October 28, 2022 • 25 mins
Jason and Mike react to Tom Brady saying post Thursday Night Football that the Buccaneers need to step it up and earn a win, Mac Jones was the chosen one to lead the Patriots, and so much more!
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The way tire buying should be. Now before we get
to Tom Brady, quick note from the NBA, because we
had a couple of big time deals from the NBA
eight tonight, uh k D and Kyrie both had huge
games for the Nets right huge games, Huge games. Uh
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Mavericks win in a huge boner one nine one five.
Luca has forty one fourteen assists, eleven rebounds. Meanwhile k
D has thirty seven, Kyrie has thirty nine and seven rebounds. Um,
They're each averaging over thirty points a game, and the
nets are one in four. This is the reality for
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Brooklyn hey Ben Simmons was three of seven from the field,
seven points, eight boards, four assists, and only four fouls.
They're so lucky the Lakers. That is true from a
national flamethrower kind of thing, no question about it. Marverigs
got fifty three or fifty four points from their bench. Yeah,
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it was a huge a four guys and double figures
off their bench. It was a huge night for them.
But just and Simmons is pulling away in the battle
of will he have more points or fouls this season?
He is now at twenty eight points for the season
and twenty two fouls. So I think that's a that
might be too big a lead for points over fouls
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for him to be able to have to worry about that.
So this might be where that's that moment of separation
actually happens for him. Good for him. And like g
Rey said, you know, even though you're saying hunt uh
in the last game, as he said, it's a work
in Brockers. This guy hasn't been on a basketball court
in a long long time. So to expect him to
be the player he was uh long ago, is I
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think you're kidding yourself. What is interesting is that one
of the guys that was supposed to replace him back
in Philly, um Batist Stable, can't see the court, so
he's holding up a sign can I go in? And
I go in. At least Ben Simmons is getting the
opportunity to battle between points and falls. Now here's the
you know me, I told you, Look, I can't believe
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in that to do anything because this this iteration of
the Big three and now with it, it just hasn't worked.
It's not gonna work now. It's not suddenly going to
work suddenly. K D and Kyrie aren't gonna be motivated
for eight to gets just not gonna happen. But it's
not doom and gloom like. Look, the nets are one
in four right now. But look, I gotta call it like,
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I gotta call it like I see it. Their schedule
has been pretty difficult so far. You're talking about they're
playing all teams in the upper third of the NBA.
Right They had the Pelicans, who are really good. They
played Toronto Memphis, Milwaukee, and Dallas. Right, all those teams
are pretty good. They all project to be pretty good.
They're gonna beat bad teams, right, The Nets are gonna
be The Nets are gonna be a five hundred ish
type team because they'll wind up beating the bad teams
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because on a lot of nights when teams aren't very good,
k D and Kyrie will be enough. It's gonna it's
but it's gonna be about hey, when they get into
the teeth of the playoffs, they're not gonna nearly be
close enough. Who are they gonna get Who's gonna want
to come play there? Right? They have to make some
kind of crazy ass trade in the middle of the
season to even think that maybe they can sniff being
a contender in the playoffs in the East. But their
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overall records gonna be fine. Yes, they're one and four
and Frostberg's right there, lucky the Lakers are owing four.
But they'll it will get better for it, just like
I told you, gonna get better for Tampa Bay after
this week, it's gonna get better for the Nets. But
overall in the playoffs, yeah, no, not believing in them there,
But most nights and the play bad teams. The two
of them, it's gonna be enough to win games. Now,
speaking of the Lakers, we'd be remiss if we didn't
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give a minute or two to the cryptic Lebron Instagram
post about being appreciated. What do you think he meant
by that? Uh, he was upset that Russell Westbrook bought
a house across the street from him. And I think
that's you know, that's that's that, that was what he's
been quote, that's what he's better. How long will you
be taken for granted? And I think it was another shot.
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Remember the angry dunk when he went in, uh you know,
one on two and got hammered and get the foul call,
and then the ball was going back up court there
was a steel He caught it on the wing and
then tried to rip his arm off by dunking as
hard as he could. That that looks to be the
dunk right there, the resolve on his face. Um, but
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who's ever taking Lebron instant anybody in his world? In
his world, they're taking them from man. I look, I'm
all about and I took that personally, and I respect
the Michael Jordan's philosophy thereof Lebron James trying to take
that tact, I don't know. It seems like everybody kisses
his ass so going and suddenly saying you've been taken
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for granted when everything's been tailored for you. It's confusing.
And now in season you're gonna do football commentary about
the optics on that they're owing for. What else you
want him to do if they're not winning basketball back
in the last get those guys to own up to shooting.
Maybe he can work on his Any first responder will
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tell you never try to beat a train after breaking
and take a mile for a train to completely stop.
So when you into a rail crossing stop because trains can't.
Now I mentioned Tom Brady in the Bucks. I do
believe after this week things will get better for them.
A little bit more on that coming up in a
couple of minutes. But Brady just got done at the
podium a little while ago. What did he have to
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say following the worst start to his professional career, first
time Brady's ever been two games under five hundred since
he came into the league, since he started in the NFL,
Let's hear Tom Brady from just a little bit ago
at the podium. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten
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pm Eastern seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
the I Heart Radio app. With ten days before you
get a chance to write this, how hard is it
not to dwell on this and to get to the
next week and a half to Brandon And again, I
don't think anyone feels good. You know, we're lost four
or five, so not where we want to be. But
you know, we haven't earned it, and you know we've
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got to go. We've gotta go earn it. You know,
you gotta go earn it. You gotta fight hard, and
you gotta go figure out how to win games. These
day ten days becoming at the perfect time for this
team right now. You know, I don't whenever we play,
we play, you know, whether it was tonight, whether it
was Sunday. I mean, we gotta win, you know, So
I don't know break and no break. You know, it's
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just I think we just all frustrated we're not getting
the job done. As far as football frustrations that you've
gone through, where does this rank or how does it compare. Uh,
you know, losing. We're you know, we're playing to win,
so you know, losing is no fun for any of us.
We put a lot into it. And uh yeah, we're
just coming up short break. How will you use this
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break now before you guys have to be back, you know,
just to try to figure out, you know, what we
need to do better, you know, things that have worked,
things that haven't worked, and uh, you know, figure if
we can play more consistently, score more points, you know,
put ourselves in a better position to win for the season.
It seems like it's a problem all your longer, the
issues that is holding back this team. Do you feel
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that there's still enough time to turn this thing around?
There is are a quick fix, and we've gotta go
earn it. You've gotta go, you know it's I think
you can, you know, erase what happened the last eight weeks.
You know, we gotta we gotta dig deep, see what
we're all about, come to work, try to improve and
like I said, give ourselves a better chance to win
this Leaderships obviously critical leadership has always been acute. Your
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team's winning. What message do you send to your team
before you to take the break or you what are
you trying to tell? Tell the guys? Will you tell
the guys? Yeah, we talk a lot. I mean we
talk a lot, and a lot of those conversations are private,
you know for us. But you know, we're just trying
to encourage one another and be positive and see if
we can. You know, ultimately comes down to you know,
how we execute and critical moments and you know the
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things we have to do to put ourselves in a
position to win. Tom, You've always told us that it's
not so much about the opponent, it's about what you
guys do, the fact of where you are. Do you
think it might be time to maybe tweak uh and
change a few things on the office. I think we're
gonna try to figure out everything, you know. I think
we're gonna try to, you know again evaluate we have
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a little extra time to see kind of exactly what
we're doing and how we can do better moving forward. Alright,
So there was Brady, a lot of interrupted I want
to ask just so like you're doing to me right now,
the next question I want to ask the next que now,
I want to ask this. I'm gonna ask that question
for Tom Brady. Well, because I asked Tisher to see
if he could uh Russell Beck because that was exactly
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what I wrote down the same thing. It's like, who's
directing traffic here? Where's our baseball guy in the back?
Jim on the side? What are we doing? You had
your question, Let's go to somebody else. You don't get
to do a follow up. You don't get to do
a follow up over there. And that's kind of what
I was waiting to happen. I gotta get mine in
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for my line. Whoa man, I'll tell you now, look,
this is why and we you know things are going
to get better because this is rock bottom. Has been
a very popular phrase. We've mentioned tonight with the Bucks.
This is most likely rock bottom for them, not Sunday
against the Panthers, but now losing on a short week
and getting away. Sometimes a mental break is the best
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thing you can do. And you heard Brady saying, look,
we're gonna get away, We're gonna get back, We're gonna
all figure this out. Right, But just take a look
for a second. Why you can't sit there and cut
bait on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers so far? Look at
the NFC, right, are the Eagles the best team, yes,
and they are right now. They are so far ahead
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of everybody else. The Eagles have the best roster in
the NFC. They got a guy that could win m
vy peaks. Remember I told you before the season, Jalen
Hurts is gonna win the m v P. They got
better this week. They got Robert Quinn. They're probably gonna
get Trabisky. They're gonna add Dick. But guess everybody from
the Bears. They're add who's good. Who's the next best
team in the NFC record wise? The Giants are really
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believing in the Giants or they just off to a
nice little start here, playing good defense, getting optimal running
from se Kwon Barkley in a throwback. That's the second
best team record wise. Then you got the Vikings. Are
you believing in the Vikings? Right? No? These teams at
the top, okay, they're all really gettable. And then you
get to the rest of the NFC and it's awful
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and looked. The Falcons are three and four in there
in first place. The Seahawks are in first place in
the NFC West, right, But and look at the NFC South.
None of those teams are equipped to win right now,
they're none of them are really trying to win. The Falcons.
I thought they'd have they'd be oh and seven at
this point because they'd be tanking because they're starting Marcus
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Mariota and they're just saying, we're just waiting to get
somebody this year in the draft, and whether it's Bryce
Young or c. J. Stroud, whoever, we're gonna do that.
But because the NFC is so bad, the Falcons are
sitting at three and four right the Carolina Panthers, yes,
we're gonna go for it. We're getting Baker Mayfield. Baker
Mayfield got hurt, he's terrible, he's back healthy. Guess what
he's backing up p J. Walker where traded Christian McCaffrey.
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Other guys could follow suit, But hey, we're two and five.
Now we're two and five. We stink too. And the Saints,
who you thought maybe they were gonna be the team
because potentially Jamis Winston could be the quarterback he was
before he got hurt after seven weeks last year, and
oh James, no, now Jamis can't even get his job
back to Andy Dalton, right, and Andy Dalton who the
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team runs better under Andy Dalton. They do what They're
averaging twice as many points with Dalton as they were
Jamis Winston. All three of these teams are awful. The
Falcons are gonna come back to reality very soon and
start losing a lot of games in a row. Caroline
is not gonna win the Saints. None of these teams
are gonna suddenly start stacking wins together. The only team
that potentially could do this is Tampa Bay. They also
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have the best quarterback in the division. So yeah, Tampa
is still gonna win this division. They're still gonna come
out of it, and they may they maybe nine and eight,
maybe ten and seven if they get up there, but
nine and eight maybe more likely because saying in a a
tenant seven, they're only go lose two more games all year.
So yeah, no, eventually they're gonna get out of it
and that and that's how it's gonna finish, and Brady's
gonna wind up saying, hey, we won the division and
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we're gonna have to We're gonna host the Giants in
a in a playoff game, and is I'm gonna have
to play and get by the Giants to get to
the super Bowl and win again. The team that's been
in my way. The only team that's really stopped me
from winning Super Bowls on a regular basis has been
the Giants, and I'm gonna have to play them again.
Oh but yes, good times are coming ahead for them
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because this division in the NFC is terrible. So yeah,
they can stack wins going on. I feel pretty good
about Tampa Bay going forward. Yeah, as we look at
their squad, the Shack Barrett injury looms large. They need
to be able to get off the field. So the
defense needs to have their go see the Wizard and
get some heart kind of moment. Todd Bowls needs to
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figure that part out. Left Wich and the play calling
some confusion. Like Brady average forty two passing and tampas
a year ago, he's averaging about forty five right now.
That's not good for business. Uh So you need to
try to find a little more balance as it goes,
or you need to figure out how to slow up
some of that pressure up the gut since he is
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so grossly immobile at this point, he's making Matt Ryan
looks pride. That's not good for not good for anybody. Um,
but you've you've had a bunch of drops, a little
bit of misscommunication. Maybe the ten days you can get
on board that. Then you've got two games ahead of
your bye week. So the next month does give an opportunity,
UH to reconfigure some things. The run game needs to
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be better. Leonard four nettes essentially falling down. That's his
rushing average, falling down in one or two bounces forward again,
not good for business. Pretty good as a pass catcher
in a bunch of games this year, but need balance.
You can't have nine play two minute drives and send
the defense back out there like they did tonight against Baltimore.
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That's not gonna be good for for anybody, and it's
not gonna give you any chance to create separation. But
to your point, yeah, they're winning the division. Caroline is
gonna do everything they can going forward. I think got
in house. They were probably a little salty they beat
the Buccaneers, to be honest with the hell's going on here.
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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My best friend Mike Harmon, any first responder, I'll tell
you never try to beat a train after breaking and
take a mile for a train to completely stop. So
when you come to a rail crossing stop because trains
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can't tight shirt? Do you hate Halloween? I mean, because
you know this is you know, Look, research has shown
around the holidays people like to enjoy in here certain
music and it's Halloween and people like scary Halloween type music.
If you you don't seem to play it like ever,
So I'm wondering if you have some kind of bad
Halloween memory. So you know what's funny as you asked
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that one of my favorite Disney movies is actually Nightmare
Before Christmas, which actually is a Christmas movie, not in
a Halloween movie. But that's that's for another time. No,
So basically it's not even Halloween yet, So why would
I why would have played? Right? But we're leading up
to Halloween, like you play Christmas music leading up to
christ lead after it's over. Christmas is a holiday. Halloween
is not a holiday. It's technically a holiday. It's not
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off for Halloween, it's not holiday. The banks aren't closed
on Halloween. No, it doesn't matter, people offices open Halloween. Youah,
but people leave work early. But but it doesn't matter.
Why can't we celebrate with me? We can celebrate, but
we'll do it on Halloween. Like, there's a whole difference.
Christmas time is a season, so it's an entire month.
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People are jolly happy, they're buying presents, they're decorating. Halloweens
a one day thing. It's not like a whole event. Dude.
You go to Costco on the fourth of July and
they're already it's Christmas. Now, Halloween decorated, it's Christmas, Alda,
it's Halloween. Oh yeah now and oh no, no no,
the Halloween season and Costco is over. It's been Christmas
for a while. But once you at the fourth of July,
it be Halloween season. Dude, this hay in Costco. Sir,
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this is a Wendy's You know how you solve all issues?
You just keep playing time in the season by the zombies.
That's not even songs by groups like like like the Cranberries,
who did zombie or something didn't. We're lucky if you
got one Monday, okay, and then we'll get the holiday
holiday holiday music Tuesday. Yes, no, yeah, because you know
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what tie Shirts gonna do. He's gonna do what he
does every year and only play It's the most wonderful time,
like every eight minutes, the Belichuck mash up. It is that. No,
we do get that. It's literally like no, like literally
is there a tears for Fears Christmas? I'll make one
tears for fears? What a depressing Christmas? That? What? How
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is everyone wants to rule the world depressing? Do you
want to rule because because not everybody can rule the
way everybody wants to rule it though that's the fun, right, No,
but not everybody can. It's a it's a you can't
do it mann. Kurt Smith releases a Christmas song, So
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we got that going for us. This is Christmas. Ty
Shirts only going to play the most, but we're in
you guys, keep this up and Christmas is going to
be canceled. That's the most wonderful That's the only one
he plays. And then you gotta stick with what you know.
Twitter and out about a Fresca Mike Andts swollen Dome
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Many first responder. I'll tell you never try to beat
a train after breaking can take a mile for a
train to completely stop, so when you come to a
rail crossing stop, because trains can't. If Tom Brady is
not enjoying football right now and certainly know three game
losing streak or sitting there, worst start of his career
as a starting quarterback two games under five, the only
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thing that could potentially give him joy right now is
I'm gonna go on the internet and I'm gonna click around,
and I want to see what's being said and what
Bill Belichick is saying about the quarterback position with the Patriots,
because that's got to be the only place he gets
any kind of laughs right now, because that is how
desperate and how ridiculous things are with the Patriots Belichick today,
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he sounds like a rookie head coach. Now, I don't
know what to do. I'm in over my head. Do
I start Mac Jones? Do I not? Do I start
Bailey's Appy? Do I not? Mac Jones was a starter
coming off a year where he was okay overrated, but
still the guy was the eighteenth choice for the Pro Bowl.
So he went, Now you hate him. Now he starts
a season, he gets hurt. Bailey's Appy comes in and
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and plays like five minutes and suddenly, Oh, I'm not
gonna guarantee. I'm giving Mac Jones the job back. Bailey's
Appy plays, Okay. Then Mac Jones comes back, Oh, I'm
healthy enough to play. We wanted you to get surgery.
I didn't want to get surgery. Apparently he didn't need
to get surgery because he's back. So he plays, and
he plays a couple of series and then he comes
out and Bailey's Appy comes in, and then Belichick says
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after the game, well, had the game been close, Matt
Jones would have gone back in. Then today Belichick says,
well Mac wasn't ready to play the whole game on
on Monday. Wait, wait, my head is gonna explode. Either
you're healthy enough to play or you're not. Right, you're
not somewhat healthier, you're playing a little bit of No,
you're either healthy enough to play or you're not. So
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the whole plan was, Hey, he's back, but he's not
a d percent healthy, So he's gonna play, and then
I take him out and go to Bailey's Appy. But
he's healthy enough to go back in if the game
was close. What the hell is Belichick even saying? Man,
and you say you sit here and tell me this
guy's a genius. I mean, I say this in full
knowledge that the Jet they're gonna go into New York
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this week and beat the Jets, and I'm gonna be
really upset. But I mean, come on, man, you can't
sit here and tell me. Oh yeah. But if this
was any other head coach, they'd be laughed out of
the NFL. But it's Belichick and he doesn't. He's surly
what he says, and it's I can't believe you guys
are asking me these questions. Stop with these questions, guys,
stops stop, stop stop. Nobody would do this, right. They
don't do this in Detroit, the Jets don't do this.
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All the other franchises you want to laugh at nobody
else doesn't. But the Patriots are doing it. And it's
a well Belichick may no no stop stop stop stop
stop stop. Clearly Tom Brady was the guy who was
responsible for this dynasty, because Belichick is doing these things
now that he's in full control of the team like
he always was. But he doesn't have Tom Brady. We
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told just a couple of nights ago, congratulations to everybody
else who took that take. The next day, that Tom
Brady covered up so many things because now you have
a situation of Belichick dealing with quarterbacks and he clearly
doesn't know what to do. I'm gonna play both of them.
I guarantee you he'll play both of these guys the
rest of the season. If I said to you, Mike Harmon,
three and a half is the number of times he
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changes quarterbacks the rest of the way, would you take
the over or the under, I'm you're taking the under.
I'm taking the over. I'm taking the stop. Even you
don't believe that he he's gonna go from mac Jones
to Zappi back to I think I think it. Mac
Jones is healthy. Mac Jones is his guy. He's gonna
play the hot hand, just like he doesn't running back
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with Stevenson and Harris and how I like Stevens. I'm
gonna play the highest done that for two years, so
that's not new. You don't pay and some isolated instances
of Leonard four nets and Lagarrett blunts, but you don't
play the hot handed quarterback. He can't do. You can
play your quarterback. But this is what he's doing. I'm
just gonna take guys in it. Out. I'm telling you,
he may have both guys line up a quarterback on
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the same play and they don't know who's who gets
the ball. Coach, you guys, figure it out. We have
to play call you guys gotta figure it out. Make
it work. Yeah, nobody Bell and Jack hasn't had the
chance to grab four net which is why I went
back on my on on my other other side. Uh
and power backs of Lagarrett Blunt. But but the idea
of being the same. He's never committed to running backs
and he had Brady. What do you do? It's a
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ronco set it and forget it. I just like that.
You're into your next phase of fever. Dream of the
battle is right now. It is really raging at a
whole other level because the Bucketeers stink right now three
and five still gonna win their division. And you've got
the Patriots coming off and getting bludgeoned by the Bears,
searching for an identity, and Bill Belijack waving at reporters
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while giving them nonsensical answers. What did I say on Monday? Now,
let's just mix that up on Tuesday just enough to
keep them guessing. That's where we're at it's it's a mess,
but I would take the under on that. I think
unless Mac Jones gets hurt, he's gonna be the guy.
It doesn't matter mac Jones plays bad for four series,
it's back. It's Bailey's Appy in the second quarter, and
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if Bailey's Appy plays badly against the Jets, it's mac
Jones again at halftime. I mean, he's already shown I'll
do it. I've shown i'll do it. You read he
really said his plan was to play both quarterbacks against
again on Monday against the Bears. We're gonna play both guys.
What what are you talking about? Man? What are you doing?
What do you mean? This could be a digious drop
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to tie shirt in the middle of it. Take what
do you say? What you mean? I understand? Listen, Mac
Max is gonna be our guy in the first and
third quarter. Bail, He's gonna come in second and fourth quarter. Uh,
something else happens. We have another guy ready, but we
go to overtime, we have a completely different quarterback. Uh,
maybe Drew bled So coming in. But first and third
is gonna be Max, second and fourth is gonna be Baile.
He's happy, coach, Why are you doing that. Guys, don't
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do this to me. Don't ask me stupid questions like this.
I mean, why am I doing this? Don't ask me
that we're on I'm only talking about the Jets. Yes,
we're asking, we're asking about the Jets. Why are you
doing this against the Jets? We're only talking about the
Jet Guys, Guys, what are you doing? What are you?
What are you doing? What are you doing? I mean,
he could say stuff like that and that would be
his response. Dude, he might run wildcat the whole time
against the Jets. You have no idea. You know he's
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all well, listen, you know how much he loves Remandre Stevens.
You know he's dying, and just snap the ball to
him and let him go. Reminder. You just go, man,
you just go, go, go, go go. Well, well, why
did you do that? More against the Bears six point
game at halftime and quote unquote had not gotten away
at that point because he wanted to play both quarterbacks
and see what happens. That was why Why did you
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try to sound like Archie Bunker while you said it?
Listen to me, up Edith, he wanted to play two quarterbacks.
It ain't the first time it's happened. That would be
my Archie Punker. Oh you're on, You're on one tonight.
Oh yeah, you elect you sugar You dipping in with
the Halloween gandy earlier on? No, no, no, actually no,
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I'm drinking my diet zero sugar dr pepper cherry. Oh no,
feeling pretty good right now. That sounds like a Starbucks
drinking horribly feeling good man, No diet cherry or actually
just zero sugar cherry dr pepper. It's a lot, it's
a lot to say stuff, but it tastes good.
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to Tom Brady, quick note from the NBA, because we
had a couple of big time deals from the NBA
eight tonight, uh k D and Kyrie both had huge
games for the Nets right huge games, Huge games. Uh
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Mavericks win in a huge boner one nine one five.
Luca has forty one fourteen assists, eleven rebounds. Meanwhile k
D has thirty seven, Kyrie has thirty nine and seven rebounds. Um,
They're each averaging over thirty points a game, and the
nets are one in four. This is the reality for
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Brooklyn hey Ben Simmons was three of seven from the field,
seven points, eight boards, four assists, and only four fouls.
They're so lucky the Lakers. That is true from a
national flamethrower kind of thing, no question about it. Marverigs
got fifty three or fifty four points from their bench. Yeah,
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it was a huge a four guys and double figures
off their bench. It was a huge night for them.
But just and Simmons is pulling away in the battle
of will he have more points or fouls this season?
He is now at twenty eight points for the season
and twenty two fouls. So I think that's a that
might be too big a lead for points over fouls
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for him to be able to have to worry about that.
So this might be where that's that moment of separation
actually happens for him. Good for him. And like g
Rey said, you know, even though you're saying hunt uh
in the last game, as he said, it's a work
in Brockers. This guy hasn't been on a basketball court
in a long long time. So to expect him to
be the player he was uh long ago, is I
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think you're kidding yourself. What is interesting is that one
of the guys that was supposed to replace him back
in Philly, um Batist Stable, can't see the court, so
he's holding up a sign can I go in? And
I go in. At least Ben Simmons is getting the
opportunity to battle between points and falls. Now here's the
you know me, I told you, Look, I can't believe
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in that to do anything because this this iteration of
the Big three and now with it, it just hasn't worked.
It's not gonna work now. It's not suddenly going to
work suddenly. K D and Kyrie aren't gonna be motivated
for eight to gets just not gonna happen. But it's
not doom and gloom like. Look, the nets are one
in four right now. But look, I gotta call it like,
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I gotta call it like I see it. Their schedule
has been pretty difficult so far. You're talking about they're
playing all teams in the upper third of the NBA.
Right They had the Pelicans, who are really good. They
played Toronto Memphis, Milwaukee, and Dallas. Right, all those teams
are pretty good. They all project to be pretty good.
They're gonna beat bad teams, right, The Nets are gonna
be The Nets are gonna be a five hundred ish
type team because they'll wind up beating the bad teams
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because on a lot of nights when teams aren't very good,
k D and Kyrie will be enough. It's gonna it's
but it's gonna be about hey, when they get into
the teeth of the playoffs, they're not gonna nearly be
close enough. Who are they gonna get Who's gonna want
to come play there? Right? They have to make some
kind of crazy ass trade in the middle of the
season to even think that maybe they can sniff being
a contender in the playoffs in the East. But their
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overall records gonna be fine. Yes, they're one and four
and Frostberg's right there, lucky the Lakers are owing four.
But they'll it will get better for it, just like
I told you, gonna get better for Tampa Bay after
this week, it's gonna get better for the Nets. But
overall in the playoffs, yeah, no, not believing in them there,
But most nights and the play bad teams. The two
of them, it's gonna be enough to win games. Now,
speaking of the Lakers, we'd be remiss if we didn't
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give a minute or two to the cryptic Lebron Instagram
post about being appreciated. What do you think he meant
by that? Uh, he was upset that Russell Westbrook bought
a house across the street from him. And I think
that's you know, that's that's that, that was what he's
been quote, that's what he's better. How long will you
be taken for granted? And I think it was another shot.
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Remember the angry dunk when he went in, uh you know,
one on two and got hammered and get the foul call,
and then the ball was going back up court there
was a steel He caught it on the wing and
then tried to rip his arm off by dunking as
hard as he could. That that looks to be the
dunk right there, the resolve on his face. Um, but
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who's ever taking Lebron instant anybody in his world? In
his world, they're taking them from man. I look, I'm
all about and I took that personally, and I respect
the Michael Jordan's philosophy thereof Lebron James trying to take
that tact, I don't know. It seems like everybody kisses
his ass so going and suddenly saying you've been taken
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for granted when everything's been tailored for you. It's confusing.
And now in season you're gonna do football commentary about
the optics on that they're owing for. What else you
want him to do if they're not winning basketball back
in the last get those guys to own up to shooting.
Maybe he can work on his Any first responder will
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tell you never try to beat a train after breaking
and take a mile for a train to completely stop.
So when you into a rail crossing stop because trains can't.
Now I mentioned Tom Brady in the Bucks. I do
believe after this week things will get better for them.
A little bit more on that coming up in a
couple of minutes. But Brady just got done at the
podium a little while ago. What did he have to
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say following the worst start to his professional career, first
time Brady's ever been two games under five hundred since
he came into the league, since he started in the NFL,
Let's hear Tom Brady from just a little bit ago
at the podium. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten
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pm Eastern seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and
the I Heart Radio app. With ten days before you
get a chance to write this, how hard is it
not to dwell on this and to get to the
next week and a half to Brandon And again, I
don't think anyone feels good. You know, we're lost four
or five, so not where we want to be. But
you know, we haven't earned it, and you know we've
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got to go. We've gotta go earn it. You know,
you gotta go earn it. You gotta fight hard, and
you gotta go figure out how to win games. These
day ten days becoming at the perfect time for this
team right now. You know, I don't whenever we play,
we play, you know, whether it was tonight, whether it
was Sunday. I mean, we gotta win, you know, So
I don't know break and no break. You know, it's
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just I think we just all frustrated we're not getting
the job done. As far as football frustrations that you've
gone through, where does this rank or how does it compare. Uh,
you know, losing. We're you know, we're playing to win,
so you know, losing is no fun for any of us.
We put a lot into it. And uh yeah, we're
just coming up short break. How will you use this
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break now before you guys have to be back, you know,
just to try to figure out, you know, what we
need to do better, you know, things that have worked,
things that haven't worked, and uh, you know, figure if
we can play more consistently, score more points, you know,
put ourselves in a better position to win for the season.
It seems like it's a problem all your longer, the
issues that is holding back this team. Do you feel
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that there's still enough time to turn this thing around?
There is are a quick fix, and we've gotta go
earn it. You've gotta go, you know it's I think
you can, you know, erase what happened the last eight weeks.
You know, we gotta we gotta dig deep, see what
we're all about, come to work, try to improve and
like I said, give ourselves a better chance to win
this Leaderships obviously critical leadership has always been acute. Your
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team's winning. What message do you send to your team
before you to take the break or you what are
you trying to tell? Tell the guys? Will you tell
the guys? Yeah, we talk a lot. I mean we
talk a lot, and a lot of those conversations are private,
you know for us. But you know, we're just trying
to encourage one another and be positive and see if
we can. You know, ultimately comes down to you know,
how we execute and critical moments and you know the
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things we have to do to put ourselves in a
position to win. Tom, You've always told us that it's
not so much about the opponent, it's about what you
guys do, the fact of where you are. Do you
think it might be time to maybe tweak uh and
change a few things on the office. I think we're
gonna try to figure out everything, you know. I think
we're gonna try to, you know again evaluate we have
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a little extra time to see kind of exactly what
we're doing and how we can do better moving forward. Alright,
So there was Brady, a lot of interrupted I want
to ask just so like you're doing to me right now,
the next question I want to ask the next que now,
I want to ask this. I'm gonna ask that question
for Tom Brady. Well, because I asked Tisher to see
if he could uh Russell Beck because that was exactly
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what I wrote down the same thing. It's like, who's
directing traffic here? Where's our baseball guy in the back?
Jim on the side? What are we doing? You had
your question, Let's go to somebody else. You don't get
to do a follow up. You don't get to do
a follow up over there. And that's kind of what
I was waiting to happen. I gotta get mine in
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for my line. Whoa man, I'll tell you now, look,
this is why and we you know things are going
to get better because this is rock bottom. Has been
a very popular phrase. We've mentioned tonight with the Bucks.
This is most likely rock bottom for them, not Sunday
against the Panthers, but now losing on a short week
and getting away. Sometimes a mental break is the best
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thing you can do. And you heard Brady saying, look,
we're gonna get away, We're gonna get back, We're gonna
all figure this out. Right, But just take a look
for a second. Why you can't sit there and cut
bait on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers so far? Look at
the NFC, right, are the Eagles the best team, yes,
and they are right now. They are so far ahead
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of everybody else. The Eagles have the best roster in
the NFC. They got a guy that could win m
vy peaks. Remember I told you before the season, Jalen
Hurts is gonna win the m v P. They got
better this week. They got Robert Quinn. They're probably gonna
get Trabisky. They're gonna add Dick. But guess everybody from
the Bears. They're add who's good. Who's the next best
team in the NFC record wise? The Giants are really
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believing in the Giants or they just off to a
nice little start here, playing good defense, getting optimal running
from se Kwon Barkley in a throwback. That's the second
best team record wise. Then you got the Vikings. Are
you believing in the Vikings? Right? No? These teams at
the top, okay, they're all really gettable. And then you
get to the rest of the NFC and it's awful
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and looked. The Falcons are three and four in there
in first place. The Seahawks are in first place in
the NFC West, right, But and look at the NFC South.
None of those teams are equipped to win right now,
they're none of them are really trying to win. The Falcons.
I thought they'd have they'd be oh and seven at
this point because they'd be tanking because they're starting Marcus
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Mariota and they're just saying, we're just waiting to get
somebody this year in the draft, and whether it's Bryce
Young or c. J. Stroud, whoever, we're gonna do that.
But because the NFC is so bad, the Falcons are
sitting at three and four right the Carolina Panthers, yes,
we're gonna go for it. We're getting Baker Mayfield. Baker
Mayfield got hurt, he's terrible, he's back healthy. Guess what
he's backing up p J. Walker where traded Christian McCaffrey.
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Other guys could follow suit, But hey, we're two and five.
Now we're two and five. We stink too. And the Saints,
who you thought maybe they were gonna be the team
because potentially Jamis Winston could be the quarterback he was
before he got hurt after seven weeks last year, and
oh James, no, now Jamis can't even get his job
back to Andy Dalton, right, and Andy Dalton who the
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team runs better under Andy Dalton. They do what They're
averaging twice as many points with Dalton as they were
Jamis Winston. All three of these teams are awful. The
Falcons are gonna come back to reality very soon and
start losing a lot of games in a row. Caroline
is not gonna win the Saints. None of these teams
are gonna suddenly start stacking wins together. The only team
that potentially could do this is Tampa Bay. They also
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have the best quarterback in the division. So yeah, Tampa
is still gonna win this division. They're still gonna come
out of it, and they may they maybe nine and eight,
maybe ten and seven if they get up there, but
nine and eight maybe more likely because saying in a a
tenant seven, they're only go lose two more games all year.
So yeah, no, eventually they're gonna get out of it
and that and that's how it's gonna finish, and Brady's
gonna wind up saying, hey, we won the division and
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we're gonna have to We're gonna host the Giants in
a in a playoff game, and is I'm gonna have
to play and get by the Giants to get to
the super Bowl and win again. The team that's been
in my way. The only team that's really stopped me
from winning Super Bowls on a regular basis has been
the Giants, and I'm gonna have to play them again.
Oh but yes, good times are coming ahead for them
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because this division in the NFC is terrible. So yeah,
they can stack wins going on. I feel pretty good
about Tampa Bay going forward. Yeah, as we look at
their squad, the Shack Barrett injury looms large. They need
to be able to get off the field. So the
defense needs to have their go see the Wizard and
get some heart kind of moment. Todd Bowls needs to
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figure that part out. Left Wich and the play calling
some confusion. Like Brady average forty two passing and tampas
a year ago, he's averaging about forty five right now.
That's not good for business. Uh So you need to
try to find a little more balance as it goes,
or you need to figure out how to slow up
some of that pressure up the gut since he is
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so grossly immobile at this point, he's making Matt Ryan
looks pride. That's not good for not good for anybody. Um,
but you've you've had a bunch of drops, a little
bit of misscommunication. Maybe the ten days you can get
on board that. Then you've got two games ahead of
your bye week. So the next month does give an opportunity,
UH to reconfigure some things. The run game needs to
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be better. Leonard four nettes essentially falling down. That's his
rushing average, falling down in one or two bounces forward again,
not good for business. Pretty good as a pass catcher
in a bunch of games this year, but need balance.
You can't have nine play two minute drives and send
the defense back out there like they did tonight against Baltimore.
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That's not gonna be good for for anybody, and it's
not gonna give you any chance to create separation. But
to your point, yeah, they're winning the division. Caroline is
gonna do everything they can going forward. I think got
in house. They were probably a little salty they beat
the Buccaneers, to be honest with the hell's going on here.
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(15:16):
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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My best friend Mike Harmon, any first responder, I'll tell
you never try to beat a train after breaking and
take a mile for a train to completely stop. So
when you come to a rail crossing stop because trains
(15:38):
can't tight shirt? Do you hate Halloween? I mean, because
you know this is you know, Look, research has shown
around the holidays people like to enjoy in here certain
music and it's Halloween and people like scary Halloween type music.
If you you don't seem to play it like ever,
So I'm wondering if you have some kind of bad
Halloween memory. So you know what's funny as you asked
(15:59):
that one of my favorite Disney movies is actually Nightmare
Before Christmas, which actually is a Christmas movie, not in
a Halloween movie. But that's that's for another time. No,
So basically it's not even Halloween yet, So why would
I why would have played? Right? But we're leading up
to Halloween, like you play Christmas music leading up to
christ lead after it's over. Christmas is a holiday. Halloween
is not a holiday. It's technically a holiday. It's not
(16:20):
off for Halloween, it's not holiday. The banks aren't closed
on Halloween. No, it doesn't matter, people offices open Halloween. Youah,
but people leave work early. But but it doesn't matter.
Why can't we celebrate with me? We can celebrate, but
we'll do it on Halloween. Like, there's a whole difference.
Christmas time is a season, so it's an entire month.
(16:40):
People are jolly happy, they're buying presents, they're decorating. Halloweens
a one day thing. It's not like a whole event. Dude.
You go to Costco on the fourth of July and
they're already it's Christmas. Now, Halloween decorated, it's Christmas, Alda,
it's Halloween. Oh yeah now and oh no, no no,
the Halloween season and Costco is over. It's been Christmas
for a while. But once you at the fourth of July,
it be Halloween season. Dude, this hay in Costco. Sir,
(17:03):
this is a Wendy's You know how you solve all issues?
You just keep playing time in the season by the zombies.
That's not even songs by groups like like like the Cranberries,
who did zombie or something didn't. We're lucky if you
got one Monday, okay, and then we'll get the holiday
holiday holiday music Tuesday. Yes, no, yeah, because you know
(17:27):
what tie Shirts gonna do. He's gonna do what he
does every year and only play It's the most wonderful time,
like every eight minutes, the Belichuck mash up. It is that. No,
we do get that. It's literally like no, like literally
is there a tears for Fears Christmas? I'll make one
tears for fears? What a depressing Christmas? That? What? How
(17:51):
is everyone wants to rule the world depressing? Do you
want to rule because because not everybody can rule the
way everybody wants to rule it though that's the fun, right, No,
but not everybody can. It's a it's a you can't
do it mann. Kurt Smith releases a Christmas song, So
(18:12):
we got that going for us. This is Christmas. Ty
Shirts only going to play the most, but we're in
you guys, keep this up and Christmas is going to
be canceled. That's the most wonderful That's the only one
he plays. And then you gotta stick with what you know.
Twitter and out about a Fresca Mike Andts swollen Dome
(18:34):
Many first responder. I'll tell you never try to beat
a train after breaking can take a mile for a
train to completely stop, so when you come to a
rail crossing stop, because trains can't. If Tom Brady is
not enjoying football right now and certainly know three game
losing streak or sitting there, worst start of his career
as a starting quarterback two games under five, the only
(18:55):
thing that could potentially give him joy right now is
I'm gonna go on the internet and I'm gonna click around,
and I want to see what's being said and what
Bill Belichick is saying about the quarterback position with the Patriots,
because that's got to be the only place he gets
any kind of laughs right now, because that is how
desperate and how ridiculous things are with the Patriots Belichick today,
(19:17):
he sounds like a rookie head coach. Now, I don't
know what to do. I'm in over my head. Do
I start Mac Jones? Do I not? Do I start
Bailey's Appy? Do I not? Mac Jones was a starter
coming off a year where he was okay overrated, but
still the guy was the eighteenth choice for the Pro Bowl.
So he went, Now you hate him. Now he starts
a season, he gets hurt. Bailey's Appy comes in and
(19:40):
and plays like five minutes and suddenly, Oh, I'm not
gonna guarantee. I'm giving Mac Jones the job back. Bailey's
Appy plays, Okay. Then Mac Jones comes back, Oh, I'm
healthy enough to play. We wanted you to get surgery.
I didn't want to get surgery. Apparently he didn't need
to get surgery because he's back. So he plays, and
he plays a couple of series and then he comes
out and Bailey's Appy comes in, and then Belichick says
(20:03):
after the game, well, had the game been close, Matt
Jones would have gone back in. Then today Belichick says,
well Mac wasn't ready to play the whole game on
on Monday. Wait, wait, my head is gonna explode. Either
you're healthy enough to play or you're not. Right, you're
not somewhat healthier, you're playing a little bit of No,
you're either healthy enough to play or you're not. So
(20:24):
the whole plan was, Hey, he's back, but he's not
a d percent healthy, So he's gonna play, and then
I take him out and go to Bailey's Appy. But
he's healthy enough to go back in if the game
was close. What the hell is Belichick even saying? Man,
and you say you sit here and tell me this
guy's a genius. I mean, I say this in full
knowledge that the Jet they're gonna go into New York
(20:45):
this week and beat the Jets, and I'm gonna be
really upset. But I mean, come on, man, you can't
sit here and tell me. Oh yeah. But if this
was any other head coach, they'd be laughed out of
the NFL. But it's Belichick and he doesn't. He's surly
what he says, and it's I can't believe you guys
are asking me these questions. Stop with these questions, guys,
stops stop, stop stop. Nobody would do this, right. They
don't do this in Detroit, the Jets don't do this.
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All the other franchises you want to laugh at nobody
else doesn't. But the Patriots are doing it. And it's
a well Belichick may no no stop stop stop stop
stop stop. Clearly Tom Brady was the guy who was
responsible for this dynasty, because Belichick is doing these things
now that he's in full control of the team like
he always was. But he doesn't have Tom Brady. We
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told just a couple of nights ago, congratulations to everybody
else who took that take. The next day, that Tom
Brady covered up so many things because now you have
a situation of Belichick dealing with quarterbacks and he clearly
doesn't know what to do. I'm gonna play both of them.
I guarantee you he'll play both of these guys the
rest of the season. If I said to you, Mike Harmon,
three and a half is the number of times he
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changes quarterbacks the rest of the way, would you take
the over or the under, I'm you're taking the under.
I'm taking the over. I'm taking the stop. Even you
don't believe that he he's gonna go from mac Jones
to Zappi back to I think I think it. Mac
Jones is healthy. Mac Jones is his guy. He's gonna
play the hot hand, just like he doesn't running back
(22:10):
with Stevenson and Harris and how I like Stevens. I'm
gonna play the highest done that for two years, so
that's not new. You don't pay and some isolated instances
of Leonard four nets and Lagarrett blunts, but you don't
play the hot handed quarterback. He can't do. You can
play your quarterback. But this is what he's doing. I'm
just gonna take guys in it. Out. I'm telling you,
he may have both guys line up a quarterback on
(22:31):
the same play and they don't know who's who gets
the ball. Coach, you guys, figure it out. We have
to play call you guys gotta figure it out. Make
it work. Yeah, nobody Bell and Jack hasn't had the
chance to grab four net which is why I went
back on my on on my other other side. Uh
and power backs of Lagarrett Blunt. But but the idea
of being the same. He's never committed to running backs
and he had Brady. What do you do? It's a
(22:53):
ronco set it and forget it. I just like that.
You're into your next phase of fever. Dream of the
battle is right now. It is really raging at a
whole other level because the Bucketeers stink right now three
and five still gonna win their division. And you've got
the Patriots coming off and getting bludgeoned by the Bears,
searching for an identity, and Bill Belijack waving at reporters
(23:16):
while giving them nonsensical answers. What did I say on Monday? Now,
let's just mix that up on Tuesday just enough to
keep them guessing. That's where we're at it's it's a mess,
but I would take the under on that. I think
unless Mac Jones gets hurt, he's gonna be the guy.
It doesn't matter mac Jones plays bad for four series,
it's back. It's Bailey's Appy in the second quarter, and
(23:37):
if Bailey's Appy plays badly against the Jets, it's mac
Jones again at halftime. I mean, he's already shown I'll
do it. I've shown i'll do it. You read he
really said his plan was to play both quarterbacks against
again on Monday against the Bears. We're gonna play both guys.
What what are you talking about? Man? What are you doing?
What do you mean? This could be a digious drop
(23:58):
to tie shirt in the middle of it. Take what
do you say? What you mean? I understand? Listen, Mac
Max is gonna be our guy in the first and
third quarter. Bail, He's gonna come in second and fourth quarter. Uh,
something else happens. We have another guy ready, but we
go to overtime, we have a completely different quarterback. Uh,
maybe Drew bled So coming in. But first and third
is gonna be Max, second and fourth is gonna be Baile.
He's happy, coach, Why are you doing that. Guys, don't
(24:19):
do this to me. Don't ask me stupid questions like this.
I mean, why am I doing this? Don't ask me
that we're on I'm only talking about the Jets. Yes,
we're asking, we're asking about the Jets. Why are you
doing this against the Jets? We're only talking about the
Jet Guys, Guys, what are you doing? What are you?
What are you doing? What are you doing? I mean,
he could say stuff like that and that would be
his response. Dude, he might run wildcat the whole time
against the Jets. You have no idea. You know he's
(24:39):
all well, listen, you know how much he loves Remandre Stevens.
You know he's dying, and just snap the ball to
him and let him go. Reminder. You just go, man,
you just go, go, go, go go. Well, well, why
did you do that? More against the Bears six point
game at halftime and quote unquote had not gotten away
at that point because he wanted to play both quarterbacks
and see what happens. That was why Why did you
(25:01):
try to sound like Archie Bunker while you said it?
Listen to me, up Edith, he wanted to play two quarterbacks.
It ain't the first time it's happened. That would be
my Archie Punker. Oh you're on, You're on one tonight.
Oh yeah, you elect you sugar You dipping in with
the Halloween gandy earlier on? No, no, no, actually no,
(25:22):
I'm drinking my diet zero sugar dr pepper cherry. Oh no,
feeling pretty good right now. That sounds like a Starbucks
drinking horribly feeling good man, No diet cherry or actually
just zero sugar cherry dr pepper. It's a lot, it's
a lot to say stuff, but it tastes good.
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An unlicensed lizard psychologist travels the universe talking to strangers about absolutely nothing. TO CALL THE GECKO: follow me on https://www.twitch.tv/lyleforever to get a notification for when I am taking calls. I am usually live Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays but lately a lot of other times too. I am a gecko.