Hour 3 – Derek Carr’s Future

In Hour 3 of tonight’s edition of the Jason Smith Show, Mike Harmon and Arnie Spanier try to navigate what Derek Carr’s future holds for him. The guys also try to predict what will happen when Aaron Rodgers emerges from his darkness retreat. Plus, will the 49ers roll with Brock Purdy, or Trey Lance?

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basement of the house and my brothers and I beaten
the hell out of each other, because those are holiday
tales for a book. Later on Look, we talked about Rogers.
We got into a little bit of Russell Wilson and
the sack of potatoes comment, which is one of the greatest.
I'm gonna put that up as a motivational thing for
me to make sure I get my butt to the
gym each and every day. The road to swoll takes

(03:16):
no days off, no days off. Like Bill Belichick, Maybe
I'll wear a giant hoodie as I am as well.
But if Russell's got a sack of potato's body, what
hope is there for the rest of us? Really? Oh
but I mean, look, we can all, we can all
use a little self improvement, whether it's in the mind,
the body, of the soul, maybe all three. I could
maybe lose a half a pound, maybe a full pound.
I'm not well. I mean, if you get a good

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night's sleep, you know, weigh yourself right now, aren'tie, And
then you wake up in a couple hours, you'll you'll
weigh a little bit less. You can feel good about yourself.
I mean, unless you eat a bunch of sandwiches before
you go to bed. I just had some ice cream
and a half time, nicely done. That's that's a good
halftime adjustment. I myself and went and got myself another
cup of coffee, because that's I got problems anyway. Former

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NFL quarterback and you know, Boomer Asiasin, I always think
of Marv Albert saying Boomer as Hiasin offers a little
bit of his idea of how things work out with
the Jets as related to the the expected arrival of
say one Derek Carr on his w F A N

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Show quote. I do know he's concerned that the Jets perspective,
from the Jets perspective that Zack Wilson is here. They
benched him multiple times this past year, the Mike White experiment,
a little bit of Joe Flacco. That's right, you saw
some Joe Flacco, but despite the struggles. So the idea
is perhaps that Car not only would come into play,

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but he'd also be that mentor. I don't know, yeah,
but I'm not understanding why you lost out that the
boomers saying that Cars worried a little bit of the
concern there is that he's not there to be a
quarterback but necessarily a guy who becomes the veteran. To
get Zach Wilson back on the field, well that's gonna
take a miracle of me. But there's nothing wrong with that.

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I mean, he's only in for the league for one
another two to three more years. I mean, there are Cars,
so why not as your quarterback for the team, help
along the young quarterback after you? I'm not not Oh,
look at your great put a violin behind you? Is
that a Hallmark Weekend Weekend edition? I mean that's the
Adirondacks movies. I guess it is, but I'm not fine with.

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I mean, guy's on his way out anyway, and final contract.
But that's the larger question. Is he out? Because well,
we'll do the quarterback gride of where he stands on
Because some folks think he's just been miscast and been
taken down by the horrid Raiders organization and that he's
much better than that. I don't think that's the case.

(05:48):
I think people keep trying to to wash him up
a little bit too much. And he's got his brother
doing all of those ino. No, but that's the point, right,
But I but I don't necessarily think he's done, right.
I mean, he goes into his second decade. Here we're
talking about Geno Smith and his rise. I mean the
rankings you sent me, I forget what this source was

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had had him as the tenth best quarterback in the NFL.
That shows you how fast things change. I understand, I
understand that, but I mean, just back to the car though.
I mean, he's had a long, good career. Right now,
he could have retired um instead of continued to play.
So now, I mean, how many more years you think
he's going to play, is my point. I mean, there's
certainly what I think, Like, I think he's just he's

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a jag. I don't think he's that good. Like I
think you had the opportunity, and folks say, well, look
how bad his defense was, Like we're not talking about
wins and losses and we were talking about his stats.
What do you mean he's like, would you rather have
right now? Um, Dak Prescott or Derek Carr? Could I punt? No,
you give me. I don't think I want Well, I
would take Car. I would take Car. I don't know that.

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What would you rather have to our car? Well? Car,
until he was benched, at least was able to play
every everywhere. I'm worrying about the injury at this point,
Old Tom Brady or Car, Right, I'd rather have Tom
Brady come out of retirement triumphantly right now. Okay, I
mean I could see that. I'm not gonna give you
too much grief over that. You can give me all
the grief you want. I think folks are conveniently forgetting that.

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I think he's that you're giving him credit for it.
Right now. There is what I'm saying. I'm saying he's
a middling quarterback is really where I'm at with it.
I don't know, Like I don't do a lot of
top five, top ten, top twenty rankings except when I
do my fantasy right right. I want your flex the
offseason draft before the movement comes, just ranking them based

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on the players that they are for twenty twenty three buyer,
and I will record that tomorrow. You'll be able to
get that podcast wherever you get your audio tomorrow. See
what I did there? Just I mean, that's broadcast professional
stuff right there. Um. But I think when you look
at Derek Carr through nine years with the Raiders, there
have been some high points. Remember you had that season
he got hurt. Well, that was the year that the

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football gods mild on the Raiders until they didn't say
they were healthy. They were, They're all. Twenty two was fantastic,
and then we have the drop that lives forever of him,
helling it's broke. He three for MVP that year or
top five for MVP that year if you were if
he were stayed healthy, well, but he didn't. It's the NFL,

(08:20):
aren't he We could do this all day every year
there's three or four guys he was on pace to do. No,
but it that that's one year and that's five years ago, right,
six years ago, whatever that was, that's a lifetime. That's
that's more than doubled the average career of an NFL player.
Are you saying he's not worth signing if you, Oh, no,

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I'm saying in terms of this class, assuming Tom Brady
doesn't suddenly come riding out of the best right, that
you have to give up stuff for the other three
guys that matter, Right, Rogers, you gotta make a deal,
Lamar Jackson, if he's gonna get out of Baltimore, you
gotta make a deal. And then you've got this other
saying of Hey, the Bears should trade Justin Field, which

(09:02):
I think guys asked and I but they could. Those
three guys. You have to give things up. What about him?
He can't stay healthy? Who would you rather have? Derek
Carr or Baker Mayfield. Let's say, as much as I
think and feel that he played with the like he
played with the Rams, how about that? What for that
three quarters of a game? Yes? Could he replicate that seventeen? No,

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because you saw how quickly that crashed back to earth. Yeah. No,
you keep Baker, But I mean, keep going on down
the line. What do you think of Tannehill? What do
you think of I'd rather have Derek car than Jacoby
Brissett like, But that's the point, right in this class
of free agents, forget about the draft class, that's a
whole other all of the dice, but guys that are
going to be avail him on the open market. He's

(09:48):
the best, but that doesn't mean he's great, right, And
I think that gets conflatdstyle Hall of Famer. How great
a Cell job is that? Arn'tie who got the job
to go try to do that? You saw even when
Russie and Rassini, Do we have that that audio tight shirt?
Do we have the Diana Rassini first ballot Hall of

(10:10):
Famer thing with the Jets to day are Let's see
if we could find that audio clip because you had
literally her co hosts that were at the dais laughing.
They couldn't give a straight face as she tried to
push this out. Now, I think that's one of the
greatest Cell jobs ever and I applaud the people in
that room that came up with that logic of if

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you come here, look what we can do for you
Now reality smacks you in the face like a cold
shower in the morning. To get your days started, maybe
a little jump you're you're in a polar bear club,
or you decide to dive into the ice bath to
get things started. But the reality is you do have
a good base there. When we look at the Jets,

(10:52):
as much as we mock them, they do have a
good base and it could set up something like this.
Listen to this already their car is certainly in the
driver seat here in the situation you just mentioned some
of the teams that are interested in him, And in
terms of that visit with the New York Jets, I
heard it went really well from both sides and in
terms of what New York was trying to sell him,
because let's face it, that's what they're doing at this point.

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They were pretty clear with them. They told him he's
a great quarterback. They believe that he's got a legit.
Surrounding Castle players. They went through the top d the
strong young skill guys, the explosive run game. They ran
through top to bottom of why Derek Crkin step in
here and take this team not just to the playoffs,
but to the Super Bowl and They made a really

(11:36):
personal too. They said, we believe if you come to
New York and win, you could be a first ballot
Hall of Famer. Right, so they went in full in
on Derek Crkin a letter to play for the New
York Jets. See that reaction, you laugh? They laughed. Everybody laughs.
Derek Carr was laughing, heard, what are you doing? You're

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trying to hype the guy up? Not just another quarterback. No,
you come here, you can be a hero. Now. David
Carr went out and said, Hey, the free agent process
is going to be a long, arduous journey. You got
a lot of teams in the mix looking for a
quarterback of the Saints, you know the Falcons, maybe maybe Tampa.
Tampa is Kyle Trash, but do they love him. New

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Orleans has Jamis Winston and Taysom Hill. Big deal, right,
so pretty much everybody in the NFC South. I mean,
Carolina's got a good defense. We're gonna talk about teams
where perhaps he can actually go and win. And you
look at the Jets defense is pretty good. Got a
good run game of Breece. Hall's healthy, But think it
was great. You don't think that's a good division? From

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because you think the Pagets are always gonna be about
five hundreds. The Dophins are on the rise, obviously. I'm
just saying there's no there's there's no walkover in the division.
Whereas in the song, you got a bunch of teams
that you're trying to figure out their identities going forward. No,
you got good component parts, right, Carolina and New Orleans
have good defense. What are their offenses? Tampa in the

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post Brady world, with some salary cap decisions they have
to make about their wideouts and with a decidedly subpar
offensive line and run game. I mean, you got the
guys from the Saints Cam Jordan company just saying, oh,
look Brady's gone there, go back to the same old Buccaneers,
which may very well be the case. Maybe every team,
like you said that there, everybody was some five hundred.

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So that's the easiest division to go ahead and turn
things around. I would think that maybe that's gonna be
more appealing to him. I'm not so sure about that,
but that's the thing, right, what is his decision process
and folks thinking that he needs to speed it up.
And this is where Jason was a little bit last night.
As we broached this a bit is, Look, he's gotta
make he's a big boy. He'll make decisions, you know,

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on his timeline. But remembering that when you look at
the overall class, not a lot of heavyweights. No, yeah,
there are more names, but why you're in no hurry.
No he will. First of all, he's not gonna do
it on his timeline, but you got the draft coming up,
and that's going to affect on what he is. This
just gonna have the trickle down effects. So if he
thinks he's gonna carry it over that long, that that's
not gonna happen, Mike, Then then teams are gonna just say,

(14:06):
we're gonna have to move on, um, because you know,
we got quarterbacks in the draft. We've got other free
agent quarterbacks out there. We got teams like your Bears,
um that might be willing to get rid of a quarterback.
There's just too much out there right now to wait
a rout for one guy like that. Yeah. I think
it's the decision point for some of these teams of
what are you? Some of them are obviously just terrible
teams on the complete rebuilt, which is why you're normally

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drafting right, Bears are in a unique position where they
got a guy who might be the guy and they
have a lot of money to spend, and then with
the number one overall pick, we didn't even bring one.
Are the Cardinals gonna do now that Murray? How old
is Murray gonna be out? You're gonna be out a while,
so you gotta go find another quarterback? Is that one
to assume that he's gonna take over for Murray and
that you're just gonna hand it back to Murray? Or

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is he gonna fight it up for the starting position?
On how much more are you gonna pay for a quarterback? Down? Now?
You already spent your money on him, So it'll be
they're gonna have to draft one. They're gonna have to
go with. They're gonna have to hope they find like
a proct per he's somewhere along the way, or they
buy one of these secondary sharing guys on the market. Right. No, yeah, no,

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Actually he's hurt too, isn't he? From what I well,
And that's the question is is he gonna be able
to come back or does he come back? But he's
hurt right now? Right? Well, I mean you get a
long way before the season. But it's that idea of
while you're so deep into Kyler Murray, it's not like
you're gonna go spend a lot of money. That's why
Daniel Jones is asking for so much, because what are
the Giants gonna do if they didn't give him that

(15:30):
type of money. Well, but if you're him, like there's
two schools. The thought, here's your opportunity for the big
pay day and you get a little bit of revenge
for the fact that they didn't pick up your fifth
tier option. True, and then you went to the playoffs
and you're building a great rapport with Brian Dable, and
the other side is all right, what are you going
to do if I leave? Maybe they're going to go
to where is he going to go? Well, but again

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you put him against a lot of these other quarterbacks
that are free agents. He's no worse than most of them. Right,
No where would he? Where would he behind car? Well,
you just mentioned every team in the NFC South I
think could use Right, there's like ten to twelve teams
that are looking for quarterbacks legitimately, and a few others
that if the price is right, probably would move off
their guy. Yeah, that's where we're at NFL. But if

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you want to have to pay him forty five million
a year, that's a steve price to play for somebody
like Daniel Jones though all the old world of what
the market will bear on, that's true, And if you're
in the cell room with him, it's like, you know,
we do need a bunch of other help to make
you the player you could be. So you need to
leave a little bit of that scratch on the table.
And now it's the finessing with the agent to go

(16:35):
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(16:57):
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Arnie Span, You're in for Jason Smith alongside me. And
then later on Ben Maller will come in and you
can commiserate with him into the overnight. I wanted to

(17:17):
bring up this story, Arnie, because this came across a
little bit earlier and well one that you curiously didn't
send me in a violitney of stories that one day
a week now, Tua tonguea violoa is now training in judo.
I saw that, you know, is it kind of an
insult that they're saying that you could do something to

(17:38):
prevent concussions. I thought, there's really nothing you can do
about that, and it's just an untimely injury. To be
honest with you, well some of it, but I would
like in it. And this is where my nerddom comes in.
So just bear with me a moment. Okay, we are
just a couple of weeks away from WrestleMania thirty nine
here in Los Angeles, and we're ready. Tie shirt, Patrick

(18:03):
and Brandon, we're out. We're all ready. I don't know
what we're gonna do for access, but we're gonna go
find some audio. We're gonna go torment the superstars, see
if we can take a bump. And that's one of
the big things in the process of learning how to
quote unquote take a bump, and I think that's where
with twa Tonga Vailoa. That's part of the process of
judo is seeing if he can't figure out how to land,

(18:24):
it's like learning how to slide right. This is just
an extent. That's a good analgy. But let's be honest.
If you're getting tackled, you're falling back and your head
is going to snap back and hit the ground, there's
really not much you could do. Or if somebody lowers
a helmet or you ower your heloer and helmet to helmet,
it's but part of it is all right, is there
anything you can do in your training that is going

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to be of assistance? There was a Peter King situation
where he was talking about it all and there was
a US Olympic judoka, Jason Morris, who reached out to
Pro Football all talk dot com talking about you know
how to fall properly when you get struck right to
where you absorb most of it, to your gluts and

(19:11):
to you as as you need to to your back
right to where you've got some padding as opposed to
that jar. Everybody understand there's a lot of ways to
go ahead, and especially when it comes to wide receivers.
That's where we come up with these new rules for
you know, unprotected a wide receiver where you could just
you know, nail them to the wall. You can't do

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that anymore. I'm not so sure this is going to
work for Tour, to be honest with you. I look,
I know there's a lot of things quarterbacks can do,
but we're we're we have so many rules about protecting them. Um,
I'm I'm a little shocked that he's gone through all
these injuries with the concussions right now, No, and that
and that's the thing, right, nothing's gonna be one hundred
percent preventable, and that that's what we stipulate to anything

(19:53):
when you're playing a contact sport. My daughter plays, you know,
in a soccer league, and she's rising up the ranks
a blast high school and club work, and it's getting
more and more physical. Every once in a while, she'll
do it just to freak me out. Hey, dad, listen
to my back crack, you know those kind of thing,
and I could do the same thing. I say, yeah,
we'll listen to my knee wrench. Let's well, follow me

(20:14):
up a flight of stairs. We've all got this, but
I mean, she's a teenager, right, she shouldn't have that
just yet. But that's part of where the process and
the sacrifice that you're making. But you're trying to learn.
You know, how to best absorb the ball when you
go up for a header, how to take a body bump,
and if you're going to fall, how do you fall
in that sport in hockey? Right, your your son playing hockey.

(20:37):
We gotta get into that five hundred dollars T shirt
and about I got to find out what the hell
that was all about. That was one of the strangest
tweets of all time. Right, I got my timeline full
of everybody with their theories of the quarterback carousel, what's
gonna happen, the ongoing stuff, and with Alabama and their
basketball program forty one points tonight in an overtime win

(21:00):
from Miller as all of that swirls. You've got all
these different permutations of sports, getting ready for the second half,
the final third of the the NBA season, all of
these things. Uh, and then I see your tweet about
your son. What was an expensive T shirt? No? I know,
I mean, I don't know where he got the money

(21:21):
to get it from that that's the teas ahead and
we will have to have a conversation about that, uh
and see if we can't ferret out some information. Uh
what is it like true detective style as we are
here at Fox Sports Radio. But I think it just
goes back to the point of as you're training, whatever
level of sport, you're not solving it for contacts, but

(21:46):
where you can lessen it, particularly a guy that's now
got a history that's that is unfortunately for as well
as he played at times. That's the story of two
is twenty twenty two season. And can you imagine if
he comes right back and has a a concussion in
the first like two or three games, Um, what are
they're going to say about him? And what's going to
happen at that point with the with the Dolphins. Well,

(22:07):
but it's one of the big questions that the Dolphins
have had to have as well, right when we're talking
about contracts, for one, but also as you plan your
squad going forward, why there are still rumors about Tom
Brady before the retirement announcement, Why you see Derek Carr
and all these other guys still photoshopped into Dolphins uniforms.
I'd be more concerned like a Jimmy g with ah

(22:29):
who's injury prone, than more so like a tour, which
I think is more the of bad luck. When it
comes to concussions, I think, you know, I would look
at more with a guy with a knee problem or
you know what's going on with Broc Purty um than
I would say something with two before I would say well,
but I would say this though, Arnie, you know, and
to play devil's advocate in this, it's like with a

(22:51):
knee injury and give it because you could say a
lot of Garoppolo stuff is bad luck too, right, except
it keeps happening right to start his career. He's never
strong though, it's never a strong first time around. But
a head injury and a history of that, you're does
he play cautiously? Does he play differently? Do you have
to coach my cow? Many players you think have concussions

(23:13):
that go that don't go reported? What do you think?
I mean, going all the way back to grade school
when I was playing, Yeah, I mean it's got to
be in the NFL. A high number, a high number.
Do you pass the cognitive tests. I mean, how many
guys have you heard? I mean that probably you've talked
to as well. I've certainly talked to a number. I
purposefully set my bar very low that I wasn't very

(23:35):
bright so I'd be able to passive when I got
into the competition. The center for the Bills had six
concussions last year, and nobody said squad about him like
a quarterback. Yeah, well, but that's that's the reality though,
right is that the severity and what you can replay
when it's happening on a lineman butting heads? Why would

(24:00):
you let him back though? If you're so concerned about concussions,
why would you go ahead and let him Because because
you're answering your own question. The charade, the pr the
publicity and everything. Oh, I mean, we go through this
all time. You've been around this game a long time.
And I try to be Joe positive, but my cynical
nature overwhelms me at times with some of these stories. Uh,

(24:23):
And I think folks at times are kind of sad
that that's the case. But someone's got to speak truth
to it and the cynicism and the quest for the
faces of the league and the handwringing, it becomes an
easy target of like, all right, which side is gonna
pick it up? If it's a center, like, oh, that's

(24:44):
too bad. But if it's the quarterback, then it brings
more attention. I understand that. I just you know, you
figure more people would have talked about that, but it
was always about two is a concussion? Um and if
they were gonna go ahead and bring him back. Also
because of the the optics that have brought the way
he went out, No, that's it, right, and then when
he tried to get up and staggered around a bit

(25:05):
like you but that's just it, yeah, right, is like yeah, normally,
normally you don't do that if it's a back injury, right,
you're grabbing your head. All of those, like the optics
of it led to a larger discussion and put the
NFL under fire again. Well I'm gonna see if he's
going to be able to stay healthy. Obviously they gonna
have a better backup plan because you can't go with
like Teddy Bridgewater, Um, you know, that's just not gonna

(25:28):
cut it anymore. I can't take that, um or Thompson.
We we gotta make sure you gotta got a pretty
good backup in there, you know. Well, And that's that's
the theory, and we'll go to another situation. She will
come back to the West coast. We'll swing it all
the way back based on a news update that came
out last night. Curious to get your thoughts of a
team in northern California. We'll do that in a minute.
At first, be sure to catch live editions of The

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Welcome back in Fox Sports a Radio to Jason Smith
Show with Me Mike Carmon. No Jason Smith tonight, He'll
be back tomorrow. I haven't heard this song outside of

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my kids making fun of it in the TikTok world
in a while. Our Arnie, do you add this to
your dance remixes on Friday nights? I have no idea
what I have no idea what this is. I don't
know what this is wait to be cultured, Arnie. Wow,
come on, I'm sorry, mister Arnie. Was that too harsh?

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I don't know what to do? Do you tell me? Well,
you know what we we've got time to learn. You there,
you go cultured? Why I gotta have I mean, you
gotta stay hip. I can't remember the last time I
went to a car you know, I did. The last

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concert I think I went too was Billie Joel and
Elton John. You like that, No, it's good. I went
to Elton John in November here in Los Angeles, one
of his final shows. It took my kids. We had
a blast. You just one up me, you know, I
got I didn't one up. Yeah, that's what we do.
We go to live events, we go to theater, we
go to concerts. You know. I went to a one

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type of small concert. There was like two thousand people there,
but the mate it was like in a gymnasium on
my our campus, University of Arizona, and it was George Thurrough. Goood.
Oh nice, Oh that was rocked. That was I was
right up there at the front. We had a blast.
That was a good time. No that that's still a
good time. I actually just saw a promo for a
podcast he was gonna be on. Okay, so he's still

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alive and everything. That's good. What do you want from me?
I know how that escalated quickly, no, he was all
Then I figured, well, you know what's funny, some of
these guys don't age. That's true. Maybe hanging out with
Keith Richard, you know, supposedly. And here's here's the big
one for you. The surviving members of the Stones and

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the Beatles have gotten together to do with some record.
Oh wow, how crazy would that be? That'd be awesome.
I didn't again, artists, I go see every chance they get.
I'll be seeing Ringo out here at the Greek in June.
That is a you know why, our buddy Steve Gorman
I asked about guy about like a year ago. I'd go,
tell me something that you did that's interesting as well.

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I played drums with Ringo last night. I'm like, wow,
that's pretty cool. That's not bad. Talk to anybody who's
ever drummed. That's the first name they bring up in
terms of the legends. Yeah, he is the best, no doubt,
Ringo star. Yeah we get this will be our third
third viewing of the All Star band. Don't forget that
a second R to go with his last name. They

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may be looking for another star in San Francisco. Brock
Party postponing that surgery still swollen, still having issues. You
got Trey Lance coming back off injury. You struck the
lottery this year as Garoppolo goes down into or Lance
into Garoppolo into Purdy and unfortunately the clock struck midnight

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in the NFC title game. So now do you press
your luck like the Purty still the starting quarter. I mean,
first of all, let me ask you a question. Seven
games is not a big sample size. That's like you
m getting married after your second date and just saying
I love you, let's get married. Um, I'm not sor.
I mean, there's TV shows where you do that. I
know that, and sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't

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work well, just like anything else. You can date for
years and it doesn't work exactly. So I'm not you know,
I'm not ready to just say old Brock Purty starter
and all that, though I certainly have to tell you
I'm I'm not saying that Trey answers. There's no doubt
about that. Also, they do have to trade Jimmy Gan
get themselves another quarterback to get in the mix. But
how long is Brock pretty gonna be out? If you

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get to have surgery, He's not even gonna be ready
to at August or something like that. That's that's crazy well,
and that's the best case scenario and that and that's
where this gets complicated. Wow, is that now we're talking
about out the idea of all right? That that means
what a quote ready mean that he gets to start working.
Because here's the thing, and Garoppolo is not under contract,

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is the things. But in this scenario, hear me out here,
what do you do for that third quarterback? Do you
press your luck that you've drafted well and this system
is done well and that you can bring in another
guy and you're gonna keep that line moving. On the
quarterback whisper, I could take anybody to make up a
star quarterback, right, is that what they're staying there? In theory?

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Unfortunately they have to stay on the field and Trey
Lance doing the wide eyes things. When dude went to
run the Tennessee Titans and he started cutting veterans left
and right. Today, I don't know if you saw that,
Taylor Luane and Robert Woods like co up free. That
was kind of fun. That's a nice little intrigue to it.

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But when when we look at it, arn't he is
You've got a situation with a guy that's played one
year of quarterback in the last five and you've got
a team that is going to hit a point where
a lot of these guys need to get paid or
they age out right. And of course having broke Purdy,
you're getting such a deal with quarterback as a guy
even making a million dollars. Well, likewise with Lance, it's

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not like you're paying him. True, you're right about that also,
So I mean that works into their favor. And obviously
they could see everybody else and see if it figures
on out. But I want to see how on Broc
Purdy's gonna be out. But he when you say that
earliest it's gonna be August, what does that mean September? October?
I have no idea. Right physically is he ready to play?
What November? I don't know. Wow, Wow, you got a

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lot a lot of nebulous As early as is always
a problem, means it could be months down the line.
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