March 4, 2021 • 38 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you why Sam Darnold will be traded prior to the start of free agency. Small market NBA teams are feeling disrespected by officiating, and it's only going to get worse. Plus, you must be this tall to speak to Jim Boeheim!
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So coming up in twenty minutes. Oh boy, if you
thought Donovan Mitchell was mad about the officiating tonight in
the Jazz loss to the seventies six ers, you know
Game of the night in the NBA. Uh that is
the junior varsity compared to how mad Rudy Gobert just
got about the officiating in the Jazz loss to the
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Philadelphia Sixers. Will have that for you coming up in
about twenty minutes. Oh boy, it is just awesome. And
the NBA has got a real headache on their hands
going into All Star weekend. But today it was a
big day, Mike Carmen. Today it was a very big
day because we found out that, hey, there's another quarterback
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who is now widely available that could change how teams
operate in the NFL off season. And I'm here to
tell you after today, the Jets are one percent trading
Sam Donald by the beginning of free agency, and they
are taking Zach Wilson number two overall in the draft.
All right, now there, Look, you may think I'll stair
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you're wrong on some things. No, No, there's very few
things in life I know better than the Jets. Really.
I mean, when when when stories involve my teams and
Mike's teams, you want to hear him from You want
to hear what we say anyway, but when it's our teams,
you want to kind of want to hear it from us. Right,
what's the Colin Coward line? Nobody knows? Um a team's
bullpen like like the like the local fan does. Right, Like,
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that's a great line, a way to compare. Nobody knows
your your team's bullpen in Major League Baseball like the
big fans do, and the Mets bullpen is just terrible.
But okay, well another day. So today, Jets GM Joe
Douglas in a press conference says he will answer the
phone for phone calls on Sam Donald. Now he's not
trolling the Texans who are not answering the phone for
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Deshaun Watson. Yet he has gone from Sam Donald is
our guy. We believe in Sam. That was the message
the entire offseason. Now Robert Sala has been hired, they've
had a chance to evaluate the roster, and today was
a big sea change switch saying I will take phone
calls for Sam Donald. All right, Now here's the reasons why.
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There's three big reasons why the Jets are making this
move and why am Donald's gonna get traded? Number one?
Is this Up until today, as I said, he was
the guy, right, there was no there was no doubt
in that. So if he was still the guy, you're
not making an announcement at a press conference that you're
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accepting phone calls on him. You are doing the Seattle
Seahawks thing. If well, you know, we were not taking
the calls we'll take three first round picks. But you're
you're doing the Texans thing if we're not picking up
the phone. The fact that you went from you know,
he was untouchable to hey, now we're taking phone calls
on him. You don't take phone calls on your quarterback
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if he's really your guy. All right. Even the Raiders
didn't go so far as to say, oh, we're we're
we're we're getting phone calls now. I don't know what
we're gonna do. And but really, you know, Sam Donald
is not the Jets guy, because it would just be
we're going forward. Sam's our quarterback and we're moving on,
all right. That's the first one. And the second one,
which is is just as big a deal, is that
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Joe Douglas is gonna have one chance to get a
quarterback and make that decision right, because if he doesn't,
he's gonna get fired. I mean that. That's what happened.
He had a really bad off season last year, signed
a bunch of guys in free agency too small contracts. Now,
the good news is he can get out of a
lot of them and cut a lot of players. But
he didn't have a great season in the off season,
and if he doesn't get the jets next quarterback, right,
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he's gonna get fired. So if that's the case and
everybody's about self preservation of the NFL, the number one
thing Joe Douglass wants is not to win a Super
Bowl with the Jets. Number one thing is not to
He wants to keep his job as GM as long
as he can. This is the top of the food
chain where you go if you want to be a
personal evaluator in the NFL. He wants to be a GM.
How do you do this by keeping your job as
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long as you can. So the easy thing to do
would be to say, let's try it with Sam for
this one year. It's a free year for Robert solitude
because if Sam Donald is not any good, well, okay,
we tried, and now we're gonna let Robert Sali start
over with a new quarterback. And he's just gotten a
free year. You got a free year of if we lose,
it doesn't really matter Joe Douglas. It would be a
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free year for him. Hey, you know, now we'll go
get a quarterback. Okay, Now it's gonna work. The fact
that he is open for business on Sam Donald tells
me he's going to make this change in the next
couple of weeks because he's gonna get one chance at
it and he is confident that this is the change
that's gonna keep him employed. You don't do that unless
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you are sold on the next guy you want in there,
a quarterback. Because if you're not sold, you're still sticking
with Sam Donald. You're not going out. You're not saying
what you're saying about Donald being on the block if
you're not confident you have that next guy ready to go,
whether it was you know what you do in evaluating
prospects and figuring out the draft. But you don't do
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that unless you know who you're going to get and
who's gonna succeed Sam Donald. Those are two of the
big reasons why Donald's getting trade. He can pack his
stuff right now, he's gonna be on a plane head
and somewhere by Mark seventeenth to be getting a free
agency I'm gonna say part of it is why lie
everybody knows that Sam Donald's a guy that could be
had if the rest of the star quarterbacks across the league,
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save probably Mahomes and Tom Brady, can be had, Why
why lie. Yeah, all right, you're on the carousel, you're
spinning around. You like what you see. You got some
good game tape in between, you know, mono and injuries
and well us being the Jets. Uh, there's some things
you can like on the tape. So I I just
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think part of it is just all right, let's just
throw our hat in and let's not be coy about it,
because I don't think that's fair to it s to
Sam Donald either if publicly you're saying he's our guy,
he's our guy. Look how quickly things reportedly are changing
in San Francisco. Even if John Lynch a week ago
and said, hey, Jimmy Garoppolos our guy, he's gonna be
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our guy. Of course he used some of the language
that we love. You know, we expect him to be
our quarterback in September. All right, So now you've opened
the door, maybe a little crack, but enough to where
if I put a little boot to it, Uh, it's
it's opening all the way. And now we've got a situation.
Uh you mentioned Joe Douglas getting you don't get off
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and get extra bytes at the coaching apple or or
the creating creating a new quarterback. Uh, legacy, especially with
teams that have been perennial, for lack of a better term,
loser that the patients hasn't been there. Look at how
well well oiled, Uh, some of these machines are. It's like,
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all right, a couple of losing years. All right, we
understand this happened. This happened. We liked the system. You're
running cool For all those things that have been cesspools
for all these years, all those organizations, how many times
did we see guys fired in eighteen months or by
year three? They're gone? Look at look at what Cleveland did.
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Look at your jets. They're trying to find stability. And
that doesn't happen overnight. And guys don't necessarily change the
way they do business. Even though Woody Johnson's coming back
from his international travels and work, he's now looking at
at the team again and and they think they've got
the right guys in place. But as we know, they'll
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shuffle up if they don't see progress. And right now
the East is there's to at least make a little
bit of noise. We've talked about the issues with the Patriots.
I still don't know what to a tongue of Voloa
will be I'm cautiously optimistic and that Flores is building
a winner there, but that's still unknown. And there's still
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some folks that want to take away from what Josh
Allen did this year, even though the team as a
whole performed well, they're saying, well, there's a chance, and
Woody Johnson maybe delusion enough to think we gotta win
the East or you get shuffled out there, Mr Douglas.
I mean, things happen in the NFL. It is a
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win now business. The only thing that cures it is
becoming enamored with your next quarterback and seeing progress or
getting to this getting to a Super Bowl run, and
that usually I'll buy you a three year extension. Otherwise
you're shuffling up and deal. Why do you think we
keep talking about the Bears and what they're gonna do
with the quarterback position and why it's such a big
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deal for Ryan Pace and Matt Naggy. It's absolutely huge
if they want to extend their their professional lives in
the greatest city in the world, the greatest city in
the greatest city in the greatest city in the world. Okay,
so layout I I knew I could lay that up
and you would just grab it. And I did, buddy,
I did, and you did so well. But listen, there's
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one other reason to it. So I gave you my
two reasons. Okay, Never think that things that go on
in the media are unrelated and that one story is
completely taken in absolutes and it has nothing to do
with another. If you remember a week ago, right there
was there were the headline, according to NFL sources, the
Jets are getting enamored with Zack Wilson. All right, Zack
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Wilson is Look, clearly, everybody's now number two pick. I
think he's kind of solidified himself as the second quarterback,
taken behind Trevor Lawrence. And so if last week the
story is the Jets are really starting to fall in
love with Zack Wilson, it's no coincidence that today Joe
Douglas says we're open for offers on Sam Donald. All right,
They're they're not gonna go get They're not gonna go
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get Deshaun Watson, right, They're not thinking that now if
it comes up, if it comes their way, great, because
the Jets are in a position where you know because
you talked about they're not gonna go get a quarterback
in free agency. The Jets and the Dolphins are the
two teams that are most that that have the best
chance of getting DeShawn Watson because they're not gonna go
fill a need in free agency. They're not gonna get
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a quarterback because they all both have quarterbacks that they
could stick with if they want. To write, the Dolphins
clearly believe into them more than the Jets believe in
Sam Donald. Two is more of an unknown quantity, but
he's gonna get next year to prove himself. The Jets
can stick with Sam Donald if they have to, but
they still have the second overall pick in the draft,
so if they don't like Sam, they'll get a quarterback.
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So while free agency goes and teams start filling their
needs and quarterbacks start moving around, if you get to
right before the draft and the Texans finally come to
their senses and go, okay, now we know we gotta
trade to Shawn Watson, well then the Jets will listen
because as much as they might like Zack Wilson, well,
if we can get to Shawn Watson, well, this guy
is twenty five years old and three times in the
Pro Bowl he's he's terrific. Yeah, well, we'll we'll look
at that. But the Jets don't have to, and they're
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not banking on on Deshaun Watson coming. But it's a
kind of a freebee for them, so they can they
can take adjust their business in free agency and and
figure out the players they want to go get that
are gonna fit in with the with the systems that
the Jets are gonna run, and Robert salis four three
defense that he's gonna run and then worry about the
quarterback thing after. So the Jets and the Dolphins have
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a long time to wait before they have to actually
pull the trigger on this. But the fact that you
had last week Jets getting enamored with Zack Wilson and
here's Sam Donald open or business. Okay, so you know
Donald's getting traded and Joe Douglas is not putting this
out there without knowing exactly what Sam Donald's market value is.
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He knows that he's a second round pick, maybe a
second and a third. If he can get some kind
of bidding war going, maybe just maybe you can squeeze
it into a late, late, late first round pick. But
you're talking most likely a second day and a third
day pick for for Sam Donald. So he's okay. I mean,
he knows that's what the market is. All you do
is get on the internet, and why I wonder what
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the market is for Sam Donald. I don't need to
make any fancy phone calls. I'm just look and see
what insiders just saying, Hey, Daniel Jeremiah says this, Jake
Blazer says this. Okay, that's what the market's gonna be
for Sam Donald. So he's comfortable with that, knowing that
that's exactly what the market's going to be and saying
it out loud, he is he is signaling to the league,
come and get him, all right. This is not the
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Eagles making a mistake because they wanted to maximize the
value they were getting for Carson Wentz because they thought,
we're gonna put Carson Wentz out there right after the
Matthew Stafford, We're gonna get two first round picks in
the third and all kinds of crazy stuff for him. Now,
they overestimated his value on the market, but they made
a mistake because they thought, hey, we're gonna we're gonna
get a great market for him. We can say we're
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ready to trade him. It turned out to bite him
when there was no market for him. The market for
Sam Donald. There are a couple of teams that are
really interested. The forty nine is interested. There's a couple
of the teams that may be there as well. And
if the price you're talking about is a second and
a third round pick for a guy that's only gonna
cost you five million dollars this year, Uh, there's no
damage to be done. In fact, you can only win
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by saying, hey, we're open, call me. I'm ready. I
mean I I We could wake up tomorrow and Sam
Donald could be traded and and starting his career someplace else.
But all of these clues that this tells you. It's
just one statement by by the Jets GM, but it
tells you how all of these things are gonna happen.
He'll be dealt by the beginning of free agency. Zack
Wilson's gonna be playing quarterback for the Jets next year,
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and we're gonna be having all kinds of great draft
day jokes about why he wasn't a captain in the
beginning of the season, why nobody went to his birthday
party and why people are calling him on the phone,
and then you know, p did he goes out. He
has to calm them down and say let's go back
into the draft. I know you haven't gotten selected yet.
All of these things are going to happen over the
next few months. Yeah, I think the biggest point in
all of this is that the clock is ticking al right.
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As soon as we get to St. Patrick's Day and
everybody's out and about finding their green beer. Uh, we're
we're gonna know the destinations of a number of these
players all next week. We're gonna be talking about new
uniforms and it'll be great photoshop jobs and everything else. Uh.
That that will fuel our discussions. That and filling out
our brackets will be everything for everybody. Uh as we
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get rolling, because you've got to settle on your quarterback,
because then you need a couple of weeks to say, okay,
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So there you go. Now you know, Sam Donald is
gonna be gone, and it's gonna happen in the next
couple of weeks. Coming up next, there are a few
people as mad in the world tonight as the Jazz
are and stars Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert after what
happened in the Game of the Night against the Sixers,
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for a quote. Master of Puppets turns thirty five today. Yes,
I am old, old, old old. Uh. You know, I've
seen a lot of people talking about this on social
media today, the anniversary of Master of Puppets. And when
you get to anniversaries, once you get outside of a
few years, you know the big benchmark ones, the ten,
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the fifteen, five, And the one thing I remember the
most about Master of Puppets is I remember the first
time I heard it and coming off of Ride the Lightning,
which is one of the biggest albums in rock history.
Metallica really redefined rock and roll with Ride the Lightning
in three It was one of those albums that it
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had an immediate impact not only on on the next
few years in music, but new generations, new genres of music.
It made heavy metal incredibly popular, and they became the
first superstar group that cut through in heavy metal. The
way they did it really was it was a game
changing album, and it's how do you top that? Right?
How do you top Ride the Lightning? It was? It's
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incredibly good and it doesn't matter what your favorites are,
the entire album top to bottom. I still listen to
the Call of Coutulu. You know when when when the
the eight minute bass solo by Cliff Burton, Oh nice,
not so? How do you top it? And the first
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twenty seconds of Battery, which is the first song on
Master Puppets, I knew this is another great album. And
then Battery goes right into Master of Puppets and you
get into Welcome Home Sanitarium and and it's just, oh
my goodness, they did it. That's a really hard thing
to do in music. When you're coming off an album
that defies expectation and and launches a new epic era
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in music, how do you follow it up? And Metallica
followed it up and a few years ago was put
in the National Register as one of the most influential
albums of all time. I mean, it's it's that kind
of impact. Master of Puppets as And thankfully people are
still gonna be watching it and name of the song
because they like old school. When when Will Ferrell kidnaps
the guy and says no, I will have it back.
So you know, there's certain ways you live on forever. No,
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that's just it, especially once you allow your music to
be sold, uh and commercialized. I mean, think about what
it did for the Who and sales of their old
albums or singles when they started being the poster children
for the c s I franchi as. I mean, what's
amazing is you you go back and you look at
the numbers of albums that were sold. Right now, we're
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talking about downloads and and generally it's a single or
an EP, we're not talking about full albums with with
the same same gusto. But you had Ride the Lightning
sold five million, and normally you would expect a a
pushback and and maybe a decline. No no, no, And
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now we've sold six and then wait a minute, then
we get Bob rocking, you know, and we get to
the Black album in ninety one, and it just sells
singles and cassette singles and ZD singles and millions upon millions.
And while people said they sold out, yeah they did
because they found a whole other audience and they started
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using that joke that they've now used for thirty years. Yeah,
we sold out, and we sell out every time we play.
I remember that line on the behind them. I rememb him.
Actually he clapped his hands, Yeah, we sell out every
night exactly. That was That was Heatfield doing his best promoter.
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Shameless promotion, but yeah, just an amazing catalog. But this
album in particular, I mean, this is this is rich stuff.
I mean, welcome home Sanitarium for me. Playing a little
bit earlier, Uh, the daughters came down. You know, we're
having lunch and looking at me, go, what's this playing
in the background. I got good. It's like yeah, but
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just creepy enough, you do. You're having an okay Wednesday
dead Like no, I'm good, I'm good. Everything's good. But
you know, as as soon as you start actually listening
to the lyrics, you know, you check in on your people,
That's all I could say. Twitter At how about a
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Harmon live from the Farmer's Insurance Studios. Now we get
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to the night that was in the NBA. In the
game of the Night, it goes to overtime between the
Jazz and the Sixers. Now we've talked about the Joel
and beat angle of this look. The guy finishes the
first half going for forty points, hits the three that
ties the game at the end of regulation, the Sixers
winning overtime. He's the m v P of the first
half of the NBA, bar none. He is the most
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valuable player. He's been the most consistent player. He's been
the best player. Other guys like Lebron have been good
for stretches. James Harden has been good for stretches, same
thing with Steph Curry, and Bead has been the best.
But this is now fast becoming about officiating in the league.
Last night, Devin Booker gets tossed, and we spent time
last night trying to figure out just how the hell
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Booker gets tossed from a game. He complains about a
call and he gets a teat up for it, and
it looks like he gets teaed up the second time
for continuing the first time he's complaining, which is ridiculous.
Devin Booker should not have been thrown out of the
Sun's game against the Lakers last night. Well, fast forward
to tonight where Donovan Mitchell gets thrown out of the
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game in overtime. The Jazz go on to lose and
Mitchell was upset. But first here's how the ejection sounded.
Donovan Mitchell just went after the official and just got
ejected for the game. And Donovan just throw a water
cooler and busted that one and ends up hitting a
security guard and Donovan, because he's Donovan, goes and apologize
as a security guard for doing it. And Donovan is
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in the locker room. Haven't been ejected for the game tonight,
he got ejected. He got ejectad you, this is a
little bit different from last night in that the arguing
that Donovan Mitchell was going was was getting upset about.
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There was a call earlier that didn't go the Jazz way.
Then there was a call that didn't go his way.
So it's a couple of things that had happened that
got Donovan Mitchell hot. It wasn't just one play where
he said something and boom the double t and Devin
Booker is tossed. Mitchell is upset about a couple of
calls that didn't go the Jazz way. He gets thrown out. Listen,
when you throw Donna Mitchell out of the game, it's
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general hard to win a game like that if you're
the Jazz. How upset was Donovan Mitchell after the game, Well,
listen to him talk about the officiating and you can, actually,
I'll tell you the truth. He's in this video. He
is actually writing out the check to the NBA for
fifty dollars the fine he's going to get for criticizing
the officiating. While he is saying this, it's tough to
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to go out there and see how we fight and
compete and to have a game like that taking from us.
And I'm never ever wanted to to to blame my raps,
to blame it of Fish. I could say we could
have done more, but this, this is getting out of hand.
You know, there have been games like this that we've won.
There have been games like this that we've we've we've lost.
With this whole refereeing stuff, and the way we're nice.
We don't complain, we don't like, we don't get frustrated,
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you know, we fight through things. And the fact that
we just continually get get screwed in a way by this,
you know, like we we won this game in my
personal opinion, you know, but like I said, I'm gonna
give them credit. They won whatever. Cool, But like this
is it's it's a consistent thing, and you know, the
question is can we can we do it? Can we
sustain it? Are we through? Number? One? Like, yeah, the
hell we are? And it's getting it's getting ridiculous, k
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that this is this is what's happening, you know what
I mean. We have a whole second half of the
season to go and get ready for. But like I'm
sick of it, to be honest with god, we all are,
you know. And I think this is something that just
if it eats me, it eats at me. Man. And
it's I don't I don't y'all know what it is.
We all know what it is. But it's it's really
getting out of hand. It's really really really getting out
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of hand. And the league needs to do something about
this because I want to see the last two minute report.
Wait wait, wait so that wait, oh it's a hundred
thousand dollar fine, No, let me let you know, I'll
just make out another check how many times like as
you reference new things? Is it a new incident or
is it all one? So you might as well just
get it all out. That's the thing I gotta figure
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out when when it comes to the finding schedule, is
each one, each sentence, each bullet point considered a separate
infraction because if so, man each just lost a lot
of money. So there's that with Donovus. So you can
see how upset Donovan Mitchell is. Donovan Mitchell looks like
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a boy scout compared to Rudy Gobert, who decided to say,
oh yeah, you know, Donovan kind of warmed you up
a little bit. But on the main attraction, here's Rudy
Gobert about how upsetting and how upset he is about
the officiating and what happened tonight. I'm not able to
get some cause that everybody else gets. So we know
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that we the Uta Jazz and we you know, maybe
some people don't want to see us, you know, go
as far I believe that we can go. But Um,
he's disappointing. We know that when you're a small market.
I don't want to say that, but I really believe it.
You know, after praying the speak for eight years, it's
a little harder. And that's one of the things that
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we've got to overcome. Like I watched what guys are
getting on one end and what we were getting on
the other hand, and it can be just mistakes, you
know at some point, like those guys, two of those
offs have a lot of experience, you know. I know
these guys and you know, I mean, I know all
the names, and I have a lot of his pet
for them. But tonight they didn't have respect for us.
And that can happen because we're nice. We're nice guys.
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You know, my county never had a technical in his life,
and they don't respect him. So maybe he should get
more technicals. I don't know what he needs to do
my county to get some respect. First of all, I
love that he says we're nice guys. I mean, we're
These guys are a bunch of frauds. Were for nice guys.
I mean, I don't know why there's a problem. Excuse me,
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Mr referee, I disagree with the call you made there
because I believe the ball was not out of bounds
and I put my hands around it. Now, I'd like
to give you the opportunity to explain to me why
you made the call the way you did, and I
will sit here and listen to everything you had to say.
We're nice guys, man, we don't get teed up. We're
nice guys. But the big thing and he said it,
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and now it's out. We're the Utah Jazz. We don't
get call other teams in the NBA get not that
we're a small market, but look, that's what it is.
We know that's why we don't get the calls because
we're the Jazz. And now you have the Jazz saying
we don't get the calls in a game against the
seventies Sixers. What's a bigger star franchise in the NBA.
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The Jazz are the Sixers. The Sixers could be the
team in the finals out of the East. So hey,
you get a lot of people believing, yeah, I could
see the NBA pushing the seventy Sixers over the Utah Jazz.
And then the night before, well we got the Sons
and the Lakers. Well, who would you rather see go
further in the playoffs. The Sons are the Lakers. Obviously
it's the Lakers. Perception is reality, right, and that's something
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that people may not like, but it's absolutely true. If
the perception is you're doing a bad job at what
you do for a living, even though you're thinking, oh, hey,
if i'm doing this, i'm doing this, I'm doing this.
I'm doing a pretty good job. If everybody, your bosses,
and your managers think you're doing a bad job, then
you're doing a bad job. The perception is And now
Rudy go Bears said it, and now you're gonna see
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a lot of players say the same thing to back
it up, that the small teams and smaller teams don't
get the calls of the other teams. You don't normally
see people saying that that often that black and white,
like Rudy Gobert did. And with all of this evidence,
Adam Silver has to do something because the officiating has
been terrible. It's been terrible since the beginning of the season.
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Rick Bucker joined us earlier tonight and said the NBA
is a bad product, right, I don't know the NBA
has been as bad as it is, and partly is
because the officiating has been really poor, because the NBA
has changed how they officiate the games. He was, I
don't blame the refs as much as I blame the changes,
but the officiating has been abysmal. And now, if you
really want to see something, uh, that's the walking definition
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of what goes around comes around. Now, all the NBA
stars that are getting set to go to All Star
Weekend in Atlanta, they're all thinking of themselves the same thing.
You know what, you wanted me to play this All
Star game. I didn't want to play it, none of
a wanted to play it. But you're making us play
this game because of television contracts. Okay, I'm gonna go there.
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I'm gonna do every single interview you could possibly imagine.
We're all superstars going to these games, and you know what,
I'm gonna talk about the officiating and how bad it is.
Your reap what you sew and the NBA is doing it.
And it's been a half season of a bad product.
So yeah, something has to happen, something has to change.
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I get it. I have the players backs on this.
There's certain things I'll have the players backs on certain things.
I'll have I'll have owners backs on or teams backs on.
I got the players backs on this, because you know what,
I want a good product. I want a good product
out there. I want to see the stars stay on
the court from most of the game. I don't want
to see guys getting thrown out just because they disagree
with an official on a call. I don't want to see.
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I don't want to see these guys getting thrown out
of a game because the officials can't take it and
can't take for a guy complaining about a call because
he feels he was wrong, you gotta be able to
do that. You gotta let people com lane about things,
and a Major League Baseball umpires know how to do
it better than anybody. For all the flak we give
people like Angel Hernandez and Joe West umpires, No, hey,
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if you're upset about something, I'll let you complain and
I'll let you get your vent your frustrations. If you
do it the right way, it's all good. If you
want to complain while you're in the batter's box, if
you don't look at me, and you keep your head
focused towards the picture, and you want to call me
a name and say that pitch was outside. I'm gonna
be okay with that. But when you turn and make
it about me and you get in my face, then
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I'll throw you out. But Major League Baseball always had
we're gonna give you enough rain and then if we
make us, we're gonna toss you. NBA referees are like, hey,
we're we're not gonna take anything from the players. You're
not gonna sit here and yell at to me because
now everybody can hear it in the arena because there's
no fans, So I don't want everybody on the other
team in the media here and you call me a
sorry ass blankety blankety blank. So if you say that,
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you're gonna be gone, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. In the
NBA needs to do something so when we come back
from the break the second half we get better basketball,
because we're not getting great basketball right now. I just
dig it in that well. We we're talking about what
Donovan Mitchell said and trying to ascribe what the penalty
will be. I mean, what's the multiplier on Rudy Gobert,
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Because Mitchell walked up to the line, and he held
it out for any waived. He didn't say it explicitly.
Rudy Gobert just broke straight through and said, were utah,
behave us and we're nice guys. We're nice guys. We
we go and play hard, but they don't like us.
And then everybody always comes to Mike Conley's defense. I
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don't I don't know that he needed to be in
this situation, but it became about Mike Conley's reputation as well.
But uh, yeah, you don't want to go into the
half with You'd rather be about something that you can
conceivably not control as opposed to All right, let's see
what you do here. Y'all your superstars are complaining. Oh,
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and they're coming to an event that they don't want
to be yet. So when we get them for press interviews,
they're really gonna be salty. And who knows, maybe they
go to Rudy Gobert route and they all will let
fly with their grievances against the league. Good luck, Adam Silver,
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Will have them back by eight o'clock Fox Sports Radio,
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
and Uh. A couple of things you gotta hear in
the next few minutes. First is from Montrez Harrold of
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the Lakers. The Lakers lost tonight to the Kings. They
played without Lebron James, and Harrow was very upset after
getting a technical foul for something he yelled following a
bucket during the game. What are the yell? He yelled?
And one because he thought he got fouled on the
shot that when in runs back up the court, yells
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and one and the refs teat him up again. This
goes with the conversation we just had about Donovan Mitchell
about Rudy Gobert, about Devin Booker, about officials not being
able to allow players to vent when they should, and
just because you can hear it what goes on in
an arena doesn't mean it's technical foul worthy. Officials need
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to suck it up and grow a thicker skin and
allow guys to say things and absolutely have to do it.
I mean, you you can't get a T for yelling
end one. Montress Harrell said. If I get a T
for that, they gotta team me up every game for
the entire season. I mean, really, you gotta let a
guy be able to say end one. I mean, that's
just absolutely ridiculous. Like I said, I hope the NBA
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takes care of this and we get out of uh
the All Star break and there is uh better quality
of officiating where stars don't get thrown out and get
technical fouls for ridiculous reasons, because you know, that's the
way the NBA is supposed to be played. Uh So
that's just one thing you had to hear and one, oh,
that's a team. The next thing comes to us courtesy
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of Syracuse basketball coach Jim be Hid. Syracuse won a
big game tonight. We're back in on the bubble or
one of the first four teams out right now after
beating Clemson. You know, we beat North Carolina two nights ago.
It's been fun the last couple of nights. Hey, we're
playing well well. After the North Carolina game, Matthew Gudilleras,
who covers Syracuse for The Athletic, tweeted out that Syracus
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would be somewhere around seventeen and five and in the
tournament if Jesse Edwards and Kendari Richmond had logged more minutes.
These are two guys that have come on over the
course of the season. Uh, here's the thing. He's absolutely
right about Kadari Richmond. He needed to be playing way
earlier and playing like thirty minutes a game. Kadari Richmond's
going to be a superstar. He's that good. Uh. Jesse
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Awards a guy that's come on lately. You know, but
he says, you know, if they play these guys, Syracuses
record would be better. He's right after the game on Monday.
This is when just uh, this is when Matthew Gudieras
said this. Uh, he said him and Beheim were all
good on this after he had this observation of Beheim
and the playing time he doles out amongst his his players.
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Well tonight though, after the win over Clemson, Beeheim really
hasn't let it go because he takes a shot at
Gudierrez for the fact he's not a player and his height.
Take a listen, but if I played Jesse and we'd
probably be twenty two and two. Now, I just didn't
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see that, and I couldn't figure that out by myself
after years. I need a reporter to figure that out.
Who's never played basketball? Two? Go ahead, All right, let's
go ahead, Anthony. Somebody else please ask a question? Oh wow, okay,
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So look, Beeheim speaking his mind is nothing new. He
speaks his mind more than any coach in the country.
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Schowsky though usually it's
after a loss when he gets riding is upset about something.
But like Beheim, it's like like I think. My favorite
Bahan quote of all time is when he was serving
his suspension a few years ago for the UH when
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he had to forfeit wins and he watched a game
of Syracuse game with j. Billis and he said at
one point he wanted to be coaching that night so bad,
just so we could take one of his kids out
of the game. I want to be coaching so bad
so I could take him out of the game right now. Look,
he's always been that way. He got in trouble for
Jalen Johnson comments a week and a half ago. We
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all get to the point in our lives where we
get to the I d g a F part where
you know what, I really don't care anymore, and sometimes
it can make you a better person. I hit that
I d j F part for for Radio wise a
few years ago when I realized, okay, I was getting
bad advice and and everything has been better for me
personally since I hit that point. Now, not that I'm
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not responsible and and and do things and protect the
shield at Fox Sports Radio, but you know, you get
to that point, it can help you. It can also
really hurt you. And Beheim clearly is in that part
of his career. He's always been that part of his career.
But now you have a couple of big things coming
up here, and you know you want to say, oh,
a guy reporter who's never played basketball, that's nothing new,
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But then you say, because he's five too I mean,
what are you saying? Really? I don't like the guy
because you're short. You're five, I'm five nine. Do I
get to talk about Syricus? No, you don't do. I'm
five nine. D're done. Shack went through a table and
Beheim is, uh, well, just that think out. We want
to see what he's gonna say next. Oh boy, I'll
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So coming up in twenty minutes. Oh boy, if you
thought Donovan Mitchell was mad about the officiating tonight in
the Jazz loss to the seventies six ers, you know
Game of the night in the NBA. Uh that is
the junior varsity compared to how mad Rudy Gobert just
got about the officiating in the Jazz loss to the
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Philadelphia Sixers. Will have that for you coming up in
about twenty minutes. Oh boy, it is just awesome. And
the NBA has got a real headache on their hands
going into All Star weekend. But today it was a
big day, Mike Carmen. Today it was a very big
day because we found out that, hey, there's another quarterback
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who is now widely available that could change how teams
operate in the NFL off season. And I'm here to
tell you after today, the Jets are one percent trading
Sam Donald by the beginning of free agency, and they
are taking Zach Wilson number two overall in the draft.
All right, now there, Look, you may think I'll stair
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you're wrong on some things. No, No, there's very few
things in life I know better than the Jets. Really.
I mean, when when when stories involve my teams and
Mike's teams, you want to hear him from You want
to hear what we say anyway, but when it's our teams,
you want to kind of want to hear it from us. Right,
what's the Colin Coward line? Nobody knows? Um a team's
bullpen like like the like the local fan does. Right, Like,
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that's a great line, a way to compare. Nobody knows
your your team's bullpen in Major League Baseball like the
big fans do, and the Mets bullpen is just terrible.
But okay, well another day. So today, Jets GM Joe
Douglas in a press conference says he will answer the
phone for phone calls on Sam Donald. Now he's not
trolling the Texans who are not answering the phone for
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Deshaun Watson. Yet he has gone from Sam Donald is
our guy. We believe in Sam. That was the message
the entire offseason. Now Robert Sala has been hired, they've
had a chance to evaluate the roster, and today was
a big sea change switch saying I will take phone
calls for Sam Donald. All right, Now here's the reasons why.
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There's three big reasons why the Jets are making this
move and why am Donald's gonna get traded? Number one?
Is this Up until today, as I said, he was
the guy, right, there was no there was no doubt
in that. So if he was still the guy, you're
not making an announcement at a press conference that you're
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accepting phone calls on him. You are doing the Seattle
Seahawks thing. If well, you know, we were not taking
the calls we'll take three first round picks. But you're
you're doing the Texans thing if we're not picking up
the phone. The fact that you went from you know,
he was untouchable to hey, now we're taking phone calls
on him. You don't take phone calls on your quarterback
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if he's really your guy. All right. Even the Raiders
didn't go so far as to say, oh, we're we're
we're we're getting phone calls now. I don't know what
we're gonna do. And but really, you know, Sam Donald
is not the Jets guy, because it would just be
we're going forward. Sam's our quarterback and we're moving on,
all right. That's the first one. And the second one,
which is is just as big a deal, is that
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Joe Douglas is gonna have one chance to get a
quarterback and make that decision right, because if he doesn't,
he's gonna get fired. I mean that. That's what happened.
He had a really bad off season last year, signed
a bunch of guys in free agency too small contracts. Now,
the good news is he can get out of a
lot of them and cut a lot of players. But
he didn't have a great season in the off season,
and if he doesn't get the jets next quarterback, right,
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he's gonna get fired. So if that's the case and
everybody's about self preservation of the NFL, the number one
thing Joe Douglass wants is not to win a Super
Bowl with the Jets. Number one thing is not to
He wants to keep his job as GM as long
as he can. This is the top of the food
chain where you go if you want to be a
personal evaluator in the NFL. He wants to be a GM.
How do you do this by keeping your job as
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long as you can. So the easy thing to do
would be to say, let's try it with Sam for
this one year. It's a free year for Robert solitude
because if Sam Donald is not any good, well, okay,
we tried, and now we're gonna let Robert Sali start
over with a new quarterback. And he's just gotten a
free year. You got a free year of if we lose,
it doesn't really matter Joe Douglas. It would be a
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free year for him. Hey, you know, now we'll go
get a quarterback. Okay, Now it's gonna work. The fact
that he is open for business on Sam Donald tells
me he's going to make this change in the next
couple of weeks because he's gonna get one chance at
it and he is confident that this is the change
that's gonna keep him employed. You don't do that unless
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you are sold on the next guy you want in there,
a quarterback. Because if you're not sold, you're still sticking
with Sam Donald. You're not going out. You're not saying
what you're saying about Donald being on the block if
you're not confident you have that next guy ready to go,
whether it was you know what you do in evaluating
prospects and figuring out the draft. But you don't do
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that unless you know who you're going to get and
who's gonna succeed Sam Donald. Those are two of the
big reasons why Donald's getting trade. He can pack his
stuff right now, he's gonna be on a plane head
and somewhere by Mark seventeenth to be getting a free
agency I'm gonna say part of it is why lie
everybody knows that Sam Donald's a guy that could be
had if the rest of the star quarterbacks across the league,
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save probably Mahomes and Tom Brady, can be had, Why
why lie. Yeah, all right, you're on the carousel, you're
spinning around. You like what you see. You got some
good game tape in between, you know, mono and injuries
and well us being the Jets. Uh, there's some things
you can like on the tape. So I I just
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think part of it is just all right, let's just
throw our hat in and let's not be coy about it,
because I don't think that's fair to it s to
Sam Donald either if publicly you're saying he's our guy,
he's our guy. Look how quickly things reportedly are changing
in San Francisco. Even if John Lynch a week ago
and said, hey, Jimmy Garoppolos our guy, he's gonna be
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our guy. Of course he used some of the language
that we love. You know, we expect him to be
our quarterback in September. All right, So now you've opened
the door, maybe a little crack, but enough to where
if I put a little boot to it, Uh, it's
it's opening all the way. And now we've got a situation.
Uh you mentioned Joe Douglas getting you don't get off
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and get extra bytes at the coaching apple or or
the creating creating a new quarterback. Uh, legacy, especially with
teams that have been perennial, for lack of a better term,
loser that the patients hasn't been there. Look at how
well well oiled, Uh, some of these machines are. It's like,
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all right, a couple of losing years. All right, we
understand this happened. This happened. We liked the system. You're
running cool For all those things that have been cesspools
for all these years, all those organizations, how many times
did we see guys fired in eighteen months or by
year three? They're gone? Look at look at what Cleveland did.
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Look at your jets. They're trying to find stability. And
that doesn't happen overnight. And guys don't necessarily change the
way they do business. Even though Woody Johnson's coming back
from his international travels and work, he's now looking at
at the team again and and they think they've got
the right guys in place. But as we know, they'll
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shuffle up if they don't see progress. And right now
the East is there's to at least make a little
bit of noise. We've talked about the issues with the Patriots.
I still don't know what to a tongue of Voloa
will be I'm cautiously optimistic and that Flores is building
a winner there, but that's still unknown. And there's still
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some folks that want to take away from what Josh
Allen did this year, even though the team as a
whole performed well, they're saying, well, there's a chance, and
Woody Johnson maybe delusion enough to think we gotta win
the East or you get shuffled out there, Mr Douglas.
I mean, things happen in the NFL. It is a
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win now business. The only thing that cures it is
becoming enamored with your next quarterback and seeing progress or
getting to this getting to a Super Bowl run, and
that usually I'll buy you a three year extension. Otherwise
you're shuffling up and deal. Why do you think we
keep talking about the Bears and what they're gonna do
with the quarterback position and why it's such a big
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deal for Ryan Pace and Matt Naggy. It's absolutely huge
if they want to extend their their professional lives in
the greatest city in the world, the greatest city in
the greatest city in the greatest city in the world. Okay,
so layout I I knew I could lay that up
and you would just grab it. And I did, buddy,
I did, and you did so well. But listen, there's
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one other reason to it. So I gave you my
two reasons. Okay, Never think that things that go on
in the media are unrelated and that one story is
completely taken in absolutes and it has nothing to do
with another. If you remember a week ago, right there
was there were the headline, according to NFL sources, the
Jets are getting enamored with Zack Wilson. All right, Zack
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Wilson is Look, clearly, everybody's now number two pick. I
think he's kind of solidified himself as the second quarterback,
taken behind Trevor Lawrence. And so if last week the
story is the Jets are really starting to fall in
love with Zack Wilson, it's no coincidence that today Joe
Douglas says we're open for offers on Sam Donald. All right,
They're they're not gonna go get They're not gonna go
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get Deshaun Watson, right, They're not thinking that now if
it comes up, if it comes their way, great, because
the Jets are in a position where you know because
you talked about they're not gonna go get a quarterback
in free agency. The Jets and the Dolphins are the
two teams that are most that that have the best
chance of getting DeShawn Watson because they're not gonna go
fill a need in free agency. They're not gonna get
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a quarterback because they all both have quarterbacks that they
could stick with if they want. To write, the Dolphins
clearly believe into them more than the Jets believe in
Sam Donald. Two is more of an unknown quantity, but
he's gonna get next year to prove himself. The Jets
can stick with Sam Donald if they have to, but
they still have the second overall pick in the draft,
so if they don't like Sam, they'll get a quarterback.
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So while free agency goes and teams start filling their
needs and quarterbacks start moving around, if you get to
right before the draft and the Texans finally come to
their senses and go, okay, now we know we gotta
trade to Shawn Watson, well then the Jets will listen
because as much as they might like Zack Wilson, well,
if we can get to Shawn Watson, well, this guy
is twenty five years old and three times in the
Pro Bowl he's he's terrific. Yeah, well, we'll we'll look
at that. But the Jets don't have to, and they're
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not banking on on Deshaun Watson coming. But it's a
kind of a freebee for them, so they can they
can take adjust their business in free agency and and
figure out the players they want to go get that
are gonna fit in with the with the systems that
the Jets are gonna run, and Robert salis four three
defense that he's gonna run and then worry about the
quarterback thing after. So the Jets and the Dolphins have
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a long time to wait before they have to actually
pull the trigger on this. But the fact that you
had last week Jets getting enamored with Zack Wilson and
here's Sam Donald open or business. Okay, so you know
Donald's getting traded and Joe Douglas is not putting this
out there without knowing exactly what Sam Donald's market value is.
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He knows that he's a second round pick, maybe a
second and a third. If he can get some kind
of bidding war going, maybe just maybe you can squeeze
it into a late, late, late first round pick. But
you're talking most likely a second day and a third
day pick for for Sam Donald. So he's okay. I mean,
he knows that's what the market is. All you do
is get on the internet, and why I wonder what
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the market is for Sam Donald. I don't need to
make any fancy phone calls. I'm just look and see
what insiders just saying, Hey, Daniel Jeremiah says this, Jake
Blazer says this. Okay, that's what the market's gonna be
for Sam Donald. So he's comfortable with that, knowing that
that's exactly what the market's going to be and saying
it out loud, he is he is signaling to the league,
come and get him, all right. This is not the
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Eagles making a mistake because they wanted to maximize the
value they were getting for Carson Wentz because they thought,
we're gonna put Carson Wentz out there right after the
Matthew Stafford, We're gonna get two first round picks in
the third and all kinds of crazy stuff for him. Now,
they overestimated his value on the market, but they made
a mistake because they thought, hey, we're gonna we're gonna
get a great market for him. We can say we're
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ready to trade him. It turned out to bite him
when there was no market for him. The market for
Sam Donald. There are a couple of teams that are
really interested. The forty nine is interested. There's a couple
of the teams that may be there as well. And
if the price you're talking about is a second and
a third round pick for a guy that's only gonna
cost you five million dollars this year, Uh, there's no
damage to be done. In fact, you can only win
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by saying, hey, we're open, call me. I'm ready. I
mean I I We could wake up tomorrow and Sam
Donald could be traded and and starting his career someplace else.
But all of these clues that this tells you. It's
just one statement by by the Jets GM, but it
tells you how all of these things are gonna happen.
He'll be dealt by the beginning of free agency. Zack
Wilson's gonna be playing quarterback for the Jets next year,
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and we're gonna be having all kinds of great draft
day jokes about why he wasn't a captain in the
beginning of the season, why nobody went to his birthday
party and why people are calling him on the phone,
and then you know, p did he goes out. He
has to calm them down and say let's go back
into the draft. I know you haven't gotten selected yet.
All of these things are going to happen over the
next few months. Yeah, I think the biggest point in
all of this is that the clock is ticking al right.
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As soon as we get to St. Patrick's Day and
everybody's out and about finding their green beer. Uh, we're
we're gonna know the destinations of a number of these
players all next week. We're gonna be talking about new
uniforms and it'll be great photoshop jobs and everything else. Uh.
That that will fuel our discussions. That and filling out
our brackets will be everything for everybody. Uh as we
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get rolling, because you've got to settle on your quarterback,
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for a quote. Master of Puppets turns thirty five today. Yes,
I am old, old, old old. Uh. You know, I've
seen a lot of people talking about this on social
media today, the anniversary of Master of Puppets. And when
you get to anniversaries, once you get outside of a
few years, you know the big benchmark ones, the ten,
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the fifteen, five, And the one thing I remember the
most about Master of Puppets is I remember the first
time I heard it and coming off of Ride the Lightning,
which is one of the biggest albums in rock history.
Metallica really redefined rock and roll with Ride the Lightning
in three It was one of those albums that it
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had an immediate impact not only on on the next
few years in music, but new generations, new genres of music.
It made heavy metal incredibly popular, and they became the
first superstar group that cut through in heavy metal. The
way they did it really was it was a game
changing album, and it's how do you top that? Right?
How do you top Ride the Lightning? It was? It's
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incredibly good and it doesn't matter what your favorites are,
the entire album top to bottom. I still listen to
the Call of Coutulu. You know when when when the
the eight minute bass solo by Cliff Burton, Oh nice,
not so? How do you top it? And the first
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twenty seconds of Battery, which is the first song on
Master Puppets, I knew this is another great album. And
then Battery goes right into Master of Puppets and you
get into Welcome Home Sanitarium and and it's just, oh
my goodness, they did it. That's a really hard thing
to do in music. When you're coming off an album
that defies expectation and and launches a new epic era
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in music, how do you follow it up? And Metallica
followed it up and a few years ago was put
in the National Register as one of the most influential
albums of all time. I mean, it's it's that kind
of impact. Master of Puppets as And thankfully people are
still gonna be watching it and name of the song
because they like old school. When when Will Ferrell kidnaps
the guy and says no, I will have it back.
So you know, there's certain ways you live on forever. No,
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that's just it, especially once you allow your music to
be sold, uh and commercialized. I mean, think about what
it did for the Who and sales of their old
albums or singles when they started being the poster children
for the c s I franchi as. I mean, what's
amazing is you you go back and you look at
the numbers of albums that were sold. Right now, we're
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talking about downloads and and generally it's a single or
an EP, we're not talking about full albums with with
the same same gusto. But you had Ride the Lightning
sold five million, and normally you would expect a a
pushback and and maybe a decline. No no, no, And
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now we've sold six and then wait a minute, then
we get Bob rocking, you know, and we get to
the Black album in ninety one, and it just sells
singles and cassette singles and ZD singles and millions upon millions.
And while people said they sold out, yeah they did
because they found a whole other audience and they started
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using that joke that they've now used for thirty years. Yeah,
we sold out, and we sell out every time we play.
I remember that line on the behind them. I rememb him.
Actually he clapped his hands, Yeah, we sell out every
night exactly. That was That was Heatfield doing his best promoter.
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Shameless promotion, but yeah, just an amazing catalog. But this
album in particular, I mean, this is this is rich stuff.
I mean, welcome home Sanitarium for me. Playing a little
bit earlier, Uh, the daughters came down. You know, we're
having lunch and looking at me, go, what's this playing
in the background. I got good. It's like yeah, but
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just creepy enough, you do. You're having an okay Wednesday
dead Like no, I'm good, I'm good. Everything's good. But
you know, as as soon as you start actually listening
to the lyrics, you know, you check in on your people,
That's all I could say. Twitter At how about a
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to the night that was in the NBA. In the
game of the Night, it goes to overtime between the
Jazz and the Sixers. Now we've talked about the Joel
and beat angle of this look. The guy finishes the
first half going for forty points, hits the three that
ties the game at the end of regulation, the Sixers
winning overtime. He's the m v P of the first
half of the NBA, bar none. He is the most
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valuable player. He's been the most consistent player. He's been
the best player. Other guys like Lebron have been good
for stretches. James Harden has been good for stretches, same
thing with Steph Curry, and Bead has been the best.
But this is now fast becoming about officiating in the league.
Last night, Devin Booker gets tossed, and we spent time
last night trying to figure out just how the hell
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Booker gets tossed from a game. He complains about a
call and he gets a teat up for it, and
it looks like he gets teaed up the second time
for continuing the first time he's complaining, which is ridiculous.
Devin Booker should not have been thrown out of the
Sun's game against the Lakers last night. Well, fast forward
to tonight where Donovan Mitchell gets thrown out of the
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game in overtime. The Jazz go on to lose and
Mitchell was upset. But first here's how the ejection sounded.
Donovan Mitchell just went after the official and just got
ejected for the game. And Donovan just throw a water
cooler and busted that one and ends up hitting a
security guard and Donovan, because he's Donovan, goes and apologize
as a security guard for doing it. And Donovan is
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in the locker room. Haven't been ejected for the game tonight,
he got ejected. He got ejectad you, this is a
little bit different from last night in that the arguing
that Donovan Mitchell was going was was getting upset about.
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There was a call earlier that didn't go the Jazz way.
Then there was a call that didn't go his way.
So it's a couple of things that had happened that
got Donovan Mitchell hot. It wasn't just one play where
he said something and boom the double t and Devin
Booker is tossed. Mitchell is upset about a couple of
calls that didn't go the Jazz way. He gets thrown out. Listen,
when you throw Donna Mitchell out of the game, it's
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general hard to win a game like that if you're
the Jazz. How upset was Donovan Mitchell after the game, Well,
listen to him talk about the officiating and you can, actually,
I'll tell you the truth. He's in this video. He
is actually writing out the check to the NBA for
fifty dollars the fine he's going to get for criticizing
the officiating. While he is saying this, it's tough to
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to go out there and see how we fight and
compete and to have a game like that taking from us.
And I'm never ever wanted to to to blame my raps,
to blame it of Fish. I could say we could
have done more, but this, this is getting out of hand.
You know, there have been games like this that we've won.
There have been games like this that we've we've we've lost.
With this whole refereeing stuff, and the way we're nice.
We don't complain, we don't like, we don't get frustrated,
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you know, we fight through things. And the fact that
we just continually get get screwed in a way by this,
you know, like we we won this game in my
personal opinion, you know, but like I said, I'm gonna
give them credit. They won whatever. Cool, But like this
is it's it's a consistent thing, and you know, the
question is can we can we do it? Can we
sustain it? Are we through? Number? One? Like, yeah, the
hell we are? And it's getting it's getting ridiculous, k
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that this is this is what's happening, you know what
I mean. We have a whole second half of the
season to go and get ready for. But like I'm
sick of it, to be honest with god, we all are,
you know. And I think this is something that just
if it eats me, it eats at me. Man. And
it's I don't I don't y'all know what it is.
We all know what it is. But it's it's really
getting out of hand. It's really really really getting out
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of hand. And the league needs to do something about
this because I want to see the last two minute report.
Wait wait, wait so that wait, oh it's a hundred
thousand dollar fine, No, let me let you know, I'll
just make out another check how many times like as
you reference new things? Is it a new incident or
is it all one? So you might as well just
get it all out. That's the thing I gotta figure
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out when when it comes to the finding schedule, is
each one, each sentence, each bullet point considered a separate
infraction because if so, man each just lost a lot
of money. So there's that with Donovus. So you can
see how upset Donovan Mitchell is. Donovan Mitchell looks like
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a boy scout compared to Rudy Gobert, who decided to say,
oh yeah, you know, Donovan kind of warmed you up
a little bit. But on the main attraction, here's Rudy
Gobert about how upsetting and how upset he is about
the officiating and what happened tonight. I'm not able to
get some cause that everybody else gets. So we know
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that we the Uta Jazz and we you know, maybe
some people don't want to see us, you know, go
as far I believe that we can go. But Um,
he's disappointing. We know that when you're a small market.
I don't want to say that, but I really believe it.
You know, after praying the speak for eight years, it's
a little harder. And that's one of the things that
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we've got to overcome. Like I watched what guys are
getting on one end and what we were getting on
the other hand, and it can be just mistakes, you
know at some point, like those guys, two of those
offs have a lot of experience, you know. I know
these guys and you know, I mean, I know all
the names, and I have a lot of his pet
for them. But tonight they didn't have respect for us.
And that can happen because we're nice. We're nice guys.
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You know, my county never had a technical in his life,
and they don't respect him. So maybe he should get
more technicals. I don't know what he needs to do
my county to get some respect. First of all, I
love that he says we're nice guys. I mean, we're
These guys are a bunch of frauds. Were for nice guys.
I mean, I don't know why there's a problem. Excuse me,
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Mr referee, I disagree with the call you made there
because I believe the ball was not out of bounds
and I put my hands around it. Now, I'd like
to give you the opportunity to explain to me why
you made the call the way you did, and I
will sit here and listen to everything you had to say.
We're nice guys, man, we don't get teed up. We're
nice guys. But the big thing and he said it,
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and now it's out. We're the Utah Jazz. We don't
get call other teams in the NBA get not that
we're a small market, but look, that's what it is.
We know that's why we don't get the calls because
we're the Jazz. And now you have the Jazz saying
we don't get the calls in a game against the
seventies Sixers. What's a bigger star franchise in the NBA.
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The Jazz are the Sixers. The Sixers could be the
team in the finals out of the East. So hey,
you get a lot of people believing, yeah, I could
see the NBA pushing the seventy Sixers over the Utah Jazz.
And then the night before, well we got the Sons
and the Lakers. Well, who would you rather see go
further in the playoffs. The Sons are the Lakers. Obviously
it's the Lakers. Perception is reality, right, and that's something
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that people may not like, but it's absolutely true. If
the perception is you're doing a bad job at what
you do for a living, even though you're thinking, oh, hey,
if i'm doing this, i'm doing this, I'm doing this.
I'm doing a pretty good job. If everybody, your bosses,
and your managers think you're doing a bad job, then
you're doing a bad job. The perception is And now
Rudy go Bears said it, and now you're gonna see
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a lot of players say the same thing to back
it up, that the small teams and smaller teams don't
get the calls of the other teams. You don't normally
see people saying that that often that black and white,
like Rudy Gobert did. And with all of this evidence,
Adam Silver has to do something because the officiating has
been terrible. It's been terrible since the beginning of the season.
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Rick Bucker joined us earlier tonight and said the NBA
is a bad product, right, I don't know the NBA
has been as bad as it is, and partly is
because the officiating has been really poor, because the NBA
has changed how they officiate the games. He was, I
don't blame the refs as much as I blame the changes,
but the officiating has been abysmal. And now, if you
really want to see something, uh, that's the walking definition
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of what goes around comes around. Now, all the NBA
stars that are getting set to go to All Star
Weekend in Atlanta, they're all thinking of themselves the same thing.
You know what, you wanted me to play this All
Star game. I didn't want to play it, none of
a wanted to play it. But you're making us play
this game because of television contracts. Okay, I'm gonna go there.
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I'm gonna do every single interview you could possibly imagine.
We're all superstars going to these games, and you know what,
I'm gonna talk about the officiating and how bad it is.
Your reap what you sew and the NBA is doing it.
And it's been a half season of a bad product.
So yeah, something has to happen, something has to change.
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I get it. I have the players backs on this.
There's certain things I'll have the players backs on certain things.
I'll have I'll have owners backs on or teams backs on.
I got the players backs on this, because you know what,
I want a good product. I want a good product
out there. I want to see the stars stay on
the court from most of the game. I don't want
to see guys getting thrown out just because they disagree
with an official on a call. I don't want to see.
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I don't want to see these guys getting thrown out
of a game because the officials can't take it and
can't take for a guy complaining about a call because
he feels he was wrong, you gotta be able to
do that. You gotta let people com lane about things,
and a Major League Baseball umpires know how to do
it better than anybody. For all the flak we give
people like Angel Hernandez and Joe West umpires, No, hey,
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if you're upset about something, I'll let you complain and
I'll let you get your vent your frustrations. If you
do it the right way, it's all good. If you
want to complain while you're in the batter's box, if
you don't look at me, and you keep your head
focused towards the picture, and you want to call me
a name and say that pitch was outside. I'm gonna
be okay with that. But when you turn and make
it about me and you get in my face, then
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I'll throw you out. But Major League Baseball always had
we're gonna give you enough rain and then if we
make us, we're gonna toss you. NBA referees are like, hey,
we're we're not gonna take anything from the players. You're
not gonna sit here and yell at to me because
now everybody can hear it in the arena because there's
no fans, So I don't want everybody on the other
team in the media here and you call me a
sorry ass blankety blankety blank. So if you say that,
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you're gonna be gone, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. In the
NBA needs to do something so when we come back
from the break the second half we get better basketball,
because we're not getting great basketball right now. I just
dig it in that well. We we're talking about what
Donovan Mitchell said and trying to ascribe what the penalty
will be. I mean, what's the multiplier on Rudy Gobert,
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Because Mitchell walked up to the line, and he held
it out for any waived. He didn't say it explicitly.
Rudy Gobert just broke straight through and said, were utah,
behave us and we're nice guys. We're nice guys. We
we go and play hard, but they don't like us.
And then everybody always comes to Mike Conley's defense. I
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don't I don't know that he needed to be in
this situation, but it became about Mike Conley's reputation as well.
But uh, yeah, you don't want to go into the
half with You'd rather be about something that you can
conceivably not control as opposed to All right, let's see
what you do here. Y'all your superstars are complaining. Oh,
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and they're coming to an event that they don't want
to be yet. So when we get them for press interviews,
they're really gonna be salty. And who knows, maybe they
go to Rudy Gobert route and they all will let
fly with their grievances against the league. Good luck, Adam Silver,
It's gonna be one hell of a weekend for you.
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Will have them back by eight o'clock Fox Sports Radio,
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
and Uh. A couple of things you gotta hear in
the next few minutes. First is from Montrez Harrold of
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the Lakers. The Lakers lost tonight to the Kings. They
played without Lebron James, and Harrow was very upset after
getting a technical foul for something he yelled following a
bucket during the game. What are the yell? He yelled?
And one because he thought he got fouled on the
shot that when in runs back up the court, yells
(33:27):
and one and the refs teat him up again. This
goes with the conversation we just had about Donovan Mitchell
about Rudy Gobert, about Devin Booker, about officials not being
able to allow players to vent when they should, and
just because you can hear it what goes on in
an arena doesn't mean it's technical foul worthy. Officials need
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to suck it up and grow a thicker skin and
allow guys to say things and absolutely have to do it.
I mean, you you can't get a T for yelling
end one. Montress Harrell said. If I get a T
for that, they gotta team me up every game for
the entire season. I mean, really, you gotta let a
guy be able to say end one. I mean, that's
just absolutely ridiculous. Like I said, I hope the NBA
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takes care of this and we get out of uh
the All Star break and there is uh better quality
of officiating where stars don't get thrown out and get
technical fouls for ridiculous reasons, because you know, that's the
way the NBA is supposed to be played. Uh So
that's just one thing you had to hear and one, oh,
that's a team. The next thing comes to us courtesy
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of Syracuse basketball coach Jim be Hid. Syracuse won a
big game tonight. We're back in on the bubble or
one of the first four teams out right now after
beating Clemson. You know, we beat North Carolina two nights ago.
It's been fun the last couple of nights. Hey, we're
playing well well. After the North Carolina game, Matthew Gudilleras,
who covers Syracuse for The Athletic, tweeted out that Syracus
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would be somewhere around seventeen and five and in the
tournament if Jesse Edwards and Kendari Richmond had logged more minutes.
These are two guys that have come on over the
course of the season. Uh, here's the thing. He's absolutely
right about Kadari Richmond. He needed to be playing way
earlier and playing like thirty minutes a game. Kadari Richmond's
going to be a superstar. He's that good. Uh. Jesse
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Awards a guy that's come on lately. You know, but
he says, you know, if they play these guys, Syracuses
record would be better. He's right after the game on Monday.
This is when just uh, this is when Matthew Gudieras
said this. Uh, he said him and Beheim were all
good on this after he had this observation of Beheim
and the playing time he doles out amongst his his players.
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Well tonight though, after the win over Clemson, Beeheim really
hasn't let it go because he takes a shot at
Gudierrez for the fact he's not a player and his height.
Take a listen, but if I played Jesse and we'd
probably be twenty two and two. Now, I just didn't
(35:55):
see that, and I couldn't figure that out by myself
after years. I need a reporter to figure that out.
Who's never played basketball? Two? Go ahead, All right, let's
go ahead, Anthony. Somebody else please ask a question? Oh wow, okay,
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So look, Beeheim speaking his mind is nothing new. He
speaks his mind more than any coach in the country.
I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Schowsky though usually it's
after a loss when he gets riding is upset about something.
But like Beheim, it's like like I think. My favorite
Bahan quote of all time is when he was serving
his suspension a few years ago for the UH when
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he had to forfeit wins and he watched a game
of Syracuse game with j. Billis and he said at
one point he wanted to be coaching that night so bad,
just so we could take one of his kids out
of the game. I want to be coaching so bad
so I could take him out of the game right now. Look,
he's always been that way. He got in trouble for
Jalen Johnson comments a week and a half ago. We
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all get to the point in our lives where we
get to the I d g a F part where
you know what, I really don't care anymore, and sometimes
it can make you a better person. I hit that
I d j F part for for Radio wise a
few years ago when I realized, okay, I was getting
bad advice and and everything has been better for me
personally since I hit that point. Now, not that I'm
(37:20):
not responsible and and and do things and protect the
shield at Fox Sports Radio, but you know, you get
to that point, it can help you. It can also
really hurt you. And Beheim clearly is in that part
of his career. He's always been that part of his career.
But now you have a couple of big things coming
up here, and you know you want to say, oh,
a guy reporter who's never played basketball, that's nothing new,
(37:41):
But then you say, because he's five too I mean,
what are you saying? Really? I don't like the guy
because you're short. You're five, I'm five nine. Do I
get to talk about Syricus? No, you don't do. I'm
five nine. D're done. Shack went through a table and
Beheim is, uh, well, just that think out. We want
to see what he's gonna say next. Oh boy, I'll
(38:03):
tell you I cringe sometimes before press conferences. My buddy
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