September 21, 2023 • 36 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you why Colorado being 21-point underdogs to Oregon is disrespectful. Bears QB Justin Fields didn’t hold back at his press conference. And Jason explains why NO 0-2 NFL team will make the playoffs this season.
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I mean, it's the twenty fifth anniversary of the King
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missed it in the fall, in the spring it was
new to you. Well, there's a lot on the many
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Speaker 1 (02:28):
Watch the whole thing on Al Bundy. It was this
whole thing.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well if they did, if they did a whole thing
on Ed O'Neil and following him around, I would, Hey,
that's Pulkai's legend.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Legends. That's four touchdowns in the state championship game. Smith,
damn right, how about a fullback getting four touchdowns in
the game like Al Bundy? All right, So.
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times three yards and a cloud of dust.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Hopefully we get a big solution to this tomorrow and
keep our fingers crossed for it, because the side of
this is that, oh yeah, if we don't reach the
full agreement tomorrow, it's going to go through the end
of the year. So hopefully that we.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Get that, well then it becomes personal.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, well maybe they want to get it together so
they could say, hey, is there a way we can
get Thursday night foot This is the Giants and the
forty nine ers. Man, this is a pretty big game.
We get that no Amazon has the rights to it,
but there's gotta be something we can do. Just worry
about next week.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I just can't wait to see what product that they're
selling Carissa and the team tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So as we look forward, right, we look forward. Hopefully
this ends the game of the week in college football.
We got into this a little bit last night, but
it's time for it for a deeper dive right now.
Colorado and Oregon, right the attention of Colorado. Look, the
entire country watches their games. I can't All you need
to know is ESPN's biggest late night audience ever for
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a college football game. Ten million people watch Colorado Colorado State.
I mean come on, man, I mean really, people watch
because they Dion. They watch for Shador Sanders that they're
in on something new that cuts through the clutter. Whatever
you think of Dion, you can't deny the attention on
this and this Saturday is the first real test they're
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going to have this season, simply because we don't know
how good. TCU was right, we don't know how good
they are. They lost the first game to Colorado. They
won their last two, but It's not like you can say,
okay that there's a there's a litmus test here. They
beat so and such a team that's pretty good. We
still don't know how good TC is. But here's a
big legitimate test because Oregon is good. Look they won
last week by like eighty points. Bo Nicks is terrific. Again,
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a guy I never thought would have a great career
after he left Auburn. Now now you.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Got bow Nicks versus Shdor Sanders.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Let's get it on. It's on. It's insane. Suddenly, wait,
by like bo Nicks, you couldn't do anything at Auburn.
Now he goes to Oregon. Now look at this. I'm
throwing for four hundred yards a.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Week, seventy seven point completion rate, eight touchdowns, zero picks,
he has absorbed one sack.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I mean it's crazy, but look, I mean look at Bonnicks. Right,
He's like, Man, I'm so glad I got out of Auburn. Man,
I had to go. The spread on this game is
twenty two points.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
This is not the first line that seems like it's
too good to be true. This year, We've had like
three or four lines in college football in the NFL
already through the first couple of weeks. Three weeks in
college football, two weeks in the NFL, probably about three
or four or five lines where I go, Man, that
line is just too good to be true. This is
a trap game. There's something going on. And of course
it wasn't right. Like Colorado, you know, a three point
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favorite over Nebraska. It's like, really that that's what that
seems too good to be true and it wasn't because
Colorado wound up running away from Nebraska in most of
that game. Twenty two points. This is a lot of points.
You're given three touchdowns to Colorado. Not that Colorado is
a team that will win this game. They're on the road.
Oregon's really good. Their defense is gets good to be
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a really big test for them. Defensively, it's the best
defense they've faced. Oregon's lines are very good. But three touchdowns,
three touchdowns, and with this offense that you have seen
Colorado use, yes, no Travis Hunter, but still Shadur Sanders
moving the football right. He is a dual thread quarterback
that makes all the right plays. That's a lot of points.
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I don't know that I can't take Colorado getting twenty two.
I don't know there's any I don't know if there's
any way I can't take that number when you specifically
look at the fact that this lays into everything Deon
sanders wants to do. Right, what do you want to say?
It's personal? It's personal. What do you do this week?
Do you see this? They say we're gonna lose by
three touchdowns? He can take this and whip his team
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into a frenzy again and say, do you see this disrespect?
He continues to come our way. We've won three games
in a row. We did this, we did this, we
did this, we scored this many points, and they still
think we're a three touchdown underdog here. And then Deon
sanders Son is gonna put it all up on social
media and the team is gonna go nuts, and this
is everything that wants to find a way to motivate
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his team into a big game where he can have
his players just seeing blood and that's this game, and
that's this right now, twenty two point underdogs they are.
He can sell that to his team and say, look
at what they're doing us. They still don't believe. There's
no believers. He'll have his press conference tomorrow and a
reporter will ask a question, go, do you believe do
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you believe we should be underdogs by twenty two points?
Do you believe this? And will he will rile everybody
up on this game. And that's why it's hard for
me to say, yeah, Oregon teaches Colorado a lesson, like
fifty eight to seventeen. No, Colorado still could Oregon still
is probably gonna win this game, and they'll probably win
by a couple of touchdowns. But could this be a shootout?
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Of course again, Colorado's offense is good, and this is
everything Deon Sanders wants. I don't know that I can't
take the twenty two I'm gonna I'm gonna say, yeah,
Colorado's gonna lose by twenty two. I just can't see it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I can't say, Wow, we look over the last what
six years, we go to what thirty three in three
at home Oregon. So you mentioned it as you let
out the litany of reasons why Oregon wins this game,
and I think it gets down to the line play
and the loss of Travis Hunter. As big as it
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is offensively, it's a big component of their secondary that's
now gone as well. And you saw the struggle last week. Look,
I know they beat TCU. TCU is a twenty point
favorite to open the season, and they got the win
outright in one of the more thrilling games you're going
to see this one. I think you get some highlights
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from Shador Sanders. I love what I've seen the video
of the coaching job they're doing at Colorado this week. Right,
they're pumping in the sound, they're pumping in the Oregon
fight song. They're doing everything they can to make it
as hostile and to replicate conditions as you can. I
just think there's too much. Once you get out to
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twenty two though, that's where it's you've hit the danger zone.
You broke through the three touchdown, Because originally it was
seeing it at twenty twenty and a half, maybe breaking
through to twenty one. Now we've gone straight through to
twenty two. That's where we hit a danger zone in
terms of the spread. So yeah, I still don't think
it's gonna be competitive, but twenty two is a lot
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to give. So it's a lot. I'll take Oregon, you know,
Oregon to win, but you're gonna give me twenty two.
It's awful hard. But that becomes a motivating factor for
the Ducks as well, because as much as you've heard
about Shador Sanders, don't think that Caleb Williams next week
and Bo Nixon company this week that they haven't had
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this circled as the Hooplah and the pt Barnum and
everything comes to town.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
No, Look, look at Orgon's gonna be fired up for
this too. And then suddenly this becomes a much more
difficult game. And look, Oregon is probably a more talented team. Look,
Dion's made this pro offensive that probably come On made
this work offensively. Well, well, look the skill position players
on Oregon and Colorado. That's kind of close. Shadora Sanders
and Bo Nicks kind of class good as bo Nicks
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is the kind of close. But the thing is is
that it's almost like Colorado looks like if you want
to say, what kind of team are they, right, it's
just because we don't know how good they are. Is
I would say they are USC light. That's kind of
where they are where USC is more talented offensively, but
Colorado is still wildly talented. USC is the most offensively
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talented team in the country, and their defense stinks right,
But they're so good offensively they win games like this.
Colorado is almost usc light. Their offense is incredibly talented.
They score a bunch of points. But defensively, yeah, they
allow a lot. And look, they'll allow a lot to Oregon.
I don't think suddenly they're gonna find that way. And
this is where Dion's going to continue to recruit and say, hey,
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I need some men. I need some guys on both
sides of the ball. Now, I need some defensive linemen,
I need offensive lineman. I need this if we're gonna
make this work. He's been able to come in with
a lot of great skill position players and and and
make it work. But you're gonna see, you know that's
gonna be a big thing. Is a line of scrimmage
and and the point of action. Is Colorado good enough
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for their offensive system to score? Yeah, so then this
way they kind of look like a USC light on
the way. But you know, Colorado plays well on the road.
You know, it's not gonna be something that intimidates them.
They're not gonna come to this game thinking they can't win.
There's not gonna be any Let's ease into the game.
This is gonna be a game where Colorado comes in
believing they can win. They'll be breathing fire. It's still
early enough in the season going to be not exhausted
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by Dion making every week personal. And I mean at
twenty two points, Mike, I'm going I mean, you're talking
about in a game you're gonna give me Shador Sanders
and three touchdowns for three touchdowns, Dude.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
That should be more two points twenty two.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
It's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I do like the fact that you've now started chanting
to yourself. I believe that we will win. I believe
that we will win.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
What's the largest spread in college history?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh, that's good question.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Is it like forty maybe?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Oh, it's it's in the fifties. That'll be the spread
for next week USC Colorado.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Let me see largest spread college football history forty forty
five and a half points.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, that'll it'll be larger.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh no, that was that was the biggest upset. Sorry,
that was the biggest upset. Hang on, biggest spread in
football history.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
D one.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, look out for I'm looking for D one.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Not Syracuse because that's like D three.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Oh, here we go, Florida State was favored once by
seventy and a half points in twenty twelve over Savannah State,
who was brand new to FBS, and Florida State won
the game eighty four to nine.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, that's gonna be next week's box score.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Oh boy, oh boy. So Florida State seventy and a
half points, seventy and a.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Half Yeah, I mean this could go sideways fast. They're
not going to be relevant in two weeks.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Colorado.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Well, that's the thing. We talked about it last night.
They need to keep winning. They need if they're if
they want to stay relevant, stay that. They need to
keep winning because if they lose, because that's college football.
If you lose, suddenly, okay, the airs out of your balloon.
Who else is undefeated? We'll get back to Michigan and
other tips.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, well, I mean the big deal. Even if they
get drum this week, it still has relevance because you
still have a battle against USC and it's like, all right,
there's the blip on the radar, there's they'll refocus blah
blah blah blah blah, and that game is in Colorado.
So you get one big push from all the media
folks and they'll divvy up the map like risk again
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and we'll have that for usc although some of those
celebrities might be uh might be wearing the colors of
the Trojans for that one.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Is that a big nude kickoff game? Sure, it might
be a big nude kickoff game.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
There you go, big nude kickoff. A lot of nudes,
well tastefully done, tastes taste like the old ESPN, the
magazine and with Garnett and Marberry.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Hey, look this is art. Okay, just want to let
you know this is art right here, right, just look at.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Your tastefully done. But definitely.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Gimme Colorado in twenty two. Gimme Colorado and twenty two
in this game. That's so many points.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You could be right, only because there's gonna be a
lot of garbage time.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, seriously, Dion may play. He may shoot up and say,
all right, we can't stop. I gotta get out here
with his sunglasses on, I gotta go stat Yeah, and
no helmet, just the sunglasses in the hat. And that's
always gonna wear to go out there.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Carmen
lave Oh by IRAQ dot Com Studios. And today was
a day for the Bears that I can't even I
can't even describe.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You can't describe it.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It was absolutely insane, from the beginning of the day,
which was Justin Fields throwing his coaching staff under the bus,
to the potential raid of Hallas Hall that either did
or didn't happen. Resignation defensive Coordinator Alan Williams, followed by reports, said, oh,
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in that raid that did or did not happen. Penut Tillman,
former Bears dB led the raid which we found it
turned out did not happen. But Penu Tillman is a
member of the FBI.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I am an FBI agent.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Pena Tillman's surfing getting ready to go. So there's a
lot to unpack with that. There's so much tough and
back with that. But let's deal with the Justin Fields
part of it now, because this is this is of
all the other stuff going on, the Justin Field stuff
is just as mind right, maybe not as mind blowing
as Peanut Tillman leading a raid on Allis Hall. But
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Justin Fields has been the quarterback with a bulls eye
on him since the season started. This was the year
for Fields to step up and get a better record
than five and twenty two, for him to make adjustments
throwing the football to throw it better downfield, and for
the Bears to compete finally in year three. Okay, you
expect that. So far hasn't happened in the first two
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games for Fields, and the Bears look overmatched and they
look like they are ready to draft Caleb Williams and
they are tanking. Justin Fields did a press conference today
is normal you know, press conference on Wednesday, and was
asked about the reasons behind his poor play, and he
wasted no time in saying that, oh, this is not
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my fault, it's it's all on the coaches. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I felt like, you know, I wasn't necessarily playing my game.
I felt like I was kind of robotic and not
playing like myself. My goal this week is just to say, effidage,
just go out there and play football. How I know
how to play football. That includes thinking lesson and just
going out there and playing up for the instincts rather
than just so much so to say info in my head,
died in my head and literally just going out there
playing football, because that's when you know I play my
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best is I'm just out there playing free and I
being myself all.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Right there it is. Yeah, I don't I don't need
to worry about what the what the coaches have to say,
all right, he said. I there's too much of the
coaches preparing and I need to go out there and
just follow my own instincts. Right. That's that's the basic
message of of justin Fields that coaches do their job
preparing us during the week and all of this, but
(17:53):
I get too bogged down, and what he's saying is
I'm playing slow. I'm not. I'm not playing as fast
as I used to. So this is a whoa. Justin
Fields is really blaming the Bear's coaching staff straight out,
I mean, in plain English right there. And then Justin
Field's left his press conference and okay, took care of
those guys. Maybe I took care of eber Flues get
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him out by the deadline. And then realized, oh, well,
you know I could be out by the deadline. I
could be bench. Wait, maybe that's not a great idea.
So he called reporters into the Bear's locker room so
he could say this.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
I love you guys, but you know I get that
you guys' jobs hard to get clicked. So it's like
when you take my quote out of context, when we
can just say that if you paint the picture on
the inside out, like y'all are trying to spit us,
split us.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Up at the tea.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I'm not blaming anything on the coaches.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
I'm never gonna blame anything on the coaches, never gonna
blame anything on my teammates. I will take every whatever
happens in the game, I would take all the blame.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I don't care to drop pass. It should have been
a pass.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I'll put it on me.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
But never we hear anything come out of my mouth
to where I will even.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
On somebody else in this organization. My teammates. Never we
hear that.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
So I just want to cry that out and just
know that, like I need to play better. That's it
point if if y'all that's that's what I should have
said in the first place. But you know, I was
trying to give you all more details because you know,
I appreciate y'allfer doing what y'all do, and I try
to give you all the information y'all want for you
guys job. So I'm gonna do that and in the future,
(19:25):
Like but I ask you guys, just to put the
whole quote out. Don't cut it up into words and
pieces to make it seem like I'm saying something that
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Now, we played the whole forty five second rip of
what you had to say. Man, we didn't edit. No
one edited that at all.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Right, If it's see that sound going beeple beat, that's
his phone after that went, and it's like, can you
come see us in the offices real quick?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You know. I remember when when David Letterburn used to
do the late night Unfair Edit, where he would take
something a politician or somebody important said and he would
edit edit it together to make it look ridiculous and like.
One I remember specifically was when Schwartzenegger was governor of California.
He edited his speech to Schwartzenegger made so Schwartzenegger says,
(20:08):
I will not rest until California is spiraling down into oblivion. Right, yes,
and it's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, I mean not Saturday Night Live all of those, right.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, No, nobody, nobody is editing you, justin fields you wanted.
What you want to say is that you're fed quote.
I think when you're fed a lot of information at
a point in time and you're trying to think about
that info when you're playing, it doesn't let you play
like yourself. You're trying to process so much information where
it's like if I just simplified in my mind, I
(20:41):
would have done this. I saw a few plays on Sunday.
If I was playing like my old self, he would
have had a positive play. There would have been more
third down conversions. I have to play. How I know,
I've been playing my whole life. That's what I got
to get back to doing. You heard him say, I
feel like I'm robotic right now. Yeah, No, that's criticizing
the coaches. I'm sorry. Yeah, no one's taking what you
(21:01):
said out of context? What no one's saying? Oh no,
we everybody's played the entire thing. Your entire rip was
on the internet. There's a three minute row two and
a half minute rip of him answering that question for
forty five seconds and the follow up questions where he
says yes to or and no one is taking what
you're saying. So and I'm offended that he goes in
the locker room saying, hey, you guys are taking what
(21:23):
I'm saying out of context.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
No, I'm saying, hey, I know you guys all work
for clicks and whatever. It's like, you know you laid
that out there. Yeah, you gave a gift to everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No. I agree that sometimes certain things get taken out
of context and headlines don't match what is actually in
by the story. I get this is not one of
those times. I mean everything he said, I mean, no
one took anything out everything you said. You said the
way the coach and why are you underachieving? You're too robotic.
(21:53):
I'm not playing. I'm not playing like myself. You know,
it could be coaching. I think that's the first thing
he said. You know, it could be coaching. At the
end of the day, they're doing their job and they're
give me what to look at. But at the end
of the day, I can't be thinking about that when
the game comes. So he's saying it's too much coaching.
And when the game is here, I can't be thinking
about the coaching. So what does that mean? So you'll
(22:16):
just nod your head and when the coaches talk to
you during the week and then on Sunday, just do
your own thing. Like that's what he's saying. He's done that,
that's what he's saying he's going to do. And and
just because he says all the medias would you're trying
to tear us apart. Nobody wants to tear apart the
locker room of a football team. Man. Come on, dude, Yeah,
I'm not gonna rest until the Bears are spiraling downward
(22:36):
into oblivion. No, No, wan's to tear a locker room apart.
When you say something like that, though, dude, that's news.
And I'm sorry if you're frustrated. I'm sorry if you
feel like you're not playing well, I'm sorry, I feel
like you're not getting the right coaching. Now, what you
probably wanted to accomplish was, Hey, I want people to
know that maybe what we're doing off on offense is
not right, and I gotta find a way to subtly
(22:58):
talk about it without saying the play call stink or
whatever else he really wants to blame. Any went out
and he said this, and it didn't turn out to
be a great idea because all it is for Justin
Fields is now. It looks like now he looks like
a player who a does not have a lot of
confidence in supporters right now, whether it's in Chicago or
out of it, that he can be a great quarterback.
And B he looks like someone who is not going
(23:19):
to respond to coaching all right, So why would you?
Why would you continue to pour resources into justin fields
when he's saying it's too much coaching. I just gotta
go out and be MESA. Don't come to practice all
week to show up and wing it on Sunday. I mean,
I mean, really, no one's taking anything you're saying out
of context. This is the message you want to put
out there, which is not a good message. Dude. If
(23:40):
I was in my other job as a pr advisor
to the stars, I would say, don't blame the coaches. Okay,
if you keep losing, eber Flus will lose his job first,
don't worry. You'd see what the odds are in Vegas.
Him and Brandon Staley are having a Yoda count Dooku
saber fights. You could be the first guy getting fired.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Funniest movie he ever made.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Don't say anything, just keep going and try no, no, no.
But instead I got to go out because I'm first,
because people are talking bad about me and saying I'm
not good anymore, and I got to find a way
to fix it. And my way to fix it is
to go to the media and say it. And it
doesn't come out the way he wanted to, or it
came out exactly the way he wanted to, and then
he had buyer's remorse right after he said it. This
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is a horrible look for Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Overcoached, an awful look, inability to process, and whatever else.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
We were talking with Jason Cole a little bit earlier
in the show, and you get into Yeah, I guess
some of the concepts and changing your philosophy whatever. Well,
it's your two of this regime, so you got that.
But the larger part is you still have to get
rid of the football and if you're not seeing the
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open receivers, which are there plain as day, right, and
I think that would be the frustrating thing for the
guys in the locker room, and I think for the
coaching stuf, which is why he you know, ended up
coming back out and doing a little bit of the
mia culpa, was that it's been pretty clearly demonstrated and
something we've talked about the last two nights, Jason, of
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all the throws that are there that he's missing, as in,
he's not even attempting the throw, he's absorbing the sack
and he's got plenty of time to operate in the pocket.
They've done a pretty good job. Now they're down their
left tackle. He goes to IR today, you know, part
of the litany of things to happen for the Bears today.
You release your backup quarterback, okay, and then your left
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tackle goes to IR. But in watching the way this
team's performed the last two weeks, plenty of time, just
he's not taking advantage of it. Something is not clicking
there in the processing and getting the ball out right,
and so when when you do it. By way of
contrast to the other young quarterbacks in the league, second
(25:56):
year guys, third year guys, some of the rookies like,
what where's the disconnect? And I get it. They want
him to be in the pocket more. But if it's
not there for you. In the past, it's been all right,
one read to read, I'm gone. That what got you
to eleven hundred and forty three rushing yards and the
greatness at times to at least keep your team alive.
(26:18):
Last last year off to a bad record, obviously, but
from a personal performance standpoint, you'd say, all right, he's
at least trying to make the most of a play. Here,
he's not even doing that. He's staying in the pocket,
waiting and then eventually just absorbing a sack, not throwing
the ball away, not throwing the ball downfield to try
(26:39):
to make a completion. It's just been all negative plays
to this point. And you can only put so much
on the coach because it's on the tape that the
windows are there.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
If I thought that there was a way forward for
him with the coaching staff. I would say, Okay, this
can be fixed, but it can't. And it's clear that
what he has done, whether he wanted to or not,
and I'm sure he wanted to, he was, but he
just didn't want to get the blame for it was
he drew a line in the sand with this coaching staff.
And what he does, he knows that my future as
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a quarterback is on the line this year, right and
it may my future may not be in Chicago and
maybe someplace else where. Maybe it's here. I wanted to
be here. Look, I had an incredible record breaking year
last year running the football as a quarterback. He knows
that this year my football future is on the line.
And if and if I have to play like this
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like they want me to play for whatever it is,
or they want to keep me in the pocket too long.
I don't think anybody's saying, dude, stay in the pocket
and then don't run. I mean, no one's saying that.
But if he he's saying, Okay, if I'm gonna go out,
I'm gonna go out my way, and and and and
if I need to challenge the coaching the coaches, and
this becomes a Justin Fields or Matt Eberflus for the
(27:55):
rest of the season, You're gonna have to pick me
and and maybe it's a new coach coming in and
why up going. It doesn't matter if we win or not.
But I need to play well. And if I play well,
I can still be the future here or if they
want to move on, I can be a starter someplace else.
So I get what he's seeing with his career, and
he's ratching it up to the point where, Hey, it's
me or him, and I got news for you. By
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week eight, it will be him or Eberflus. Either Eberflus
is going to be fired and something because because right now,
like we talked about, the ability and the probability of
him getting fired is ratchet up even more. Or Justin
Fields will get benched. Fields will get bench because the
team will see we're zero to six, we're one and seven,
We're not going anywhere. We're done with Justin Fields, and
(28:37):
maybe we wind up winning a game or two with
him down the stretch. We'd rather go one in fifteen
and get a chance at either Caleb Williams or Drake
May or Shadura Sanders or whoever else we want, and
we need to finish as high as we can to
go get one of those guys. So yeah, this is
this is you know, week eate the trade deadline, right,
that's high noon for this man. High Noon for the
Jets and Patriots is Sunday High Noon for the Bears
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is coming up but a few weeks because one of
those guys is gonna win and one of those guys
is gonna lose. And if I had to put my
odds on which one it's gonna be, I'm gonna say
Eberflus loses and Justin Field stays the quarterback all year
so they can see what they have in him and
they can either trade him to move up in the draft,
or maybe they continue to lose games. So but if
I had to put a winner and loser on this,
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I would say Field is gonna end up winning and
Eberflus winds up losing.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, eber Flues is gonna end up losing because you know,
the defense has been abysmal for the most part as well,
and obviously you have the Williams situation that goes down
and he resigns today because that's the other part of
all of this, right, we're focusing on the quarterback, which
has at least got some parameters and some rules of
(29:45):
engagement that we can go by. The rest of it,
no idea, a lot of just rampant speculation trying to
figure out and connect the dots there other than he resigned,
but for fields, and we've talked about it the last
first two weeks of the season for him and for
Russell Wilson, two guys on the different ends of the
spectrum of a career, same guy scripted looks great, and
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then at the both for the coach coordinators and the
quarterbacks themselves, it's been absolutely abysmal thereafter. So there you go,
the book ends for your NFL season.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
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in twelve minutes, because it was as bizarre a day
as you can ever remember. For an NFL team when
it involves a former player potentially helping the FBI raid
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your practic facility, which apparently didn't happen. Yeah, you know,
it's a weird day. But as we get closer. Now
we got we got Week three starting in the NFL tomorrow.
Saquon Barkley's out for the Giants against the Niners. Love
more on that game coming up next hour.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
A lot of time is always spent on the oh
to two teams, right which oh to two teams can
still make the playoffs? Because when you see this at
all the time, seventeen percent once you go to oh
and two, that's the percentage of teams that make the playoffs.
It's so difficult to do it. How you hear it
all the time? Now this era of the NFL where
we've been adding wild cards and now we've added another
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week to the season. Eh, you think there's a little
bit more leeway you start to two. It's not quite
the the NFL death sentence that it was when you
look at all the teams that are oh and two
right now, I'll tell you this. Have you said to me, Jason,
what to two NFL teams can make the playoffs. I'll
none of these your Bears. If by the playoffs you
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mean you'll get to watch Caleb Williams in the playoff
and then draft him. No, that you're in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
How about the Cardinals? Can they steal the game or two?
They've played hard? They play hard even though the coach
is not much of an inspiring the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Do you play the Cardinals this year? Yeah, you know,
Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve, Yes, Cardinals Bears. Caleb Williams is
gonna be watching Williams with one of those hats. That's
like half Bears and and half Cardinals. Let's get a
live look at Caleb.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
My nil money like that. And Shader Sanders is too
great for me to enter the NFL at this time.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
But I'll tell you this, there is no on two
team making the playoffs. All right, you have the slew
of only two teams that are terrible, like the Bears,
like the Cardinals, the Texans who are starting over, they're
not making the playoffs. But the three teams you would say, hey,
wait a minute, no, they're not making it because they
all have too many issues, whether it's injury or on
field related. Right, the Bengals will be the first team
(32:54):
to say, what about the Yeah, no, the Bengals are good,
right the last couple of years, super Bowl far in
the playoffs. This year not so much. Two winnable games
to start the season and the first one you're not
even competitive in it.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Well division games right off.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
It's it's not gonna get better. This is not a
team that can run the football great. Joe Burrow is
banged up, which is the biggest issue of all. How
healthy is the guy? Really? Did he rush himself back?
Are we seeing a sixty percent Joe Burrow right now?
Not every year is gonna be a playoff year just
because you're really good every year. You know you're not
gonna be the Steelers every year. Hey, we're winning ten games,
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it's not gonna happen. This is not a playoff year
for the Bengals. I'm sorry. And they're still in the
era of good feeling and got you got a decade
of Joe Burrow. But this is one of those years
where it's Okay, maybe this window we've had the last
couple of years, we gotta move on. We gotta replace
Joe Mixon. We have to do whatever we can to
get better. We thought we were good in this area.
We're not as good because right now, there's no mojo
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I've seen from the Bengals telling me, Okay, they're gonna
pick this up and be a great team and start
beating people routine lead down. I just don't see it
from this team.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
That's a big question with Burrow is how hurt is
the calf?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Is it a week to week thing or are we
gonna eventually see this shut them down for a little
stretch of the way. Not to mention, the offenses is
broken all together. Right, You're not getting anything from your
run game, your offensive line suspect and Jamar Chase is
complaining he's not seeing enough balls downfield. So not necessarily
to the level that we're talking about Chicago, and but
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you know, add the Bengals to the list of teams
that already have people out and airing their laundry in
the streets, right. I mean, we've seen a lot of
it through two weeks. I don't know. I don't know
if we've ever had this much activity. Anybody want to
take a shot at a coach or another guy in
the locker room for their underperformance, Take a shot at
the fans while you're at it, who's in? Who's ready?
(34:49):
But yeah, his calf is such a big deal.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
I look at the Chargers and obviously Frostburg earmuffs as
we go. Can they get out of their own way
and actually win a couple of these games down the stretch?
We keep waiting for that script to finally be rewritten
in the final act. Maybe with the news that the
writers strike is going to come to a close, maybe
we get somebody on that to finish that off. See
(35:14):
I so defintely tied those two huge things together, but
you keep waiting for that breakthrough performance. If it doesn't
happen this week against Minnesota, I mean we're talking about
massive changes on both sides. You know, Minnesota loses all
of a sudden, you start going kirk kirk kirk over
there in jets Land, and then for the Chargers they
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lose and is stally out And what does it mean
going forward?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Right?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
What is this team? You know, Eckler and all these
other things that start to percolate. Those are the two
teams that are the most interesting to watch. But you
know a lot of the AFC and futures bets, and
certainly on our big sheet here at Fox Sports Radio Studios. Smith,
I see a lot of bangs penciled in as AFC
title holders.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah that that that's not gonna happen. It's just it's
just not that year. And when your quarterback is hurt,
you see how difficult it is. Look all those oh
and twos. Yeah, they're all done. You're all done for
this year. It's a final Twitter and out about a
Fresco sorry exit. How about uh we could see you
know we we We got Todd Ferman later on this week. Yeah.
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We talked about it a few minutes ago. According to
CNBC and CNBC dot Com, the writers Guild strike could
end tomorrow, which would put shows like Stranger Things back
in production and other show's been sitting around for the
last hundred days while the strike is going on. Hopefully
we get something, because I gotta be honest with you,
if the Jets continue to suck it like, if this
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doesn't work and all this suff I'm gonna need something else,
Mike Carmen, I just can't keep.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
There's plenty of content out there that you haven't seen yet.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I can't keep looking at reruns of Baretta every night.
I gotta be able to find something else I can watch.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, you at least have to watch the opening credit
so you can hear the theme song, your little sparrow, Right,
little Sammy Davis Junior getting after it for you.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Hey, the going gets narrow, man, I'm telling you, no,
I'm gonna need something.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I've been watching some old threes Company. I've added that.
I mean, it's the twenty fifth anniversary of the King
of Queens, and I've found a number of movies and
documentaries that are like the old NBC sitcoms. If you
missed it in the fall, in the spring it was
new to you. Well, there's a lot on the many
streaming services that I have subscriptions to, which is a
(02:02):
whole other problem in terms of my world. Because the
kids like one show here, one show there, and because
you know you want to keep up with your friends, Dad,
we need to keep that. Now, we really don't, but
we do, But I'm finding some great I just watched
a whole thing on al al Snow and his wrestling
outfit from the Midwest that that was on Netflix. So
(02:25):
that was good for me. That kept me entertained for
one night.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Watch the whole thing on Al Bundy. It was this
whole thing.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well if they did, if they did a whole thing
on Ed O'Neil and following him around, I would, Hey,
that's Pulkai's legend.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Legends. That's four touchdowns in the state championship game. Smith,
damn right, how about a fullback getting four touchdowns in
the game like Al Bundy? All right, So.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Speaking of simpler times, man, that was you're right, better
times three yards and a cloud of dust.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Hopefully we get a big solution to this tomorrow and
keep our fingers crossed for it, because the side of
this is that, oh yeah, if we don't reach the
full agreement tomorrow, it's going to go through the end
of the year. So hopefully that we.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Get that, well then it becomes personal.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, well maybe they want to get it together so
they could say, hey, is there a way we can
get Thursday night foot This is the Giants and the
forty nine ers. Man, this is a pretty big game.
We get that no Amazon has the rights to it,
but there's gotta be something we can do. Just worry
about next week.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I just can't wait to see what product that they're
selling Carissa and the team tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
So as we look forward, right, we look forward. Hopefully
this ends the game of the week in college football.
We got into this a little bit last night, but
it's time for it for a deeper dive right now.
Colorado and Oregon, right the attention of Colorado. Look, the
entire country watches their games. I can't All you need
to know is ESPN's biggest late night audience ever for
(03:52):
a college football game. Ten million people watch Colorado Colorado State.
I mean come on, man, I mean really, people watch
because they Dion. They watch for Shador Sanders that they're
in on something new that cuts through the clutter. Whatever
you think of Dion, you can't deny the attention on
this and this Saturday is the first real test they're
(04:13):
going to have this season, simply because we don't know
how good. TCU was right, we don't know how good
they are. They lost the first game to Colorado. They
won their last two, but It's not like you can say,
okay that there's a there's a litmus test here. They
beat so and such a team that's pretty good. We
still don't know how good TC is. But here's a
big legitimate test because Oregon is good. Look they won
last week by like eighty points. Bo Nicks is terrific. Again,
(04:37):
a guy I never thought would have a great career
after he left Auburn. Now now you.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Got bow Nicks versus Shdor Sanders.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Let's get it on. It's on. It's insane. Suddenly, wait,
by like bo Nicks, you couldn't do anything at Auburn.
Now he goes to Oregon. Now look at this. I'm
throwing for four hundred yards a.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Week, seventy seven point completion rate, eight touchdowns, zero picks,
he has absorbed one sack.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I mean it's crazy, but look, I mean look at Bonnicks. Right,
He's like, Man, I'm so glad I got out of Auburn. Man,
I had to go. The spread on this game is
twenty two points.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
This is not the first line that seems like it's
too good to be true. This year, We've had like
three or four lines in college football in the NFL
already through the first couple of weeks. Three weeks in
college football, two weeks in the NFL, probably about three
or four or five lines where I go, Man, that
line is just too good to be true. This is
a trap game. There's something going on. And of course
it wasn't right. Like Colorado, you know, a three point
(05:38):
favorite over Nebraska. It's like, really that that's what that
seems too good to be true and it wasn't because
Colorado wound up running away from Nebraska in most of
that game. Twenty two points. This is a lot of points.
You're given three touchdowns to Colorado. Not that Colorado is
a team that will win this game. They're on the road.
Oregon's really good. Their defense is gets good to be
(06:00):
a really big test for them. Defensively, it's the best
defense they've faced. Oregon's lines are very good. But three touchdowns,
three touchdowns, and with this offense that you have seen
Colorado use, yes, no Travis Hunter, but still Shadur Sanders
moving the football right. He is a dual thread quarterback
that makes all the right plays. That's a lot of points.
(06:21):
I don't know that I can't take Colorado getting twenty two.
I don't know there's any I don't know if there's
any way I can't take that number when you specifically
look at the fact that this lays into everything Deon
sanders wants to do. Right, what do you want to say?
It's personal? It's personal. What do you do this week?
Do you see this? They say we're gonna lose by
three touchdowns? He can take this and whip his team
(06:41):
into a frenzy again and say, do you see this disrespect?
He continues to come our way. We've won three games
in a row. We did this, we did this, we
did this, we scored this many points, and they still
think we're a three touchdown underdog here. And then Deon
sanders Son is gonna put it all up on social
media and the team is gonna go nuts, and this
is everything that wants to find a way to motivate
(07:02):
his team into a big game where he can have
his players just seeing blood and that's this game, and
that's this right now, twenty two point underdogs they are.
He can sell that to his team and say, look
at what they're doing us. They still don't believe. There's
no believers. He'll have his press conference tomorrow and a
reporter will ask a question, go, do you believe do
(07:23):
you believe we should be underdogs by twenty two points?
Do you believe this? And will he will rile everybody
up on this game. And that's why it's hard for
me to say, yeah, Oregon teaches Colorado a lesson, like
fifty eight to seventeen. No, Colorado still could Oregon still
is probably gonna win this game, and they'll probably win
by a couple of touchdowns. But could this be a shootout?
(07:43):
Of course again, Colorado's offense is good, and this is
everything Deon Sanders wants. I don't know that I can't
take the twenty two I'm gonna I'm gonna say, yeah,
Colorado's gonna lose by twenty two. I just can't see it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
I can't say, Wow, we look over the last what
six years, we go to what thirty three in three
at home Oregon. So you mentioned it as you let
out the litany of reasons why Oregon wins this game,
and I think it gets down to the line play
and the loss of Travis Hunter. As big as it
(08:15):
is offensively, it's a big component of their secondary that's
now gone as well. And you saw the struggle last week. Look,
I know they beat TCU. TCU is a twenty point
favorite to open the season, and they got the win
outright in one of the more thrilling games you're going
to see this one. I think you get some highlights
(08:36):
from Shador Sanders. I love what I've seen the video
of the coaching job they're doing at Colorado this week. Right,
they're pumping in the sound, they're pumping in the Oregon
fight song. They're doing everything they can to make it
as hostile and to replicate conditions as you can. I
just think there's too much. Once you get out to
(08:58):
twenty two though, that's where it's you've hit the danger zone.
You broke through the three touchdown, Because originally it was
seeing it at twenty twenty and a half, maybe breaking
through to twenty one. Now we've gone straight through to
twenty two. That's where we hit a danger zone in
terms of the spread. So yeah, I still don't think
it's gonna be competitive, but twenty two is a lot
(09:20):
to give. So it's a lot. I'll take Oregon, you know,
Oregon to win, but you're gonna give me twenty two.
It's awful hard. But that becomes a motivating factor for
the Ducks as well, because as much as you've heard
about Shador Sanders, don't think that Caleb Williams next week
and Bo Nixon company this week that they haven't had
(09:40):
this circled as the Hooplah and the pt Barnum and
everything comes to town.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
No, Look, look at Orgon's gonna be fired up for
this too. And then suddenly this becomes a much more
difficult game. And look, Oregon is probably a more talented team. Look,
Dion's made this pro offensive that probably come On made
this work offensively. Well, well, look the skill position players
on Oregon and Colorado. That's kind of close. Shadora Sanders
and Bo Nicks kind of class good as bo Nicks
(10:09):
is the kind of close. But the thing is is
that it's almost like Colorado looks like if you want
to say, what kind of team are they, right, it's
just because we don't know how good they are. Is
I would say they are USC light. That's kind of
where they are where USC is more talented offensively, but
Colorado is still wildly talented. USC is the most offensively
(10:31):
talented team in the country, and their defense stinks right,
But they're so good offensively they win games like this.
Colorado is almost usc light. Their offense is incredibly talented.
They score a bunch of points. But defensively, yeah, they
allow a lot. And look, they'll allow a lot to Oregon.
I don't think suddenly they're gonna find that way. And
this is where Dion's going to continue to recruit and say, hey,
(10:53):
I need some men. I need some guys on both
sides of the ball. Now, I need some defensive linemen,
I need offensive lineman. I need this if we're gonna
make this work. He's been able to come in with
a lot of great skill position players and and and
make it work. But you're gonna see, you know that's
gonna be a big thing. Is a line of scrimmage
and and the point of action. Is Colorado good enough
(11:13):
for their offensive system to score? Yeah, so then this
way they kind of look like a USC light on
the way. But you know, Colorado plays well on the road.
You know, it's not gonna be something that intimidates them.
They're not gonna come to this game thinking they can't win.
There's not gonna be any Let's ease into the game.
This is gonna be a game where Colorado comes in
believing they can win. They'll be breathing fire. It's still
early enough in the season going to be not exhausted
(11:34):
by Dion making every week personal. And I mean at
twenty two points, Mike, I'm going I mean, you're talking
about in a game you're gonna give me Shador Sanders
and three touchdowns for three touchdowns, Dude.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
That should be more two points twenty two.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
It's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I do like the fact that you've now started chanting
to yourself. I believe that we will win. I believe
that we will win.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
What's the largest spread in college history?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh, that's good question.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Is it like forty maybe?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Oh, it's it's in the fifties. That'll be the spread
for next week USC Colorado.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Let me see largest spread college football history forty forty
five and a half points.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, that'll it'll be larger.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Oh no, that was that was the biggest upset. Sorry,
that was the biggest upset. Hang on, biggest spread in
football history.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
D one.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, look out for I'm looking for D one.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Not Syracuse because that's like D three.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Oh, here we go, Florida State was favored once by
seventy and a half points in twenty twelve over Savannah State,
who was brand new to FBS, and Florida State won
the game eighty four to nine.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah, that's gonna be next week's box score.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Oh boy, oh boy. So Florida State seventy and a
half points, seventy and a.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Half Yeah, I mean this could go sideways fast. They're
not going to be relevant in two weeks.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Colorado.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Well, that's the thing. We talked about it last night.
They need to keep winning. They need if they're if
they want to stay relevant, stay that. They need to
keep winning because if they lose, because that's college football.
If you lose, suddenly, okay, the airs out of your balloon.
Who else is undefeated? We'll get back to Michigan and
other tips.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, well, I mean the big deal. Even if they
get drum this week, it still has relevance because you
still have a battle against USC and it's like, all right,
there's the blip on the radar, there's they'll refocus blah
blah blah blah blah, and that game is in Colorado.
So you get one big push from all the media
folks and they'll divvy up the map like risk again
(13:37):
and we'll have that for usc although some of those
celebrities might be uh might be wearing the colors of
the Trojans for that one.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Is that a big nude kickoff game? Sure, it might
be a big nude kickoff game.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
There you go, big nude kickoff. A lot of nudes,
well tastefully done, tastes taste like the old ESPN, the
magazine and with Garnett and Marberry.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Hey, look this is art. Okay, just want to let
you know this is art right here, right, just look at.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Your tastefully done. But definitely.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Gimme Colorado in twenty two. Gimme Colorado and twenty two
in this game. That's so many points.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
You could be right, only because there's gonna be a
lot of garbage time.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, seriously, Dion may play. He may shoot up and say,
all right, we can't stop. I gotta get out here
with his sunglasses on, I gotta go stat Yeah, and
no helmet, just the sunglasses in the hat. And that's
always gonna wear to go out there.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Protective shield. There we go.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
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Speaker 1 (15:06):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Carmen
lave Oh by IRAQ dot Com Studios. And today was
a day for the Bears that I can't even I
can't even describe.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
You can't describe it.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
It was absolutely insane, from the beginning of the day,
which was Justin Fields throwing his coaching staff under the bus,
to the potential raid of Hallas Hall that either did
or didn't happen. Resignation defensive Coordinator Alan Williams, followed by reports, said, oh,
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in that raid that did or did not happen. Penut Tillman,
former Bears dB led the raid which we found it
turned out did not happen. But Penu Tillman is a
member of the FBI.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I am an FBI agent.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Pena Tillman's surfing getting ready to go. So there's a
lot to unpack with that. There's so much tough and
back with that. But let's deal with the Justin Fields
part of it now, because this is this is of
all the other stuff going on, the Justin Field stuff
is just as mind right, maybe not as mind blowing
as Peanut Tillman leading a raid on Allis Hall. But
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Justin Fields has been the quarterback with a bulls eye
on him since the season started. This was the year
for Fields to step up and get a better record
than five and twenty two, for him to make adjustments
throwing the football to throw it better downfield, and for
the Bears to compete finally in year three. Okay, you
expect that. So far hasn't happened in the first two
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games for Fields, and the Bears look overmatched and they
look like they are ready to draft Caleb Williams and
they are tanking. Justin Fields did a press conference today
is normal you know, press conference on Wednesday, and was
asked about the reasons behind his poor play, and he
wasted no time in saying that, oh, this is not
(17:04):
my fault, it's it's all on the coaches. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I felt like, you know, I wasn't necessarily playing my game.
I felt like I was kind of robotic and not
playing like myself. My goal this week is just to say, effidage,
just go out there and play football. How I know
how to play football. That includes thinking lesson and just
going out there and playing up for the instincts rather
than just so much so to say info in my head,
died in my head and literally just going out there
playing football, because that's when you know I play my
(17:28):
best is I'm just out there playing free and I
being myself all.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Right there it is. Yeah, I don't I don't need
to worry about what the what the coaches have to say,
all right, he said. I there's too much of the
coaches preparing and I need to go out there and
just follow my own instincts. Right. That's that's the basic
message of of justin Fields that coaches do their job
preparing us during the week and all of this, but
(17:53):
I get too bogged down, and what he's saying is
I'm playing slow. I'm not. I'm not playing as fast
as I used to. So this is a whoa. Justin
Fields is really blaming the Bear's coaching staff straight out,
I mean, in plain English right there. And then Justin
Field's left his press conference and okay, took care of
those guys. Maybe I took care of eber Flues get
(18:14):
him out by the deadline. And then realized, oh, well,
you know I could be out by the deadline. I
could be bench. Wait, maybe that's not a great idea.
So he called reporters into the Bear's locker room so
he could say this.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
I love you guys, but you know I get that
you guys' jobs hard to get clicked. So it's like
when you take my quote out of context, when we
can just say that if you paint the picture on
the inside out, like y'all are trying to spit us,
split us.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Up at the tea.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I'm not blaming anything on the coaches.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
I'm never gonna blame anything on the coaches, never gonna
blame anything on my teammates. I will take every whatever
happens in the game, I would take all the blame.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I don't care to drop pass. It should have been
a pass.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I'll put it on me.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
But never we hear anything come out of my mouth
to where I will even.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
On somebody else in this organization. My teammates. Never we
hear that.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
So I just want to cry that out and just
know that, like I need to play better. That's it
point if if y'all that's that's what I should have
said in the first place. But you know, I was
trying to give you all more details because you know,
I appreciate y'allfer doing what y'all do, and I try
to give you all the information y'all want for you
guys job. So I'm gonna do that and in the future,
(19:25):
Like but I ask you guys, just to put the
whole quote out. Don't cut it up into words and
pieces to make it seem like I'm saying something that
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Now, we played the whole forty five second rip of
what you had to say. Man, we didn't edit. No
one edited that at all.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Right, If it's see that sound going beeple beat, that's
his phone after that went, and it's like, can you
come see us in the offices real quick?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You know. I remember when when David Letterburn used to
do the late night Unfair Edit, where he would take
something a politician or somebody important said and he would
edit edit it together to make it look ridiculous and like.
One I remember specifically was when Schwartzenegger was governor of California.
He edited his speech to Schwartzenegger made so Schwartzenegger says,
(20:08):
I will not rest until California is spiraling down into oblivion. Right, yes,
and it's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, I mean not Saturday Night Live all of those, right.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, No, nobody, nobody is editing you, justin fields you wanted.
What you want to say is that you're fed quote.
I think when you're fed a lot of information at
a point in time and you're trying to think about
that info when you're playing, it doesn't let you play
like yourself. You're trying to process so much information where
it's like if I just simplified in my mind, I
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would have done this. I saw a few plays on Sunday.
If I was playing like my old self, he would
have had a positive play. There would have been more
third down conversions. I have to play. How I know,
I've been playing my whole life. That's what I got
to get back to doing. You heard him say, I
feel like I'm robotic right now. Yeah, No, that's criticizing
the coaches. I'm sorry. Yeah, no one's taking what you
(21:01):
said out of context? What no one's saying? Oh no,
we everybody's played the entire thing. Your entire rip was
on the internet. There's a three minute row two and
a half minute rip of him answering that question for
forty five seconds and the follow up questions where he
says yes to or and no one is taking what
you're saying. So and I'm offended that he goes in
the locker room saying, hey, you guys are taking what
(21:23):
I'm saying out of context.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
No, I'm saying, hey, I know you guys all work
for clicks and whatever. It's like, you know you laid
that out there. Yeah, you gave a gift to everybody.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No. I agree that sometimes certain things get taken out
of context and headlines don't match what is actually in
by the story. I get this is not one of
those times. I mean everything he said, I mean, no
one took anything out everything you said. You said the
way the coach and why are you underachieving? You're too robotic.
(21:53):
I'm not playing. I'm not playing like myself. You know,
it could be coaching. I think that's the first thing
he said. You know, it could be coaching. At the
end of the day, they're doing their job and they're
give me what to look at. But at the end
of the day, I can't be thinking about that when
the game comes. So he's saying it's too much coaching.
And when the game is here, I can't be thinking
about the coaching. So what does that mean? So you'll
(22:16):
just nod your head and when the coaches talk to
you during the week and then on Sunday, just do
your own thing. Like that's what he's saying. He's done that,
that's what he's saying he's going to do. And and
just because he says all the medias would you're trying
to tear us apart. Nobody wants to tear apart the
locker room of a football team. Man. Come on, dude, Yeah,
I'm not gonna rest until the Bears are spiraling downward
(22:36):
into oblivion. No, No, wan's to tear a locker room apart.
When you say something like that, though, dude, that's news.
And I'm sorry if you're frustrated. I'm sorry if you
feel like you're not playing well, I'm sorry, I feel
like you're not getting the right coaching. Now, what you
probably wanted to accomplish was, Hey, I want people to
know that maybe what we're doing off on offense is
not right, and I gotta find a way to subtly
(22:58):
talk about it without saying the play call stink or
whatever else he really wants to blame. Any went out
and he said this, and it didn't turn out to
be a great idea because all it is for Justin
Fields is now. It looks like now he looks like
a player who a does not have a lot of
confidence in supporters right now, whether it's in Chicago or
out of it, that he can be a great quarterback.
And B he looks like someone who is not going
(23:19):
to respond to coaching all right, So why would you?
Why would you continue to pour resources into justin fields
when he's saying it's too much coaching. I just gotta
go out and be MESA. Don't come to practice all
week to show up and wing it on Sunday. I mean,
I mean, really, no one's taking anything you're saying out
of context. This is the message you want to put
out there, which is not a good message. Dude. If
(23:40):
I was in my other job as a pr advisor
to the stars, I would say, don't blame the coaches. Okay,
if you keep losing, eber Flus will lose his job first,
don't worry. You'd see what the odds are in Vegas.
Him and Brandon Staley are having a Yoda count Dooku
saber fights. You could be the first guy getting fired.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Funniest movie he ever made.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Don't say anything, just keep going and try no, no, no.
But instead I got to go out because I'm first,
because people are talking bad about me and saying I'm
not good anymore, and I got to find a way
to fix it. And my way to fix it is
to go to the media and say it. And it
doesn't come out the way he wanted to, or it
came out exactly the way he wanted to, and then
he had buyer's remorse right after he said it. This
(24:20):
is a horrible look for Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Overcoached, an awful look, inability to process, and whatever else.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
We were talking with Jason Cole a little bit earlier
in the show, and you get into Yeah, I guess
some of the concepts and changing your philosophy whatever. Well,
it's your two of this regime, so you got that.
But the larger part is you still have to get
rid of the football and if you're not seeing the
(24:49):
open receivers, which are there plain as day, right, and
I think that would be the frustrating thing for the
guys in the locker room, and I think for the
coaching stuf, which is why he you know, ended up
coming back out and doing a little bit of the
mia culpa, was that it's been pretty clearly demonstrated and
something we've talked about the last two nights, Jason, of
(25:12):
all the throws that are there that he's missing, as in,
he's not even attempting the throw, he's absorbing the sack
and he's got plenty of time to operate in the pocket.
They've done a pretty good job. Now they're down their
left tackle. He goes to IR today, you know, part
of the litany of things to happen for the Bears today.
You release your backup quarterback, okay, and then your left
(25:35):
tackle goes to IR. But in watching the way this
team's performed the last two weeks, plenty of time, just
he's not taking advantage of it. Something is not clicking
there in the processing and getting the ball out right,
and so when when you do it. By way of
contrast to the other young quarterbacks in the league, second
(25:56):
year guys, third year guys, some of the rookies like,
what where's the disconnect? And I get it. They want
him to be in the pocket more. But if it's
not there for you. In the past, it's been all right,
one read to read, I'm gone. That what got you
to eleven hundred and forty three rushing yards and the
greatness at times to at least keep your team alive.
(26:18):
Last last year off to a bad record, obviously, but
from a personal performance standpoint, you'd say, all right, he's
at least trying to make the most of a play. Here,
he's not even doing that. He's staying in the pocket,
waiting and then eventually just absorbing a sack, not throwing
the ball away, not throwing the ball downfield to try
(26:39):
to make a completion. It's just been all negative plays
to this point. And you can only put so much
on the coach because it's on the tape that the
windows are there.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
If I thought that there was a way forward for
him with the coaching staff. I would say, Okay, this
can be fixed, but it can't. And it's clear that
what he has done, whether he wanted to or not,
and I'm sure he wanted to, he was, but he
just didn't want to get the blame for it was
he drew a line in the sand with this coaching staff.
And what he does, he knows that my future as
(27:13):
a quarterback is on the line this year, right and
it may my future may not be in Chicago and
maybe someplace else where. Maybe it's here. I wanted to
be here. Look, I had an incredible record breaking year
last year running the football as a quarterback. He knows
that this year my football future is on the line.
And if and if I have to play like this
(27:34):
like they want me to play for whatever it is,
or they want to keep me in the pocket too long.
I don't think anybody's saying, dude, stay in the pocket
and then don't run. I mean, no one's saying that.
But if he he's saying, Okay, if I'm gonna go out,
I'm gonna go out my way, and and and and
if I need to challenge the coaching the coaches, and
this becomes a Justin Fields or Matt Eberflus for the
(27:55):
rest of the season, You're gonna have to pick me
and and maybe it's a new coach coming in and
why up going. It doesn't matter if we win or not.
But I need to play well. And if I play well,
I can still be the future here or if they
want to move on, I can be a starter someplace else.
So I get what he's seeing with his career, and
he's ratching it up to the point where, Hey, it's
me or him, and I got news for you. By
(28:16):
week eight, it will be him or Eberflus. Either Eberflus
is going to be fired and something because because right now,
like we talked about, the ability and the probability of
him getting fired is ratchet up even more. Or Justin
Fields will get benched. Fields will get bench because the
team will see we're zero to six, we're one and seven,
We're not going anywhere. We're done with Justin Fields, and
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maybe we wind up winning a game or two with
him down the stretch. We'd rather go one in fifteen
and get a chance at either Caleb Williams or Drake
May or Shadura Sanders or whoever else we want, and
we need to finish as high as we can to
go get one of those guys. So yeah, this is
this is you know, week eate the trade deadline, right,
that's high noon for this man. High Noon for the
Jets and Patriots is Sunday High Noon for the Bears
(28:59):
is coming up but a few weeks because one of
those guys is gonna win and one of those guys
is gonna lose. And if I had to put my
odds on which one it's gonna be, I'm gonna say
Eberflus loses and Justin Field stays the quarterback all year
so they can see what they have in him and
they can either trade him to move up in the draft,
or maybe they continue to lose games. So but if
I had to put a winner and loser on this,
(29:20):
I would say Field is gonna end up winning and
Eberflus winds up losing.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Yeah, eber Flues is gonna end up losing because you know,
the defense has been abysmal for the most part as well,
and obviously you have the Williams situation that goes down
and he resigns today because that's the other part of
all of this, right, we're focusing on the quarterback, which
has at least got some parameters and some rules of
(29:45):
engagement that we can go by. The rest of it,
no idea, a lot of just rampant speculation trying to
figure out and connect the dots there other than he resigned,
but for fields, and we've talked about it the last
first two weeks of the season for him and for
Russell Wilson, two guys on the different ends of the
spectrum of a career, same guy scripted looks great, and
(30:10):
then at the both for the coach coordinators and the
quarterbacks themselves, it's been absolutely abysmal thereafter. So there you go,
the book ends for your NFL season.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
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Speaker 1 (30:31):
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We'll have more on the Day in Bears coming up
in twelve minutes, because it was as bizarre a day
as you can ever remember. For an NFL team when
it involves a former player potentially helping the FBI raid
(30:55):
your practic facility, which apparently didn't happen. Yeah, you know,
it's a weird day. But as we get closer. Now
we got we got Week three starting in the NFL tomorrow.
Saquon Barkley's out for the Giants against the Niners. Love
more on that game coming up next hour.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
A lot of time is always spent on the oh
to two teams, right which oh to two teams can
still make the playoffs? Because when you see this at
all the time, seventeen percent once you go to oh
and two, that's the percentage of teams that make the playoffs.
It's so difficult to do it. How you hear it
all the time? Now this era of the NFL where
we've been adding wild cards and now we've added another
(31:31):
week to the season. Eh, you think there's a little
bit more leeway you start to two. It's not quite
the the NFL death sentence that it was when you
look at all the teams that are oh and two
right now, I'll tell you this. Have you said to me, Jason,
what to two NFL teams can make the playoffs. I'll
none of these your Bears. If by the playoffs you
(31:52):
mean you'll get to watch Caleb Williams in the playoff
and then draft him. No, that you're in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
How about the Cardinals? Can they steal the game or two?
They've played hard? They play hard even though the coach
is not much of an inspiring the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Do you play the Cardinals this year? Yeah, you know,
Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve, Yes, Cardinals Bears. Caleb Williams is
gonna be watching Williams with one of those hats. That's
like half Bears and and half Cardinals. Let's get a
live look at Caleb.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
My nil money like that. And Shader Sanders is too
great for me to enter the NFL at this time.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
But I'll tell you this, there is no on two
team making the playoffs. All right, you have the slew
of only two teams that are terrible, like the Bears,
like the Cardinals, the Texans who are starting over, they're
not making the playoffs. But the three teams you would say, hey,
wait a minute, no, they're not making it because they
all have too many issues, whether it's injury or on
field related. Right, the Bengals will be the first team
(32:54):
to say, what about the Yeah, no, the Bengals are good,
right the last couple of years, super Bowl far in
the playoffs. This year not so much. Two winnable games
to start the season and the first one you're not
even competitive in it.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Well division games right off.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
It's it's not gonna get better. This is not a
team that can run the football great. Joe Burrow is
banged up, which is the biggest issue of all. How
healthy is the guy? Really? Did he rush himself back?
Are we seeing a sixty percent Joe Burrow right now?
Not every year is gonna be a playoff year just
because you're really good every year. You know you're not
gonna be the Steelers every year. Hey, we're winning ten games,
(33:30):
it's not gonna happen. This is not a playoff year
for the Bengals. I'm sorry. And they're still in the
era of good feeling and got you got a decade
of Joe Burrow. But this is one of those years
where it's Okay, maybe this window we've had the last
couple of years, we gotta move on. We gotta replace
Joe Mixon. We have to do whatever we can to
get better. We thought we were good in this area.
We're not as good because right now, there's no mojo
(33:53):
I've seen from the Bengals telling me, Okay, they're gonna
pick this up and be a great team and start
beating people routine lead down. I just don't see it
from this team.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
That's a big question with Burrow is how hurt is
the calf?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Is it a week to week thing or are we
gonna eventually see this shut them down for a little
stretch of the way. Not to mention, the offenses is
broken all together. Right, You're not getting anything from your
run game, your offensive line suspect and Jamar Chase is
complaining he's not seeing enough balls downfield. So not necessarily
to the level that we're talking about Chicago, and but
(34:26):
you know, add the Bengals to the list of teams
that already have people out and airing their laundry in
the streets, right. I mean, we've seen a lot of
it through two weeks. I don't know. I don't know
if we've ever had this much activity. Anybody want to
take a shot at a coach or another guy in
the locker room for their underperformance, Take a shot at
the fans while you're at it, who's in? Who's ready?
(34:49):
But yeah, his calf is such a big deal.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
You know.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
I look at the Chargers and obviously Frostburg earmuffs as
we go. Can they get out of their own way
and actually win a couple of these games down the stretch?
We keep waiting for that script to finally be rewritten
in the final act. Maybe with the news that the
writers strike is going to come to a close, maybe
we get somebody on that to finish that off. See
(35:14):
I so defintely tied those two huge things together, but
you keep waiting for that breakthrough performance. If it doesn't
happen this week against Minnesota, I mean we're talking about
massive changes on both sides. You know, Minnesota loses all
of a sudden, you start going kirk kirk kirk over
there in jets Land, and then for the Chargers they
(35:37):
lose and is stally out And what does it mean
going forward?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Right?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
What is this team? You know, Eckler and all these
other things that start to percolate. Those are the two
teams that are the most interesting to watch. But you
know a lot of the AFC and futures bets, and
certainly on our big sheet here at Fox Sports Radio Studios. Smith,
I see a lot of bangs penciled in as AFC
title holders.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah that that that's not gonna happen. It's just it's
just not that year. And when your quarterback is hurt,
you see how difficult it is. Look all those oh
and twos. Yeah, they're all done. You're all done for
this year. It's a final Twitter and out about a
Fresco sorry exit. How about uh we could see you
know we we We got Todd Ferman later on this week. Yeah.
(36:25):
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Therapy Gecko
An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.