasn't
good last week? Understatement more rushing yards, all the jokes
and certain memes here his quote comparing his angst to
that of Lebron James and how there's always gonna be
doubters and haters probably want a bit too far. Didn't
didn't need to open that door. But we could take

(31:33):
last week's game and I think pretty convincingly say he's
not gonna be as bad as he was a week again,
because going back to missing wide open receivers in Super
Bowl three, well back and watch the tape last week.
There is out of the flat, he's throwing the ball
eight feet over his head. That will not happen again.
We've talked about New Orleans and Minnesota a lot, and

(31:56):
I had New Orleans before the season, going to the
to the ship, so I'm to keep not to stop
with the ship. That's not a real thing. You have,
like four veins just pop was pretty funny. The game
that's most intriguing to me, though, is the Atlanta Philadelphia game,
where Atlanta is a favorite on the road, Matt Ryan
getting a lot of love, a lot of Matt Ryan

(32:18):
love of late and betting tickets. I believe at last
count of people betting are taking the road favorite. I say,
not so fast, but yeah, well I gotta pay tribute
to lead Corso where I can. The fact is you've
got the number one run defense slows things down, and

(32:39):
I don't think Nick Foles after two weeks off and
two weeks of prepping is going to be as a
erratic scatter shot as he was a couple of weeks ago.
You get the run game going with j GI, you
play fast, you get the receivers involved, and you can
neutralize the speed of that Atlanta defense. And I think
the phil Ity Helpia run defense is good enough to

(33:02):
keep Freeman and Coleman at bay. I think this one's
a low scoring affair, but I think Philadelphia old servant
home sending Matt Ryan home and people wringing their hands, crying,
wondering what might have been had they just run the
ball two years ago, and sending Nick Foles to the NCAA.
Can you imagine and a f C and NFC championship

(33:23):
weekend of Jack's Titans. Al Right, which what do I
always say? You can't keep putting the Jacks Titans on
Thursday Night football? And we can see to a FC
South domination Jags, Titans and Vikings Eagles, where you're four
remaining quarterbacks are Bordles, Mariota, case Keenum and Nick Foles.

(33:45):
One of them would win the Super Bowl. You know
how much coverage you'd have a Marcus to try to
push him over the time, like what a leader he is.
Every block he's ever thrown since he was three years
old is gonna be out there on the internet throats
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(34:27):
Just go with the quarterbacks. Go it's this is the
point in the season. There. Meanwhile, I've been waiting forty
minutes to get to this story because of what Jerry
Rice tweeted out about an hour ago. We're gonna talk
about it. That's not about Tim Tebow, or is it.
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(34:48):
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to do the whole show on this sweet but obviously

(35:11):
there's other things to do. We have the Warriors struggling
again without Steph Curry Sorr. Yeah. No, it's the Jets
anniversary of winning the Super Bowl, picking all four games
this weekend in the NFL, but a lot of heavy lifting.
We've we've managed four hills. If you're on a treadmill
or you're doing an ellipse now and you mean an ellipse, No,

(35:35):
we're on the elliptical, yeah, right, right, okay, yeah, ellipticals
you said no, ellipse and ellipse is a thing in math, right,
an elliptical. That's kind of what you're doing. Right, you're
on the ellipse. Okay, you're on the ellipse. Its elliptical machine.
There's an ellipse. Okay, I just want to make sure
I'm suddenly in miss I'm in I'm in Miss Farku's,
you know, a twelfth grade math class. Again, that's a
good name. Yeah, well it was easy to make fun of.

(35:59):
It was pretty easy. Just think about it for a second.
Sounds like thin now now, think about it. Think about
how easy would be to make fun of that name.
Think about it. Well, I'd like to think you're telling
me you're that old, that you're a little bit beyond that.
Uh No, well that's that's a pretty good one. Uh So.
Jerry Rice, the greatest wide receiver of all time, put

(36:23):
this out on Twitter just before the show. I don't
know why, but he did big week for Jerry Rice
because he was at the John Gruden he was one
of the fifty. He tweeted out about Stormy Daniels. Uh oh,
by the way, like just real quick about Stormy Daniels,

(36:43):
the weather coming up in eleven Stormy and actress and
over here the poor and actress linked to President Trump
in in about ten years ago. That is supposedly big
wind is gonna But let me just say this. But
let me just say this. Uh. You know, usually on
loween we always say you should have a Halloween marathon.

(37:03):
When it's Friday the thirteenth, you should have Friday the
thirteenth movie marathon certain days. Don't you tonight if your
Cinemax have a Stormy Daniel's Marathon tonight, I think, really,
isn't that it? I mean, really, don't you make a
lot of money? Don't you eat a lot of people
watching cinemax tonight? You realize that's pay per view, not cinemax. No, no, no,
I put it on cinemax. She's done a lot enough movies.
I didn't know that there was a live camp and

(37:25):
she's done a thousand movies. Let me look, hang on.
Let me let me go to IMDb page. That's fun
that you want to don't want to go to somebody's
IMDb page. You go to a portal actor's IMDb page.
You'll be there for days on the IMD could they
take they do a movie in like four hours? What
are you doing this? I've got three movies you're shooting?
Well this year, I got I got three movies. This

(37:48):
week I'm doing like, oh okay, yeah, I'm shooting one
on Monday, resting on Tuesday. I'm shooting on Wednesday. Now,
when we go through there are there are at time,
allegedly there are at times the thoughts that a certain
actor or actress has been in every movie produced in Hollywood. Yeah,

(38:09):
I mean there's a there's a year's time where it's like, wow,
they were in fourteen films. They just all happened to
finish post at the same time. But for some reason,
Jerry Rice tweeted this out tonight. You can say whatever
you want to haters, except he wrote, hatters h a
t t R. You know what TV show had a hatter?

(38:33):
No no no no no no no no no no
no no no, And he had that hat where the
eyes would look up at you, t J. Let's go
live to the Mad Hatter. Is Jerry Rice the greatest
wide receiver of all time? No, the Mad Hatter says,
it's Robbie Anderson, So you can say whatever you want.

(38:55):
Two hatters or haters. I destroyed defenses and they couldn't
stop me. That's why I have one thousand, five nine catches,
two thousand, eight hundred yards and two touchdowns. Hashtag goat
Jerry Ross. That's said, I am the greatest receiver of
fault time, tweeting that he himself is the goat. You

(39:19):
know what, I spit in truth. I like this because
every you know everyone. When uh, Christiano Ronaldo won the
Golden Ball again a couple of weeks ago, is the
greatest soccer player in the world, he said, I'm the
greatest of all time. I thought Messi would beat me,
but look how many I have not I'm the greatest
player of all time. I just can't wait for Tom
Brady to say that with a sitar playing behind it.

(39:40):
But now here's Jerry Rice. For some reason, maybe he's
in an airport people yelling yeah, Rice, you would never
ready good. You're all Montana. He made you system wide receiver.
All you Bay Area guys are system quarterbacks, Curry and
system wide receivers. So I don't know why, but he
felt the need to tweet out his numbers and the

(40:02):
fact that he is the greatest of all time. I
kind of like that, Well he's on that list show
that you were on. Now, he was on number one.
We did you know in the in the Sportsless show
in the early two thousands that I produced, we did
the best wide receivers of all time, Like number three
was Steve Large. It was weird like number two different
times and guys coming in giving your opinions that have

(40:23):
been around the game a long time. Large it went
into politics. Sure do you think he was wearing his
chicken wing helmet when he was tweeting that that was
a good helmet. I think he actually tweeted it while
he had like like like chicken hands on. I think
he actually just pecked at it on a on the keyboard. Now.
I went with my daughter a couple of years ago
to a thing. They were doing a camp and he
was out running routes with the kids. No, no no, come on,
you gotta finish that. And he's still say come on

(40:49):
he needs a new che's a guy that needs a
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got a football where he signed it. She asked for
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(41:33):
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apparently the Clippers struck out on a huge trade. We
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(42:17):
Radio app, Fox Sports radio dot Com, listen, rate us,
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have the Calves losing again tonight, we have the Warriors
winning again without Steph Curry, where all Warriors are apologists
who stay Steph Curry is not a system quarterback. Would say, yeah,
but we would have beaten the Bucks by twenty five

(42:40):
if we had Steph. We only won by fourteen with them. Realize, realize,
system quarterback. But those headlines are nice, they're pretty good.
But I have a smoking hot headline on the fire.

(43:01):
You put the loser straight into the fire. If you
put the loser of anything into a fire, it would
increase ratings. I mean anything, you know, any any game
you want to talk about, the pressure two drill takes
on a whole other meaning. At fourth down, play comes
up short. Oh that's too bad. We know what. Michael

(43:23):
Scotto is reporting this. You can find him on Twitter
at Mike A. Scotto. That's Mike A. Scotto that and
he's got a check mark next to his name. He's
a senior NBA writer for Basketball Insiders, free lancer for
the Associated Press. He focuses on Nixon Nets games. So

(43:44):
I'm glad he got this story because you know, watching
the Nixon Nets. That's a really tough beat that the
Los Angeles Clippers proposed a blockbuster trade involving Blake Griffin.
They wanted to trade Blake Griffin m hmm in exchange

(44:05):
for they now email address. If he's just giving him
his email address in exchange for Blake Griffin, there's a
lot of important contacts. Yeah, you can't do that. They
offered Blake Griffin in exchange for Stefan marburry of his shoes,

(44:32):
a pair of his sneakers, a gross of his shoes
still on their original palette, and the and the big
Baller brand shoes to be named leader. I guarantee you
if you wore one Starberry shoe on your left foot
and a big ball of shoe on your right foot.
It's the same shoe. Clippers would be getting a steel,
same collector's items, and really you get a lot of publicity.

(44:55):
The Clippers were turned down after they offered Blake griff
In four. Hi, everybody, this is Dolly Parton. Are you
really just looking through infomercials? Really that's not a bad
trade though. I mean she's made millions upon millions of
dollars for never selling I Will Always Love You to

(45:16):
Elvis Presley when he wanted to buy it. Out right,
it could have been way worse. It could have been
lean rhymes. Oh. I stumbled out of ben and stumbled
to the kitchen, poured myself a cup of ambition, yawning, stretching,
trying to come alive. Hey, everybody should hope to have
that kind of gumption. The Clippers were turned down. Yeah,

(45:36):
a blockbuster trade block offered Blake Griffin four. I'm Wilfred Brimley,
and I'd like to talk to you for a few
minutes about diabetes. Uh? Is that it? You gotta find another? Yeah?
The rest? Hi, we're air supply. Would you like to

(45:56):
get the greatest love songs for? How did you do that? Why?
Why did you bury? You know? You just killed it.
That was part of the bit Tom all out of trades,
can't trade you Griff. We were gonna send out a
big picture of their hair. The Clippers were turned down.
They offered Blake Griffin to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange

(46:20):
for Carl Anthony Towns. Basketball insiders Mike Scotto has this story.
The trade proposals shockingly didn't advance past an exploratory call
from the Clippers as Minnesota declined. Minnesota sees Carl Anthony Towns,
former number one overall pick, as a franchise caliber player

(46:42):
and a vital piece of the future who is not
for sale at this time. Now forget for the fact
over the course of the last month, Karl Anthony Towns
has played phenomenally well. I mean he's always been really good.
It's like boy when he hits that next level. And
look where the Timberwolves are right now. Look I told
you they're my surprise team in the West. I said
they were gonna finish in the Western Conference this year
because they're that talented. Right now, their fourth and they're

(47:05):
a half game out of third place overall. Big win
tonight over the New York and Karl Anthony Towns was
one assist short of a triple double. I mean this
the Wolves win now a count of course it does.
We have Porzingis. I like Porzingis didn't play, doesn't really counting.
That's like, you know, that's like when you get beat
by Syracuse in college football, count as two losses and uh,

(47:28):
the Clemson wouldn't have been in the place. That's what
it should have counted, two loss they didn't belong. How
do you how long do you think it took the
Timberwolves to realize the Clippers might be serious? Like? Did
you don't you think it's a prink caller? First? Okay,
I got this guy. It sounds like Steve Bamber, but
I think it's that Jason Smith show, just playing that
hot dog thing. I mean, you said, I want to
have a gun dogs into the stand, but you don't know.

(47:52):
If you don't ask the longer he placed the call,
they'd have talked to Stormy Daniels longer. No, that's what
you did. You put on a sheet of paper, explore
trade options from Blake Griffin, and then you called the
Timper Wolves. That's like what you've give an intern for
busy work on here? Explore no, no, no, no, no, no,

(48:13):
you gotta justify your jobs in the front office. To
Blake Griffin makes thirty million dollars, Karl Anthony Towns makes
six million exactly. There's and then you have to come
up with the stupid trade has to be within a
certain percentage and dollar amount. So now all of a sudden,
you got a nine for one deal. They never got
to that. Any of that. I'm saying, if it got

(48:36):
down in terms of us having our witty banter about
such a top damn fast, Doc Rivers is gonna put
out a statement after after tonight and say, oh, that
in turn was not allowed to make phone calls. I
don't know how lex faul it's no longer has access
to an outsideline, just gonna be filing stuff. You know,
that phone call was not supposed to go until we
figured out you know who else we'd have to throw

(48:58):
in and make the money work in the salaries match
where it's Lou Williams or somebody else. Clippers aren't sending
anybody else. There's gotta be nine guys coming back. They're
gonna be bringing back Timberwolves. Here. Here's Christian later put
out a suit. Hey, how put that jersey on to
make the money work? How about you throw in Wiggins?
But why don't we do that hot dog gun? Yeah? Oh,

(49:20):
and you know and give us Jimmy Buckets that that
money is good for Blake Griffin. We're gonna take Kevin
Garnett and his trash talking Tom Googliata comes out of retirement.
Oh does he come with Kendall? Oh? Now you think
Kendall goes to Minnesota and the future to the way
Kendall's gonna Minnesota, This relationship is over. Certain listen, certain

(49:44):
star relationships would not survive certain locations, and anyone from
sunny southern California. That's why I can't believe Aaron Rodgers
Olivia moundated so long. I mean, she's in green Bay
off the time for half the fall. I mean, oh
my god, it's Green Bay. Are you dismay? And how
about a fresh of the Midwest really comes out guest

(50:08):
face you have? Of course I'll say it. He'll say, oh, hey,
you know you're right, man. But you think about life
in life in Green Bay, where there's never anything close
to a traffic jam, Because a traffic update in Green
Bay is there's a car in the freeway headed south.
You mean a tractor? Wow? Oh, but I'm in trouble
with Green Bay. He was. He was speaking in facts,

(50:31):
that was there was nothing pejorative or hateful about the
way he said that. You know, you came across as
elitist and derisive and hateful towards the good people in
the cold Midwest. Stop with that. Stop. Really, we're not
going to that super Bowl. That's the right. The Jets
aren't calling. It's okay, but I know plenty of them
will be on radio row hot product. What are you

(50:52):
talking about? I mean, I get that you have to
explore stuff, but really, at certain points, you know, it
looked this right again, we're talking about this basketball Insiders,
uh with a with a breaking story that the Clippers
tried to trade Blake Griffin to the Minnesota Timberwolves in
exchange for Karl Anthony Towns. You couldn't get that out
without almost laughing. And what did I say in the

(51:13):
offseason you had to choose between Chris Paul and Blake Griffin.
All right, I'm not a big fan of Blake Griffin.
They gave him a lot of money when they didn't
have to five years one and seventy three and how
there ready to trade? And now how tradeable is Blake Griffin?
Zero zero? You can't because he gets hurt all the
time and they can't and he's proven that you can't

(51:35):
win with him. That was the worst content they I
said last year, what was my strategy for the Clippers?
Let everybody go and start over, clear the decks, suck
for this year, and then at the end of this year,
you can say, hey, Lebron, don't worry about LaVar and
the Lakers all that stuff. Come here, Who do you want?
Who do you want? Getting two other guys and we'll
come here and the Clippers are yours will suck for
this year. Bring two guys with you. We'll have a

(51:57):
high draft pick, because certainly with all our bad play,
y're gonna have Williams and nobody else. I told you that,
I told you this should have been the Clippers, right
And now look at what they're doing. They're sucking anyway,
and now now they're stuck with Blake Griffin, absolutely stuck
just under five right now. The last week or two
have been occupied with a lot of thought pieces about
where DeAndre Jordan's should be playing his next basketball Cleveland

(52:21):
seems to be where a lot of people are are circling,
so they'll they'll dump him somewhere. Sure, some kind of
defend Ron James will start complaining it's coming. And then
DeAndre Jordan that sounded like Baltimore. It sounded like it's drive.
Why why he looks pained when he does it, That's why.

(52:44):
So I'm thinking there might actually be some people are
trying to enjoy their weekend. Well that's how they do it,
and then they raise a glass to the impression. I'm
going to trade for you now. DeAndre Jordan's dred Jordan's
I've been talking about training him a lot with Blake
Griffin when we were on there when they announced the
contract extension, and you're looking, we're looking at each other,

(53:05):
We're looking at Frostburg saying, hey, get a fourth or
eighth source on that, because those numbers don't make any
sense for a guy who misses big chunks of seasons.
And even though his game has improved, he given credit
for the fact that long long ago he was just
a dunker, no mid range game, no moves, you know,
no spacing at all. That he's improved his game vastly,

(53:26):
but he can't stay healthy for a stretch run. And
so when they decided to blow things up and we
had all the rumor, conjecture and speculation about what was
going on behind the scenes with Chris Paul, that was
the first domino to fall. And you look at you know,
aging point guard. But what what's happened in Houston? All
they do is win and win and with or with all. Yeah,

(53:50):
I wasn't trying to get you. This is like Lithuania
calling the Knicks saying, we'll try your LaMelo ball for Porzingis.
Welcome to the way the beautiful basket fall again. Pick
up the phone, make sure you dial the right country. Callo,
this is Lithuania. If you like a horse meat sandwich,
hold on and press one. If you want Porzingis, hold

(54:12):
on and press too, like the Lorser goes on the fire.
If you'd like Porzingis riding the horse, press the pounds.
And I've written a new hip, not a dance track.
I'm waiting for that meme to come of Porzingis riding
a horse right now. Oh go good, good, very arrival

(54:33):
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(54:57):
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(56:01):
What's happening, sir? Hey, what's up guys? What you're doing? Okay, tonight,
buddy or what house things? I'm good, I'm good. I'm
just watching that. You know, I was watching that Houston
Phoenix game, Jason, and it made me think about you.
That's why I tweeted what I tweeted. That's hot. You know,
you know you and I can go round and round
on the system quarterback. Just I'm just I keep getting

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confused by it. I still have confused to go down there. Now,
we have plenty of time. I can explain this to
you really quick. Steph Curry, as good as he is,
is a system quarterback, he was. He was an all
star caliber players first five years in league. His team
went nowhere. Steve Kerr shows up and suddenly institutes his

(56:43):
own system of cutting screens movement, and now the Warriors
are unbeatable. Same thing in San Antonio, Greg Popovich. Whether
guys like Kawai Leonard player don't play, they still win games.
They still be teams you throw out. The Rockets win
whether James Harden or Chris Paul is out of the lineup.
That proves my point. Mike D'Antoni, there's the pre Mike

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D'Antoni in Houston and post Mike D'Antoni and Houston. He
has come in with his up tempo, high octane offensive
system and it works. Players who are really good see
a spike when the right system comes along for them.
Would Stephen Curry be this player if he was still
playing for Mark Jackson somebody else. Now, he'd be a
be an All Star caliber player. But he's inflated into

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being this great because of the system that was put
in by the coach. When you see teams do that
and they start suddenly achieving it, winning sixty six five games,
you can't just tell me a player got it ef
he was in the league for seven years. See this
is where we're We're what I said because you're saying tomato,
I'm saying tomato because let me just tell you what

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goes through my head when you say system quarterback. When
I hear system quarterback, what it means to me is
that quarterback could not survive at any other system. Like
it's either that system or that quarterback is worthless. And
so I guess when I hear you say quarterback, system,
I think that you're saying that Steph Curry is worthless.
But no, what you're really saying is that the system

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amplifies in the impact of Steph Curry. Might right, is
that amplifies the impact? Yeah, okay, yeah, we agree with
that on that now. No, No, I said, It's just
you're saying it differently than I would, because, like I said,
my connotation for system quarterback is you're saying that a
guy sucks. Like I don't know who would be a

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guy over the years, don't Smith Well, Smith hasn't survived
and he hasn't thrived at any scheme for crying out.
I don't know. He hasn't got well though, I can
I take that back. I I think of a guy
top of my head, you think it well, Jimminy Christmas
again ever survived? Man? I don't know if they've ever

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well I mean, Nick Foles is actually a guy that
you could say is the system quarterback, because he seemed
to if only had played well in one system, you
know what I'm saying, which was under Chip Kelly, and
so like Colin cap bernick is a system quarterback. Like
you have to play him in a read option you
can in read option offense. You can't play him as
a traditional drop back quarterback r G three. There we go. So, yeah,

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when I'm thinking of quarterback systems our system quarterback, I'm
thinking of a guy that can only survive and be
viable in one scheme. But you're not saying that about
step You're already acknowledging that he's really good. You're just
saying the scheme makes him that much better, which is
you're exactly right, and that's the case for every single Okay, Okay,
I get it now, Okay, we're actually agreeing, Tomato. Tomato,
I tell you, it's like playing in an offensive system

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and playing in Jeff Fisher's offensive system. Yes, she doesn't
have an offensive system anymore, he done. Yeah, but I'm
just saying he kept on delegating that to somebody else
that just can never figure it out. But I get you.
I I know what you're saying. Yeah, okay, now we're
we're good though, Okay, because I I take so much
offense to it, because I think Stef's phenomenal player regardless.

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But you're not even saying that. So now that's why
I meant when I was confused, Now you can up
my my confusion way to beaj We're we're talking with
Brady Papenga. He's on Twitter at Brady Papega. That is
at Brady Papenga. You want to talk about system quarterbacks
with him, but we'll talk about the playoff games coming
up this weekend. Let's start with Saturday. We got Falcons, Eagles,
Tomorrow Titans, Patriots. You know my philosophy and looking at

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games like this and now is a defensive player. I'm
sure this you'll disagree with me. Is that at this point,
if there's a difference in the quarterback play, when you're
talking about two quarterbacks against each other, I'm always gonna
go with the better quarterback. I'm I'm gonna go with
Matt Ryan and the Falcons over Nick Foles in the Eagles.
I'm gonna go with Tom Brady and the Patriots. Over
Marcus Mariota and the Titans on Saturday. It's I mean,

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lately it's worked. I mean, if you look at the
number of Super Bowl champions starting with my team back
in two thousands ten, when Aaron got hot, uh, Eli
Manning the following year got hot, Joe Flackle the next year.
It sort of kept on going as a matter of fact.
And so quarterbacks tend to at least in the recent
history until the Broncos, you know, a couple of year
is going paid Manning and and brock Os while they're

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that duo was really poor and they were carried by
their defense. It was that was the case. So yeah,
I would say over the last you know, five to
ten years, the best quarterback play. Trump's everything else and
Matt Ryan's playing good. But to me, the strength of
that Atlanta Falcons team is that defense. Their defense has
been a shut down, suffocating defense. Uh, not only this
last game versus the Rams, but also through the last

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half of the season. And so to me, I look
at the Falcons of being the favorite in that game
because they are as a team playing with that urgency
that is necessary to win in the playoffs. See right
now that the Eagles. They don't know what that means.
They don't know what that's about, and they're gonna figure
that out really quick. And the quicker they adjust to it,
the better odds they're going to have to win. I

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remember back in two thousands and seven when we had
to buy we took it. Took us a quarter to
figure out, you know, this is the urgency that needs
that you need to have in order to win. We
ended up starting the game four teen zero down to
the Seattle Seahawks, and we ended up ripping off forty
two in some winning forty two twenty at the end
of the day. But we still have that slow start,
and so I would imagine that's gonna happen the Eagles.

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But to me, the Falcons are playing so well that
even if the Eagles do find it that urgency, I
don't it's almost gonna be like the Rams game. I
don't know if they'll be able to get back into it.
And I look at the Atlanta Falcons advancing to the
NFC Championship game. Look at that. Taking your theory you
just agree with, Oh yeah, I was. I was going

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contry and that the Eagles defense would be able to
slow down Matt Ryan, that they'd be able to neutralize
the run to a degree and put him in bad situations.
I could see that, But I look at like I said,
right now, I look at that Atlanta Falcons defense. They're
starting to get to this level of suffocation to where
they are just dominating. And it's almost like if the

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Eagles defense goes out and does like you said, which
I think is fully possible, it's still I look at
that Atlanta Falcon defense, they're still a notch a head
right now of the Eagles, like they're gonna dominate just
that little much more than the Eagles defense, which I
could see being the difference of the game and the
probability of that happened. Happening is you know up there,
I'd say a little higher, because you're going against the

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guy and Nick Foles, who, in order to win against
that Falcons defense is going to have to fit the
ball in tight windows because they were in so much
man to man. That requires tremendous timing and tremendous chemistry,
which unfortunately Nick has not had with this receiving corder
because he's been working predominantly with all the backup guys.
Whereas Carson Wentz is working with these starters, and so

(01:03:33):
he just doesn't have the luxury of all that time
that's needed in order to be able to go out
and be on the same page and be able to
consistently beat this defense with tight coverages. And that's where
I see the difference is just that the Falcons defense
will play a notch better than the Eagles, which, like
I said, will be the difference of the game. We'll see,
all right, fill in the blank for me on this.
Then the Titans beat the Patriots if what okay, basically,

(01:03:58):
what they're gonna have to do is we're gonna have
to take a little page out of Rex Ryan's playbook there,
Jason back to the Jets where Ryan would remember he
would always save something for Tom Brady. He always comes
back to feat this is my favorite visit with you
ever Brady. Oh, by the way, well yeah, well yeah,
but it's true though. If you look at the Jets
when they were able to beat the New England Patriots

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in the playoffs, they would shock him with the scheme.
And you know who did that a couple of years
ago was the Baltimore Ravens. The Baltimore Ravens shocked him
with the scheme, but all and behold, the Patriots then
did a little kind of well, we'll up you one
and we'll shock you with the scheme when they started
lining up offensive lineman ineligible positions and then eligible players
and offensive lineman positions, and they screwed up. The Baltimore

(01:04:42):
Ravens defense in the NFL was like, oh, jeez, Bill Belichick,
Josh mcgannels, again, you're too smart. We're gonna have to
make that formation illegal, which they did, but again it
caused a lot of problems. That actually was the reason
why the Pats ended a beat in the Ravens. So
that's what the Times are gonna have to do. They're
gonna have to take that little page at a rex
Shrin's book and show Brady he's something he's never seen,
which are it's gonna probably be coverage, you know, show

(01:05:03):
him a ton of coverage, drop nine guys and then
at times bring five guys, and then make it look
exactly the same and play the cat mouse game and
see if you can't catch him a couple of times
so or he just can't get a read pre snap
on what you're gonna do and then they're gonna have
to just pound the ball with Chris Hendry to the
point to where Tom Brady has so limited amount of
possessions that he freaks out that he gets looking at

(01:05:26):
the scoreboard, looking at all those stats that he's not
usually you know that he's usually accumulating, but he's not
seeing today, and then he starts to press a little bit.
He's getting those nine man coverages. He starts to try
to throw it into tight coverage, those kinds of thing.
I mean, look, the chance is there. It's just not
a very good chance that the jack that the jack's
but the Titans are gonna be able to pull that off.
But there is a plan. It's it is something that

(01:05:47):
has worked in the past. It's just, like I said,
highly unlikely that it's going to get the Patriots this time.
So there's the Saturday Games. Great stuff from Brady on that.
In one minute, we'll take a look at the Sun
Day Divisional round, but first let's find out what's trending
right now with Mr Tom Looney. Well, maybe we all
oh of our ball and apologies sorry, he told us

(01:06:08):
the Lakers coach Luke Walton had lost the team and
maybe true. That's a scuttle butt, rumbling bubble and stumbling
on the world wide web tonight and on television that
Luke Walton maybe hanging out of his job by a
tiny little hair and his chinny chin chin. I'm talking
to agents, I'm talking to executives, and they're like, yeah,
they're attaching David Fizdale's name to the Laker job already.

(01:06:28):
That's what happens. You don't back up your guy, you
open up the window and now these rumors are pouring out.
It was the NBA inside of Brian Windhorse. He said
that on TV, so it must be true. Developing hot
dot dot dot. Most exciting NBA game of the night
so far anyway, Kev's Pacers. It came down to the
final show passed the length of the floor, James has it,
he turns and he missed it off the back of

(01:06:51):
the rim. Boy James is about the only player in
the league that could have even come close to that.
He caught the ball facing the Indiana inch over on
the fire sideline and as he twisted in midair, he
actually got off a three point shot that clanked off
the back of the rim at Indiana beats Cleveland seven Tonight,

(01:07:12):
Mark Broil with the word pictures Indiana Pacers Radio Network
one game still in progress in the Valley of the Sun,
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more swash buckling sports talk with Jason Smith, Michael Harmon,
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(01:07:35):
Live from the Get Go Studios called nine four seven
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We're breaking down all the divisional playoff games with Super
Bowl champion Fox Sports One, Fox Sports deport Taste, NFL
analyst Brady Papinga. We talked Saturday. Now it's time to
get to Sunday and we'll kick things off. Brady, before

(01:07:57):
you get to the big one Saints Vikings, Jags in
the Steelers. You know he we watched earlier this year,
the Jaguars dismantle the Steelers and wind going away cannot
actually happen again, no question, because it's a matchup. I
should say it's it's a function of a matchup because
when you look at that defense of the Jags with

(01:08:19):
their two top corners and boo ye and Ramsey, they're
basically able to They can't eliminate Antonio Brown, and he's
but when he's or questionable like he is right now,
unless he's playing possum, which is a very possible idea.
You've heard all the news about him that very melt
that very well, maybe coming from the Steelers camp to
try to sort of get the Jaguars to take their

(01:08:41):
card down. Just a little food for thought there. But
having said that, the way that the Jags play defense
just presses all the hot buttons of that Steeler's offense
because it requires Ben to have to fit tight through
or fit throws in the tight windows, which he can do.
They do with a tremendous proficiency. It's he wants to
go deep and they're so good at giving him this

(01:09:04):
like single high look, which in his world with if
you're brand Ben Roethlisberger, you have an automatic trigger, which
is when you see single high deep safety mean one
safety into millfield, you're going Antonio Brown on a go route.
And guess what, you can only do that so much.
You can only go there so much against the Jags because,
like I said, it doesn't matter if you're booty on
Antonio Brown. If you have Ram's Antonio Brown, they're gonna

(01:09:25):
defend him. Well, they're gonna make him earn every single
one of those go routes and how baby catch one.
But after you throw five or six of them, you know,
now you gotta go somewhere else, and it gets him
out of rhythm. It gets them out of what they
want to do, which is pushed the ball down field
and then you flip it over. And in the game
against the jack of Steelers in week five, I mean,
the Jaguars just methodically pounded the ball and then yes,

(01:09:48):
Blake Borrels made some throws, especially on third down and long,
he had some nice throws. Again, he's gonna have to do
do this so that it's not out of the realm
of the possibility. The same thing that we saw in
week five, how beens not to the same dominating, shocking degree.
But in terms of Jacksonville knocking off the Patriots, which
by the way, I am picking the Jags in that game,

(01:10:10):
Jack's Pittsburgh one of those games will be watching and
certainly uh Pittsburgh being the in the news for a
ton of other reasons. Brady talking about Antonio Brown and
the illness but lady on Bell and I'm retiring and
walking taking my ball and going home and all this stuff.
This team that you beat at Jerry's Palace all those
years ago, and you get to wear your Super Bowl ring. Uh,

(01:10:32):
Suddenly it just seems like things have gone crazy. Todd
Haley's got a hip injury after a brew haha New
Year's Eve that may or may not have really involved
him or his wife. For all the stories that they're
trying to push out. If they lose this, this send
everything fractured. Yeah, I mean they're people get fired. Probably

(01:10:54):
thought Haley would be the first one to get fired. Well,
I think Ben's already setting that up right by talking
about retiring and walking away himself. Well, I'm telling you
he's not the most popular. Like I shouldn't say not
the most popular. I'd say he's a very difficult guy
to like. And it's just it's just as mad as
mannerisms the way he is. And I mean just and
it's not that I've ever interacted with him personally. I
have just you know, been in touch with so many

(01:11:16):
guys that have either worked with him or been on
the same team with him as their head coach or
offensive coordinator. And he's just a tough guy to like
and and and unfortunately he's really good at his business.
But that factor of being like a bowl is huge.
When all of a sudden, like you said, the wheels
fall off and you're looking for somebody to sort of
send a message or be the guy who is your

(01:11:37):
your your message sender by you have to you know,
fire the guy. Don't everybody know there needs to be changes.
That's the first guy you go do. You go to
the guy who's the toughest guy to be around. And
so I would imagine if, yeah, if the wheels fall
off against the Jags, then yes, there and I wouldn't
doubt if something happened, you know, if they ended up
getting through this week, beating the Jags and facing the
Patriots in the n FC Champions of Game and they
still lose, that I wouldn't imagine that could all some

(01:12:00):
grounds for some big changes offensively, you know, getting rid
of thought or what have you. But yeah, there's a
lot of swirling around. But I look at the Steelers,
not to the same degree, but very similar to the
Patriots that they're a veteran enough team and experienced enough
team to where it doesn't really FaZe him. If anything,
it almost adds fire to they're already existing burning flames
of fire. You know. It almost makes it to where

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they have that much more of an edge going out
into the game. So they're not a team that's a
you know, one of these fragile teams that where this
kind of stuff, these distractions beforehand can break them. I
look at them more like it's something that actually builds
them up. Although it's yeah, it is kind of weak
with Lebian's doing because he is sort of trying to
take his team hostage, you know, as he's leading up
to the divisional game to negotiate a contract, which I

(01:12:46):
find pretty weak at this time of year. Go play
the game, don't don't risk, you know, making any extra distractions.
Then it is necessary to try to get yourself paid.
Because he didn't get paid anyway, let's be I mean,
come on, if you get that tag again, what is
it ten million? So you get another ten alien guaranteed? Boo?
Who you know? Go Crimeer river Alright, Game of the
Week Vikings and the Saints Drew brees Case Keenum. How

(01:13:07):
does this one turn out? I'm liking the Saints man
I really was impressed with their defense because I've seen
him with Lattimore and Crawley out of the lineup. When
they played the Rams, they were completely different. I mean,
they just couldn't do the same things that they can
do with those two cornerbacks, especially Lattimore. He is an
emerging star. They hit a home run with him. He

(01:13:28):
makes it to where their defense can do all sorts
of fun, crazy stuff like we saw last week and
that fourth and long with the Carolina Panthers, they're trying
to win the game, they send a safety blitz that
took some kneis, which looked it up in Dispatch Dictionary
means courage slang uh to call that blitz, you know.
But you only do that because you got some shut

(01:13:49):
down corners that you know are gonna hold up when
they're on an island. And they're able to do that
throughout the game. And so that's a plus. And then
I thought it fascinating that the Carolina Panthers not imagine
maybe the Vikings with toy around with this idea too,
is they put it on Drew Brees. They're like, hey,
we're gonna we're gonna try to contain these two running
backs with Kamara and Ingram and we're gonna put it
on you, breez. We're gonna see if you could beat

(01:14:10):
us in long baho. I mean he just gashed him
apart like a surgeon. I mean, it was phenomenal with
Drew Brees even. You know what's crazy to One of
the biggest rows of the game by Drew, by the way,
was that fourth and two at the end of the
game where he threw it into triple coverage because he
knew he knew the very least if you threw it
in there, you get some interception hungry defensive back intercepting

(01:14:30):
it on their own thirty and then I have seventy
yards to drive instead of you know what was it
like fifty or sixty where they were located on the
field with that fourth and two, if it ended up
just falling as an interception, and it actually turned out
to be quite a big play because it forced, like
I said, the Carolina Pathers into a long down and
distance to try to tie up to where the defensive
was sack them. But yeah, I mean, they have so
much rolling for them, and offensively they have this like

(01:14:52):
pick your pick your poison. I mean, you can't just
focus on the running backs because Drew is gonna just
Nickel and Dime apart. And then you just can't all
of a sudden go out there and cover and keep
guys back in coverage and not have enough guys up
in the line of scrimmage to handle the running game.
They got, They got a heck of thing going. I mean,
I see a on that NFC side at Atlanta Falcon
uh New Orleans Saints NFC Championship game, which fits with

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what we saw during the regular season, which in the
NFC side of things, the NFC South was the strongest division.
You can fall them on Twitter at Brady Papina, that
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(01:15:36):
I'm sitting in right now. Leave your Twitter. Just don't
leave your Twitter. Can't open this time, don't They'll they'll
tempt me, like you know I'll do. I'll butt wax
this chair for you know, you guys know that I
check everything when I go in there. I checked the seats,
I checked the microphones long times. But I've got in there, man,
and it's been a little you know, but I know
it's not just you, guys. You've got Ben Maller popping

(01:15:57):
in there. But hey, I love it, guys, but I
love every time I going that. I would say what
I always feel your bout, Joe. Alright, but what's the
keyboard for you too? There? You go, take it easy, buddy.
Let's see great stuff there from Brady Pepina. We got
more NFL in away. But coming up next? Could there

(01:16:18):
be a big, huge coaching change in the NBA on
the horizon, I'll tell you about it. Fox, Hi, Hey,
the Lakers could fire Luke Walton. No, no, that former
Jet's head coach, Joe Walton. They could fire Luke Walton

(01:16:42):
and bringing David Fizdale. Yeah, wrong song, wrong song, No,
not Waymon Tisdale, David fid No. Well this could be
in the club Friday night, in the club, yelling song.
Just a different club, Yeah, different club, just just sided
you were feeling a little less Lemmy and motor Head.

(01:17:07):
One club plays the asaspand this is a daytime club.
This yeah, this is one of those clubs you walk
in and take in the morning and go ah, Markie Yeah,
but then it's day shifters, Hey day drinking. I said nothing.
I said nothing against day drinking. Oh day shift. Oh okay,

(01:17:28):
then know what I'm saying? That would that would be
the title of my autobiography, Jason Smith. Day Drinking, Day
Drinking the movie, or you know that could be our
podcast day you want to be on the Day Drinking podcast.
We could get people on that whole time because we
give him drinks. Just talk. That's what it is. Look
at what we found out from Jay Glazer this week

(01:17:50):
when he was out for drinks with the biggest story
of the week this week, Bruce Harry's just messing around
with people. Uh. According to ESPN's Brian Windhorst, the Lakers
could be eyeing a coaching move replacing Luke Walton with
David Fizdale. Take that for data. A couple of things.

(01:18:17):
I will you were coach, got fired, and now the
Lakers may want you. Number one. Postgame press conferences will
be a lot more fun. Listen to David Fizdale. Number
two tone look will see an increase in purchases on
iTunes number three, my over under a February one for
Luke Walton getting fired. The underwill come in and look

(01:18:40):
what had we told you the whole time? LaVar Ball
was gonna drive a rod of division between the players
and the Lakers. And here he is players who want
to play for Luke Walton anymore. Some players are defending him.
A Lonzo Ball wouldn't really defend Luke Walton. And here
you have stories. The Lakers are looking at replacements. Of
course they are. They can't be allowed to continue to

(01:19:01):
play this poorly, even though they have won three in
a row. They can't be allowed to continue to play
this poorly because it's been five seasons of just suck
and you need something, and you got all the great
young players in and now, oh wait, these great young
players that we thought were great players are not ending
in wins and maybe they're not playing as hard as
they need to. And now all look, LaVar Ball is right.

(01:19:21):
And now because LaVar Ball has sped up this process,
now suddenly, okay, we gotta make a move, and David
Fizdal could be the guy I like, I like. I
hate to say I told you so, but I told
you so well, I I really would have thought that
at some point, once once you got rid of Jim Bust,
that someone would be in charge, and someone would actually

(01:19:44):
be in a leadership role and and give you, you know, leadership,
which you haven't had because anybody, well there's that too.
But has anybody come out and really gone after these
last counting know you see b Lincoln, Magic Johnson in
the tunnel. Genie Buss isn't saying anything about no one

(01:20:05):
said Lucas, our guy Lucas. Not even the the bogus
vote of confidence has been out there. Kuzma loves him.
Some of the players. Alonzo Ball, he took the middle
root ground exactly where he expected him to and and
I think he got a free pass. That's where I
was most disappointed with folks locally and nationally that it

(01:20:26):
became all about the reaction of other coaches to this,
the carlysle and and the Popovich and everybody else, and
Steve Kerr most notably as as he looked down from
his high tower about what you should and should watch
on television or listen to. But for Alonzo Ball, I
I fully anticipated that he did at least say you

(01:20:48):
know what, I'm learning a lot from Luke. Now he
just and I'll play for and he got an absolute
free pass and yeah, and of course the only guy
defending miss Couza because Kuzma's trusted by Luke Walt. He was,
you know, he's a late round pick and something. Now
he's a But you got no veteran in the locker
room to make this works in a row, baby, because

(01:21:09):
nine losses every day, because that's it's Lavark what happened.
They wouldn't have won games if LaVar didn't say anything
all the way from Lithuania. He's coaching the team from Lithuania. Yeah,
and had the Jets not thrown in the fix, they
went into one Super Bowl in nineteen sixty nine. Hey, hey,
you know you still having chiefs earlier this year? You

(01:21:33):
were from what they got nothing? They still went home.
I I can't. I was making salient points. You guys
decided to have a side conversation with your microphone shot
the hell's going on around here? Might as well have
tight shirt just started singing as well, I mean, what
the hell? Not that the data can be fun, But
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You guys just added you're gonna talk about freaking Super
Bowl three anniversary. You got into kicker talk and beating

(01:22:20):
the Chiefs forty nine years ago. Today the Jets won
the supermot two years ago. Batman did the bat too.
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a visit to Vegas find out how the lines have
moved for all the action coming up in the NFL.
This weekend odds that David Fizdale becomes the next head
coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, And I gotta say

(01:23:28):
this tight shirt. You know, I keep saying too soon
for Fizdale, too soon, but we will have played it
long enough and it will just weave right into him
getting hired by the Lakers again. Do you think maybe
we have the LaVar Ball effect and we've spoken into existence.
That's nicely done. You bring him in, you bring in
your big free agents. Now there's rumors of everybody being

(01:23:49):
dealt Uh, Lebron, would you be okay if we brought
David Fizdale in next year? Is that all right? Lebron's? Yeah?
I thought you were going to our Major League Baseball
in the back, Jim in the back with the tie
on his head. H one tweet. Don't want to get
to a real quick you speaking to LaVar Ball before
you get to the night in the NBA um Jason

(01:24:13):
Cheten says, I don't get that LaVar drop you always play.
You say, he's saying, I'm out, I hear bummer? I
need context? How do you hear bummer? I like it, though,
if labar Ball started saying bumer, that guy needs hearing
as doesn't strike me as a guy I would never
say bummer. But I like that interpretation. It's not a
fascinating I don't get bummer on that, oh not even

(01:24:36):
in the same realm er. No, I don't. I don't
understand his fear or any of that. I don't think
we have to categorically dismiss it. If he's hears what
he hears how many tearing? How many times? How many
times do I say something brilliant and he clearly hears
something different, Well, he just hears mats met that the
filter in his brain that used to be a thing.

(01:24:58):
Pam would say to me, you don't list anything. I say, yes,
I do. No, you know, because all you do is
walk around house. I'm talking to you when you're in
your head is going Curtis Martin, Curtis Martin, jets jets, Jets, Jets,
jets Jet. I said you still he had to physically, Yeah, Well,
I knew the thing is though, I knew that would
be creepy. I knew there was there was no one.

(01:25:18):
Can we go back to Should we go back to
Super Bowl week in Minnesota and see if we can
recreate that moment? No? Please, No, she just walked around
the house and go Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets Jets. Like
in the Simpsons, no one walks around thinking about sports
all the time. Sports, sports, sports, sports and food. Food.
There is that. A big night in the NBA, we

(01:25:39):
saw the Cavaliers lose once again. They blow a twenty
two point lead in the second half. Indiana Pacers Land
Stevenson is scoring and agitating. Lebron James got a technical,
stepped out of bounds on the final play of the
game when a basket could have tied it. Still relax,
It's the middle of January. Things are fine. The Cavaliers

(01:26:00):
could lose five or seven in a row. It doesn't matter.
It's the middle of the season and lost date of eleven.
Fake drama. This is all fake because when they're in
the finals in June, you're gonna forget remember in January,
when a lot of trouble doesn't matter. The Warriors beat
the Bucks tonight on the road by fourteen without Steph

(01:26:24):
Curry system quarterback. This is where all the Steph Curry
apologist who say no, he really is one of the
top three players in the NBA says, well, if we
had Stefanie would have beat him by twenty five. We
didn't have only one by fourteen. Steph is terrific. But
as we talked about with Brady Papenga, his stats, his numbers,
his value is inflated with the system he plays in.

(01:26:46):
You could say the same thing for Kawhi Leonard, the
same thing for James Harden, same thing for Chris Paul.
All guys who are really good players, and Steph Curry
is was an All Star caliber player before Steve kersh
it up. And then suddenly, now wait, we're three finals
in rowan one too out of the last three championships.
System quarterback. It's fun to watch at this point in

(01:27:07):
the season. What becomes fodder? Right, So the Cavaliers losing tonight,
it becomes Land Stevenson's and Lebron James head. James steps
out of bounds, gets called for a technical. That really
is just two guys doing what guys guys do on
a court. These do what guys do these are guys
I just it, okay, walk up there and tell them

(01:27:29):
to stop it, give him the warning, do all that nonsense,
and then move on the fact that you call the
technical foul. And now it becomes a talking point. And
Lebron had had a great quote about it in terms
of the retaliation penalties that you've seen in the NFL,
all sports, and certainly going back to your own junior
high days when you would be the one busted by

(01:27:52):
the teacher, you know, after you you know, shot the
spit ball back at your friend. But you look at
these stories, the would be trade rumors that go out there,
we start spinning that wheel along the way that here
in early January, you're trying to get people fired up
about the NBA. Right, regular season, as most say, starts

(01:28:15):
on Christmas Day. So now we're three or four weeks in,
we take the snapshot. What have you seen right now?
The sky is falling for the Cavaliers. All these defensive metrics,
all the advanced analytics, Look how terrible they are. They
can't guard anybody, they can't do this, they can't do that.
What are they fourth in the conference? Third the Conference? Oh,

(01:28:36):
sky is falling Isaiah Thomas didn't play tonight, Jode Wade
didn't play tonight. Thomas won't be playing the second side
of Back to Backs for a while. I mean, you
just go on down the line. There's all these different
events that that conspire to to give us some of
these storylines and and fabricated trade scenarios. One agent just saying, hey,

(01:28:59):
this could be on run with that se see where
that goes. So we've got a bunch of those stories
flowed down in the news. And you know, for the Warriors,
the beat goes on whether they win by fourteen or
twenty seven. Steph Curry could sit with the anklely sprained
by slipping in a puddle here in rainy southern California.
It did. People saw that everything very serious situations. But

(01:29:22):
the people back back east and you know, the frigid
what is it, the windshill wind chill road, windshill road trip,
people experiencing that they don't believe, they believe the song
that it doesn't rain in southern California, and they lied,
And it don't rain in Minneapolis in the summer time,
the summer to Twitter, right, how about a fresco the

(01:29:42):
Jason Smiths Show with Michael Harmon. No, no, what, No,
it's not, it's not we're not playing the theme from Deliverance.
What I said, Minnesota and you played a banjo expecting
sound Garden feeling settle, but the song is feeling No,

(01:30:03):
I did well, right, but the song is looking California.
Play mark from Minnesota. Right, so is Scott Shapiro Go Vikings.
But there is this story as well, according to Basketball Inside,
a story broken by Michael Scotto has been on the
show before with us. The Los Angeles Clippers proposed a

(01:30:26):
blockbuster trade to the Minnesota Timberwolves, where they offered Blake
Griffin in exchange for his name is Johnson. They were
rebuffed as they offered Blake Griffin in trade to the
Timberwolves four camp. You know if this would take that deal,

(01:30:54):
because you know, Blake Griffin would have been like six easy,
David Fizz day, you're coming. I know it's that future's contract,
get him in early. You wouldn't trade Tim Hardaway Junior
for Blake Griffin right now? Oh yeah? For that money. No,
not for that money. Not not for that money. You
don't care. It's not your money. It's giving people other
people's money. No, I yeah, I don't spend other people's money.

(01:31:16):
Don't spend your money very well, what do you mean
I spend money all the time when it comes to
pure Oh yeah, you know I waste money all the time.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Whiskey Horsburgers, Horsburgers. I
really like that Burgers finished off that because I mean,
I know it's the slide over baby out or and everything,

(01:31:37):
but I thought they were going a little bit too far.
Dancing girls, I get all my money A robots are real? Hello,
my name is the robot? Then going and have like
a vacuum. I don't know. Let you when I go
to see tomorrow. I am sorry, I must leave you now.
So the Clippers get turned down offering Blake Griffin in exchange. Hi,

(01:32:00):
I'm Morgan Freeman. And when they offered Blake Griffin, I thought,
if only we could get that knee healthy again and
get him running and jumping to the point where he
wouldn't be a risk every time he stepped on the floor. Yeah,
but Morgan Freeman would quell I don't know what. Oh yeah,

(01:32:20):
he solves problems. People, Okay, come to their senses, Okay,
there are bleak obligations with the human cardboard that is
Blake Griffin, and he's got connections in swat Nail. I
tried to trade him for that little boat. It didn't
work out, so I had a wonderful life at Shaw Shank.

(01:32:43):
Oh whoa. It only took LeVar Ball forty four years
to break out the picture, the picture on his wall
of his three sons, and le Angelo never got out
for stealing those sunglasses in Louis Vuitton prison too, So
everybody was dressed very nicely. And Louis Vuittzon prison, they

(01:33:05):
were wearing really nice shoes. But whoever looks at a
man's shoes. The Clippers were turned down. Look at his
shoes That would ruin the entire end of the movie spoiler.
They look at his shoes? Are they squeaky rubber shoes? Like? Well?
They wanted to see if he was actually wearing Big
Ball or brand shoes, so they never get out. The

(01:33:26):
whole thing is foiled because the Clippers were turned down.
According to basketball insiders, they tried to profer Blake Griffin
in a blockbuster trade for Carl Anthony Towns and it
got turned down. For what you have the Tommy. As

(01:33:50):
soon as they said they hung up. I can't believe
the Clippers actually, I mean, was this an intern that
made a phone call? Hey, you know, Blake is really
good and you, Karl Anthony Towns is really becoming the
guy you wanted when you drafted them two years ago.
Because the last month for Carl Anthony Towns has been awesome.
You had a near triple double tonight. Did he in
turn calling? You know what, Blake's making twenty nine million?

(01:34:12):
How about even Carl Anthony Towns is making six million?
And to make the salaries match, you give us Wiggins
and Jimmy Butler to Nope. You know what this is
is this this goes to all week long. It's been
on constantly his draft day. They were inspired by the
exploits of Sunny Weaver and his ability to go after
that Jacksonville Jaguars. In a movie, I saw a guy

(01:34:36):
make a really crazy trade. Maybe you could happen in
real life. I mean, really, how long do you think
it took the Timberwoolves to go oh no, no no, they're serious,
they're serious about this. Well, three or four minutes because
you have to call someone else into the office. So
you can put them on speaker phone and then you
can all put it on mute so you can have
a good laugh about it. You're not You're not hanging
up immediately. You gotta at least let it breathe a

(01:34:58):
little bit. No, when when you make that trying to
offer you can hung up on. No, you gotta let
it breathe. Them be shocked if it lasts more than
five because nobody else is believed that that call happened,
then you've you've got to have witnesses. Hey say that again.
Say that again. Hey, guys, come in here, witness Well,
we'll sing for the birthday cake in a second. Come here,

(01:35:19):
and you got the poly calm, and you put it
on mute, and you let them say it again. So
everybody has a good lap. You've improved morale for the
rest of the day. I hate to say I told
you so, But what did I say the Clippers should
do in this offseason? Exercise everybody but Williams and get
rid of everybody. Clear the decks suck this year because

(01:35:41):
you're not winning the championship. Don't get locked into big contracts.
Get rid of Chris Paul, get rid of Blake Griffin,
and then after this year you'll have a high draft pick,
and you say, Lebron, who do you want with you?
You and your two guys. Don't worry about trying to
fit in with the Lakers, and forget about that. Come here,
win here, you'll win a champion chip. With the Clippers,
you will be even more immortal than you are. Now,

(01:36:03):
that's what the Clippers should have done, because right now
they're sucking anyway, and now they're locked into Blake Griffin
because they gave the guy a hundred and seventy million
dollars and now he's untradeable because nobody wants him with
his contract, and and and the fact that who knows
how long he's gonna play until he gets hurt. You
game thirty million dollars year, You were stupid, You were
just came back, came the concussion. How do you not

(01:36:25):
you know just if you had sold that to your team. Listen,
we're clearing the decks this year. We're getting ready for
next summer because Lebron's gonna or somebody will come because
the Clippers are a destination. Now, Steve Balmer, it's cool
to be a Clipper, all right. You can come here
and it's Los Angeles. It's not like, boy, you're on
the Donald Stirling Clippers and it's the Doctor Bus Lakers.
It's different. You could have reloaded in one season instead,

(01:36:48):
Now you are absolutely stuck. I told the Clippers, I
said they should do this. They didn't listen to me.
At some point, Someone's gonna listen at some point and
feed more rumors into the media about wanting your own
facility and everything, because then the l A media would
be chasing that instead of what you did to your team.
Twitter at how about a Fresco I could have remade
the Clippers in one season. Coming up next, we'll head

(01:37:09):
to Vegas. All the latest is David Fizdale the odds
on Manda replaced Luke Walton? Take that? What are the
lines looking like in all the NFL playoff games? All
that more we will David Fizdel I promise Fox there's
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(01:37:50):
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odds maker and Caesar's Turn, co founder, Coast of the
Bet the Board podcast contributors, CBS I and Fox Sports

(01:38:13):
one Race Hub Todd Ferman, Todd, what's happening? Not a
whole heck of a lot, gentlemen. All the dust from
the c e s show out here has settled, and
I'll give credit to the guys on the strip. Trying
to promote for adult establishments. Selling the idea of robots
strippers to grown men is always an intriguing proposition. Okay, alright,
so give me the odds we have robots strippers in

(01:38:33):
the next ten years. I think it's gonna happen in
some capacity even sooner than that. I mean, you look
at the popularity of anime and some of the other
things for folks that have weird obsessions, So why not
a robots stripper? Although not quite sure how things are
transpire in the champagne room. If you actually paid the
stripper and you swipe the backside, all right, good luck
trying to get your money back. Well, there's a good

(01:38:54):
chance you probably can at that point. What what, what's
what's gone has gone? You just may have to never mind,
I'm not gonna go there. A family show, the robots, Robots.
All right, let's let's kick the is. It's starting in
a weird spot. I understand that, but let's let's kick
things off here and and and before you get into
the the NFL. If I wanted to lay odds, Luke

(01:39:17):
Walton fired as Lakers head coach, replaced by David Fizdale,
which was first reported earlier tonight. What kind of odds
did I get? It's it's really interesting to try and
keep tabs in the development because I ultimately think Luke
becomes the fall guy for a roster not equipped to
win at this level. There's no veteran leadership out there,
and so when you have a young head coach, it
makes things significantly more difficult. But if the Lakers are

(01:39:39):
going to keep changing who's heading up the regime, I
think they're becoming a one step behind the Cleveland Browns
not developing some of that continuity. But I'll make Luke
about a pick them to survive the remainder of the season.
Some folks I've talked to are more optimistic the Lakers
just using this as a ploy. Others, much like that mindset,
think that it's a formality that Luke will not survive

(01:39:59):
till the end of two thous a team. Well, that's horror.
I'm not taking a pick. I'm I'm not betting that pick.
You're gonna give me better rods than that? Well, I mean,
if you want to name the price that you're looking
to take, that kind of defeats the purpose of me
setting an arbitrary number, does it not? You know what?
You're right? You're actually I have I have a better prop, Jason.
Let's go to this. What happens first, Luke Walton gets
fired as head coach of the Lakers. Or Syracuse scores

(01:40:21):
sixty five points in an ATHEC Conference game. Hey, we'll
score sixty five against Florida State tomorrow. I'll take Syracuse
in the points tomorrow. Absolutely Syracuse. We'll have to see
well to see what happens. But You're exactly right. The
Seminals don't provide a whole lot of defensive opposition, much
like the Lakers. All right, so let's get to the

(01:40:41):
National Football League now as we take a look at
the games on Saturday and Sunday. First, let me say
what stuck out to you the most this week, either
line movement, whatever, from which one of these games. I
think the fact that the Vikings line moved as quickly
as it did. I thought it was a little bit
of an underlay with them opening is a three and
a half point favorite, given some of the injuries for
the Saints are dealing with both on their offensive and
defensive lines, but didn't think it would climb to five

(01:41:04):
nearly as quickly, given the fact that six the tickets
and even more in some locations as far as public
support concerned coming into the scents because they ascribed to
the theory all it takes to win and cover in
the postseason is backing the better quarterback, which clearly didn't
let you down last weekend. As we go, stay in
the the NFC, Atlanta the road favorite against Philadelphia, the

(01:41:24):
indictment of Nick Foles and the bashing. What is it?
Some seventy of tickets or thereabouts for Atlanta. At this point,
I'm all over Philadelphia. It is a very high ratio
of folks believing the Atlanta Falcons redemption narrative that this
team has somehow figured it out after struggling early on
in the season. There now in playoff mode and have

(01:41:44):
been for the last five to six weeks at minimum.
That it's just hey, going up to Philadelphia, winning on
the road and inclement weather is something that Atlanta is
gonna blink and be done with. I'm of the same
mindset as you that I would lean towards Philadelphia, but
at the same time, I'm not running to back the
Eagles by any stretching the imagination either. I think I
look at this total at open forty three and a
half down to forty one, trending even lower than that.

(01:42:07):
Atlanta strength this year has really been the defense. They
struggled to contain opposing running backs catching balls out of
the backfield. But aside from that, I think they can
clamp down on the outside against Philadelphia's receiving corps, and
if the Eagles are going to be successful, it's running
the ball between the tackles. I think the first team
to twenty wins this football game, and it really feels
like type game. You know, one thing I talked about

(01:42:28):
all week on Boy, you know, if I had the Stones,
if I had this, if there was ever a week
I was gonna take all the visiting teams in the
NFL playoffs, this would be the week because I could
see three out of four hot. You need a lot
of help with Tennessee and New England obviously, But what
kind of odds would I get if I said I'd
want all four visiting teams. I mean, you'd be able

(01:42:49):
to get a substantial number if you're looking at parlay
all four of those teams on the road. Of course,
Atlanta the only team installed as a road favorite, but
just betting the Titans on the money line would give
you a healthy turn. So I'm not even sure you'd
want to tie that into a four team er. Um
when if you believe Tennessee can get the job done
in Foxboro, then I'll get you about five five and
a half to one. So all four getting to the window,

(01:43:10):
you're talking about upwards of thirty to forty depending on
the books that you shop around. For that being said,
I think New Orleans is a team that I would
be least confident in going on the road and getting
a victory, knowing the Minnesota defensively is much more stout.
I know Case Keenum has no experience when it comes
to postseason starts. But at the same time, Xavier Rhodes,
who's gonna be an absolute nightmare, and Michael Thomas and

(01:43:31):
really believe that the Saints can't run the football like
they weren't able to last week against Carolina and have
to look towards their secondary and tertiary receiving options not
a recipe for winning road playoff games. And Brandon Coleman
ruled out, But you still have Ted gidd who suddenly
has stick him and Jason sent him years and years
ago Fix Stars Radio. Jason Smith showed me Mike Harmen come,

(01:43:53):
come and give from the Geiko Studios form Rosmaker at
Caesar's Turn, co founder Bet the Board podcast, find that
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Sports One, Race Hub, Are Body Live from Las Vegas,
Todd Ferman at Todd Ferman on Twitter. So as we
go deeper into those games, the Saints, I gotta imagine

(01:44:13):
the prop bets for that game have to be pretty
interesting in terms of individual achievement as we flow towards
the weekend of what you're trying to set for Drew Brees,
who had been such an afterthought at least statistically this
year over past years, and what he can do against
that Vikings secondary. Oh, there's there's no doubt about it.

(01:44:34):
And a lot of times when it comes to prop bets,
whether it's the regular season, whether it's the playoffs, or
of course the Super Bowl, which we'll talk in greater
detail about, you know a few short weeks from now,
you want to figure out how that game is going
to unfold on the field. Because it sounds counterintuitive, but
you oftentimes want to bet players going over their projected
numbers if that's the team you think that's going to
be playing from behind, So Drew Brees over completions, over yards,

(01:44:57):
et cetera. Because I think the Saints are gonna be
chasing the Vikings all day, they may have to abandon
the run game, so you look to go under on
Kamar and Ingram and look to go over on brief. Now,
if you think New Orleans wins the game, then maybe
you're not so inclined to make those best because if
they're playing from in front, they're gonna want to try
and shorten the game and establish a ground presence. I
think that for a lot of recreational betters is a
tough concept to try and grasp. Whereas, if you think

(01:45:20):
the Patriots are gonna blow out the Titans, I'm not
betting Tom Brady to throw for four hundred yards because
they're gonna check down. They're gonna run with Dion Lewis
late in the game and just try and get out
of dodge victorious. You can fall them on Twitter at
Todd Ferman, That is at Todd Fermin r Man in
Laws Vegas. Todd has always appreciated buddy, we we'll talk
to you soon. And and oh wait wait, Odds that

(01:45:40):
Army wins their lawsuit against the Golden Knights, you know what,
it would be an a laborate ploy given the fact
that stores in this fine city can't keep Knights merchandise
on the shelves. So if Bill Folly has a piece
in all this, knowing his ties to Army wouldn't shock
me if he was looking for a secondary merchandise. It's
a good looking logo yeah, all right, see you, buddy,
fun it's odd we can boy boy. You know, the

(01:46:01):
Army needs money. Let's sue the Golden Knights. They do
advertise a lot. Maybe that's money that could be saved.
All the Army doesn't advertise ye brought to you by
the Army. But that's my point. That's a lot of
money being spent on advertising that maybe you don't need.
I mean, but the Armies in every mall. I mean,

(01:46:22):
I can't go on a mall here. I get that
Golden Night stuff, but you have all the Hey come
play a video game? Are somewhat problematic? Twitter, and how
about a Fresca Mike ad swollen Dome send those tweets
to him. Coming up next, we'll pick all four of
the divisional playoff games this weekend. And trust me, it

(01:46:44):
is very very simple to pick this week how why
I'll tell you a minute. But first, a guy who
always makes it simple because if there's a name he
can't pronounce, he just leaves it out. Thank you. He
is Tom Low. Absolutely. However, I can say Yanna center
to Compo because I wanted to be the guy. No,
you got written up for that because you weren't Tom
you've left the Bucks out of every update to the

(01:47:07):
last twelve months. You have to start scores a lot
of tittle tattle on a chatter, rumbling, bubbling, stumbling on
the Worldwide Web tonight and on television and radio. Luke
Walton maybe hanging onto his job by a tiny little
hair and his chinny chin chin. He's currently the coach
of the l A lag talking agents, I'm talking to

(01:47:27):
executives and they're like, yeah, they're attaching David Fizdale's name
to the Laker job already. That's what happens. You don't
back up your guy, you open up the window. And
now these rumors are pouring out. That's NBA inside of
Brian Windhorse and he said it on TV, so it
must be true. David David Fizzdale is the former coach
of the Memphis Grizzlies. That story developing hot dot dot

(01:47:49):
dot most exciting NBA game of the night Friday night,
Cabs Pacers came down of the final ship long passed
the length of the floor. James has it, He turns
and missed it off the back with a boy. James
is about the only player in the league that could
have even come close to that. He caught the ball
facing the Indiana bench older on the far sideline, and

(01:48:11):
as he twisted in mid air, he actually got off
a three point shot that clanked off the back of
the rim at Indiana Beats Cleveland Extended Dance Remix and
Mark Boyle on Indiana Pacers Radio Network. Calves gagged away
at twenty two point lead in that game. Last game,
and then I ended just a few minutes ago rockets

(01:48:31):
Ishmael the Son's one. You need more NBA scores, check
out www dot Fox sports dot com. And now we
forged forth into the night with the King of Life
Night Jason Smith and the New One improved, lean and mean.
Michael Harmon was the King of late Night. But I'm

(01:48:52):
okay with you. Not No, he's back. But I heard
that special is not very good. I got ten texts
telling me to watch it. Really, it's for his beard only.
He's gotta get rid of that beture of the beard.
What else does it do? I don't need to watch
it for that. You don't watch TV or listen to
the radio because of what people look like. You're so

(01:49:13):
deeply superficial. Sometimes yes, that's me, No question about it
but fun Fox Sports Radio or live from the Geico
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save on auto insurance. When you look at the divisional
playoff games this weekend, you get to the point in

(01:49:35):
the playoffs where something happens. Of the time, the best offenses,
the best quarterbacks move on. The teams without them go home.
Once in a while, a team with a phenomenal defense
can take you all the way to a title despite
the fact you're not getting great play from your quarterback.

(01:49:55):
We saw the Broncos do it, but then you gotta
go back to the Ravens before. Teams with those great
defenses usually don't do it. You have to be able
to do something at this point in the year. When
you're looking at games, you pick the best quarterbacks, and
when there's a big discrepancy between quarterbacks playing in a game,
it makes picking the divisional round very easy. Am I

(01:50:21):
gonna take Nick Ryan? All right? Sorry to Matt Ryan.
Sounds like a film Now that's Jack Ryan's kid Nick
right now? No, No, it's am I gonna take Matt
Ryan or Nick Foles. Come on, I'm taking Matt Ryan
over the Eagles to put enough points on the board,
a team in the Falcons who is still phenomenal on

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both sides of the ball, can run, can throw it,
and the Eagles are trying to find whatever the hell
their identity is gonna be with Nick Foles, Matt Ryan
over Nick Foles. Am I taking Tom Brady or Marcus Mariotta.
I'm taking Tom Brady. I'm taking Tom Brady to put
up enough points at home to beat Marcus Mariotta, who
makes clutch plays but still doesn't put a lot of
points up. But are you given the thirteen and a half.

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That's a question. No, no, no, no. You can get
to the line. You can do the line. I'm picking
what I'm telling who's gonna win these games this weekend.
Am I gonna take Ben Roethlisberger or Blake Bortles. I
know that Jaguars gave them all kinds of trouble the
first time around. This is not something that's that's not fixable.
And I'm not taking Blake Bortles to go on the
road and put points up to beat Ben Roethlisberger. And

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am I taking Drew Brees or Case Keenom. I'm taking
Drew Brees. Case Keendom is a great story, having a moment.
But now things are getting real. Yes, he's at home.
Drew Brees has won a Super Bowl, he has one
playoff games, he has one on the road, even though
his record is not great on the road. But now
he only has to do enough. He doesn't have to
do it all by himself. He'll be able to fire

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it downfield when he has to figure out the best
way to attack that defense. I'm taking Drew Brees over
case Keenom. I'm going with the quarterbacks when there's a
big difference your theories. But uh, the one game that
that is interesting. You mentioned bordles in Roethsburg. I think
Pittsburgh wins the game, Jacksonville hangs around. But if there's

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one game where you want to see an upset just
to see what kind of craziness follows, it's Jacksonville beating Pittsburgh.
Oh can you imagine? Because can you imagine, you're gonna
have fires around Latrobe at the training camp facility. You're
gonna have it all over Pittsburgh and facility. Todd Hayley
won't be able to get back in the building. Ben
Roethlisberg will be talking about retirement. He goes or I

(01:52:30):
go Levy on Bell is gonna still keep yelling give
me my money. Antonio Brown will record the locker room
tirades and anger and angst. I mean, there's a lot
that fall out and that could be really entertaining. That
could absolutely, I mean, but then the reality of oh
the Jaguars are in the a f C Championship game. No,
you will get to know intimately every member of that defense.

(01:52:55):
You will know what they had for breakfast seven years ago,
because that's what they're gonna have to sell. And here's more,
Leonard four Net. Remember how we wrote a dope back
in the training camp that he had a really bad
ankle injury. Let's talk about that some more. So you
roll through. I have Philadelphia at home because the defense
and just enough offense. I'm not trusting that Matt Ryan's

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gonna be able to open things up in the cold
and make plays. I think the run defense for Philadelphia
is good enough that they keep Freeman and Coleman at bay,
forcing Ryan into some bad situations. And this is not
the same Matt Ryan of a year ago. For all
the recency excitement of what this offense is doing there there,

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I'm not saying that it is. I'm not saying that
you're necessarily putting the ball in his hand to be
working down field against those corners. I think you can
have a lot of short and intermediate passes, just quick hits,
get the ball out of his hands and try to
gas that Atlanta defense, and then you can take your
shot down field later on. I think Trey Burton and
Zach Ertz are gonna be huge in that one. But

(01:53:58):
Philadelphia wayns Pittsburgh wins. I like Minnesota to win, even
though I picked New Orleans before before, But I gotta
I gotta say, I gotta stay with him, but my
gut says that the defense is just one play better
at home. But we'll stay with Drew Brees and company
because I can celebrate Josh Hill another week and then

(01:54:19):
New Orleans. It's just a matter of what's the margin
of victory, no matter how gutsy and all those things
that they're gonna try to sell you on for Marcus Mariota,
because you're gonna hear a lot of adjectives stolen, the
virtues of Mariota, because they have to sell it because
that game could get out of hand in a very
very early. You're gonna learn everything about Matt Patricia, what
he's doing in terms of his coaching, his beard, drations,

(01:54:42):
his beard, and how he treats his beard might become
subject of debate backwards Baseball caps on head uh potential
head coaches and how people feel about that. Josh McDaniels
and his history. I mean, there's there's a lot that
goes through and then Bill Belichick. You'll just started photoshopping
him into other hoodies just of fun. By the fourth quarter,
he's in a Giant Hoddy. Look, now he's in a

(01:55:03):
Jets Honey. Maybe he goes to the Colts, he's in
an Alabama hoodie and Nick Sabans in a Giant's hoody.
That that's a new app. I'm happy as hell twitter
At how about a fresco The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon. So there he goes. There's our picks for
the nf L Divisional Playoff round. Coming up next, a

(01:55:24):
huge play of the night, and we'll tell you the
NFL's doomsday scenario. Following this weekend, Box Fox Sports Radio
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(01:55:45):
saving cent or more on car insurance. Now, before we
get to the play of the Night and the doomsday
scenario for the NFL after this weekend, I gotta say this, buddy, Buddy,
you know how much I love Star Wars. Of course,
it's huge part of my life, my daughter's life, everything.
But yeah, you really push that on her. I I no, no, no,
she came to it of her ownical not trust me.

(01:56:06):
She's nine. She couldn't have. But honestly, I would almost
be just as happy if you gave me a new
John Wick movie. Every year you're gonna get a TV
show report. How can it be as good as them?
I mean the set tracks wasn't enough for you? Oh No,
I'm not a Star Trek fan. I you know, I

(01:56:26):
like the initial Star Trek, but once they started remaking
it with a bunch of teenagers and there's hooking up
and all of this, I'm like, no, I'm not into
the news to the new Star Trek. I'll give you
the Vulcan death grip, though not not into that's a
good finishing move, though. The Vulcan death Grip was pretty cool,
no question about it. Live Long and prosper who didn't
love me? I was, I was right, but the Glasgow

(01:56:47):
actors stopped looking at me like that. Wh I have
these weird years on? Give me a new John Wick
movie every year. I mean, I don't know how good
the TV shows, I don't know how good these are
gonna all these movies are still but he but it
doesn't matter. He doesn't like five lines in the movie.
It doesn't matter. He wears a bullet proof kill dog
and he kills like that. There's a bigger body counting

(01:57:09):
John Wick movies than any other movie than movies. But
that doesn't excite me at all. I mean, there's one
there's one scene that's like fifteen minutes long where I
know he kills like seventy five people and not even
one boo boo on him. No, no, no, oh no.
He gets cuts. He gets got cuts on his face,

(01:57:30):
He's got he's got the obligatory Oh you know, I
get little cut on he got that from shaving. Doesn't matter,
it's still a cut cuts. The cut doesn't matter. The
five Kiana Reeves as doing shaving commercials as John Wick,
who see, I'm okay with that, I'm okay with I'm

(01:57:52):
okay with anything. John. The John Wick movies are so good.
I mean they're they're over the top without being too
over the top. They're perfect. It's funny. I think both
of them seven times without sound go to Dollar Shave
Club or I'll kill you. I'll give you a close

(01:58:13):
shave and I'll shave your head off. But I mean
he kills I know he's killed more people than he
has lines Common coming in Common is great and John
Wick two the Battle with Common here or going up
against Jared Leto No, no no, and yeah if it
was Matt Forte though, he would get hurt at some point.

(01:58:34):
And do you think you know the Battle with Common?
I think it goes from like it starts in the
street and it changes location like forty five times before
it finally ends, so they're on a green screen and
it just kind of floats. His battle with I think
it goes to Italy at one point that they're fighting
against space. I think one of them kills Jason Vorhees,
who jumps in the middle a shark nado. Yeah no,

(01:58:56):
Then they're in the Mariana Trench. No no, then and
then it ends up you know where it ends up,
just to go into the woods. Uh no, you would
have been standing there over in the corner going, don't
go in there? What are you gonna die? And I
know whose name is on the franchise, so I know
who's gonna die. Well, maybe they make a sudden change,

(01:59:18):
but trust and he steals his bulletproof suit so he
gets to be John Wick. So it's trans transferable. No, no, no,
Kiana Reeves can be John Wick for a long time.
I mean, I'll tell you, trust me. These John Wick
movies are just bleeping awesome. And if he gets too old,
then you can give the franchise to Shy on the Buff.

(01:59:39):
He's crazy enough. They're kind of the same guy. That
would be pretty cool. Does he take the red or
blue pill in this movie? Oh? Stop there. And there's
a great example of a thing that that was so
overhyped by time I saw it that I threatened to
choke out my no, no, no, no no, but everybody,
this is gonna change your life and all this other nonsense.

(02:00:00):
And then I watched it and I wanted I made
them give you my money back, and I was really
mad that I didn't get the Nap Brothers won't come
on the show. Uh, let's get ready for the doomsday
scenario for the National Football Here's the doomsday scenario following

(02:00:22):
this weekend. The Jaguars beat the Steelers and the Titans
beat the Patriots. So your a f C Championship game
is the Jaguars and the Titans, two teams. I say,
what do I say all the time? You can't keep
putting the Jags and the Titans on Thursday night and
expect people to watch and this could be your a
f C Championship game. Then go to the NFC. Minnesota

(02:00:45):
beats the Saints and the Eagles beat the Falcons. Okay,
then you are looking at Nick Foles, Case Keenum, Marcus Mariota,
and Blake Bortles. Two of them will face each other
in the Super Bowl and one of them will win
the Super Bowl. Well, you're gonna see how bull with
proof the NFL is ratings wise if that happen. Yeah,

(02:01:07):
I mean, Case Keenum would give us discussions about Jeff
Fisher because the two guys, I don't know that that's enough.
I don't know that. Come on, it would give us
the video to go along with the audio if I'm
not going seven and nine. Uh so, that'd be fun.
Marcus Mariota would be exalted as the new hero of
the universe, right every block, everything he's ever done, and

(02:01:30):
Case Keenum being what a great story Case Keen. That's right,
those are the two stories that would dominate for the
next two weeks. Yeah, what a great story. Look at
Case Keenum franchise guy? Did they keep him as Teddy Bridge?
What are the quarterback? All? That's a Mariota number two overall,
here's the pick, Tennessee, all that shot con crazy like
a fox. You know, hey, you know everybody made fun

(02:01:51):
of him of taking all these games and going to
London and having his franchise lose so many home game
games over there and swimming pool and all that, and
there he is. Yeah, I know, you have a lot
of big time opportunities for him. Tennessee. You'd be talking
about who's gonna be the new new owner, So you've
got discussions there. I mean, there's there's a lot that

(02:02:12):
would be that no other would that would that would
really test. Okay, is the NFL really how are the ratings? Really?
Is the NFL? Is a Super Bowl? Really? Bulletproof or
it was a conference championship games. Really bulletproot Jags, Titans
and Vikings Eagles. Now, if the Jaguars and the Eagles

(02:02:32):
get through to the Super Bowl, and then then you
might have some special guest performers alongside justin Timberlake in between,
you know, the television time out to be more star
power with the performers and on the field and television
time out, they're gonna have guys singing songs. Who would
you promote? We're gonna keep it here. What players would
you promote? His stars in the Super Bowl? Those two teams,

(02:02:53):
although any of those four teams would promote if you're
the Vikings Hologram Preyer uh. And then we'd bring out
for for the Jaguars a lot of what did Fred Taylor? Uh?
And then for the Vikings, Uh, we're gonna go in
search of ragnar will be a documentary. Yeah, we'd have
to insert I like that right in search of dot

(02:03:17):
dot dot rag. Who would you even vote for a
root for in the Super Bowl? You don't even know.
I'd vote for myself. Oh boy, that's it's a tough
thing to think about. Straight out of Vegas with r J.
Bell coming up next. This is Fox Sports Radio

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