October 11, 2025 • 49 mins
The guys kick off the show by breaking down Joe Flacco taking over as the starting quarterback for the Bengals after being traded by the Browns earlier this week. How will the Bengals fare with the veteran under center? Next, they react to the Browns' decision to name Dillon Gabriel the starting quarterback and discuss how it could impact their matchup against division rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Then, NFL writer Jason Cole joins the show to talk all things NFL heading into Week 6. Don’t miss all that and more on The Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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I'll tell you the difference between the intensity level the
two sports in the playoffs that you can just see
(01:01):
by even if you're never watched a game before turning
on the television. The NHL and Major League Baseball, and
right now every second seems to tick by like an eternity.
Game five between the Tigers and the Seattle Mariners. The
Tigers have taken a two to one lead into the
top of the seventh inning right now, and we'll get
(01:22):
to Tarik schoobl in a second. But the absolute irony
of the fact that here for the for the Mariners,
Kirby is pitching an absolute gem, right, George Kirby's had
an okay season for them, but Kerry Carpenter absolutely owns it.
What coming into the game on five for twelve with
five home runs, two singles to start the game, so
you know when he comes up with a runner on
(01:44):
in the sixth, they're not gonna let him face him
a third time a right, because now he's seven for
seven for fourteen with five home runs, and the new
pitcher of the Mariners, bringing his spire and spire prompatly,
gives up a two run homer to Carpenter, And I
really I thought I was I thought I was trying
to read Kirby's lips in the dugout saying, man, I
could have done that too soon. Wow. So it is
(02:06):
a two to one Tigers lead over the Marrigers. They
took out Kirby because we don't want this guy kills him.
This guy absolutely kills him, so okay, and then Spire
comes in and right away greets him with a two
run homer. So we're going to the bottom of the seventh.
The Tiger's up to one. Winner goes onto the Alcs
to face the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's what you call playing the percentages. It's what smart
managers do to win ball games.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But coach I got nine home runs today. Here you
haven't the Simpsons at Strawberry's line, But coach I got
nine home runs. But that's it. Congratulate yourself on a
day well done and take a seat on the bench.
I'm playing the percentages.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's what smart managers do. Yeah, I mean you saw
just the when Carpenter turns on it and spires reaction
immediately right going lefty out, lefty s I can pitch gone.
And the way things are flowing with this game, I mean,
the electricity is surge right there. You might have had,
(03:09):
you know, some problems with some of your electronics in
the stadium and around it. With the type of response
you got to BA just absolutely incredible. Three for three
on the night and the long ball.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You see that home run, and he knew right away
because he flips his bat. Inspire just puts his head down,
like I gotta go back up home plate just because
I gotta look like I'm doing my job. But I
know that's not in the ballpark. I know I'm just
running fruitlessly. So a two to one lead, But but
you want to talk about high drama. And I am
(03:41):
really stunned with this, even though it's a little bit
of short rest to Rick Scoulball, who has been absolutely
amazing tonight. And I talking to my wife today when
she says I'll school better, pitch better than Laska. I go,
last game was seven innings to give up two runs.
He goes, yeah, you should give up no runs. I'm like, wow, Okay,
so that's whatever everybody's expecting. Is that what you have
(04:02):
to live up to every day? That's what Snall's gotta
live up to. Hell, that's what happened to your hair.
Wo man, We finally have the explanation after all these years,
he should give up no runs. Okay, nine pitches his
last one one hundred mile an hour fastball that punches
out cal Riley and I'm watching him come off and
get his high fives, and I go, boy, this looks
(04:24):
like he's coming out. Is it? Wow? Is he really
gonna come out? I mean, I know, ninety nine pitches
and he's been thirteen strikeouts. There's a reason why he's
the best pitcher in baseball. And two hits for the Mariners,
and here comes Finnegan to start the seventh inning. Twenty
four saves this season, so look they're they're going to
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a high leverage reliever obviously, but still here comes Kyle Finnegan,
Detroit native, to step in. And right now the manners
are going, oh, we feel like we're winning by five runs.
We got Scooball out of the game at ninety nine pitches.
You know what for me, I'm sorry, I'm aj Hinch.
However many pitches it takes Schooble tonight, it takes even
(05:06):
if it's one hundred and seventy five. Yes, we needy.
You need one hundred and seventy five. One hundred and
seventy five for you is what we need right here.
I mean, this is this is a huge victory for
the Mariners, and you know, Schooble wanted to stay but
you could just tell coming in putting the towel on
the high five. It's like, Okay, it looks like he's
sort of done. It looks like he's coming out of
the game. And now you are gonna see a huge
(05:28):
uptick in excitement and in possibility for the Mariners. Jay
Rod just hits one to the wall the first batter
of the seventh inning, Finnigan breathing a sigh of relief.
It was tracked down just short of the fence. So
now even though it's two to one, Tigers have the lead,
they're counting outs. It is no more to reach Schooble
than wow, man, aj Hinch is just going, Okay, I
(05:50):
know what the question is gonna be postgame. I know
what they're gonna be post game. Let's just get eight
more outs. That's all I need, eight more routes. I
don't have to answer any questions. Yes, eight man out. No,
like you haven't seen.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Schoobl's got a bunch of seven inning outings over the
course of the year, a little seven and a third,
seven to two thirds, one complete game going back to
May against Cleveland with a five nothing win. But but yeah,
the it felt like that last pitch he threw it
to finish the sixth against Raleigh. It was like he
(06:21):
threw his arm at him as well, Yeah, here taking this.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
An empty the tank moment. I was like, but he
was still throwing one hundred the entire game, so it's
not yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
But he completed the you know, delivery of the pitch
and he was halfway up the road to the home
plate as he finished. It's like, yeah, I got him.
That's that big moment, big gesture, big crowd response. But
now you do the hand ringing and waiting because you
know the second guest and he'll be done. It was
already being done on the other side with Kirby because
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he only he left with only sixty six pitches thrown. Yeah,
except again going to the matchup of everything that played
out and you know hindsight twenty two with the long
ball and then being hit by Carpenter. But for school
bl I mean, that was just masterclass right there. Just
every at bat gun, is anybody even gonna wave at
something close to making contact? And the answer was no,
(07:13):
he was absolutely masterful.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But do you want to know what I thought? You
want a great on a positivity Friday, we got a
big positivity Friday story coming to any minute. But you
want a great positivity Friday story. You know what I
thought of when when they take Kirby out because obviously, look,
five for eleven, five home runs, right, you're not gonna
let Kirby faced carpenter. Right, You're just not gonna do it.
That's It's not like, hey, he's hitting three fifty in
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his career against him, he's you know, he saw.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, no, no, this is a five for.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All five hits her home runs. Every other time he
bats against me, hits a home run.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Well, hey hey recent recncy bias. He only had singles today.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, yeah, yeah, and the first two times up we're
too you know, we're two singles. So it's like, Okay,
he's really got him. I was thinking of that made
for tea movie and I think it was seventy eight,
seventy nine. The kid from left field. Gary Coleman was
a kid and he was a coach or a manager
with the Padres. He was this.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Base yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And he was so smart and he was in the
and I forget if he was actually the manager or
like he advised the manager, right, And that was the
whole thing. And he made a move in the game
where they had this guy coming up in the game,
and uh, obviously they were they were fake players. They
weren't real players.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And one guy was coming up, he had a lot
of success against him, and Gary Coleman's idea was, we're
gonna take the picture, move him to first base, bring
in a new picture just for this batter. Then after
this batter is over, that picture leaves and the pitcher
goes back to and the picture that was on first
base goes back to pitching, and they put a new
first basement in. And I'm thinking that's what I would
(08:53):
do if I were the Mariners, I would take I
would just put Kirby in a position where we don't
think he's gonna hit the ball, and then bring him
back to keep pitching. Like what an incredible move that
would have been. And if I remember right, the batter
hit a pop up and the pitcher caught it at
first base, like the one batter he was aired like.
The pitcher actually caught the pop up, then he went
back into pitch. I'm like I wanted kid from left
field right there.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Remake of a nineteen fifty three classic going all the
way back to nineteen seventy nine. Robert Gillome, Gary Collins
and Ed McMahon were the other stars of this film.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You have one, That's what he kept saying. Though. Yes,
so again, we'll keep you posted on the Tigers and
the Mariners two out one on bottom of the seventh inning. Again,
the winner goes on to the Alcs to take on
the Blue Jays. Meanwhile, this is great for a positivity Friday, right, yeah,
we always need positivity Friday. Is a querci for it.
And one of the big NFL stories of the weekend
(09:45):
is Joe Flacco going to start for the Bengals in
his first game. Doesn't matter. Hey all know, we just
wanted Joe Flacco to come in because we like Joe.
He can help us. No, no, no, no, you're starting right away, Joe,
You're starting. We love Jake Brownie. Yeah, you're starting right away.
You are starting right away, Joe. So Flacco's going to
start this weekend for the Bengals. We'll preview the game
coming up in a little bit. But I want to
(10:07):
say this. He was asked, why is he still playing here?
He is? You know, Joe Flacco's going to be sixty
three years old his next birthday, still in the NFL,
and he's asked today, why are you still going here
after such a career, And this is the answer that
Joe Flacco gave. You talk about a positivity Friday. This
is it you.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, you're cool you I'm out all right.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
So Flacco didn't like already the media in Cincinnati not
happy with there. But then when they said, okay, Joe,
can you calm down and just let us know what
you really think about it? This is what Joe Flacco said, like.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
A lot to offer to a football team. I feel
like I've put in a lot of work my whole
life to get to this point in just terms of
playing in the NFL in general. And I have a
I hopefully will have a long life when I'm done.
But you only get a chance to play in the
NF once. I feel like I've worked really hard, like
I said, to be a guy that gets to play
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in the NFL, and I don't want to take that
for granted. I still feel like I can play the
game at a high level, and I want to be
able to look at myself in the mirror when I'm
fifty years old, and be able to say that, you know,
I gave it everything I had.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Now that that is an amazing I feel like we've
been inspired the last couple of days with you know what,
We're what you know what people are talking about, sister
Jean And and here's Joe Flacco saying, I want to
be able to look back when I'm fifty, which is
actually his next birthday, so it's not very far away.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I want you look far away exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I want to look back when I'm fifty and say
I gave it everything I had. I did this. You
you know, look, you get one shot right around, around around,
however many times you go around around the sun. You
get one shot to do what you want to in life.
And yes, it is a big balancing act because when
you talk about getting married and having a family and
making sacrifices, it becomes bigger than yourself. But when it
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comes to what you choose to do for a living,
nothing he does is going to beat what he's doing.
Right now, you take that and go all the way
until you know I can't do it anymore. Don't retire
or stop playing for spite. Don't retire or stop doing
something because well, it's too difficult to find a job.
There's many guys that have retired in their thirties as well.
(12:15):
I can't get a gig here, it's so difficult. Instead
of saying, hey, i'll kick around, I'll be a number
three quarterback somewhere. You don't know how things are gonna go,
I might be able to find my way in starting.
Because that's Joe Flacco, right, It's also Sam Darnold, It's
also Gino Smith. It's also Baker Mayfield, right. It's all
of these guys that, hey, I could have quit some
time ago. Hey, I made money. I'm twenty seven years old.
(12:36):
No one's gonna have me start again. I'm just gonna
go and enjoy the rest of my life and do
whatever I want to. But no, this is what I've
given my life to. I want to see this out,
and I'm gonna go until I absolutely can't go anymore.
And that is one hundred percent the right call, because
if you don't, you're always gonna ask yourself, Hey, you know,
what could have happened? Whatnot? And it's not that it
would sit there and really eat it you, but you'd
(12:59):
always want you'd always wonder how man if I'd stuck
it out, if I had done more, But no, I
was really mad, and you have that conversation with yourself
and you try to justify your decisions to yourself. The
best thing I'll tell on you when you're done doing something,
for when you're done or in a relationship, whatever it is,
be sure that I am done, because I am done
because I can't do this anymore, either physically or mentally.
(13:22):
And I no longer get joy going to the field
and getting in the locker room with the guys. I
no longer get that jump running on the field and
being able to play. I no longer get that buzz
when we're trying to figure out two minute drive at
the end of the game. That's when you stop playing.
That's when I know I'm done. When you know you're
done doing something, that's when you go. And too often
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it's easy to convince yourself for to say, hey, I
gave it a great go. No one would blame Joe
Flacco if he retired from the NFL four years ago,
because what's he gonna do. But then look at what happened.
All of a sudden, he gets thrust in because the
Browns played six quarterbacks in twenty twenty three, and all
of a sudden, Flacco comes off his couch and throws
them to the playoffs days league. Another couple of years,
he starts this year a little bit for the Browns. Okay,
(14:03):
didn't work. They got a new guy coming in Boom.
Now he's going to start for the rest of the
season for the Bengals. A better team, a better offense,
a chance to put more numbers up and continue to
play and start in the NFL like this, This is
why you keep doing it. And when when when Joe
Flagges listen, I can't do it. I don't want to
do training camp, I don't want to do X, Y
and Z, and teams say there's no interest, nobody wants
you anymore. That's when you say, Okay, I've done all
(14:24):
I can and I'm at peace with this decision. That's
the best thing you can do in paths in your life,
whether it's creative, personal, family. When you are absolutely sure
you are done, that's when you stop doing it, and
not a second too soon. That's a great positivity Friday message.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Yeah, there's always a line that sticks with me. From
the early days of his podcast, Adam Corolla. Right, everybody
knows what he did with the you know the Man Show,
all the way back, a couple of movies, comedy, whatever,
But and wherever it's it's not going into the political
realm here, it's just the idea of whatever you're doing,
(15:00):
does it make me happy and does it make me money?
If the answer to it to both of those is know,
then go on and do something else. And then you
start playing the what's the weight between the other two things?
If you if you hit the uh the click on
either right, do you make a lot of money? Yeah,
you might be able to go through a little little
(15:21):
bit of bumps and aches and pains, and where psychologically,
day to day you're you're not really one hundred percent
on where you're going in. This applies to any job,
but certainly for the NFL. I mean it's finite.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
How many athletes have we talked through through the years
that they wish they could have gotten one more trip
around right that they got retired because their body was
done and the phone stopped ringing. So as a quarterback,
he's in the beautiful position as long as he can
stay upright and still push the ball downfield. It's not
quite the moon ball of Russell Wilson, but he is
(15:56):
a guy that'll push it downfield sometimes into Harm's way
back to that Cleveland year. Sometimes they want in spite
of him with the defense coming up big, but thirteen
touchdowns against eight picks a lot of that with air yards,
and that's what they're looking to do to jump start
an offense that is sputtered. We see Jamar Chase had
big numbers last week. That's great. Can he bring t
(16:19):
Higgins and Chase Brown along with him for the ride
and try to find something a little more full So
for for Joe Flacco, yeah, I mean he may end
up in Pittsburgh next year, so you can complete that
that quad, you know, those four teams in the AFC North,
and then he can go back and start picking off
other teams along the way. But it is the lesson
(16:42):
right of you know, if you love what you do,
ride it out as long as you can. There will
be hard days, there will be setbacks, but you know
what's the coster line. It's the hard that makes it great.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh and I was gonna say, no, what's your what's
your dusty roads line? Hard time? No, that's it. You
say hard time.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yeah, hard times are for the steel workers. Hard time
is for the miners, for the guys in the Outawa assembly.
All of that.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Update from Seattle. Uh,
you know, I don't want to say I told you so.
Uh maybe schooble shit has stated in the game right now,
aj Hinch wants to find a hole and hide. A
two out rally by the Mariners has tied this game
(17:34):
at to apiece. Holton has come in on his second pitch,
Reves hitting for Kansall and hits a drive down the
left field line that brings in the tying run. And
now it is two to two, two outs in the
bottom of the seventh inning. We have a brand new game.
Mariners fans are crying. There's one Mariner fan who is
absolutely there showing him he is crying right now. It's
(17:54):
a tie game in the seven Save your crying for
if you win or walk off like it's a tie game,
don't He's got to save your team.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
But a hitch now didn't have any of those tricks
from his Astros days. Tune.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Wow, Well, the Tigers get out of the inning ground
out to short ends it, so we go to the eighth.
It is a brand new game, two to two Tigers
and the Mariners. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the
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here we are, ninth inning, two outs, vest in another
inning of relief, winning run at first base Leo Revis,
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who hide the game in the seventh inning his first
at bat of the series with a single. He is
up again, but again two outs runner at first bottom
of the ninth inning. The winner goes onto the alcs
and I told you last hour, Mike cow insane. My
family is right, My wife's family sure that the group
family text is It's like I can't even They're not
(20:20):
even speaking a language. Anymore. It's just like it's just
like grunts and like typing. Everybody is so insane. They're
so insane. They tried to call me for the four
seconds ago. My phone is ringing and it's I'm like,
Joe about you know, I'm on the air. What that
doesn't matter. I'm calling Jason, Joe and Joe.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
No, Joe, we're taking your call live on air. Let's go. Joe.
You're part of the business. You curse, we take you out.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I'm like, Joe, Joe, you know, I'm on the air, right.
He go, and he goes, hey, Hey, I'm sorry, but
you're on the air, right, Can you talk. I'm like, no,
I can't talk.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
You know what we got you? I mean Tysher tried
to go chase it, Steve de Seger and I I mean,
if you need to take the call, go ahead. It's
you go. Keep your relatives calm.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
This is this is, this is how insane my family.
I'm gonna call he's on the air. I don't care.
I'm gonna call him. I'm gonna I'll first, No, I'm
gonna I'm gonna call uh. Now, here's the thing is
that it is a big night maybe the biggest night
on the show in the entire twenty six year life
(21:31):
of Alex Tyshert. Big night for him tonight, because, as
you know, Wednesday night, we were talking about picking the
Thursday night game with the the Eagles and the Giants,
and you know, you and I both said, Eagles, Eagles, Eagles.
He goes, JJ, No, Giants gonna win this by two touchdowns.
I go, that's not happening. He goes, if they win,
I get my own segment on the air, and I said, sure,
(21:53):
thinking that's not gonna happen. Well it happened. So now
later on tonight, Alex Tishert gets his own segment of
the show to do whatever he wants. The only rules
I've given him, and I don't think I'm missing anything, was, uh,
you can't curse, and you can't try to sell something
and some kind of pyramid scheme. I think I'm okay
with those two. I don't know if there's any other rules,
but I feel okay with that right now.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Uh. Incantations to the dark Lord are probably not advisable.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Oh oh well, yeah, do I really need to say that?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
The mysticism and stuff? Yeah, I mean no, I don't know. Hey, hey, uh, Shae,
you're going into the shallow oceans. I mean, you have
no idea what's coming out? He may speak another language.
We have no idea.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Wait, hang on, Shaye, who's in for Frostburg tonight? Shake?
Can you hop on the micro fast? I'm right here. Okay?
Is ty Shirt drawing a pentagram on the floor and
putting candles at all the points? I'm actually holding him down,
so we can't do that.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Oh okay, good Man said, I'm gonna say I'm gonna
take the physical challenge because I could see Tysher doing that,
just getting some spray paint.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
What do you doing?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Not but nothing way? Why are you doing well? I
don't understand. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I don't
say what was happening? What's he's snuck in six hundred
and sixty six candles today? Actually?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Oh okay, splashing ocean water all over the place and
creating a little environment for himself. It's got a kiddie pool.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
He is going to get his own segment later on,
much later later on in the show tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Is that our five?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Uh yeah, yeah, well, and I assume it's going to
be He's got plant based hot takes.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
So is that where we ended up?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay, I think I think that's where he a plant
based hot takes. I mean, I don't know, because, like
I said, I made a bad deal. I didn't get
anything in return if the if the the Eagles did win.
So but again I made a bad deal. It's my fault.
But Tysher gets his own segment tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
It happens, Well, you get no Laurel crown for outrunning
a burrow. So here we you know, you had to
go out on the edge, and now we'll see what happens.
Enty Shirt's a smart man. I'm sure he's gonna wow
us with some brilliance. I'm sure he's got some imaging prepared,
maybe a couple of songs. Maybe he's got an original
song that's been constructed. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm gonna give you this Laurel and Hardy handshake.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
So again we're going to the tenth inning. Detroit n
Seattle tied it to a piece. Again. Winner goes on,
a loser goes home. The intensity. I don't think any
fans have sat down in the crowd since the fifth inning,
I really since their first run, since a Mariner's first
run of the game. I don't think fans have sat down.
It's at an incredible atmosphere right now, and.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Right now it's baseball as intended. No ghost runners like that.
So here the tenth.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
We'll have more on this game. I mean, unless my
family calls it, get on the I mean, I don't know,
it could happen that way. But it is a big
football Friday weekend. And how about a couple of potential
upsets to talk about now we had we started out
positivity Friday Last Hour bringing you Joe Flacco, who spoke
to the media today in advance of his first game
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starting quarterback for the Bengals against the Packers on Sunday,
and he gave a great quote that he was asked
why he keeps playing, and he says, because I want
to look back at my life when I'm fifty, which
is in a month, and say that I gave all
I had. I love that punchline. I was just gonna
keep running that into the ground.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I'm gonna want to say I gave it all I had,
which is it? Which is a great lesson. Hey, when
you're doing something you love, you give it all, because
when you're done, you're not going to get to go
back to it, right, like you can retire and go
back and play. You make sure you are done so
in life, whether it's something personal, professional, make sure you
are done right. Make sure you're done and Jay.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
So think about our business right. I mean now people
hop from city to city. It's the Harry chapin classic
Wold where you just keep going trying to find that
next spot in a lineup because you don't want to
let it go. I mean, we just commemorated what was
it nine years ago that Vin Scully walked away? Yeah,
I mean that look how far he went and so
(25:53):
many others, Yuker and and you that that we're not
going anywhere. I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, I mean really, it's it's a great it's a
great moment for Flacco. And I'll tell you what. The
fact they're throwing him in as fast as they are
tells me two things. Number One, no matter what they said,
you know how much they said, we can't put Jake
Browning out there again at all. Ever, we can't do it.
We can't have three points through the first three quarters
of our last three game we can't do it. But
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putting Flacco out there right away, I'm I'm going. I'm
going on the belief that, yes, they're desperate, but they
have a gut feel that Flacco's got a little bit
of special sauce ready. And I agree. I think it's
gonna be a big debut for him. I think he
goes for two point fifty in a couple of touchdowns.
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He's gonna throw a ton. We've seen this from Flacco before, right,
We saw it a couple of years ago in Cleveland.
Now he's got weapons, man, He's got weapons. He's got
two great wide receivers, He's got a terrific running back.
He's got some weapons. Man. Cincinnati is desperate, and I
have seen the Packers play to the level of competition
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before they lost to Flaco earlier this year. Now Flacco's
on a team with better offensive weapons. Coming off of
bye week, I can see Green Bay coming out slow
and Cincinnati winning a shootout as they are re energized.
I love the over in this and I will take
the Bengals on the field to win this game. Points
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are great, that's all I said. I will take the
Bengals on the field to win this game, because I've
seen this act from the Packers before, and this is
Flaco shows Hey, it's gonna be just like it was
a couple of years ago when he shows up off
his couch and what is he doing? How is he
doing this? He does it? Opening game for the Bengals.
Watch Ooh.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I like this. I like the chaos. When we're talking
about a fourteen point spread. Forty four and a half
is the over. If you want to bet him out
right plus seven to seventy five Smith, there you go.
You can make a big splash here. I'll definitely take
them plus the fourteen. That offensive line's no good, but
I'm still not convinced that the Packers pass rushes all that. Hi, Mike,
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so to see coming out of the bye week what
they're able to put forward, but certainly for Flacco and
coming upon him, get the ball out. But you have
all these playmakers that you're trying to get back involved.
Te Higgins he gets out of off balls this week.
Chase Brown one of the fantasy darlings coming into the
year with great expectations. Unfortunately, Burrow goes down and everything's
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torn asunder on the Packers side. Jordan Love getting to
do one of those great distributor kind of mechanisms that
we talk about. You don't have to an obvious number one.
We'll see if Dobbs becomes that guy before their bye
week he had that three touchdown game, Perhaps he's going
to rise up and become that player, maybe more golden.
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I think it's a lot on the legs of Josh
Jacobs to get this thing started, which means they try
to grind it out a little bit and run some clock.
But when when it's all said, none, Joe Flacco, I mean,
at this point in his career, he's got no conscious.
I mean, you heard the man. I'm just gonna keep going.
I worked hard for this, damn it. My shoulders ready
to go. So plus fourteen, I'm trying. I'm trying to
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find some of the Uh let's see, what have we
got to record two or more passing touchdowns plus two
seventy five to get the hat trick ten to one.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I'm telling you he's a great fit for this offense.
It's gonna be long balls, it's gonna be Jamar Chase going.
This is what I've been missing for the past three weeks.
Doesn't matter that it's on the road.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
He is a great fit for what the Bengals want
to do. Chase Brown will have a big game. Look
all all the weapons. It's a re energizing moment for
the Bengals in this game.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
How many yards did you say?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I said, two fifty and two touchdowns for Joe Flacco.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Two fifty plus gives you plus two twenty Woo. I like,
you want to go to two seventy five to seventy
seventy five. Why not plus three seventy five?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You know what, give me three hundred and seventy five
yards and five touchdowns.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
If you go, if you go over three hundred and
twenty five passing yards, you're at eleven to one.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Now I feel pretty good with two fifty and two touchdowns.
I feel pretty good with that. Two fifty two touchdowns
for Joe Flacco. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Look at this, Look
at this.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Joe Flacco is elite once again.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Upset number two. I kind of sort of like Dylan
Gabriel and what he showed last week. He kind of
reminds me a little bit, maybe because I just have
this this affinity because the last great era for the
Jets is when Chad Pennington was the quarterback. But he
kind of has a lot of Chad Pennington in him.
Where he's smart, he's a leader boy. His arm strength
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is questionable, but he still knows where to go with
the football, finds a way to get it there. The
sum of what Dylan Gabriel is is greater than his
individual parts. We knew that coming out of Oregon, and
we saw all that, and I was surprised that he
played as well as he did last week. And again
he's gonna be impressive, but this time in a low
scoring win. I love the under on this. But Cleveland's
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defense is going to give the Steelers offense trouble. Right,
Jalen Warren's back after missing a week, but still, it's
not like he's been lighting it up. It's not like
all of a sudden Aaron Rodgers has found the fountain
of youth. The Browns defense is terrific, it is top
of the league, terrific, and the Steelers' offense is older
and it's slow. Cleveland is already better offensively the last
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week with their quarterback change, moving on to Dylan Gabriel
because they needed to make that kind of move and
I'll give you this bold fantasy prediction as well. Judkins
goes for over one hundred yards on twenty five plus carries,
they win it thirteen to ten. So give me the Browns,
the win and the under.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Look at you. I'm a big fan of what Judkins
brings you to the field and what he's shown them
the last couple of weeks because he's also making plays
as a receiver out of the backfield, which is key
because Dylan Gabriel can't complete a ball beyond ten yards.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
That was Chad.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
That was bad, bad, bad last week, but effective for
a good chunk and it kept the Flores defense at
bay until well the end of the game. And that
was a great play by Carson Wentz to find Jordan
Edison to finish that game off absolute chaos in that
I like the plus six for sure. Thirty eight and
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a half is the total. The grinded out opportunity and look,
Aaron Rodgers, no great shakes on the other side. We've
seen him both from a regular and fantasy purpose of
week one was the big splash and then it's kind
of a grinded out kind of squad here. So yeah,
it's a battle of heavyweights, low scoring game, field goal
(32:43):
kicking contest. When it's all said and done, I'll take
Pittsburgh to take the win out of the bye week
because Tomblin just doesn't lose in those circumstances. But Cleveland's
certainly up to the task. And this goes into the wire.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
And now do you like the under like me?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Or are you? Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (32:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
They under under cash is easy, okay, unless something really
crazy happens, like we get a defensive touchdown. All right,
maybe maybe that's how it goes over. But these offenses, no,
it's this game's played between the twenties.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
What if they what if they put the over under
at thirty? I think I still would take the under
because I got oh, sixteen thirteen. Yeah no, no, no, no,
I'm taking the under man. I'll take the under. It
that I like that?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Wow at thirty if you if you put it, let
me see if I can tease that down.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
What does that do for? Okay? Okay, thirty is a
tough thirty seven. But if you put it at thirty
one and a half, okay, because that because that that
you get to be seventeen fourteen, I can win. I'll
still take the under thirty one and a half. I
would still take the under on it bow.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
That is frightening. Ah, let's see. Yeah, No, I got
I gotta, I gotta figure out what the math is.
But saying you go under thirty and a half, that
is rarefied error right there.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best Fred Mike.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
That's Kramer refusing to take the car back off the
test drive and sorry to say you can break the
needle off there.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
We got more football on the way coming up next.
NFL insider Jason cole joins US preview all the big
storylines in the NFL this weekend. Quick update from Major
League Baseball. Getting tight for the Tigers. Runner at second,
one out, bottom of the tenth inning, a Rosa Raina,
the playoff hero that he's been through mout much of
(34:36):
his life, taking on Melton. Melton gives up a leadoff double,
gets a pop up to second, So high drama happening
right now in Seattle. Again to two, bottom of the
tenth inning, one out, game five, win or go home.
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike, you're listening to
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
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Speaker 1 (35:07):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Playoff Kerry Carpenter
maybe better than playoff, Derek Jeeter. Look at now four
for four tonight with a single. He goes to second
(35:30):
on a wild borrow. It goes a second on a
pass ball, and the Tigers now have the go ahead
run at second with one out. After getting out of
a runner at second, nobody out jam In the bottom
of the tenth inning, Melton gets out of it after
it looked like it was absolute disaster giving up at
double who man go ahead?
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Has Crawford ever bunted? This is why we made out.
Like the bunt in most situations when you can end
to series potentially by you know, get him on, get
him over, get him in. I'm not opposed to it.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
So no bunt, but no runs. And meanwhile, now Detroit
and Seattle to to top of the eleventh and intentional
walk has put runners at first and second with one
out and that pass ball that put the go ahead
run at second. That is the first past ball of
the season for cal Riley, the first pass ball. It
(36:27):
looked like it was one of those like a back
door slider that you know doesn't doesn't break across the
plate and you kind of have to reach back for
a little bit, and it bounces off his gluve and
it looked like he thought he had it. Like it
looked like he says, Okay, he's got it, and then
all of a sudden, like and you see the ball
skip away, and I'm like, why is he not running
after it? Like you said, It's like, oh, now I
see it. Like if if Carpenter was really on his horse,
(36:47):
he might have been able to get to third. But
he gets to second, and now the Tigers first and
second one out. Torkalsen up zero for four and the
Tigers could potentially break it open. Put the go ahead
run out here in the top of the eleventh inning.
Does that take away his platinum status? Yeah, I think
it does, like you did.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
I mean, he had a great throwout of would be
based Steeler earlier, but I mean, you know, balancing in
the force here.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
So we'll have more baseball on the way again to
two top of the eleventh inning. But it is time
to break down the weekend in the National Football League,
and there is nobody better to do it with than
our next guest. He is a long time friend of
the show. I mean may maybe too long, but long
time friend of the show. He is on Twitter at
(37:36):
Jason Cole sixty two. That is at Jason Cole sixty two.
Of course he is a haul of very good voter,
uh and check him out of the thirty third team.
So many things to get to with Jason Coles coming
up with us in a second. And I mean it, Mike,
you look at this weekend in the NFL and with
all the quarterback situations. Look, we talked about Dylan Gabriel
a few minutes ago, we talked about Joe Flacco once again.
(37:59):
Lamar Jackson has ruled out. The Ravens are gonna have
to roll with Cooper Rush again. And it's just this
season for the Ravens that looked like it was Super
Bowl or busting. They're the overwhelming favorites and the greatest
Ravens roster we've ever seen. You could put all the
other Ravens players from the previous history, going back to
Baltimore when they were the Cults, and it wouldn't be
(38:21):
as good as this roster. And here go the Baltimore Ravens,
who could sit back when we're looking at them on
Monday morning. Go man. The Ravens are one and five
and last place in the AFZ.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
North seven and a half point dogs at home.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Look out, Jason call joins us right now. Jay Colton, no,
Lamar Jackson, will you play quarterback for the Ravens on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I turned down the offer.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Mmm, okay, good move.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Ronnie Stanley's not there.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah, Harbaugh called me earlier this week. We discuss we
really went through it, and I just felt like, now
it wasn't the time or the place.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Your selfish bastard.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Okay, nicely done, T shirt.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I'm sorry. There's a there's a there's a time I
could come out and from from behind the microphone and
behind the pen and take over, But now it's not
the time. I'm sorry, So it's not the time.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yeah, there was, there was there was a moment in
history when that.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Was you say that, And I think of that scene
from the end of Wayne's World when Dia career performs
and Frankie Sharp shows up and says, although you're extremely
talented and beautiful, it's just not the right time. I'm sorry,
and he walks away.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
That is not the right time for rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah, yeah, it's just it's just not the right time.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Blitz.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I mean Jay called this. I mean this is you
talk about hard times the Ravens man. This is just
unreal for them.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, they're going through I mean, this is ugly, but
you know, so much of this is self induced. And
I don't understand why John Harbor again, I don't understand
the whole I don't understand the defense period, Like what,
I don't understand anything about it in terms of what
(40:30):
they're trying to accomplish with it. And this this is
like such a foundational thing, Like it's beyond the injury
to Lamar, which is you know, always going to hamper team.
It was a franchise guy. I mean, these are things
that happened, but like they played like they weren't ready
for this season. Four games that I'm like, did you
(40:53):
guys know that you're playing or did you think that
the preseason was just going to last for like, you know,
order a full quarter of the season. So I mean,
it's just I'm so troubled by this team because it's
so against everything that John Harbus stands for in the
way that he coaches that it's I mean, I'm just baffled.
(41:18):
I'm completely and totally baffled by this Ravens team and
how they do well.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
I mean, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, because you know,
obviously he's had to step in for his offensive coordinator
defensive coordinator. But I got to be honest, Ja Cole,
if this is a bad season and this is one
of those really you know, a five and twelve season
that gets away from them, I don't know that he's
back next year. I mean, this was Hey, we had
a lot of expectation this year, and he's the one comic.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
I think he's earned. I think he's earned a whole
lot of latitude and he's learned a lot, He's earned
a lot of room, and I think of the Shaddy
believes in consistency. Now, Dashadi is the kind of guy
who's he's really interesting. I mean, you talked to Bashadi.
He has very interesting takes on how people think, how
(42:10):
they react, and he listens very carefully to people so
you might be right in that he might sense that
Harbaugh has lost his edge. And I'm not saying that
he has. I don't know that. I'm not around that
team enough every day. I'm talking to enough people. I
don't have the I don't have the day to day
history of of Horrbor.
Speaker 7 (42:33):
Like that.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
But Dashadi is a guy who's he has his finger
on the pulse in a very interesting way, unlike a
lot of owners because he's not there every single day.
But if you want to talk about somebody who is
an active listener and who comes to conclusions very quickly
about the people who work for him, but does but
(42:56):
does prefer stability, you know he prefers stability over this
by I think Steve Bashatti is one of the smartest,
most intuitive, and sharpest owners I've ever met in my life.
And that guy will do what he will. He will
not hesitate to make a move and do it definitively.
(43:17):
So I'm not saying it's impossible. I would just think
that Harbuz earned a certain amount of a certain amount
of latitudes.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
All right, let's stay in the general region. I'll do
you the choose your own adventure. You could either go
with the floating dumpster fire right now. That is the
Philadelphia Eagles or the feel good story of the Juggernaut
and whatever you want to nickname Jackson.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Dart Well, what am I doing? Am I playing to
win a championship? Or am I playing because I'd like
to see more pictures of Jackson's mom? I mean, what
are we trying to do?
Speaker 1 (43:51):
See? This is the kind of analysis you get on
thirty thirteen you don't get in a lot of places.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
I didn't think we'd get the mom in there.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
You go, yeah out. I mean Zach Wilson's mom flopped.
I mean, so we got to have Jackson Dartner. I mean, look,
the Eagles are just bored because they they beat up
all the teams that they felt like they needed to
beat up in the first you know, four games. You know,
(44:19):
the victory against Tampa was just such an example of
how they play. It's like they dominate the first half
and then they get sloppy. They're a board team. And
one of the biggest problems that the Eagles have is
that their best defensive player and probably the most talented
player period, the guy that everybody kind of looks to
(44:40):
and says you know set the tone. Jalen Carter is
not a guy who knows how to set the tone.
He's not a very mature guy. And they don't have
the Jason Kelsey's and the Fletcher Coxes around anymore to
keep him in line and keep the glare away from him.
So there's more glare on him than there's ever been before.
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And this is on top of the fact that Jalen
hurts rubs guys the wrong way on that team. You know,
you have the tension with aj Brown, all these those
things that are going on the offensive line is obviously
really deeping up. But just like I think that they
know that they're really good and they feel like we
can turn this on anytime, and I think that that's true.
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I just worry that this is not a mature enough
team that knows like when you really have to snap
into place and that you really got to take care
of business. And yesterday was a really bad loss. From
that standpoint, it was a great loss. It was a
great loss if we're talking about Jackson Dart's mom. It's
a bad loss. If we're talking about either the Eagles
(45:51):
or Brian Daball having any respect for like the basic
rules like if a guys has a concussion, they're pretty
much leave that way all alone.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
He really doesn't like Russell Wilson anywhere near his field anymore.
Speaker 7 (46:04):
No, no, no, no, oh my god, no, I mean yeah,
that Russell free Like just where who's had a worse
end of their career, Russell Wilson or Donovan McNabb.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Oh wow, that's right. See. The thing is, I still
think Russell Wilson because you know, you know, other quarterbacks
are going to get hurt. I think there's a parachute
out there for him somewhere at some point. But you know,
but boy, I just can't see it ending with him
on the side, like I could. Just like I can't
see him in December with the big puffy coat on,
(46:40):
hands in his you know, the hand in the hand warmers,
just standing there going Russell Wilson who hasn't seen the
field in eleven weeks. Like, I just can't see that
being how it ends for Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
I don't think so either. But I also thought there
was a point of talent there. Shoot me, I thought
that Donovan McNabb, excuse me, there, Donovan nab was on
his way to a Hall of Fame career, and and
then it just it was a meltdown. It was a
(47:13):
complete utter melt Dan right, and I thought there was
something really great there. And I thought, Russell Wilson, Okay,
this is a Hall of Fame career, and based on
what's happened here the last four years, I'm like, dude, Wow,
I'm not really I'm not feeling it anymore. Like you
can play your way out of consideration for the Hall
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of Fame, and those two, those two guys are doing it.
One certain one certainly did it. I can say that definitively.
Donald McNabb played his way out of Hall of Fame consideration.
Russell Wilson is kind of hanging on by a thread.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That's at
Jason Cole sixty two, thirty thirteen Pro Football Haul of
very good. This is great as always, buddy, Thanks so much.
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
Have a great weekend. Enjoy the games, brother, Sam. Wow.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
Yeah, I'll tell you the the end of Yeah, you
forget the end of done NAB's career was really rough, man,
it was.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
I really thought he was saying he'd already taken the poll,
and Russell Wilson ain't getting in.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've already had it's not going on,
it's not going in his direction. Hey, be sure to
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on the television. The NHL and Major League Baseball, and
right now every second seems to tick by like an eternity.
Game five between the Tigers and the Seattle Mariners. The
Tigers have taken a two to one lead into the
top of the seventh inning right now, and we'll get
(01:22):
to Tarik schoobl in a second. But the absolute irony
of the fact that here for the for the Mariners,
Kirby is pitching an absolute gem, right, George Kirby's had
an okay season for them, but Kerry Carpenter absolutely owns it.
What coming into the game on five for twelve with
five home runs, two singles to start the game, so
you know when he comes up with a runner on
(01:44):
in the sixth, they're not gonna let him face him
a third time a right, because now he's seven for
seven for fourteen with five home runs, and the new
pitcher of the Mariners, bringing his spire and spire prompatly,
gives up a two run homer to Carpenter, And I
really I thought I was I thought I was trying
to read Kirby's lips in the dugout saying, man, I
could have done that too soon. Wow. So it is
(02:06):
a two to one Tigers lead over the Marrigers. They
took out Kirby because we don't want this guy kills him.
This guy absolutely kills him, so okay, and then Spire
comes in and right away greets him with a two
run homer. So we're going to the bottom of the seventh.
The Tiger's up to one. Winner goes onto the Alcs
to face the Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It's what you call playing the percentages. It's what smart
managers do to win ball games.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
But coach I got nine home runs today. Here you
haven't the Simpsons at Strawberry's line, But coach I got
nine home runs. But that's it. Congratulate yourself on a
day well done and take a seat on the bench.
I'm playing the percentages.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's what smart managers do. Yeah, I mean you saw
just the when Carpenter turns on it and spires reaction
immediately right going lefty out, lefty s I can pitch gone.
And the way things are flowing with this game, I mean,
the electricity is surge right there. You might have had,
(03:09):
you know, some problems with some of your electronics in
the stadium and around it. With the type of response
you got to BA just absolutely incredible. Three for three
on the night and the long ball.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You see that home run, and he knew right away
because he flips his bat. Inspire just puts his head down,
like I gotta go back up home plate just because
I gotta look like I'm doing my job. But I
know that's not in the ballpark. I know I'm just
running fruitlessly. So a two to one lead, But but
you want to talk about high drama. And I am
(03:41):
really stunned with this, even though it's a little bit
of short rest to Rick Scoulball, who has been absolutely
amazing tonight. And I talking to my wife today when
she says I'll school better, pitch better than Laska. I go,
last game was seven innings to give up two runs.
He goes, yeah, you should give up no runs. I'm like, wow, Okay,
so that's whatever everybody's expecting. Is that what you have
(04:02):
to live up to every day? That's what Snall's gotta
live up to. Hell, that's what happened to your hair.
Wo man, We finally have the explanation after all these years,
he should give up no runs. Okay, nine pitches his
last one one hundred mile an hour fastball that punches
out cal Riley and I'm watching him come off and
get his high fives, and I go, boy, this looks
(04:24):
like he's coming out. Is it? Wow? Is he really
gonna come out? I mean, I know, ninety nine pitches
and he's been thirteen strikeouts. There's a reason why he's
the best pitcher in baseball. And two hits for the Mariners,
and here comes Finnegan to start the seventh inning. Twenty
four saves this season, so look they're they're going to
(04:46):
a high leverage reliever obviously, but still here comes Kyle Finnegan,
Detroit native, to step in. And right now the manners
are going, oh, we feel like we're winning by five runs.
We got Scooball out of the game at ninety nine pitches.
You know what for me, I'm sorry, I'm aj Hinch.
However many pitches it takes Schooble tonight, it takes even
(05:06):
if it's one hundred and seventy five. Yes, we needy.
You need one hundred and seventy five. One hundred and
seventy five for you is what we need right here.
I mean, this is this is a huge victory for
the Mariners, and you know, Schooble wanted to stay but
you could just tell coming in putting the towel on
the high five. It's like, Okay, it looks like he's
sort of done. It looks like he's coming out of
the game. And now you are gonna see a huge
(05:28):
uptick in excitement and in possibility for the Mariners. Jay
Rod just hits one to the wall the first batter
of the seventh inning, Finnigan breathing a sigh of relief.
It was tracked down just short of the fence. So
now even though it's two to one, Tigers have the lead,
they're counting outs. It is no more to reach Schooble
than wow, man, aj Hinch is just going, Okay, I
(05:50):
know what the question is gonna be postgame. I know
what they're gonna be post game. Let's just get eight
more outs. That's all I need, eight more routes. I
don't have to answer any questions. Yes, eight man out. No,
like you haven't seen.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Schoobl's got a bunch of seven inning outings over the
course of the year, a little seven and a third,
seven to two thirds, one complete game going back to
May against Cleveland with a five nothing win. But but yeah,
the it felt like that last pitch he threw it
to finish the sixth against Raleigh. It was like he
(06:21):
threw his arm at him as well, Yeah, here taking this.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
An empty the tank moment. I was like, but he
was still throwing one hundred the entire game, so it's
not yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
But he completed the you know, delivery of the pitch
and he was halfway up the road to the home
plate as he finished. It's like, yeah, I got him.
That's that big moment, big gesture, big crowd response. But
now you do the hand ringing and waiting because you
know the second guest and he'll be done. It was
already being done on the other side with Kirby because
(06:52):
he only he left with only sixty six pitches thrown. Yeah,
except again going to the matchup of everything that played
out and you know hindsight twenty two with the long
ball and then being hit by Carpenter. But for school
bl I mean, that was just masterclass right there. Just
every at bat gun, is anybody even gonna wave at
something close to making contact? And the answer was no,
(07:13):
he was absolutely masterful.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
But do you want to know what I thought? You
want a great on a positivity Friday, we got a
big positivity Friday story coming to any minute. But you
want a great positivity Friday story. You know what I
thought of when when they take Kirby out because obviously, look,
five for eleven, five home runs, right, you're not gonna
let Kirby faced carpenter. Right, You're just not gonna do it.
That's It's not like, hey, he's hitting three fifty in
(07:36):
his career against him, he's you know, he saw.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, no, no, this is a five for.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All five hits her home runs. Every other time he
bats against me, hits a home run.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Well, hey hey recent recncy bias. He only had singles today.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, yeah, yeah, and the first two times up we're
too you know, we're two singles. So it's like, Okay,
he's really got him. I was thinking of that made
for tea movie and I think it was seventy eight,
seventy nine. The kid from left field. Gary Coleman was
a kid and he was a coach or a manager
with the Padres. He was this.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Base yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And he was so smart and he was in the
and I forget if he was actually the manager or
like he advised the manager, right, And that was the
whole thing. And he made a move in the game
where they had this guy coming up in the game,
and uh, obviously they were they were fake players. They
weren't real players.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And one guy was coming up, he had a lot
of success against him, and Gary Coleman's idea was, we're
gonna take the picture, move him to first base, bring
in a new picture just for this batter. Then after
this batter is over, that picture leaves and the pitcher
goes back to and the picture that was on first
base goes back to pitching, and they put a new
first basement in. And I'm thinking that's what I would
(08:53):
do if I were the Mariners, I would take I
would just put Kirby in a position where we don't
think he's gonna hit the ball, and then bring him
back to keep pitching. Like what an incredible move that
would have been. And if I remember right, the batter
hit a pop up and the pitcher caught it at
first base, like the one batter he was aired like.
The pitcher actually caught the pop up, then he went
back into pitch. I'm like I wanted kid from left
field right there.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Remake of a nineteen fifty three classic going all the
way back to nineteen seventy nine. Robert Gillome, Gary Collins
and Ed McMahon were the other stars of this film.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You have one, That's what he kept saying. Though. Yes,
so again, we'll keep you posted on the Tigers and
the Mariners two out one on bottom of the seventh inning. Again,
the winner goes on to the Alcs to take on
the Blue Jays. Meanwhile, this is great for a positivity Friday, right, yeah,
we always need positivity Friday. Is a querci for it.
And one of the big NFL stories of the weekend
(09:45):
is Joe Flacco going to start for the Bengals in
his first game. Doesn't matter. Hey all know, we just
wanted Joe Flacco to come in because we like Joe.
He can help us. No, no, no, no, you're starting right away, Joe,
You're starting. We love Jake Brownie. Yeah, you're starting right away.
You are starting right away, Joe. So Flacco's going to
start this weekend for the Bengals. We'll preview the game
coming up in a little bit. But I want to
(10:07):
say this. He was asked, why is he still playing here?
He is? You know, Joe Flacco's going to be sixty
three years old his next birthday, still in the NFL,
and he's asked today, why are you still going here
after such a career, And this is the answer that
Joe Flacco gave. You talk about a positivity Friday. This
is it you.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, you're cool you I'm out all right.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
So Flacco didn't like already the media in Cincinnati not
happy with there. But then when they said, okay, Joe,
can you calm down and just let us know what
you really think about it? This is what Joe Flacco said, like.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
A lot to offer to a football team. I feel
like I've put in a lot of work my whole
life to get to this point in just terms of
playing in the NFL in general. And I have a
I hopefully will have a long life when I'm done.
But you only get a chance to play in the
NF once. I feel like I've worked really hard, like
I said, to be a guy that gets to play
(11:05):
in the NFL, and I don't want to take that
for granted. I still feel like I can play the
game at a high level, and I want to be
able to look at myself in the mirror when I'm
fifty years old, and be able to say that, you know,
I gave it everything I had.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Now that that is an amazing I feel like we've
been inspired the last couple of days with you know what,
We're what you know what people are talking about, sister
Jean And and here's Joe Flacco saying, I want to
be able to look back when I'm fifty, which is
actually his next birthday, so it's not very far away.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I want you look far away exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I want to look back when I'm fifty and say
I gave it everything I had. I did this. You
you know, look, you get one shot right around, around around,
however many times you go around around the sun. You
get one shot to do what you want to in life.
And yes, it is a big balancing act because when
you talk about getting married and having a family and
making sacrifices, it becomes bigger than yourself. But when it
(11:54):
comes to what you choose to do for a living,
nothing he does is going to beat what he's doing.
Right now, you take that and go all the way
until you know I can't do it anymore. Don't retire
or stop playing for spite. Don't retire or stop doing
something because well, it's too difficult to find a job.
There's many guys that have retired in their thirties as well.
(12:15):
I can't get a gig here, it's so difficult. Instead
of saying, hey, i'll kick around, I'll be a number
three quarterback somewhere. You don't know how things are gonna go,
I might be able to find my way in starting.
Because that's Joe Flacco, right, It's also Sam Darnold, It's
also Gino Smith. It's also Baker Mayfield, right. It's all
of these guys that, hey, I could have quit some
time ago. Hey, I made money. I'm twenty seven years old.
(12:36):
No one's gonna have me start again. I'm just gonna
go and enjoy the rest of my life and do
whatever I want to. But no, this is what I've
given my life to. I want to see this out,
and I'm gonna go until I absolutely can't go anymore.
And that is one hundred percent the right call, because
if you don't, you're always gonna ask yourself, Hey, you know,
what could have happened? Whatnot? And it's not that it
would sit there and really eat it you, but you'd
(12:59):
always want you'd always wonder how man if I'd stuck
it out, if I had done more, But no, I
was really mad, and you have that conversation with yourself
and you try to justify your decisions to yourself. The
best thing I'll tell on you when you're done doing something,
for when you're done or in a relationship, whatever it is,
be sure that I am done, because I am done
because I can't do this anymore, either physically or mentally.
(13:22):
And I no longer get joy going to the field
and getting in the locker room with the guys. I
no longer get that jump running on the field and
being able to play. I no longer get that buzz
when we're trying to figure out two minute drive at
the end of the game. That's when you stop playing.
That's when I know I'm done. When you know you're
done doing something, that's when you go. And too often
(13:43):
it's easy to convince yourself for to say, hey, I
gave it a great go. No one would blame Joe
Flacco if he retired from the NFL four years ago,
because what's he gonna do. But then look at what happened.
All of a sudden, he gets thrust in because the
Browns played six quarterbacks in twenty twenty three, and all
of a sudden, Flacco comes off his couch and throws
them to the playoffs days league. Another couple of years,
he starts this year a little bit for the Browns. Okay,
(14:03):
didn't work. They got a new guy coming in Boom.
Now he's going to start for the rest of the
season for the Bengals. A better team, a better offense,
a chance to put more numbers up and continue to
play and start in the NFL like this, This is
why you keep doing it. And when when when Joe
Flagges listen, I can't do it. I don't want to
do training camp, I don't want to do X, Y
and Z, and teams say there's no interest, nobody wants
you anymore. That's when you say, Okay, I've done all
(14:24):
I can and I'm at peace with this decision. That's
the best thing you can do in paths in your life,
whether it's creative, personal, family. When you are absolutely sure
you are done, that's when you stop doing it, and
not a second too soon. That's a great positivity Friday message.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Yeah, there's always a line that sticks with me. From
the early days of his podcast, Adam Corolla. Right, everybody
knows what he did with the you know the Man Show,
all the way back, a couple of movies, comedy, whatever,
But and wherever it's it's not going into the political
realm here, it's just the idea of whatever you're doing,
(15:00):
does it make me happy and does it make me money?
If the answer to it to both of those is know,
then go on and do something else. And then you
start playing the what's the weight between the other two things?
If you if you hit the uh the click on
either right, do you make a lot of money? Yeah,
you might be able to go through a little little
(15:21):
bit of bumps and aches and pains, and where psychologically,
day to day you're you're not really one hundred percent
on where you're going in. This applies to any job,
but certainly for the NFL. I mean it's finite.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
How many athletes have we talked through through the years
that they wish they could have gotten one more trip
around right that they got retired because their body was
done and the phone stopped ringing. So as a quarterback,
he's in the beautiful position as long as he can
stay upright and still push the ball downfield. It's not
quite the moon ball of Russell Wilson, but he is
(15:56):
a guy that'll push it downfield sometimes into Harm's way
back to that Cleveland year. Sometimes they want in spite
of him with the defense coming up big, but thirteen
touchdowns against eight picks a lot of that with air yards,
and that's what they're looking to do to jump start
an offense that is sputtered. We see Jamar Chase had
big numbers last week. That's great. Can he bring t
(16:19):
Higgins and Chase Brown along with him for the ride
and try to find something a little more full So
for for Joe Flacco, yeah, I mean he may end
up in Pittsburgh next year, so you can complete that
that quad, you know, those four teams in the AFC North,
and then he can go back and start picking off
other teams along the way. But it is the lesson
(16:42):
right of you know, if you love what you do,
ride it out as long as you can. There will
be hard days, there will be setbacks, but you know
what's the coster line. It's the hard that makes it great.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh and I was gonna say, no, what's your what's
your dusty roads line? Hard time? No, that's it. You
say hard time.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yeah, hard times are for the steel workers. Hard time
is for the miners, for the guys in the Outawa assembly.
All of that.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Update from Seattle. Uh,
you know, I don't want to say I told you so.
Uh maybe schooble shit has stated in the game right now,
aj Hinch wants to find a hole and hide. A
two out rally by the Mariners has tied this game
(17:34):
at to apiece. Holton has come in on his second pitch,
Reves hitting for Kansall and hits a drive down the
left field line that brings in the tying run. And
now it is two to two, two outs in the
bottom of the seventh inning. We have a brand new game.
Mariners fans are crying. There's one Mariner fan who is
absolutely there showing him he is crying right now. It's
(17:54):
a tie game in the seven Save your crying for
if you win or walk off like it's a tie game,
don't He's got to save your team.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
But a hitch now didn't have any of those tricks
from his Astros days. Tune.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Wow, Well, the Tigers get out of the inning ground
out to short ends it, so we go to the eighth.
It is a brand new game, two to two Tigers
and the Mariners. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the
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here we are, ninth inning, two outs, vest in another
inning of relief, winning run at first base Leo Revis,
(19:59):
who hide the game in the seventh inning his first
at bat of the series with a single. He is
up again, but again two outs runner at first bottom
of the ninth inning. The winner goes onto the alcs
and I told you last hour, Mike cow insane. My
family is right, My wife's family sure that the group
family text is It's like I can't even They're not
(20:20):
even speaking a language. Anymore. It's just like it's just
like grunts and like typing. Everybody is so insane. They're
so insane. They tried to call me for the four
seconds ago. My phone is ringing and it's I'm like,
Joe about you know, I'm on the air. What that
doesn't matter. I'm calling Jason, Joe and Joe.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
No, Joe, we're taking your call live on air. Let's go. Joe.
You're part of the business. You curse, we take you out.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I'm like, Joe, Joe, you know, I'm on the air, right.
He go, and he goes, hey, Hey, I'm sorry, but
you're on the air, right, Can you talk. I'm like, no,
I can't talk.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
You know what we got you? I mean Tysher tried
to go chase it, Steve de Seger and I I mean,
if you need to take the call, go ahead. It's
you go. Keep your relatives calm.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
This is this is, this is how insane my family.
I'm gonna call he's on the air. I don't care.
I'm gonna call him. I'm gonna I'll first, No, I'm
gonna I'm gonna call uh. Now, here's the thing is
that it is a big night maybe the biggest night
on the show in the entire twenty six year life
(21:31):
of Alex Tyshert. Big night for him tonight, because, as
you know, Wednesday night, we were talking about picking the
Thursday night game with the the Eagles and the Giants,
and you know, you and I both said, Eagles, Eagles, Eagles.
He goes, JJ, No, Giants gonna win this by two touchdowns.
I go, that's not happening. He goes, if they win,
I get my own segment on the air, and I said, sure,
(21:53):
thinking that's not gonna happen. Well it happened. So now
later on tonight, Alex Tishert gets his own segment of
the show to do whatever he wants. The only rules
I've given him, and I don't think I'm missing anything, was, uh,
you can't curse, and you can't try to sell something
and some kind of pyramid scheme. I think I'm okay
with those two. I don't know if there's any other rules,
but I feel okay with that right now.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Uh. Incantations to the dark Lord are probably not advisable.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Oh oh well, yeah, do I really need to say that?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
The mysticism and stuff? Yeah, I mean no, I don't know. Hey, hey, uh, Shae,
you're going into the shallow oceans. I mean, you have
no idea what's coming out? He may speak another language.
We have no idea.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Wait, hang on, Shaye, who's in for Frostburg tonight? Shake?
Can you hop on the micro fast? I'm right here. Okay?
Is ty Shirt drawing a pentagram on the floor and
putting candles at all the points? I'm actually holding him down,
so we can't do that.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Oh okay, good Man said, I'm gonna say I'm gonna
take the physical challenge because I could see Tysher doing that,
just getting some spray paint.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
What do you doing?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Not but nothing way? Why are you doing well? I
don't understand. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I don't
say what was happening? What's he's snuck in six hundred
and sixty six candles today? Actually?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Oh okay, splashing ocean water all over the place and
creating a little environment for himself. It's got a kiddie pool.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
He is going to get his own segment later on,
much later later on in the show tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Is that our five?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Uh yeah, yeah, well, and I assume it's going to
be He's got plant based hot takes.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
So is that where we ended up?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Okay, I think I think that's where he a plant
based hot takes. I mean, I don't know, because, like
I said, I made a bad deal. I didn't get
anything in return if the if the the Eagles did win.
So but again I made a bad deal. It's my fault.
But Tysher gets his own segment tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
It happens, Well, you get no Laurel crown for outrunning
a burrow. So here we you know, you had to
go out on the edge, and now we'll see what happens.
Enty Shirt's a smart man. I'm sure he's gonna wow
us with some brilliance. I'm sure he's got some imaging prepared,
maybe a couple of songs. Maybe he's got an original
song that's been constructed. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I'm gonna give you this Laurel and Hardy handshake.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
So again we're going to the tenth inning. Detroit n
Seattle tied it to a piece. Again. Winner goes on,
a loser goes home. The intensity. I don't think any
fans have sat down in the crowd since the fifth inning,
I really since their first run, since a Mariner's first
run of the game. I don't think fans have sat down.
It's at an incredible atmosphere right now, and.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Right now it's baseball as intended. No ghost runners like that.
So here the tenth.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
We'll have more on this game. I mean, unless my
family calls it, get on the I mean, I don't know,
it could happen that way. But it is a big
football Friday weekend. And how about a couple of potential
upsets to talk about now we had we started out
positivity Friday Last Hour bringing you Joe Flacco, who spoke
to the media today in advance of his first game
(24:55):
starting quarterback for the Bengals against the Packers on Sunday,
and he gave a great quote that he was asked
why he keeps playing, and he says, because I want
to look back at my life when I'm fifty, which
is in a month, and say that I gave all
I had. I love that punchline. I was just gonna
keep running that into the ground.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I'm gonna want to say I gave it all I had,
which is it? Which is a great lesson. Hey, when
you're doing something you love, you give it all, because
when you're done, you're not going to get to go
back to it, right, like you can retire and go
back and play. You make sure you are done so
in life, whether it's something personal, professional, make sure you
are done right. Make sure you're done and Jay.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
So think about our business right. I mean now people
hop from city to city. It's the Harry chapin classic
Wold where you just keep going trying to find that
next spot in a lineup because you don't want to
let it go. I mean, we just commemorated what was
it nine years ago that Vin Scully walked away? Yeah,
I mean that look how far he went and so
(25:53):
many others, Yuker and and you that that we're not
going anywhere. I'm not leaving.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, I mean really, it's it's a great it's a
great moment for Flacco. And I'll tell you what. The
fact they're throwing him in as fast as they are
tells me two things. Number One, no matter what they said,
you know how much they said, we can't put Jake
Browning out there again at all. Ever, we can't do it.
We can't have three points through the first three quarters
of our last three game we can't do it. But
(26:21):
putting Flacco out there right away, I'm I'm going. I'm
going on the belief that, yes, they're desperate, but they
have a gut feel that Flacco's got a little bit
of special sauce ready. And I agree. I think it's
gonna be a big debut for him. I think he
goes for two point fifty in a couple of touchdowns.
(26:42):
He's gonna throw a ton. We've seen this from Flacco before, right,
We saw it a couple of years ago in Cleveland.
Now he's got weapons, man, He's got weapons. He's got
two great wide receivers, He's got a terrific running back.
He's got some weapons. Man. Cincinnati is desperate, and I
have seen the Packers play to the level of competition
(27:03):
before they lost to Flaco earlier this year. Now Flacco's
on a team with better offensive weapons. Coming off of
bye week, I can see Green Bay coming out slow
and Cincinnati winning a shootout as they are re energized.
I love the over in this and I will take
the Bengals on the field to win this game. Points
(27:23):
are great, that's all I said. I will take the
Bengals on the field to win this game, because I've
seen this act from the Packers before, and this is
Flaco shows Hey, it's gonna be just like it was
a couple of years ago when he shows up off
his couch and what is he doing? How is he
doing this? He does it? Opening game for the Bengals.
Watch Ooh.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
I like this. I like the chaos. When we're talking
about a fourteen point spread. Forty four and a half
is the over. If you want to bet him out
right plus seven to seventy five Smith, there you go.
You can make a big splash here. I'll definitely take
them plus the fourteen. That offensive line's no good, but
I'm still not convinced that the Packers pass rushes all that. Hi, Mike,
(28:07):
so to see coming out of the bye week what
they're able to put forward, but certainly for Flacco and
coming upon him, get the ball out. But you have
all these playmakers that you're trying to get back involved.
Te Higgins he gets out of off balls this week.
Chase Brown one of the fantasy darlings coming into the
year with great expectations. Unfortunately, Burrow goes down and everything's
(28:27):
torn asunder on the Packers side. Jordan Love getting to
do one of those great distributor kind of mechanisms that
we talk about. You don't have to an obvious number one.
We'll see if Dobbs becomes that guy before their bye
week he had that three touchdown game, Perhaps he's going
to rise up and become that player, maybe more golden.
(28:51):
I think it's a lot on the legs of Josh
Jacobs to get this thing started, which means they try
to grind it out a little bit and run some clock.
But when when it's all said, none, Joe Flacco, I mean,
at this point in his career, he's got no conscious.
I mean, you heard the man. I'm just gonna keep going.
I worked hard for this, damn it. My shoulders ready
to go. So plus fourteen, I'm trying. I'm trying to
(29:13):
find some of the Uh let's see, what have we
got to record two or more passing touchdowns plus two
seventy five to get the hat trick ten to one.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I'm telling you he's a great fit for this offense.
It's gonna be long balls, it's gonna be Jamar Chase going.
This is what I've been missing for the past three weeks.
Doesn't matter that it's on the road.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
He is a great fit for what the Bengals want
to do. Chase Brown will have a big game. Look
all all the weapons. It's a re energizing moment for
the Bengals in this game.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
How many yards did you say?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I said, two fifty and two touchdowns for Joe Flacco.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Two fifty plus gives you plus two twenty Woo. I like,
you want to go to two seventy five to seventy
seventy five. Why not plus three seventy five?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You know what, give me three hundred and seventy five
yards and five touchdowns.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
If you go, if you go over three hundred and
twenty five passing yards, you're at eleven to one.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Now I feel pretty good with two fifty and two touchdowns.
I feel pretty good with that. Two fifty two touchdowns
for Joe Flacco. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Look at this, Look
at this.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Joe Flacco is elite once again.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Upset number two. I kind of sort of like Dylan
Gabriel and what he showed last week. He kind of
reminds me a little bit, maybe because I just have
this this affinity because the last great era for the
Jets is when Chad Pennington was the quarterback. But he
kind of has a lot of Chad Pennington in him.
Where he's smart, he's a leader boy. His arm strength
(30:43):
is questionable, but he still knows where to go with
the football, finds a way to get it there. The
sum of what Dylan Gabriel is is greater than his
individual parts. We knew that coming out of Oregon, and
we saw all that, and I was surprised that he
played as well as he did last week. And again
he's gonna be impressive, but this time in a low
scoring win. I love the under on this. But Cleveland's
(31:05):
defense is going to give the Steelers offense trouble. Right,
Jalen Warren's back after missing a week, but still, it's
not like he's been lighting it up. It's not like
all of a sudden Aaron Rodgers has found the fountain
of youth. The Browns defense is terrific, it is top
of the league, terrific, and the Steelers' offense is older
and it's slow. Cleveland is already better offensively the last
(31:27):
week with their quarterback change, moving on to Dylan Gabriel
because they needed to make that kind of move and
I'll give you this bold fantasy prediction as well. Judkins
goes for over one hundred yards on twenty five plus carries,
they win it thirteen to ten. So give me the Browns,
the win and the under.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Look at you. I'm a big fan of what Judkins
brings you to the field and what he's shown them
the last couple of weeks because he's also making plays
as a receiver out of the backfield, which is key
because Dylan Gabriel can't complete a ball beyond ten yards.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
That was Chad.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
That was bad, bad, bad last week, but effective for
a good chunk and it kept the Flores defense at
bay until well the end of the game. And that
was a great play by Carson Wentz to find Jordan
Edison to finish that game off absolute chaos in that
I like the plus six for sure. Thirty eight and
(32:22):
a half is the total. The grinded out opportunity and look,
Aaron Rodgers, no great shakes on the other side. We've
seen him both from a regular and fantasy purpose of
week one was the big splash and then it's kind
of a grinded out kind of squad here. So yeah,
it's a battle of heavyweights, low scoring game, field goal
(32:43):
kicking contest. When it's all said and done, I'll take
Pittsburgh to take the win out of the bye week
because Tomblin just doesn't lose in those circumstances. But Cleveland's
certainly up to the task. And this goes into the wire.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
And now do you like the under like me?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Or are you? Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (32:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
They under under cash is easy, okay, unless something really
crazy happens, like we get a defensive touchdown. All right,
maybe maybe that's how it goes over. But these offenses, no,
it's this game's played between the twenties.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
What if they what if they put the over under
at thirty? I think I still would take the under
because I got oh, sixteen thirteen. Yeah no, no, no, no,
I'm taking the under man. I'll take the under. It
that I like that?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Wow at thirty if you if you put it, let
me see if I can tease that down.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
What does that do for? Okay? Okay, thirty is a
tough thirty seven. But if you put it at thirty
one and a half, okay, because that because that that
you get to be seventeen fourteen, I can win. I'll
still take the under thirty one and a half. I
would still take the under on it bow.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
That is frightening. Ah, let's see. Yeah, No, I got
I gotta, I gotta figure out what the math is.
But saying you go under thirty and a half, that
is rarefied error right there.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with my best Fred Mike.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
That's Kramer refusing to take the car back off the
test drive and sorry to say you can break the
needle off there.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
We got more football on the way coming up next.
NFL insider Jason cole joins US preview all the big
storylines in the NFL this weekend. Quick update from Major
League Baseball. Getting tight for the Tigers. Runner at second,
one out, bottom of the tenth inning, a Rosa Raina,
the playoff hero that he's been through mout much of
(34:36):
his life, taking on Melton. Melton gives up a leadoff double,
gets a pop up to second, So high drama happening
right now in Seattle. Again to two, bottom of the
tenth inning, one out, game five, win or go home.
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike, you're listening to
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmond. He said ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Playoff Kerry Carpenter
maybe better than playoff, Derek Jeeter. Look at now four
for four tonight with a single. He goes to second
(35:30):
on a wild borrow. It goes a second on a
pass ball, and the Tigers now have the go ahead
run at second with one out. After getting out of
a runner at second, nobody out jam In the bottom
of the tenth inning, Melton gets out of it after
it looked like it was absolute disaster giving up at
double who man go ahead?
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Has Crawford ever bunted? This is why we made out.
Like the bunt in most situations when you can end
to series potentially by you know, get him on, get
him over, get him in. I'm not opposed to it.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
So no bunt, but no runs. And meanwhile, now Detroit
and Seattle to to top of the eleventh and intentional
walk has put runners at first and second with one
out and that pass ball that put the go ahead
run at second. That is the first past ball of
the season for cal Riley, the first pass ball. It
(36:27):
looked like it was one of those like a back
door slider that you know doesn't doesn't break across the
plate and you kind of have to reach back for
a little bit, and it bounces off his gluve and
it looked like he thought he had it. Like it
looked like he says, Okay, he's got it, and then
all of a sudden, like and you see the ball
skip away, and I'm like, why is he not running
after it? Like you said, It's like, oh, now I
see it. Like if if Carpenter was really on his horse,
(36:47):
he might have been able to get to third. But
he gets to second, and now the Tigers first and
second one out. Torkalsen up zero for four and the
Tigers could potentially break it open. Put the go ahead
run out here in the top of the eleventh inning.
Does that take away his platinum status? Yeah, I think
it does, like you did.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
I mean, he had a great throwout of would be
based Steeler earlier, but I mean, you know, balancing in
the force here.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
So we'll have more baseball on the way again to
two top of the eleventh inning. But it is time
to break down the weekend in the National Football League,
and there is nobody better to do it with than
our next guest. He is a long time friend of
the show. I mean may maybe too long, but long
time friend of the show. He is on Twitter at
(37:36):
Jason Cole sixty two. That is at Jason Cole sixty two.
Of course he is a haul of very good voter,
uh and check him out of the thirty third team.
So many things to get to with Jason Coles coming
up with us in a second. And I mean it, Mike,
you look at this weekend in the NFL and with
all the quarterback situations. Look, we talked about Dylan Gabriel
a few minutes ago, we talked about Joe Flacco once again.
(37:59):
Lamar Jackson has ruled out. The Ravens are gonna have
to roll with Cooper Rush again. And it's just this
season for the Ravens that looked like it was Super
Bowl or busting. They're the overwhelming favorites and the greatest
Ravens roster we've ever seen. You could put all the
other Ravens players from the previous history, going back to
Baltimore when they were the Cults, and it wouldn't be
(38:21):
as good as this roster. And here go the Baltimore Ravens,
who could sit back when we're looking at them on
Monday morning. Go man. The Ravens are one and five
and last place in the AFZ.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
North seven and a half point dogs at home.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Look out, Jason call joins us right now. Jay Colton, no,
Lamar Jackson, will you play quarterback for the Ravens on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I turned down the offer.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Mmm, okay, good move.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Ronnie Stanley's not there.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah, Harbaugh called me earlier this week. We discuss we
really went through it, and I just felt like, now
it wasn't the time or the place.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Your selfish bastard.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Okay, nicely done, T shirt.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
I'm sorry. There's a there's a there's a time I
could come out and from from behind the microphone and
behind the pen and take over, But now it's not
the time. I'm sorry, So it's not the time.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yeah, there was, there was there was a moment in
history when that.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Was you say that, And I think of that scene
from the end of Wayne's World when Dia career performs
and Frankie Sharp shows up and says, although you're extremely
talented and beautiful, it's just not the right time. I'm sorry,
and he walks away.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
That is not the right time for rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah, yeah, it's just it's just not the right time.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Blitz.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I mean Jay called this. I mean this is you
talk about hard times the Ravens man. This is just
unreal for them.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yeah, they're going through I mean, this is ugly, but
you know, so much of this is self induced. And
I don't understand why John Harbor again, I don't understand
the whole I don't understand the defense period, Like what,
I don't understand anything about it in terms of what
(40:30):
they're trying to accomplish with it. And this this is
like such a foundational thing, Like it's beyond the injury
to Lamar, which is you know, always going to hamper team.
It was a franchise guy. I mean, these are things
that happened, but like they played like they weren't ready
for this season. Four games that I'm like, did you
(40:53):
guys know that you're playing or did you think that
the preseason was just going to last for like, you know,
order a full quarter of the season. So I mean,
it's just I'm so troubled by this team because it's
so against everything that John Harbus stands for in the
way that he coaches that it's I mean, I'm just baffled.
(41:18):
I'm completely and totally baffled by this Ravens team and
how they do well.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
I mean, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, because you know,
obviously he's had to step in for his offensive coordinator
defensive coordinator. But I got to be honest, Ja Cole,
if this is a bad season and this is one
of those really you know, a five and twelve season
that gets away from them, I don't know that he's
back next year. I mean, this was Hey, we had
a lot of expectation this year, and he's the one comic.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
I think he's earned. I think he's earned a whole
lot of latitude and he's learned a lot, He's earned
a lot of room, and I think of the Shaddy
believes in consistency. Now, Dashadi is the kind of guy
who's he's really interesting. I mean, you talked to Bashadi.
He has very interesting takes on how people think, how
(42:10):
they react, and he listens very carefully to people so
you might be right in that he might sense that
Harbaugh has lost his edge. And I'm not saying that
he has. I don't know that. I'm not around that
team enough every day. I'm talking to enough people. I
don't have the I don't have the day to day
history of of Horrbor.
Speaker 7 (42:33):
Like that.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
But Dashadi is a guy who's he has his finger
on the pulse in a very interesting way, unlike a
lot of owners because he's not there every single day.
But if you want to talk about somebody who is
an active listener and who comes to conclusions very quickly
about the people who work for him, but does but
(42:56):
does prefer stability, you know he prefers stability over this
by I think Steve Bashatti is one of the smartest,
most intuitive, and sharpest owners I've ever met in my life.
And that guy will do what he will. He will
not hesitate to make a move and do it definitively.
(43:17):
So I'm not saying it's impossible. I would just think
that Harbuz earned a certain amount of a certain amount
of latitudes.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
All right, let's stay in the general region. I'll do
you the choose your own adventure. You could either go
with the floating dumpster fire right now. That is the
Philadelphia Eagles or the feel good story of the Juggernaut
and whatever you want to nickname Jackson.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Dart Well, what am I doing? Am I playing to
win a championship? Or am I playing because I'd like
to see more pictures of Jackson's mom? I mean, what
are we trying to do?
Speaker 1 (43:51):
See? This is the kind of analysis you get on
thirty thirteen you don't get in a lot of places.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
I didn't think we'd get the mom in there.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
You go, yeah out. I mean Zach Wilson's mom flopped.
I mean, so we got to have Jackson Dartner. I mean, look,
the Eagles are just bored because they they beat up
all the teams that they felt like they needed to
beat up in the first you know, four games. You know,
(44:19):
the victory against Tampa was just such an example of
how they play. It's like they dominate the first half
and then they get sloppy. They're a board team. And
one of the biggest problems that the Eagles have is
that their best defensive player and probably the most talented
player period, the guy that everybody kind of looks to
(44:40):
and says you know set the tone. Jalen Carter is
not a guy who knows how to set the tone.
He's not a very mature guy. And they don't have
the Jason Kelsey's and the Fletcher Coxes around anymore to
keep him in line and keep the glare away from him.
So there's more glare on him than there's ever been before.
(45:02):
And this is on top of the fact that Jalen
hurts rubs guys the wrong way on that team. You know,
you have the tension with aj Brown, all these those
things that are going on the offensive line is obviously
really deeping up. But just like I think that they
know that they're really good and they feel like we
can turn this on anytime, and I think that that's true.
(45:28):
I just worry that this is not a mature enough
team that knows like when you really have to snap
into place and that you really got to take care
of business. And yesterday was a really bad loss. From
that standpoint, it was a great loss. It was a
great loss if we're talking about Jackson Dart's mom. It's
a bad loss. If we're talking about either the Eagles
(45:51):
or Brian Daball having any respect for like the basic
rules like if a guys has a concussion, they're pretty
much leave that way all alone.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
He really doesn't like Russell Wilson anywhere near his field anymore.
Speaker 7 (46:04):
No, no, no, no, oh my god, no, I mean yeah,
that Russell free Like just where who's had a worse
end of their career, Russell Wilson or Donovan McNabb.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
Oh wow, that's right. See. The thing is, I still
think Russell Wilson because you know, you know, other quarterbacks
are going to get hurt. I think there's a parachute
out there for him somewhere at some point. But you know,
but boy, I just can't see it ending with him
on the side, like I could. Just like I can't
see him in December with the big puffy coat on,
(46:40):
hands in his you know, the hand in the hand warmers,
just standing there going Russell Wilson who hasn't seen the
field in eleven weeks. Like, I just can't see that
being how it ends for Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
I don't think so either. But I also thought there
was a point of talent there. Shoot me, I thought
that Donovan McNabb, excuse me, there, Donovan nab was on
his way to a Hall of Fame career, and and
then it just it was a meltdown. It was a
(47:13):
complete utter melt Dan right, and I thought there was
something really great there. And I thought, Russell Wilson, Okay,
this is a Hall of Fame career, and based on
what's happened here the last four years, I'm like, dude, Wow,
I'm not really I'm not feeling it anymore. Like you
can play your way out of consideration for the Hall
(47:37):
of Fame, and those two, those two guys are doing it.
One certain one certainly did it. I can say that definitively.
Donald McNabb played his way out of Hall of Fame consideration.
Russell Wilson is kind of hanging on by a thread.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That's at
Jason Cole sixty two, thirty thirteen Pro Football Haul of
very good. This is great as always, buddy, Thanks so much.
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
Have a great weekend. Enjoy the games, brother, Sam. Wow.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
Yeah, I'll tell you the the end of Yeah, you
forget the end of done NAB's career was really rough, man,
it was.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
I really thought he was saying he'd already taken the poll,
and Russell Wilson ain't getting in.
Speaker 1 (48:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've already had it's not going on,
it's not going in his direction. Hey, be sure to
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