Hour 4 - This is 10 Years of Winning Games!

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the NFC and AFC Championship games, Tony Romo is starting to get on all of our nerves, the 49ers need Quarterback that's much more mobile to win a Superbowl, and so much more!

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Burrow Head burrow Head. But I want to say this
first of all, because you mentioned him a few minutes ago,
and he's been trending a lot tonight, UH marquee Game

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of the night in college basketball on ESPN, Virginia beat Syracuse. Right.
Horrible game for me because I watched Syracuse make mistake
after mistake at the end and they miss free throws
and a couple of turnovers by Jesse Edwards, one of
our top two players. And and now and we're headed
to the n I T again, and Beheim is trending,
and it's Beheim needs to go, and all of these

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things Beheim, beheind Bayheim. And here's I'll be honest with you.
And this is very difficult for me to admit because
I I never you know, Syracuse is blue blood basketball royalty. Um,
you can blame Beheim all you want. He's one of
the last rock star coaches in college basketball. Coach k
retired Mike Sachowski Jim Bayham were the two most highly
known UH college basketball coaches are a Calipari as well. Um,

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but band has been doing it a lot longer. You
can blame Beheim all you want. But and it's hard
for me to to say this, but it's been ten
years in the a c C. Now, the a c
C is just too much for Syracuse. It's just it's
just too much. In the Big East. We were winning
twenty five games a year. We're in the n c

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A Tournament. We were six seeds the lowest we were.
We're winning thirty games sometimes it was great. That's the
last ten years, the last that's the last ten years
before we join the a c C. You want to
go back to right after the national championship when they
won in two thousand three, right, twenty years, ten years
in the in in Big East, averaging about twenty five
wins a year. Since we joined the a c C,

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we've won more than twenty games three times. It's not
we just can't compete. You can say, oh, you're you
know the mistakes you're making. Yeah, but this is ten
years of data. Now, this is ten years of winning
eighteen nineteen games. It's it's the a c C is
just too tough for Syracuse. It's hard for me to admit.
But it's just it's just too tough. Think they can't compete.

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They can't. That is a big admission. Hard. Whereas I
am on the rise the ascent, I'm the yodler in
the bright is right game with my beloved Northwestern Wildcats
under coach Collins. This year it has been a big
last couple of weeks for Julia Louise Rifus. I will say, yes,
it's been big. Northwestern has been big, getting it done, Yeah,
it has been big. And doing interviews talking about the

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scenes that her sons have to do, his actors and stuff.
So yeah, she likes she turned sixty two. She likes talking.
She looks great for sixty two. She looks awesome. She
was in You People, She was hilarious in You People.
You People, as one of those that starts out amazing,
and then after about forty five minutes ago, okay, all right, okay, okay,

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Eddie Murphy is great. For the first like twenty minutes,
you're like, oh my god, he's this is the legendary
bounce back for Eddie Murphy. And then the last because
it's a long it's like two hours. It's a long movie.
Um for a comedy to be that long is tough.
But the last two hours you're like, I'm waiting for
a little bit more At Eddie Murphy. It's like the
first twenty minutes, like, oh, it's a little different the
character's playing. But then there was so many chances for

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him to be funny, and he just well, I don't
know if, like, did you forget how to be funny?
To lose that skill? Is he like a ballplayer. I
can't make the throw the second to first anymore. I
don't know Eddie Murphy was hilarious dude for a long time. Yeah,
I saw a couple of clips that pretty much just
had what seemed like old jokes. It was something like
I saw down down by where I'm at, there's a

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comedy and magic club and Jay Letto does every Sunday
night and back when he was almost done with the
Tonight Show for real. Uh, you know, after they should
drive him home. From those who've been in the news
a lot, he's got a huge car collection that's in
a giant airport hangar and stuff. You should were at
the point where I don't know that he gets to
drive those anymore. But that's neither here nor there. I

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just remember him. All the jokes that he really won
the crowd over with were Bill Clinton jokes, and this
was long after Bill Clinton was out of office. It
felt like the same with some of the clips I
saw from you people, was like these were jokes and
scenarios that were current twenty years prior. Yeah, it was.
It was kind of thing. You know. It was really
funny though. I'll tell you is that Jonah Hill is

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really funny the first five or seven minutes and then
it's like, oh, podcast kind of yeah, which was funny.
But then I'm like, now you're just annoying me. Mike
Epps is hilarious. He's in the movie like he'sn't just
you know, bits and pieces, but he is hysterical. I'm like,
oh my god, forget how funny Mike Epps was, and like,
oh my god, you watch that. I I watched the

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then Jennifer Lopez, Josh Dumel, Jennifer Coolidge, and any movie
with Josh Dumel. I feel like it could have come
out anywhere in the last fifteen years and it doesn't matter.
I celebrate his whole cattle. What is I think he's great.
That should be a game. When did this Josh Dummel
movie come out? Because it could be two it could
be two thousand and seven, like you don't know, it
could have been And then you know, my one of

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my guilty pleasures and watching reruns of Las Vegas and
any time in time, it's like, stop, it's got Jimmy Conner.
I mean, what do you want it is? But it
was pretty funny and had some great action scenes. Okay,
and you add Jennifer Coolidge to the mix, all right,
she's having she's having a year, Jennifer Cool. Be sure

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to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
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The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the
tire Act dot Com Studios. Now just a little bit. Look,
this is still a story that we're going to continue
to debate, the Joseph Oside penalty. And I told you
a few minutes ago. Listen, we told you that it

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was a penalty. We told you why he did it,
because sometimes you just lose your head and and you
you want to hit a guy so bad that you
just lose all sense of of of rational thought and
you try to hit Patrick Mahomes. And that's what happened.
And I'll tell you because anybody that's that's played football
has had that at any level, has had that happen

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to them any level. When I was a junior in
high school and I made the jump to varsity, and
I was a defensive back and I was a short tackler,
but I wasn't really fast. I played safety, I played
some cornerback, but that was that was kind of that
was kind of my thing. That's where I played, and
one of my best friends at the time was a
year older than me. He was a senior, and he

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was our best wide receiver, right, And his name is
David Kress, and he was a really fun dude. We
got along well, we had so much fun together. Uh,
he was a really good dude. And there was a
practice where we were doing first team offense, right never
we do whenever we do first team. Everybody plays everywhe
but I'm I only played defense, so I was fine.
So I'm playing cornerback and I'm covering him the entire practice.

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And he's one of my he's one of my really
good friends, right, so of my really good friends. And
he but he's better, He's better than I am. He's
he's taller, he was, and he was working me the
entire practice, Like he was beating me on on slants,
he was beating on out patterns. He beat me on
a deep ball, and I just got really pissed at
the first step that was he Well, he was more,

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he was bigger than me, so he could out physical
him the game. I'd have to jump in the in
the passing lane to try to get the ball, and
I couldn't. He was he was just he was just
better and I'm going up against him and I'm part
of me is like can somebody else cover this guy
for a bleep? And playing mean, come on, man, give
me a break here, um. And you know, not many
people through the football in in high school when I played.
This is late eighties, and he was ore. He was
like first team All Staten Island where I grew up,

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like like his senior year, and so I was like, okay,
So I didn't feel so bad getting beat by him,
but I was so frustrated because that, you know, we're friends,
and every time he beat me, I got you. And
then one time when he beat me for a long pass,
like when it happens in practice, you don't chase him
all the way because the play is kind of over,
and like I was, you know, he caught me and
he beat me for the balls like all right, and
I kind of stopped and he turned to keep running

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a little bit and he and he showed me the
ball back and I was like, oh, you like, and
he he's been beating me the whole and I know
everybody in the huddle is going, dude, come on man, Yeah,
I'm like, dude, you cover him, you cover him. So
one of the next plays, I could tell they were
going to run a slant because I just I could
just tell. I looked. I looked in the huddle and
I saw the quarterback give it a little bit of things.

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So I said, oh, he's gonna run a slant here,
So I'm gonna jump this slant. So I jumped the slant,
but you still caught it because he threw it behind
him and I hadn't attack him. I'm going to the ground,
and I'm so mad at him, and I finally got him.
I tried to twist his ankle because I want him
on the ground so bad because I wanted and this
is this is guy's a friend of mine. He's beat
me a practice, and I twist. I'm twisting his ankle

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to get him down. Luckily, he twisted the same time
as me and hit the ground and I knew what
I was doing to do. And as soon as I did,
I stopped. I'm like, I shouldn't, what was it? But
I was so man used, well are you doing, man?
You try to hurt me, Try to twist my ankle,
and I said, shut the blank up, don't show me
the freaking football when that happens get back and they
had to separate us a little bit, and so I
was like, okay, and then he came back and I

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was like, I shouldn't. And then one the captain of
the team told me says, hey, okay, so he shouldn't
have done that, but you you shouldn't have tried to
twist his ankle, Like go, I know I shouldn't. I
know I shouldn't, And I apologize, and I apologize. Then
we were cool after that. It was it was a
heat of practice. I knew I wasn't supposed to do that,
but I was so add at him for all that.
For I was, I was mad at myself forgetting beat.
I was mad when he showed me the football and

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I I just snapped at that point, I'm like this,
when I could, I could put a hit on him.
I'm gonna be honest, I'm gonna drill him. Did you
try and bite his ankle? I said, in twenty years
or twenty five years from now, Dan Campbell's gonna make
this a thing. You just watch. That was man Gundy.
But yeah, I was so mad. I would know he
was holding onto the ankles, he was he tried to
bite it. No, no, he just helped. He tried. I

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think he went for the bite. Now he was there,
there's no question about it. I really almost story though,
I really almost first. I still remember going back and
grab but because I wanted on the ground so bad.
I want to tackle him so bad? Have you seen him? Mad?
We we hung out like did you tackle him? The
next day? Uh? The next years? Alan Page's ass the

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ground like that's what at each other and all of
a sudden come around the corner, say, guess who's coming?
And he yelled at Alan Page right as they drilled,
just like you had to the honorable No. You know
what we used to do in in high school was
someone bring a football to uh to school and we
were walking to the high school and if you saw

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somebody from the team and they didn't see you, you
would throw the ball out of you would yell ball
like it was a fumble, and you know, the person
walking doesn't know, he's got to He's gotta be somebody
on the football team do and we throw the ball.
He go ball and then everybody was tackling trying to
recover the ball like you're listening to a Bear's radio
broad and he would get hit with the ball and

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like maybe he's walking with his girlfriend holy hands and
you throw the ball out of and go ball you
got well you know she knew the risk. Oh it
was funny, but no, but he apologized. He said I
should have done that, and I apologize him my sons
and I'm glad you're okay. I shouldn't have done that.
But of course the coaches were all like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, go get him, go get him, Like, oh,

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I know, I kind of lost my head there first. Something. Yeah.
I mean that was a very popular um practice and
screwing around kind of drill that is is really not
acceptable in anyone. I mean in terms of it's naming
convention and just the general policy of all right, let's
do the gauntlet was the worst that was dominated and

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we just because everybody would just clap and our coach
would never let you reset, like as soon as the ball,
as soon as you're on the ground, he would throw
the ball to somebody else. You had to get up
and somebody's got a whole head of steam. I hated
bulling the rings. Yeah, I killed it because I had
the low center of gravity. In other words, I had
a giant ass couldn't be taken down. Harry. Just clap, clap, clap,

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And if you weren't clapping, he threw the football in
a bad spot so you would fumble it, come and
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Time now for the Play of the night, brought to
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a big night tonight by one particular NBA star, And yeah,
when you score fifty three points, you get to be

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the play of the night. That's the way to pull
up right quarter, tin witty ol the right of the night,
trying to trawl the foul and it begs all the
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that is good pick the n twice Mass radio network
on the call to of Luka. Done is fifty three

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points tonight for Dallas as they beat the Pistons, and
and look beating the Pistons, I get it. Uh, you
know beating maybe those fifty three points count is like seventeen.
You beat who's on this schedule? Pot up fifty three?
Everybody else could beat it. He was chirping with one
of the pistons assistants the entire game, and the second

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quarter when he was talking the most with him, he
shot seven out of eight from the floor. You know,
I I don't understand because this is this is where
I'm at. We talk a lot about where the m
v P race starts where it sits at the end
of the year. At this point, the story of the
NBA season has been Luka Dontech and the individual performances
he has. And right now he's anywhere from a distant

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second to a close third in m v P voting
with Nicola Yokich in first place. And I get you know,
you'll Kich is a great player, right, He's went back
to back m v P. He's having another great year.
I understand this, but Yokis is able to win m
vps when the Nuggets finished lower in the standings. Right now,
Lucas got the Mavericks in in fifth position. This is

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the most shocking development of the season to me because
I thought, hey, people are gonna want to give this
award to Luca, right, we want to make him a superstar.
He has been the story of the NBA season. Yokich
has been really good, you know, he's been great again, right,
But Luca has been the story, whether it's sixty against
the Nicks fifty three tonight, he has been the story.
And I don't know how he's not the overwhelming favorite

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and why he's second to Luca, and depending on the night,
he's third with Joel embiid second, because now you see
the odds changed night to this is not even when
somebody gets hurt, just somebody has a big night and
you see the odds change on it. But he's still
far behind nikolea yokas well. And don't forget about Janice,
who also had fifty tonight in a Burial of the
Pelicans where he goes for fifty found the season average

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well and five three. It's a pretty damn good stat
line for a squad that's run out to a thirty
three and seventeen records. So yeah, you've got three or
four guys at the top of the heap, and it's
trying to get narratives right. Early on it was John Morant.
Then he missed some games they won without him, so
it kind of squashed that a bit. With Luca tonight,

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the only other math in double figures was did when
he had twelve. Well, when he scores fifty three, you
don't need many guys, just say you didn't really have
anybody else who stood up as a decided number two.
You got five, you got seven, he's got twelve. I
got fifty three on my seventeen of twenty four from

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the field, fourteen of eighteen from the line, and oh yeah,
I said, who are you to a bunch of assistants.
That's pretty good, chirpy Luca. I mean you're looking at
a guy who's got ten triple doubles. Yes, Nicola, Yokich
has fifteen UM he's scoring eight points a game more
than Yoki's is, and he's been the more he's been,

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the more he's been much more responsible for his team
than Yoki, because Yokich has has the injured players back
now and Denver's playing well. Butmber, he won two m
v ps and they finished fifth and six. Now they're
finishing first. Is suddenly he that different? Or did they
get injured players back? No, they got injured players back,
So I feel like that's what's going on. Oh look

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there at first place, that great. We gotta give it him. No,
you gave it to him when he was in fifth
and six. Why can't you do the same thing for
Luka Donte right, he should be running away with it
right now, and instead it's he's got a lot of
work to do to get up there, or or if
somebody gets injured in front of him, that's how he's
gonna move up to at the end of January. Bloody
of time, Flody of time. We gotta I mean we
still at All Star weekend to come a couple of
weeks from now, you know when more three quarters of

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the way through the season. No, I believe it coincides
with every team's game eighty Now, everybody plays eight games,
and then we play the All Star Game. Lebron gonna
skip that one too. He gonna be perfectly fine because
he wants to rattle off that fifth All Star win
and r up that was the captain five times on
All Star teams. I picked a perfect squad. Now, we

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we talked about this the other night, and a couple
of weeks ago, we told you what Lebron was gonna
do to get to this. Tomorrow the Lakers play the Knicks.
We don't know how many more games Lebron's gonna play
in Madison Square Garden. If I gave you the over
under of fifty for Lebron tomorrow night in New York,
what are you taking? I'll take the under. Really see,
I'll take the over. See. I think it falls nice

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in that nice sweet spot between forty and fifty. Now
and a half he needed forty against the Clippers last
time he played, because he not scored four against I.
I'll give you Lebron with with so he's Wilton a half.

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You're only going fifty. I'm going sixty eight. Now I'm
going fifty and and and Jalen Brunson scores fifty five
and the next week he's not even gonna play Twitter
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