January 31, 2023 • 33 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the NFC and AFC Championship games, Tony Romo is starting to get on all of our nerves, and Jason La Canfora - Long Time NFL Insider joins the guys!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Just
because we're joining games in progress. Uh Lebron James, he'd protested, No,
the Lakers are hugging Kyrie Irving after losing to them four,
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Kyrie goes for six, and I just feel like they're
all just hugging up extra long gooing. Dude, Come play
with us, man, dude, come play with us, Come on,
give us, Come play with us, man, Come play. You
can take off as many days as you want, We
don't care. Come play with us. Just play once, get
into the playoffs and play every game because help us
out there. Well, I think they were kind of congratulating
him as being the only start to actually play today. Yeah,
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everybody else a load management wine. Wine wine cries, stomp
around like a three year old on Saturday and then
take the following Monday off. Well, I protest because you
officiated me terribly and fighting for the playoffs, except when
I'm not When you would have a tantrum like that,
that takes a lot of energy out of red h.
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I don't know how did he not get a technical follow?
You need to respect when a guy is going through
something like that and that he may hurt himself, he
may be upset, he may be very tired, and he
may miss games that could happen. It was one of
the most pathetic displays in recent memory. Now, the Beverly
thing grabbing a camera was funny. It's funny. Here's technical.
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I'm just trying to help color in in the boxes
here to let you know exactly what's going on. Hey, guys,
real quick. You know the Ancres held the nets without
a d and Lebron no I was a good job. Well,
they had to lead light into the third I mean
that was good. I'm gonna take my wins, remember and
find your wins. That's what it's all about, man. Yeah. Yeah,
the Nets didn't have Kevin Duran either, so there's that. Yeah,
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well they didn't have Vince Carter either, Okay, okay, alright, right,
n R I had sixteen points, okay, okay, alright, yes,
yes he did. Adams did have him. They didn't crash
the server in Japan this time. I I don't know it.
Might have heard about that, right, He's very popular, he is,
he is. It would be more popular, the Lakers would
win more games, but that would help you never know.
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Uh Now, speaking of the officiating, people in the NBA
are going on officiating. People are gonna talk about this forever.
And then Sunday the NFL said, oh my beer. Obviously
the weekend at borrow Head, Burrowhead, Burrowhead, that path you
were looking for head Burrowhead. I'll tell you man that
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I'm watching the NFC Championship game and I'm just saying
to myself, can we just start the game? Can we
just start the game at Burrowhead. I just want to
let's just get to Borrowhead. Let this is over, it's done.
It's gonna be a slow march for an Eagle. Just
start the game early or play eight quarters so we
can get more of this game at burrow Head, Burrowhead.
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It was here's your NFC title game. Pretty goes out.
We find out he's may need Tommy John's surgery. What
it's all said and done. He can't pitch for the
Mets next year, that's for sure. But he goes down.
Johnson comes in, goes down and fumbles the ball, and
all of a sudden, the game's over, right, just like that,
one thirty six left in the second quarter, like we
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got ourselves again, We got ourselves again. All right, this
is gonna be all right. They're gonna go in the
halftime and they're gonna really figure out you know, Peyton
Manning and his halftime adjustments beach, no, no, no, no.
If you want to talk about halftime adjustments, if ever
there was a point where that whiteboard was gonna be cooking,
that should have been it, and need whiteboard that at halftime?
Is Has anyone at any level played quarterback? I don't
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care if it was high school Pop Warner. Has anybody
have any experience at quarterback? And this is where the
guy like sweeping up in the back goes I played
a little quarterback in my day. All right, suit up
in the second half like literally try out, all right
and throw the ball. Let me let me see your
throwing motion. Can you canna pulled it ten yards down
the field? Who can throw the football more than ten yards?
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I'd like you? Uh yeah, it was It was difficult.
We have a lot about the JV game, which was
the NFC Championship game coming up, but the action at
Borrowhead and the penalty on Joseph Osai is clearly still
front and center today. The play will be talking about
all off season, the play that helped give the Chiefs
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the victory in the a f C title game to
move on to the Super Bowl. Mahomes waits for the shotgun,
snab two receivers out to each side. My Homes with
a deep drop, now moving in the pocket, running to
the right and running well, he's at the fifty. He's
trying to run for the first out. He goes on
the Bengal push him after he was out of bounds.
Multiple flags are going to attack fifteen yards onto this play,
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eight seconds left in regulation, and with that penalty, the
Chiefs will be in field goal range. Man, you have
to be more aware. This football team has got a
lot of awareness. Not on that play. You're gonna got
foul enough. Three rough play automatical found. Joseph Asai has
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to know where he is on the football field, has
to know where the quarterback is on the football field.
Great hustle play. I mean he tries to pursue, he's
after it, he's tracking Mahomes. I mean he's five yards
out of bounds. When Joseph Asai pushes him. I think
he lost track of which white line was the white
mine that was in bounds and out of bound, which
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was in it was out Bengals Radio network on the
Bengal push him after he was out of bounds. No, no,
It's like a guy in wrestling cowering in a corner
going no, no, no, no no. How many fans thing
heard that and don't know? You know, I don't know Joseph.
Joseph oside because he's been the league A couple of Joseph.
They think Joe and Died he was a good running Hey,
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what's upon a time Joe and Die was a top
three pick in fanas. He had like a one and
a half year run of being a top pick in fantasy.
Those all those guys, I mean, dominic Roads go back
and I'm down the line, those sure nacks. Absolutely, but look,
there's been a lot of talk about this. Still was
it a penalty? Should have been called at that point
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in the game. Is that a penalty? Is it not?
Do you need to blow the whistle? Do you need
to be a part of the game. And we're confusing
a couple of things here right, because I'll tell you
exactly what it is. It was a horrendously officiated game,
slanted towards the Chiefs. You look at the late hit
that wasn't called with Jones on Joe Burrow. You look
at some some of the block in the back that
wasn't called on the on the kick return at the end.
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There's many he calls that were heavily slanted towards the Chiefs.
And the Bengals have a big beef this play. Joseph
Osi gave the referees no choice but to blow the whistle.
This is a penalty anywhere. The announcers see it right away.
The Bengals players knew it right away. If you're watching
at home, you knew it right away. It's a penalty, alright.
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Mahomes Is is two has taken two steps onto the
white part of the sideline. He is out of bounds
and osaide comes in with the elbow from behind. Now
does Mahomes, Of course he does. But when you make
that motion and you hit him, that's gonna be a penalty.
He gave the threes no choice but to throw the flight.
If he doesn't and just kind of runs in and
runs over and falls and trips, that's not a penalty.
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But he goes in forcefully with his forearm for reasons
that I don't understand. Because he tried to give some
crazy ass answer at the end of the game yesterday saying, oh,
I was trying to get him and turn him to
back him out of bound so the clock would keep running.
It's like, what are you even saying that. My my daughters,
anything about football knows that doesn't make any sense. So
just say you lost your head, you wanted to hit,
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you wanted to hit Mahomes. You're frustrated, because that's kind
of what goes through people's heads when you're playing. That's
why these penalties are committed. But you gave the referee
no choice but to throw the flag. Anybody saying didn't
have to throw it, you're just looking for hot take
theater because this is this is this was something that
was never even debated that it wasn't, not by the broadcast,
not by the team. Now, look, you had Bengals players
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walking off the field going why do you hit the quarterback? Why?
Nobody on the Bengal said why are you throwing the
flag in that situation? Nobody Nobody said that was because
if that was a bad penalty, and the Bengals knew
it wasn't a penalty, they were The first thing Zach
Taylor would have said is that was bogus. It was
a load of crap. But he was very classy after
the game and and said, hey, it wasn't just one play,
it was lots of things. You would have heard that
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more from the people who were affected the most, and
he didn't because they knew that it's a penalty any Sunday,
it's a that's a penalty. That's penalty any part in
the game. When you say I have no choice but
to throw the flag, it's a penalty. And Joseph os
I gave the referee no choice but to throw the flag.
The hard part is, and we recognize it in the
regular season, into the playoffs and and ultimately when we
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get to Glendale. If you have a similar situation. It's
a It's one of those impossible pieces for a defender
because I think as Mahomes goes to pull up, he
probably runs them through the back anyway, Like even if
that arm doesn't extend and give him the jolt, he
probably bumps him trying to slow up his three pound
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frame behind him, right, and there's I think there's still
gonna be contact in this case. It becomes the extra
out front and he goes down like a ton of bricks.
We've seen Mahomes cut back into the field before, Right.
That's the great rope, a dope that quarterbacks can play
is well, I'm kind of going out of bounds, but
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am I really? And then you lighten up, you you
slow up your gate, and what do they do? They
steal an extra two three eight yard it's whatever the
case maybe, and so you're trying to guard against that.
I think he was hoping and his explanation is more
the if I contact him in bounds, then the clock
keeps running because I've touched him that But this all
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I was hoping to turn him around, him around so
I can look him in the eye and stare him down.
Whatever the case, Like I feel bad for the guy right,
he's sitting there, he's he's crying in consolable, et cetera.
And they had their opportunities. And that's the thing, Like,
this is the play that ultimately sets up the field goal.
I get it, But the Bengals had plenty of opportunity
over the course of the game. I mean, make a
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play like the big throw to Jamaar Chase and that's
some of the worst defense you'll ever see, even two
guys back there. But he he threaded the needle. But
you know, you had your opportunities early in the game.
You were getting bludgeoned by the pass rush. Like all
of these things, it's it's a culmination. And but on
this particular play there there's no choice but the for
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the flag to come out. And that's just in the
protection of the quarterback. Where we're at, there's not even
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that the other part of this discussion, but waiting to
get to all days, why does this happen? Like why
how he's gotta know better, He's got to know better.
He's got to know better, right, And I understand that,
But just let me tell you what goes through athletes heads.
That's going through them and going through Joseph Osa's head
in this situation. This is a game where hey, it's
been as emotional as it can be, right, the whole
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borrowhead stuff all week long leading up to it. It's
another chance to get to the Super Bowl for both
teams and your O, S I, or you're any player
defensively for for the Bengals and you want to bury Mahomes.
He is injured and you want to be able to
lay a lick on him and make him not be
able to throw the football because you want to go
to the super Bowl. And why happening? All game long?
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He is limping out of trouble, He's completing passes, he
is shredding the defense, and if you're a Bengals player,
you're watching him go boy. Every time he throws a
big he has a big play, he limps off the field. Right,
I'm not saying he did it on purpose, but it's like,
I've got to watch him throw this pass and limp
off Fieldsure, look how hurt I am and I can
complete this And you start getting mad and you get
very frustrated because you want to get to my homes
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and you can't. And if you haven't had a chance
to put a hit on him, this is what happens.
You're chasing him, and after in fifty eight and a
half fifty nine and a half minutes, you have a
chance to hit him and you can't and you're not
supposed to, and you know you're not supposed to, but
in that moment that doesn't go through your head. It's
I got him, I got it. I'm gonna hit him.
And then you get up and you realize why did
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I do that? But you're just so full of it.
And anybody said that's ever happens, happened to me in
high school. Anybody that's ever played gets what that's all about.
When you get so frustrated in a game and you
hit somebody because you want to and anticipate, you just
lose it because that's been going through your mind all game,
getting the homes, stopping him, making sure he doesn't get
there and you get too exuberant. And that's why it's
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always going to continue to happen, because that's what's gonna
go through athletes minds when that happens. All it's an
emotional game and that's an emotional situation and to turn
off your emotions at that point is really tough to do.
So why did it happen? It's this is why it
continues to happen, and that's why it happened for him. Yeah,
the Borough thing just really quick. I think the official
looked at it and said, nice flop. Right, there was contact,
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but I mean there's letter and spirit of the law,
and in that case, that was a oh, I'm going
down into the ground like you know, the bag of
feathers because Clark barely yea, but still it's two steps
and you hit the quarterback and all right, I'm not
supposed to do that and you standing right there. Numbe
didn't say it. Nump didn't say I think that was
the night. Nice work, good acting jobs. I don't get
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a call on that. What word Burrowhead Stadium? You need
a call? I thought you're good enough that get up,
you're gonna punt? Twitter and out about a fresca Mike
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Championships Sunday in the NFL Odyssey, Washington's Post, Washington Post
longtime insider Jason Locking for He's on Twitter at Jason
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locking For. What's happening? Jay? What's going on? Gentlemen? Greetings
where I'm still I'm still buzzing about all the events
at Borrowhead, Man. I meant, I did this is unbelievable.
It was a weekend, big Sunday all the way, all
the way around. I mean, from Anita Baker forgetting how
to sing toll you know what I mean? That crazy
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ending eight hours later or whatever it was, that was
a day. Where are you on the ending of that game?
The penalty penalties that recalled during the game that had
the slant against the Bengals and the the o side
penalty at the end, I mean, I think that you
have to call that penalty. Um. Look, there was no
malice in his heart. I don't believe he was not
intending to injury. He didn't want to do anything dirty.
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He just failed to hold up and he made contact
in a way and at a time that you can't
now that they're also you know, you can find images
of Orlando Brown behind a defensive lineman basically putting him
in you know, some sort of WWF chokehold, you know,
like I mean it's it's a full body hold, like
it's holding in every way, shape and form. He may
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have had in a figure four leg locked down below,
you know, with yeah, like, but certainly up high there
was at least some some sort of armbar chokehold going on.
You know, they let that go. Um. Look, the officiating
in this league is a problem. It's been a problem,
and at some point you're gonna have to convince these
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billionaires to take a little bit more out of their
cut of the of the pot, which is humongous, and
put it into you know, a year round venture for
these officials and to create, you know, an NFL school
of officiating. And these guys are at it year round
and they're calling USFL games like they're immersed in a
year round they're not fitting it in around, you know,
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putting roofs on people's homes and you know, mowing lawns
and and and being trial lawyers. Like this is a
twenty plus billion dollar business. They are now swimming and
gambling money. They have every gambling partnership you could ever want.
I'm waiting to see how they break it down. Pretty soon,
somebody be the official parlay you know, there're the official
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parlay makers of the NFL. Were the official parlay makers
the NFL. We're the official live betting side of the NFL.
Like that's the direction that's going. And so if that's
where we are, and every little play um is now
mainstream for millions of people and billions of dollars to
be moving from one account to the next based on
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these outcomes, that we better figure out how spot a
ball above and beyond the chain gang, you know, we
better improve and put real money in the research and
I T and development over there at Park Avenue where
they skimp and they need to be better. And these
guys making these decisions there needs to be much more
transparency and it can't be a part time job. And
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until we get there, and I'm not saying that that's
a panacea, but until we get closer to that. This
is going to continue to be a weekly subplot to
NFL outcomes because there are a lot of judgment calls,
and there's a lot of judgment calls that seem to
vary from crew to crew, from you know, how they
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hand things out to the home team versus how some
hand them out to the road team, Like there needs
to be more uniformity to that end. The All Star
crew is to me, always been problematic. These guys are
looking at each other like they have no idea what's
going on? Yeah, I mean it doesn't make any sense.
Like how about we make everybody better? Like how about
we get to a point where, you mean, the guy
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doing the one o'clock whatever Arizona at you know, Indianapolis
game is also super bowlworthy? Like how about we raised
the whole freaking you know, tide. Like how about we
create a program that I've heard people whisper about for
years where you pay these guys enough and you make
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it a year round job and you start converting players
to you know what I mean from the playing field
while they're still in great shape and they're you know,
they're they're they're twitchy, and they're present and they they're
up to date on all the latest rules, and they're
clearly athletic, you know what I mean. And we started
doctrinating them into officiating mentorship programs like it's got a
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matter to them, you know what I mean? And clearly
it doesn't, because if you look at their line item
budgets for what they spend, you know, across the board,
dis offficiating is a drop in the bucket. It's nothing. Ja.
So with the officiating dealing with that, the Bengals are
worried about that and what they had to go against
them yesterday, how much of the trash talk hurt them?
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All the borough had stuff that was so much fun
for us, I'll tell you, man, the Chiefs seem seemed
extra fired up about that all week. I mean, we're
talking about if they called the holding play the way
they're supposed to call it, the game's going in overtimement,
who the hell knows? Like I mean, like, do I
think they played harder? No? I think it's great content
after the game. Like you know, how guys work on
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their dances all week, they can also work for their
ship burns and they can unleash them after the game
and more power to them. They should. It's good for
their brand. It's great form. Like us in the media,
you know, fans who aren't completely like brain dead. I
think get it for what it is, and there's a
showmanship element and that's great. But like you mean to
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tell me, like Patrick Mahomes got extra treatment on his
ankle because the mayor of Cincinnati said some ridiculous I
don't think people like that. I just don't. I'm sorry,
I don't know. I'm a fifty year old grown ass man.
I don't think that's how it works. I've been around
professional sports since I was eighteen years old. I just
don't really think through the week. It's like guys are
getting ready to go home when somebody says, damnit, remember
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what that jackass Meyer said, We're staying at fifteen minutes longer.
I'm spending twenty more minutes with the jugs guns because
I gotta. I gotta show him on Sunday who's boss.
Come on, it's a good thing. He's only a year. Jason.
You don't think Mahomes is already a psycho competitor and
Kelsey's already a psycho competitor. Like, yeah, it's great. To
unleash all that and like all the thinking about a
little bit during the week, like thinking that we're gonna
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show them. Yeah, but like, do I really think it
affects the outcomes of these these marathon sporting events where
it's you know, collision after collision after collision and a
guy sitting there thinking I could pull the shoot. Nah,
I don't like Joe Burrows. I don't like Joe Burrows
smirk on his Wednesday press conference. I'm getting off, I'm
getting up off the grass and I'm staying in this game.
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Like I don't know, man, just uh, I'm probably the
wrong guy as not just always good for fodder for
us Burrow and for the world. I mean, all that
stuff is great, Like I get it, but like I mean,
Chris Jones, Chris Jones is a guy. He was burrow
heading it all week long, and he had the big
hit and he had to he had a couple of
some really big plays, and you know, he had a
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little bit of prop came in, yah. I mean, if
the championship game and the legacy are on the line,
and whether they said anything or whispered anything or put
up a billboard, they came in the airhead and you
thought you had the game one before the halftime, and
they snatched the Super Bowl appearance out of your freaking hands. Like,
I think that's the motivation, you know what I mean,
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I think that's where like a rivalry is born. This
stuff helps take it over the top. And look, these
teams are probably gonna win their divisions for a while
moving forward, which means we'll get these regular season matchups.
And I hope that burrow Verse, you know, Mahomes could
turn into a fraction of what Brady verse Manning was. Um,
A lot of a won't like that because it means
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the same teams are in the championhip game every years.
These guys are just that good that that definitely be
how it goes. So like I'm into all that, but
like I mean again, think of that game and and
all the little sort of potential turning points and turning points.
I don't you know, I don't know, man, I don't
think that I'm streaming Burrowhead had a whole hell of
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a lot to do with this. But maybe I'm nice. Well,
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five seven The Fan as well, So Jason, the forty Niners,
Kyle Shanahan and company. Playing as we are well shorthanded
would be the kind of way to say it. Trey
Lance coming off a big injury, Brock pretty well, he's
got a long term injury. Where do they turn going
for and after the shell lacking they took yesterday, Man
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load up on the avocados. Load up on the avocado
ice cream. Make sure everybody there is you know, get get,
start getting Guerrero on the hio, Guerrero on the hotline.
Make sure that you've got your locker room up to
TV twelve standards. Let's go. I mean again, I did
this exercise at the Washington Post going into these games,
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and I had Brady going there before this injury, just
because it's Brock Purty and it's Tom freaking Brady. And
if you're winning all these games, you know, attempting nine
passes per game with brock Purty. Why the hell couldn't
you win them with Tom Brady, you know what I mean,
and have that experience and like not have to worry
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about if anything is going to be too big for
him or whatever. And then you put this injury on
top of it, Like he's better than Aaron Rodgers right now.
I mean, there's no I don't think that that there's
really a compa Harrison and he'll go there on the cheap,
whereas Aaron Rodgers has this absolutely ridiculous monster contract and
he ain't given anything back, so like they can't fit
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a sixty million dollar quarterback under the cap. But I mean,
I think Brittany would go there and play for twenty
five whatever. Like to me, it's a no brainer at
this point, and another dominoes can fall from there. But
Carl Shannan's wanted him before, He's wanted them before, like
I to me, it's it, honestly is it makes all
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the sense in the world right now. Lastly, Jay, speaking
of quarterbacks and and and we used to have this
rule in the league, but I can't believe it's not
gonna be something that's changed for next year? Are we
going to see an added spot to the active roster
so all teams can dress three quarterbacks? Because that take
quarterbacks out of the equation, and say everybody dressed dresses
three quarterbacks and then you can figure out, you know
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what I mean, whatever you want to do with the
other forty five spots or forty story spots, whatever he decide,
then you know what I mean, then you do whatever
you want there. But yeah, it's it's ridiculous. Look, why
aren't all fifty three active? Sure? I mean why, Like seriously,
you're paying them. You're paying them appropriated NFL salary. It's
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not like you know, practice squad where you're on a
lower you know what I mean, you're in a lower
salary and then you get the pro ration when you're
called up. But like, what's the just honestly, what's the downside?
And just having everybody who you're paying an NFL salary
to available to play a football game the extra trap, Right,
It's not like one team could hoard all the players.
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It's not baseball, Like what are we doing here? It's
the ultimate collision sport. It's the ultimate concussion sports, the
ultimate violent sport. And you've got healthy guys who can
help you win a football game and sweat sitting in
a suite making making you know what I mean, making
a full pay check? How does that make sense? You
can follow on Twitter at Jason lock and for that
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Jay has always Buddy appreciated. Great stuff. Man, We'll talk
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Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
I didn't expect Tony Romo to be such a big
topic of conversation following the SC Championship game. Now where
whether or not whatever he was trying to say after
a play between the Bengals and the Chiefs to miss tackles,
(27:38):
you know that that big run by Pacheco here, Yeah,
combined with all of the analysis he gave, I feel
like yesterday was the tipping point for him how people
feel about him as an announcement. But you know what's
funny is I missed out, Like generally, I'm watching multiple games,
so I have no sound from any of them. It's right.
So when everybody was all excited about him calling plays
(27:59):
that I gave it a child. I'm like, alright, whatever,
he's doing what he's supposed to do. Fine, but it
was over the top. And then watching yesterday, Mike, I'm
putting music on. I'm not doing this anymore. He's he's
the equivalent of a player who piques his rookie year
and never reaches that level. Again, that's that's a tape
(28:19):
on him, Like, Wow, he's predicting plays. That's really cool.
And now you look at him he years later, it's
like the guy he's saying Phil Simms type stuff, that's all.
But he's doing it in a way that just sounds
like he's a fan who want to contest. Right, So Tren,
you're Jim nance call one of the places today this
game and I'll and I'll be Tony Romo. Go ahead,
Jecho going around the end, breaks that first tackle, diving
(28:40):
to different play, different play, give me a different I
just went not give me the dick, give me a
different play. My home shuffles too, is right looking gingerly
on the leg, gets it down field. There's a pass.
It's MBS again. Oh, Jim, Jim, that play was huge, Jim.
That play was so huge. Tip Jim, Jim Jim. In
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a game, there's large plays, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim,
Jim him, there's large plays in the game. And then
look at me, Jim, look at me. There's large plays,
there's extra large plays, there's super size like, and then
there's huge. Jim. This play is absolutely huge, Jim. It's
so huge. I don't understand. I don't know what burrow
head is either. I don't know what they're saying. I know,
(29:22):
but this play is so huge. It said, you watch
the play. Look at what he does. He's got one
leg on to the little bit to the left, and
it's right leg's a little bit to the right, and
he just throws the ball to m VS who makes
the play. That's so huge. Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim.
Look at me, Jim, Jim, Jim. Put the headset back on.
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He's so huge, Jim, this is so huge. Or Tracy Wolfson,
you guys don't understand how huge this is Jim the
better romos from yesterday where the I don't know, third
and four? What do you think, Jim, he's got I
think he should jimbo. Here the quarterback can either run
or he could pass. He's gotta make that choice. And
(30:06):
you make that choice, it becomes it becomes it's it's
one or the other. You can't you can't do both.
I don't know, Jim, what do you think should they
go for it here? I don't know. You know, hey,
if they don't go for it here, they got a
punt and you don't you don't want to give that
ball back. I did the multiple of how much more
he's reportedly being paid than I am for the year,
and I was a little pissed. He does. He just
(30:28):
kept bring back to nance like, hey, hey, you do
the predictive job. I'm done with it, he said. He
just sounds like a fan in the booth now that
is just excited to be there. Was he revving up
his golf game ahead of Pebble Beach right because you
saw the Caddyshack spoof commercials? Is that what he was
doing with his time instead of prepping for the game?
Ad A hell with it? I know what I'm gonna do, Tony,
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what you see on this Jim. I had an eighteen
footer for par Okay and I played a TPC songs. Jim, Jim,
you're a massive Jim. Don't shake your head, Jim, Jim.
So I make is put right and it's amazing. And
the alligator comes out and it's coming at me, and
the thing is Jerry Jones is holding on to the
Jim Jim, I'm telling your story, Jim. Pay attention to me, Jim, Jim,
this is a huge story, Jim. I saw the joke
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going around on and I know I haven't followed the
Romo threat. I almost want to go back and watch
all the games they've called where it's the legend of
the week is what they were calling it. So it's like,
all right, last week he was invoking whoever it was.
This week it was how do I get Jordan Ins
and make it compared since to Jordan wherever possible? And
then how do you really not know what burrowhead is?
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That was? That was perhaps I'm burrows ll Burrow But
what do they say embarrassing things? Ever? Show me show
me you didn't prepare for your job without showing me
you didn't prepare for your jobs. Tony takes the headset
off and says to his producer, Hey, can you tell
me what this burrowhead thing is all about? What I
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didn't I didn't pay attention to anything this week, so
I don't really know what's going I just write it
down for me so I can say it. It's not dirty?
Is it like? It's something I can say. It's not
one of those memes or anything. Right, Okay, it's not
something like you know, it's not something anybody anybody tweeted
out they have to worry about. Okay, okay, great, great, alright, good,
good good, I'm good. Yeah it was we're CBS, right, yes,
I mean we can, we can, you know, all right?
Those were the two things that came out of that game. Officiating. Ye,
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it's like yesterday. And the cocaine bear ad that a
lot of people have never seen. Yeah. I was showing
in both championship games, and I had people texted me going,
this is a real thing. Oh yeah, Yeah, we've been
counting down days. We were trying to hope to get
get in on the premier. I gotta say I kind
of like the the the tone of cocaine Bear. That's
we're gonna poke fun out. It's not like what happens
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if you give cocaine to a bear, Like it's like, okay,
it's gonna be one of those things where, oh boy,
that you gotta you gotta bear. This bear is coming
out here. Now that's an actual sound from the movie.
This is a real movie, Jim. I saw a commercial
for the It's cocaine Bear, Jim. That might have been
the most excited promo anybody could have ever done. Up
later tonight and Jim, Jim, stop listen. It was like
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the bear. It was like a guy flying a plane
full of it and the bear like grab the guy
is a Yogi bear. After dark Jim, Jim, Jim, this
is huge. This movie could be huge. Jim. Did he
take Huboo out once and for all? Smokey went to Cooke? Jim.
Are they happened to the Ranger? Are they yellow Stone? Jim? Jim, Jim,
don't get up and leave where you basket? Twitter? How
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about a Fresca Mike and soloumb more big stuff from
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Just
because we're joining games in progress. Uh Lebron James, he'd protested, No,
the Lakers are hugging Kyrie Irving after losing to them four,
(00:46):
Kyrie goes for six, and I just feel like they're
all just hugging up extra long gooing. Dude, Come play
with us, man, dude, come play with us, Come on,
give us, Come play with us, man, Come play. You
can take off as many days as you want, We
don't care. Come play with us. Just play once, get
into the playoffs and play every game because help us
out there. Well, I think they were kind of congratulating
him as being the only start to actually play today. Yeah,
(01:07):
everybody else a load management wine. Wine wine cries, stomp
around like a three year old on Saturday and then
take the following Monday off. Well, I protest because you
officiated me terribly and fighting for the playoffs, except when
I'm not When you would have a tantrum like that,
that takes a lot of energy out of red h.
(01:29):
I don't know how did he not get a technical follow?
You need to respect when a guy is going through
something like that and that he may hurt himself, he
may be upset, he may be very tired, and he
may miss games that could happen. It was one of
the most pathetic displays in recent memory. Now, the Beverly
thing grabbing a camera was funny. It's funny. Here's technical.
(01:52):
I'm just trying to help color in in the boxes
here to let you know exactly what's going on. Hey, guys,
real quick. You know the Ancres held the nets without
a d and Lebron no I was a good job. Well,
they had to lead light into the third I mean
that was good. I'm gonna take my wins, remember and
find your wins. That's what it's all about, man. Yeah. Yeah,
the Nets didn't have Kevin Duran either, so there's that. Yeah,
(02:13):
well they didn't have Vince Carter either, Okay, okay, alright, right,
n R I had sixteen points, okay, okay, alright, yes,
yes he did. Adams did have him. They didn't crash
the server in Japan this time. I I don't know it.
Might have heard about that, right, He's very popular, he is,
he is. It would be more popular, the Lakers would
win more games, but that would help you never know.
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Uh Now, speaking of the officiating, people in the NBA
are going on officiating. People are gonna talk about this forever.
And then Sunday the NFL said, oh my beer. Obviously
the weekend at borrow Head, Burrowhead, Burrowhead, that path you
were looking for head Burrowhead. I'll tell you man that
(02:56):
I'm watching the NFC Championship game and I'm just saying
to myself, can we just start the game? Can we
just start the game at Burrowhead. I just want to
let's just get to Borrowhead. Let this is over, it's done.
It's gonna be a slow march for an Eagle. Just
start the game early or play eight quarters so we
can get more of this game at burrow Head, Burrowhead.
(03:17):
It was here's your NFC title game. Pretty goes out.
We find out he's may need Tommy John's surgery. What
it's all said and done. He can't pitch for the
Mets next year, that's for sure. But he goes down.
Johnson comes in, goes down and fumbles the ball, and
all of a sudden, the game's over, right, just like that,
one thirty six left in the second quarter, like we
(03:39):
got ourselves again, We got ourselves again. All right, this
is gonna be all right. They're gonna go in the
halftime and they're gonna really figure out you know, Peyton
Manning and his halftime adjustments beach, no, no, no, no.
If you want to talk about halftime adjustments, if ever
there was a point where that whiteboard was gonna be cooking,
that should have been it, and need whiteboard that at halftime?
Is Has anyone at any level played quarterback? I don't
(04:02):
care if it was high school Pop Warner. Has anybody
have any experience at quarterback? And this is where the
guy like sweeping up in the back goes I played
a little quarterback in my day. All right, suit up
in the second half like literally try out, all right
and throw the ball. Let me let me see your
throwing motion. Can you canna pulled it ten yards down
the field? Who can throw the football more than ten yards?
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I'd like you? Uh yeah, it was It was difficult.
We have a lot about the JV game, which was
the NFC Championship game coming up, but the action at
Borrowhead and the penalty on Joseph Osai is clearly still
front and center today. The play will be talking about
all off season, the play that helped give the Chiefs
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the victory in the a f C title game to
move on to the Super Bowl. Mahomes waits for the shotgun,
snab two receivers out to each side. My Homes with
a deep drop, now moving in the pocket, running to
the right and running well, he's at the fifty. He's
trying to run for the first out. He goes on
the Bengal push him after he was out of bounds.
Multiple flags are going to attack fifteen yards onto this play,
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eight seconds left in regulation, and with that penalty, the
Chiefs will be in field goal range. Man, you have
to be more aware. This football team has got a
lot of awareness. Not on that play. You're gonna got
foul enough. Three rough play automatical found. Joseph Asai has
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to know where he is on the football field, has
to know where the quarterback is on the football field.
Great hustle play. I mean he tries to pursue, he's
after it, he's tracking Mahomes. I mean he's five yards
out of bounds. When Joseph Asai pushes him. I think
he lost track of which white line was the white
mine that was in bounds and out of bound, which
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was in it was out Bengals Radio network on the
Bengal push him after he was out of bounds. No, no,
It's like a guy in wrestling cowering in a corner
going no, no, no, no no. How many fans thing
heard that and don't know? You know, I don't know Joseph.
Joseph oside because he's been the league A couple of Joseph.
They think Joe and Died he was a good running Hey,
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what's upon a time Joe and Die was a top
three pick in fanas. He had like a one and
a half year run of being a top pick in fantasy.
Those all those guys, I mean, dominic Roads go back
and I'm down the line, those sure nacks. Absolutely, but look,
there's been a lot of talk about this. Still was
it a penalty? Should have been called at that point
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in the game. Is that a penalty? Is it not?
Do you need to blow the whistle? Do you need
to be a part of the game. And we're confusing
a couple of things here right, because I'll tell you
exactly what it is. It was a horrendously officiated game,
slanted towards the Chiefs. You look at the late hit
that wasn't called with Jones on Joe Burrow. You look
at some some of the block in the back that
wasn't called on the on the kick return at the end.
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There's many he calls that were heavily slanted towards the Chiefs.
And the Bengals have a big beef this play. Joseph
Osi gave the referees no choice but to blow the whistle.
This is a penalty anywhere. The announcers see it right away.
The Bengals players knew it right away. If you're watching
at home, you knew it right away. It's a penalty, alright.
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Mahomes Is is two has taken two steps onto the
white part of the sideline. He is out of bounds
and osaide comes in with the elbow from behind. Now
does Mahomes, Of course he does. But when you make
that motion and you hit him, that's gonna be a penalty.
He gave the threes no choice but to throw the flight.
If he doesn't and just kind of runs in and
runs over and falls and trips, that's not a penalty.
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But he goes in forcefully with his forearm for reasons
that I don't understand. Because he tried to give some
crazy ass answer at the end of the game yesterday saying, oh,
I was trying to get him and turn him to
back him out of bound so the clock would keep running.
It's like, what are you even saying that. My my daughters,
anything about football knows that doesn't make any sense. So
just say you lost your head, you wanted to hit,
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you wanted to hit Mahomes. You're frustrated, because that's kind
of what goes through people's heads when you're playing. That's
why these penalties are committed. But you gave the referee
no choice but to throw the flag. Anybody saying didn't
have to throw it, you're just looking for hot take
theater because this is this is this was something that
was never even debated that it wasn't, not by the broadcast,
not by the team. Now, look, you had Bengals players
(08:27):
walking off the field going why do you hit the quarterback? Why?
Nobody on the Bengal said why are you throwing the
flag in that situation? Nobody Nobody said that was because
if that was a bad penalty, and the Bengals knew
it wasn't a penalty, they were The first thing Zach
Taylor would have said is that was bogus. It was
a load of crap. But he was very classy after
the game and and said, hey, it wasn't just one play,
it was lots of things. You would have heard that
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more from the people who were affected the most, and
he didn't because they knew that it's a penalty any Sunday,
it's a that's a penalty. That's penalty any part in
the game. When you say I have no choice but
to throw the flag, it's a penalty. And Joseph os
I gave the referee no choice but to throw the flag.
The hard part is, and we recognize it in the
regular season, into the playoffs and and ultimately when we
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get to Glendale. If you have a similar situation. It's
a It's one of those impossible pieces for a defender
because I think as Mahomes goes to pull up, he
probably runs them through the back anyway, Like even if
that arm doesn't extend and give him the jolt, he
probably bumps him trying to slow up his three pound
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frame behind him, right, and there's I think there's still
gonna be contact in this case. It becomes the extra
out front and he goes down like a ton of bricks.
We've seen Mahomes cut back into the field before, Right.
That's the great rope, a dope that quarterbacks can play
is well, I'm kind of going out of bounds, but
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am I really? And then you lighten up, you you
slow up your gate, and what do they do? They
steal an extra two three eight yard it's whatever the
case maybe, and so you're trying to guard against that.
I think he was hoping and his explanation is more
the if I contact him in bounds, then the clock
keeps running because I've touched him that But this all
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I was hoping to turn him around, him around so
I can look him in the eye and stare him down.
Whatever the case, Like I feel bad for the guy right,
he's sitting there, he's he's crying in consolable, et cetera.
And they had their opportunities. And that's the thing, Like,
this is the play that ultimately sets up the field goal.
I get it, But the Bengals had plenty of opportunity
over the course of the game. I mean, make a
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play like the big throw to Jamaar Chase and that's
some of the worst defense you'll ever see, even two
guys back there. But he he threaded the needle. But
you know, you had your opportunities early in the game.
You were getting bludgeoned by the pass rush. Like all
of these things, it's it's a culmination. And but on
this particular play there there's no choice but the for
(10:58):
the flag to come out. And that's just in the
protection of the quarterback. Where we're at, there's not even
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(11:19):
that the other part of this discussion, but waiting to
get to all days, why does this happen? Like why
how he's gotta know better, He's got to know better.
He's got to know better, right, And I understand that,
But just let me tell you what goes through athletes heads.
That's going through them and going through Joseph Osa's head
in this situation. This is a game where hey, it's
been as emotional as it can be, right, the whole
(11:40):
borrowhead stuff all week long leading up to it. It's
another chance to get to the Super Bowl for both
teams and your O, S I, or you're any player
defensively for for the Bengals and you want to bury Mahomes.
He is injured and you want to be able to
lay a lick on him and make him not be
able to throw the football because you want to go
to the super Bowl. And why happening? All game long?
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He is limping out of trouble, He's completing passes, he
is shredding the defense, and if you're a Bengals player,
you're watching him go boy. Every time he throws a
big he has a big play, he limps off the field. Right,
I'm not saying he did it on purpose, but it's like,
I've got to watch him throw this pass and limp
off Fieldsure, look how hurt I am and I can
complete this And you start getting mad and you get
very frustrated because you want to get to my homes
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and you can't. And if you haven't had a chance
to put a hit on him, this is what happens.
You're chasing him, and after in fifty eight and a
half fifty nine and a half minutes, you have a
chance to hit him and you can't and you're not
supposed to, and you know you're not supposed to, but
in that moment that doesn't go through your head. It's
I got him, I got it. I'm gonna hit him.
And then you get up and you realize why did
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I do that? But you're just so full of it.
And anybody said that's ever happens, happened to me in
high school. Anybody that's ever played gets what that's all about.
When you get so frustrated in a game and you
hit somebody because you want to and anticipate, you just
lose it because that's been going through your mind all game,
getting the homes, stopping him, making sure he doesn't get
there and you get too exuberant. And that's why it's
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always going to continue to happen, because that's what's gonna
go through athletes minds when that happens. All it's an
emotional game and that's an emotional situation and to turn
off your emotions at that point is really tough to do.
So why did it happen? It's this is why it
continues to happen, and that's why it happened for him. Yeah,
the Borough thing just really quick. I think the official
looked at it and said, nice flop. Right, there was contact,
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but I mean there's letter and spirit of the law,
and in that case, that was a oh, I'm going
down into the ground like you know, the bag of
feathers because Clark barely yea, but still it's two steps
and you hit the quarterback and all right, I'm not
supposed to do that and you standing right there. Numbe
didn't say it. Nump didn't say I think that was
the night. Nice work, good acting jobs. I don't get
(13:48):
a call on that. What word Burrowhead Stadium? You need
a call? I thought you're good enough that get up,
you're gonna punt? Twitter and out about a fresca Mike
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(14:08):
rewards terms they do apply well. Coming up next, Jason
locking Forest stops by honestly Washington Post NFL Insider. What
is he breaking down? We're gonna see a change in
the NFL after what happened in the NFC Championship game.
Keep it right here. We're looking back at conference championship
Sunday and ahead to the Super Bowl. Right here, Jason
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(14:36):
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terms they do apply well. Joining us down on the
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Championships Sunday in the NFL Odyssey, Washington's Post, Washington Post
longtime insider Jason Locking for He's on Twitter at Jason
(15:22):
locking For. What's happening? Jay? What's going on? Gentlemen? Greetings
where I'm still I'm still buzzing about all the events
at Borrowhead, Man. I meant, I did this is unbelievable.
It was a weekend, big Sunday all the way, all
the way around. I mean, from Anita Baker forgetting how
to sing toll you know what I mean? That crazy
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ending eight hours later or whatever it was, that was
a day. Where are you on the ending of that game?
The penalty penalties that recalled during the game that had
the slant against the Bengals and the the o side
penalty at the end, I mean, I think that you
have to call that penalty. Um. Look, there was no
malice in his heart. I don't believe he was not
intending to injury. He didn't want to do anything dirty.
(16:06):
He just failed to hold up and he made contact
in a way and at a time that you can't
now that they're also you know, you can find images
of Orlando Brown behind a defensive lineman basically putting him
in you know, some sort of WWF chokehold, you know,
like I mean it's it's a full body hold, like
it's holding in every way, shape and form. He may
(16:28):
have had in a figure four leg locked down below,
you know, with yeah, like, but certainly up high there
was at least some some sort of armbar chokehold going on.
You know, they let that go. Um. Look, the officiating
in this league is a problem. It's been a problem,
and at some point you're gonna have to convince these
(16:51):
billionaires to take a little bit more out of their
cut of the of the pot, which is humongous, and
put it into you know, a year round venture for
these officials and to create, you know, an NFL school
of officiating. And these guys are at it year round
and they're calling USFL games like they're immersed in a
year round they're not fitting it in around, you know,
(17:13):
putting roofs on people's homes and you know, mowing lawns
and and and being trial lawyers. Like this is a
twenty plus billion dollar business. They are now swimming and
gambling money. They have every gambling partnership you could ever want.
I'm waiting to see how they break it down. Pretty soon,
somebody be the official parlay you know, there're the official
(17:35):
parlay makers of the NFL. Were the official parlay makers
the NFL. We're the official live betting side of the NFL.
Like that's the direction that's going. And so if that's
where we are, and every little play um is now
mainstream for millions of people and billions of dollars to
be moving from one account to the next based on
(17:56):
these outcomes, that we better figure out how spot a
ball above and beyond the chain gang, you know, we
better improve and put real money in the research and
I T and development over there at Park Avenue where
they skimp and they need to be better. And these
guys making these decisions there needs to be much more
transparency and it can't be a part time job. And
(18:16):
until we get there, and I'm not saying that that's
a panacea, but until we get closer to that. This
is going to continue to be a weekly subplot to
NFL outcomes because there are a lot of judgment calls,
and there's a lot of judgment calls that seem to
vary from crew to crew, from you know, how they
(18:38):
hand things out to the home team versus how some
hand them out to the road team, Like there needs
to be more uniformity to that end. The All Star
crew is to me, always been problematic. These guys are
looking at each other like they have no idea what's
going on? Yeah, I mean it doesn't make any sense.
Like how about we make everybody better? Like how about
we get to a point where, you mean, the guy
(19:00):
doing the one o'clock whatever Arizona at you know, Indianapolis
game is also super bowlworthy? Like how about we raised
the whole freaking you know, tide. Like how about we
create a program that I've heard people whisper about for
years where you pay these guys enough and you make
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it a year round job and you start converting players
to you know what I mean from the playing field
while they're still in great shape and they're you know,
they're they're they're twitchy, and they're present and they they're
up to date on all the latest rules, and they're
clearly athletic, you know what I mean. And we started
doctrinating them into officiating mentorship programs like it's got a
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matter to them, you know what I mean? And clearly
it doesn't, because if you look at their line item
budgets for what they spend, you know, across the board,
dis offficiating is a drop in the bucket. It's nothing. Ja.
So with the officiating dealing with that, the Bengals are
worried about that and what they had to go against
them yesterday, how much of the trash talk hurt them?
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All the borough had stuff that was so much fun
for us, I'll tell you, man, the Chiefs seem seemed
extra fired up about that all week. I mean, we're
talking about if they called the holding play the way
they're supposed to call it, the game's going in overtimement,
who the hell knows? Like I mean, like, do I
think they played harder? No? I think it's great content
after the game. Like you know, how guys work on
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their dances all week, they can also work for their
ship burns and they can unleash them after the game
and more power to them. They should. It's good for
their brand. It's great form. Like us in the media,
you know, fans who aren't completely like brain dead. I
think get it for what it is, and there's a
showmanship element and that's great. But like you mean to
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tell me, like Patrick Mahomes got extra treatment on his
ankle because the mayor of Cincinnati said some ridiculous I
don't think people like that. I just don't. I'm sorry,
I don't know. I'm a fifty year old grown ass man.
I don't think that's how it works. I've been around
professional sports since I was eighteen years old. I just
don't really think through the week. It's like guys are
getting ready to go home when somebody says, damnit, remember
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what that jackass Meyer said, We're staying at fifteen minutes longer.
I'm spending twenty more minutes with the jugs guns because
I gotta. I gotta show him on Sunday who's boss.
Come on, it's a good thing. He's only a year. Jason.
You don't think Mahomes is already a psycho competitor and
Kelsey's already a psycho competitor. Like, yeah, it's great. To
unleash all that and like all the thinking about a
little bit during the week, like thinking that we're gonna
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show them. Yeah, but like, do I really think it
affects the outcomes of these these marathon sporting events where
it's you know, collision after collision after collision and a
guy sitting there thinking I could pull the shoot. Nah,
I don't like Joe Burrows. I don't like Joe Burrows
smirk on his Wednesday press conference. I'm getting off, I'm
getting up off the grass and I'm staying in this game.
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Like I don't know, man, just uh, I'm probably the
wrong guy as not just always good for fodder for
us Burrow and for the world. I mean, all that
stuff is great, Like I get it, but like I mean,
Chris Jones, Chris Jones is a guy. He was burrow
heading it all week long, and he had the big
hit and he had to he had a couple of
some really big plays, and you know, he had a
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little bit of prop came in, yah. I mean, if
the championship game and the legacy are on the line,
and whether they said anything or whispered anything or put
up a billboard, they came in the airhead and you
thought you had the game one before the halftime, and
they snatched the Super Bowl appearance out of your freaking hands. Like,
I think that's the motivation, you know what I mean,
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I think that's where like a rivalry is born. This
stuff helps take it over the top. And look, these
teams are probably gonna win their divisions for a while
moving forward, which means we'll get these regular season matchups.
And I hope that burrow Verse, you know, Mahomes could
turn into a fraction of what Brady verse Manning was. Um,
A lot of a won't like that because it means
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the same teams are in the championhip game every years.
These guys are just that good that that definitely be
how it goes. So like I'm into all that, but
like I mean again, think of that game and and
all the little sort of potential turning points and turning points.
I don't you know, I don't know, man, I don't
think that I'm streaming Burrowhead had a whole hell of
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a lot to do with this. But maybe I'm nice. Well,
everybody coming off the highs of watching the Royal Rumble
and they all wanted to get their shoot interviews done
as well Jason Locke and for our guests Jason Smith
Show with Me Mike Armen here at Fox Sports Radio,
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and for where you find him on Twitter, you can
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five seven The Fan as well, So Jason, the forty Niners,
Kyle Shanahan and company. Playing as we are well shorthanded
would be the kind of way to say it. Trey
Lance coming off a big injury, Brock pretty well, he's
got a long term injury. Where do they turn going
for and after the shell lacking they took yesterday, Man
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load up on the avocados. Load up on the avocado
ice cream. Make sure everybody there is you know, get get,
start getting Guerrero on the hio, Guerrero on the hotline.
Make sure that you've got your locker room up to
TV twelve standards. Let's go. I mean again, I did
this exercise at the Washington Post going into these games,
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and I had Brady going there before this injury, just
because it's Brock Purty and it's Tom freaking Brady. And
if you're winning all these games, you know, attempting nine
passes per game with brock Purty. Why the hell couldn't
you win them with Tom Brady, you know what I mean,
and have that experience and like not have to worry
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about if anything is going to be too big for
him or whatever. And then you put this injury on
top of it, Like he's better than Aaron Rodgers right now.
I mean, there's no I don't think that that there's
really a compa Harrison and he'll go there on the cheap,
whereas Aaron Rodgers has this absolutely ridiculous monster contract and
he ain't given anything back, so like they can't fit
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a sixty million dollar quarterback under the cap. But I mean,
I think Brittany would go there and play for twenty
five whatever. Like to me, it's a no brainer at
this point, and another dominoes can fall from there. But
Carl Shannan's wanted him before, He's wanted them before, like
I to me, it's it, honestly is it makes all
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the sense in the world right now. Lastly, Jay, speaking
of quarterbacks and and and we used to have this
rule in the league, but I can't believe it's not
gonna be something that's changed for next year? Are we
going to see an added spot to the active roster
so all teams can dress three quarterbacks? Because that take
quarterbacks out of the equation, and say everybody dressed dresses
three quarterbacks and then you can figure out, you know
(25:52):
what I mean, whatever you want to do with the
other forty five spots or forty story spots, whatever he decide,
then you know what I mean, then you do whatever
you want there. But yeah, it's it's ridiculous. Look, why
aren't all fifty three active? Sure? I mean why, Like seriously,
you're paying them. You're paying them appropriated NFL salary. It's
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not like you know, practice squad where you're on a
lower you know what I mean, you're in a lower
salary and then you get the pro ration when you're
called up. But like, what's the just honestly, what's the downside?
And just having everybody who you're paying an NFL salary
to available to play a football game the extra trap, Right,
It's not like one team could hoard all the players.
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It's not baseball, Like what are we doing here? It's
the ultimate collision sport. It's the ultimate concussion sports, the
ultimate violent sport. And you've got healthy guys who can
help you win a football game and sweat sitting in
a suite making making you know what I mean, making
a full pay check? How does that make sense? You
can follow on Twitter at Jason lock and for that
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Jay has always Buddy appreciated. Great stuff. Man, We'll talk
to you next week. Appreciate you. Be sure to catch
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Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
I didn't expect Tony Romo to be such a big
topic of conversation following the SC Championship game. Now where
whether or not whatever he was trying to say after
a play between the Bengals and the Chiefs to miss tackles,
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you know that that big run by Pacheco here, Yeah,
combined with all of the analysis he gave, I feel
like yesterday was the tipping point for him how people
feel about him as an announcement. But you know what's
funny is I missed out, Like generally, I'm watching multiple games,
so I have no sound from any of them. It's right.
So when everybody was all excited about him calling plays
(27:59):
that I gave it a child. I'm like, alright, whatever,
he's doing what he's supposed to do. Fine, but it
was over the top. And then watching yesterday, Mike, I'm
putting music on. I'm not doing this anymore. He's he's
the equivalent of a player who piques his rookie year
and never reaches that level. Again, that's that's a tape
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on him, Like, Wow, he's predicting plays. That's really cool.
And now you look at him he years later, it's
like the guy he's saying Phil Simms type stuff, that's all.
But he's doing it in a way that just sounds
like he's a fan who want to contest. Right, So Tren,
you're Jim nance call one of the places today this
game and I'll and I'll be Tony Romo. Go ahead,
Jecho going around the end, breaks that first tackle, diving
(28:40):
to different play, different play, give me a different I
just went not give me the dick, give me a
different play. My home shuffles too, is right looking gingerly
on the leg, gets it down field. There's a pass.
It's MBS again. Oh, Jim, Jim, that play was huge, Jim.
That play was so huge. Tip Jim, Jim Jim. In
(29:01):
a game, there's large plays, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim,
Jim him, there's large plays in the game. And then
look at me, Jim, look at me. There's large plays,
there's extra large plays, there's super size like, and then
there's huge. Jim. This play is absolutely huge, Jim. It's
so huge. I don't understand. I don't know what burrow
head is either. I don't know what they're saying. I know,
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but this play is so huge. It said, you watch
the play. Look at what he does. He's got one
leg on to the little bit to the left, and
it's right leg's a little bit to the right, and
he just throws the ball to m VS who makes
the play. That's so huge. Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim.
Look at me, Jim, Jim, Jim. Put the headset back on.
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He's so huge, Jim, this is so huge. Or Tracy Wolfson,
you guys don't understand how huge this is Jim the
better romos from yesterday where the I don't know, third
and four? What do you think, Jim, he's got I
think he should jimbo. Here the quarterback can either run
or he could pass. He's gotta make that choice. And
(30:06):
you make that choice, it becomes it becomes it's it's
one or the other. You can't you can't do both.
I don't know, Jim, what do you think should they
go for it here? I don't know. You know, hey,
if they don't go for it here, they got a
punt and you don't you don't want to give that
ball back. I did the multiple of how much more
he's reportedly being paid than I am for the year,
and I was a little pissed. He does. He just
(30:28):
kept bring back to nance like, hey, hey, you do
the predictive job. I'm done with it, he said. He
just sounds like a fan in the booth now that
is just excited to be there. Was he revving up
his golf game ahead of Pebble Beach right because you
saw the Caddyshack spoof commercials? Is that what he was
doing with his time instead of prepping for the game?
Ad A hell with it? I know what I'm gonna do, Tony,
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what you see on this Jim. I had an eighteen
footer for par Okay and I played a TPC songs. Jim, Jim,
you're a massive Jim. Don't shake your head, Jim, Jim.
So I make is put right and it's amazing. And
the alligator comes out and it's coming at me, and
the thing is Jerry Jones is holding on to the
Jim Jim, I'm telling your story, Jim. Pay attention to me, Jim, Jim,
this is a huge story, Jim. I saw the joke
(31:12):
going around on and I know I haven't followed the
Romo threat. I almost want to go back and watch
all the games they've called where it's the legend of
the week is what they were calling it. So it's like,
all right, last week he was invoking whoever it was.
This week it was how do I get Jordan Ins
and make it compared since to Jordan wherever possible? And
then how do you really not know what burrowhead is?
(31:34):
That was? That was perhaps I'm burrows ll Burrow But
what do they say embarrassing things? Ever? Show me show
me you didn't prepare for your job without showing me
you didn't prepare for your jobs. Tony takes the headset
off and says to his producer, Hey, can you tell
me what this burrowhead thing is all about? What I
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didn't I didn't pay attention to anything this week, so
I don't really know what's going I just write it
down for me so I can say it. It's not dirty?
Is it like? It's something I can say. It's not
one of those memes or anything. Right, Okay, it's not
something like you know, it's not something anybody anybody tweeted
out they have to worry about. Okay, okay, great, great, alright, good,
good good, I'm good. Yeah it was we're CBS, right, yes,
I mean we can, we can, you know, all right?
Those were the two things that came out of that game. Officiating. Ye,
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it's like yesterday. And the cocaine bear ad that a
lot of people have never seen. Yeah. I was showing
in both championship games, and I had people texted me going,
this is a real thing. Oh yeah, Yeah, we've been
counting down days. We were trying to hope to get
get in on the premier. I gotta say I kind
of like the the the tone of cocaine Bear. That's
we're gonna poke fun out. It's not like what happens
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if you give cocaine to a bear, Like it's like, okay,
it's gonna be one of those things where, oh boy,
that you gotta you gotta bear. This bear is coming
out here. Now that's an actual sound from the movie.
This is a real movie, Jim. I saw a commercial
for the It's cocaine Bear, Jim. That might have been
the most excited promo anybody could have ever done. Up
later tonight and Jim, Jim, stop listen. It was like
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the bear. It was like a guy flying a plane
full of it and the bear like grab the guy
is a Yogi bear. After dark Jim, Jim, Jim, this
is huge. This movie could be huge. Jim. Did he
take Huboo out once and for all? Smokey went to Cooke? Jim.
Are they happened to the Ranger? Are they yellow Stone? Jim? Jim, Jim,
don't get up and leave where you basket? Twitter? How
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about a Fresca Mike and soloumb more big stuff from
the NFL. Next, I'm winded, Jim
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