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Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.
Today felt like, I know, it's it's September one, and
maybe it's an apropo day because unofficially, do we turn
the page to the fall today, Yes, even though it's not,
it's still technically summer. We have it three more weeks.
Yet you get you get two September one and it's
school and it's you're you're in the fall mode now.

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And today felt like one of those days with with
going with everything going on right like the Mets Dodgers,
biggest series in baseball. It's getaway day, so they're playing
in the late afternoon at shay At City City and
uh for Spurgs just upset because but that was by

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the way, this had this had a feel of when
you run home from school to watch the NLCS day
game and you know, you know you're gonna miss the
very beginning of it, but you're getting home as fast
as you can. You turn on the TV and and
the long shadows at the stadium is they're going late
afternoon in to night, and it's two great teams. It's

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a close game all the way through, and you have
stuff to talk about, and there's controversy and there's why
Mookie Betts doesn't call Gavin lux Off that ball, and
then Met's three run seventh fitting all these things happening,
and then into college football tonight. It just it just
had one of those one of those days like when
I was a kid, and I would go, I gotta
get home fast because because the Mets are I mean,
I mean, the Mets weren't on that often in the

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playoffs when I was a kid, But just one of
those days where there's a playoff baseball game and I
want to run home to watch, because that's a kind
of feel that this series had the last three days,
you know, culminating in the one Today was Clayton Kershaw
today and it was a close game. And now it's hey, Mets, Dodgers,
and LCS. I think everybody would sign up for that
right now, I mean anybody but the Braves. I think
everybody else would sign up for the Mets and the

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Dodgers and LCS. Well, let's bring it on. I mean really,
the circumstance you're describing was my day to day sprinting
home from school and on the South side of Chicago,
Mom would be watching General Hospital. She left the room.
Well what was I going to do? I was gonna
flip on even though I didn't like the Cubs and
most of those years they weren't any good, but it

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was day baseball. You had no idea what the hell
Harry was gonna do next, and your mom would walk
back in and go, I don't like this show anymore.
They keep they keep interrupting it to go to play
a baseball game. I don't like this. Oh you're turning
the channel. Get out of this room. No, no, not. Fortunately,
those are two of my mom's favorite things in the world,
the Cubs and General Hospital. So flipping back and forth

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between them, I was okay. I did not get the
rod for that, I earned it, or maybe not for
many other Uh, in fractions through my youth. But uh,
certainly that one was just more about the celebration of
the English language, as used and described by Harry Carey.
So we got more baseball on the way tonight. You know, hey,

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it's a huge night in sports. It's it's a big
opening night kind of for college footballs. We have a
lot of games on national TV, you know, week zero
week last week. Now we have the big night tonight.
There's more games tomorrow. Everybody's in action this weekend. It's
a fun, fun couple of days here. Um. But yeah,
the big story of the day. Just when you thought

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it was safe, I tell you, you thought, hey, that guy,
they didn't do any celebration of his contract. He's gonna
get shipped out and they're just figuring out the principles.
Maybe they were holding out for another draft pick because
they didn't want to give up another first, like they're
the Lakers. Never underestimate the next ability to screw things up,

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and they don't get Donovan Mitchell. Uh. The trade that
went down today, Utah makes the Donovan Mitchell trade with
the Cleveland Cavaliers. It is a big trade involving three players,
including Colin Sexton Lori Marken in three unprotected first round
picks going to the Utah Jazz in exchange for Donovan Mitchell.

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It's a big deal, but not quite as big as
the deal that could have happened because his time has
gone on. Today, what we have seen from Rick Buker,
who joined us last night and told us this, He
told us that Danny Ainge is specifically being petty and
his pissed at the New York Knicks for a reason.
He's making it personal why he's asking for the moon
these negotiations. We've heard both from Rick Buker and Adrian

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will Narowski that there were huge deals that the Jazz
turned down for Donovan Mitchell. All Right. Rick Buker tweeted
out earlier today that the the big uh offer at
the end, right when when the Knicks and the Jazz,
as we're talking at the end for for what they
wanted for Donovan, for Donovan Mitchell, Uh, the last offer

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was RJ. Barrett Emmanuel quickly and unprotected first round picks
in two thousand twenty four, two thousand twenty six and
some swaps of some other picks. Alright, So it basically
in this deal you'd be getting r J. Barrett Emmanuel
quickly three first round picks in a swap. Apparently that
was no good. Adrian Wizarowski tweeted out that the very

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beginning of the Donovan Mitchell talks, it was r. J.
Barrett and Obi Toppin and Mitchell Robinson and three first
round picks and the Utah Jazz and Danny Ainge said no,
which I'm looking at this going, oh my goodness. So
clearly Danny Ainge was just petty and petulant the entire time.
Um Rick Buker said that Danny Angelin and reports are

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that he is upset at the Knicks brazen nous going
after Donovan Mitchell. So he made this deal with the
Cavaliers where he clearly got less than he could have
gotten with Nick, because any of those deals with the
Knicks are better. Oh but the unprotected first round picks? Okay,
where where are the Cavaliers gonna be picking? They're not
gonna be bad, They're already not bad. They're gonna pick
in the twenties. What does it matter? What do you

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think the unprotected pick is gonna If it's picked in
the twenties, it doesn't matter where it is, So Danny
Ainge cut off his nose despite his face right. This
is where as the day has gone on. Utah Jazz
fans went from a look at Danny Ainge sticking it
to the Knicks too, whoa whoa, Hey, whoa Danny? You
turned down these trades just because you were mad that
the Knicks coveted Donovan Mitchell. Don't you see? This is

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what happens in the NBA, and guys want teams and
they're not afraid to say it, and teams that want
these guys aren't afraid to say it. But you acted
like a teenager who got mad if someone said, no,
I'm not gonna go to the dance with you. So
you just held your breath until and said, I'm gonna
go make a different trade someplace else that wasn't as
good as the one you could make. Danny Ainge is

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going to absolutely destroy the Jazz because of this, because
number one on free agents are gonna look at this
and say, wow, he got mad because Mitchell wanted out,
wanted the Knicks, Gobart wanted out. What did he do?
He sent them to Minnesota and Cleveland. Man, oh, I
don't want that to happen to me. If things go sour,
Danny Ainge is gonna take it personally, and he could

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have gotten a much better package from the Knicks and
he didn't do it, and that's gonna completely hurt the image.
And going forward for the Utah Jazz, you better draft
well if you're Utah, because nobody else is gonna come
play there if this is how it's gonna go. And
if things get get get a little weird, he that
the the guy running the show is gonna get really
petty and petulant, because that's what Danny Ainge did with

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this trade. Now we can we can debate whether he
say the Knicks from themselves or not, but this was
clearly a situation where he got personal. He let business
get personal. He could have gotten so much more from
the Knicks for this trade and instead no, just because
I don't like the Knicks. I don't like the way
they're act. I don't like the way the Knicks are
so happy they're getting done. I don't like the way

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that Leon Rose texted me and to me with a
with a spider emo g at the end. I don't
like that. I don't like me. Did all these things. Oh,
so I'm not trading. So all he did was just
asked for the moon from the Knicks. And and and
that first couple of trades. Both those trades are great trades.
They're better trades and what they got from the Cleveland Cavaliers.
But just because I don't want to send Donovan Mitchell
to the Knicks, I'm gonna make my team be less

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good and have less of a future just because of that.
Danny Ainge is completely nuking the future of the Utah
Jazz with this and and his and his pettiness because
I just didn't want to trade Donovan Mitchell to the
New York Knicks. Well, I mean they didn't put that
poison pill in and and decided to say blank you
right back. So uh, in the end, you you basically

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guys into um yeah, surely I can't use the term,
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I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get
your podcast. Today in the NFL, we everybody woke up
to a really big deal. The Denver Broncos reached agreement
with Russell Wilson on a massive contract extension, but not
massive depending on who you like to talk to. Russell
Wilson is now tied to the Denver Broncos through nine

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through when he's gonna be forty years old. A two
hundred and forty five million dollar contracts extension, including a
hundred and sixty five million guaranteed. Now, this would right
away seem to be Oh, was this a smart deal? Yes,
this is this is good. Russell Wilson is the same
quarterback now at thirty three, that he was when he
was twenty four. Right, he's still active, he still gets

(10:10):
he's a better quarterback, and he's a healthy guy. He's
missed three games because he had the fractured tomb. That's it.
The guy doesn't miss games. A guy takes care of
his body. If you're gonna gamble on anybody being thirty
three years old for a long term deal, okay, Russell
Wilson's kind of the guy. But the overall reaction to
this has been, oh, this is awful for quarterbacks. This

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is terrible for quarterbacks because Russell Wilson is the latest
guy to not set up the future and get more money.
So when it comes time for the later contract extensions,
quarterbacks aren't getting fifty fifty five sixty million dollars a year.
And that's been the overwhelming narrative today as all didn't
do any favors. He didn't do any favors for the
quarterbacks behind him, Kyler Murray didn't do any favors. First

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of all, I'm not gonna cry for Russell Wilson because
he got a hundred and sixty five million dollars guaranteed
today for signing his name. All right, but let's understand
this Okay, this is a fake news story that he
really hurt quarterbacks, because teams are gonna pay whatever they
want to for a quarterback. There's no This is not
like where you sit down at the table together in
Vegas to play blackjack in the four if you decide, hey,

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we're gonna play together, so we can all when we're
gonna do. We're gonna do math, so you're not gonna
hit on this, and I'm only gonna hit when you're
supposed to so we can play against a dealer. No,
teams do what they want to when it comes to quarterbacks.
There's no agreement of Okay, this guy's gonna get this,
this guy's gonna no, it doesn't happen that way. How
how pissed was everybody when the Browns game to Shawn

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Watson two or thirty million dollars guaranteed that was a
horrible decision to make. But that was the Browns. And
as you what did I say at the time, right,
And they're the Browns. They acted out of sorts, And
everybody's gonna get asked that question by agents and players
and the teams are gonna laugh and go, well, that's
the Browns. Yeah, and afterwards you saw what. Okay, Kyler

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Murray got didn't get as much guarantee as Deshaun Watson.
And now here's Russell Wilson didn't get as much guaranteed
as DeShawn Moats. Always they're not hurting quarterbacks. Teams are
gonna pay what they want to. The The Ravens don't
want to give a ton of guaranteed money to Lamar Jackson.
You know what that means becomes a free agent. Somebody
else will do it, but it's not going to be
the Ravens. This is this is not something that is

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building blocks of This quarterback is up next. This is
what he should get. This quarterback is gonna set the market,
then Mahomes will set the market. Again, that's not how
it works. Teams are gonna pay what they want to,
all right. I don't know when everybody's gonna realize each
quarterback negotiation is its own thing and exists in a vacuum. Right,
just look at the deals that are made. No one's
following anything. This is a deal that the quarterback wants.

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They agree to this deal that helps the team. You
know what Russell Wilson wants to win? Right, I want
to win, So you know what, Yeah, this money is enough. Hey,
this is a team friendly ish deal because I know
you're gonna spend the money to try to win because
you want to win. So okay, this is what quarterbacks do, right.
The The flip side is, uh, look at Lebron taking
all the money from the acres. Now they're not going
be able to sign anybody because he feels like I

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gotta make forty five million dollars a year. You're dan
if you do, Dan if you don't. So everybody's decision
is unique. There's no formula that you're moving on. There's
no this ruined it for the next guy. No, if
the Ravens want to give Lamar Jackson three million dollars guaranteed,
they'll do it. If not, they won't, and then somebody
else might. And if they don't want to do it,
then Lamar Jackson is gonna get two fifty million dollars

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garret or whatever it's going to be. Each negotiation is
its own thing. Every owner is different. Every owner has
their own idea of what they want to spend on
a quarterback and not. So to think that this was
a it's a horrible David no, it's a day. Let's
celebrate Russell Wilson getting paid. He's with the team he
wants to be with. He's locked in. He's gonna play
quarterback until he's forty years old in the NFL and
make five hundred million dollars by the time it's over. So, yeah,

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everybody's situation is unique. Yeah, I think the only contract
and keep forgive me if the chronology is a little off.
But wasn't Kirk Cousins the guy that got guaranteed money?
He was everybody got a right and everybody got mad,
like all right, so he opened the door. But every
negotiation thereafter still becomes an alright, what percentage and how

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do you go? And with Baltimore and Lamar Jackson, agent
no agent, whatever, the team is trying to accomplish whether
they believe he should be paid commenturate lye uh for
not not only his career, but looking at what his
numbers are, because their argument is, well, that's not the

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way we run, that's his role is different. And they're
also looking at where his shelf life is, at least
by their estimations, by the offense they run, the hits
he's taken, etcetera. And and maybe that's a larger part
of the negotiation of Hey, we were not guarantee of
this long term deal with a ton of guaranteed money
because of injuries, this, that, the other, uh, whatever, the

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particulars are there when it comes to Russell Wilson, the
numbers are in line with with these other deals. Doesn't
make him the highest doesn't get go into the season, right,
So this is resolved going in. He's gonna be thirty four.
I think it's in November, So it's resolved as they
get into this season, he's not the highest paid player.

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Did the I Watch Flex podcast with with my guy
Dan Bayer a little bit early, and one of the
points he tried to to sell was the the idea
that you know, he doesn't have the bulls eye being
the highest paid quarterback by the deal that he's struck.
Which is kind of interesting, right because remember Matthew Stafford's deal,
remember Kirk Cousins deal. Those are always held against guys.
I don't know that Russell Wilson's will uh in Denver

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and certainly on the nationwide because he's nowhere near what
the Deshaun Watson deal is, right, that's still the benchmark
for all of these new New age deals and this
round of negotiations. So Denver gets their guy. Uh, if
he can stay healthy, you'll have performance. I think he
slipped a bit last year. How much we attribute to

(15:56):
the thumb or not? Uh, And just where we're at
in terms of the downward spiral that Seahattle was starting
to get into before pivoting away from Russell and now
going back to rejuvenating and rebuilding like they did the
first time around when they got Russ and all those
guys that were hungry and and hateful of the draft

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system and went out and overperformed, bring in Marshawn Lynch
and all of a sudden away and off they went.
Not sure, but there's a lot of talent assembled in Denver,
and if he performs like some expect him to, freed
of the shackles of Pete Carroll and Rusk and Cook
and Let's Ride and all of those things, then it'll
it'll be a bargain in short order. Fox Sports Radio

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football with us. It's Jason Cole, Jake Hole. What's happening? Man?

(17:00):
Have been putting up lyric? Curit nother think about it? Okay?
Why is that? Well? And salute to that fan who
went to the ACE game? Who was my cure shirt? Oh?
I thought you were going to salute other fans at
an ACE game? Yeah? Well no that was the guy.
Didn't you ever? Oh? I did not notice the picture
that got released. I gave it a quick scan and

(17:23):
moved on wearing a curit T shirt. See, because I
saw a lot of cure in my timeline based on
when they went into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame and a woman was really excited to interview them.
I'm so excited you guys are going in. Can you
believe you? And he just laughs and looks at it,
goes well, um, not as excited as you are? You

(17:50):
as excited as I am. No, contacting it as it comes.
There we go. They've seen in Oakland since Moneyball DJ right, sorry,
go ahead, I had to do that. Yeah. Better action
than on the Bears offensive line this week? What Leatherwood

(18:13):
and working out collegio Assemily are they bringing buckass back
next week? By the way, you can still rough some
people up. I think he's ready. He's on Twitter, he
talks a good game, they're doing some podcast stuff, so
he's ready. Bucas is always worth a couple of one liners,
no question about it. Yeah. So yeah, that's not that's

(18:34):
not a good look when you let the Raiders out
on six million dollars of R and T for a
guy who, like everybody in the world was like that
dude can't play, like like yeah, like everybody you know
know knows that. Thanks. Feeling pretty good, you know, going
against all the the experts that say they got nobody

(18:57):
that can play and they show b roll A backup
warnerbacks and whatever and not justin fields. But no, thanks
for the Leatherwood stuff. I mean, you should enjoy that
week against the you know both and the rest of
the Fortners defensive one. That could be fun. That should
be really good. No, maybe they get some short fields
off of Trey Lance mishaps that very well may happen,

(19:20):
because let's just say that as we transition into real
football talk, a lot of people in forty Land. Pretty
nervous right now, really really nervous. I mean, they're really
happy to have Garoppolo back, but they realize they're going
to have to go probably game one and two minimum
with Lance, and you know, they should win those two games.

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Like if you can't beat Chicago and Seattle in the
first few games, right, Like, those teams aren't gonna score
a bunch of points, so all you gotta really do
is score seventeen and you should be okay. Yeah, But
here's the thing, Jo, How the hell are the Niners
with trade Lance struggling everything on the road? How are
they a seven and a half point favorite week one
that makes absolutely no sense to me? Well, because it's

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the Bears, because it's it's the Bears, and and like,
who do they have outside of you know, it's you know,
Darnel Money. I mean, I can't Mooney Mooney's name. Come on,
they got some guys Curtis kind yeah, and me only
Anderson coming back, the ghost of Walter Payton in the

(20:30):
in the backfield, um and mar They got some guys
Dennis mckowey, let's go yeah, yeah right, luck Luckman could
be lining up the wing. Um Si Luanches his own
pass Alright, Uh yeah, I mean, look, I think that's
an aggressive number. Not that I'm making ambler, but I

(20:52):
just think that both these teams, certainly the fourty niners
gonna be playing. Look, let's just get a lead, make
sure they don't score much. And again, if we get
the seventeen or twenty, just don't have to take any chances,
right unless something stupid happens in that game, and I
should win it. The question is, but the Bears just

(21:13):
don't have anybody on offensive spears you right now, and
and maybe Field will become that guy someday. And yeah,
you saw some progression. You know, he went through reads this, this,
you know during training camp and the in the pre
season games. I saw where he was looking down the field.
He was looking looking for multiple receivers. He's done some
nice things. But that's that free season speed. How's it

(21:37):
going to be when you gotta play at regular season speed,
and especially against the in the first week of the season. So, like,
I think it's gonna be a challenge for the Bears
to score a lot of points. Which, yeah, I'm not
making some kind of huge bit of analysis right there.
Jason called with us to Jason Smith Show is My

(21:57):
Best Friend Mike Harmon live in the Fox Sport Radios TVs.
Al Right, from that number seven and a half, we
watched Russell Wilson get a contract extension worth twoty five
million dollars today tied them to the Broncos until the
Bobby Benia deal is over with the mets. Um, I'm
okay with this, Like I get, yeah, thirty three, he's
gonna be forty years old. But Wilson is one of

(22:18):
those young thirty three's. He's he's been healthy his entire career.
I wish I was young thirty three. I can tell
you that. So do I. I wish I had wish
I was a young forty five. But I mean I
I have no issue with this deal because, yeah, okay,
you're paying him when he would be thirty eight thirty
nine in theory. But um, Wilson's better now than he
was when he was twenty four, and he's been healthy.

(22:39):
I didn't think this that that was that big of
a deal. If you're gonna take a chance on anybody,
this is a guy worth taking a chance. He takes
care of himself. Um, he's rarely been injured last year
was the first time he's I mean missed an extended time.
Was a freak injury. It wasn't like his thought he
was breaking down. So yeah, this is the guy you
take a chance on. And if any team is proof

(22:59):
that you have to have a um a franchise quarterback
to really be competitive, you know, don't the Denver Broncos
sit there and say, I, um, yeah, we've only been
champions when we've had great quarterbacks, So we better get
a great, great quarterback, whether it's a Way or whether
it's Manning. And now you've got Wilson, So I think

(23:22):
this is a natural one. I also say that as
big as that contract is, within three years or four years,
it's actually gonna be a reasonable number, given where the
cap is gonna grow pretty aggressively here in the next
four or five years. It's still not going to grow
in proportion to the value of teams, and you know,

(23:44):
the owners are still going to be winning overwhelmingly, but
the cap is gonna grow pretty good, you know, probably
ten million dollars a year UM. So by the time
you get to two hund fifty million dollars paying that
much money for a quarterback, is not that outrage, all right,
So let's let's turn our attention to the coaching world.

(24:04):
The apology that how much you believe it as an apology,
I'll leave it to the ears and and the everybody
to process. John Gruden trying to find a way back
into good graces of ownership to get back into the game.
I thought he stunk for about a decade? Can I
can I ask that this? This is an important question,
especially for you too, guys, given your history and what

(24:28):
you have done to the RAMS organization. Tell me the
difference over the last ten years between you guys, know
where this is going Jeff Fisher? What's the difference? Zero?
They're the exact same guy. And as a matter of fact,

(24:50):
I would wait a minute, John Gruden goes to church,
and I don't know if Jeff Fisher goes to church.
I mean maybe he does. John John Gruden goes to church.
Got somebody off, I'm a good guy. I go to church. Yeah, please,
I've been. I've been out with John Garden a couple

(25:10):
of times. But he's not your church going guy, all
right now, so I would take his word that he
says he goes now, yeah, sure, Okay, so yeah, that's
a good one. Um. So yeah, I mean, what's the
difference in those two guys. I mean Gruden is you know,

(25:31):
put it on Twitter days, what is he sixty four
and or at sixty seven and eighty four over his
last ten years including the playoffs, and he has to
one of guns in the playoffs over ten years. He's
never in his career developed a young quarterback, like drafted
a guy and then developed him along the way, made
him a better player, taught he got Derek Carr, you know,

(25:54):
and Derek Derek Carr has not gotten appreciably better in
the last couple of years. Maybe marginally, but not appreciably
better over the last couple of years under Gruden and
oh yeah, Rich gannon um and and Brad Johnson. Like
he's always had relics at quarterbacks. He's never taken a
guy when he had Chris Simms, who frankly he didn't

(26:17):
even want a draft. I mean, that's that's one of
the great stories. When he when he charges into Rich
McKay's office in Tampa Bay and Rich McKay and you know,
Rust and Tim Ruskoll, Time ruscill and Rich McKay are
in the room the night of the draft, they take
Chris Simms the last pick of the third round, and
in the draft Gruden comes in and goes, never take

(26:40):
a quarterback without talking to me first, Right, that's the
only young quarterback you've ever had chance to develop. And
flopped on that one, John. So you know, I just
I don't buy the bs about Bruton. He's good coach. Now.
That's on top of the fact that he's not a
real good guy either. Um, and stuff that he does,

(27:02):
you know, is very much intentional to get a rise
out of people. Is he necessarily a racist? No, I
don't quite believe that. But he's a jerk. So like
you want to get a jerk is not very good coach? Great,
you go at it. I just like that he was
in the belly of the beast for a decade. Now
he's calling it all hot take nonsense, only because he

(27:23):
didn't criticize anybody, probably because they have it. They didn't
offer him another job yet. You know, Oh you wanna
pay me the eight million again? Oh yeah, I'll do that. Unfortunately,
that's not happening, okay, I mean, and it is. He
came in with absolutely zero expectation. Listen, we're moving to Vegas.
It doesn't matter how good. Okay, great, I'll just cash

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those checks and we're gonna stink for a while. All good.
It is all good here and we get there. People
aren't gonna pay attention because we're gonna be in Vegas.
I got like seven years and not have to worry
about winning. Yeah, I mean he played ten years. Literally,
I mean he's getting paid a hundred million dollars over
ten years. So yeah, he never had to worry about winning,

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and he didn't. And he drafted guys like Alex Leatherwood,
I mean, and Josh Jacob is a perfectly nice player,
but boys, Hugh Scream's third round pick, and I just
it was a disaster. So I like, again, I'm all
for giving somebody allowing forgiveness to John Griden and say, Okay,

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you acted like a jerk, and we'll forgive you and
you can you can sort of re enter society and
work in football. You ain't gonna be a head coach now, Like,
I'm not hiring you for that. Sorry. Hey, lastly, Ja Cole,
this is something that's that's starting to gain a little
bit of attention over the course of the day today,
The New York Post Page six has this exclusive that

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one of the reasons that Tom Brady was away from
the Bucks for those eleven days is there's trouble with
him and Giselle and their citing sources that it's about
Tom's rick turned to football. Have you heard anything since
he came back about Haye more into the reasons why
he was going for those eleven days, I mean, outside
of potentially taping The Mass Singer. I haven't heard anything

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that I truly truly believe that at this point. I
don't believe anything like I if it, if it was
something that was pre arranged, it was ten days. I
gotta think that that was something business related that he
simply could not get out of. Now the Mass Singer,
that's why The Mass Singer has some logic to it.
But I still don't I don't trust that either. But

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you know, it was filmed, it was delayed there. You know,
there are a lot of coincidences there. There were they
had to get somebody else on because unfortunately one of
the contestants could not be on. I know that that's
a the actual fact that they couldn't. I can't name
who it was, but one of the contestants this year
was not able to be on at the last minute. Um,

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so there's some you know, there's a lot of smoke there.
I will say. I asked one of his closest friends,
somebody's known him since he was at Michigan. I said,
you know what's going on here? And he goes, look,
it's not about him and Giselle because Giselle told him
to go in ahead and play football. And that's the
guy really knows him. Well. Now, maybe he's not telling

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me as the truth or Tom didn't really tell him
the truth about what Gazelle said to Tom. But you know,
I've heard one thing from a guy at FUS who
knows Brady for twenty five plus years that that's not
what it is. Again, who knows what the real truth is?
I'll say this, it's once, Papa Fox, your once, you're

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your once, your your company, Um and mind too, um
start playing the mass singer. It's gonna get interesting. Like
their ratings gonna be higher than ever as people start
to go was we on the show or not? Like
this has been one of the greatest boosts for that
show ever because people are going to watch and say,

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is it true? Or is it not true? Was he
was he on the show? Or was he not on
the show? And they're going to play it out all
the way to the end, and it's been perfectly played
by Fox. And I will say that another person I
know in the New York media world believe that was
what was thrown out there today on a Fox own property,
obviously um Fox owned newspaper. They believe it's another cover story.

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But that's none of that is any proof, Like, none
of that is absolutely none of that's coming from the
horse's mouth. None of that is coming from somebody who
would absolutely know, or at least that I know. That's
that's where That's how I come down on this. So
I don't trust today's report anymore than I trust anything
else and anybody has said so far. He's on Twitter

(31:53):
at Jason Cole sixty two. That is, at Jason Cole
sixty two. He will should play the Cure on the
way out? Why didn't we get there on the way
because I was gonna say, you're gonna be quoting Cure
lyrics on your Twitter account the next half hour. I
had a whole line ready to go, and you jumped
on it. That's fine. It's in mid season four, that's why.

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So let's see you buddy, We'll talk to you that.
We'll run money pythonlines next week. See yah,