February 2, 2023 • 35 mins
On this episode of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike talk about the QB questions in the NFL and also bring in guest, NBA Analyst, Ric Bucher.
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oh boy. The true story, Well, I mean it's a
celebratory kind of night. No, it was the only it
was only part of that story that was true. Yeah, no, absolutely, Hey,
Tom Brady's walked away, Mike Carment. It's a very big deal.
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Sadness for others, euphoria for a lot of fans and
pundit's confusion. What else am I supposed to write about
or talk about, um, you know, the Cowboys. We will
get to the Cowboys before we get into the you know,
more teams that are affected by Brady. Yeah, I kind
of thought was was a little you know, I look
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at it sideways. Um. After Brady retired today he had
you know, Bill Belichick called Brady the ultimate winner, put
out a statement. Whether or not they like each other,
he still says he's the ultimate winner. You can you
could work well with someone for a lot of eaters
and not like them. That's at which is a great
segue to Jail Bunchen, who put this comment on Brady's
Instagram post where he announced retirement, saying, wishing you only
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wonderful things in this new chapter of your life. How
much does this sound like the when people have broken
up in their exits and you're you're really I'm gonna
be very uh a brief and to the point with
you now, Hey, wishing you success, not like I still
love you. You know there's still a lot out there. No, no, no,
this is wishing you only wonderful things. It's something like
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a Christmas card, Hey, wishing you wonderful things in the
new year, and then you just sign your name and
send it out, Send it out, send it out. Sorry,
I gotta get back to my my new fitness instructor
boyfriend that we've been taking pictures of everywhere for the
past few months. You know, I know you love seeing that. Tom.
Here's a picture of me with him here and we're
over here, and I got the kids with me, and
he's here, and he's here, and he's here, and he's here.
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But I want to wish you wonderful things in the
new chapter of your life. I have washed my hands
of our relationship and I am done. Here's a here's
a very professional congratulations, something that you would expect to
get from the Buccaneers or from another team in the NFL. Hey,
the Bengals would like to wish Tom Brady only wonderful
things in the new chapter of his life. He didn't
play for us, We've played him a bunch of times.
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But we gotta say something about him. That's kind of
I gotta He's my ex husband. I guess I gotta
say something about him. So okay, here's my very brief statement.
What's what was that Christmas card say? Right there? Then
we got in the mail. It says wishing you wonderful
things this holiday season. Okay, cross off holiday season and
I write a new chapter of your life. Sincerely, Giselle.
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Hashtag hashtag Okay, I mean that. I mean when I
saw that today, I was like, oh my god, it's
like they're they're still going back and forth like the
two x is warring with each other even after the divorce.
And Harmon is speechless. He is at we lost Harmon,
We lost Harmon. So I mean when no, I don't
by thing. Oh, I don't know, like like if is
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Harmon like gone for good? Like did he Maybe he
just did that, Like I'm I'm dropping the mic, I'm
walking away and I'm finished. Now I see what he
dropped the mike. See, yeah, that's what I see. Yeah,
not not my first Now, Hey, Jim, Jim, Harmon's gone, Jim,
then get another job, Jim. I should get the job
on Fox Sports Radio. Can talk with the other guy
that that talks like me. Then would sound like there's
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two versions of me talking all times. Jim. What do
you think about that, Jim? Jim, Jim me on Fox? Jim,
what do you think you could have Brady here? He
could be your partner of teav Why are you smiling, Jim.
I don't know he'd want that, Jim. Jim, Jim, you're
breaking my heart, Jim, Jim. You think he's coming back
for good? Or is he gone? Jim? This Brady retirement
is huge, Jim. Is this huge news? Jim. He's not
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coming back because he had two choices. He could either
play or not play. Brady's got to make the decision.
He decides to not play. That's huge, Jim. That's that's unbelievable.
You all the different things gonna happen, that's what he chooses, Jim, Jim.
How's he going to fox? Jim? Jim. Is he gonna
be better than me? Jim? Beyond this? Jim, tell me
what you think, Jim. We've been working together for a while. Jim,
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tell me what you think. I mean? Did just just
tell me he is better than me? And you're not
even looking at me? Jim? Jim Jim, Oh, Jim, Jim
nance and Tony Romo, it would be the hell of
a comba. Uh yeah, if suddenly he would, he would
go on there and Jim can't get rid of Tony. No, no, Tony, Ky,
can you be quiet for a second? Tom is trying
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to talking to speak quiet for Tom. Tom cut Tony's mike.
You don't think Jim would kick Tony to the curb
for Tom Brady, You're crazy. Of course he would. He
would just say, you know what, Tony, Hey, listen, we're
gonna have a meeting today at noon. At eleven o'clock,
there's the press conference saying, Hey, Tom Brady's in at CBS.
Everybody congratulations. Uh so you have that going on with Brady, right,
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you have Jell bunching with the wishing you only wonderful
things in this new chapter of your life. I'm gonna
start sending making that my sign off on on, like
when people sign their emails and tech saying, hey, wishing
you only wonderful things in this new chapter of your life.
It sounds like it's off a greening card. But we
spend time a few minutes ago talking about what this
does to the fallout of of quarterbacks now in the
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off season, now that Brady is now no longer in
the National Football Lege. Right, we talked about San Francisco
a few minutes ago. It's gonna be Lance is gonna
be pretty Oh. I think Harmon's back Jim, Jim, Harmon's back, Jim, Jim.
This is huge news, Jim, huge technology. I thought it
would be the Sager. I thought it would be somebody else.
I'm gonna be friendly doing the show. But now Harmon's
back is this huge Jim. Technology and stuff sometimes gets
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a little weird. I'm looking at like all my sister
settings are good, my speed is good, everything streaming it's good. Generally,
it wasn't Jim, and and obviously something in the universe
said I needed to bounce in the middle of your monologue.
I had the entire response to Jazell Bunchen's quote by
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j Peterman, what do you congratulations on a job done?
It's just no flowery language, there's no needs and need
to belabor the point. Yeah, good luck. It's just so
cold though, I mean, you would think that even even
at the end, Hey, the guy's retiring. You share, you
share kids together. You're still gonna talk to him for
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the rest of your life, because again, you share kids,
you share the life. And yeah, the pictures of you
in the New York Post. And here's Azel effortless curls
and washboard abs as she runs with her potential boyfriend
and and former jiu jitsu instructor. I mean she could
have just said something nice about him and said, oh, Tom,
what a great career. This is awesome. You know, we
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we went we went through so much of this together.
I'll always love you. You You know, something could have had
something like that instead. Yeah, I just give him a warm,
wishous thing, like you barely know the guy. You got
to put a statement out. I like your positivity and
your embracing of what the best if humanity can be.
I will tell you, um no, no, that's not always
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the way it is, even for flowery appearances sake. By
the way, all the dopes that are tracking her around
with drones or whatever else, you're a bunch of losers.
I don't give a damn who she's seeing. And you're
going through the trees and stalking them. It's the paparazzi thing.
Going back to uh, the Jake Jillenhall Nightcrawler movie and
everything else, a bunch of dirt bags anyway, that that
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was just a movie, buddy, that was just no, no no, no,
but really emblematic of some of the real life situations
and problem And he was trying to and the filmmakers
were trying to make the point of the the underbelly
of everything and leave people alone, let them live. They
want to release a statement about who they're dating or not,
get over it and if the table. Some people like
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the paparazzi. There's a lot there's a lot of there's
a lot of actors and entertainers that go places when
they want to be recognized. Paparazzi is they're taking pictures
of them. There's a lot of people to do like
the it's but in this particular case, I don't know
that she's she's looking for that or maybe she is.
Either way, whatever the relationship is or isn't, could just
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be a close friend. You can have them. You can
have male and female friends. Yeah, but it doesn't always
have to be something nefarious and not not this many times,
not this many pictures where suddenly he's Have you seen
a picture of her without him in the last couple
of months, everywhere you see she's running. Do you go
on a golf course without Bobbiano or your dad attached
to your hips she's but nobody takes pictures of us
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or to McDonald's without got picture of one of the other,
picture of the jets. Here's a picture of Zach Wilson
that accompanies me for my latest big man run. Here's
Jason Smith, oh stepping out on his regular McDonald's by
going to this new McDonald old His old McDonald's was
unreachable for common Well, if you're using the the app,
they already know that they already, they already know that
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you're cheating on them in the vicinity. But I don't no, no,
I don't care if they say those things about me,
as long as he used the same language that they
use about stars. Like here's Gazelle Buncheon out for a
run and she's wearing you know, halter top and sweatpants,
and it's here's Gazelle Buncheon with long, luscious curls effortlessly
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falling to her shoulders and washboard stomach that clearly legs
that are made of fire, like a romance over the internet.
That's all. If you say that about me, that's fine.
Hey a square where Jawn? But he pulls right up
to the Jason Smith in front of the the to
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go window with McDonald's. Look at his sculpted arm as
he hands over his credit card paying for another big
meal at McDonald's stars. They're just like us Donald's for food. Yeah. Well,
payment of of said you know items is a whole
other topic for debate. But in this case, I wouldn't
have expected flowery language. You're not gonna kiss his ass.
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He just went through a divorce. I don't know how
acrimonious was guy lost what twenty five pounds or more?
Look at May she looked like he was out of
the scream. That's where the it's a public thing, pout
a statement that's like, but maybe that's who she is,
and she's not one of flowery language and and love
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love language that goes into tweets or whatever. Maybe that's
who she is. There's people like that too. Well, then
then you have someone who runs your social media account,
which is what all stars do. Hey, can you gussie
it up a little bit and say something nice? Yea yeah?
But what's yeah? But what's the response to that? Look
at that, she's going out of her way to be
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overly nice even though it was so bitter and she
hates him with every fiber of her bride. You know
the way this works. But she would have gotten even
more uh compassion and more people look at her no
matter what happened. Look at her taking the high road
and wishing her ex husband, uh you know, a happy word,
and said it's just this, she can do what. She's
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the breadwinner in that family. Man. Warm. Okay, So for
our holiday cards this year, I'm just gonna give you, guys,
say hey, warm wishes at all your future endeavors. And
I'm gonna just sign it, just just write a jay
And you're not just want your holiday card. That's it,
just giving you. I'm giving you, giving you warm. But
now you know you don't get holiday cards. Instead, I'll
just put on your on your social media out hey,
wishing you, wishing you warm endeavors. Man. That's all I'm
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gonna do. It's all I'm gonna do for you guys.
Oh what happened, James? I I could have faked and
said I liked all you guys and you guys just
want to make me like Look we we are. We
do some bit of acting and theater live and in
living color four hours a night here right. I was
under no um illusions and had no uh no delusions
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that that you you like me other than I I mean, nice,
affable chap and who's kind of funny from you and say, hey, Jason,
what do you think of Harmon? He's affable and he
makes a good cup of coffee. That's well, I mean, look,
that's that's two better things, better than a lot have
to say about their exes or maybe even people they're
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still with. True, that is true, that could be. That
could be on your Tinder page, Mike Harmon affable, makes
a good coupab off. You know what. That might be
enough for somebody out there. Well, that would mean that someone,
I mean, unless they're a night coffee drinker like me.
That was me, they were planning to be around in
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the morning if that was something that appealed to them.
Now we're find your winds. Baby. Hey, maybe would you
like another cup of coffee? No, I'm just gonna make
me up all night, have to talk to you. I'm
gonna go to small sleep right here on the kitchen table.
Wake me up in a couple of hours. I'll go home.
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as lebron is closing in on the all time scoring record.
Joining us now on the Hotline. You can follow on
Twitter at Rick Buker on the Ball podcast, see him
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on Fox Sports One. Here him here on Fox Sports Radio. Rick,
what's happening, buddy? How are you? Oh? I'm just living
the dream. How about you? Guys? We're doing good. And
I actually had I actually had a quid pro quote
thing for you that can help both of us. You ready, Okay,
I'm very scared. But kay, now, I know I know
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you're hurting. I know you're hurting with the Bengals losing.
I know you're hurting with so will make you feel
better about the Bengals and you give us some great
insider story that you're waiting to break some time in
the next couple of days and you do it here
with us. What how about tom defile that wasn't called
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on Lebron more egregious, less agregious or just the same
as anything from Sunday? Uh, less egregious than what more
egregients or less agreedious than what we then anything on
Sunday when we got to the Bengals just trudge the joke.
I well, but there was only there was only one
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call with Lebron. Lebron was and second before that there's
a debate as to whether he traveled or not. So
I know, I don't think there's any comparison there. I'm
just still trying to puzzle out your offer. It sounded like, okay, Rick,
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if you like, listen, you give us twenty bucks and
then um, in exchange for that, you take one of
the stories that you were going to break later and
you tell it on the air right now. It's it
sounded like something that was working in your benefit on
both ends of it. Is what it sounded. We were
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just trying to do something that that mutually helped us
both out a little bit there trying. I didn't I
didn't ask for money and we didn't. There's no money
changing hands. Is that's not happening. Yeah, you know what,
Maybe it's just I'm so used to you asking me
a question, answering it and then telling me I'm wrong
that I'm just I'm used to that double double sided.
I can't win. I can't win for losing here. Um,
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all right, here's what here's what help you first said? Okay? Uh?
It was absolutely appendently on Joseph o side. He hit
some two feet out of bounds. He did it in
front of them too soon. Man, he had no choice
but to throw the floor. It was a penalty. You
didn't get screwed over on that call. The other ones, yeah,
you did big time, But that one they kind of
had to call it. No, they didn't. They didn't call.
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They didn't call the hit on Joe Burrow and Joel Burrow,
Jill Burrow obviously with theastrical on that hit. The late
hit um and without question, Patrick Mahomes was theatrical. When
he went out of bound, there was like a yard sale,
like what what do you I mean? It was? It
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was lebron esk is what it was. If he had
just gone down I don't know that, you know, and
go flailing into the bench. And all that. I just look,
but you know what, I won't debate that, and I'm
not gonna debate that the that the Kansas City Chiefs
won the game. You know what, they won the game.
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I'll give you that. My only issue is with anyone
who is talking about how and we heard it from
h Kelsey, Travis Kelsey and a variety of people both
on the Chiefs and in the media, like, yeah, the
clubs the Bengals asked, you won by three on the
last second field goal in your building. Okay, you won,
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but don't appen like you're suddenly this dominant team over
the Cincinnati Bengals. You got out by the skin of
your teeth. Congratulations, go on and win a Super Bowl.
But don't start acting like you are this much better
than the Bengals. Because on another day, with a few
things going in the other direction, whether it was that
the officials or otherwise, uh, the Kansas Chiefs are on
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four against Joe or or maybe they'd be three and
one because it was three points going the other way
Rick in each of those other games. Well, okay, and
I'm good with that. I'm just saying, like both sides
got really chesty off three point wins. And I'm not
of the mind to say that the Bengals are that
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much better than the Kansas City Chiefs, or that Joe
Burrow is that much better than Patrick Mahomes. It's on
any given night with these two teams, and I just
think that they should be viewed that way, not like
one dominating the other, because we haven't seen that yet.
Fox Sports Radio the Jason Spitzer with Mike Carman Rick
Buker live with us from Borrowhead as we talk all
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the latest news in the NBA. I tell you, I
dug that all week, Rick, that Burrowhead. That was so
much fun. That was really you know. The funny thing
is like everybody trying to make it out like, oh,
the Bengals, they better pipe down, And the Bengals weren't
saying any of that stuff. The players weren't saying it.
Becaun't the Chiefs talked more guff than than the Bengals did. Now,
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the mayor of Cincinnati, and by the way, our history
of mayors isn't that great Garry Springer, Once upon a
time was the mayor of Cincinnati paida paid for a
woman of the night with a with a check so
it goes Jeff goes to show like, we don't you know,
we're not picking the rightest fruit from the tree when
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we're when we're electing our mayors. All right, So let's
get to the NBA now that now, now is when
you give us that big thing that Lebron is going
to demand a trade. All right. So we have Lebron
loosing in on the record, and and you know, the
Lakers have been playing a little bit better, but you
can see they still are kind of stop. Go, um,
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what what's what's your take on where Lebron is right
now with this He's gonna blow past this records and
you get to forty points, continue want to still go
and still go and still go. Can this wind up
being a moment for the Lakers where they can, hey,
uses a jump start for the rest of the season.
Or is this just kind of what we're gonna get.
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It's kind of what we're gonna get. And I don't
see it being as a rallying point for the Lakers
to say, hey, let's celebrate this, because quietly, but Lebron
has been chasing this thing and it's been first and
foremost worried about his scoring and if you've seen the
Lakers play without Lebron, they really don't need scoring. Like
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they have enough guys who can put the ball in
the basket. They need a playmaker and they need a
guy who can organize them. And it's going to contribute defensively.
As much as I still think Lebron is capable of contributing,
but as long as he's not doing that, as long
as it's kind of painfully apparent that he's working on
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two avenues he's working on. Yeah, he wants to win
some games. Yeah he's frustrated, um, but he also knows
like this team isn't playing for a title. So if
you're using a scale, his interest is in and I.
And I was told this last year point blank by
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someone who was with the organization, who said, last year,
he looked at the team and I didn't think they
could win. So he decided, let me try to do
something historic. Let me go and try to to be
the oldest guy to ever win the scoring title. And
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he he came close, but at was what he was
focused on. He wasn't focused on how do I get
the most wins out of this team? And I just
get the sense that we've seen more of that again
this year, just by the shots that he's taking, how
he's playing, no effort on defense whatsoever. Um and so,
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And I don't blame him. I don't blame him. He's
made great business decisions when it comes to his career,
his entire career, and it's why he has the statistics
that he has. That's why he's lasted twenty years. All
of that I do not. I mean, he's done all
of that better than anybody's ever done it. But don't
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tell me like he's all about winning and the Lakers
are letting him down because he's doing all this statistically
and if they would just make some moves, they'd have
a better team. Like that's that's not where his his
head is at right now. And so I just I
can commend him for what he's about to do and
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at the same time put it in context and say, yeah,
but the Lakers are not looking at that as a
as a rally point. Look, the Warriors didn't look at
it as a rally point for stuff to get the
three point record last year. The benefit that they had
was that he got it early in the season. He
was able to cross because that was something he was
chasing and admits he was chasing it and they were
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able to He was able to get it, they were
able to put it aside. He was able to physically,
physically and mentally recover from that chase and then go
to the playoffs. The way this is going, this is
eating up a big part of the season and a
big part of Lebron's energy. Well, next week we can
get into the what it all means on a larger scale. Uh.
To some degree, it just feels like, all right, it's inevitable.
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Just get on with it, kind of like you talked about,
you know, after beating the Knicks at Madison Square Garden,
and we don't have to talk about that. We do
not have to talk well we do because Julius Ray
not with the story unless you can tell me, Rick,
why Tom Thibodeau continues to draw plays at the end
of the game for Julius Randall. I really need to
know that, Rick, I really need to know why when
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he when he gives you the effort that he gave
you last night, with four and a half seconds left
to go, I'm gonna hold the ball for two seconds,
drivel to the baseline, not get a shot off, even
though Jalen Brunson, who had just had two buckets and
an assist and got the charge that got the ball back,
is standing there at the three point line going give
me the basketball. Can you help me out? Rick? This
is this is the funniest thing you've ever said. He said,
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drew up a play that's East slapper for Rick. Oh
my god, it's so good. That's good. I'm gonna wake
up in the middle of the night and be laughing
at that. At that this, Tims threw up the plage.
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I mean that, quite honestly, is the problem. This is
an all offense league now. It is all about how
much scoring power you have and how creative you can
be to get your best to get your best players
the vall as often as possible. And maybe maybe Tims's
confused and he thinks Julius Randall is his best player.
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But um, but the idea that he would have a
creative way to get him a really good shot, it's
that's just not in Tims's playbook. And I'm actually, in
some ways I'm impressed that the Knicks have the records
that they have. Certainly, Jayleen Bunsen deserves a lot of credit.
Um and and a number of other guys have contributed.
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But it's is a defensive coach. He's a fish out
of water right now in the league in terms of
what his strength is. And and so I but that's
why I can't. I can't possibly answer why he drew
said he didn't d he didn't draw it up. He didn't.
There wasn't he didn't he was holding a clipboard. Rick,
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he was holding a clipboard. Yeah, and um, there's no
ink in that pens. It's not like I promise you,
he's not. He's not drawn up play. Maybe he wrote
Julius name on it on the poet. He drew a
little sketch of him, like when he signed sketches himself.
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He had he did a little stick man figure Julius.
And then he had the ball like failing away towards
the net. If he drew, if he drew up a play,
I would imagine that's what it would look like. That's
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my fault. Next time I got to draw the ball
going through the bad skin. Just it's not enough. So
we we we've really we've figured it out. Why Why
did KIVI? Why didn't Kim's last second play work because
he didn't draw it accurately enough. I love the stick
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figure that it's like one of those things where when
you would draw the pictures when you were in school
and you would send time like if you're a boring class,
and you would draw like the stop motion at the
bottom of your book and you would show like a
guy walking when you would flip the pages and fast,
that's drow the plan. Here we go and then you
dribble to the poop and you put them all in
and we all smile at the end. Yeah, And the
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problem was that tips ran out of pages, but we
couldn't finish. Oh boy, all right, All Star reserves are
an ounce tomorrow. Who are we getting a spotlight on?
Jalen Brunson. I don't know, guys. I want I want
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you guys to get behind my uh I am petitioning. Um.
I'm going to start a movement that we need to
overhaul the All Star voting completely, that that it is
wacky that we have a voting block of players, media
and fans who vote on the five starters and then
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the coaches select the seven reserves. How tell me and
how does that make sense? And what other in any
other thing, do you have two completely separate groups voting
and selecting a group that is all honored the same way, Like, yeah,
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we kind of we make note of the fact that
somebody's an All Star starter from pretty much historically, we
just look at are they were they at All Star
or not? And how many times were they at All Star?
And so my thing is coach, players, fans, media, and
we all pick twelve players. And at this point we
(29:08):
don't need front, quarterback, court. We already give up centers,
forwards and guards. Just pick the twelve best players because
now you're selecting teams anyway, and the you got you
got Ron James and Luka Dot six six nine guys
who were point guards. Essentially, like we don't have to
worry about size. Just just select the twelve best players
(29:30):
from each conference. Because there's money and legacy on the
line here, we need to take it a lot more
seriously than we have at that point. And so I'll say,
I'll give you a short answer. The guys that I
think should be All Stars this year are not going
to be selected tomorrow through holiday. Should be an All Star,
He's not, And I guarantee you he's not gonna be Uh,
(29:52):
he's not going to be selected. Um, I don't know.
Dylan Brunson probably could be, say Gilts, Alexander, if you
to be an All Star, I am not. I don't know,
but there are guys that should be recognized that assuredly
will not be because because of this goofy system that
(30:13):
we have, coaches, players, fans, percent media. That's one hundred percent,
and that overhauls NBA All Star voting. He's on Twitter
at Rick Puker, that is at Rick Puker s on
FS one. Check out the Latest on the Ball podcast
Rick awesome stuff. As always, man, thank you. I will
(30:35):
never now I shouldn't say, but for the next week,
I'm going to think about tips, drawing up plays with
stick figures. That's all I'm gonna think about, quite honestly,
stick taking anybody. We'll talk to my friend. You know,
that was Jack McDowell's band for a while. Stick figures,
stick figure Nice, Okay, I didn't know. I thought it
(30:55):
was he Wayne Edwards and Lee Plummel. Wow, that's that's
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I gotta say, I'm a little nervous right now. Are
you nervous to have got cleared from concussion prosalt? So
(31:37):
he's the guy in Miami. No, yeah, no, no, it's
it's it's it made me nervous because a couple of
things have happened, and we talked about the forty Niners
are going to go forward with Lance and Purdy and
and there you know they've already said Jimmy Garoppolo is
not coming back. Tampa Bay should just tank. You know,
you're fifty five million dollars over the salary cap, shred
salary get pick start over, right, Mike Evans by Chris Godwin,
(31:59):
by Kyle Trask. You got like ten guys making more
than ten million dollars on Tampa. It's time Kyle Trask,
just just start over. But the Jets have a problem,
my Carmen, why do they have a problem. Brady was
gonna go to Vegas, right, it was all set man,
Brady was going to Vegas. Idea, it was Vegas, San Francisco.
But but you know, but Vegas is saying, hey, we're
(32:21):
gonna get this. Now, Brady's off the market and it's
gonna be well, maybe we have to get in on
Aaron Rodgers now. And whereas the Jets were the only
team that we're gonna pay anything for Aaron Rodgers, now
the Raiders are gonna screw things up and get involved.
They don't, and now they're gonna wind up getting him.
And Frostberg said, I mean all kinds of pictures today
(32:41):
of Aaron Rodgers superimposing a Raiders jersey. Great, thanks for that. Now,
now instead of getting Aaron Rodgers, we're gonna wind up
losing out on Aaron Rodgers and we're gonna have to
get Derek Carr. That will say this, with the long
hair and the mustache, it works well, yeah, I mean
it completely looks like looks the Raider. I mean you
got that scruffy, a little bit ray and the beard. Yeah,
(33:01):
he definitely he looks like like ken Stable re visited. No,
he definitely has. Yeah, but I don't but I don't
want that. I don't I want Aaron Rodgers with the Jets.
I don't want to have to fight with the Raiders
for him now, because now the Raiders about what you
have to give up? Now, Woody Johnson may not go
for broke. Yeah, and the move to bring in the
guy that was gonna be the whisper now he's just
(33:23):
gonna suck with Zack Wilson. And this is why this
is so crazy, is because the Raiders are always the
wild card on everything. They could sign Marcus Mariota to
come back and be their starter, or they could trade
for Lamar Jackson. That's the Raiders. The Raiders could do
absolutely anything. I don't like the fact that they're involved now.
I don't want them involved in us. But now they're involved.
Now the wild card that's involved. Now, now we're gonna
(33:45):
get on a quarterback. How about Aaron Rodgers. How about
we even you three first round picks for him? Hey,
that's what we're gonna do, all right? I mean, you
know why it is an a f C team and
he ain't going to Tennessee. Uh a car, I just
I for us? So good. Now you know that's what's
(34:07):
gonna happen. They're gonna go They told you that weeks
ago they're gonna go get Era. But they were all set.
Brady would have gone there and said they wouldn't know,
they're gonna go get Aaron Rodgers. Now would Rogers be
third in the division or four eight seven seven four
Rushmore cooked in a rod It's got nothing to do
(34:28):
with iowask now now I'm nervous. Now, I mean, I'm nervous.
I'm nervous. I'm nervous, man, I'm nervous. I'm nervous. Guy,
We're gonna go get It's gonna be Gardner Minshew, and
it's gonna be Mitshew versus Zack Wilson for the starting
job next year. That's you know what he'd wear the
fur coat off the field. He'd be great. It's is he?
(34:50):
But is he good enough? Do you think Joe Namath
would allow twelve to be unretired for him? Eight seven seven?
He would dress just like him though, I'm sure, Hey,
it's like you in nineteen sixty nine, Joe, then go
ahead and take my jersey did I'd love to have
the Minshew kid here, Hey, reliving the glory days of
(35:12):
Joe Willie in New York. It's gonna happen. It's gonna
be Minshew versus Wilson coming up next. Uh So, now
what for Tom Brady. We'll tell you the next thing.
He's gonna absolutely conquer retirement
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oh boy. The true story, Well, I mean it's a
celebratory kind of night. No, it was the only it
was only part of that story that was true. Yeah, no, absolutely, Hey,
Tom Brady's walked away, Mike Carment. It's a very big deal.
(01:04):
Sadness for others, euphoria for a lot of fans and
pundit's confusion. What else am I supposed to write about
or talk about, um, you know, the Cowboys. We will
get to the Cowboys before we get into the you know,
more teams that are affected by Brady. Yeah, I kind
of thought was was a little you know, I look
(01:24):
at it sideways. Um. After Brady retired today he had
you know, Bill Belichick called Brady the ultimate winner, put
out a statement. Whether or not they like each other,
he still says he's the ultimate winner. You can you
could work well with someone for a lot of eaters
and not like them. That's at which is a great
segue to Jail Bunchen, who put this comment on Brady's
Instagram post where he announced retirement, saying, wishing you only
(01:47):
wonderful things in this new chapter of your life. How
much does this sound like the when people have broken
up in their exits and you're you're really I'm gonna
be very uh a brief and to the point with
you now, Hey, wishing you success, not like I still
love you. You know there's still a lot out there. No, no, no,
this is wishing you only wonderful things. It's something like
(02:07):
a Christmas card, Hey, wishing you wonderful things in the
new year, and then you just sign your name and
send it out, Send it out, send it out. Sorry,
I gotta get back to my my new fitness instructor
boyfriend that we've been taking pictures of everywhere for the
past few months. You know, I know you love seeing that. Tom.
Here's a picture of me with him here and we're
over here, and I got the kids with me, and
he's here, and he's here, and he's here, and he's here.
(02:29):
But I want to wish you wonderful things in the
new chapter of your life. I have washed my hands
of our relationship and I am done. Here's a here's
a very professional congratulations, something that you would expect to
get from the Buccaneers or from another team in the NFL. Hey,
the Bengals would like to wish Tom Brady only wonderful
things in the new chapter of his life. He didn't
play for us, We've played him a bunch of times.
(02:50):
But we gotta say something about him. That's kind of
I gotta He's my ex husband. I guess I gotta
say something about him. So okay, here's my very brief statement.
What's what was that Christmas card say? Right there? Then
we got in the mail. It says wishing you wonderful
things this holiday season. Okay, cross off holiday season and
I write a new chapter of your life. Sincerely, Giselle.
(03:12):
Hashtag hashtag Okay, I mean that. I mean when I
saw that today, I was like, oh my god, it's
like they're they're still going back and forth like the
two x is warring with each other even after the divorce.
And Harmon is speechless. He is at we lost Harmon,
We lost Harmon. So I mean when no, I don't
by thing. Oh, I don't know, like like if is
(03:34):
Harmon like gone for good? Like did he Maybe he
just did that, Like I'm I'm dropping the mic, I'm
walking away and I'm finished. Now I see what he
dropped the mike. See, yeah, that's what I see. Yeah,
not not my first Now, Hey, Jim, Jim, Harmon's gone, Jim,
then get another job, Jim. I should get the job
on Fox Sports Radio. Can talk with the other guy
that that talks like me. Then would sound like there's
(03:55):
two versions of me talking all times. Jim. What do
you think about that, Jim? Jim, Jim me on Fox? Jim,
what do you think you could have Brady here? He
could be your partner of teav Why are you smiling, Jim.
I don't know he'd want that, Jim. Jim, Jim, you're
breaking my heart, Jim, Jim. You think he's coming back
for good? Or is he gone? Jim? This Brady retirement
is huge, Jim. Is this huge news? Jim. He's not
(04:17):
coming back because he had two choices. He could either
play or not play. Brady's got to make the decision.
He decides to not play. That's huge, Jim. That's that's unbelievable.
You all the different things gonna happen, that's what he chooses, Jim, Jim.
How's he going to fox? Jim? Jim. Is he gonna
be better than me? Jim? Beyond this? Jim, tell me
what you think, Jim. We've been working together for a while. Jim,
(04:38):
tell me what you think. I mean? Did just just
tell me he is better than me? And you're not
even looking at me? Jim? Jim Jim, Oh, Jim, Jim
nance and Tony Romo, it would be the hell of
a comba. Uh yeah, if suddenly he would, he would
go on there and Jim can't get rid of Tony. No, no, Tony, Ky,
can you be quiet for a second? Tom is trying
(04:59):
to talking to speak quiet for Tom. Tom cut Tony's mike.
You don't think Jim would kick Tony to the curb
for Tom Brady, You're crazy. Of course he would. He
would just say, you know what, Tony, Hey, listen, we're
gonna have a meeting today at noon. At eleven o'clock,
there's the press conference saying, Hey, Tom Brady's in at CBS.
Everybody congratulations. Uh so you have that going on with Brady, right,
(05:23):
you have Jell bunching with the wishing you only wonderful
things in this new chapter of your life. I'm gonna
start sending making that my sign off on on, like
when people sign their emails and tech saying, hey, wishing
you only wonderful things in this new chapter of your life.
It sounds like it's off a greening card. But we
spend time a few minutes ago talking about what this
does to the fallout of of quarterbacks now in the
(05:46):
off season, now that Brady is now no longer in
the National Football Lege. Right, we talked about San Francisco
a few minutes ago. It's gonna be Lance is gonna
be pretty Oh. I think Harmon's back Jim, Jim, Harmon's back, Jim, Jim.
This is huge news, Jim, huge technology. I thought it
would be the Sager. I thought it would be somebody else.
I'm gonna be friendly doing the show. But now Harmon's
back is this huge Jim. Technology and stuff sometimes gets
(06:10):
a little weird. I'm looking at like all my sister
settings are good, my speed is good, everything streaming it's good. Generally,
it wasn't Jim, and and obviously something in the universe
said I needed to bounce in the middle of your monologue.
I had the entire response to Jazell Bunchen's quote by
(06:31):
j Peterman, what do you congratulations on a job done?
It's just no flowery language, there's no needs and need
to belabor the point. Yeah, good luck. It's just so
cold though, I mean, you would think that even even
at the end, Hey, the guy's retiring. You share, you
share kids together. You're still gonna talk to him for
(06:53):
the rest of your life, because again, you share kids,
you share the life. And yeah, the pictures of you
in the New York Post. And here's Azel effortless curls
and washboard abs as she runs with her potential boyfriend
and and former jiu jitsu instructor. I mean she could
have just said something nice about him and said, oh, Tom,
what a great career. This is awesome. You know, we
(07:15):
we went we went through so much of this together.
I'll always love you. You You know, something could have had
something like that instead. Yeah, I just give him a warm,
wishous thing, like you barely know the guy. You got
to put a statement out. I like your positivity and
your embracing of what the best if humanity can be.
I will tell you, um no, no, that's not always
(07:35):
the way it is, even for flowery appearances sake. By
the way, all the dopes that are tracking her around
with drones or whatever else, you're a bunch of losers.
I don't give a damn who she's seeing. And you're
going through the trees and stalking them. It's the paparazzi thing.
Going back to uh, the Jake Jillenhall Nightcrawler movie and
everything else, a bunch of dirt bags anyway, that that
(07:58):
was just a movie, buddy, that was just no, no no, no,
but really emblematic of some of the real life situations
and problem And he was trying to and the filmmakers
were trying to make the point of the the underbelly
of everything and leave people alone, let them live. They
want to release a statement about who they're dating or not,
get over it and if the table. Some people like
(08:20):
the paparazzi. There's a lot there's a lot of there's
a lot of actors and entertainers that go places when
they want to be recognized. Paparazzi is they're taking pictures
of them. There's a lot of people to do like
the it's but in this particular case, I don't know
that she's she's looking for that or maybe she is.
Either way, whatever the relationship is or isn't, could just
(08:42):
be a close friend. You can have them. You can
have male and female friends. Yeah, but it doesn't always
have to be something nefarious and not not this many times,
not this many pictures where suddenly he's Have you seen
a picture of her without him in the last couple
of months, everywhere you see she's running. Do you go
on a golf course without Bobbiano or your dad attached
to your hips she's but nobody takes pictures of us
(09:04):
or to McDonald's without got picture of one of the other,
picture of the jets. Here's a picture of Zach Wilson
that accompanies me for my latest big man run. Here's
Jason Smith, oh stepping out on his regular McDonald's by
going to this new McDonald old His old McDonald's was
unreachable for common Well, if you're using the the app,
they already know that they already, they already know that
(09:27):
you're cheating on them in the vicinity. But I don't no, no,
I don't care if they say those things about me,
as long as he used the same language that they
use about stars. Like here's Gazelle Buncheon out for a
run and she's wearing you know, halter top and sweatpants,
and it's here's Gazelle Buncheon with long, luscious curls effortlessly
(09:47):
falling to her shoulders and washboard stomach that clearly legs
that are made of fire, like a romance over the internet.
That's all. If you say that about me, that's fine.
Hey a square where Jawn? But he pulls right up
to the Jason Smith in front of the the to
(10:09):
go window with McDonald's. Look at his sculpted arm as
he hands over his credit card paying for another big
meal at McDonald's stars. They're just like us Donald's for food. Yeah. Well,
payment of of said you know items is a whole
other topic for debate. But in this case, I wouldn't
have expected flowery language. You're not gonna kiss his ass.
(10:33):
He just went through a divorce. I don't know how
acrimonious was guy lost what twenty five pounds or more?
Look at May she looked like he was out of
the scream. That's where the it's a public thing, pout
a statement that's like, but maybe that's who she is,
and she's not one of flowery language and and love
(10:54):
love language that goes into tweets or whatever. Maybe that's
who she is. There's people like that too. Well, then
then you have someone who runs your social media account,
which is what all stars do. Hey, can you gussie
it up a little bit and say something nice? Yea yeah?
But what's yeah? But what's the response to that? Look
at that, she's going out of her way to be
(11:15):
overly nice even though it was so bitter and she
hates him with every fiber of her bride. You know
the way this works. But she would have gotten even
more uh compassion and more people look at her no
matter what happened. Look at her taking the high road
and wishing her ex husband, uh you know, a happy word,
and said it's just this, she can do what. She's
(11:40):
the breadwinner in that family. Man. Warm. Okay, So for
our holiday cards this year, I'm just gonna give you, guys,
say hey, warm wishes at all your future endeavors. And
I'm gonna just sign it, just just write a jay
And you're not just want your holiday card. That's it,
just giving you. I'm giving you, giving you warm. But
now you know you don't get holiday cards. Instead, I'll
just put on your on your social media out hey,
wishing you, wishing you warm endeavors. Man. That's all I'm
(12:05):
gonna do. It's all I'm gonna do for you guys.
Oh what happened, James? I I could have faked and
said I liked all you guys and you guys just
want to make me like Look we we are. We
do some bit of acting and theater live and in
living color four hours a night here right. I was
under no um illusions and had no uh no delusions
(12:29):
that that you you like me other than I I mean, nice,
affable chap and who's kind of funny from you and say, hey, Jason,
what do you think of Harmon? He's affable and he
makes a good cup of coffee. That's well, I mean, look,
that's that's two better things, better than a lot have
to say about their exes or maybe even people they're
(12:52):
still with. True, that is true, that could be. That
could be on your Tinder page, Mike Harmon affable, makes
a good coupab off. You know what. That might be
enough for somebody out there. Well, that would mean that someone,
I mean, unless they're a night coffee drinker like me.
That was me, they were planning to be around in
(13:13):
the morning if that was something that appealed to them.
Now we're find your winds. Baby. Hey, maybe would you
like another cup of coffee? No, I'm just gonna make
me up all night, have to talk to you. I'm
gonna go to small sleep right here on the kitchen table.
Wake me up in a couple of hours. I'll go home.
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as lebron is closing in on the all time scoring record.
Joining us now on the Hotline. You can follow on
Twitter at Rick Buker on the Ball podcast, see him
(14:18):
on Fox Sports One. Here him here on Fox Sports Radio. Rick,
what's happening, buddy? How are you? Oh? I'm just living
the dream. How about you? Guys? We're doing good. And
I actually had I actually had a quid pro quote
thing for you that can help both of us. You ready, Okay,
I'm very scared. But kay, now, I know I know
(14:40):
you're hurting. I know you're hurting with the Bengals losing.
I know you're hurting with so will make you feel
better about the Bengals and you give us some great
insider story that you're waiting to break some time in
the next couple of days and you do it here
with us. What how about tom defile that wasn't called
(15:03):
on Lebron more egregious, less agregious or just the same
as anything from Sunday? Uh, less egregious than what more
egregients or less agreedious than what we then anything on
Sunday when we got to the Bengals just trudge the joke.
I well, but there was only there was only one
(15:24):
call with Lebron. Lebron was and second before that there's
a debate as to whether he traveled or not. So
I know, I don't think there's any comparison there. I'm
just still trying to puzzle out your offer. It sounded like, okay, Rick,
(15:44):
if you like, listen, you give us twenty bucks and
then um, in exchange for that, you take one of
the stories that you were going to break later and
you tell it on the air right now. It's it
sounded like something that was working in your benefit on
both ends of it. Is what it sounded. We were
(16:05):
just trying to do something that that mutually helped us
both out a little bit there trying. I didn't I
didn't ask for money and we didn't. There's no money
changing hands. Is that's not happening. Yeah, you know what,
Maybe it's just I'm so used to you asking me
a question, answering it and then telling me I'm wrong
that I'm just I'm used to that double double sided.
I can't win. I can't win for losing here. Um,
(16:29):
all right, here's what here's what help you first said? Okay? Uh?
It was absolutely appendently on Joseph o side. He hit
some two feet out of bounds. He did it in
front of them too soon. Man, he had no choice
but to throw the floor. It was a penalty. You
didn't get screwed over on that call. The other ones, yeah,
you did big time, But that one they kind of
had to call it. No, they didn't. They didn't call.
(16:50):
They didn't call the hit on Joe Burrow and Joel Burrow,
Jill Burrow obviously with theastrical on that hit. The late
hit um and without question, Patrick Mahomes was theatrical. When
he went out of bound, there was like a yard sale,
like what what do you I mean? It was? It
(17:11):
was lebron esk is what it was. If he had
just gone down I don't know that, you know, and
go flailing into the bench. And all that. I just look,
but you know what, I won't debate that, and I'm
not gonna debate that the that the Kansas City Chiefs
won the game. You know what, they won the game.
(17:33):
I'll give you that. My only issue is with anyone
who is talking about how and we heard it from
h Kelsey, Travis Kelsey and a variety of people both
on the Chiefs and in the media, like, yeah, the
clubs the Bengals asked, you won by three on the
last second field goal in your building. Okay, you won,
(17:57):
but don't appen like you're suddenly this dominant team over
the Cincinnati Bengals. You got out by the skin of
your teeth. Congratulations, go on and win a Super Bowl.
But don't start acting like you are this much better
than the Bengals. Because on another day, with a few
things going in the other direction, whether it was that
the officials or otherwise, uh, the Kansas Chiefs are on
(18:18):
four against Joe or or maybe they'd be three and
one because it was three points going the other way
Rick in each of those other games. Well, okay, and
I'm good with that. I'm just saying, like both sides
got really chesty off three point wins. And I'm not
of the mind to say that the Bengals are that
(18:40):
much better than the Kansas City Chiefs, or that Joe
Burrow is that much better than Patrick Mahomes. It's on
any given night with these two teams, and I just
think that they should be viewed that way, not like
one dominating the other, because we haven't seen that yet.
Fox Sports Radio the Jason Spitzer with Mike Carman Rick
Buker live with us from Borrowhead as we talk all
(19:02):
the latest news in the NBA. I tell you, I
dug that all week, Rick, that Burrowhead. That was so
much fun. That was really you know. The funny thing
is like everybody trying to make it out like, oh,
the Bengals, they better pipe down, And the Bengals weren't
saying any of that stuff. The players weren't saying it.
Becaun't the Chiefs talked more guff than than the Bengals did. Now,
(19:26):
the mayor of Cincinnati, and by the way, our history
of mayors isn't that great Garry Springer, Once upon a
time was the mayor of Cincinnati paida paid for a
woman of the night with a with a check so
it goes Jeff goes to show like, we don't you know,
we're not picking the rightest fruit from the tree when
(19:47):
we're when we're electing our mayors. All right, So let's
get to the NBA now that now, now is when
you give us that big thing that Lebron is going
to demand a trade. All right. So we have Lebron
loosing in on the record, and and you know, the
Lakers have been playing a little bit better, but you
can see they still are kind of stop. Go, um,
(20:08):
what what's what's your take on where Lebron is right
now with this He's gonna blow past this records and
you get to forty points, continue want to still go
and still go and still go. Can this wind up
being a moment for the Lakers where they can, hey,
uses a jump start for the rest of the season.
Or is this just kind of what we're gonna get.
(20:28):
It's kind of what we're gonna get. And I don't
see it being as a rallying point for the Lakers
to say, hey, let's celebrate this, because quietly, but Lebron
has been chasing this thing and it's been first and
foremost worried about his scoring and if you've seen the
Lakers play without Lebron, they really don't need scoring. Like
(20:52):
they have enough guys who can put the ball in
the basket. They need a playmaker and they need a
guy who can organize them. And it's going to contribute defensively.
As much as I still think Lebron is capable of contributing,
but as long as he's not doing that, as long
as it's kind of painfully apparent that he's working on
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two avenues he's working on. Yeah, he wants to win
some games. Yeah he's frustrated, um, but he also knows
like this team isn't playing for a title. So if
you're using a scale, his interest is in and I.
And I was told this last year point blank by
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someone who was with the organization, who said, last year,
he looked at the team and I didn't think they
could win. So he decided, let me try to do
something historic. Let me go and try to to be
the oldest guy to ever win the scoring title. And
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he he came close, but at was what he was
focused on. He wasn't focused on how do I get
the most wins out of this team? And I just
get the sense that we've seen more of that again
this year, just by the shots that he's taking, how
he's playing, no effort on defense whatsoever. Um and so,
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And I don't blame him. I don't blame him. He's
made great business decisions when it comes to his career,
his entire career, and it's why he has the statistics
that he has. That's why he's lasted twenty years. All
of that I do not. I mean, he's done all
of that better than anybody's ever done it. But don't
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tell me like he's all about winning and the Lakers
are letting him down because he's doing all this statistically
and if they would just make some moves, they'd have
a better team. Like that's that's not where his his
head is at right now. And so I just I
can commend him for what he's about to do and
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at the same time put it in context and say, yeah,
but the Lakers are not looking at that as a
as a rally point. Look, the Warriors didn't look at
it as a rally point for stuff to get the
three point record last year. The benefit that they had
was that he got it early in the season. He
was able to cross because that was something he was
chasing and admits he was chasing it and they were
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able to He was able to get it, they were
able to put it aside. He was able to physically,
physically and mentally recover from that chase and then go
to the playoffs. The way this is going, this is
eating up a big part of the season and a
big part of Lebron's energy. Well, next week we can
get into the what it all means on a larger scale. Uh.
To some degree, it just feels like, all right, it's inevitable.
(23:49):
Just get on with it, kind of like you talked about,
you know, after beating the Knicks at Madison Square Garden,
and we don't have to talk about that. We do
not have to talk well we do because Julius Ray
not with the story unless you can tell me, Rick,
why Tom Thibodeau continues to draw plays at the end
of the game for Julius Randall. I really need to
know that, Rick, I really need to know why when
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he when he gives you the effort that he gave
you last night, with four and a half seconds left
to go, I'm gonna hold the ball for two seconds,
drivel to the baseline, not get a shot off, even
though Jalen Brunson, who had just had two buckets and
an assist and got the charge that got the ball back,
is standing there at the three point line going give
me the basketball. Can you help me out? Rick? This
is this is the funniest thing you've ever said. He said,
(24:39):
drew up a play that's East slapper for Rick. Oh
my god, it's so good. That's good. I'm gonna wake
up in the middle of the night and be laughing
at that. At that this, Tims threw up the plage.
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I mean that, quite honestly, is the problem. This is
an all offense league now. It is all about how
much scoring power you have and how creative you can
be to get your best to get your best players
the vall as often as possible. And maybe maybe Tims's
confused and he thinks Julius Randall is his best player.
(25:30):
But um, but the idea that he would have a
creative way to get him a really good shot, it's
that's just not in Tims's playbook. And I'm actually, in
some ways I'm impressed that the Knicks have the records
that they have. Certainly, Jayleen Bunsen deserves a lot of credit.
Um and and a number of other guys have contributed.
(25:52):
But it's is a defensive coach. He's a fish out
of water right now in the league in terms of
what his strength is. And and so I but that's
why I can't. I can't possibly answer why he drew
said he didn't d he didn't draw it up. He didn't.
There wasn't he didn't he was holding a clipboard. Rick,
(26:14):
he was holding a clipboard. Yeah, and um, there's no
ink in that pens. It's not like I promise you,
he's not. He's not drawn up play. Maybe he wrote
Julius name on it on the poet. He drew a
little sketch of him, like when he signed sketches himself.
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He had he did a little stick man figure Julius.
And then he had the ball like failing away towards
the net. If he drew, if he drew up a play,
I would imagine that's what it would look like. That's
(26:56):
my fault. Next time I got to draw the ball
going through the bad skin. Just it's not enough. So
we we we've really we've figured it out. Why Why
did KIVI? Why didn't Kim's last second play work because
he didn't draw it accurately enough. I love the stick
(27:19):
figure that it's like one of those things where when
you would draw the pictures when you were in school
and you would send time like if you're a boring class,
and you would draw like the stop motion at the
bottom of your book and you would show like a
guy walking when you would flip the pages and fast,
that's drow the plan. Here we go and then you
dribble to the poop and you put them all in
and we all smile at the end. Yeah, And the
(27:42):
problem was that tips ran out of pages, but we
couldn't finish. Oh boy, all right, All Star reserves are
an ounce tomorrow. Who are we getting a spotlight on?
Jalen Brunson. I don't know, guys. I want I want
(28:02):
you guys to get behind my uh I am petitioning. Um.
I'm going to start a movement that we need to
overhaul the All Star voting completely, that that it is
wacky that we have a voting block of players, media
and fans who vote on the five starters and then
(28:23):
the coaches select the seven reserves. How tell me and
how does that make sense? And what other in any
other thing, do you have two completely separate groups voting
and selecting a group that is all honored the same way, Like, yeah,
(28:47):
we kind of we make note of the fact that
somebody's an All Star starter from pretty much historically, we
just look at are they were they at All Star
or not? And how many times were they at All Star?
And so my thing is coach, players, fans, media, and
we all pick twelve players. And at this point we
(29:08):
don't need front, quarterback, court. We already give up centers,
forwards and guards. Just pick the twelve best players because
now you're selecting teams anyway, and the you got you
got Ron James and Luka Dot six six nine guys
who were point guards. Essentially, like we don't have to
worry about size. Just just select the twelve best players
(29:30):
from each conference. Because there's money and legacy on the
line here, we need to take it a lot more
seriously than we have at that point. And so I'll say,
I'll give you a short answer. The guys that I
think should be All Stars this year are not going
to be selected tomorrow through holiday. Should be an All Star,
He's not, And I guarantee you he's not gonna be Uh,
(29:52):
he's not going to be selected. Um, I don't know.
Dylan Brunson probably could be, say Gilts, Alexander, if you
to be an All Star, I am not. I don't know,
but there are guys that should be recognized that assuredly
will not be because because of this goofy system that
(30:13):
we have, coaches, players, fans, percent media. That's one hundred percent,
and that overhauls NBA All Star voting. He's on Twitter
at Rick Puker, that is at Rick Puker s on
FS one. Check out the Latest on the Ball podcast
Rick awesome stuff. As always, man, thank you. I will
(30:35):
never now I shouldn't say, but for the next week,
I'm going to think about tips, drawing up plays with
stick figures. That's all I'm gonna think about, quite honestly,
stick taking anybody. We'll talk to my friend. You know,
that was Jack McDowell's band for a while. Stick figures,
stick figure Nice, Okay, I didn't know. I thought it
(30:55):
was he Wayne Edwards and Lee Plummel. Wow, that's that's
really obscure White Sox knowledge right there. Can be sure
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I gotta say, I'm a little nervous right now. Are
you nervous to have got cleared from concussion prosalt? So
(31:37):
he's the guy in Miami. No, yeah, no, no, it's
it's it's it made me nervous because a couple of
things have happened, and we talked about the forty Niners
are going to go forward with Lance and Purdy and
and there you know they've already said Jimmy Garoppolo is
not coming back. Tampa Bay should just tank. You know,
you're fifty five million dollars over the salary cap, shred
salary get pick start over, right, Mike Evans by Chris Godwin,
(31:59):
by Kyle Trask. You got like ten guys making more
than ten million dollars on Tampa. It's time Kyle Trask,
just just start over. But the Jets have a problem,
my Carmen, why do they have a problem. Brady was
gonna go to Vegas, right, it was all set man,
Brady was going to Vegas. Idea, it was Vegas, San Francisco.
But but you know, but Vegas is saying, hey, we're
(32:21):
gonna get this. Now, Brady's off the market and it's
gonna be well, maybe we have to get in on
Aaron Rodgers now. And whereas the Jets were the only
team that we're gonna pay anything for Aaron Rodgers, now
the Raiders are gonna screw things up and get involved.
They don't, and now they're gonna wind up getting him.
And Frostberg said, I mean all kinds of pictures today
(32:41):
of Aaron Rodgers superimposing a Raiders jersey. Great, thanks for that. Now,
now instead of getting Aaron Rodgers, we're gonna wind up
losing out on Aaron Rodgers and we're gonna have to
get Derek Carr. That will say this, with the long
hair and the mustache, it works well, yeah, I mean
it completely looks like looks the Raider. I mean you
got that scruffy, a little bit ray and the beard. Yeah,
(33:01):
he definitely he looks like like ken Stable re visited. No,
he definitely has. Yeah, but I don't but I don't
want that. I don't I want Aaron Rodgers with the Jets.
I don't want to have to fight with the Raiders
for him now, because now the Raiders about what you
have to give up? Now, Woody Johnson may not go
for broke. Yeah, and the move to bring in the
guy that was gonna be the whisper now he's just
(33:23):
gonna suck with Zack Wilson. And this is why this
is so crazy, is because the Raiders are always the
wild card on everything. They could sign Marcus Mariota to
come back and be their starter, or they could trade
for Lamar Jackson. That's the Raiders. The Raiders could do
absolutely anything. I don't like the fact that they're involved now.
I don't want them involved in us. But now they're involved.
Now the wild card that's involved. Now, now we're gonna
(33:45):
get on a quarterback. How about Aaron Rodgers. How about
we even you three first round picks for him? Hey,
that's what we're gonna do, all right? I mean, you
know why it is an a f C team and
he ain't going to Tennessee. Uh a car, I just
I for us? So good. Now you know that's what's
(34:07):
gonna happen. They're gonna go They told you that weeks
ago they're gonna go get Era. But they were all set.
Brady would have gone there and said they wouldn't know,
they're gonna go get Aaron Rodgers. Now would Rogers be
third in the division or four eight seven seven four
Rushmore cooked in a rod It's got nothing to do
(34:28):
with iowask now now I'm nervous. Now, I mean, I'm nervous.
I'm nervous. I'm nervous, man, I'm nervous. I'm nervous. Guy,
We're gonna go get It's gonna be Gardner Minshew, and
it's gonna be Mitshew versus Zack Wilson for the starting
job next year. That's you know what he'd wear the
fur coat off the field. He'd be great. It's is he?
(34:50):
But is he good enough? Do you think Joe Namath
would allow twelve to be unretired for him? Eight seven seven?
He would dress just like him though, I'm sure, Hey,
it's like you in nineteen sixty nine, Joe, then go
ahead and take my jersey did I'd love to have
the Minshew kid here, Hey, reliving the glory days of
(35:12):
Joe Willie in New York. It's gonna happen. It's gonna
be Minshew versus Wilson coming up next. Uh So, now
what for Tom Brady. We'll tell you the next thing.
He's gonna absolutely conquer retirement
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