January 31, 2023 • 38 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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Mike Harmon. Just because we're joining games in progress. Uh,
the Lebron James, he'd protested, No, the Lakers are hugging
Kyrie Irving after losing to them four, Kyrie goes for six,
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and I just feel like they're all just hugging him
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 again as a the playoffs.
Then play every game because help us out there. I
think they were kind of congratulating him as being the
only start to actually play today. Yeah, everybody else a
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load management wine wine wine, cry, 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 I'm 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. I don't
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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 its 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 Lakers, how the nets without
a D and lebron No, it 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,
nice 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. Uh. Now,
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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 found 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
just 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 of all played quarterback?
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I don't 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
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than ten yards? 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
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the Chiefs the victory in the a f C title
game to move on to the Super Bowl. Mahomes waits
for the shotgun snap two receivers out to each side.
Mahomes with a deep drive, 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 down. He goes
on the Bengal push him after he was out of bounds.
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Multiple flags are going to attack fifteen yards onto this play,
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 get a
little foul and nothing thy rough play, automatical found Joseph
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Asai has 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
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line that was in bounds and out abound, which 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 Osi because he's been in the league A
couple of Joseph. How about Joe and died, But he
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was a good running hey, Once upon a time, Joe
and I was a top three picking fans. He had
like a one and a half year run of being
a top pick and fantasy. Those all those guys, I
mean dominic roads go back and I'm down the line
those sure, absolutely, But look, there's been a lot of
talk about this still. Was it a penalty? Should have
been called at that point in the game. Is that
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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
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the kick return at the end. There's many 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 announced to see it right away. The
Bengals players knew it right away. If you're watching at home,
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you knew it right away. It's a penalty, alright. Mahomes
Is is two has taken two steps onto the white
part of the sideline. He is out of bounds and
Osai 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 referees no choice but to throw the flag.
If he doesn't and just kind of runs in and
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runs over and falls and trips, that's not a penalty.
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 the mike.
My daughter doesn't anything about football. She knows that doesn't
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make any sense. So just say you lost your head,
you wanted to hit, 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 they don'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,
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not by the broadcast, not by the team. Now, look,
you had Bengals players 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 a 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,
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it wasn't just one play, it was lots of things.
You would have heard that 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 flag, it's a penalty.
And Joseph Osai gave the referee no choice but to
throw the flag. The hard part is, and we recognize
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it in the regular season into the playoffs and and
ultimately when we 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
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his three pound 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
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out of bounds, but 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
yards what ever 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. But
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this all I was hoping to turn 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, etcetera.
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
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over the course of the game. I mean, they can
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 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
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there there's no choice but the for the flag to
come out. And that's just in the section of the
quarterback where we're at. There's not even a hesitation on it.
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So the thing is is that the other part of
this discussion of waiting to get to all days, why
does this happen? Like why how he's got to 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
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can be, right, the whole 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 your 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.
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And what's happening all game long? 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 and
go boy. Every time he throws a big he has
a big play, he limps off the field. Right, I'm
not saying that on purpose, but it's like, I gotta
watch him throw this pass and limp off fieldure, Look
how hurt I am? And I can complete this and
you start getting mad and you get very frustrated because
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you want to get to my homes 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
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get up and you realize why did 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, stop popping him, making sure he doesn't get there,
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and you get too exuberant. And that's why it's 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 but still it's two steps and
you hit the quarterback and all right, I'm not supposed
to do that. You're standing right there. Nope, didn't see it,
didn't say I think that was the night. Nice work,
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good acting job. I don't get a call on that.
What word Borrowhead Stadium? You need a call? I thought
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Doing Tony Romo takes a lot out of me. That
was pretty fun. Didn't sound like it, but you sounded
like yeah, that's all, Like I know, like the voice,
it's it's just doing the it's doing that. It's getting
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the kids. It's here's the key. Here. I'll take you know, listen,
I do pretty good impress even the bad ones are
good because I know how to handle it. I'll teach
you now how to do a tony rum or impression.
It's very simple. You have to be over the topic,
scited with whatever you're talking about, all right, Number one,
Number two. You gotta throw in a gym every five seconds,
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all right, you get through, And no matter what you're
talking about, it's huge. It's huge. It could be the
cup of coffee you were drinking. It could be the
size of the dinner you had, it could be a
play on the field. But everything is huge, And everything
that you talk about is huger than what you talked
about before. The play right now, that's huge. Yeah, is
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bigger than the huge play from two minutes ago. But
it's not quite as big as the huge play that's
gonna be Jim. It's from now, j Every third down
is the most important pivotal this. This is their season, Jim, Jim, Jim,
this is their season. This play is either gonna be
a run or it's gonna be a pass. If it's
a run, it's either gonna be the outside or the inside.
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It's a past. It's gonna be a short path. Oh, Jim,
it's a long pass. Jim, Jim, Jim. Look at my
hog through that ball thirty yards of the air. Jim, Jim, Jim.
Are you want, Jim, Jim take cotton out of your ears? Stop?
Just talk to me, Jim, Jim, Jim, Why Jim? Why
you get I guess I got out scam by myself. Wow.
This is huge to watch yesterday, right with all the
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controversy and everything, but to have that going on and
asking Jim Nance what do he thinks that the play
calls should be and evaluations. Remember, once upon a time,
this was a guy that was one of the great
stories of the NFL, not just as a broadcaster, not
out of eastern Illinois, rising up becoming the guy for
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the Cowboys, throwing for thirty four thousand yards in career. Yeah, yeah,
and now he's a punch line. And now I'd say,
what happened to you? Just that fast? Right right as
we celebrate the boot that we had for Fox, Right,
burke Hart and Olson were fantastic pill were to post
and stayed with it like even though the game was
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getting out of sorts. It was still an opportunity to
teach you about some of the players on the Eagles.
Maybe you didn't know what they're doing defensively without making
fun of what's going on on the other side. And meanwhile,
we got the Jim nance. I gotta I gotta do
the Tony Tony, I am glad this is our last
came together. I'll see you at Pebble Beach. Okay, I
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get it. You gotta go in. I need a break.
I can't. Every time you say jim My, my eye
twitches and I need, I need, I need a minute.
There's a drinking game going on in the in the boot.
In the truck every time he says, Jim, what's the
over under in a given broadcast? And there's a sheet
up in the boot that someone in addition to Hey,
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this is your job, you know, in terms of quick
edits and whatever, but you have to count the number
of Jim's Jim nance. Why is this camera work so bad? Well,
because our cameraman is in the bad Because you know,
Tony Rum said your name eleven times already and there's
still eight minutes ago in the first quarter. I was
thinking that the drinking was gonna happen in post. But
but hey, if they start drifting in game, why do
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they keep showing the same fans the same guy the
whole night they decided to just take that cameraman or
a woman away. You know, here's the thing for Romo
and this is this is what gets him grinds my year.
We talked about like he's he's the equivalent of a
player who peaks as in a roomie rookie year, Jim.
Is that for a guy who knows how to predict plays,
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he certainly seems awfully excited at the result of a
play when you would think he would know the result already.
I know what's gonna happen. No, no, what which oceans
wasn't when they had the guy with the the AI
and it's monitoring whether it's a real win or a
fake win? Was that has no real excitement? Like like
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he's a great actor because he's supposed to know. For
a guy who knows the place, he gets awful excited
when something happens. Oh, Jim, did you see that? Jim? Yes,
that was a three yard run by Joe Mixing. It's
now second down and seven dilated pupils perspiring to go
in the first quarter for breakfast. That's real emotion. Chip
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Chip Chip, you don't have Jim Chip. They give us
free food at these kids, you know that, Jim. I
go in, I go into the broadcast, right and I
commit here and I go in and in the press
box there's food and it's caters fry, and there's like sandwiches,
and there's a Jim. Jim. I mean, look at Jim.
Do you want a sandwich? I gonna get you a sandwich.
It's a lot of problem. I mean, I'll miss some
of the game, but whow, I'll mean back and be
very excited. I gonna get you. Like they got mayonnaise
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and mustant, Jim. And this is huge, Chip Chip. They
have horse ratted sauce. It's so huge, it's so it
is so huge, Joe. I mean they have they have
all kind they have worse sire sauce. They have Deli
mustard and regular mustard. Jim, you get, Jim, you get
the you get the I mean, and if they have
honey mustard, oh, that would be so huge. That would
be huger than all the other beside just talked about.
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Would make pretzel that I charged that much better. It
was salt, right, because they say salt and not salt.
And it's huge with salt. If you haven't salt pretzel
and saw that's so huge. It's so But without salt
it's huge. It's so you could put pink salt on it.
You would all got. You could put rock salt on it.
You don't even take some of that salt that you
put when when when it sews in front of your house,
you gotta you gotta make sure it melts wrong. I mean,
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it's not good to eat. But boy, you could do
that now would be huge. Jim, I can't make it
for four hours, Jim, I just came on the floor.
I can't make it. Somebody came on the floor. I can't.
Oh boy, I can't. I'm hot, I'm winded a burger.
Oh boy, I'll tell you who diet coakes and fried Coke.
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I got my diet extra large? He does. And honestly,
you know what? And yesterday can I tell you? Can
I tell you something else? What's that funny? So after
the game that m y, I'm a chim Jim, so
Pam says, listen, I'm gonna run to mcdonald' because I'm
watching the game, like, oh, great Sunday. So she goes,
you want you know? And that was the That was
the big splurge for a Sunday night running what we
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we went yesterday. It's been a twenty four hours. Let's
go on, honey, let's go. I hadn't been to McDonald
since like Wednesday, so it's fun the championship game. So
I'm gonna ask McDonald's grab somebody eat real fast. Yeah, sure,
no problems, so her and so we went out to
get food, bringing back cheers. You want you regular? And
I said, yeah, which is you know, Big Mac extra sauce.
I get the second one for an extra dollar. No,
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because we're an extra dollar because they screwed up my order,
and instead I got a dumb what do you mean?
I got a double quarter powder cheese quarter powder with cheese.
It's huge. Chip. It's so huge, it's so much huger
than the big back is the patties a little bit smaller.
Put a double quarter powder. It's it's twice like him Jim,
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but it's ketchup and his onions and there's two slices
of cheese chip chip and you see the size of
the pattie, because because it's a quarter pound before they
cook it, that's why it's a quarter powder and you
get two of those things. It's that it's huge because
just it's huger than the big back, the big metables. Well,
this is huge. His head is going to explode if
I go out. I go out like this, did you
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always keep a couple of extra in and out sauce
packets around? Well, and you're covered. So what happened was
it comes back and I go, Pam goes. I said, oh,
they give me the wrong order shoes what And I look,
so Pam screwed it up before she left. Yeah, you
know what. And she's someone that always tells me to check,
always like and if I come back with the wrong food,
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it's like, you didn't check. And I'm like, if I'm
gonna open everything and check, but I'm not gonna open everything.
I'm gonna open everything whatever, check, I'm gonna eat it all.
So but the thing is, they gave her the entirely
wrong order, so we got and so I like to
think the positive is that somebody just got opened up
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to the idea of the big mac with extra sauce,
picture cheese, no pickles, is like, oh, I gotta get this.
So you go to the same McDonald's. It's like the
neighborhood one. Yeah. Yeah. So by this point and they're
well aware this is probably you know, they probably didn't know,
but there's a little extra sauce on there. I gotta no, no, no,
because they don't know Pam as well as they know me.
So I gotta go in and go, hey, my wife
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was here there to say. That was your wife too,
that was Jason's wife. What do you You can't screw
up that order? Man, Come on, that's probably what it was.
I mean, you're not quite a shareholder, but you're kind
of important to the bottom. Yeah, of course I am
your kid, Like, keep that McDonald's open. Man. He's all
through tell he was a little disappointed, means appointingly. I
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look at you and I say, still not a sponsor?
Yeah no, no, shouldn't. Well, it's Frostberg's fault. He's got it.
He's gotta get on that. I think what happens is
they hear Tisher talk about healthy food all the time.
They're like, oh, that's what the hell did I do?
I don't see, you're supposed to close deals. Man, you're
a deal closer. I realized it's difficult because tishoot is
all about oh no, we have to have something that
has zero calories and zero taste and is made mainly
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out of water. So I'm going to have a cucumber sandwich,
except with bread. I'm going to wrap it around lettuce
iceberg ltus and hold it so you have the iceberg
like only thing. You're like a whole Foods. I mean
that sad. So I get there, think at all. We're
never gonna get in on that. You know what we
can take we we welcome them into Yeah, I beat Listen,
I balance out McDonald's with something healthy. I always best. Okay,
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if I had that, that's getting yang. I gotta get
cell Jim, Jim, you mean you eat healthy food? To Jim,
that's salads here too, Jim in the press box, I
didn't know that. I heard that Dodger games have Dodger dogs, right,
you know they bring out Dodger dogs the seventh inning
and everybody can have him Jim, Jim, Jim. Think think
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about the nacho helmet, Jim. It's so huge, Jim. The
Nacho game changer game like Mahomes game changer, notcho helmet
game to Jim Jim, Jim, Jim Jim. And it's big
enough that it actually fits on your head, Jim. You
can wear it out after it's over. I've seen people
and I've seen people wearing out the clean out the
cheese after it. I always tell the I always tell
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the the the good dad who I'd always say something
and I go, hey, pretty cool, like if I see
him in the dad because I know he's a good
dad because he's in the men's room and he's he's
trying at a at a you know, finish the thought
and a sink where you know there's there's just a
little soap that comes out and maybe there's uh maybe
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there's paper towels or not, and he's trying to wash
out the nacho helmet so the kid can wear the
helmet when he goes well. But there's probably an instinct
to say, to hell with it. There's just a little
bit of cheese. But he's not never gonna hear the
end of it. If the kid takes it off when
he gets up, look what I got and there's still
some cheese residue. I mean that I just put it
right on my head with the nachos out of there
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a little bit, jod Dad versus pragmatic Dad right there.
Chat don't need I don't need the back end it out, Jim.
Just put the helmet on your head. Chip Chip and
this cheese just rolls down your face. Chip and you
can take a chip. He's rolling on your cheek. You
eat a chip. Chip. This is game changer, Jim, Game changer, Jim, Jim, Jim,
you know we have to recreate this now scraping a
(25:59):
chip she's drips out of a helmet. Be sure to
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seen in an incredible Championships Sunday in the NFL Odyssey,
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Washington's Post, Washington Post longtime insider Jason Locking for He's
on Twitter at Jason 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 and I did
is unbelievable. It was a big weekend, Big Sunday, all
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the way, all the way around. I mean from Anita
Baker forgetting how to sing toll you know what I mean?
That crazy 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
oside pedal to at the end, I mean, I think
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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. 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
(27:24):
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 have had in a figure four leg lock down below,
you know, yeah, like, but certainly up high there was
at least some some sort of armbar chokehold going on.
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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
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
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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,
putting roofs on people's homes and you know, mowing lawns
and and and being trial lawyers. Like this is a
(28:25):
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 were the
official parlay makers of the NFL, were the official parlay
makers in the NFL. We're the official live betting side
(28:47):
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 these outcomes, that we better figure out,
how is spot a ball above and beyond the chain gang?
You know, we better improve and put real money in
(29:09):
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 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
(29:31):
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 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
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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 make everybody better? Like how
about we get to a point where you know what
I mean, the guy doing the one o'clock whatever Arizona
at you know, Indianapolis game is also super bowlworthy? Like
(30:15):
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 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,
(30:37):
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 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, the disofficiating is that up in the bucket.
(31:00):
It's nothing Jay. 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? All the borough had stuff that was
so much fun for us, because I'll tell you, man,
the Chiefs seemed seemed extra fired up about that all week. Love.
I mean, we're we're talking about if they called the
holding play the way they're supposed to call it, the
(31:21):
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 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 forms like us in
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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 tell me, like Patrick Mahomes got extra treatment on
his ankle because the mayor of Cincinnati's that some ridiculous thing.
I don't think people like that. I just don't. I'm sorry,
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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, and so 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
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.
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Come on, it's a good thing he's only a year
into his term, 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, are the
thinking about a little bit during the week, like thinking
that we're gonna 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
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collision and a guy sitting there thinking I could pull
the shoot. Nah. I don't like Joe Burrows. I like
Joe Brows smirk on his Wednesday press conference. I'm getting
I'm getting up off the grass and I'm staying in
this game. Like I don't know, man, I just uh,
I'm probably the wrong guy. As not just always good
for fodder for us Burrow and for the world. I mean,
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all that stuff is great, Like I get it, but
like I mean, I don't know 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
hit a couple of some really big plays, and you know,
he had a little bit of prop came in. Yeah,
I mean if the Chip game and the legacies are
on the line, and whether they said anything or whispered
anything or put up a billboard, they came in the
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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. I think that's where like
a rivalry is born and 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
(33:57):
Burrow verse, you know, Mahomes could turn into a fraction
of what Brady verse Manning was. Um, A lot of
people won't like that because it means the same teams
are in the champion game every year. 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
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of potential turning points and turning points. I don't you know,
I don't know, man, I don't think the I'm screaming
burrowhead had a whole hell of a lot to do
with it. 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 and Jason Smith Show with Me,
Mike Armen here at Fox Sports Radio, from the entire
(34:40):
Act dot Com studios at Jason Locke and for where
you find him on Twitter you can read them Washington
Post here him in Baltimore one oh 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, pretty well, he's got a long
(35:02):
term injury. Where did they turn going forward? After the
shellacking they took yesterday. Man 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.
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I mean again, I did this exercise at the Washington
Post going into these games, 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,
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you know what I mean, and have that experience and
like not have to worry about if anything's going to
be too big for him or whatever. And then you
put this injury on top of it, like he's better
than are in Rogers right now. I mean, there's no
I don't think that that there's really a comparison. And
he'll go there on the cheap, whereas Aaron Rodgers has
(36:09):
this absolutely ridiculous monster contract and he ain't given anything back.
So like they can't fit 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 Kyl Shannan's wanted him before,
He's wanted them before, like I to me, it's it,
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honestly is it makes all 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 we have that. Take quarterbacks out of
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the equation and say everybody dressed dresses three quarterbacks, and
then you can figure out, you know what I mean,
whatever you want to do with the other forty five
spots or four six spots or spots whatever the hether side,
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, they're paying them appro rated NFL salary.
(37:19):
It's 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 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 right,
It's not like one team could hoard all the players.
(37:39):
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 guys, Thank you well.
Jason figured
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Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Just because we're joining games in progress. Uh,
the Lebron James, he'd protested, No, the Lakers are hugging
Kyrie Irving after losing to them four, Kyrie goes for six,
(00:47):
and I just feel like they're all just hugging him
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 again as a the playoffs.
Then play every game because help us out there. I
think they were kind of congratulating him as being the
only start to actually play today. Yeah, everybody else a
(01:08):
load management wine wine wine, cry, 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 I'm 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. I don't
(01:29):
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 its 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 Lakers, how the nets without
a D and lebron No, it 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,
(02:12):
well they didn't have Vince Carter either, Okay, okay, alright, right,
nice 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. Uh. Now,
(02:34):
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 found 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
just 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
(03:38):
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 of all played quarterback?
(04:02):
I don't 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
(04:24):
than ten yards? 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
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the Chiefs the victory in the a f C title
game to move on to the Super Bowl. Mahomes waits
for the shotgun snap two receivers out to each side.
Mahomes with a deep drive, 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 down. He goes
on the Bengal push him after he was out of bounds.
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Multiple flags are going to attack fifteen yards onto this play,
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 get a
little foul and nothing thy rough play, automatical found Joseph
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Asai has 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
(05:50):
line that was in bounds and out abound, which 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 Osi because he's been in the league A
couple of Joseph. How about Joe and died, But he
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was a good running hey, Once upon a time, Joe
and I was a top three picking fans. He had
like a one and a half year run of being
a top pick and fantasy. Those all those guys, I
mean dominic roads go back and I'm down the line
those sure, absolutely, But look, there's been a lot of
talk about this still. Was it a penalty? Should have
been called at that point in the game. Is that
(06:36):
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
(06:56):
the kick return at the end. There's many 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 announced to see it right away. The
Bengals players knew it right away. If you're watching at home,
(07:19):
you knew it right away. It's a penalty, alright. Mahomes
Is is two has taken two steps onto the white
part of the sideline. He is out of bounds and
Osai 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 referees no choice but to throw the flag.
If he doesn't and just kind of runs in and
(07:41):
runs over and falls and trips, that's not a penalty.
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 the mike.
My daughter doesn't anything about football. She knows that doesn't
(08:01):
make any sense. So just say you lost your head,
you wanted to hit, 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 they don'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,
(08:23):
not by the broadcast, not by the team. Now, look,
you had Bengals players 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 a 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,
(08:45):
it wasn't just one play, it was lots of things.
You would have heard that 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 flag, it's a penalty.
And Joseph Osai gave the referee no choice but to
throw the flag. The hard part is, and we recognize
(09:06):
it in the regular season into the playoffs and and
ultimately when we 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
(09:30):
his three pound 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
(09:51):
out of bounds, but 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
yards what ever 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. But
(10:12):
this all I was hoping to turn 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, etcetera.
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
(10:33):
over the course of the game. I mean, they can
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 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
(10:56):
there there's no choice but the for the flag to
come out. And that's just in the section of the
quarterback where we're at. There's not even a hesitation on it.
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So the thing is is that the other part of
this discussion of waiting to get to all days, why
does this happen? Like why how he's got to 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
(11:39):
can be, right, the whole 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 your 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.
(11:59):
And what's happening all game long? 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 and
go boy. Every time he throws a big he has
a big play, he limps off the field. Right, I'm
not saying that on purpose, but it's like, I gotta
watch him throw this pass and limp off fieldure, Look
how hurt I am? And I can complete this and
you start getting mad and you get very frustrated because
(12:20):
you want to get to my homes 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
(12:41):
get up and you realize why did 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, stop popping him, making sure he doesn't get there,
(13:01):
and you get too exuberant. And that's why it's 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,
(13:25):
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 but still it's two steps and
you hit the quarterback and all right, I'm not supposed
to do that. You're standing right there. Nope, didn't see it,
didn't say I think that was the night. Nice work,
(13:46):
good acting job. I don't get a call on that.
What word Borrowhead Stadium? You need a call? I thought
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Doing Tony Romo takes a lot out of me. That
was pretty fun. Didn't sound like it, but you sounded
like yeah, that's all, Like I know, like the voice,
it's it's just doing the it's doing that. It's getting
(14:55):
the kids. It's here's the key. Here. I'll take you know, listen,
I do pretty good impress even the bad ones are
good because I know how to handle it. I'll teach
you now how to do a tony rum or impression.
It's very simple. You have to be over the topic,
scited with whatever you're talking about, all right, Number one,
Number two. You gotta throw in a gym every five seconds,
(15:15):
all right, you get through, And no matter what you're
talking about, it's huge. It's huge. It could be the
cup of coffee you were drinking. It could be the
size of the dinner you had, it could be a
play on the field. But everything is huge, And everything
that you talk about is huger than what you talked
about before. The play right now, that's huge. Yeah, is
(15:38):
bigger than the huge play from two minutes ago. But
it's not quite as big as the huge play that's
gonna be Jim. It's from now, j Every third down
is the most important pivotal this. This is their season, Jim, Jim, Jim,
this is their season. This play is either gonna be
a run or it's gonna be a pass. If it's
a run, it's either gonna be the outside or the inside.
(16:00):
It's a past. It's gonna be a short path. Oh, Jim,
it's a long pass. Jim, Jim, Jim. Look at my
hog through that ball thirty yards of the air. Jim, Jim, Jim.
Are you want, Jim, Jim take cotton out of your ears? Stop?
Just talk to me, Jim, Jim, Jim, Why Jim? Why
you get I guess I got out scam by myself. Wow.
This is huge to watch yesterday, right with all the
(16:24):
controversy and everything, but to have that going on and
asking Jim Nance what do he thinks that the play
calls should be and evaluations. Remember, once upon a time,
this was a guy that was one of the great
stories of the NFL, not just as a broadcaster, not
out of eastern Illinois, rising up becoming the guy for
(16:46):
the Cowboys, throwing for thirty four thousand yards in career. Yeah, yeah,
and now he's a punch line. And now I'd say,
what happened to you? Just that fast? Right right as
we celebrate the boot that we had for Fox, Right,
burke Hart and Olson were fantastic pill were to post
and stayed with it like even though the game was
(17:06):
getting out of sorts. It was still an opportunity to
teach you about some of the players on the Eagles.
Maybe you didn't know what they're doing defensively without making
fun of what's going on on the other side. And meanwhile,
we got the Jim nance. I gotta I gotta do
the Tony Tony, I am glad this is our last
came together. I'll see you at Pebble Beach. Okay, I
(17:28):
get it. You gotta go in. I need a break.
I can't. Every time you say jim My, my eye
twitches and I need, I need, I need a minute.
There's a drinking game going on in the in the boot.
In the truck every time he says, Jim, what's the
over under in a given broadcast? And there's a sheet
up in the boot that someone in addition to Hey,
(17:49):
this is your job, you know, in terms of quick
edits and whatever, but you have to count the number
of Jim's Jim nance. Why is this camera work so bad? Well,
because our cameraman is in the bad Because you know,
Tony Rum said your name eleven times already and there's
still eight minutes ago in the first quarter. I was
thinking that the drinking was gonna happen in post. But
but hey, if they start drifting in game, why do
(18:12):
they keep showing the same fans the same guy the
whole night they decided to just take that cameraman or
a woman away. You know, here's the thing for Romo
and this is this is what gets him grinds my year.
We talked about like he's he's the equivalent of a
player who peaks as in a roomie rookie year, Jim.
Is that for a guy who knows how to predict plays,
(18:32):
he certainly seems awfully excited at the result of a
play when you would think he would know the result already.
I know what's gonna happen. No, no, what which oceans
wasn't when they had the guy with the the AI
and it's monitoring whether it's a real win or a
fake win? Was that has no real excitement? Like like
(18:56):
he's a great actor because he's supposed to know. For
a guy who knows the place, he gets awful excited
when something happens. Oh, Jim, did you see that? Jim? Yes,
that was a three yard run by Joe Mixing. It's
now second down and seven dilated pupils perspiring to go
in the first quarter for breakfast. That's real emotion. Chip
(19:17):
Chip Chip, you don't have Jim Chip. They give us
free food at these kids, you know that, Jim. I
go in, I go into the broadcast, right and I
commit here and I go in and in the press
box there's food and it's caters fry, and there's like sandwiches,
and there's a Jim. Jim. I mean, look at Jim.
Do you want a sandwich? I gonna get you a sandwich.
It's a lot of problem. I mean, I'll miss some
of the game, but whow, I'll mean back and be
very excited. I gonna get you. Like they got mayonnaise
(19:40):
and mustant, Jim. And this is huge, Chip Chip. They
have horse ratted sauce. It's so huge, it's so it
is so huge, Joe. I mean they have they have
all kind they have worse sire sauce. They have Deli
mustard and regular mustard. Jim, you get, Jim, you get
the you get the I mean, and if they have
honey mustard, oh, that would be so huge. That would
be huger than all the other beside just talked about.
(20:01):
Would make pretzel that I charged that much better. It
was salt, right, because they say salt and not salt.
And it's huge with salt. If you haven't salt pretzel
and saw that's so huge. It's so But without salt
it's huge. It's so you could put pink salt on it.
You would all got. You could put rock salt on it.
You don't even take some of that salt that you
put when when when it sews in front of your house,
you gotta you gotta make sure it melts wrong. I mean,
(20:22):
it's not good to eat. But boy, you could do
that now would be huge. Jim, I can't make it
for four hours, Jim, I just came on the floor.
I can't make it. Somebody came on the floor. I can't.
Oh boy, I can't. I'm hot, I'm winded a burger.
Oh boy, I'll tell you who diet coakes and fried Coke.
(20:42):
I got my diet extra large? He does. And honestly,
you know what? And yesterday can I tell you? Can
I tell you something else? What's that funny? So after
the game that m y, I'm a chim Jim, so
Pam says, listen, I'm gonna run to mcdonald' because I'm
watching the game, like, oh, great Sunday. So she goes,
you want you know? And that was the That was
the big splurge for a Sunday night running what we
(21:04):
we went yesterday. It's been a twenty four hours. Let's
go on, honey, let's go. I hadn't been to McDonald
since like Wednesday, so it's fun the championship game. So
I'm gonna ask McDonald's grab somebody eat real fast. Yeah, sure,
no problems, so her and so we went out to
get food, bringing back cheers. You want you regular? And
I said, yeah, which is you know, Big Mac extra sauce.
I get the second one for an extra dollar. No,
(21:24):
because we're an extra dollar because they screwed up my order,
and instead I got a dumb what do you mean?
I got a double quarter powder cheese quarter powder with cheese.
It's huge. Chip. It's so huge, it's so much huger
than the big back is the patties a little bit smaller.
Put a double quarter powder. It's it's twice like him Jim,
(21:46):
but it's ketchup and his onions and there's two slices
of cheese chip chip and you see the size of
the pattie, because because it's a quarter pound before they
cook it, that's why it's a quarter powder and you
get two of those things. It's that it's huge because
just it's huger than the big back, the big metables. Well,
this is huge. His head is going to explode if
I go out. I go out like this, did you
(22:06):
always keep a couple of extra in and out sauce
packets around? Well, and you're covered. So what happened was
it comes back and I go, Pam goes. I said, oh,
they give me the wrong order shoes what And I look,
so Pam screwed it up before she left. Yeah, you
know what. And she's someone that always tells me to check,
always like and if I come back with the wrong food,
(22:29):
it's like, you didn't check. And I'm like, if I'm
gonna open everything and check, but I'm not gonna open everything.
I'm gonna open everything whatever, check, I'm gonna eat it all.
So but the thing is, they gave her the entirely
wrong order, so we got and so I like to
think the positive is that somebody just got opened up
(22:49):
to the idea of the big mac with extra sauce,
picture cheese, no pickles, is like, oh, I gotta get this.
So you go to the same McDonald's. It's like the
neighborhood one. Yeah. Yeah. So by this point and they're
well aware this is probably you know, they probably didn't know,
but there's a little extra sauce on there. I gotta no, no, no,
because they don't know Pam as well as they know me.
So I gotta go in and go, hey, my wife
(23:10):
was here there to say. That was your wife too,
that was Jason's wife. What do you You can't screw
up that order? Man, Come on, that's probably what it was.
I mean, you're not quite a shareholder, but you're kind
of important to the bottom. Yeah, of course I am
your kid, Like, keep that McDonald's open. Man. He's all
through tell he was a little disappointed, means appointingly. I
(23:31):
look at you and I say, still not a sponsor?
Yeah no, no, shouldn't. Well, it's Frostberg's fault. He's got it.
He's gotta get on that. I think what happens is
they hear Tisher talk about healthy food all the time.
They're like, oh, that's what the hell did I do?
I don't see, you're supposed to close deals. Man, you're
a deal closer. I realized it's difficult because tishoot is
all about oh no, we have to have something that
has zero calories and zero taste and is made mainly
(23:52):
out of water. So I'm going to have a cucumber sandwich,
except with bread. I'm going to wrap it around lettuce
iceberg ltus and hold it so you have the iceberg
like only thing. You're like a whole Foods. I mean
that sad. So I get there, think at all. We're
never gonna get in on that. You know what we
can take we we welcome them into Yeah, I beat Listen,
I balance out McDonald's with something healthy. I always best. Okay,
(24:14):
if I had that, that's getting yang. I gotta get
cell Jim, Jim, you mean you eat healthy food? To Jim,
that's salads here too, Jim in the press box, I
didn't know that. I heard that Dodger games have Dodger dogs, right,
you know they bring out Dodger dogs the seventh inning
and everybody can have him Jim, Jim, Jim. Think think
(24:35):
about the nacho helmet, Jim. It's so huge, Jim. The
Nacho game changer game like Mahomes game changer, notcho helmet
game to Jim Jim, Jim, Jim Jim. And it's big
enough that it actually fits on your head, Jim. You
can wear it out after it's over. I've seen people
and I've seen people wearing out the clean out the
cheese after it. I always tell the I always tell
(24:56):
the the the good dad who I'd always say something
and I go, hey, pretty cool, like if I see
him in the dad because I know he's a good
dad because he's in the men's room and he's he's
trying at a at a you know, finish the thought
and a sink where you know there's there's just a
little soap that comes out and maybe there's uh maybe
(25:16):
there's paper towels or not, and he's trying to wash
out the nacho helmet so the kid can wear the
helmet when he goes well. But there's probably an instinct
to say, to hell with it. There's just a little
bit of cheese. But he's not never gonna hear the
end of it. If the kid takes it off when
he gets up, look what I got and there's still
some cheese residue. I mean that I just put it
right on my head with the nachos out of there
(25:37):
a little bit, jod Dad versus pragmatic Dad right there.
Chat don't need I don't need the back end it out, Jim.
Just put the helmet on your head. Chip Chip and
this cheese just rolls down your face. Chip and you
can take a chip. He's rolling on your cheek. You
eat a chip. Chip. This is game changer, Jim, Game changer, Jim, Jim, Jim,
you know we have to recreate this now scraping a
(25:59):
chip she's drips out of a helmet. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike
harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. Joining
us now on the hotline to break down everything we've
seen in an incredible Championships Sunday in the NFL Odyssey,
(26:21):
Washington's Post, Washington Post longtime insider Jason Locking for He's
on Twitter at Jason 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 and I did
is unbelievable. It was a big weekend, Big Sunday, all
(26:41):
the way, all the way around. I mean from Anita
Baker forgetting how to sing toll you know what I mean?
That crazy 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
oside pedal to at the end, I mean, I think
(27:02):
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. 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
(27:24):
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 have had in a figure four leg lock down below,
you know, yeah, like, but certainly up high there was
at least some some sort of armbar chokehold going on.
(27:44):
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
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
(28:04):
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,
putting roofs on people's homes and you know, mowing lawns
and and and being trial lawyers. Like this is a
(28:25):
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 were the
official parlay makers of the NFL, were the official parlay
makers in the NFL. We're the official live betting side
(28:47):
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 these outcomes, that we better figure out,
how is spot a ball above and beyond the chain gang?
You know, we better improve and put real money in
(29:09):
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 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
(29:31):
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 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
(29:53):
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 make everybody better? Like how
about we get to a point where you know what
I mean, the guy doing the one o'clock whatever Arizona
at you know, Indianapolis game is also super bowlworthy? Like
(30:15):
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 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,
(30:37):
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 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, the disofficiating is that up in the bucket.
(31:00):
It's nothing Jay. 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? All the borough had stuff that was
so much fun for us, because I'll tell you, man,
the Chiefs seemed seemed extra fired up about that all week. Love.
I mean, we're we're talking about if they called the
holding play the way they're supposed to call it, the
(31:21):
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 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 forms like us in
(31:41):
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 tell me, like Patrick Mahomes got extra treatment on
his ankle because the mayor of Cincinnati's that some ridiculous thing.
I don't think people like that. I just don't. I'm sorry,
(32:04):
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, and so 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
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.
(32:26):
Come on, it's a good thing he's only a year
into his term, 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, are the
thinking about a little bit during the week, like thinking
that we're gonna 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
(32:49):
collision and a guy sitting there thinking I could pull
the shoot. Nah. I don't like Joe Burrows. I like
Joe Brows smirk on his Wednesday press conference. I'm getting
I'm getting up off the grass and I'm staying in
this game. Like I don't know, man, I just uh,
I'm probably the wrong guy. As not just always good
for fodder for us Burrow and for the world. I mean,
(33:12):
all that stuff is great, Like I get it, but
like I mean, I don't know 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
hit a couple of some really big plays, and you know,
he had a little bit of prop came in. Yeah,
I mean if the Chip game and the legacies are
on the line, and whether they said anything or whispered
anything or put up a billboard, they came in the
(33:36):
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. I think that's where like
a rivalry is born and 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
(33:57):
Burrow verse, you know, Mahomes could turn into a fraction
of what Brady verse Manning was. Um, A lot of
people won't like that because it means the same teams
are in the champion game every year. 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
(34:18):
of potential turning points and turning points. I don't you know,
I don't know, man, I don't think the I'm screaming
burrowhead had a whole hell of a lot to do
with it. 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 and Jason Smith Show with Me,
Mike Armen here at Fox Sports Radio, from the entire
(34:40):
Act dot Com studios at Jason Locke and for where
you find him on Twitter you can read them Washington
Post here him in Baltimore one oh 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, pretty well, he's got a long
(35:02):
term injury. Where did they turn going forward? After the
shellacking they took yesterday. Man 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.
(35:26):
I mean again, I did this exercise at the Washington
Post going into these games, 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,
(35:48):
you know what I mean, and have that experience and
like not have to worry about if anything's going to
be too big for him or whatever. And then you
put this injury on top of it, like he's better
than are in Rogers right now. I mean, there's no
I don't think that that there's really a comparison. And
he'll go there on the cheap, whereas Aaron Rodgers has
(36:09):
this absolutely ridiculous monster contract and he ain't given anything back.
So like they can't fit 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 Kyl Shannan's wanted him before,
He's wanted them before, like I to me, it's it,
(36:33):
honestly is it makes all 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 we have that. Take quarterbacks out of
(36:53):
the equation and say everybody dressed dresses three quarterbacks, and
then you can figure out, you know what I mean,
whatever you want to do with the other forty five
spots or four six spots or spots whatever the hether side,
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, they're paying them appro rated NFL salary.
(37:19):
It's 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 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 right,
It's not like one team could hoard all the players.
(37:39):
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
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(38:01):
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