January 7, 2020 • 44 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon try to make sense of the madness that was NFL Wild Card Weekend ! With the Patriots making an extremely early exit from the post season, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and Robert Craft all point the fingers at each other over where Brady will be playing next year. With Jason Garrett gone from the Cowboys coaching position, Mike McCarthy steps in with championship aspirations for the franchise or so Jerry Jones says and Tua Tagovailoa has finally announced his exit from Alabama as he is headed for the NFL Draft in 2020!
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.
Welcome inside as we break down everything we saw this
weekend in the National Football League. We have big hirings
and potential hirings in the NFL, and let's start with
the Cowboys. Because I was almost right about this. I
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was so almost right. I was right all the way
up until I said the name of the next coach
for the Cowboys. But here's why I was right, Because
last week we debated where are the Cowboys gonna go?
I told you this is what's gonna happen. Because it's
the Dallas Cowboys. You're gonna hear one name, maybe two,
and that one name, that first name you here, that's
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gonna wind up being the coach that's gonna happen very quickly,
and that's exactly what happened. We heard Mike McCarthy, we
heard Marvin Lewis. Obviously the Cowboys you need to adhere
to the Rooney rule. They hire Marvin. I mean, I
don't know what kind of interview Marvin Lewis. I hope
he got a good one interview. You know, you heard
you heard Mike McCarthy Marvin Lewis, and you knew that
it was gonna be Mike McCarthy. And then Mike McCarthy
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stays at Jerry Jones's house on Saturday. As soon as
you get that piece, he's not coming home. I'm staying
at Jerry tonight. Yeah no, I I yeah, I just
patted his monks. I go, I gott only before you
go to bed. I got some got some hot coco.
Just don't spill any on Those sheets are made of
of uh, jerseys of former cowboy legends in the past.
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So I got that room for you right here. Breakfast
is at seven thirty. You want to come downstairs and
make sure you get down there right away. And um,
it's just down here right bathroom is here right over here.
I got got some special uh Cowboys alice for you
when you want to take a shower. Uh, extra big shower.
You can use mine if you won't. Uh and uh
got the Jerry Benedict sandwich is coming up, and good
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see him dressed up doing it like a little you know,
small town Wisconsin bed and breakfast. We're gonna stay up
late playing pictionary if you want with with us, and
then uh probably go to bed, like around midnight. Jerry's
offering you fresh squeezed orange shoes from the whole nine
years lites out as twelve thirty. So just just so
you know, all right, we and no no long distance
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phone calls. H if you have your sell The WiFi
is Jerry's world. Uh three sixteen all right, so typing
on that very and it's the WiFi is only four
ninety nine a day, so don't worry about that. Password
is Jerry is the best and just type that in
there and you should be good to go. So he
stays at Jerry Jones's house and then becomes the Cowboys
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head coach. As soon as he got out of New York.
I'm like, all right, they're done well, and you know
and that if that seemed the obvious fit that way. Well,
there was. I I don't know why people are criticizing
this movie and unless you're just looking for a hot
take around this. Because Mike McCarthy was the candidate this year.
There wasn't a whole bunch of others Sean mcveigh's or
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Kyle shanahan's out there that you could go pick from.
You trying to turn Matt rule into something, well, maybe
Matt Rule. There was nobody else out there. It's just
like the NFL Draft. Every year, Hey, this draft is
rich with quarterbacks, and then some years it's not rich
with quarterbacks. Every year there's coaches who you're gonna hire
for coaching openings. Some years there's three or four really
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good coaches, other years there's one. Nobody else was Mike McCarthy,
who has developed a quarterback, has one big one Big
Games and one Super Bowls. There was nobody else like that.
The Giants letting him go was a huge mistake. Anybody
that didn't bring Mike McCarthy in beside the Cowboys, it
was a huge mistake. He was the candidate. Who else
did you want? I mean, really, if if you haven't opening,
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if you're the Browns, if you're the giants. Who else
do you want there? Looking for somebody to material realize
out of nowhere that's not gonna happen. As we talked
about with Jay Glazer last week, are experts Jason Cole
joining us. It was the theme was there's got to
be a grown up in the room, right for all
of these circumstances, and the for the giants, it's how
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do you develop Daniel Jones and make that locker room
move forward? Right? You've got a couple of young pieces,
but there's still a lot of work to be done
in Cleveland. There's no adult through him. So who's gonna
be the guy to lead Baker Mayfield? And what were
the the three words that were thrown out? What it
was fear, accountability, and discipline. So that I don't know
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that McCarthy inspires much fear. Those are three words I
don't want to hear, but we need fear. Yeah, I
don't like any of those works, but the things you
want for he doesn't inspire that, like free food and naps.
Give me those three words and stones are good words too.
But you because you saw Ron Rivera go to the Redskins,
what's his first order of business. All fun is out.
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I want guys that want to work and play football.
No fun, shuffleboard gone. Look looks the business, the business
aspect of it is important and and that's obviously you
want somebody because whatever you're underachieving, there's that consensus Okay,
we're not working hard enough. And it's not always a
case of working hard enough, it's just working smart, being
able to take advantage of the talent you have. And
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and really there was nobody else out look at the
candidates tour out there. Now there is no one. It's
always if you decided Matt Rule is your guy, and
he comes in and wows you because he's the unknown
anybody and everything else with the veteran. Veteran head coach
seemed to be on the menu for everybody right because
they needed to grown up in the room. And that's
why Matting a lot of teams think you need that CEO,
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someone who can can be a CEO of the team
but also is an offensive mind. Especially Mike McCarthy fits
that when you go out of your your way immediately
to say our new head coach is going to be
able to help pick the GM again, which makes no sense,
but that's okay. We already have the GM here. It's me,
so don't worry about picking anything. Run the bed and breakfast.
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You see the sign outside it says Jerry Jones, owner
proprietor Valley Ranch B and B and so that's what
I was gonna change it to see and See for
cowboys and cowboys. But people didn't know what that meant.
So they think about the Sea and see music factor
that band back from the nineties, everybody dance with the
Freedom Williams guy who would dance? Who was? And then
there was the other people in it, and then there
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was uh. They had a couple of hits. I remember
jamming out back in the day everybody dance now and
then the one where they named all the all the
different groups though who and the doors and the rolling
stones and everything, And I remember those bands. In fact,
Mick Jagger and I want to let me well, I'll
tell you about a soccer game at Wembley once. But
that's that's really where. If anybody wants to criticize the
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Mike McCarthy hiring, because X, it's like, okay, then what's
the answer. If you don't like that, what did you
like instead? And there's nobody who can say, oh, instead
of Mike McCarthy, it should have been this guy. Because
there's no known quantities. There is nobody you can say.
Matt Rule is who they're trying to make into a
star right now, and they're trying to make Josh McDaniels
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into something. Oh, Josh McDaniels failed horribly his first time
as a head coach. But and so you think now
he's automatically going to be better. No, he's intriguing, But
is he gonna be great? You know you are taking
a chance when there is one candidate. I'm sorry, it's
here where there's not a lot of people out there.
But suddenly Jim Harbaugh is not gonna call you on
the phone and go, boy, I gotta get out of here.
In Michigan, Man, they nine ten games, I keep doing
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I can't do anything right. Hey, you know what, Mr Marra,
I would like to come coach New York Giants. That's
not happening. None of those things were going to occur.
So if you didn't like Mike McCarthy, all right, well
what's the alternative. It's Mike McCarthy the best head coach
in the world. Is either go no. He's a guy
that the Jets passed on last year for Adam Gates.
But now that a year has gone by and you
need a coach and these are the things to choose from, Well,
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you gotta pick what's there. You gotta pick from the
best of what's there. And he's the best of what's that.
That's it. The biggest thing with Mike McCarthy is you
can make the criticism of what was the PR campaign
right the here here's the clips of live interviews that
he was doing in in long form things saying I'm
embracing analytics. He showed up at the Pro Football Focus
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for half a day their offices to kind of learn
how they grade people that I don't. I don't. I
don't understand how that's a selling point because the guy
was a head coach for and a coach for a
long time. So suddenly saying, you know what, I'm gonna
take a one eight and I'm gonna embrace all this
new stuff and throw out everything you know that won
me a Super Bowl and made me relate to players,
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forget it. I'm out. So the curiosity for me is okay, one,
how much of that does he change philosophically being out
of it, out of the game for a year, and
the second you've never had him with the the big
running back. Will he make the same mistakes that Jason
Garrett and Kellen Moore did of Hey, let's have Dak
throw the ball forty five bleep in times of game
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when we paid the offensive lineman each a truckload of
money and we brought back Ezekiel Elliott and gave him too. Yeah,
but then there's also the wait, you mean I can
call a play in and they run it. The quarterback
doesn't change it. He doesn't. That's true. I don't gonna
blank you from the huddle and suddenly instead of a
drill a play, he's throw it over the middle on
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third and f Wait that that happens, des gonna run
what I tell? Oh? Wow, I didn't know way. You
should have told me that Jerry I had to come
here last year. This is gonna be awesome. I mean,
you're not joking with me now. I'm not gonna say
sixty five toss power trap and I'm gonna see a
bunch of fingers from my quarterback and then suddenly it's
going to be a deep out that goes on, Oh wow,
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oh that's what I want now, I want this job.
If that's gonna happen, that's great. And I do appreciate
everybody that uh lined up and took the office space
reference that had made over the weekend and claimed it
as their own that on the fourteenth they were going
to fix the glitch because Jason Garrett was gonna go. Well,
in a perfect world, Jerry Jones wanted who wait until
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the fourteen so he could he could shake his finger
at writers and say Jason wasn't fired, he wasn't his
contract lapsed and we went in a different direction. I
guarantee you that's what he wanted to do. But now,
once Mike McCarthy's name started getting out there and it
was he's gonna interview with the Giants on Friday, because
that was the whole thing. When Jerry Jones is saying
we're figuring things out with Jason Garrett, I had said, hey,
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obviously these names out there don't really mean anything because
all these names are being mentioned. The only name he
didn't hear was Lincoln Riley and might you started hearing
Mike McCarthy, and then what it was he's interviewed with
the Giants on Friday, and then suddenly what happened early
Saturday morning. Mike McCarthy's interviewing with us here Saturday morning,
and and of course the Cowboys bifted because now they're
interviewing guys without firing Jason Garrett. And this is a
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complete mess. And I gave Jerry Jones a little bit
more credit than he deserved, but that was what it was.
Once you heard, Hey, the Giants want to talk to
Mike McCarthy. Okay, now we gotta get him. We gotta
talk to him. He's gonna do and we're gonna do
a sleepover. So call your mom, make sure it's okay,
bring a toothbrush, anything else, any food allergies, so you know,
we don't feed you. I know, because I know you
like to eat a lot of you, you know, so
just let me know. But from the two things from
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the business side, Number one, I mean, there's a lot
of great there's more restaurants per capita in Dallas than
anywhere else. So other than be eating at Jerry's, plenty
of places to go. I don't know how they have
White Castle, We got the have Back Steakhouse, you know
they go they're a little bit you know when it's
when no rules just right, that's what they say. You
got a lot of different places you can go. I'll
listen as the olive Garden. That's a good one to
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bottom bottomless pasta. Mike, you're gonna love that. You just
keep going and keep bringing food. But from a business perspective,
both McCarthy and Garrett have the same agent. So anybody
that was really feeling bad for Jason Garrett that all
this was going on behind his back and everything, I
don't think so. I don't think he was well well
informed of the proceedings, not that he wasn't gonna keep
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lobbying for his job. But we move on. He was
the only big choice, the only good choice, the only
right choice, and everybody else let him go on The
Cowboys got the right guy. Or to catch live editions
of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at
ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the I Heart Radio app the Patriots Game. I
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want to take this conversation in different direction because this
is something that no one's talked about when it comes
to the fallout of the Patriots losing to the Titans
in the season being over. There's been so much attention
on Tom Brady and what's next for him, right, so
much attention. We talked about this the beginning of the show.
Is that. Listen, you don't need any more evidence than
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Tom Brady yesterday saying I don't know what the future holds,
Bill Belichick saying I don't know what the future holds,
and Bob Craft saying, well, I hope Tom comes back
or retires. Right, that's what you're getting from everybody. In fact,
when when Brady said this yesterday, you knew that he
was gone from New England. I love the Patriots. I
mean they obviously, uh you know, it's the greatest organization.
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And you know, playing for Mr Craft all these years
and for Coach Belichick, I mean there's there's nobody who
had a better career, I would say than me. Just
being with them. I'm very blessed, and I don't know
what the future looks like, so I'm not going to
predict it. Yeah, you opted out of your contract. You
could have had a contract for next year you didn't
want one. Is not where I now. I need to
get paid thirty five million dollars a year because he's
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never been that guy. He has always taken less money
so the team can have more money to throw around
at guys like Richard Seymour or Teddy Bruce Ki or
as Sante Samuel whoever it is to keep to keep
everything going. That's always been how it's been. So you
can't listen to anything they say because all they're doing
is doing the speak to try to keep the real
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story away, and that is Brady doesn't like Belichick, doesn't
like Josh McDaniels. There's been tension between all of them.
Brady wouldn't have pushed himself away Belichick would. None of
this would have happened. If Tom Brady wanted to be back,
he would say, I want to come back. If Belichick
wanted Brady back, he would say, I want Tom back,
no no questions about it, I want Tom back. If
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Bob Kraft wanted Tom Brady back, would say, no questions,
I want him back. He wouldn't say I want him
back or I hope he retires. He would say, no,
we want Tom back, and where everything, because that's what
you do for a guy that's meant that much to
your organization. That is that big of a quarterback and
is still pretty bleep and talented. But the fact that
no one has said it means that they're all ready
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to move on. And this is what gets into my
point about what people are missing about this part of
the Patriots is that this season for New England, it
was it was sort of like a whatever happens happens year.
All right. They started out, they were rolling through everybody.
Defense that was the best defense we had seen in
the NFL in a long time. Scoring defense was amazing.
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There eight no but it just they just didn't give
us the sense it was a super Bowl or bust
year like it normally is for New England. When they
were ripping through everybody, it was, well, we have issues.
We have this, we have that the offense is not
very good. They played, but each week it wasn't like
we saw a team that was dominant or was trying
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to get better. I didn't see any tea. I didn't
see the Patriots try to do different things when the
offense wasn't working because they couldn't score points. Let's see
something different. We got, hey, Josh McDaniels, come up with
something here. Week eleven, Week twelve because we're really not
moving the football as much. I didn't see any of that.
It was like it was a giveaway year, like they
were working on next year. Next year is what really counts,
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because for Belichick, he's gonna be excited because there's gonna
be a new quarterback in and that's what he's setting
this team up for. They didn't go crazy and free
agency to bring anybody in. You know, they didn't. They
didn't try to make the team way better at the
trade dead. They didn't try to do anything when they
when they saw that, Okay, this could be our last year,
it's like they took this year for being Hey, whatever happens, happens,
but we're really focused on next year. Brady is focused
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on next year. He's got his house up for sale
months ago, his trainer put his house up for sale
months ago, opted out of his contract the end of
last year. It's like this season was just way we're
gonna play it and what however it turns out. It
if we win, great, but the focus is really on
next year. I just never got the sense that this
season doing everything you can to win the Super Bowl.
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And I don't mean practicing every day and looking at film.
Of course that was stuffing, but I just mean overall
the organization, Hey, how are we trying to make this
team better? And do X Y and Z and do
all of these things. I never got that sense from
them this year. And so now the season is over,
and it's like, okay, now the seas over. Now the
work begins because it's about next year. Well, because you
had a couple of splashes in the receiving department. Right
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here comes Josh Gordon back waiting on him to be
the player he was injuries, whatever the off field issues
were that eventually led him to Seattle and led him
do another suspension certainly there and then we've talked way
too much about Antonio Brown, so I'm not gonna believe
in the point there. But he was in for a
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cup of coffee and a touchdown and went on his
mary way. If he'd been able to be the guy
they needed, I think the offense would have been just fine.
You would have had you play may Aker and those
secondary guys, those young receivers could have fallen back into
minimal roles and been just fine. He tried to bring
in Mohammed Sanu, hoping that for all those years that
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we watched him as a member of the Bangles and
then with the Falcons that he was more than maybe
the stats were, and he just didn't get these same opportunities. Well,
we always hear about how difficult it is to learn
the Patriot Way, i e. The playbook, and what it
takes to gain the trust of Tom Brady. You watched
a number of times over the course of the back
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end of the season, right, those young receivers he double
clutch and try to push the ball back towards Edelman
or White or whoever was because he didn't trust those guys. Right,
they betrayed him time again, time and again with just
bad route running in their hands. Being we were terrible
at times and in Kiel Harry, their first shround pick,
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doesn't see the field of mid season. So all the
things you thought should have fixed the offense didn't. And
I don't know how much more inventiveness there could have been.
The offensive line was bad at some point. You just
can't change personnel. And like everybody here in Los Angeles,
with Lebron James, perhaps maybe you need a reboot, right,
you needed an off season where there wasn't a deep
run in the playoffs, another four games of hits and
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everything that goes with that, and they didn't have. But
it was still We're not this is not a classically
great page ship. We're still eight four. You know, you're
still it's not like you're you're meandering along. But they
made moves, they got Harry back, and it wasn't enough
to jettison them or propel them, I should say to
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that next level, right, because Sonny Michelle ended up with
a respectable rushing total. How many of those yards were impactful?
I don't know, and I'll trust that to the analytics
guys that really want to tell you the value of
each yard gain, right, because he was still at nine
hundred for the year, which in this day and age,
isn't too bad. What he had thirteen one thousand yard
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rushers this year. But that's not a bad total. But
when you don't have a go to wide receiver outside
of your broken Julian Edelman, it's a tough road. But
to your point, what are we gonna do to make
how do we adjust, how do we evolve during the
season to make it. It's like we're just putting in
our time and the season is gonna end when it ends.
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If it ends with the Super Bowl, great, if it doesn't, great,
and but next year that's it. That's what I'm gonna
be re energized. Well, that was one of the things
that came out of Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback was
a quick conversation he had with Brady where he didn't
feel like he had that anger and overriding sadness right.
Obviously wanted to keep playing, but it seems kind of
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relieved that now I'm done. Now I'm gonna go play
someplace else. Either that or just that this season that
didn't have any big push because the other thing out
of New England, you're not getting the emotion and the
lunacy that you're getting all these other locker rooms from
the coach or from their core Bax or whatever Patriots.
You don't. You don't really get to see what's what
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the cards to say until you know you've already folded.
Then they laugh at you. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays
at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. After the game
was over, I was really taken by surprise at the
amount of pure joy people had on social media and
otherwise that the Patriots lost. I mean, this wasn't when
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the Yankees lose, people go oh Blake, the Yankees days suck,
it's over. But now this is different. This was I
am so glad the Patriots lost and everybody celebrated. It
was like everybody's favorite team won. The first thing I did,
I didn't even talk about the game. I just put
up a jif of the yub Nub dance at the
end of Return of the Jedi. Everybody is dancing and
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Landou is clapping and you're seeing the holograms. I mean
the one where they they they put what's his name
in it and took the old guy out. Uh yeah,
you know the peanut butter that you eat. That's when
we put out. I put out a lot of peanut butter.
Peanut butter spreads everywhere. But it's a gift. It's a
it's a gift. A Christians and reference in there too,
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so it's a gift. It's a gift, and it's a gift.
And it was Jeff, and it was ice cream, and
it was peanut party, it was all of these things.
It was a gift America but but yeah, I've never
seen the nation so united on anything. Yeah, nothing, no
matter what you do. Can imagine we could get to
that on politics we had together, that be awesome, That
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would be fantastic. Never gonna be hiding in a bunk
if we started to agree that that would be amazing.
But I mean, every everybody was just ah, the Patriots law,
they're not gonna win the Super Bowl. I was fairly salty.
I wanted to see it continue, you know, just torment
the rest of the sports love and world. It's different
in watching really good teams that you either love or
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hate lose because that happens all the time. But like
I said, whether it's the Yankees, whether it's the War Years,
whether it's the Lakers, whatever team it is, you know
they're seeing team was going ha ha ha, and then
there's oh my god, I'm so happy that they lost.
Because most of the time it's the ha ha look
at that. Lebron thought he was x y and z ah,
look at that. Look that. But this was just, oh
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my god, I'm so happy. People on Facebook or doing
the mark safe from watching Tom Brady blaming in the
Super Bowl. I mean that there's a difference, and that
I first saw this after they came back to beat
the Falcons and the Super Bowl down three, where it
was amazing and it was an incredible comeback, but who
was really happy about it? There was the next day
was now not an overall can you believe the Patriots one?
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It was Patriots one I was watching. They were really
angry at me because they wanted to change the channels,
like can the kids watch it? No, this game isn't over.
And then they came back at one and everybody just
staring at me, like you willed this into existence just
to torment us. But yeah, Saturday it was just odd.
But it's you mentioned the Warriors and they had their lash,
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but everybody got to that villain point right where they're
they're angry. Spurs never got that level of vitriol for
all the years they were relevant, but the Patriots, it's
just that that burning hatred that everybody had and now
that's gone. So who do you have? You have the
referee hate something else? Always find something else to hate.
We'll always find something else to hate. Like the Cowboys
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will be good now, Mike McCarthy, they'll be good. I'm
gonna keep hate I mean on the on the Saints
and they're whining, no this, they'll always plant people hate.
But as far as that, because so that was kind
of interesting, that phenomenon of the joy instead of the
ha ha. But I I can't believe there's even a
question that Tom Brady is gonna be leaving the Patriots.
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We've told you all season long, We've we've we've followed
the blood curmins, We've told you he's leaving. All this
different pieces of evidence. Josh McDaniels interviewing to move out
because likely Belichick is staying because he knows Tom Brady
is going. After the game was over, what did Brady say, Well,
I don't know about my future. Uh, we'll figure it out, right,
Bill Belichick said the same thing. I don't know, we'll
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figure it out. We haven't spent all this time worried
about the Titans, and now we'll we'll figure that out.
And what did Bob Kraft say today? I hope Tom
Brady either comes back with us or he retires. If
Tom Brady wanted to come back to the Patriots and
the Patriots wanted him, this wouldn't be a conversation. There
would be no well, I don't know what's gonna happen
from Tom Brady. I don't know what's gonna happen from
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Bill Belichick. I don't know what's gonna happen from Bob Kraft.
Tom Brady is an icon. Tom Brady is gonna go
down at worst the second quarterback. Of all times, you
would think he would be able to say I want
to come back, we want you to come back. There's
been none of that. There's not once been Tom Brady
saying I want to return. There's not one been Belichick
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and Bob Kraft saying we want him to return so
bad Bob Kraft couldn't even say today we want him
to come back or retire. It's like, why can't you
just say you want him back? Why can't you say
that if you really want him back, that should be
all I mean, everybody who's just sitting there going, well,
don't know if we have the evidence, that should be
the end of all the evidence. No one is saying
they want to return or want him back, so you
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know he is gone. See. I think with Bob Kraft
it's we want him at a price. I think the
argument because if they don't re sign him, there's a
lot of dead cap, right, There's like thirteen point five
or thereabouts for next year and then another six point
five to seven. So I think part of it is,
let's play the game, right, does how badly this Tom
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want to leave us? Right? Because we open? But I
don't think the money's a it's Tom Brady. No, no,
But do you want to pay him thirty million dollars?
But it's Tom Brady. He's never taken that money. He's
always said I'll take Maybe it's a new it's the
one last I want to get my last page. I
think he's this year. I think I think he did
just fine. I think you could look at the stats
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and and what they didn't bring him, and that's where
I think the problem is depending on on the price
the haggling for Tom Brady, I don't think it's necessarily
even about contract dollars. I think it's about how are
you gonna help me? That offensive line was terrible. The
weapons they brought in two guys page aren't going to
get better. They're not gonna do stuff. All Belichick does
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is try to make no. But but my to my
point is just the everybody that signaled the death knew.
Look what they had. Mohammed Sanu was supposed to be
a savior, just a guy to out an eighteen yards
I believe was the exact count, including the playoff game.
Nikkio Harry missed the half the season. So there's your
first round guy. So everybody that's doing the hot take
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of if they had a J. Brown or they had
DK Metcalf, No, no, they picked the right guy for
what they wanted to do. He was hurt, he didn't
get into the field. I don't see how all of
a sudden magically you go yeah, and they don't throw
the ball deep repeatedly, which is all Russell Wilson does
the D game Metcalf, They're run deep, but I'm gonna
throw in a long ways. So the Packers you're in
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trouble because you don't defend that very well. But for
for Brady, I mean even Julian Edelman, I mean he
was in bubble wrap for half the year because he's
he's broken, so I mean he's could probably be gone.
He may be done as well. So unless you can
totally do a reboot or reboot as I like to say, uh,
you know, that's the bigger part for Tom Brady. H
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if they want if they wanted him back and he
wanted back, you could at least say it at the
end of the season. But but I mean, that's not Belichick,
Brady more or but there's nobody's saying it. I'm telling
you it would have been would have been easy. It's
Tom Bradys. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harman weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
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seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio app. To a talk of Viola declared for
the NFL today, Alabama quarterback says, I'm going and something
we talked about last week, a decision that he needed
to make because the NFL wants him now. His stock
is very low at a situation he has had because
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of his injury. Is his hip gonna respond? And he
hasn't played right now, it's low, But the NFL Draft
is three and a half months from now. He's got
plenty of time to get the hit better, plenty of
time for scouts and teams to watch tape of him
and go, oh, this is the guy who was responsible
for seventy four touchdowns and just nine turnovers in two years. Okay,
I get it, I get it. He will rise up.
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And you are kidding yourself if you think he's gonna
go outside the top three, that is just not happening.
Quarterbacks rise, Quarterbacks go early. It's a quarterback league. Any
mock draft that says, well, I have two, a ton
of myola going number eight or not not happening. Two
is not getting out of the top three. Is he
going one overall? No? Joe Burrow, with the year he
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has had proving what he can do and what he
can do to great defenses, he's the flavor of the moment.
I get it. The Bengals will take him at number one.
But two is gonna be the next guy off the board.
Is he gonna come off the board at number two?
Maybe not, but he will come off in the top three.
Because even if you're picking and you're not taking him
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at three, let's just say you don't want to, it
doesn't matter because someone's going to trade up, and they're
going to trade up to get to a because here's
the way the draft order goes, Right, Bengals pick first, alright, Fine,
they're gonna go with Joe Burrow. Redskins pick second. I'd
pick two if I was the Redskins, because who would
you rather have Dwayne Haskins or two? A tamo viola.
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It's pretty easy. You'd rather have to A. Plus, it's
a new change. Ron Rivera is coming in that you
doesn't need to be sold on Dwayne Haskins. As we've
seen in the past, just last year. You can have
a franchise quarterback like the Cardinals had in Josh Rosen.
You can turn the page on him and no one's
gonna go crazy. Would anybody go nuts in Washington if
the Redskins said, you know what, sorry, Dwayne Haskins, we're
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gonna move you another team. We're gonna take two and
number two overall, No, everybody would go crazy because he
is a franchise quarterback. Well, as long as you can
get all the blinking red x is off of his
wacky doctor's game him Operation Shart, Like if if those
all go away and you've gotta clean bill health, I
think given the injury history, that's the only potential red
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flag when you just drafted a quarterback last year and
given Ron Rivera's love of defense, and let's call it
what it is, but that's you know, that's where the
potential is. I mean, he's got three months to decide
whether Dwayne Askins his guy. The tape is not gonna
be pretty. That's gonna have to be a nice cell
job by Twayne Haskins and Terry McLaren to keep him
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at the helm. So let's just say he doesn't go.
I would take him at two in a second. You
got the lines picking third, I would easily take to
h and ship off Matthew Stafford because there's many teams
who say, oh hey, Matthew Stafford for a few years. Okay,
theotomy's let it. Let him find his other place. I
can see that you got the giants picking at four.
They should also take to it, but they won't because
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they have to be right. And Dave Gentleman's got to
be right about Daniel Jones. Well, but this is a
place where for the giants, You've got a lot of
other needs, right, you got a couple of good skill
position guys, you got a bad defense, you need some
help on the old line. You've got a lot of need.
So if you can get a team to package a
couple of first round picks for you to get to
number four. You know that's the thing. Four is not
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gonna be enough because the team's right behind them. The
Dolphins they'll draft to UH, the Chargers they'll draft to
unless Tom Brady comes, and the Panthers they'll draft to UH.
Then you get to eight. The Cardinals, No, they have
Kyler Murray. The Jaguars are picking too high, they're already.
The Browns have Baker Mayfield, the Jets have Sam Darnad.
Did you getting to the point where and he's not
getting out of there? Four is too high or is
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too low to think you can make a trade and
move up with the Giants and to a ton of
Iola is gonna be there. You gotta be at two
or at three to get him because he is going
to rise. He is remember again, three and a half
months between now in the NFL Draft. The draft isn't tomorrow,
and two is not gonna limp onto the stage. Hold
up at Jersey. You have so much time. He will
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get a clean bill of health, the surgery went well.
They will again they will look at the tape of
what he did. And he was a number one overall
pick coming into this year. So if that's the case,
you're he's going to rise. It's there's not gonna be
a point where he drops. And you can't sit there
and think at five, we're gonna we're gonna get him.
We're gonna know you're sitting at five. You think only
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we'll get Justin Herbert at five? And do you really
want that guy or do you want to you get
any of these teams? I say here in the top eight,
who would you rather have toa or your quarterback? They'll
say to a Bengals, to a Redskins, to a Lions,
to a Giants, to ah, but I understand, we told
you Daniel Jones is so good, so we have to
stick with him. Dolphins to A Chargers, to h Panthers
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to all of those teams would rather have two within
their quarterbacks. So there's gonna be a big race for him.
And with teams picking in the top seven, top eight,
you're basically saying, all right, we're gonna move up and
it's a couple of second round picks. It's gonna be
the kind of trade the Jets may two years ago
to move up for Sam Donald's going to be a
first round pick. Then a couple of seconds and that's
the cost of doing business. So many of these teams
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can move up, but four is too low. You gotta
be two or three. And I wouldn't be surprised if
someone jumped to two just to ensure they would get
just to guarantee it. Sir, I think you've not quite
the Jalen Ramsey hall. But I think if the medicals
check out, and you've got three months to see progress
right and and have extensive charts, and if I'm to
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that's the one thing I'm doing every week. I've got
every doctor poking and prod me to give updates. Here's
my range of motion, Here's how this is progressing, here's
the strength chart and everything. Because it's it's gonna be
a bit of a cell because you've got a guy
with a number of surgeries already on the docket as
well before the hip. Be sure to catch live editions
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of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at
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a Fresca? Mike get Swollen Dome joining us now on
the hotline CBS Sports NFL Insider Extraordinary getting set for
a ten thousand word preview of the Syracuse lacrosse season.
Oh yeah, how excited ye, Jason Lock And for what's happening,
(34:09):
Jay Hey, lax is right around the corner. It won't
be Syracuse lacks for me though. It'd be more like
Howson University lacks, Loyola College lacks, Johns Hopkins University lacks.
Like that's you know that that's like doable that those
are all like five minutes from my house. I would
not go up to the dome for US Syracuse. I
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don't know what you'd have to give me. I don't
know what the inducement would have to be, but it
would have to be profound. I like that, Jason Lock
and fort Look, I could be a great insider as
long as it's five minutes from my house. Again, like
I'm you know, we're not like a huge lacrosse family.
We're a huge baseball family. But we do go like
a Virginia or Syracuse is playing at Hopkins or at
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or at Telson, like we'll go. Honestly, the most I
see of Bill Belichick is between like February fifteen and
May twentieth, because he's all over like he's a lacross
junkie and he's best friends with the Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach.
So we'll drive down to Charles Street and we'll go
to you know, games, and we'll see him. He'll be
(35:13):
all over the place. Oh so you're gonna get the
scoop when you know what. But I'll be him, like
I'll say, hey, coach, and you can ask this fifty
different bleeping ways. I don't even say anything. Like my
kids are like, who's that? Who's that? Grandpa? Grandpa thinking
about him when the lacrosse sticks starts whipping balls at
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locking for as he comes. You know, you say, alright, well,
let's let's start here with with Belichick that obviously all
the discussion is going to be about Brady and what
is next for him. And look, you've said many times
before in the show that everything you have points to
the chargers. Everything is still pointing to the chargers for
Tom Brady if he leaves. Yeah, I mean, like, you know,
(36:00):
Mcraft can be exceedingly uh like he he can coerce
you or you know, boon doggle you or swindle you
or convince you that you have to be here, and
(36:20):
he's very persuasive. But I strongly believe that Tom Brady
is at a point in his career and his life
where he's very interested to see what's like, what's beyond
the yellow bick road, Like if I just walk over
yonder and I get out of you know their grip,
what awaits for me? And what would this team or
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that team or this owner or this GM be willing
to unfurl to woo me in a way that I
haven't been wooed in a long time. And you know what,
Everything comes to an end. There is always closure, nothing
last forever. And man, we've got no wide receivers except
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for Adamman, who's like thirty six and gets doubled and
gets taken out of games and is breaking down. And
we've got no tight ends to speak of. And I
like Sony Michelle, but man, he's really been banged up
to last, you know, nine to twelve months. And our
offensive line is and Belichick would rather draft defensive players
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than offensive players, and he's always going to defer to
that because that's his sort of reset. That's who he is.
He's a defensive guy at heart. And maybe they need
a twenty two year olds who can run all over
the place and extend plays and compensate for the lack
of personnel. But at my age forty three, I can't
do that, and I couldn't do that in my prime.
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And I'm kind of sick of being asked to, you know,
do more with less, and I'm kind of sick of
taking hometown discounts. And wow, well what I look at
the Chargers man Eckler, that's like he's like a Danny
Woodhead and his prime except even better. And Hunter he's
not Gronk, but he's Aaron and man, look at these
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two outside receivers like Williams and Keenan Allen. Man, I
haven't had that, you know, since I hadn't Ranny Moss
in his prime. And the offensive line isn't amazing, but
it's good enough and if they invest a little more
in it, So I mean, like we got to be
real about all this and everything comes to an end.
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Joe Montana played for the Chiefs, Emmett Smith played for
the Cardinals. Jerry Rice played for the Seahawks. You know,
Far played for the Jets. Like this big boy stuff,
and sometimes guys want to show that they can do
it outside of the cocoon that they were brought up in.
And sometimes teams don't know what they got till it's gone.
(38:55):
Jesson Smith still doing the yum dumb dance. Jason Smith,
Mike Carmen here from the guy got Fox Sports Radio
Studios on the Hallow with a CBS Sports, NFL inside
or a buddy Jason lockanfora Find him on Twitter at
Jason lockanfora. So the Cowboys finally locked the doors on
Jason Garrett and bring Mike McCarthy in after a sleepover,
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and he is going to bring in Mike Nolan to
be his defensive coordinator. Watch really the upgrade here over
Jason Garrett. I do think that that you know, Mike
is an upgrade over Jason. I think Jason was sort
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of a product of the whole Cowboys narcissism. Uh, They're
they're innate hype, they're sort of overt self belief that
goes beyond what they really are there. I I don't
care if there was ten openings for head coaches right now.
(39:59):
I don't think anybody he's reaching out to Jason Garrett
being like I need that guy, I want that guy,
and I gotta have that guy. I just I don't
believe anybody has looked at him for a long time,
other than you know, Jerry. So I want to see
the totality of McCarthy staff. Like I'm not going to
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sit here and tell you that that's a slam duncan,
that they're gonna now win five straight you know, NFC
East titles, even though the NFC stinks. Um, I don't know, Like,
is he keeping tilling more? Isn't he? I wouldn't. Maybe
he will, he shouldn't, But who's he going to get
who's better than him? I don't. I do have concerns,
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and I don't think that this is like, you know,
an immediate quick fix or anything close to it. But
I also don't think that if Mike McCarthy was coaching
that team, they would have found a way to lose
that horrific division the way they did this year, And
that had to be the end for Jason Garrett, and personally,
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I believe that's the last time you'll ever see Jason
Garrett on the NFL sideline again. But maybe I'm wrong.
All Right, So, now if that's taken and now here's
the Cowboys with Mike McCarthy, now the Giants have to
figure things out. So do the Cleveland Browns what do
they do? What do the Giants do? What are the
Browns do to fill their head coach? And gi Giants
better get that rule. If the Giants don't get that rule,
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they're in a during the hole. I mean, like you're
gonna hire the Patriots special teams coach. I mean, just
go look at I mean you and and maybe you'll
hire Eric Bihanni. And you know, Eric Bienny might turn
out to be an awesome NFL head coach, But man,
you just had Macadoo and you just had Shermer, Like
you're really gonna go for another offensive, minded, unproven guy,
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um without a pedigree with that job. I mean, and
and maybe look, maybe the enemy saves them all, saves Mara,
saves gentleman, you know. But I would have extreme reservations
about that. Like, I think the Giants and the Browns
in particular need to hire a coach who has done
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the job and done it well, whether at a Power
five conference or in the NFL. They need proven commodities.
And I know they've had trouble getting proven commodities to
go there in the past, But maybe recruit differently, Maybe
change your sales pitch. Maybe be willing to say, hey,
we're the New York Giants, or we're not what you
used to be, so we'll give you anything you want
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to come here, not Hey, let's let gentleman come out
there and you know, at the full at a press
conference a couple of times and pretend that he's now,
you know, the senior analytics. I mean, I don't even
I can't even account for explain what these teams do
and how they reached the points that they reach. But
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there's a reason that the Browns and the Giants are
now sort of like simpatico, right like we think of
them in the same way. They're trolling the same waters
for the same candidates. They're firing people every eighteen months
like that's that's who they are, that's their d n A.
And that comes from ownership, and those trends and tendencies
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don't change until or unless ownership realizes we really are
this bad. And I'm not sure that either of those
franchises really truly understand the plight that they're in. And
one of them better get Matt Roll and one of
them better get Josh McDaniels. But you know what they
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might not get either of them, and it's a big
drop off after that. And I just feel like the
position that they're in to hire a completely unproven guy
would be a big, big problem. You can fall on
Twitter at Jason lock and for that is at Jason
Locke and for a CBS Sports NFL insider and I
(44:03):
should say insider on anything. Five minutes from his house
as well. Has always buddy appreciated, my friend. We'll talk
to you next week. You got it. Let's go, John
talking his blue Jayson, all right,
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.
Welcome inside as we break down everything we saw this
weekend in the National Football League. We have big hirings
and potential hirings in the NFL, and let's start with
the Cowboys. Because I was almost right about this. I
(00:44):
was so almost right. I was right all the way
up until I said the name of the next coach
for the Cowboys. But here's why I was right, Because
last week we debated where are the Cowboys gonna go?
I told you this is what's gonna happen. Because it's
the Dallas Cowboys. You're gonna hear one name, maybe two,
and that one name, that first name you here, that's
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gonna wind up being the coach that's gonna happen very quickly,
and that's exactly what happened. We heard Mike McCarthy, we
heard Marvin Lewis. Obviously the Cowboys you need to adhere
to the Rooney rule. They hire Marvin. I mean, I
don't know what kind of interview Marvin Lewis. I hope
he got a good one interview. You know, you heard
you heard Mike McCarthy Marvin Lewis, and you knew that
it was gonna be Mike McCarthy. And then Mike McCarthy
(01:26):
stays at Jerry Jones's house on Saturday. As soon as
you get that piece, he's not coming home. I'm staying
at Jerry tonight. Yeah no, I I yeah, I just
patted his monks. I go, I gott only before you
go to bed. I got some got some hot coco.
Just don't spill any on Those sheets are made of
of uh, jerseys of former cowboy legends in the past.
(01:47):
So I got that room for you right here. Breakfast
is at seven thirty. You want to come downstairs and
make sure you get down there right away. And um,
it's just down here right bathroom is here right over here.
I got got some special uh Cowboys alice for you
when you want to take a shower. Uh, extra big shower.
You can use mine if you won't. Uh and uh
got the Jerry Benedict sandwich is coming up, and good
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see him dressed up doing it like a little you know,
small town Wisconsin bed and breakfast. We're gonna stay up
late playing pictionary if you want with with us, and
then uh probably go to bed, like around midnight. Jerry's
offering you fresh squeezed orange shoes from the whole nine
years lites out as twelve thirty. So just just so
you know, all right, we and no no long distance
(02:29):
phone calls. H if you have your sell The WiFi
is Jerry's world. Uh three sixteen all right, so typing
on that very and it's the WiFi is only four
ninety nine a day, so don't worry about that. Password
is Jerry is the best and just type that in
there and you should be good to go. So he
stays at Jerry Jones's house and then becomes the Cowboys
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head coach. As soon as he got out of New York.
I'm like, all right, they're done well, and you know
and that if that seemed the obvious fit that way. Well,
there was. I I don't know why people are criticizing
this movie and unless you're just looking for a hot
take around this. Because Mike McCarthy was the candidate this year.
There wasn't a whole bunch of others Sean mcveigh's or
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Kyle shanahan's out there that you could go pick from.
You trying to turn Matt rule into something, well, maybe
Matt Rule. There was nobody else out there. It's just
like the NFL Draft. Every year, Hey, this draft is
rich with quarterbacks, and then some years it's not rich
with quarterbacks. Every year there's coaches who you're gonna hire
for coaching openings. Some years there's three or four really
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good coaches, other years there's one. Nobody else was Mike McCarthy,
who has developed a quarterback, has one big one Big
Games and one Super Bowls. There was nobody else like that.
The Giants letting him go was a huge mistake. Anybody
that didn't bring Mike McCarthy in beside the Cowboys, it
was a huge mistake. He was the candidate. Who else
did you want? I mean, really, if if you haven't opening,
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if you're the Browns, if you're the giants. Who else
do you want there? Looking for somebody to material realize
out of nowhere that's not gonna happen. As we talked
about with Jay Glazer last week, are experts Jason Cole
joining us. It was the theme was there's got to
be a grown up in the room, right for all
of these circumstances, and the for the giants, it's how
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do you develop Daniel Jones and make that locker room
move forward? Right? You've got a couple of young pieces,
but there's still a lot of work to be done
in Cleveland. There's no adult through him. So who's gonna
be the guy to lead Baker Mayfield? And what were
the the three words that were thrown out? What it
was fear, accountability, and discipline. So that I don't know
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that McCarthy inspires much fear. Those are three words I
don't want to hear, but we need fear. Yeah, I
don't like any of those works, but the things you
want for he doesn't inspire that, like free food and naps.
Give me those three words and stones are good words too.
But you because you saw Ron Rivera go to the Redskins,
what's his first order of business. All fun is out.
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I want guys that want to work and play football.
No fun, shuffleboard gone. Look looks the business, the business
aspect of it is important and and that's obviously you
want somebody because whatever you're underachieving, there's that consensus Okay,
we're not working hard enough. And it's not always a
case of working hard enough, it's just working smart, being
able to take advantage of the talent you have. And
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and really there was nobody else out look at the
candidates tour out there. Now there is no one. It's
always if you decided Matt Rule is your guy, and
he comes in and wows you because he's the unknown
anybody and everything else with the veteran. Veteran head coach
seemed to be on the menu for everybody right because
they needed to grown up in the room. And that's
why Matting a lot of teams think you need that CEO,
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someone who can can be a CEO of the team
but also is an offensive mind. Especially Mike McCarthy fits
that when you go out of your your way immediately
to say our new head coach is going to be
able to help pick the GM again, which makes no sense,
but that's okay. We already have the GM here. It's me,
so don't worry about picking anything. Run the bed and breakfast.
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You see the sign outside it says Jerry Jones, owner
proprietor Valley Ranch B and B and so that's what
I was gonna change it to see and See for
cowboys and cowboys. But people didn't know what that meant.
So they think about the Sea and see music factor
that band back from the nineties, everybody dance with the
Freedom Williams guy who would dance? Who was? And then
there was the other people in it, and then there
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was uh. They had a couple of hits. I remember
jamming out back in the day everybody dance now and
then the one where they named all the all the
different groups though who and the doors and the rolling
stones and everything, And I remember those bands. In fact,
Mick Jagger and I want to let me well, I'll
tell you about a soccer game at Wembley once. But
that's that's really where. If anybody wants to criticize the
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Mike McCarthy hiring, because X, it's like, okay, then what's
the answer. If you don't like that, what did you
like instead? And there's nobody who can say, oh, instead
of Mike McCarthy, it should have been this guy. Because
there's no known quantities. There is nobody you can say.
Matt Rule is who they're trying to make into a
star right now, and they're trying to make Josh McDaniels
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into something. Oh, Josh McDaniels failed horribly his first time
as a head coach. But and so you think now
he's automatically going to be better. No, he's intriguing, But
is he gonna be great? You know you are taking
a chance when there is one candidate. I'm sorry, it's
here where there's not a lot of people out there.
But suddenly Jim Harbaugh is not gonna call you on
the phone and go, boy, I gotta get out of here.
In Michigan, Man, they nine ten games, I keep doing
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I can't do anything right. Hey, you know what, Mr Marra,
I would like to come coach New York Giants. That's
not happening. None of those things were going to occur.
So if you didn't like Mike McCarthy, all right, well
what's the alternative. It's Mike McCarthy the best head coach
in the world. Is either go no. He's a guy
that the Jets passed on last year for Adam Gates.
But now that a year has gone by and you
need a coach and these are the things to choose from, Well,
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you gotta pick what's there. You gotta pick from the
best of what's there. And he's the best of what's that.
That's it. The biggest thing with Mike McCarthy is you
can make the criticism of what was the PR campaign
right the here here's the clips of live interviews that
he was doing in in long form things saying I'm
embracing analytics. He showed up at the Pro Football Focus
(08:10):
for half a day their offices to kind of learn
how they grade people that I don't. I don't. I
don't understand how that's a selling point because the guy
was a head coach for and a coach for a
long time. So suddenly saying, you know what, I'm gonna
take a one eight and I'm gonna embrace all this
new stuff and throw out everything you know that won
me a Super Bowl and made me relate to players,
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forget it. I'm out. So the curiosity for me is okay, one,
how much of that does he change philosophically being out
of it, out of the game for a year, and
the second you've never had him with the the big
running back. Will he make the same mistakes that Jason
Garrett and Kellen Moore did of Hey, let's have Dak
throw the ball forty five bleep in times of game
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when we paid the offensive lineman each a truckload of
money and we brought back Ezekiel Elliott and gave him too. Yeah,
but then there's also the wait, you mean I can
call a play in and they run it. The quarterback
doesn't change it. He doesn't. That's true. I don't gonna
blank you from the huddle and suddenly instead of a
drill a play, he's throw it over the middle on
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third and f Wait that that happens, des gonna run
what I tell? Oh? Wow, I didn't know way. You
should have told me that Jerry I had to come
here last year. This is gonna be awesome. I mean,
you're not joking with me now. I'm not gonna say
sixty five toss power trap and I'm gonna see a
bunch of fingers from my quarterback and then suddenly it's
going to be a deep out that goes on, Oh wow,
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oh that's what I want now, I want this job.
If that's gonna happen, that's great. And I do appreciate
everybody that uh lined up and took the office space
reference that had made over the weekend and claimed it
as their own that on the fourteenth they were going
to fix the glitch because Jason Garrett was gonna go. Well,
in a perfect world, Jerry Jones wanted who wait until
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the fourteen so he could he could shake his finger
at writers and say Jason wasn't fired, he wasn't his
contract lapsed and we went in a different direction. I
guarantee you that's what he wanted to do. But now,
once Mike McCarthy's name started getting out there and it
was he's gonna interview with the Giants on Friday, because
that was the whole thing. When Jerry Jones is saying
we're figuring things out with Jason Garrett, I had said, hey,
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obviously these names out there don't really mean anything because
all these names are being mentioned. The only name he
didn't hear was Lincoln Riley and might you started hearing
Mike McCarthy, and then what it was he's interviewed with
the Giants on Friday, and then suddenly what happened early
Saturday morning. Mike McCarthy's interviewing with us here Saturday morning,
and and of course the Cowboys bifted because now they're
interviewing guys without firing Jason Garrett. And this is a
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complete mess. And I gave Jerry Jones a little bit
more credit than he deserved, but that was what it was.
Once you heard, Hey, the Giants want to talk to
Mike McCarthy. Okay, now we gotta get him. We gotta
talk to him. He's gonna do and we're gonna do
a sleepover. So call your mom, make sure it's okay,
bring a toothbrush, anything else, any food allergies, so you know,
we don't feed you. I know, because I know you
like to eat a lot of you, you know, so
just let me know. But from the two things from
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the business side, Number one, I mean, there's a lot
of great there's more restaurants per capita in Dallas than
anywhere else. So other than be eating at Jerry's, plenty
of places to go. I don't know how they have
White Castle, We got the have Back Steakhouse, you know
they go they're a little bit you know when it's
when no rules just right, that's what they say. You
got a lot of different places you can go. I'll
listen as the olive Garden. That's a good one to
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bottom bottomless pasta. Mike, you're gonna love that. You just
keep going and keep bringing food. But from a business perspective,
both McCarthy and Garrett have the same agent. So anybody
that was really feeling bad for Jason Garrett that all
this was going on behind his back and everything, I
don't think so. I don't think he was well well
informed of the proceedings, not that he wasn't gonna keep
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lobbying for his job. But we move on. He was
the only big choice, the only good choice, the only
right choice, and everybody else let him go on The
Cowboys got the right guy. Or to catch live editions
of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at
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and the I Heart Radio app the Patriots Game. I
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want to take this conversation in different direction because this
is something that no one's talked about when it comes
to the fallout of the Patriots losing to the Titans
in the season being over. There's been so much attention
on Tom Brady and what's next for him, right, so
much attention. We talked about this the beginning of the show.
Is that. Listen, you don't need any more evidence than
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Tom Brady yesterday saying I don't know what the future holds,
Bill Belichick saying I don't know what the future holds,
and Bob Craft saying, well, I hope Tom comes back
or retires. Right, that's what you're getting from everybody. In fact,
when when Brady said this yesterday, you knew that he
was gone from New England. I love the Patriots. I
mean they obviously, uh you know, it's the greatest organization.
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And you know, playing for Mr Craft all these years
and for Coach Belichick, I mean there's there's nobody who
had a better career, I would say than me. Just
being with them. I'm very blessed, and I don't know
what the future looks like, so I'm not going to
predict it. Yeah, you opted out of your contract. You
could have had a contract for next year you didn't
want one. Is not where I now. I need to
get paid thirty five million dollars a year because he's
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never been that guy. He has always taken less money
so the team can have more money to throw around
at guys like Richard Seymour or Teddy Bruce Ki or
as Sante Samuel whoever it is to keep to keep
everything going. That's always been how it's been. So you
can't listen to anything they say because all they're doing
is doing the speak to try to keep the real
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story away, and that is Brady doesn't like Belichick, doesn't
like Josh McDaniels. There's been tension between all of them.
Brady wouldn't have pushed himself away Belichick would. None of
this would have happened. If Tom Brady wanted to be back,
he would say, I want to come back. If Belichick
wanted Brady back, he would say, I want Tom back,
no no questions about it, I want Tom back. If
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Bob Kraft wanted Tom Brady back, would say, no questions,
I want him back. He wouldn't say I want him
back or I hope he retires. He would say, no,
we want Tom back, and where everything, because that's what
you do for a guy that's meant that much to
your organization. That is that big of a quarterback and
is still pretty bleep and talented. But the fact that
no one has said it means that they're all ready
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to move on. And this is what gets into my
point about what people are missing about this part of
the Patriots is that this season for New England, it
was it was sort of like a whatever happens happens year.
All right. They started out, they were rolling through everybody.
Defense that was the best defense we had seen in
the NFL in a long time. Scoring defense was amazing.
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There eight no but it just they just didn't give
us the sense it was a super Bowl or bust
year like it normally is for New England. When they
were ripping through everybody, it was, well, we have issues.
We have this, we have that the offense is not
very good. They played, but each week it wasn't like
we saw a team that was dominant or was trying
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to get better. I didn't see any tea. I didn't
see the Patriots try to do different things when the
offense wasn't working because they couldn't score points. Let's see
something different. We got, hey, Josh McDaniels, come up with
something here. Week eleven, Week twelve because we're really not
moving the football as much. I didn't see any of that.
It was like it was a giveaway year, like they
were working on next year. Next year is what really counts,
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because for Belichick, he's gonna be excited because there's gonna
be a new quarterback in and that's what he's setting
this team up for. They didn't go crazy and free
agency to bring anybody in. You know, they didn't. They
didn't try to make the team way better at the
trade dead. They didn't try to do anything when they
when they saw that, Okay, this could be our last year,
it's like they took this year for being Hey, whatever happens, happens,
but we're really focused on next year. Brady is focused
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on next year. He's got his house up for sale
months ago, his trainer put his house up for sale
months ago, opted out of his contract the end of
last year. It's like this season was just way we're
gonna play it and what however it turns out. It
if we win, great, but the focus is really on
next year. I just never got the sense that this
season doing everything you can to win the Super Bowl.
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And I don't mean practicing every day and looking at film.
Of course that was stuffing, but I just mean overall
the organization, Hey, how are we trying to make this
team better? And do X Y and Z and do
all of these things. I never got that sense from
them this year. And so now the season is over,
and it's like, okay, now the seas over. Now the
work begins because it's about next year. Well, because you
had a couple of splashes in the receiving department. Right
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here comes Josh Gordon back waiting on him to be
the player he was injuries, whatever the off field issues
were that eventually led him to Seattle and led him
do another suspension certainly there and then we've talked way
too much about Antonio Brown, so I'm not gonna believe
in the point there. But he was in for a
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cup of coffee and a touchdown and went on his
mary way. If he'd been able to be the guy
they needed, I think the offense would have been just fine.
You would have had you play may Aker and those
secondary guys, those young receivers could have fallen back into
minimal roles and been just fine. He tried to bring
in Mohammed Sanu, hoping that for all those years that
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we watched him as a member of the Bangles and
then with the Falcons that he was more than maybe
the stats were, and he just didn't get these same opportunities. Well,
we always hear about how difficult it is to learn
the Patriot Way, i e. The playbook, and what it
takes to gain the trust of Tom Brady. You watched
a number of times over the course of the back
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end of the season, right, those young receivers he double
clutch and try to push the ball back towards Edelman
or White or whoever was because he didn't trust those guys. Right,
they betrayed him time again, time and again with just
bad route running in their hands. Being we were terrible
at times and in Kiel Harry, their first shround pick,
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doesn't see the field of mid season. So all the
things you thought should have fixed the offense didn't. And
I don't know how much more inventiveness there could have been.
The offensive line was bad at some point. You just
can't change personnel. And like everybody here in Los Angeles,
with Lebron James, perhaps maybe you need a reboot, right,
you needed an off season where there wasn't a deep
run in the playoffs, another four games of hits and
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everything that goes with that, and they didn't have. But
it was still We're not this is not a classically
great page ship. We're still eight four. You know, you're
still it's not like you're you're meandering along. But they
made moves, they got Harry back, and it wasn't enough
to jettison them or propel them, I should say to
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that next level, right, because Sonny Michelle ended up with
a respectable rushing total. How many of those yards were impactful?
I don't know, and I'll trust that to the analytics
guys that really want to tell you the value of
each yard gain, right, because he was still at nine
hundred for the year, which in this day and age,
isn't too bad. What he had thirteen one thousand yard
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rushers this year. But that's not a bad total. But
when you don't have a go to wide receiver outside
of your broken Julian Edelman, it's a tough road. But
to your point, what are we gonna do to make
how do we adjust, how do we evolve during the
season to make it. It's like we're just putting in
our time and the season is gonna end when it ends.
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If it ends with the Super Bowl, great, if it doesn't, great,
and but next year that's it. That's what I'm gonna
be re energized. Well, that was one of the things
that came out of Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback was
a quick conversation he had with Brady where he didn't
feel like he had that anger and overriding sadness right.
Obviously wanted to keep playing, but it seems kind of
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relieved that now I'm done. Now I'm gonna go play
someplace else. Either that or just that this season that
didn't have any big push because the other thing out
of New England, you're not getting the emotion and the
lunacy that you're getting all these other locker rooms from
the coach or from their core Bax or whatever Patriots.
You don't. You don't really get to see what's what
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the cards to say until you know you've already folded.
Then they laugh at you. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays
at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. After the game
was over, I was really taken by surprise at the
amount of pure joy people had on social media and
otherwise that the Patriots lost. I mean, this wasn't when
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the Yankees lose, people go oh Blake, the Yankees days suck,
it's over. But now this is different. This was I
am so glad the Patriots lost and everybody celebrated. It
was like everybody's favorite team won. The first thing I did,
I didn't even talk about the game. I just put
up a jif of the yub Nub dance at the
end of Return of the Jedi. Everybody is dancing and
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Landou is clapping and you're seeing the holograms. I mean
the one where they they they put what's his name
in it and took the old guy out. Uh yeah,
you know the peanut butter that you eat. That's when
we put out. I put out a lot of peanut butter.
Peanut butter spreads everywhere. But it's a gift. It's a
it's a gift. A Christians and reference in there too,
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so it's a gift. It's a gift, and it's a gift.
And it was Jeff, and it was ice cream, and
it was peanut party, it was all of these things.
It was a gift America but but yeah, I've never
seen the nation so united on anything. Yeah, nothing, no
matter what you do. Can imagine we could get to
that on politics we had together, that be awesome, That
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would be fantastic. Never gonna be hiding in a bunk
if we started to agree that that would be amazing.
But I mean, every everybody was just ah, the Patriots law,
they're not gonna win the Super Bowl. I was fairly salty.
I wanted to see it continue, you know, just torment
the rest of the sports love and world. It's different
in watching really good teams that you either love or
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hate lose because that happens all the time. But like
I said, whether it's the Yankees, whether it's the War Years,
whether it's the Lakers, whatever team it is, you know
they're seeing team was going ha ha ha, and then
there's oh my god, I'm so happy that they lost.
Because most of the time it's the ha ha look
at that. Lebron thought he was x y and z ah,
look at that. Look that. But this was just, oh
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my god, I'm so happy. People on Facebook or doing
the mark safe from watching Tom Brady blaming in the
Super Bowl. I mean that there's a difference, and that
I first saw this after they came back to beat
the Falcons and the Super Bowl down three, where it
was amazing and it was an incredible comeback, but who
was really happy about it? There was the next day
was now not an overall can you believe the Patriots one?
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It was Patriots one I was watching. They were really
angry at me because they wanted to change the channels,
like can the kids watch it? No, this game isn't over.
And then they came back at one and everybody just
staring at me, like you willed this into existence just
to torment us. But yeah, Saturday it was just odd.
But it's you mentioned the Warriors and they had their lash,
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but everybody got to that villain point right where they're
they're angry. Spurs never got that level of vitriol for
all the years they were relevant, but the Patriots, it's
just that that burning hatred that everybody had and now
that's gone. So who do you have? You have the
referee hate something else? Always find something else to hate.
We'll always find something else to hate. Like the Cowboys
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will be good now, Mike McCarthy, they'll be good. I'm
gonna keep hate I mean on the on the Saints
and they're whining, no this, they'll always plant people hate.
But as far as that, because so that was kind
of interesting, that phenomenon of the joy instead of the
ha ha. But I I can't believe there's even a
question that Tom Brady is gonna be leaving the Patriots.
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We've told you all season long, We've we've we've followed
the blood curmins, We've told you he's leaving. All this
different pieces of evidence. Josh McDaniels interviewing to move out
because likely Belichick is staying because he knows Tom Brady
is going. After the game was over, what did Brady say, Well,
I don't know about my future. Uh, we'll figure it out, right,
Bill Belichick said the same thing. I don't know, we'll
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figure it out. We haven't spent all this time worried
about the Titans, and now we'll we'll figure that out.
And what did Bob Kraft say today? I hope Tom
Brady either comes back with us or he retires. If
Tom Brady wanted to come back to the Patriots and
the Patriots wanted him, this wouldn't be a conversation. There
would be no well, I don't know what's gonna happen
from Tom Brady. I don't know what's gonna happen from
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Bill Belichick. I don't know what's gonna happen from Bob Kraft.
Tom Brady is an icon. Tom Brady is gonna go
down at worst the second quarterback. Of all times, you
would think he would be able to say I want
to come back, we want you to come back. There's
been none of that. There's not once been Tom Brady
saying I want to return. There's not one been Belichick
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and Bob Kraft saying we want him to return so
bad Bob Kraft couldn't even say today we want him
to come back or retire. It's like, why can't you
just say you want him back? Why can't you say
that if you really want him back, that should be
all I mean, everybody who's just sitting there going, well,
don't know if we have the evidence, that should be
the end of all the evidence. No one is saying
they want to return or want him back, so you
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know he is gone. See. I think with Bob Kraft
it's we want him at a price. I think the
argument because if they don't re sign him, there's a
lot of dead cap, right, There's like thirteen point five
or thereabouts for next year and then another six point
five to seven. So I think part of it is,
let's play the game, right, does how badly this Tom
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want to leave us? Right? Because we open? But I
don't think the money's a it's Tom Brady. No, no,
But do you want to pay him thirty million dollars?
But it's Tom Brady. He's never taken that money. He's
always said I'll take Maybe it's a new it's the
one last I want to get my last page. I
think he's this year. I think I think he did
just fine. I think you could look at the stats
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and and what they didn't bring him, and that's where
I think the problem is depending on on the price
the haggling for Tom Brady, I don't think it's necessarily
even about contract dollars. I think it's about how are
you gonna help me? That offensive line was terrible. The
weapons they brought in two guys page aren't going to
get better. They're not gonna do stuff. All Belichick does
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is try to make no. But but my to my
point is just the everybody that signaled the death knew.
Look what they had. Mohammed Sanu was supposed to be
a savior, just a guy to out an eighteen yards
I believe was the exact count, including the playoff game.
Nikkio Harry missed the half the season. So there's your
first round guy. So everybody that's doing the hot take
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of if they had a J. Brown or they had
DK Metcalf, No, no, they picked the right guy for
what they wanted to do. He was hurt, he didn't
get into the field. I don't see how all of
a sudden magically you go yeah, and they don't throw
the ball deep repeatedly, which is all Russell Wilson does
the D game Metcalf, They're run deep, but I'm gonna
throw in a long ways. So the Packers you're in
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trouble because you don't defend that very well. But for
for Brady, I mean even Julian Edelman, I mean he
was in bubble wrap for half the year because he's
he's broken, so I mean he's could probably be gone.
He may be done as well. So unless you can
totally do a reboot or reboot as I like to say, uh,
you know, that's the bigger part for Tom Brady. H
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if they want if they wanted him back and he
wanted back, you could at least say it at the
end of the season. But but I mean, that's not Belichick,
Brady more or but there's nobody's saying it. I'm telling
you it would have been would have been easy. It's
Tom Bradys. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I
Heart Radio app. To a talk of Viola declared for
the NFL today, Alabama quarterback says, I'm going and something
we talked about last week, a decision that he needed
to make because the NFL wants him now. His stock
is very low at a situation he has had because
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of his injury. Is his hip gonna respond? And he
hasn't played right now, it's low, But the NFL Draft
is three and a half months from now. He's got
plenty of time to get the hit better, plenty of
time for scouts and teams to watch tape of him
and go, oh, this is the guy who was responsible
for seventy four touchdowns and just nine turnovers in two years. Okay,
I get it, I get it. He will rise up.
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And you are kidding yourself if you think he's gonna
go outside the top three, that is just not happening.
Quarterbacks rise, Quarterbacks go early. It's a quarterback league. Any
mock draft that says, well, I have two, a ton
of myola going number eight or not not happening. Two
is not getting out of the top three. Is he
going one overall? No? Joe Burrow, with the year he
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has had proving what he can do and what he
can do to great defenses, he's the flavor of the moment.
I get it. The Bengals will take him at number one.
But two is gonna be the next guy off the board.
Is he gonna come off the board at number two?
Maybe not, but he will come off in the top three.
Because even if you're picking and you're not taking him
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at three, let's just say you don't want to, it
doesn't matter because someone's going to trade up, and they're
going to trade up to get to a because here's
the way the draft order goes, Right, Bengals pick first, alright, Fine,
they're gonna go with Joe Burrow. Redskins pick second. I'd
pick two if I was the Redskins, because who would
you rather have Dwayne Haskins or two? A tamo viola.
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It's pretty easy. You'd rather have to A. Plus, it's
a new change. Ron Rivera is coming in that you
doesn't need to be sold on Dwayne Haskins. As we've
seen in the past, just last year. You can have
a franchise quarterback like the Cardinals had in Josh Rosen.
You can turn the page on him and no one's
gonna go crazy. Would anybody go nuts in Washington if
the Redskins said, you know what, sorry, Dwayne Haskins, we're
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gonna move you another team. We're gonna take two and
number two overall, No, everybody would go crazy because he
is a franchise quarterback. Well, as long as you can
get all the blinking red x is off of his
wacky doctor's game him Operation Shart, Like if if those
all go away and you've gotta clean bill health, I
think given the injury history, that's the only potential red
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flag when you just drafted a quarterback last year and
given Ron Rivera's love of defense, and let's call it
what it is, but that's you know, that's where the
potential is. I mean, he's got three months to decide
whether Dwayne Askins his guy. The tape is not gonna
be pretty. That's gonna have to be a nice cell
job by Twayne Haskins and Terry McLaren to keep him
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at the helm. So let's just say he doesn't go.
I would take him at two in a second. You
got the lines picking third, I would easily take to
h and ship off Matthew Stafford because there's many teams
who say, oh hey, Matthew Stafford for a few years. Okay,
theotomy's let it. Let him find his other place. I
can see that you got the giants picking at four.
They should also take to it, but they won't because
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they have to be right. And Dave Gentleman's got to
be right about Daniel Jones. Well, but this is a
place where for the giants, You've got a lot of
other needs, right, you got a couple of good skill
position guys, you got a bad defense, you need some
help on the old line. You've got a lot of need.
So if you can get a team to package a
couple of first round picks for you to get to
number four. You know that's the thing. Four is not
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gonna be enough because the team's right behind them. The
Dolphins they'll draft to UH, the Chargers they'll draft to
unless Tom Brady comes, and the Panthers they'll draft to UH.
Then you get to eight. The Cardinals, No, they have
Kyler Murray. The Jaguars are picking too high, they're already.
The Browns have Baker Mayfield, the Jets have Sam Darnad.
Did you getting to the point where and he's not
getting out of there? Four is too high or is
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too low to think you can make a trade and
move up with the Giants and to a ton of
Iola is gonna be there. You gotta be at two
or at three to get him because he is going
to rise. He is remember again, three and a half
months between now in the NFL Draft. The draft isn't tomorrow,
and two is not gonna limp onto the stage. Hold
up at Jersey. You have so much time. He will
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get a clean bill of health, the surgery went well.
They will again they will look at the tape of
what he did. And he was a number one overall
pick coming into this year. So if that's the case,
you're he's going to rise. It's there's not gonna be
a point where he drops. And you can't sit there
and think at five, we're gonna we're gonna get him.
We're gonna know you're sitting at five. You think only
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we'll get Justin Herbert at five? And do you really
want that guy or do you want to you get
any of these teams? I say here in the top eight,
who would you rather have toa or your quarterback? They'll
say to a Bengals, to a Redskins, to a Lions,
to a Giants, to ah, but I understand, we told
you Daniel Jones is so good, so we have to
stick with him. Dolphins to A Chargers, to h Panthers
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to all of those teams would rather have two within
their quarterbacks. So there's gonna be a big race for him.
And with teams picking in the top seven, top eight,
you're basically saying, all right, we're gonna move up and
it's a couple of second round picks. It's gonna be
the kind of trade the Jets may two years ago
to move up for Sam Donald's going to be a
first round pick. Then a couple of seconds and that's
the cost of doing business. So many of these teams
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can move up, but four is too low. You gotta
be two or three. And I wouldn't be surprised if
someone jumped to two just to ensure they would get
just to guarantee it. Sir, I think you've not quite
the Jalen Ramsey hall. But I think if the medicals
check out, and you've got three months to see progress
right and and have extensive charts, and if I'm to
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that's the one thing I'm doing every week. I've got
every doctor poking and prod me to give updates. Here's
my range of motion, Here's how this is progressing, here's
the strength chart and everything. Because it's it's gonna be
a bit of a cell because you've got a guy
with a number of surgeries already on the docket as
well before the hip. Be sure to catch live editions
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the hotline CBS Sports NFL Insider Extraordinary getting set for
a ten thousand word preview of the Syracuse lacrosse season.
Oh yeah, how excited ye, Jason Lock And for what's happening,
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Jay Hey, lax is right around the corner. It won't
be Syracuse lacks for me though. It'd be more like
Howson University lacks, Loyola College lacks, Johns Hopkins University lacks.
Like that's you know that that's like doable that those
are all like five minutes from my house. I would
not go up to the dome for US Syracuse. I
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don't know what you'd have to give me. I don't
know what the inducement would have to be, but it
would have to be profound. I like that, Jason Lock
and fort Look, I could be a great insider as
long as it's five minutes from my house. Again, like
I'm you know, we're not like a huge lacrosse family.
We're a huge baseball family. But we do go like
a Virginia or Syracuse is playing at Hopkins or at
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or at Telson, like we'll go. Honestly, the most I
see of Bill Belichick is between like February fifteen and
May twentieth, because he's all over like he's a lacross
junkie and he's best friends with the Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach.
So we'll drive down to Charles Street and we'll go
to you know, games, and we'll see him. He'll be
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all over the place. Oh so you're gonna get the
scoop when you know what. But I'll be him, like
I'll say, hey, coach, and you can ask this fifty
different bleeping ways. I don't even say anything. Like my
kids are like, who's that? Who's that? Grandpa? Grandpa thinking
about him when the lacrosse sticks starts whipping balls at
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locking for as he comes. You know, you say, alright, well,
let's let's start here with with Belichick that obviously all
the discussion is going to be about Brady and what
is next for him. And look, you've said many times
before in the show that everything you have points to
the chargers. Everything is still pointing to the chargers for
Tom Brady if he leaves. Yeah, I mean, like, you know,
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Mcraft can be exceedingly uh like he he can coerce
you or you know, boon doggle you or swindle you
or convince you that you have to be here, and
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he's very persuasive. But I strongly believe that Tom Brady
is at a point in his career and his life
where he's very interested to see what's like, what's beyond
the yellow bick road, Like if I just walk over
yonder and I get out of you know their grip,
what awaits for me? And what would this team or
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that team or this owner or this GM be willing
to unfurl to woo me in a way that I
haven't been wooed in a long time. And you know what,
Everything comes to an end. There is always closure, nothing
last forever. And man, we've got no wide receivers except
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for Adamman, who's like thirty six and gets doubled and
gets taken out of games and is breaking down. And
we've got no tight ends to speak of. And I
like Sony Michelle, but man, he's really been banged up
to last, you know, nine to twelve months. And our
offensive line is and Belichick would rather draft defensive players
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than offensive players, and he's always going to defer to
that because that's his sort of reset. That's who he is.
He's a defensive guy at heart. And maybe they need
a twenty two year olds who can run all over
the place and extend plays and compensate for the lack
of personnel. But at my age forty three, I can't
do that, and I couldn't do that in my prime.
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And I'm kind of sick of being asked to, you know,
do more with less, and I'm kind of sick of
taking hometown discounts. And wow, well what I look at
the Chargers man Eckler, that's like he's like a Danny
Woodhead and his prime except even better. And Hunter he's
not Gronk, but he's Aaron and man, look at these
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two outside receivers like Williams and Keenan Allen. Man, I
haven't had that, you know, since I hadn't Ranny Moss
in his prime. And the offensive line isn't amazing, but
it's good enough and if they invest a little more
in it, So I mean, like we got to be
real about all this and everything comes to an end.
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Joe Montana played for the Chiefs, Emmett Smith played for
the Cardinals. Jerry Rice played for the Seahawks. You know,
Far played for the Jets. Like this big boy stuff,
and sometimes guys want to show that they can do
it outside of the cocoon that they were brought up in.
And sometimes teams don't know what they got till it's gone.
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Jesson Smith still doing the yum dumb dance. Jason Smith,
Mike Carmen here from the guy got Fox Sports Radio
Studios on the Hallow with a CBS Sports, NFL inside
or a buddy Jason lockanfora Find him on Twitter at
Jason lockanfora. So the Cowboys finally locked the doors on
Jason Garrett and bring Mike McCarthy in after a sleepover,
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and he is going to bring in Mike Nolan to
be his defensive coordinator. Watch really the upgrade here over
Jason Garrett. I do think that that you know, Mike
is an upgrade over Jason. I think Jason was sort
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of a product of the whole Cowboys narcissism. Uh, They're
they're innate hype, they're sort of overt self belief that
goes beyond what they really are there. I I don't
care if there was ten openings for head coaches right now.
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I don't think anybody he's reaching out to Jason Garrett
being like I need that guy, I want that guy,
and I gotta have that guy. I just I don't
believe anybody has looked at him for a long time,
other than you know, Jerry. So I want to see
the totality of McCarthy staff. Like I'm not going to
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sit here and tell you that that's a slam duncan,
that they're gonna now win five straight you know, NFC
East titles, even though the NFC stinks. Um, I don't know, Like,
is he keeping tilling more? Isn't he? I wouldn't. Maybe
he will, he shouldn't, But who's he going to get
who's better than him? I don't. I do have concerns,
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and I don't think that this is like, you know,
an immediate quick fix or anything close to it. But
I also don't think that if Mike McCarthy was coaching
that team, they would have found a way to lose
that horrific division the way they did this year, And
that had to be the end for Jason Garrett, and personally,
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I believe that's the last time you'll ever see Jason
Garrett on the NFL sideline again. But maybe I'm wrong.
All Right, So, now if that's taken and now here's
the Cowboys with Mike McCarthy, now the Giants have to
figure things out. So do the Cleveland Browns what do
they do? What do the Giants do? What are the
Browns do to fill their head coach? And gi Giants
better get that rule. If the Giants don't get that rule,
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they're in a during the hole. I mean, like you're
gonna hire the Patriots special teams coach. I mean, just
go look at I mean you and and maybe you'll
hire Eric Bihanni. And you know, Eric Bienny might turn
out to be an awesome NFL head coach, But man,
you just had Macadoo and you just had Shermer, Like
you're really gonna go for another offensive, minded, unproven guy,
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um without a pedigree with that job. I mean, and
and maybe look, maybe the enemy saves them all, saves Mara,
saves gentleman, you know. But I would have extreme reservations
about that. Like, I think the Giants and the Browns
in particular need to hire a coach who has done
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the job and done it well, whether at a Power
five conference or in the NFL. They need proven commodities.
And I know they've had trouble getting proven commodities to
go there in the past, But maybe recruit differently, Maybe
change your sales pitch. Maybe be willing to say, hey,
we're the New York Giants, or we're not what you
used to be, so we'll give you anything you want
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to come here, not Hey, let's let gentleman come out
there and you know, at the full at a press
conference a couple of times and pretend that he's now,
you know, the senior analytics. I mean, I don't even
I can't even account for explain what these teams do
and how they reached the points that they reach. But
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there's a reason that the Browns and the Giants are
now sort of like simpatico, right like we think of
them in the same way. They're trolling the same waters
for the same candidates. They're firing people every eighteen months
like that's that's who they are, that's their d n A.
And that comes from ownership, and those trends and tendencies
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don't change until or unless ownership realizes we really are
this bad. And I'm not sure that either of those
franchises really truly understand the plight that they're in. And
one of them better get Matt Roll and one of
them better get Josh McDaniels. But you know what they
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might not get either of them, and it's a big
drop off after that. And I just feel like the
position that they're in to hire a completely unproven guy
would be a big, big problem. You can fall on
Twitter at Jason lock and for that is at Jason
Locke and for a CBS Sports NFL insider and I
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should say insider on anything. Five minutes from his house
as well. Has always buddy appreciated, my friend. We'll talk
to you next week. You got it. Let's go, John
talking his blue Jayson, all right,
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