04/11/2021 - The Jason Martin Show - Fox Sports Radio

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It's the easiest place to get us. A lot to
get to some Masters, some Draft, plenty of NFL, maybe
a little bit of n b A, definitely plenty of
WrestleMania later on. Haven't done that in a long time,
But I'm gonna go in depth and actually spend some
real time talking about WrestleMania Day one I'm looking ahead
today too, and some other shenanigans as well. But we

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could start with the Masters. We'll get to the Masters.
I kind of want to start with something we haven't
spent a whole lot of time talking about on this program,
and that's the Deshaun Watson story. And that's truly just
because there's still so much unknown about it. But there
was one development on Friday that all of a sudden

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kind of made me want to say a little bit more,
or at least try to get into it a bit more,
and that is Deshaun Watson's attorney making a couple of moments.
One moving to have every single case either they're identified
or the cases go away. But more than anything, Rusty Harden,

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Deshaun Watson's high powered Houston attorney, saying in a news
conference that indeed, yeah, there were consensual encounters between some
of these women and Shawn Watson. The key word they're
being consensual. The headline reads no acts that weren't mutually desired. Okay,

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so now where he said, she said, which is exactly
where we were before, but the goal posts seemed to
have moved a little bit. We're gonna talk about some
of the moves that have been made in the National
Football League from a trading perspective over the past three weeks.
That also seemed to shed light on organizations that aren't
waiting any longer. But the goal post moving now from

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one thing that one thing that Rusty Harden continually says
is that, hey, we we never tried to indicate that
something went down here. It was just it was consensual. Quote.
We've never run from it. Unquote. See, I didn't know that.

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I hadn't read every word of this because I didn't
even know which sources to trust, and that includes the attorneys.
But I didn't realize that we were operating under the
assumption from his camp that he indeed was engaging in
sexual behavior with some of these massage therapists in the

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Texas area. I had no idea. I didn't realize that
was a thing. I had never heard that mentioned anywhere
in the few discussions that anyone was willing to have
about this topic. I didn't hear anybody talk about that either.
To me, the goalpost moved there. I don't know that
they moved in the favor of the defense either. I'm

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just not sure. But the point is, Harden says quote,
any allegation to Shaun forced a woman to commit a
sexual act is completely false. I'm not gonna go into
what it is, or the nature, or the no umbers
or with whom, but I think you can rightfully assume

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that meaning consensual. The question always that we have is never,
at any time, under any circumstances, did this young man
ever engage in anything that was not mutually desired by
the other party. And now what do you believe? Because
let me let me break this down for you. One

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of the issues that emerged and was put on Front Street,
and I'm not sure it was ever really adjudicated, but
maybe you kind of side eyed it a little bit.
During the Me Too era, the movement when Weinstein and
a lot of these guys, when a lot of things

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started happening in a short burse, was this concept of
believe all women. I think believe all women has fallen
by the wayside. And the reason why is because you
always hear that us every woman deserves to be heard. False,
that's just a lie. No, every woman does not deserve

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to be heard, just like every man doesn't deserve to
be heard. Every victim deserves to be heard. The difference
between woman and victim is in one case there's just
a classification of a female, and in the other case,
someone has been the victim of a crime. If someone

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has done something to you, yes you deserve to be heard.
But if you're lying, if you're making it up, if
you're embellishing it, if you're trying to cash in with it,
no you don't deserve to be heard. As a matter
of fact, you should be silenced. That's not to say

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anything about these women because we don't know which class,
which case they fall into. And this is what makes
it difficult. If you knew they were lying from the start,
of course you would say they don't deserve to be heard,
but we don't. So yeah, us we have to air
on the side more often than not that we have
to listen to them and then hopefully we can get
to the truth about each individual case. But this is

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a Hall of Fame quarterback into making. This is a
guy that should waltz and token. This is a guy
that has the potential to win multiple Super Bowls, to
be the face of a league, and he's dealing with us,

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and the NFL is dealing with questions, what do we
do here? Her Dan Patrick asked the question, should you
put him on the commissioner's example lists? At this point
in time, everything has snowballed In the Deshaun Watson case.
The numbers of women starts with one, then it's five,
then it's seven, then it's nine. Now there's twenty two
separate lawsuits. But to Judges ruled prior to Harden making

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the claim that yeah, some things happen, but it was
all con sensual. To Judges said, most of these plantiffs
have to identify themselves twenty two. If they don't identify themselves,
those lawsuits go away. What are you supposed to do here?
And I mean you listening to me, me speaking, because

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we we just don't know anything. And hopefully that's come
across here during this segment. I'm certainly not speaking to
the guilt of Deshaun Watson or questioning the veracity of
the stories against him. I'm saying the new piece of
news that that caught my attention was, Okay, they've admitted

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some sexual acts went down here. And unless I was mistaken,
Watson had a long time girlfriend or maybe it was
even a fiancee, So you know they're in some people
immediately We're gonna start to see de Shaun Watson in

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a different light. One thing in Deshawn's favor I think
is that that thing I just told you, that's something
someone told me I would. I could look it up.
Probably I'm not gonna do it in real time. Maybe
I'll do it during the break to find out if
that's indeed even true. We don't know anything about Deshaun
Watson's private life. This is the first time we've known
anything really about anything Deshaun Watson does off the football

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field other than donate money and do cool stuff and
hang out with former Clempson teammates at times, but seemed
to generally be an upstanding guy. And then all of
a sudden, boy, if any of this were true, that
wouldn't be the case. And if you've listened to the

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last nine minutes, you understand why so many people have
been cautious to jump too deeply into this story. I've
tried to hit it from both sides, because usually there's
a right and wrong here. There is, but we're not

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equipped right now with the information that we need to
make that determination. This observation and this Harden coming out
and saying what he said It just made me stop

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and think, oh wait, wait a second. Now we're pushing
a little bit further. We're saying, Okay, something did happen,
but it's okay because the NFL has said the allegations
against Watson are deeply disturbing. We take these issues very seriously.
NFL launched an investigation under its personal conduct policy. I

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think that happened last month, and they're monitoring developments. They're
not the only ones monitor any developments. And here I'm
not speaking about the media, and I'm not speaking about
you guys or the fans. I am talking about other

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teams in the National Football League that had designs on
making Deshaun Watson a part of their roster, that had
designs on doing whatever it took to make Deshaun Watson
their franchise quarterback. They monitored, and then they finally couldn't

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wait any longer. If you look at some of the
moves that have been made, and this is what I
want to talk about in detail when we come back
out of the spreak, if you look at some of
the moves that have been made in the past month,
it tells you all you need to know about what
these franchises think Deshaun Watson's immediate few ture to be

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In short, they don't think he's gonna play this year.
I don't either, do you. Even if he's innocent of everything,
how long is it gonna take to actually wade through
this morass and get him back on a football field?

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And past that, there's the issues with Watson and the
organization that he's contractually obligated to play for, which he
said he wasn't gonna do. Has his leverage changed at
all because of his name being drugged through the mud.

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Does it make it more likely or less likely places
for that team? Does it make it more likely or
less likely that they let him play for them? It's
gone from where is he going to play football? Is
he willing to sit out? Because he has maybe some
of the best leverage we've seen in a while in

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terms of likability and in terms of people actually being
behind Watson, especially those in the know who were educated
on how the Texans, in his opinion, betrayed him. And
when you hear what they did, do you think, yeah,
maybe so, Yeah, it does seem like they betrayed him
to some degree. But now it's not about football and

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that's more. What we're supposed to do here is discussed
the football side of it. Nobody's even thinking about that anymore.
We've moved past that, and on Friday, Rusty Harten moved
our goal posts. Because I don't think I'm alone when
I say I didn't realize that the consensual sex thing

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was just yeah, okay, that was there, insentual acts, that
that was the thing that's been there from the beginning.
I had not heard that anywhere. I'm not shocked to
find that out, but it was not in any article
i'd read until Harden made that statement. But now that

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we're operating under the assumption that some things went on
with these massage therapists that shouldn't have been going on.
Quite frankly, and I don't mean from a consent standpoint.
If you want to believe that I wanna, I want
to talk about what you're doing at a massage parlor,
that becomes more the concern all of this is a

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mess if some of these things are proven out to
be true. In terms of guilt, we're looking at the
second Michael Vick. We saw the Michael Vick situa wration happened,
and we saw him handle it as well as an

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athlete possibly could when he went to jail, like real
adult jail, federal jail, and then has gotten out and
done everything right ever since. And there have been other incidents.
Of course, there's been Ray Rice. There's been a lot
of these things that have happened, but to another quarterback,

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and this one's worse than that one. Like I, I
can't stand somebody that harms animals. I also understand the
cultural side of the dog fighting thing, as much as
it repulses me, and as much as I hope that
has changed. This right here, this isn't a cultural thing.

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If there were sexual acts that were being coerced that
weren't consensual, how do you ever let that person play
for your city if you were hoping he was he
was gonna end up where you are, and how can
he play with Houston? And how can the league let

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that slide? There's a lot here, man, an awful lot here.
Like I said, what I want to jump into when
we get back is what some of the teams that
we're looking at Deshaun Watson really hard, wondering what it
would take to get him to their organization long term.
Watching what they've done tells you that the future doesn't

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look particularly bright for Deshaun Watson. Whether the legal issues
get resolved or not, his football future looks to be teetering.
So we'll jump into that when we come back. You
can tweet me your thoughts at j Mark Radio. Do
you think Deshaun Watson plays a down of football this
coming season? And I don't. You don't have to tell

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me where. But if you're up and you're listening to
me right now, what do you think? J Mark Radio?
Hit me there on when we come back. These teams
and the moves that they've made indicate they don't think
he's gonna play this year. We'll jump into that when
we come back. Jason Mark show Off and Running here
on Fox Sports Radio. He was born in Mount Vernon,

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New York, December the eighteenth, nineteen seventy passed away on
Friday at age fifty. D m X better known Earl Simmons.
That's what his mom called him. DMX is what the
world called him. Yeah, I'm just letting it ride for

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just a little bit here, R I P two d MX.
I think at least for me, And I tweeted this
out yesterday. I caught him around the third album, and
then I went back and listened to the others, and
then there was x In is the One, and then

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I went back and heard It's Dark and Ellis Hide
and Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. I
wasn't listening to some of the later stuff, but there
was a lot of talent there. And this guy was
he dealt with drugs forever, and you can hear him

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talk at different times and it kind of reveals to
you just what that can actually look like. Addicted to
crack at fourteen after somebody tricked him into smoking marijuana
that was lated with it. He had dealt with a
couple of overdoses, but the latest one a heart attack

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potentially from an overdose, cerebral hypoxia, and then the vegetative
state that kept We kept seeing DMX trending on Twitter
for days this week, and you kind of just you
were waiting for the final story unfortunately on that. But
he had relapses with cocaine and oxy code own had

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done prison time. It was also bipolar. Just a tough life.
A lot of success as well, but tough life. I
think those kind of came hand in hand for him.
I mean, he you talked about the time of when
his music came up. It was when rap turned into

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this you know, it's about wealth, it's about you know, bling,
it's about you know, all this all this big stuff.
It was the jiggy you know, the big Giggy era
and everything, and he was out here and I think
what drew me to him was just, yeah, you've got
all these guys talking about riches and wealth and here
he is just spitting pain at you, just spitting anger

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at you. And that was for me as a punk like,
I'm like, yeah, that's metal. I like that. Yeah, But
you always it always comes from a personal place in
and someone who deals with bipolar himself like, that's that's
uh yeah, yeah, it's just it. You never you never
get that kind of passion and that kind of pain

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from an unscathed place you have to live in. And
he did. He was flawed, no question about that. Fifteen
fifteen children, nine different women. He was a pretty outspoken
Christian and those two things don't necessarily work together. But

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for those of you who are fellow believers, you know
that the Bible is full of stories of a lot
of broken people. No one's anywhere close to anywhere in
the vicinity of righteous or good or perfect. Even those
lauded the most as heroes had a lot of darkness.

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D MX was a guy that just was conflicted in
his mind and the bipolar nature of his reality certainly
didn't help anything. And you just look at it, it's
just it's amazing what he was able to accomplish between
all of that. But that life. I mean, this is

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the guy that if you go back and really look
at it, I mean, even from five years old, he
was struggling. Reading it straight from Wikipedia, this is unfortunate.
But Simmons went through a disjointed childhood that included being
beaten by his mother and her various boyfriends so badly
he lost teeth and sustained numerous bruises and cuts on

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his face, slept on the floor due to poverty. When
he was five, he went to school through chairs of teachers,
stabbed a kid in the face with a pencil when
he was seven, and aunt got him drunk on vodka.
Then he started stealing things from a market. I mean,
a lot of what you heard from d MX in

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his music, there's a lot of there's a lot of
kind of fake tough guy in hip hop and wrap
not with this guy. And I'm not saying it should
be lauded for this. I am saying that, as Chris
just mentioned, when you heard d m X, you weren't
hearing an act. No, you're you're not gonna get ice

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Cube holding an a K and then later in his
life going, you know, trout fishing. It's this, this is
who he was. It was always but like who he
was also somehow like turned into club anthems. There you know,
music that plays well on the radio, clean as it does,
you know, just listening with the explicit lyrics he he
just he was, you know, to have that pain and

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also be like respected in the mainstream is I don't
know anyone else who can really do that because when
usually if you especially in America, if you come out
with pain publicly, people recoit. They don't want to like
because I think we all deal with their own pain,
and people don't want to be reminded of that, or
they don't want to have to confront that because we're

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so used to polite society. And I just I respect
a guy who can go through that pain and yet somehow,
you know, talk about it publicly and yeah again like
this isn't a life to be emulated. But I don't
think I think he would agree. He doesn't want people
to emulate his life. Yeah, I never you never got
the filming. He was glorifying the pain. It felt to

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me he just wanted you to let him. He was
letting you in to his world. It was a really
personal experiment for him through his music, and I do
think there is something to be appreciated about it, whether
you see individual words or phrases or whatever like that
is art. DMX wants you to know who Earle was,

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and I think in some ways he also wanted you
to warn those you love from becoming him. And he
did some good amongst all of this, and it's sad
that he goes away at fifty years old. But as
Chris just mentioned, stuff like party up and the rough
Riders anthem there that we just came back with and

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so much lose my mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just
i X gonna give it to you, like there's a
lot there. There was an awful lot you mentioned on
like what you take out of it again, like that
what you have to appreciate most is again it's just
is the honesty of it. Yeah, yeah, And so d

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MX passes away at the age of fifty, and of
course by the time he actually did pass away on
April the nine, I'm sure he was ready if he
was in a vegetative state and it had gotten to
that point. You hate to lose talented people, and you

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hate to lose people that I think those tortured did
manage to do a little bit of good in very
unique ways. And I hope that his pain has finally ended,
and I hope he's in a good place. I really do.

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So that's not necessarily where I thought we were going
when I heard the music. It's just like, yeah, let's
go there. We talk a lot of pop culture on
this show. Anyway, what I said we were gonna talk
about what I tease before the break, and this is
the Jason Martin Show here on Fox Sports Radio. I
am Jason Martin. You can find me on Twitter at
j March Radio. Is. If you look at the teams
that have been making moves in the quarterback ranks in

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terms of draft positioning or acquiring other guys, you can
see that the league is moving on from Deshaun Watson
in terms of they don't think he's acquirable right now.
He is an untouchable asset right now. The latest of
those is Carolina grabbing Sam Donald from the Jets and

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then telling Bridgewater, yeah, you can go seek a trade.
I believe I'm not out on Sam Donald. I I
continue to believe. I still think he can play. I
at least want to see him given the opportunity away
from Adam Gaze and with a new organization, and that's
what he's gonna get. Maybe he could have gotten it

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with the Jets under Salah, but they're going with a
new guy. And you understand that if if they if
they crave Zach Wilson the way that the reports say
they do, then good for them. But Donald going to Carolina,

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and Carolina was one of the teams that really wanted
to Shawn. You already saw San Francisco in Miami, which
were two potential destinations for Watson make arrangements for their future.
Miami seeming to endic eight. Yeah, we're gonna roll with
Toua and the forty Niners apparently are gonna go draft

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Mac Jones. Something I might have more to say about
a little later on in the program. Denver was another
potential landing spot. And that's actually my team, the team
of my youth always gonna be my team. And I'm
wondering it is never gonna take a swing for Bridgewater.

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I don't know why the Bears haven't already done it.
Are they gonna go do that? Are they gonna go
try and make a deal with the Falcons because they
covet trade lance, or maybe they cove it just in fields,
whatever it is, we know Drew locks not the answer
in Denver long term. But the teams that I just mentioned,

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those were kind of the landing spots. I don't think
he was going to Chicago. He had a no trade deal,
so he was gonna be able to make whatever choice
he wanted to make. And Houston, of course was saying
they weren't going to move him. But that seemed more
either optimistic, naive, or manipulative. Because we're in the season

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of lies, as I've gone to calling it, the draft
season is the season of lies, and it should be
really because why would you tell the truth right now?
What benefit do you have if you're a general manager
or somebody inside an organization. It's telling the truth, and
that includes to the mock draft people and the Adam
Schefters of the world. Doesn't mean I don't think they're

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gonna take mac Jones. Just means there's a whole lot
of lining going on, and it's going on everywhere. I'm
still trying to figure out whether or not Jimmy Garoppolo
is going to be in San Francisco on Day one
of this season, but the league has decided I don't
think Deshan Watson is gonna play this year, so oh,

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let's go get Sam Donald. And that's kind of where
I'm at, not that I would have necessarily done what
any of these teams individually did, although again, like I've said,
I'm on record, I like Sam Donald. I want to
see him somewhere else, and so I'm happy that we're
gonna get that opportunity. I understand Miami's decision not to

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completely cut bait on two of us fast. I'm not
as sold on the Niners. But if they figure out
their quarterback and they think that mac Jones is a guy,
no one's gonna kill them. If they're right, they're gonna say,
good move by them. You can't possibly get up high
enough in the draft for it to be at a reach.

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If the guy turns out to be everything you wanted
to be, and if that's the kind of quarterback Kyle
Shanahan wants and needs in his system, nobody's gonna be
complaining about that in three years that they're winning a
lot of games in there in the playoffs. But if
DeShawn Watson is gonna play this year, where is Deshaun
Watson gonna play this year? Scott tweets me and says,

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I think you'll see a partial season from Watson to
try to say face with the Texans, and then they'll
trade him the next season. I don't see how it's
a mess of legality. There are some identified parties here,
some have spoken to the media, We've heard from them,

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we've laid eyes on them. And now the attorneys come
out and said, well, I mean constitual ax did happen?
That changes the goal posts, because that's not criminal if
that's true. But is it true? And I've heard legal

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experts since the call came out that these women all
had to identify themselves in thirteen of these cases or
they would all be dropped. That okay, the chances of
settling are now kind of out the window. Too. When
they were behind closed doors, it would have been easier
to settle. Now that they're out and about it's not.

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And if it goes to a verdict, does that favor
Deshaun Watson or not? A lot of questions to be
asked too. Let's go to Finley though. Let's go to
Brian Finley out in Chairman Oaks real quick and find
out what's trending. Be Yeah, Jason, and I gotta admit
that when you guys were talking about d m X
and giving your tribute to him, I can't think of
a better Christmas song than when d MX did his

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rendition of Rudolph the Red Dose Race. Fantastic in every
bad way, it is great. Yeah, I remember, perfect, Kristen,
you play that for us during christ holiday season. It's
in my regular rotation here for the Fox Sports Radio
Christmas Music, Yes, as it should be. Hideki matsu Yama
leading at the Master's heading into the final round. He

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is at eleven under overall shot at sixty five on Saturday,
first bogey free round all week from anyone at the
tournament has a four shot lead, and then there are
four in second in that four way tie, and that
includes Mark Leishman and Justin Rose. Matt Suyama will tee
off on Sunday at two forty Eastern and the NBA.

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The Lakers were down five players, including Lebron James and
Anthony Davis, and still bludgeon the Nets one oh one.
Brooklyn's LaMarcus Aldred said after the game quote, I can't
get past how bad I was defensively, so definitely have
to watch the tape and try to be better on
both fronts. Close quote. Brooklyn falls to a tie for

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first in the East with Philadelphia. The seventies six ers,
by the way, clogged the thunder one seventee Joel Embien
twenty seven points and nine rebounds. The Suns turn it
over only three times and spook the Wizards one to
one oh six. The Warriors pulverized the Rockets on to
one oh nine. Steph Curry thrilling with thirty eight points

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and Golden State big man James Wiseman hurt his knee
in this contest, and ESPN says Wiseman will get an
m R. I. The Jazz stair down the Kings one twelve.
Donovan Mitchell with a season best forty two points in baseball.
The Dodgers pressed down the Nationals nine to five, Chris
Taylor blasting a three run to home run. The Diamondbacks

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take a mallet out on the Reds eight to three,
since he drops its second game of the season. The
Blue Jays drop a piano on the Angels fifteen to one,
bo Bichette glowing with five RBI, and the Padres to
five the Rangers seven to four, Trent Grisham hitting that
game changing home run in this seventh inning. Let's get
it back to our guy in Nashville, Jason Martin, appreciate it.

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That is Finley. We'll hear from them a couple more
times before the end of the show. Certainly, the Deshaun story,
just like I said, a lot of times, you end
up doing a lot of pauses and sentences when you're
talking about the just the Deshaun Watson situation, because it's
so potentially devastating, just as a sports fan, to potentially

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not to get to watch that guy. I don't want
to go through a season without Deshaun Watson. But I
don't want to go through a season with Deshaun Watson
if he's guilty of the stuff that is out there.
The question is how soon are we actually going to
get some degree of conclusion or closure to all of this,

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because it does not seem to be moving in that direction.
It does seem to be spiraling. It's just kind of
circling a drain right now. And the Texans are going on.
You know, they're bringing the entire rode, but we already
know David Culley is if he's not a fall guy.

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He's just there to bridge them for two years, to
be awful so that they can do whatever they gotta
do for the future. They didn't hire him to go win.
No one else would have hired him to be a
head coach in the league, no one, No one had
heard his name before the Texans hired him to be

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there head football coach. They're going to be the worst
team in the league, Yes, folks, in the league. With
teams like the Bengals, the Jets, the Lions, the Cardinals.
I'm just trying to name all of the usual Tomato
Cans at least the Blood of Jokes, the Browns. Even

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with all of those organizations still existing, it's gonna be
the Houston Texas. I remember when they took David Carr
they were better than then they're gonna be. Now they're
gonna they're better on their first day then they are

(35:06):
at this point in time. DeAndre Hopkins out. J J.
Watt out, Deshaun Watson. Who the heck knows? But it's
not good. When we come back something it is good.
Ryan burrshing are our fine producer, loves baseball and he
has all a lot of oddities that he pays attention

(35:28):
to that other people do not. So he's told me
that he wants to bring some of these to my
attention this week in Weird Baseball. I don't know what
he's gonna tell me. I have no idea. I'm just
glad the Braves are winning games again. But I'm curious
to see what burr Singer has been paying attention to
now that baseball is back in full swing. No pun intended,

(35:50):
but appreciated. Nonetheless, When we come back this week and
Weird Baseball, we'll find out what kind of odd stuff
might have happened and what's being paid attention to by
our fine producer out in Los Angeles. That's next Jason
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(36:34):
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So you're a baseball guy, huge baseball guy. Bow is
a baseball guy as well. What's going on in Well,

(36:55):
First off, I'm excited my braves of one four in
a row after losing four in a row. This is
a good piece of news for me. I'm excited about that.
But when you kind of brought this to my attention,
some things that we're gonna do to start spicing up
the show, your thought was as closely as you're paying
attention to major League Baseball. You can probably bring some
things to me that I've overlooked as I'm having to

(37:16):
kind of be elsewhere. I'm in Nashville. We don't have
an MLB team here, so I'm constantly looking at the
Titans and the Valls and the Predators and things of
this nature. So what's going on off the beaten path
in weird baseball? That's right, We're looking at this week
in weird baseball where the wonderful thing about baseball, of
course is sometimes, uh, something happens every day that you've

(37:37):
just never seen before, and that's still somehow continues to
be true. Now this uh, this first story isn't as
super weird because it's literally a no hitter, but it
is something that you have never seen before because it
is the first no hitter in Padre's history. Finally, the
San Diego Padres up thrown their first no hitter. Joe Musgrove.
Joe Musgrove, who grew up thirteen miles from pet Go

(37:58):
Park in Elkhne, California, through the first no hitter in
the in fifty two years for the Padres. So now
the longest no hitter drought after the Padres have finally
gotten their no hitter. That belongs to the Cleveland Indians,
who their last no hitter was actually a perfect game
by Len Barker May fifteenth of one. So we're coming

(38:19):
up on a thirty year anniversary of the last time
the Indians through a no hitter. So Cleveland get on that,
or you know, quite frankly, Shane Bieber specifically get on
that in the next month. But let's look at what's
been going on with the Mets. Of course, there was
that weird situation a couple of days ago in which
Michael Confordo got a walk off hit by pitch in

(38:41):
which he uh well didn't necessarily lean into the strike zone,
but his arm wasn't not in the strike zone. In fact,
uh the the that last pitch of the game rushed
off of Conforto's shoulder. The home plate umpire Ron Colpa
began to call it strike three, but it's after Conforto
looked him it was like, oh hit me. Uh he

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he awarded him first base with the bases loaded, thereby
bringing in the walk off run, giving the win to
the New York Mets, and Copa after the game admitted, look,
I shouldn't have done that. If you get hit by
a pitch in the strike zone, it's a strike, it's
not a hit by pitch, and he acknowledged it wasn't
the strike zone. So the Mets get that one. But

(39:25):
they kind of needed that one because the Mets can't
seem to win when that is it is. Uh, they
can't win when they have the best pitcher in baseball
on the mound, which is of course Jacob deGrom, who's
had two brilliant starts to start the season, and the
Mets have lost both of those games. In fact, in
in today's starting through eight endings, one run, five hits,

(39:46):
fourteen strikeouts, no walks, and in those two games that
de gram has started, here's the hits leaders for the Mets.
Will you have Michael Confordo and Brandon Nimo who both
have two and with three is Jacob Degram himself. He's
the only person doing anything whenever he takes the mound.
So good for you, Jacob, but I'm so sorry that
you played for the Meds. Fourteen strikeouts for the gram

(40:10):
loses hashtag. You hate to see it. To Augusta, we'll
talk some masters when we come back. You're listening to
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Haven't said this in a long time, but I'm blessed

(40:32):
beyond measure, all reasonable and otherwise. I hope you recognize
that you are as well. To say I'm blessed right
now would be a wild understatement. This is my last
show for a couple of weeks. I'm gonna take a
couple of weeks off for a pretty big reason. Um
so let's try to make these last two hours good
ones Sunday to guess to look, the drama is not

(40:52):
there right now. Matsyama took it out in the last
hour or so of Saturday. He's up four. But I
heard a stat on Thursday at my golf lesson from
a guy who's done a golf radio show for years,
who's also my coach, knows quite a bit about the
game and about the PGA Tour, and he gave me

(41:16):
a stat on Thursday as the first round was going on.
He basically said, look, pay attention to the top ten tonight.
If the guys not in the top ten at the
end of day one, he will not win this tournament.

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And I can't remember how many years he says it's been,
but it's basically like one time in the last a
lot of years where somebody outside the top ten has
actually won the tournament. In the end, you have to
have a good Day one to win this tournament. If
you look at the guys to have an opportunity to
win right now. I actually went back to round one

(41:58):
and sifted the stats there and if you want to
look at the guys who performed the best that day,
Justin Rose, Hudeki, Matzi Yama, Brian Harmon who's kind of
out of it now, had a bad bad Saturday. Will's Alattorus,
who's right in there in second place with Rose, Patrick

(42:21):
Reid who's sevent in on Day two probably knocked him
out for good. Webb Simpson, who also had a bad
second round, a South African who I'm not gonna try
to pronounce his name. He's out of it now speak
who was in it and I guess technically is on

(42:44):
the outside close enough to maybe strike if Mazzi Yama
had a dreadful Sunday, but he's six shots off right now,
and really, it kind of goes through if you want
to look at it from a from score standpoint, because
you had a lot of guys tied in third. You

(43:05):
had four guys tied in third, and then you had
five guys tied in fourth, and then you had three
guys tied or no, four guys tied in fifth. One
of them was Sander Shoffey, who was another one, and
Marc Leishman is one of those and he's also there.
But basically, if you look at the leaderboard right now,
and you looked at it what happened on Thursday, then
this wouldn't surprise you much at all based on history

(43:26):
at Augusta. If they're not in contention at the end
of day one, they're not going to be in contention
at the end of this tournament. That's just how the
Masters has tended to play out. I didn't realize until
he gave me the stat and then I went back
and looked at it, and sure enough, it's true. But
the bigger takeaway is this first off, Mattsiyama was striping
the ball on Saturday. But the big takeaway for me

(43:48):
was this ain't great for golf right now, not because
of Mazzi Yama. But because of the guys that missed
the cut and golf still trying to figure out who
and actually be and air apparent for Tiger Woods. I'm
a Tiger guy. Tiger is my favorite athlete of all

(44:09):
time to watch him not being their hurts. The Masters
and US Opening Golf are maybe my two favorite sporting
events of the year, and I love golf generally. I
love watching PGA Tour, and I know a lot more
of these guys than I would say most of the
public do. I care about the sport enough so now

(44:32):
that I actually want to learn to play it myself,
which is why I'm taking lessons every Thursday afternoon. But
what do we expect the audience to be on Sunday
or later on today? I don't imagine this can be
all that good. There's a lot of talented guys near
the top, and there is drama because mazi Yama has

(44:55):
all sorts of pressure on him with history. Could he
become the first Japanese player to win a major? Two
women have done it, but it's never been done by
a man. And if you listen to the CBS crew
talking about Marziyama's like as soon as he gets off

(45:15):
the course, he's he's gonna have to tell the media, hey,
can you please? I will stay with you as long
as you want me to after tomorrow's round, but please,
because of the media, was gonna be just going nuts.
Think about the weight of a country that's never won
this and a country that adores golf like Japan does.

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Finally not just a shot to win a major, but
a shot to win the Masters. That's a lot of
pressure to be on one guy in Marziyama. He's played
great all three days one and then that sixty five.
That was the thing of beauty, a lot of it
coming after the weather delay, when the course settled down

(46:02):
just a little bit, slowed down dramatically, and he just
took advantage unlike anybody else out there, shotly also finished
fairly strong, but the drama is not there. The best
thing for CBS executives would be for some of the

(46:23):
guys that are sitting at five and six or maybe
even four under to go out and play well in
the first five or six holes and muddy up and
kind of turn that thing into a jello salad underneath.
Ma Tuyama as close as possible to him and then
him to come out and have a double bogey early.

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If he just sits on, I think eleven will be
enough to win the tournament. If he goes out there
and shoots even part, I think he wins the tournament.
I don't think he will shoot even part. I think
he's either gonna go a little bit lower and put
the thing out of each or he's gonna come back
to Earth real fast, and then all bets are off.
But I'm curious to find out whether or not my

(47:07):
golf coaches tip turns out to be true this year.
It sure looks like it's gonna be. But what does
a post Tiger p g A look like? Dustin Johnson,
Mrs The Cut, Brooks, kept Cut, Mrs The Cut, Rory
McElroy Mrs. The Cut, A lot of names that you

(47:31):
would have wanted to be there. Don't even make it
to the weekend. To make that part of it a
little more interesting, Justin Thomas goes out on Saturday, he's
doing okay for himself, and then he knocks it into
the drink. I think it was on fifteen, but it
was just a disastrous turn there, ends up having an eight,

(47:53):
and now you're not gonna worry about him going forward.
He's at one under now after a seventy five on
Saturday speech, didn't have a great day. Fee now he's
at minus three, but he's really not there. He did
get a FaceTime call from Tom Brady though, which okay,

(48:15):
that's cool, But Justin Thomas was another name you would
have wanted. There. All the guys that you would want
if you're on television and you're hoping for a big
number this weekend aren't there. So here comes the question,
is the Master's about the leader board or is it
about the tournament. There are events where it doesn't necessarily

(48:39):
matter what's on the marquee. It's sold because of the event.
If there is a golf tournament that qualifies it to
the Masters, doesn't matter who's on the top of the leaderboard.
The star of the show is Augusta National Golf Club.
Another event that I'm going to talk about here in

(49:01):
a little bit more detail later on in the show
is WrestleMania. It's another example of this. Yeah, it doesn't
hurt when you have a great main event, but WrestleMania
sells itself. There are people that don't watch pro wrestling
at all, but we'll watch WrestleMania. If you saw the
chatter on social media last night, you will notice there

(49:24):
are a whole lot of people talking about pro wrestling.
You've never seen talk about it before. Happens every year.
It sells itself. It's become such an iconic event that
it supersedes whatever talent is on set event. Does the
Masters do that? I think at one point Wimbledon did

(49:46):
it in tennis, But I think tennis is nearly dead
in the United States because of the lack of competitiveness
coming from our country and the lack of interest because
it's the same three guy guys over and over and
over again competing in the finals, the lack of parody.

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If you want tennis's number one comparison, it's college football.
The problem for college football right now is it's the Alabama, Clemson,
Ohio State, Oklahoma, Notre Dame Invitational. Seemingly who's breaking through
with a four team playoff? How many times have we

(50:29):
gotten dud semifinal games more more often than we've got
in the opposite I can tell you that that becomes
a gigantic concern. But I'm curious to see what the
numbers for the Masters look like because the marquee names
really aren't there, whether or not you think you should

(50:50):
be watching it for that reason or not, like, oh, well,
you should never watch. You should never just watch for
a certain player or a certain group of players. You
should just watch to see this tournament and give credit
and respect to those that are there. But that's not
how the vast majority of people do it. You and me, me,
why we might do it? Yeah, I can't wait to
watch the final round of this thing now. If Masi

(51:13):
Yama is sitting at thirteen under when we go to ten, okay,
I'm probably tuning out. But if Masiyama is at nine
under and we got some guys sitting at six, then
that's gonna be enough for me, Like, yeah, we got
guys at eleven, and then we've got a fleet of
them at seven. Even if they drop a shot. If

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Mysiyama comes back a couple of shots, that's gonna tell
me anything could happen. Because you've got a lot of
fairly talented guys and some really unknown dudes like Salatorius
who's twenty four years old playing in a second major,
and then you've got some guys that you have heard

(51:54):
of before, and it has brought some people to their
knees before. We've seen the fall aparts, we saw what
happened to Rory McIlroy. Would look like he had the
tournament and then that disastrous deal where he hit it
left and nearly hit it into somebody's brie ocean chicken

(52:15):
salad sandwich and never recovered from it. All the guys
that are right now near the top are guys that
played well on Day one. To back up my golf
coaches stat next week and on Monday on Fox Sports

(52:38):
Radio beginning in the morning and taking you all through them,
I'm sure they'll talk about a little bit. But I
will say this, regardless of who wins, it's gonna be
a bit of a footnote story because Tigers not involved,
and even the top flight American players aren't there. The
best thing that could happen for CBS and for the
p g A would be for Jordan's Speak to go
have the just round of his life and win this thing.

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It would be cool to see Maziama win it. It
really would. I'm just saying, from the perspective of the
p g A going forward, Speak, this kind of the
one guy you look at and say, if he could
just get it going again. We were starting to look
at him like maybe he could be Tiger Jr. And

(53:26):
then he just fell completely off the map. And over
the last month and a half or so a couple
of months, he started playing better. It looks like he's
found his swing again. He's competing, he's in top fives again.
He goes into Augustine. You're just like, if he could
just put something together here, this could become interesting. I mean,

(53:46):
dude's got his own logo with the JS on it,
on the back of those hats, on the back of
those under armor hats that you can go find a
Dick Sporting Goods or Golf Galaxy or wherever it is.
Did you get your merch? He's the one. Yeah, there's
other guys, but I think he's the one. Maybe justin Thomas,
but I think the guy is Spee. I don't think

(54:08):
he's gonna win, but I think that's the best possible
thing could have to CBS. Is if he ends up
going super low tomorrow while other guys are struggling, and
you have at least the opportunity for him to win.
I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't know. Do
I predict matsy I'm gonna win with a four shot

(54:28):
lead the way he has played all week. Is he
just gonna come apart? I don't think so. Could somebody
catch him and go lower? Sure depends on how tough
the course is playing. I could see a shot Flee
or somebody like that showing up. I think Justin Rose
is done. I just something about his Saturday and his

(54:50):
demeanor on the back nine. He just looked like a
guy that's gonna cruise to a top ten finish, maybe
even the top five finish. But I don't don't think
he's gonna be heard from much. I would say mazi
Yama and Shoffly or the two that I look at
the most. I think Salatorus is interesting. I don't think

(55:11):
he's gonna go out there and shoot an eighty tomorrow
or anything. I just don't know if he's gonna be
able to go low enough compared to some of these
other guys. And Speace sitting at five under, so he's
six shots off the lead right now. Could he get
himself to a minus eight going into the back nine
and make it interesting? That's what you've gotta be hoping

(55:32):
for if you're CBS to me at speak, if he
can make a little bit of run, a little bit
of headway, and Mati Yama could drop to ten or
maybe even nine under going into back nine, then you
might have a really nice TV number. Or you've got
a litmus test that just says, do we have a
sport or do we have Tiger Woods, at which point

(55:53):
you've got a real problem because is Tiger going to
play again? And if he does, what condition his game
going to be in considering his health concerns all of that,
there's intrigue on Sunday. I hope it doesn't get snuffed
out early because I really love Sunday at Augusta, don't
you When we come back some NFL talk. We talked

(56:15):
to Sean and the first bit of this show, but
Joe Burrows come out and said, hey, I want Jamaar Chase.
Should the Bengals listen to him or should they say no,
We've got something else in mind. We need to save
you from yourself on this one. We'll discuss that topic,
plus what is a second pro day and why does

(56:38):
a second pro day exist? We'll try to decipher that
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Joe Burrow says he wants to march Chase, which makes sense.
I mean, they had a lot of success together. He
knows how good chases. Guys like Greg Cosl, who you
hear on Fox Sports Radio Cut with Colin Cowherd and

(57:22):
others have said, look, he's the best wide receiver in
this draft. He's got all world potential. We know how
good Jamar chases. The question is do the Bengals listen
to their second year quarterback coming off an injury, or
do they say, hey, we got other ideas. Could he

(57:48):
use another weapon? Sure, he could use another weapon. They
let Carl Lawson go on defense and they got Hendrickson.
I think that's a step in the wrong direction. Not
to Hendrickson is a complete scrub, but Carl Lawson seemed
to be really rounding into form, and I don't think
they got better there. I don't even think it was lateral.
I think they got worse. Hendrickson got paid really off

(58:10):
of one good season, but that's not even where I'm
looking at. I just mentioned that to talk about where
the Bengals find themselves. Joe Burrow is gonna be coming
off a pretty bad injury. If we recall they weren't
going to the playoffs, you had seen enough to know
he was your future. I at one time joked and

(58:32):
then was more serious. Hey take him off the field
for the rest of the year. You know he's the guy,
but you don't have anybody protecting him right now. The
offensive line is a travesty. So if you're the Cincinnati
Bengals organization, now, how do you best protect this Lamborghini
that you have. Do you get him another weapon so

(58:55):
that he can score more points or do you keep
him upright so he can be your Lamborghini for the
next decade or more? And really, I think the the
answer is just a no brainer. The NFL draft truly
begins at the fourth pick. Sure, the Niners might take

(59:18):
Fields instead of mac Jones or Trey Lance instead of
mac Jones, even though all indicators are mac Jones right now.
But we know one is Lawrence, and we know two
is Wilson. Three's going to be a quarterback. Fourth pick
the Falcons. If they take a guy, they should take
Kyle Pits. If they move out, I could see that

(59:40):
as well. Somebody else might covet Pits, or, like I said,
my Denver Broncos, just one example, might want to get
up and take Trey Lance or take their quarterback of
the future. Maybe it's Fields. But the fifth pick with
Cincinnati is where it really begins, because that's when you
actually have a decision to make. If you're the Falcons,
I think if you're in this, you take Kyle Pits

(01:00:03):
and you run and take him because I think he's
the freak of all freaks. That's a word that gets overused,
but it is very applicable to that young man. He's
gonna be a stud. He's not a tight end, but
he is a tight end. He's ridiculous. But at the
fifth pick, what do you do? Do you take Jamaar
Chase I don't think so. Usually I'm all for going

(01:00:27):
to grab the weapon, but in this case, you've got
to protect Joe Burrow. I think you take sewel there.
And I don't think it's even all that difficult to decision. Now.
I don't know whether or not Cincinnati's gonna do it.
And we've heard stories. Remember Russell Wilson told Dan Patrick
and he that's when that whole story began. He wanted

(01:00:48):
more input on personnel decisions in Seattle. This is when
the whole weight maybe he wants to leave Seattle thing
became a thing. Watson, before we knew about massage, parlors
and all of this stuff. I wanted to have more
say in who the general manager was going to be.

(01:01:09):
At least he wanted some chatter. He wanted them to
at least speak to Eric b Enemy. Didn't say he
had to hire him, just talk to him. And certainly
David Culley was not somebody he had mentioned. We're seeing
more and more of this. Aaron Rodgers is going to
restructure his contract. No leverage is being applied. But Joe Burrows,

(01:01:36):
the second year player, how much leverage does he have?
He's your future? We know how special. He can be,
but he ain't special if he's not on the field. Somehow,
the Bengals have to take the less flashy pick. As

(01:02:01):
great as Chase could be, it doesn't matter how good
the white that is, if the quarterback can't play. We
know this quarterback can play as long as he's healthy.
You've got to protect him. You have to. So the
Bengals have to sit Joe Burrow down and say, we understand, man,

(01:02:23):
we think Jamaar Chase is a stud, but we can't
take him at number five. Man. Do you know why.
It's because you were sitting watching the last half of
the season after that injury. We can't let that happen again.
You're too good, you're too potentially special. Our fans want

(01:02:45):
to see you play. Look at all the Borough jerseys
out there. We've got to protect you. We've got to
take pena sewell. I don't know whether or not they'll
do that, but I think that's the proper answer. You
can tweet me at j R Radio let me know
if you agree or disagree. But this is not a

(01:03:10):
slight on Chase at all. We know what he is
likely to be and it's hard to say, yeah, pass
him up. But you've got to get some linemen. You
just have to. So that's one story. The second story

(01:03:36):
is that both Trey Lance and Justin Fields, we're going
to have second pro days. For Justin Fields, Kyle Shanahan
and John Lynch had gone to Alabama, had gone to
Tuscaloosa to see Mac Jones, and so they weren't in
person to see his pro day at Ohio State. There
were other representatives from the Niners, including their scouting director there.

(01:03:59):
But he's gonna take part in this second pro day
in front of the coach and the GM and blah
blah blah, and Trey Lance is gonna do one too,
And I'm thinking to myself, I hate one pro day.
I really hate a second one. If you don't want to,

(01:04:21):
or if you aren't sure that you want to take
me before you see my pro day, I'm not sure
you're equipped to do this. Show That may be a
hot take. Maybe I just don't understand the value of
pro days, But I look at second pro days kind
of the way I look at somebody that's gonna be
a top five pick deciding to come back to school

(01:04:43):
for their senior season. I respect it, especially if you're
trying to get a degree, but all it does is
offer up more of a chance to pick you apart.
Justin Field is gonna have a second pro day. All
indicators were his first one was really good. A lot
of us saw it. It's all food gazzy anyway. So

(01:05:13):
when you do it a second time, what exactly does
that do for you? Other than offer teams the opportunity
to see more things they don't like about you. I'm
not sure what you actually gain here. I don't understand

(01:05:34):
the field stuff at all. I'm on record I tweeted
this out. I don't know. I think it was this week.
I'm on record, save the tape. Justin Fields will be
a better pro and end up with a better career
than Zach Wilson. It's just the way that's gonna go
for me. I asked Andy Staples the Athletic yesterday whether

(01:05:58):
or not he thought group Zach Wilson was good. He said, yeah,
I think he's good. But what's he gonna look like
when he doesn't have b y US offensive line in
front of him and he's playing against real competition. Because
that's the thing we don't know about Zack Wilson the
Jets have made their decision. But we're talking about We're
talking about a guy who played against very low end

(01:06:21):
competition and had any lead offensive line in front of
him against that competition. So what does Zach Wilson look
like when he doesn't have five seconds to throw and
instead has two and a half seconds. That's what we
don't know just yet. I believe more in fields because
I know he played against better competition. Yeah, did he
have a great offensive line, Sure he did. All these

(01:06:43):
quarterbacks coming out had to have had a decent offensive line.
Lances certainly would be less than the rest. But Lance
also is an elite level athlete too, wasn't nearly as
reliant on just being a pocket passer. But do you
think about Mac Jones. You don't think Mac Jones has
a great offense of line in front of him. And
we all know the stories. How many Alabama quarterbacks have

(01:07:05):
come out and been studs in the NFL. The answer
is very, very very few, and in the Saban era
kind of none. Right, Jalen Hurts will see two h
We'll see a J. McCarron. Nope, Greg McElroy working for ESPN.
Blake Sims, I have no idea where he is Jake Coker,
same Mac Jones, super accurate, and that might be all

(01:07:31):
you need in Kyle Shanahan. That might be why Kyle
Shanahan wants him so badly, is because that's what he
needs is somebody to be accurate in his system. And
somebody has a seventy completion percentage or whatever nonsense it
was Mac Jones did. That's gonna be enough, A little
bit mobile, not super mobile, but close enough to be

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part of the new generation of quarterbacks. But a second
pro day to me, accomplishes nothing. And I wrote a
story is just like well, with the lack of private
workouts that are out there, these are crucial, and like
are they? You don't know enough now to make a

(01:08:12):
decision that's educated as to whether or not you should
take justin fields, you need to see another sixty eight
throws in shorts through air with no defense, two scripted
receivers on routes that have been rehearsed as if their
Shakespeare plays in order to determine whether or not that's

(01:08:33):
our guy. Really, because I'm pretty sure I can tell
you now because I could watch the film. What are
you gonna learn from a second pro day. All Justin
Fields is doing is offering himself a chance to do worse.

(01:08:57):
And yeah, maybe he's gonna do better, but he had
a good pro day. It's like going in and having
a decent s A T score. Do you take the
test again? If the school that you want to go
to is already gonna accept you based on your score,
do you waste the time potentially get a worse score.
It doesn't hurt you necessarily in that example. It would

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here maybe, But if they're sold on mac Jones, Now
do you think that them seeing you in person is
all of a sudden gonna change that now they're gonna
go with you? I don't. I don't think this necessarily
affects Justin Fields. I also don't think there's any reason
to do it. But I completely laugh at the idea
of pro days. And maybe I'm in the minority there,

(01:09:43):
but I just sense that you know by now what
kind of quarterback all of these guys are, and watching
them throw in workout gear doesn't necessarily change that fact.
Very much. Could be wrong, but don't think I am.
Let's go to Fenley, Let's go the BF out there
in Los Angeles and catch a looking on the latest
what's upright? Yeah, Jason, And sort of on the lines

(01:10:05):
of what you're saying. There was an ESPN headline back
in two thousand fourteen that read Blake Bortles shines at
Pro Day. So how about that? And how did that
go for him? He was a top five pick, and yeah,
where to go exactly? Let's start with golf at Ecki
matsu Yama eleven under overall heading into the final round

(01:10:28):
of the Masters. He is the leader sixty five on Saturday,
the first bogey free round all week from anyone at
the tournament. He has a four shot lead and he
shut low after an over our weather delay. Six under
over the course of the last eight holes on that
back nine, and this includes three putting that short part five,
the thirteen and then his approach shots were wayward on

(01:10:51):
fourteen and eighteen. They were well off the green and
still he comes up with a thirty on the back nine.
There was a four way tie for second place seven under,
including will Dala Torus, who Tony Romo, who's known for
predicting football players before they happened. He told Jim Nance
that Zalatorus is going to win this Masters. Will have

(01:11:13):
to see if that holds up. Also, Justin Rose is
in there at seven under and Matsiyama is part of
the last group to tee off, and that will be
later today at two forty eastern. In the NBA, the
Lakers were down five players but still stiff the Nets
to one oh one. Andre Drummond dominating inside with twenty
points and eleven rebounds. The seventies Sixers bench press the

(01:11:36):
thunder one seventeen to ninety three. Dwell Embiad twenty seven
points and nine rebounds, and a humble embiid sit after
the game. Quote when it comes to the m v
P stuff, I feel like I'm still right there close. Quote.
These Suns turn it over only three times. The pile
drive the Wizards on to one oh six. The Warriors
ace the Rockets one to one on nine Steph Curry

(01:11:58):
thirty eight points. Golden State big man James Wiseman heard
his right knee in this game, and ESPN is reporting
Wiseman will get an m r I on that ailment
and as Cantor a rebounding genius thirty of them as
the Trailblazers tire out the Pistons last night one to
one oh three. The Jazz Power drill the Kings twelve.

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Donovan Mitchell had his season best forty two points in baseball.
A couple notable scores for you. The Dodgers school the
Nationals nine to five off a Chris Taylor three run
home run that aided the cause for Los Angeles. The
Diamondbacks take a piece of plywood to the Reds eight
to three, the final there since he drops its second

(01:12:41):
game of the season, and the Blue Jays skunk the
Angels fifteen to won the final score, both the shed
glowing with five rb. I. Lets send it back to
our man from Nashville, the future professional golfer Jason Harton Finley.
Any truth to the rumor that you were the homeless

(01:13:01):
man called inside the USC football facilities. There are a
lot of places I would prefer to be then at
the USC football facilities. Let me tell you, as somebody
who was a homer for U. C. L A, you
would have to pay me a whole lot of money
to be caught up in that mess. Let me tell you, well, hey,

(01:13:22):
Lori Laughlin would tell you USC is a place where
you could try that was it was you Christ That's
even better. Yeah, that's even better. Yeah, that stories wild
by the way, Petros Papadakis confirmed it, But I think
of Scott Wolff inside USC that put it out there.
Homeless guy spent several days inside the football facilities at

(01:13:44):
Southern Cow, shared a jacuzzi at the McKay Center, aid
at the dining hall, slept in a suite at the coliseum.
He was wearing number eighty seven. He's five ten, though
the guy who's who usually wears eighties seven per Brad
Crawford seven Sports, it's six four. So close there. The

(01:14:07):
story is leading out to important parts. One if he
did field punts? A, how well did he do? And
B how many years of eligibility does he have left? Yeah?
I see the second parts, the key one. They're like,
if he's good enough, let's put him on the field.
I don't care if he's five ten. I've seen a
lot of five ten punt returners. Punt returner, you know,
you dodge a few. As long as you're fast enough,

(01:14:27):
you dodge the defenses. You do good and look, I
would imagine that's not a bad place to spend several days.
I haven't been inside that facility. My guess is it's
a it's it's not exactly cheap skate Island. It's and
and I've only seen the ground floor. Uh, your you
can't ask for a better place. So a five ten

(01:14:49):
homeless man who may or may not be an elite
level punt returner just hanging out inside USC football facility
one is officially better than just from that story alone,
that just makes me happy. It's preposterous and ridiculous and
seemed ludicrous and not true, but Petrus is pretty much

(01:15:13):
sticking to that story. And now there seem to be
other folks that have backed it up too. Yeah, not
for nothing. Scott Wolf is like really good an insider
at about everything USA. Yeah, so that's good. Um, news
of the right variety of somebody that maybe shouldn't be
inside USC, that is, and not money changing hands here

(01:15:35):
at all. Just kind of a feel good story. It
makes you laugh, it's nuts, it's wild, but I'm here
for it. This is the content that I'm here for.
We'll come back and finish up the second hour. We'll
talk a little bit of WrestleMania when we come back
Day one. I'll give you my analysis next. I'm Jason
Martin and this is Fox Sports Radio. Tommy Dreamer wasn't

(01:15:59):
a part of Russell any last night in order is
there gonna be a part of night too? But we'll
take some man in the box here from Alice in Chains,
Jason Martin Show. I'm j mart I'm on Twitter at
j mart Radio. I'm in Nashville, Tennessee, and my crew
is in Los Angeles WrestleMania Day one. First time Vince
ming Man's crew has had fans in fourteen months. And

(01:16:21):
I gotta say, and I've said this before, is somebody
that worked in the industry for a long time and
has written about it off and on for decades. Pro
wrestling without fans just doesn't work. It just doesn't. The
Thunderdome was a good innovation and it did help, there's
no question about that. But I've never watched less pro

(01:16:42):
wresting than I haven't the last year. And it's not
because there's not a lot of quality performers and things
that I want to see. It's because without fans, I
just couldn't do it. I don't think there was anything
more harmed by a lack of fans then pro wrestling was,
so even with just twenty five thousand or whatever the
number was at Raymond James and Tampa Bay. It made

(01:17:04):
a gigantic difference because it finally felt right again. This
is gonna sound weird, but I'll watch Everybody Loves Raymond
and stuff like that. I'll have that on in the
background while I'm doing things at home. That's That's a
go to for me, that show in particular. But the

(01:17:27):
laugh track is the laugh track necessary? No, But I
find myself rewatching things with a laugh track seemingly more
than I do some of the newer comedies, even though
I love those shows, because of this feeling that you're
not alone. Nobody really wants to be isolated. When you
have the opportunity to laugh in a room with people,

(01:17:47):
that's usually better than laughing alone. And the same thing
is true cheering and booing and getting excited and and
all of the things that pro wrestling is meant to
do to help separate you from your wallet. So the
fans made a difference. I thought Night one, if you
saw the show was decent enough. One mistake they made

(01:18:08):
was after a weather delay that starts you thirty five
minutes late, Probably go ahead and can that opening segment
with Titus O'Neil and hul Cogan. I know they're your
two hosts, but you don't really have to do that.
You could have run that in the back instead of
some of those impromptu promos you had guys cutting. You
could have had Titus and Hogan do that in the back.

(01:18:28):
It's a two day events, so they're gonna come out
to start Sunday show anyway. Just get to the matches.
They opened the show with Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashly,
and at first I didn't like this at all because
it's your championship match going on first, but you were
going to finish the show with the women's title match,

(01:18:48):
which was very good. I thought was Sasha and Bianca
bell Air. But the way that they explained this was
this was Drew McIntyre to reward. Last year he won
the championship in front of nobody, in front of no fans,
and pretty much his whole title reign and his losses
and wins back all happened without fans. He was the

(01:19:10):
guy that was the first one out to perform again
in front of people. That actually did feel like a reward.
The way that it was explained as a whole. I
don't think anything from this show was gonna go down
in history is some kind of magical moment. I thought
that was solid action. I thought the opener with McIntyre
and lastly was good. The Turmoil match was useless and

(01:19:34):
then just kind of vanished. Nothing particularly noteworthy there. As
I told you, I think Sasha and Bianca had the
right finished. Bianca it was her time to win that match.
Sasha made her look like a million bucks, and Bianca
did a good job of making herself look like a
million bucks in the process. Seth and Cesaro was a

(01:19:54):
prime example of how WrestleMania used to be. What WrestleMania
is supposed to be as a reward for the fans.
It's where a lot of baby faces go over. It's
where you're supposed to leave with a smile on your face.
Now that has diverged in recent years, I think more
often than it should. But it didn't really happen here Cesaro.
That's a win that should have meant more. But I

(01:20:15):
don't know where Seth is on the card right now.
But it was a good win for Cesaro and somehow
his first singles match in WrestleMania history. For him, and
he's spend the company seemingly forever. So that's just a
few of my takes on Mania. We'll do some more
on that in the middle segment of the third Hour,
plus preview night too. But when we come back to
open the third Hour, is Gonzaga basketball current Notre Dame football?

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I'll explain the argument. Next. You're listening to Fox Sports.
Welcome to the Third Hour. What's happened in? My name
is Jason Martin. It's to Jason Martin Show here on
Fox Sports Radio. Glad to have you with us wherever
you happen to be. Glad to have my crew as well,
Chris Profette, Ryan Bursha or Brian Finley. They're spending the

(01:21:02):
dolls for me radio style out in Los Angeles. I'm
on Twitter at j mart Radio. I ended the last
hour just a little bit of Mania talk. Wanted to
do more of that, so we will. In the next segment, though,
I want to talk about Gazaga and Postmorte in the
college basketball season, which came to a close on Monday
in thunderous fashion if you're a Baylor basketball fan, because

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that thing was never all that close. I mean, it
was only ten at the half, And first off, I
want to give you something that I thought about that night.
Gonzaga cut it to ten from nineteen going into half,
and it was just like, oh, well, then come back
from ten down, and it hit me, maybe for the
first time ever, that I need to stop thinking about

(01:21:49):
things in terms of can they come back from ten down?
I didn't think they were coming back here. I did not.
I thought they would make a more of a run
than they did, but never really happened. But here's what
I mean. In terms of how we think about this,

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it's not can they come back from ten down? It's
can they outplay Baylor to the degree that they beat
them by ten or more points in the second half?
And when I asked myself that question, the answer was

(01:22:33):
definitely no, because in order to come back from ten down,
you have to have a ten point lead of your own.
Basically now there, you can do it easier than the
first half lead because maybe they've taken their foot off
the gas and momentum can build and you start to

(01:22:55):
see your lead dwindle. And we've seen a lot of
people make comebacks like this. I just didn't see anything
that told me Gonzaga was gonna be ten points better
than Gonzaga in the second half, or then Baylor should
say in the second half. So maybe that's how we
should start looking at it. It's not can you come
back from twelve down? It's can you outplay that team
by twelve points? Could you see the team that's behind

(01:23:19):
actually having a twelve point lead if you started again
at zero and when you added in the foul trouble
and some of the other things that were going on,
you got what you got, which is Baylor approving. Yeah,
they were the best team all year. They weren't the
ones going for an undefeated season, but maybe they would
have been had it not been for a COVID pause

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that made us kind of forget how good they actually
were and how they just decimated people early in the season.
Or maybe they still wouldn't have been undefeated because they
were playing in a pretty solid league that I think
had seven bids h But it got me also thinking

(01:24:05):
about Gonzaga. When they lost, we were talking about Gonzaga,
some people were I had made the point to you
a few weeks before the Final four that the reason
why a lot of folks weren't talking about Gonzaga nationally.
It's because if you talk to like real basketball folks,
like former players, they just didn't have Gonzaga in that

(01:24:30):
kind of class with some of those elite teams. I
saw a really good college team versus a team that
looked like an NBA team. But I started thinking about
something else Monday as Mark Fuse team was sputtering to

(01:24:52):
its finish, and that was what does this team remind
you of? Because I've said on this program in the past,
Gonzaga is kind of the new Duke to me. That's
why Mark You doesn't need to leave, because nobody knew
what duke was athletically speaking, before coach k took that

(01:25:14):
job and turned that team around. No one knew anything
about Gonzaga other than that John Stockton had played there
before Mark You went there. Why would he have to leave?
He's on a private jet two. He's turned that thing
into a perennial power. They've been a number one seed
multiple times. Heck, they've played in two of the last
four national championship games. So they're the new Dude or

(01:25:46):
are they notre dame football? I know Brian Know who
follows me with Andy Furman for their Fine Show, which
would be with you here in about an hour on
a lot of these same stations you're listening to right now.
This might hurt him and he might not like this
take at all. That's cool, but this felt an awful

(01:26:07):
lot like Notre Dame football to me on Monday night.
Not every part of this comparison is perfect, but high rated,
highly touted, expected to do damage. This team is different.
And then they roll in and they get smacked by

(01:26:27):
North Carolina and they get smacked by Baylor from the
a c C in the Big Twelve, and then you're
just like, well, wait, were they actually that good? Or
was it the Western Conference. I'm not going to speak
to the w c C. I know there's talented teams
in that league. I also know there are no like,

(01:26:50):
if you put gonzag in the Big Tent, what's their rating,
what's their ranking? How many games do they lose? Put
him in the a CEC, how many games do they lose?
I know they played talented teams ly in the year,
and then they entered the n C Double a tournament,
not particularly battle tested. They crushed teams in the tournament,
but when they ran into a really athletic team from

(01:27:11):
a major conference. They nearly lost the u c l
A in the Final four, and then they did succumb
by sixteen to Baylor in a game that wasn't even
that close in the National Championship game. Boy o, boy,
it just made me think of Notre Dame in the

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College Football Playoff. It made me think of Notre Dame
against Alabama several years ago in the National Championship Game,
when everybody that I knew seemingly was trying to convince
me that Notre Dame was gonna beat them and was
better than Alabama, and they proceeded to not just lose,
to get humiliated in the National Championship Game. What do

(01:27:54):
you know, Notre Dame for now? In football, good regular
season escape a couple of games, a lot of times
each year, find their way into the top four, get
selected by Clemson, or get beaten by Alabama, or get
embarrassed by somebody, and then go right back home and
then rinse, repeat. We're gonna do this again, either next

(01:28:16):
year or the year after. What's the difference. Gonzaga usually
has a guy, maybe two guys that can go play
in the NBA. But if you look at that team,
really look at it, okay, what is Corey Kissper really
going to be in the NBA? He had a bad

(01:28:36):
Final four. He's got a quick release, but he's a
defensive liability on the NBA level. Who's he gonna guard?
If you want to compare his release and his shot
to Clay Thompson, that's a positive, but you ain't going
to compare his defense to Clay Thompson's a YAYI who

(01:28:59):
declare for the draft yesterday? I believe I could see
him being kind of a Leandro Barbosa kind of player,
somebody that could get to the rack. Even Do I
think he's gonna be a start the NBA? No, But
that's he's all right, You'll be okay. He wasn't able
to do much against Baylor in the championship game though

(01:29:23):
Drew Timmy. I was watching Drew Timmy and I thought
to myself, can he play on the NBA level? I
know how fundamentally sound he is, but that footwork didn't
seem to matter very much against Baylor. That was elite
level defense from Baylor that we knew they had. The

(01:29:44):
comparison was and LV to Baylor defensively. But he's going
to the NBA, where guys are faster and they're bigger,
and they're not going to tolerate his I'm gonna celebrate
after a bucket when we're down fifteen in the second
half of that game. Drew Timmy to me, and I

(01:30:10):
talked to a former college player who basically illuminated me
to this fact. And when he said it, it immediately
rang true. He goes, he's gonna make a truckload of
money overseas. Yep, that makes sense because that brand of basketball,
the fundamentals, the footwork, all of that stuff that'll play
real well in euro Ball. I don't know what Timmy

(01:30:30):
is on the NBA level. Now. He could come back
to school. He's still got time. He's just sophomore. But
he looks like a euro ball player to me, not
an NBA superstar. Sucks as a stud. He's the one.
I think he's gonna have a fabulous at an NBA career.

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But you think about Notre Dame. Notre Dame puts guys
in the league, but they get boat raced every time
they're into college football a playoff. No, but this time
it's gonna be different. No, it's not. Oh, they're not
big enough. Okay, they got bigger, but they didn't get faster.
There's still there's always something else that they have to
fix in order to really compete with an Alabama or

(01:31:16):
a Clemson or a team like that. This past season
wasn't as bad as yours previous, but they still got trucked.
Gonzaga is now in the spot the James Harden is
for me. I actually had gonzag and winning the tournament
in my bracket. I will never do that again, not

(01:31:44):
until I actually see them win a championship. First. If
I see him win one, okay, then I'll think maybe
they can win a second. Nobody's saying they're not good,
but I really don't think I'm off base when I
feel like, at least there's vibes of current generation, Notre

(01:32:05):
Dame football, and I mean Brian Kelly era, this century
kind of stuff, not all the history and lou Hole
to New Rockney. And I'm not talking about that. I'm
not trying to compare tradition. I'm trying to compare the
state of the program when they go against the elite
level competition in postseason play. What has happened, Yes, Gonzaga

(01:32:30):
got to the championship game. But the first really athletic
team they ran into, they barely survived u C. L
A barely, and then they weren't even close to surviving Baylor.

(01:32:51):
You watched that game of Baylor and Gonzaga and you
thought to yourself that they played ten times, Baylard went
eight of them. So what's the answer, What exactly can
Mark Few do? They're bringing in another great recruiting class
at Gonzaga, right, they're gonna be top five, But we
already know how the last five to six weeks of
their regular season is going to be. For a month

(01:33:13):
and a half. After they play a West Virginia or
a Virginia or whoever was that they played this past season,
they're gonna go play in their own conference and they're
gonna enter the n C Double A tournament. Not exactly
the definition of iron sharpens iron. Right, there's no fix
unless Gonzaga is invited to join a bigger conference, and

(01:33:37):
I don't know whether or not that happens or not.
I understand you would want their basketball program, and they're
a good university, but they have a very small enrollment
and they don't really fit naturally into a much larger conference,
So I don't know exactly what the fixes should Mark

(01:33:58):
Few leave. I still think the answers. No North Carolina
job was open, that was always gonna go to a
tar heel. Congratulations to Hubert Davis. I said, you gotta
be careful of trading in what's really good for what's new.
I still think it's a really good job at Gonzaga.

(01:34:19):
Do I think Mark fu can win a championship there?
I mean I I do, just don't ask me to
lay any money down on it. Not after this, this
team did deserve the praise that was heaped on it
up to a point. But if we were being honest,

(01:34:41):
nobody thought this was and l V. Nobody thought this
was ninety six Kentucky. Nobody thought this was two thousand
five North Carolina. Like nobody saw this team like that,

(01:35:01):
And nobody was really paying attention to Baylor because we
forgot during the COVID pause just how ridiculous that team was,
how loaded that team was. So what's the comparison? Is
it Gonzaga as Duke or Gonzaga as at Notre Dame football.
I think you can still compare Gonzaga to Duke. But

(01:35:25):
if we're comparing him to Duke. You gotta remember before
what happened against you and LV in nine one in
the semifinal where they got it done and then went
on to win the national championship against then Roy Williams
coach Kansas Jayhawks team led by I think it was
Mark Randall was the star of that team before that

(01:35:47):
ninety one year they got beat by thirty one oh
three to seventy three by U and LV and N.
I'll never forget you forget that game. I was out
of school with the flu. I watched it laying on
the couch, and I was shocked. I lived on to
Baco Road, so I had watched Duke all year. I
knew how good they were. They weren't a one seed.
You and OLV just looked like the best team I've
ever seen in my life that night, which is why

(01:36:11):
the upset the year after. It was such a stunner.
But they gotta be by thirty and ninety. In eight six,
Danny Manning beat them in the final four, as Kansas
then went on to win the national championship over Oklahoma.
I'm sorry, pardon me. Eight so prior to Duke becoming

(01:36:33):
the duke that is now the one you love to hate.
Duke lost in key moments, so I think it's still
appropriate to say Gonzaga is the new Vaux Duke, but
we're talking about early era duke, not the duke that
won national championships. The question is, can Gonzaga find its

(01:36:59):
final forward moment with Layterner and Grant Hill somehow and
actually cash the chick. I don't think it's impossible. I
just don't think it's a good bet. There's a difference.
Can Notre Dame win the College Football Playoff? Sure it

(01:37:23):
wouldn't be impossible, but darren't sure. I'm never laying a
dime on it. They've had a lot of talented guys
and they they they haven't even sniffed it once they've
gotten into the College Football Playoff. BCS chewed them up
and spit them out in championship games. And Brian Kelly
is a pretty good coach, Mark Fuse better than Brian

(01:37:45):
Kelly is, and Gauzaga maybe has a better opportunity because
you need less guys to be good to win a
national title. They had, they had almost the recipe you needed,
but they had never seen a team as athletic, especially
on the defensive end as they did against Baylor, and
that was all she wrote. All she wrote, I want

(01:38:07):
to jump back into WrestleMania plus talk about Aaron Rodgers
and what he should be looking to do in his
career when we come back. I'm Jason Martin on Twitter
at j mart Radio and this is Fox Sports Radio
Jason Martin Show, Fox Sports Radio, rolling right along here
on this Sunday morning. Masters coming to a close a
little bit later on Today day for Augusta. Matt Siama

(01:38:31):
with a four shot lead and will you be able
to hold on? As a question, I feel pretty good
about his chances based on how he's played for the
first three days. Not like he came out of nowhere
on Saturday first off. That doesn't usually happen at the Masters.
But he went low with that sixty five, took advantage
of the weather delay. If he just holds, holds, you know,
sixty nine, he'll be okay. I think, by the way,

(01:38:54):
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wrestle Mania in the second hour. I'm gonna do a

(01:39:16):
little bit more of it here as it's something that
I used to talk about for hours every week on
the radio, something I used to write about a lot,
and I haven't done it in a long time. It
really is because the last year pro uting has been
on watchable without fans. It's been really hard. I watched
last year's Mania, I watched the Royal Rumble, I watched
bits and pieces here and there, but I didn't sit

(01:39:36):
down and watch an entire broadcast on regular television for
a year. I need the fans when it comes to
that sport. The Thunderdome helped. I did watch a SmackDown
last month or something like that, but Mania, with twenty
people in the seats, it felt a little bit more real,
a little bit more right, and w WB sold it

(01:39:57):
pretty effectively. Although if want me to nitpick one thing
off their first match, they did the Lashly McIntyre match.
I would have had I been in charge there, the
bell rings. They should have just stood there wide angle
that camera and let them start looking around at the fans.

(01:40:20):
I think the fans would have done exactly what you
would have wanted him to do in that moment, which
is just start going nuts because they're there. Finally, after
fourteen months, they're back in the seats. Let both Lashly
and McIntyre look to the crowd, seem overwhelmed by the moment,

(01:40:41):
look at one another, get hype, and then lock up
and go to the match. They didn't do that. They
just went straight into the match. Hey, look, that's that's
an artistic decision. I would have done it differently. I
actually want to speak to Bad Bunny, who a lot
of you know and I really don't. When I heard
the Bad Bunny was a musician back a few months ago,

(01:41:02):
I was completely This is when I realized I was old.
I didn't know who's saying America the beautiful last night,
and I did not know anything about Bad Bunny before
like January, and then I was just like, Okay, he's
a social media influencer. No, he's won a Grammy for
Latin Pop Album this year. He was a music guest
on SNL, which shows out a little I watched that
these days and he sold millions of albums. He's not

(01:41:26):
like eight million downloads on Spotify all this kind of stuff.
But celebrities do w w E hits all the time.
It's promotional junkets and stunts and all this. This dude's
a lifelong fan. He wanted to get involved, so he
ends up in this tag match. And I had heard

(01:41:46):
that he didn't have an athletic bone in his body,
and this was an odd choice other than look, he's
just a fan that he wants to do it. It's
like Cramer's fantasy camp. You get a chance to perform
WrestleMania and you're somebody who grew up at w w
E fan, You're in our life in Puerto Rico. Sure.
And then I watched this tag match and it was
him and Damien Priest, who I've actually interviewed before, against

(01:42:11):
the Midis and John Morrison, who I've also interviewed before.
And shockingly enough, Bad Money started the match and Bad
Bunny stayed in the ring for I don't know how
long the match was, but I imagine he was in
there for eight to ten minutes. A lot of it
he was getting beaten up, but he was getting some shine,
and he was getting a couple of spots here and there.

(01:42:33):
He was kicking out of stuff, which I didn't love
because I don't really like to see non pro wrestlers
kicking out of pro wrestlers stuff. Because I still believe
that if you can make me suspend, if you can
make a pro wrestling fans suspend their disbelief, that's when
you win, and their conditioned to want to do that.
We'll we'll give you the leeway to take us on

(01:42:54):
that ride. We know going in it's predetermined, but at
the same time, we can kind of lose our selves
in the moment. And when I saw a Bad Bunny
doing that, being not really a big guy by any means,
it was a little bit hard to take. But from
a performance standpoint, bravo to Bad Bunny. He took it seriously.

(01:43:17):
He worked hard, he didn't phone it in. This was
not just I want to get exposure from my new album.
This was I actually want to do this right. Credit
to him. I had no idea what a Bad Bunny
was three months ago, but this was a successful move.

(01:43:39):
I think I imagine the reaction to it was positive.
Certainly didn't hurt Bad Bunny's career, and it didn't hurt
the three guys that he was in the ring with.
I don't think all that much anyway, because he was
wrestling against kind of a comedy act, as sad as
that is to say for John Morrison, because he's better
than that, but this is what he's booked in to do.

(01:43:59):
But when you get celebrity appearances, it's either for a
joke or it's just not very good, and this was
this was above that stage. I'm not saying it was
Pat McAfee at n x T Takeover. I'm not saying
that it was D'Angelo Williams an impact. I am saying

(01:44:20):
that this was respectable and at times I was actually
pretty impressed, considering the lack of experience. But it comes
from somebody that has watched it long enough, and I'm
sure asked for help and took it seriously and listened
and went out there and did the best job he could.
So I just wanted to give congratulations to Bad Money.
Quite frankly, I thought that was worthy of praise on

(01:44:43):
this show. I don't think there's anything that I would
tell you if you didn't watch Night one. Oh you've
got to go back and see this. I thought that
Seth and Cesaro was excellent. I thought that Sasha Banks
and Bianca bell Air was very good. I thought that
Drew and Lashly was pretty solid in the opener. I
thought that Bad Bunny was worthy of watching. But I
don't think it's like, You've got to go back and

(01:45:04):
see this. This is not some memorable night of Mania.
Other than the fact that the crowd was there, there's
nothing going down in the top ten matches of all
time on this show. You have Braun and Sha McMahon,
which that angle stunk on television, but they got it
right again. Mania is supposed to be a reward show.
It's supposed to be your reward from WWW for a

(01:45:29):
year of probably watching a lot of your favorite guys
get screwed over left and right. To advance and keep
storylines moving and keep interests there, that's the night of
the baby faces usually. So Braun Stroman gets the duke
as he should have, and they did it pretty cleverly.
You do it in a cage match and it's Sha McMahan,

(01:45:51):
so you know he's gonna take a big bump, and
he does. He's fifty one years old, but he's still
got to come off the top of a cage to
a hard w W E canvas that's twelve for fifteen
ft below, which is nuts. But it was a cool
spot to have him nearly escaped the cage and have
Braun actually ripped the cage apart to pull him back

(01:46:12):
inside so he couldn't hit the ground. That was clever.
That was smartly done, and Braun playing the hero here
that's being bullied because he's being called stupid as dumb
as I think that is. It did tell the right
message in the end in terms of him standing up
for everyone that has been called dumb and who has

(01:46:34):
been called stupid and stuff. That was That felt like
kind of an old WrestleMania kind of win. If I
had to give a letter grade tonight one, I don't know.
It is B minus C plus. It was. It was
worthy of my time, and it's a good thing they
split it up into two days because I don't know
that this card was gonna go very well in a
six hour show. We've got another one tonight night too

(01:46:58):
of Mania, The Triple Threat, The Edge and Roman Reigns
and Daniel Brian where they added Daniel Bryan to the
match because somehow they managed to screw up Edge so
bad and make him not likable after coming back from
a from a neck injury so many years ago that
I remember being at WrestleMania to see his last match

(01:47:18):
in Atlanta at WrestleMania seven with my dad, and that
wasn't even last decade. It was the one before that
they screwed up a guy that had been gone that
long and it made him so unlikable that they had
to bring in somebody else to make that match more palatable.

(01:47:41):
One thing, one other point that I wanted to make also,
I think we're gonna see Becky Lynch tonight. I don't
know in what capacity, but I think we're gonna see
her maybe on Bailey's little show that she's doing, maybe
at the end of Oscar Oscar's match there uh that
she's doing for the Championship with Riah Ripley. But one

(01:48:05):
thing about the fans, the fans didn't really crap on
anything in Night one. The test is gonna be this
fiend Randy Orton match, because to say that that's bad
television is a giant understatement on my part. Giant and
I imagine it's gonna be absolutely hideous, and I'm curious

(01:48:31):
with the universe allowed in for the first time in
four team months with a crowd there are they gonna
turn on that match and turn on the company? They
have not done it yet. They were pretty polite to
everything that you saw, and I didn't go over everything
in detail. Weast have time to do it here, but

(01:48:52):
just some of the highlights. They're almost looked pretty good too.
In his debut, Like what you were expecting on seven
ft three guy, that screen is grass to do. I
think he exceeded in low expectations there. I've seen a
lot worse in that spot doing that character. It's interesting.
It's also not great that I feel like A J's
can just kind of a dude now that you can

(01:49:14):
beat and it doesn't mean anything, but but I do
think if you're watching tonight, pay attention to the crowd
in that Randy Orton Fiend match. Let's see if they
give them more leeway because they're just so excited to
be back watching live, or if they actually do turn
on that match. That's the one. If it's gonna happen,
it's gonna happen there. But Mania it's just good to

(01:49:37):
have that back. It felt more like we're getting back
to normal when you see twenty people in the seats
at a WrestleMania again. Sad thing is when we get
done with this, we go back to no fans, and
as far as I know, that doesn't change. Still for
a couple of more months. We're still a ways away
from where we need to be, but at least we're

(01:49:58):
getting a couple of nights where it feels real again.
And man, if you watched it, and you have tried
to watch over the last year, tell me it's not
a million times easier, and it feels a million times
more important and better just to have real human beings
in the seats watching along with you. Let's go to

(01:50:20):
Finley one more time out in Los Angeles find out
what happened, including big win for the Lakers even though
they were down five guys. Yeah, they were down five guys,
including Anthony Davis and Lebron James, but a win for
Los Angeles says they engulf the nets on to one
oh one. Ben McLemore was the story off the bench
for l a A. See Jimmy Riggs seventeen points and

(01:50:42):
that all came in the second half. Dennis Shrewder and
Kyrie Irving got thrown out of this game as well.
The Sun's continue their dominant ways after they pester the
Wizards one to one oh six. Devin Booker twenty seven
points as Phoenix outscored Washington by twenty points in the
third quarter. The Warriors hound the Rockets on to one

(01:51:05):
oh nine, Steph Curry scoring twenty three of his thirty
eight points in the third quarter, and ESPN notes Golden
State big man James Wiseman is scheduled to have an
m r I on his right knee after he landed
on it awkwardly in this game. Ennis Cantor My Goodness
thirty rebounds along with twenty four points to guide the

(01:51:27):
Trailblazers over the Pistons one eighteen to one oh three.
The Jazz get forty two points out of their star
Donovan Mitchell on the way to a one one twelve
win over the Kings. The seventy six ers uh takedown
the Thunder one seventeen to eighty three. Joel mb twenty
seven points and nine rebounds. In baseball, the Dodgers overcome

(01:51:51):
the Nationals nine to five, Chris Taylor had a three
run home run. The Diamondbacks body slam the Reds eight
to three, as since he drops just their second game
of the season. The Blue Jays emasculate the Angels fifteen
to one. Bo Bushette with five rb I and of
course coming up later today, it is the final round

(01:52:11):
at Augusta. The Master's Deki matsu Yama leading the way
eleven under overall, he has a four shot advantage after
a sixty five on Saturday to pull vault the rest
of the field. That sixty five was coupled with a
thirty on the back nine, which saw that scorecard have

(01:52:32):
four birdies and an eagle on fifteen and some critical
par saves, some big up and downs on fourteen after
his approach shot was off the green, and the same
was to be said on eighteen. But he had great
short game in his round, and there are four players
that are four shots back in in second place. Jason

(01:52:55):
Martin back to you, my friend appreciated Brian, Welcome back
Fox Sports Radio Studios. I'm Jason Martin on Twitter at
j mart Radio. John Madden turned eighty five yesterday and
I was trying to think about just what impact he
has had on the world of sports, not just as

(01:53:17):
a coach, not just in the broadcast booth, most famously
of course with Pat Summer All, but also for a
little bit of time without Michael's on Sunday Night Football
before Chris collins Worth took over that spot. Obviously an icon,

(01:53:39):
but the magnitude of what Madden Football became for e
A Sports when it was John Madden Football, before the
second iteration when they took the John off the name,
to what it has led to. If we don't have Madden,
do we ever get NBA Live? Do we ever get

(01:53:59):
those kind of games? Do we ever get m VP Baseball?
I mean, yeah, there was Bases Loaded, and there was RBI,
and there was John Always Quarterback, and there was Techno
Super Bowl. There's always been as long as there's been
a game system, whether in your hand or a console
or a computer, there have been development teams trying to
create games to replicate the sports that we love. So yeah,

(01:54:22):
we would have had something, but Madden has become so
big that it's similar to Xerox. Xerox is a company,
but a lot of people don't say copy. They say Xerox.
A lot of people say Kleenex, it's a tissue. Clean
X is a company. A lot of people say Google.

(01:54:44):
Google is a search engine, but it's a company. Madden
is so synonymous that you just say Madden now. I
remember working at game Stop as a store manager for years,
and people would say Madden and they won't even talk
about football. They were just talking about sports games, and
certainly they would want two K and they would still

(01:55:07):
ask for Madden before they really understood two K. I
remember when the first two K came out, like the
original two K football, not the Dreamcast one, but when
they actually tried to make another run on like PlayStation two.
I think two K five might have been the first one,

(01:55:27):
and it was twenty bucks and we had to beg
people to try and buy that until word of mouth
changed it around. It was just is either Madden or
it was minor leagues. I wonder what Madden is going
to be most known for. It won't be coaching, as
famous as he was as a coach. It might be broadcasting,

(01:55:51):
but I'm not so sure. His biggest legacy is just
gonna be his name attached to one of the most
successful business entities in the history of gaming. Which is
a bigger industry than music. That's a bigger industry than
major motion pictures. Think about that as part of your legacy.

(01:56:12):
As John Madden turned eighty five, Happy birthday to the legend.
We'll be right back to finish up the program. I'm
Jason Martin and this is Fox Sports Radio, finishing up
the program. I hope you will help your family as well.
Never gonna get it wrong when you play back on
this show. One of my favorite artists of all time.
I'm Jason Martin. I'm in Nashville, Tennessee. The show happens

(01:56:32):
to be named after me. It's a Jason Martin show.
I'm on Twitter at j mart Radio. I won't be
with you for the next couple of weeks. Gots to
some important stuff that I gotta handle. So looking forward
to rejoining you. But the next two Sundays I will
not be here. I will tell you this. If you

(01:56:54):
are a person of faith out there, if you're a
fellow believer, uh, keeping my family in your prayers over
the next handful of days, in particular, I would greatly
appreciate it if you would add a see your list
or just keep us in thoughts and things like that.
Not nothing that you need to be particularly worried about here,

(01:57:14):
just really important thing happening in our lives that is
certainly gonna force me to step away for the best
possible reason over the next couple of weeks. And I
appreciate that, say the least, Aaron Rodgers. I wanted to
say this on a way out, Aaron Rodgers, if they

(01:57:37):
offer him the Jeopardy gig, and I know they taped
the entire season in like fifty days or something like that,
the entire year's worth at least, that's I believe that's
how they do it. If they offer him the permanent gig,
I'm not saying they should or they will. If they do,

(01:57:57):
he should quit the NFL. That may sound like a
real hot take. As much as he loves Jeopardy, is
obsessed with it, cares about it, what does he have
left to prove in the NFL that he knows he
can prove. He doesn't want to take less money with

(01:58:21):
Green Bay. Maybe that's spite. Maybe that's I'm gonna get
mine before I get out of here, and maybe that's
we've already got a team I think can win the
Super Bowl. Why do I need to restructure. But you've
seen Brady restructure, You've seen my homes restructure. You've seen
this happening all over the place. To make it easier
to get other guys to win. Is Aaron Rodgers guaranteed

(01:58:42):
another Super Bowl in his career. No. Last year might
have been the best chance he's had. They hosted an
NFC championship game for the first time in his career,
and he lost. He's been hurt, he set a broken
collar bone. He's getting older. A lot more good quarterbacks

(01:59:03):
are in entering the league. The NFC is certainly not
their's to win. They may still have the best chance
against Tampa Bay, but I argue, I think it might
be the Rams. You're still getting hit, you're still going
through off season, you're still going through now an extra
game in the regular season too. Maybe not get it

(01:59:26):
done again. Alex Trebec never aged. You think about jobs
that aid you. You age in the Oval office, But
you don't want aid to hosting Jeopardy, at least not
if you're Alex Trebek. Aaron Rodgers could do that job

(01:59:47):
for three or four decades if he's good, and it
could be a dream job. There's thirty two dudes. It
can be NFL quarterbacks. There's only one that can be
the host of Jeopardy, and that guy might get a
fifteen million all or a year deal for two more
decades and not after ever have to take another hit.

(02:00:08):
Maybe you can do both. But if it came down
to making the choice, if I'm Aaron Rodgers, I'm thinking
real hard about taking that Jeopardy gig. Now. I don't
know that he's gonna be offered to him, but if
it is, if I'm Aaron Rodgers, i might just walk,
Especially if I'm dissatisfied with the packers and there's not
some movement to get me out of there. I can't

(02:00:30):
wheel my way out of there. And it can help
you reshape your image. The image in the NFL is
kind of It's kind of spotty, isn't it. You go
host Jeopardy, you just go host a game show you're
famous for being Aaron Rodgers, and you go host a
beloved deal that you also feel strongly about. I think
it could work. So there's my hot take. If I'm

(02:00:52):
Aaron Rodgers and it comes down to the NFL or Jeopardy,
I'm taking Jeopardy, period I want to thank my crew
in l A for a great job for Sports Sunday
coming up. Brian Know and Andy Ferman will take you
through the next three hours. I'll see you in three weeks.
I'm Jason Martin.

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