The Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the Bills comeback win over the Ravens and explain why they aren't surprised by the Ravens collapse on Sunday night. The guys react live to the Vikings getting a comeback win over the Bears on Monday night and put Ben Johnson under fire for his poor head coaching debut. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora joins the guys to give the state of Baltimore after the Ravens loss. Plus, is Harmon too happy about the Bears losing?!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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started the show an hour ago. Bears had just had
a pick six. Seventeen to six was the score. JJ
McCarthy was terrible, Caleb Williams is moving the team. Everything
was fine. Here we are an hour later, the Vikings
have a twenty to seventeen lead, and they just blocked
a punt and they take over at the Bears twenty

(01:12):
nine or they take over at their own thirty one
yard line. They got a piece of the punt, got
a good role. But now the Vikings have the ball
and the lead with seven and a half left to go.
They've been running on the Bears for the past few
minutes and now another big run by Mason who goes
through the line for about twenty yards. It almost feels
like Mike that the Bears got that pick six and

(01:35):
the game was over, Like we just have to execute
the rest of the game. We don't need to go crazy.
We just have to, you know, take time off the
clock because the Vikings can't do anything right. And as
you see, look one thing I've seen in the NFL,
the Leears, I've been watching it. If you think the
game is over and you keep giving that other team
that can't do anything chances, eventually they're gonna find something.
And they did. They're able to run the football. Mccarsony

(01:57):
thrown a couple He's not still having a great game,
but he's own a couple of touchdowns. But you could
see the confidence and the karma switching this game. The
Vikings have it. The Bears last possession was terrible. Caleb
Williams threw a pass after he stepped out of bounds
a big third and fourteen. He threw to nobody, an
incomplete pass. The Vikings are honking it up on the
field everywhere. The Bears are looking at each other saying

(02:19):
what the hell happened to us? I mean the body language,
it felt like, Oh, the Bears seventeen to six, it's over.
We've been working them the entire game. But when you
can't continue on, when you can't hold onto the football,
you can't get down the field, and you keep giving
the ball back to the team, Eventually they're gonna have
enough possessions to get back in it. And not only
the Vikings got back in it, they've taken control of
the game.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, we go back to the middle of the third
quarter where you have the missed field goal on off
a six play I'm sorry, an eleven play, forty four
yard drive, fifty yard knuckleball, and it changed from there.
Now a point of clarification, deflected punt, So fantasy owners,
you ain't getting two points.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
It went past the line of scrimmage. You ain't getting it.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Okay, so complain to your commissioner, but you get nothing
and they'll have to like it. But all of that
to say, I mean, we watched some really bad sequencing
by the Bears at the end of the third quarter.
Caleb Williams reverting to some of those bad habits of
the would be coming out of college scrambles, running backwards, twisting,
turning and creating chaos. He had an intentional grounding play

(03:21):
which was just terrible again twisting, turning, and then as
he's falling to the ground going to throw it and
woefully short of the line of scrimmage. We were talking
to Jason locking for when he threw that heater to
Cole Comet, who was wide open, sailed it over his head,
which should have been an easy first down completion. Just

(03:42):
one mistake after another big holding penalty, you have the
missfield goal, and just on and on, we've three and outs,
got away with one on a side arm throw inside
their own ten where Van Ginkel gets a hand on it.
Probably should have caught it and run it back for six,
but fourth quarter yards they just fly. The graphic one
hundred and twenty six to minus one isn't one mistake

(04:03):
after isn't that that Leo movie? I keep seeing commercials four,
but I don't understand what it's about. Yeah, I have
no idea, but I'm in one of.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
The one mistake after another. I think that's really kind
of what it is.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah, but I go to the movies a lot, so
between that and that Channing Tatum movie, I think I've
already seen both movies.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh okay, well I know that the Leo movie. Just
I'm like, okay, So apparently he's some sort of he's
an operative or a former operative, and there's there's a
kidnapping of some kind. But there's quirky characters in it.
It looks like a Wes Anderson movie, but it's a
Paul Thomas Anderson movie. And I go, okay, one one
failure after another, Okay, that's great. Yes, one battle. I

(04:43):
know what's one battle aft on? One failure after another.
That's kind of seeing what it sounds like.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Uh yeah, the Tale of two half's and McCarthy's only
had to be great on two or three throws. And
now they've got wide open spaces. Aaron Jones with the
early catch for the touchdown on that earlier possession this
quarter and now wide open in the flat. As McCarthy
rolls to the right, boy, he looks like an all
pro quarterback. The last eight or nine minutes of this game.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm gonna say this. We talked about Kevin O'Connell and
how hey, if McCarthy's not good, and all the different
things that happened with that, But I am gonna I
do want to say this is that it was a
brilliant decision down seventeen to six. Generally, you say, well,
we got to find a way to throw the football.
Let's let him keep throwing. That's how we're gonna get
back in this. But the Vikings do it. There's a

(05:27):
lot of time we're shutting the you know, we're slowly
siphoning off the faucet for the Bears so we can
still run the We know we can run the football
on this team. Let's just keep running. Whether the Bears
are were ready for it to thought that, you know,
they had them off balance, But the fact the Vikings
kept running the football and kept trying to build drives

(05:48):
that way and then ask McCarthy to make one or
two throws, which is kind of why he succeeded at Michigan. Hey,
we're everybody else through the heavy lifting. Just make one
or two plays in the drive. That's all we need
you to do. And that's kind of what happened. That
that's a brilliant and it's a tough decision to make
in a heat the moment when you look at the scoreboard.
We're down ten, we're down eleven. We need to get
need to get back. Throw the football, Throw the football. No,
let's run it. We know we can do it. And

(06:11):
that's what's really gotten him back in this and really
settled the game and tilted it back to the Viking.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
So try to slow things down and give him better
down distance opportunities. We cited all of the third down failures.
The average distance on those third down plays was nearly
ten yards.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Right, So you weren't doing anything effectively on the early
downs incompletions, some negative plays early on. So getting yourself
going now up to twenty two carries as a team
for just over one hundred yards of fun average the Bears.
For all the success that Williams had, you've had three
chunk plays. There was a thirty yard er to Dj
Moore Zychais with a sixteen yarder and an a Doonday

(06:49):
seventeen yards sit down to catch. But other than that,
it's the short intermediate, looking a lot like the shot
chart of a year ago, except completions instead of sacks.
That's fine, but then once things got a little awry
for the Bears here and the third into the fourth
reverting to some of those bad habits and opening the door.

(07:09):
And McCarthy, to his credit right having been in a
number of big games collegiately, is a national champion, and
Justin Jefferson, go make plays right, that's it right, create
space with the run game. You do have a depleted
Bear secondary. We knew that coming into the game, and
you're starting to see more and more space with the

(07:31):
play calls and the selections that they're coming up with.
So we'll off more in this game coming up in
a few minutes again, twenty to seventeen, the vikings with
the football and JJ McCarthy has just scrambled into the
end zone on a design run from about fifteen yards out.
All of a sudden, he's got a big fantasy game.
JJ McCarthy. Yeah, he's like gonna be the number one
quarterback to one where he's twenty sent.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I remember Rogers had four bleeping touchdowns. Twenty six seventeen
is the score now, And I can't get over how
bad things have gotten for the Bears in the span
of one hour. Like, I mean, this is a fan
base now in an hour is going to go what
has happened to us? What just happened to us in
the last hour.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'd have my brothers call in from the stadium, but
you're gonna have so many ambient f bomds that we
wouldn't be able to play it.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
I mean it, man, all of a sudden that you
talk about a fan base that's ready to just turn
on them, like forget like what we saw the Cowboys
do this summer when the Micah Parsons trade went down,
and how much they hate their team more than they
hated the Eagles, Like I think Bears fans are at
that point right now. I hate my team more than
I hate the Vikings and these other teams. Well, but

(08:38):
you know, hope is a dangerous thing.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
We always talk about it, right, it could be the
best thing, It could be a dangerous thing. You get
up seventeen to six. You heard the roar of the
crowd on that pick, six. I mean, that's about as
loud as Soldier Field has been non concert related in
a very very long time, to where things were going, well,
they're moving the football.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Was it clean?

Speaker 4 (08:56):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Was it great? No?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Not a lot of chunk yardage. But you're not having
the negative plays. You're not having those issues. And then
just in a span of twelve fifteen about seventeen game minutes,
it's all gone to hell. And now you're inside of
three minutes you got three straight touchdown drives for the
Vikings after what was a miserable start. Go back to halftime,
the interview they had with Ben Johnson coming out of

(09:20):
the locker room. You had two plays in that first half,
a pass interference and the pass to Nailer that gave
them a field goal try six points. And then the
second half and it started just as meagerly and just
as slowly, and just like that, the train now is.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Rolling exit out about a Fresca exit swalling double off.
More in this game coming up in a few minutes.
So now the Bears trailing by ten with three minutes
left to go, the Vikings are going to win this game,
and wow is the postgame going to be fun? But
for a little bit on last night's game, right, I mean, really,
I agree, we may never see a game the rest

(09:56):
of this year as good as the Bills come back
win over the Ravens. Right, forty one forty for the Bills,
I feel about the same I mean, an unbelievable game,
but I feel about the same way. Hey, I feel
a little bit better about their offense after last night,
not as much about their defense as last night. But
the thing for the Ravens, Right, You're up forty to
twenty five midway through the fourth quarter and you can't

(10:18):
find a way to win. And all day and all
last night, you've seen people pointing to different things. This
is what costs in the game, whether it's the punt,
Derrick Henry's fumble, so many different things you point to. Right,
why are you tackling Kean Coleman inside the ten yard line?
Let him get into the end zone so you can
get the ball back? Like all of these things, there's
so many mistakes. Right, But this goes back to when

(10:39):
we picked this game on Friday. What did I tell
you I'm picking the Ravens if it was in the playoffs,
I'm picking the Bills because the Ravens find a way
to not make it happen when the chips are down.
Usually regular season they're okay. The playoffs is when it happens.
But you want to break something down and say, Okay,
what is this all boiled down to is that the

(10:59):
raven aren't winners and it and it gives you much
more of a respect and admiration for what guys like
Andy Reid and Bill Belichick have been able to do
for the past twenty five years, where no matter what
the situation, we find a way to close out the
game and win. What is this the ninth loss that
the Ravens have had when their percentage chance of winning

(11:20):
was over ninety percent in the fourth quarter? Like the
ninth loss? And this is all under John Harbaugh, right,
this is all Harpball is the one constant now he's
been there forever. Those are going to pile up on
the team. But being clutch is a thing. Being winners
is a thing, and the Ravens just aren't. They find
a way to lose games that And it's it's not
like it's one thing. It's not like well, all of

(11:40):
a sudden, Lamar like Lamar Jackson sometimes turns the football over.
Sometimes it's like last night. Sometimes there's other turnovers. But
no matter what, the bottom line is. The one thing
that draws a line through this is that they're just
not clutch. They're just not winners. They don't know how
to close out games and win big games. They can't
do it. And and that goes to the top of
the coaching because you can sit here and say, look,

(12:02):
how talented this this Ravens roster is. Right, I can't
look back and tell you that the Patriots roster was
more talented or the Chiefs roster is more talented. But
I know they're better coach because I've seen them execute
the end of games in times when we should have
lost this game, or we could have lost this game,
but we found a way to win. I watch Belichick
do it for the better part of twenty years, and
I watched Andy redo it for the better part of

(12:23):
the last eight finding a way. Yes, because we have
a great quarterback, but you know what, they have a
great quarterback too. So it's not like say, well, you know,
we're playing with Trent dilfre you're playing with Lamar Jackson.
But being a winner and being winners is a thing
and the Ravens just aren't well.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
We saw a number of plays on the offensive side
that left you scratching your head in terms of and look,
we don't know the game plan and what the sequencing is,
but then we see what's called on the field and
we have to judge it thusly in terms of running
out the clock. It's like the Bears after taking the
seventeen to six lead, it's like, don't change what you're

(12:56):
doing right.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
This helped build the.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Lead, obviously aided by the pick six, But when we
look at what the Ravens have done consistently, is those
final minutes a games. Suddenly the defense goes soft and
you're you're giving up giant patches of grass to receivers
in the open field. And Josh Allen's is gonna make
his plays. You've got to be able to keep him

(13:19):
contained and time and again we see this with Alan,
with other quarterbacks, where they're given ample time to operate.
Almost any quarterback, I can't say all of them, but
almost any starter is gonna have a level of success.
And it takes nothing away from Josh Allen. We saw
some of the you know, little gadgetry that he had right,
his hands behind his back, telling telling Cook where to

(13:40):
run out of play as they're barking out, and then
he runs untouched for well, basically like a kid through
a flower patch. But for John Harbaugh, we've asked this
question oftentimes regardless of sports, like how long does a
championship keep you employed? How long do your misses keep

(14:01):
you employed? When you have these kind of endings to game.
Now it's week one, but it's indicative of what we've
seen time and again from this squad. And when they
leave the door open, guess what people keep crashing in.
And Derek Henry's fumble, I mean after the game, he had,
oh yeah, just one of those Okay, what are you
gonna do? You still need to go out and make plays, right,

(14:22):
and your defense just gave up. They got carved all
over the place. Now you had the tip drill to
call him in. That's an unfortunate deflection that finds his
arms in the end zone. But still you've got to
be able to close things out, and time and again
we're watching this Baltimore Ravens team for as much as
you've got this every superlative we can throw on Lamar

(14:43):
Jackson's name, he's being betrayed by his coaching staff.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Time and again. Yeah, it's it really is something because
it's if it was one thing time and again, Hey,
you really have to get that running back, right, you
have to get that start running back to take time
off the Okay, we went out, got Derek Henry's great.
Guess what still blew it? Right, It's like they don't.
They just don't have that because clutch is a thing, right,
Being clutch is a thing. We've seen it time and
again in sports when the game gets really weird and

(15:08):
it's some people, it slows down for some coaches, it
slows down for some teams, it slows down for and
the Ravens just don't have that from the top of
the organization down. How many games are they blown like
this in the last seven eight years, right, I told
you the number. It's like nine of them. And they're
big games. They're big games in the playoffs. They're going
home for the season because they can't figure out.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
What but this.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
So you're also staring and you're doing the Spider Man
meme McDermott because it's been the same thing. On the
other side, they might have not finishing the giant right.
But McDermott won last night, but he also did a
first right.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
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thirty five rushing yards in the game, and again, that
scrambled that Lamar Jackson had early in the game was
a level of absurdity unseen other than video games. Teams
doing those two things forty plus points, two hundred and
thirty five plus rushing yards two hundred and seventy seven

(16:03):
in zero including the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Before last night. I mean, it's just an absolute thing
that they've never had. They're not winners. No coffee, they're
not winners. Not closing. This is like it's not even closing.
It's just, hey, don't spill the coffee when I bring
it to you. It's not like that's like a crime.
That's when so much spills a beer, like you can't
do Look, no, dude, it's different if this was the Ravens. Hey,

(16:28):
in close games, they can't find a way to get
that squad. But this is when they have the lead
or they just have to execute or just don't throw
up on yourself. Nope, can't do it. Can't do it.
We can't do we We can't find a way to win.
And that's a huge, huge thing. I'm telling you. There's
organizations that are winners. The Patriots winners for two decades,
the Chiefs have been winners for the better part of
the last ten years, and the Ravens just aren't winners.

(16:50):
And that's how it goes.

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Speaker 6 (17:44):
Wow man, I mean wow, wow wow, channeling my own
seth rods the change.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
In the Bear's fortunes in the last ninety minutes. Not
only is it bad enough they're gonna blow this game
to the Vikings, but now I wonder if being a
head coach is too much for Ben Jonson. Who Okay,
the Bears get a touchdown to cut the lead to
twenty seven to twenty four. Okay, they get a touchdown
pastor Roma dunesa. DJ Moore leaves the game with a

(18:19):
bit of an injury. Not sure what it is with him,
but Bears getting the end zone. Two oh two left
in the game. Okay, Bears have one timeout, one timeout, okay,
one time out one so two oh two left in
the game. Hmm. You have two choices. You can on
side kick, which is probably what you should have done,
because again one time out, or kick it. Make sure

(18:41):
you kick it through the end zone or kick it
out of bounds because you know what's gonna happen, which
is the Vikings are gonna run the ball out of
the end zone to take it down to the two
minute warning. Because what the Bears you're hoping for is
the kick? They don't run it out. You have one
run play to the two minute warning, then you use
your one time out. Then you're getting the ball back
with about a minute left to go. But what do
the Vikings do? And you see Kevin O'Connell yet making

(19:03):
sure run it out, run it out. They kick it
about seven yards deep in the end zone. The Vikings
run the ball out. That takes seven seconds off the clock.
So now the change possession stops. Minute fifty five left
to go. So now it's a minute fifty five and
one time out left instead of two to two with
a two minute warning and a time out left? Are
the what's going on in Chicago? Man? As bad as

(19:26):
this is? Again? Now I wonder, I wonder if if
being a head coach is too much for Ben Johns,
because there's certain things when I look at coaches and
I go, man, when you do that, I wonder if
you're up for being a head coach. And now I wonder,
how do you think, Yeah, just kick it deep? You
think the Viking Kevin O'Connor's know what today, run the
ball out. We got to get down to the two
minute ward. This way we talk about attention to detail.
We mentioned this a few minutes ago with the Ravens

(19:48):
and the end of games and how they don't know
how to handle the ends of these games and being
clutches a gene and being well coached is a way
to do it. Why watch Andy Reid and Bill Belichick
win the end of weird games all the time? You
know they would have ran the ball out, O'Connell. Yeah, yeah,
make sure, come on out, run it out, run it out,
run it out. They run it out, take time off
the clock. So instead of getting the ball back with

(20:08):
a little bit over a minute left to go, probably
if I'm doing my math right now, they're gonna get
the ball back maybe if they don't get a first
down here with less than about thirty seconds left to
go in the game.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
A lot to be desired here. Richard high Tower, your
Bear's special teams coordinator. It's making me long for the
days where I was yelling, where's Alan Williams. Yeah, that's right,
I look that up because this was absolutely unconscionable. Right,
we talk about just you're trending within the game. The
last three drives for the Vikings they had average ten

(20:41):
yards per play, all three of those drives ending in touchdowns.
Here they're able to bleed that extra five seconds off
the clock, right, it gets passed through the two minute warning,
you don't have enough leg to get it through or
you think you're gonna make the big play.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
This is not the eighty five Bears. This is not
that Lovey Smith Bears team where every bounce went their way.
At least you don't know that yet to where the
football gods are on your side. I know you're celebrated
the eighty five Bears championship in the pregame, right, forty
years Man, it goes fast. But all of that to say,

(21:16):
but come on, how many held yourself repeatedly? How many more?
How many more celebrations do we have to he Hey,
there's still books to be had. Man, there's stories you've
never heard. I've heard all the stories. Come on, man,
there's one more.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
But this is just absurd on a whole other level.
And I joke with the Seth Rollins. Right, he's doing
commentary with NFL whatever Bears fan, WWE champion. His theme
song is burn it Down. That's exactly what they're gonna
be calling for in Chicago after all of the offseason
noise that looked like it was quieted with that opening

(21:49):
game script and a touchdown something they didn't do at all.
And you'll hear that a million times. Let me be
the millionth and first that they didn't score a touchdown
on an opening possession all last year.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
So there it was.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
The Ben Johnson era began with a boom, and now
it's a dumpster fire floating around the river.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
So I did my math a little bit wrong, the
math a little bit wrong. The Bears are gonna get
the ball back, but there's gonna be about well, depending
on this punt, they'll be about ten seconds.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Well, his hangtime today has been about five point one seconds.
They'll be about ten seconds left. Maybe they'll have time
for one final play or maybe two plays pending if
they do. I mean, that's such such an epic fail.
First of all, I don't understand the lack of an
on side kick, and say, you understand how you make
sure they're not gonna return this thing?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
I mean it, man, I mean, this is this is
why the Ravens lose games like they did, and why
the Bills went or the Bills wuld have beneficial It's
why the Ravens lose teams like this, and it's why
the Bears are the Bears. I mean, this is they
turned back into the Bears. Man, they just went vague.
We're gonna masquerade as this other better team the first
two and a half quarters of this game. Then we're
gonna completely stop playing because we feel like the game's

(22:56):
over at seventeen to six. Oh no, no, wait, now
we're gonna lose this this really, I mean it's not
to say the Bears would have won, right because twenty
seven twenty Man, there's nine seconds on the clock. What
are you doing. You have to get down the field
and you have to find a way. You got to
kick the field goal, right, you need some time, But
you just took your team from Hey, maybe we have
a chance with you know, thirty some odd second forty

(23:18):
seconds to We have no chance by making that decision
that you did. Which does DJ Moore just got hit
by the snap as he ran in motion. I I
I yeah, this is this is just I mean, really,
this is if I'm Ben Johnson, don't even go to
the postgame press conference. Don't even go Oh no, he's
usually fine, salty. I'll take the fine, I'll do this.
This is this is what time the fine is worth it.

(23:39):
Don't go to the postgame press. That was embarrassing. I
mean really don't go there. That was something special right there.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
You want to go, you know, Benny Hill kind of
thing and add a little yak and e sacks to
it there in your your postgame highlight reel, that's where
you have Bears twelve penalties one hundred and twenty seven yards.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
I mean, it's it's such a bad reversal of fortune.
But I I still I can't get over the I
can't get over the decision on the kickoff because that's
a you know, anything that's pre snap in the NFL,
Like you've heard about that now, Right, The big trend
the last few years is, hey, teams commit penalties, but
cut down in the pre snap penalties. Right, these are

(24:15):
the ones that kill ourselves. And it's the pre snap
decisions that have just absolutely killed the Bears. And that's
a pre snap decision that murdered them. Right, they just
had some kind of crazy flea flick or play. It
gets stopped near midfield. The Vikings win at twenty seven
to twenty four. I mean, Ben Johnson don't go to

(24:36):
the postgame press conference because that decision is something that hey, okay,
we biff that, and you can't make mistakes like that.
I mean, it's hard enough to win in the NFL.
It's certainly harder when your coaching staff just decides, hey,
we're gonna make it play with not just one arm
tie behind your back, we're gonna chop off the other arm.
So yeah, one arm tie behind your back, the other
arm's chopped off. Good luck. Good luck trying to win

(24:56):
that way.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
This is the I mean, we've got many of them
from week one, but let's just take three off the top.
Go back to the Dallas loss to the Eagles and
the Cede Lamb drops the Miles Sanders fumble, which really
didn't get nearly the noise that it should have in
the process.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
But that's fine. Ceed gets paid more money, so it's
on him.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Your Jets game yesterday, where you've got a lot from
your offense, but your defense doesn't show, so you end
up giving up the game to Aaron Rodgers, and you
have an opportunity here where JJ McCarthy was horrible. The
offense was non existent for the Vikings for two and
a half quarters, and then they turned the jets on.

(25:34):
I see what I did. Then all of a sudden,
All of a sudden, they're reving up and they're unstoppable.
Ten yards per play in those three touchdown drives and
all of those things that you did well early checking
down and taking the safe throw, which I called out
an hour one of like I'd like to see a
shot down the field a little bit more frequently. Well,

(25:57):
And then he did in the second half with mixed
results a couple.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Of big plays.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
He did have a big completion to Cole Comet on
a similar route. Comet had to dive and make a
great catch to do it, but then he missed a
throw to more in the left corner of the end
zone on that same drive ends up in a touchdown.
That's fine and put yourself in position, But then you've
got all these coaching decisions that are made in the
final minutes of the game that he's going to have

(26:22):
to try to defend. And you were aggressive early right,
didn't take points early on and failed on a fourth down.
You have the Santos missed fifty yard field goal. You're
leaving points all over the board. Plus one hundred and
twenty seven penalty.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Man, I'll tell you what, I don't feel as bad
being a Jet fan after watching this. I feel worse
for you, buddy. I mean, at least my offense played great.
My defense outside of Sauce Gardner, they were active, they
swarmed the football, they couldn't finish, and it was awful
and Aaron Rodgers won and I'm embarrassed. But boy, this
is I feel worse for you, man, Like you definitely
had the worst loss of them. Wow, this is like

(26:57):
Ravens Bills loss. Because the Ravens, you can say they
blew the game, but at least at least you know, hey,
it came down to the very end or the last
few minutes. They didn't they didn't execute. This was you
kind of stopped playing when it was seventeen to six
and you thought, we just have to run the clock
out now because the Vikings can't do anything. You give
up the lead and then suddenly everything is going against you,

(27:19):
and then your coaching staff makes a decision that doesn't
make any sense on any level of football, and you
got not only that, now you gonna say you were
out foxed by the other coach, But I had a feeling, Hey, Vikings,
run it out anyway, you know, take that, Take that
time doesn't matter with about the fifteen yard line, makes
no difference, right. They know the math a little bit
better than I do. I thought, Okay, this means the
difference from like near a minute to maybe thirty seconds

(27:41):
up turned out to be ten seconds, right, I mean
it's I don't understand that. And that's the worst part
is that it was an unforced mistake. And again it
makes me wonder does the head cut does the coaching
staff have what it takes? Is Ben Johnson have what
it takes to be a head coach in the NFL,
because that's a decision where I go, Man, I get
your learning, but whoa that stuff you should know? And like,
it's not like it's your first day coaching, and I

(28:02):
think you're a great coach. You've been coaching for a while.
You know what to do when the clock gets out.
You know what kind of offense you are running in
two minutes and how much time can come off. I mean, really,
you gotta find a way to either go for the
on side kick and okay, if you're gonna kick it
off deep Enny, what does it matter? Go or at
least say I know I'm kicking the ball out of
bounds just so I'm gonna take the pedal. Doesn't matter

(28:22):
starting at the forty anyway, But at least then I
know I can get the football back with some time left,
then my team can get down the field. Yeah, comedy
of errors all Alonger.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
We chronicled it all the way with you, because even
when it was good, it wasn't great. But then we
saw a reversion to some of those bad decisions and
these these eber flu somewhere is smiling after this comedy
of errors down the stretch. But for all of those
that were looking for the worst coming out of the
Tyler Don article and all of those things that swirled

(28:52):
in the offseason, you got ammunition because he reverted back
to some of those decisions that he made as a rookie,
right the intentional grounding, some of the misthrows and the
Van Ginkeld side arm ball that could have been a
pick six instead of either lobbing it over the top
or just recognizing this guy's coming unabated. I can't get

(29:14):
the ball out on the screen. Like all of those things,
it just started ticking off, one after another, and missed opportunities.
That is ammunition coming out of this game. So Ben
Johnson no longer super genius for a week, although he
is still in Detroit right because things went badly there?

Speaker 1 (29:32):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (29:32):
It's I think the play callers that aren't Ben Johnson
and who is it? McVeigh is like nineteen and one?
Yeah for Jared Goff, So I guess he still wins.
It gets a little win over there. But this is
a disaster and it's melting down in Chicago right now.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Right now, Ben Johnson back to Detroit for David Montgomery,
who says no, Who says no, Who says no? Right,
you get running back back who is still really good.
You can give him the ball a lot, right, he's
still right. You give the offensive corner back to the
Lions who need maybe they need him back after that
game won yesterday? Who says no? Can I just say
this the thing I come out of here?

Speaker 3 (30:08):
I'm happiest that they didn't throw or run the ball
with an offensive lineman.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
That's my highlight of the day of game. Hey, hey,
hold on to that. That's all I got.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
He joined us every Monday. He's a longtime friend of
the show. He's on Twitter at Jason lock andfora Odyssey
Washington Post one oh five seven the Fan in Baltimore
again in Baltimore. I mainly just want to make sure
you're okay after last night.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Jay.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
I assume you didn't get any sleep and you've been
rocking Red Bulls for the last twenty four hours all
through your radio show and everything today. Just want to
make sure you're okay right now.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
I'm good, Harball, Okay, No, my pockets are straight off
of that.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Game, all right, But I saw her Lamar and.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Derrick Henry and the over. It's a very very good
care of me.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, but I what you know, following your Twitter last night,
I say, okay, so a little bit. Yes, it took
care of you pocket pocketbook wise, but you've been on
a big it's super Bowl or bust like Horrorball's out
if they don't get you think Harbor should be out
after last night if they don't get to the super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
I do at this point, you can't have this stuff drag,
you know, we're now in the parts of since twenty
twenty one, they've been blowing these games and doing historically
significant I get the accomplishments on the failure side of things,
and you know, the quarterback is generational, and the front

(31:45):
office thinks they've got the best roster in football. Again,
I would say they're way full of themselves too, and
they're not as good as they think. And there's nobody
on that team who anybody's going to look at and say, oh,
that guy scares me as a pass rusher. There just isn't.
I mean, Mike Green will will get there at some
point in time. I don't think it's going to be

(32:06):
particularly soon. So I think they've got more warts and
blemishes than they're willing to admit. And they don't want
to pay for certain position groups, which I think is
a problem. But this coach has overseen epic collapse after
epic collapse after epic collapse. He's gone through different coordinators,
he's gone through different players, but it's systemic. You look

(32:28):
back at these games now and again, it spans year
a year. For a year, double digit fourth quarter leads,
you know, double and triple score leads with with you know,
five minutes or less left, it's it's ridiculous. And there's
special team's mistakes, and there's offensive mistakes, and there's defensive mistakes,
and they just collectively come out small. They bring out

(32:49):
low IQ football in each other. And at some point
you got to change what's going on with the messaging.
You got to change what's going on with the preparation.
You've got to change what's going on with the macro
level decision and is like that cowardly pathetic part last
night or whatever the hell was going on on special
teams with twelve guys on the field, or whatever the
hell was going on rushing the rookie kicker and not

(33:11):
managing clock at the end of the half, or whatever
the hell was going on, where you know that at
the end of the first half, Allen is throwing to
a boundary, yet somehow, you know, you don't keep that
ball that are in you know, whatever tight end it
was in the field of play, you cannot get out
of bounds there to their inability to make plays as

(33:33):
a defense in the fourth quarter. So yeah, I think
and I didn't like his rhetoric, and you know, his
messaging coming into the season where he's saying, you clowns
who never played the game don't understand super Bowl or bust,
and there's no such thing as super Bowl or bust
and sort of saying, you know, sort of alluding to

(33:55):
the football gods and things out of their control. And
I just thought it was kind of pathetic excuse making
before the season is even started. At the same time,
players are admitting that, yeah, we're not getting where we
should go because we keep undermining ourselves like we're our
worst enemy. And then the coach is coming out saying,
I think, you know, it's ridiculous to say super Bowl
or bus Like, I don't know, man, I think a

(34:17):
lot of people who are too comfortable around here, and
it manifests itself at the worst possible times, in the
most critical times.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Well, that's you know, kind of sentiment about you know, players,
non players will get you a desk somewhere. But we'll
talk about that another time. Yeah, let's stay in division.
Earlier in the day. Can Aaron Rodgers do a seventeen
game revenge?

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Sure, No, he cannot. There were some impressive things obviously
in that game, but that's not a roughlicable game script
for Pittsburgh No, it's kind of cool to know that there,
But you're not going to get a sixty yard field
goal every week. You're not going to get that many

(34:58):
points every week. You're not going to get that many
short intermediate passers that turn into big, big things, And
you're sure as hell better not be letting teams like
the Jets I thirty two on you every week. So
you know, I feel like the Bengals and the Steelers
both like survive, advance escape, but also you know, maybe

(35:18):
not a red flag, but but a blinking amber light.
You know about some things better change there pretty quickly,
because I think you know, both kind of got away
with one there against the kind of teams they're going
to want to beat weekend, week out.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Jason lock and forward with us to Jason smithsche with
Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
so tell me, tell me your pockets for full because
you bet Daniel Jones to have the game of his
life yesterday.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
I stayed off that one man, and honestly, full disclosure,
if you had made me bet something in that game,
I may have gone Miami money line, just because I
really didn't know what to make of that Cults offense,
and I did lean under. I didn't think it'd be

(36:07):
quite that far under. But you got to know, I'm
not bullish on Miami at all. I don't buy them.
I wrote it to Washington Post about their situation of
probably about six seven weeks ago. You know, people in
this league definitely expect Mike McDaniel to be the first
coach fired, and that was before that debacle. You know,

(36:28):
keeping Tyreek Hill in that locker room was asinine. Building
a team still position out, you know as skill positions
starting instead of building it from the inside out was stupid.
Some of these contracts have been stupid. They've gotten weaker
at the point of attack on both sides of the ball,

(36:49):
and they just come up small, and in any kind
of a big spot, they come up incredibly small. And
for them starting this season off with all they had
hanging over them, that was a big spot. And they
didn't look prepared or interested to play in any aspect
to play. And when a coach has allowed a culture
like that defester that people identified beforehand, and then it

(37:11):
manifests itself literally in the first quarter of the season,
you know, people don't show up to watch that. You know,
they'll sell their tickets for fifteen dollars on the secondary
market and call it a win. And I think that's
what's going to happen, and that's going to get the
owner's attention.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Jason.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Not a pretty game, but Washington takes a win over
the Giants. All the look see over at Dable and
Neighbors and Russell Wilson seventeen to thirty seven hundred and
sixty eight yards and neither Jamis Winston nor Jackson Dart
made available for comment post how much how close are
we to It's Midnight Cinderella?

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Yeah, look, they really wanted to be able to get
at least I think, you know, talk to the people there.
Tix weeks to half the season out of russ before
they had to start thinking about door number two. That
was pretty bleak. And I don't think Washington's particularly special defensively.
Then I think we're going to see that bear out
well pretty quickly. I think starting Thursday night we're going

(38:14):
to see that bear out. Then I think that'll be
the course for most of the season. So yeah, Roff
looks cooked. I mean he's looked cooked for a while.
And you've got some young players there. I mean, when
you're five or twelve to the best, you know, one
of the best young receivers in the game, Like you
target him twelve times only end up in his hands

(38:35):
five times. That's that's that's going to create a multi
to the problems. So yeah, I mean, I don't know
if it's next week or not. Like, I don't think
that's a very good defensive team for Dallas. Like, if
they can't move the ball at all on them, they
you know, they might have to do something else. I

(38:56):
think the fear is you go to dark too soon
and you don't want to be like Yankee him back
off the field of you. You just don't want to
get into silly yoyo season. So well, I think he
clearly passed Jamis By on the depth chart as the
preseason more out. Well, if they were going to make
a change this early in the season, I'm not entirely

(39:17):
convinced it would be Dark because I think they want
to buy themselves a little more time before they go there.
But they might not have that lunger.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
He's on Twitter at Jason Locke and four. That is
at Jason Locke and four Odyssey one oh five seven
the Fan in Baltimore, Washington Post Jay as always, Buddy,
appreciate it, man, enjoy the week. We'll talk to you
next week. Have a good one, gentlemen, Thanks Jason. Can
you imagine, like, can you imagine New York okay with
with with Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson's terrible, right, hey dark?

(39:46):
The desire for Jackson Darts so like And we told
you this, right, we told you so. Can you imagine
saying yes, we're gonna make a change of quarterback, Ah right,
all right, Jameis Winston will start week three? No, oh guy,
can you imagine he would be one of the three
amigos from the preseason? Can you imagine the fan? Yes,

(40:06):
we're gonna get Dart. And officially today the Giants announced
it will be Russell Wilson for week two. And look,
the best part for Jackson Dart is probably coming up
after week four. We told you October first, that's your deadline.
That's where you're gonna see Jackson Dart's gonna be much
earlier than anybody thinks. That desire to see him and
how well he played like Russ is an afterthought right now.
But can can you imagine. Yes, but Jamis will start

(40:30):
a week week three. He's here for questions right now.
Oh oh thanks guys, thanks a lot, great, all right, fine?
Uh yeah, well what do you want to ask me?

Speaker 7 (40:39):
Why is it you? You're not the chosen one. This
is like saying, hey, we got the guy who's gonna
be the next great Jedi. And it's like Bill Jackson,
who is just hanging out here, not Anakin where it's
wi Bill.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
What does Bill know? Bill doesn't know anything. Now, come
on Bill.

Speaker 7 (40:54):
He can't even he can't even turn his lightsaber on
without cutting a finger.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Come on, man, way we want the other guy? Who
want the good guy?

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Oh okay, okay, No, you're talking like it was the
Rope and Dope from that Skywalker series, right He's like.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
No, it's not actually him. It's the guy pretending to
be in Jedi who actually becomes the Savior. Exit Up
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Speaker 2 (41:16):
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pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
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Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah, you can all laugh at me for the rest
of the night. Now I want to and the rest
of the week. It's no longer about your sixty yard
field goal.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
I want to. I want to bring this up here
for yeah, because I'm feeling about this.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
We watch the Bears absolutely collapse in a game that boy,
I don't know who had a worse loss. The Bears
are the Ravens, a game they were dominating for the
first two and a half quarters. Decided to stop playing,
watch JJ McCarthy make plays and then have your head
coach make the biggest bonehead, indefensible decision I could of
kicking off with two oh two left to go, and

(42:30):
because they didn't on side kick try to get the
ball or kick it out of bounds. Uh, they only
got the ball back with ten seconds left instead of
getting it back with close to a minute. It's indefensible.
Now I say all this because I have a question
for you. Oh you're going to bring in bursh And
and and Alex Tishirt as well. Sure, right, knowing that
you are the you have you have been the biggest

(42:51):
Chicago Bears fan that I know, and I wear it
all right, the first half of my life outside Chicago,
and I'm not nut. Still live in not impeaching not
you don't live there. You live in Los Angeles. I'm saying,
heart is still there in Chicago. But I gotta ask
you this. Yeah, you seem too happy after this Bears lost.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
No, I mean, look, I don't live and die with
it the way I did when I was twelve.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
You just just did a whole thing about how you
know born on my blood is there and all this time. No, No,
too happy. It's not happy. You seem happy? Ty Shirt
and Bursch does Harmon seem a little too happy tonight?
He doesn't seem beat up. There's there. Okay, the energy
is still there for sure. Oh no, no, that's good.
I'm good. But you said, okay, all right, ty shirt. Yeah,

(43:40):
a little more than normal, okay, Oh so even happier
than normal.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
I am running on low sleep and a lot of caffeine.
I'm revving up from that. But it's also it's it's
an energy of a week one of the National Football
League season, seeing the Bears in prime time, and let's
face it, we had a tale of nine games within one.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Oh no, no, look, this is great. So like it
goes next level to that. So now we put our
thinking caps. But it's great for the ninety nine percent
of the people that are happy to see the Bears
fail because they're a train wreck and want to see
Caleb Williams fail for some ridiculous Sure, I get, I
get the happiness for those people. I got that. I
got the I don't get.

Speaker 8 (44:18):
You see him a little too very spunky, little too, yeah,
a little too like, hey, yeah, in the show me
some cards, you know, very happy you're showing cards.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
I saw something I pulled After the show on Friday,
I bought into a WWE break and hit the Rock
in my character potential Oscar winner the rock, right.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
I got a snore lack and the mega charge is hard.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
I got a case hit rock that might actually be
like a two thousand dollars card.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
That's time I'm having me. Jason was the streets of
Vegas trying to show me cards, you know. I was like, well, no,
that's the guy that comes up, dude, that's that's follow
the queen. Do you ever be like, we.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Used to trade with the waiters at the steakhouses because
they have them in their binder.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
It's like, oh, I don't mad that one. Can I
get that one? Was cool? Used to trade cards with waiters. Yeah,
but the strip clubs you get handed on that one
about he knows exactly what I'm talking about. So you're
walking by and the guy does the little slap and
he tries to hand you for for different services and venues,
and sometimes he's like, all right, I gotta see what.

(45:22):
I don't know that I've ever been to a strip club.
There's a male waiter. I don't know. I'm not saying
you actually went to the strip club.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
No, I'm saying you then go into a restaurant and
the guy's taking the order and you know you're laughing at.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
What Why do you have to go to a strip
club before? Why did you just say we go to
a restaurant, went to a strip club? Didn't he say
strip club? The cards cards are strip clubs. So he's
not at the shot car. No, you don't buy that.
They hand you on the street trying to get you
to go to a venue, so they pay people to
stand there.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
And as you're walking by, you got street performers, buskers,
you got all sorts of craps, like there was a
would be show girl that chases you down and you
try to snap a photo. And then you've got guys
trying to give you cards that they're paid by the
strip clubs and other adult entergy.

Speaker 6 (46:10):
But you went.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
But you went from cards knowing cards, packs that you
open and all these things. You went from cards to cards.
You're getting like the I'm picturing you at a strip club,
I can't say to you as a guy that's never
walked the strip. Get somebody walking up and saying how
much will you? I know we have I know we
have the dancer coming out. You can hear Cherry Pye.
I know you know the big song is coming up.
But how much you give me for this unopened tops
from nineteen eighty four, Mike, he could be honest something

(46:32):
imagine a PSA ten chastity card. Well, I think there's that.
I mean there have been different cards. Strip not a
strip club, I don't think so. You're just getting a
great coming up stage three. And then they're by rarity
because if you're actually stage one, the rarest of the
card because you have the prime viewing spot. Yeah, no,

(46:54):
I get it, okay.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
One As opposed to the day shift, those are like
the commons that, well, the day shifted.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
A strip club is where that the cops all walk
in naturally have the investigations at in movies, well, we
had to go to the strip club and see dom
Dom knows what happened. Le's see if let's see if
the video was working that night or whatever it is.
What's the box? Tom said? Tom says it's not working, okay,
And then and of course the one dancer says, I
know what happened to Candy come to I'm not supposed
to tell you because the dom will get mad. But

(47:23):
Candy was here at four o'clock and then she left
I don't know why. It's left with some guy who
was really weird. I had a mustache on. He looked
the bad guy from from Sleeping with the Enemy, because
he really was like a bad guy. That sounds like
the plot to Hangover. And then and then the guy
was on a bed at the top of a hotel.
It was really really weird, and Ken Jong was there. No,
he wouldn't talk to a stripper, didn't they. I swear
that I was Heather Graham, but I've been the roller

(47:45):
of cop movies. Yeah, she fell off different, different, No,
come on, Heather Graham, come on fell off. Stop stop
with that stop that's eight seven seven ninety nine. You
had all the credibility and now you just lost the
whole questions lost. Come on, hang on, she fell off.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
So no, anyway, so you took me into a strip
club that you missed it, and it showed you never
walked the strip now swollen dome at Fox Sports. You
just how about a fress You just went from from
strip club from from buying cards and cards you pulled
out in packs and then you said cards at the
strip club.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
So it was this, It's like it was the same thing.
Transition you didn't delineate between the two. No, that was
a transition done completely in your head. Because I look,
I look. They were on board with me. They understood
what I was talking about doing this symbol the whole time.
Bursh had his finger over the dump button, going I
don't know where this is going. This is categorically ready

(48:39):
to press. He's more likely to do that about the
Dodger bullpen than he is about me. Bottom line. Bottom
line is sorry about the fourdoh grounding out with the
bases loaded. Sorry about that it happens. Uh yeah, yeah
to him. Yeah, let's not get this pass. Let's say
that past the fact that, really, you seem too happy
after this Bear's loss, like you're still wearing your Bear's hat,

(49:02):
throw it down and discuss. Yes, no, yes, that's how
it works, dude. This is one of the worst losses
your team could possibly terrible on a million levels. Yes,
and you seem too happy. You're happy?

Speaker 3 (49:15):
You know what do we cheer for at the root
of everything? As much as we have our individual fandom
for the teams that we have, we want chaos in
between the white lives.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Did we not get that in spades? No? Yes we did. No,
I just think like the whole thing, like you seem
a little too hey, it's okay, Like it's a little
like it's no, I'm worried about you that you're not
you're not accepting how bad a loss this is for you,
and you're kind of in shock. That's where I'm going
with this is that I don't think you've really accepted

(49:45):
how bad this has been for you guys tonight. Oh no,
it's miserable, there's no question about it. Not what I
have that Wyatt moment in my head later like right
now we're doing a show that broadcast America and that
people want, but people want the I mean, I'm worried
about you, you know, the real you is like this
is this is like take off your hat and squeeze
it in your hands like that's kind of your thing.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
And no, no, no, that that No, that's a that's
a guy's thing that does walks and people kiss his
ass wherever it goes.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
I don't that's not me. I really don't think you
have processed just how bad a loss this has been
for the Bears, for your team. I don't think you
do not see the laundry list of things I said
to our boss, I think he tried to throw the Hey,
that pass interference just kind of buggs, and it was.
It was a terrible call.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
McCarthy under threw the receiver by a good five six yards,
so it becomes one of those I got good coverage
and he has to stop to account for a terribly
thrown ball.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
But the rules are the rules, so that goes. And
then I immediately put together what was that a list
of like, right, but you're you're flying through this very
with very much of a linear style of and this
bad play was bad and this was but there, I
feel like it's it's not really affecting you. It's like
I've done a lot of work. It's kind of in

(50:59):
your brain, but it's not really in your brain. It's
like it's it's like you're really understanding what's happening here, right,
Like Ben Johnson, dude, you understand you got an on
side kick or kick it out of bounds on this file,
Like yeah, yeah, we're just gonna kick it into the
end zone. Yeah, but but you realize they're gonna run
it out. You're gonna lose time off the clock. Ye
hyah yah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I don't think
you really realize that now, folks.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Folks are mad at me that I'm not, you know,
smashing cameras. I mean, there's some great equipment in here.
I mean that's probably five thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
I mean I could do that. I don't talk about
smashing a question. I can throw it, don't throw stuff
through TVs and whatever. I could do that. No, no, no,
I'm not saying you need to be doing that. I
just think that I look in your eyes and I
and I think, like, I don't know what you're seeing
right now. It's like you're in Ready Player one, where
here's the world and here's this virtual world where anything's

(51:46):
I don't, I don't. I'm worried about you.

Speaker 7 (51:49):
Man.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Well, I come come back to this and you know,
I'll put the heart on the sleeve. Last few years
have not been easy. No, it has not a lot
of stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
I'm I just talking about the bears I'm talking about
but this is all my team suck. This is this
is you know, in the real world.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
We've had some great triumphs, but we've had some challenges, right,
A lot of doctor visits, a lot of that kind
of stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Don't wear that out. So when my coach is a
bonehead like the coach before him, I just say, next
man up, as opposed to getting really upset about it. Yes,
he was supposed to be chosen. You have to accept
that before. But that's the problem is I'm accepting that
that point. Here's the thing. I think in the levels
of grief with this bears loss, you skip over acceptance

(52:30):
like it's like, yeah, if I don't really accept it,
it didn't really happen. I can talk about it very
abstractly because you're talking about it very well abstractly. I'm
doing a great job. I've broken down this game like
these champions, all these coaching points and all this. But
I'm worried that you're not. You're not really accepting what happened. No,
I appreciate, you know. I might eat my feelings later,
I might tell to order some wings. I don't know.

(52:52):
I mean, I don't think you're really accepting.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
No. It is.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
This is crushing because it's it's a Division game. You
know how I feel about Division games. Week one. But
here we are and.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
We got a thriller.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Right, it's close, it's late, so it becomes an instant classic.
That's the way it works. But you're looking at a
Bear squad to where it becomes the same old song
and dance. Steven Tyler's back and performing, so I can
quote quote Aerosmith as we go, so when I see
a Bear's team do this. After the first half, which

(53:23):
was pretty much a dominant half, dominant, but dominant with reservations.
Even though Caleb Williams had statistically right completion percentages high
taking what's there not a bunch of negative plays, they
also didn't take shots downfield, and I brought that up
at the time, right off the jump right of he
had guys open, but did the checkdown safe play.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
That's what led you to.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
The record you had last year and a lot of
the questions of whether he was going to be ready
for prime time. So while they had a lead, it
was helped by that pick six to help extend it.
They scored on that opening possession. They ended the streak
of games where they didn't have a touchdown on an
opening drive. Fantastic. After that, they managed three points, including

(54:09):
a bunch of coaching decisions long before the Vikings offense
came to life right shooting a field goal, missing a
fifty yard field goal, and then Caleb Williams started to
revert to some of the bad and you could see
it happening. It started to spiral, right. Remember Dante Culpepper
forber Viking Star, his big celebration was he would start.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Doing that momentum they started going. I could see that
coming from a mile away, like a snowball rolling down
a hill. All right, just to let you know all
that being said, I'm gonna keep an eye on you
the rest of the show. I want to make sure.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
I'm not drinking. I've got a cup of coffee and
some water. I'm really sad because the packers throttled the
Lions on the other side, so they're gonna be good now.
You lose to the Vikings week one, we could.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
I think we're gonna keep an eye on you. We're
keep an eye on because again it's it's it's it's
gonna hit you at some point and then it's gonna
get really bad. No I'm not.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
I've got a bunch of people checking in. It's telling
me that they've loaded up on the iHeart radio app.
Take us with you wherever you go all across the globe.
Uh send it to friends and family. It's the best
gift that you can give. I mean hair, let me
borrow your phone from it. No, I don't want to
look through your photos. I want to give you the
gift the iHeartRadio app, so you can listen to us

(55:29):
die a little bit with our.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Teams me you. And that's what we do here, right.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
We celebrate the good things and then we recognize when things.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Look like they did the year before. All right, it's
a dangerous thing, but this is a new start for you.
It's a new everything.

Speaker 5 (55:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
By the way, next week, who do they get wait
for it, wait for it? The Lions? Yeah, yeah, well
you get It'd be easy to give Ben Johnson back
after next we just walk across the field. You'll be good.
You give us Montgomery because clearly you shouldn't be giving
him the ball, but we like him still and we
still need to run the football. Well, so we'll take him.

(56:05):
You take Ben Johnson back, make him your roc because
clearly you miss him after week one and we call
it even all right, then great, we'll bring back eber
Flus or Lovey and uh hey. At least then we
have we have great storylines. Why do you hate me.
So I'm just saying, what are you doing? See is
getting you attention?

Speaker 4 (56:20):
Now?

Speaker 1 (56:20):
Now I got your attention. Now you back in the
real world here. Now, by the way polls won the
off season, you step up in that up in that
virtual reality world where they you're back and you're back
on Earth. Now you're back on Earth now just because
I can cogently put together an argument and supplement the
anger you said. You've said cogent now four times, and

(56:42):
you meant to say bagent, all right, so I know
that I know that about you, and that's happened.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
Now what are you doing just so you know, because
you know there's a bunch of knuckleheads in Chicago right
now in the post game.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
You meant to say baigent. You said coin that's already
starting to say. There's not many words at N G
E N T and those are two of them, and
one's a proper name, all right. Just want to make
just know that, Okay, should.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
I make a shirt that has that that we're doing
basically like a wheel of fortune where I've got the
missing first two letters and you have to guess it
and it's g E NT.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
What word do I have on my Chest exit up
bout a Fresca exit, swollen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon,
the Fox Sports Radio Studios. We can keep it Nie again.
We're gonna keep an eye on you.