February 25, 2023 • 35 mins
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Let me stop you right there. The Nick suck. Not
a drop, not a real drop. Sorry, not no note,
not a real drop, not a real drop. That's about
the Mets. And you can't say that about the Knicks
because the Knicks just won again. The Knicks may never
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lose again. Julius Randall had seventy five points. Look out,
here come the Knicks greatest motivator, his kid mocking him
at the All Star break, So that's good. You can't
shoot it. Dad, can't watch me? Kid? You want to
eat dinner, You want me to go, You want to
go back to Chuck e Cheese. You better watch built
a brick house he had. Morty doesn't matter because you
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know why, because the All Star Game doesn't count. You
know how I know it doesn't count because nobody watched
it. It It doesn't count if nobody watches when a lot
of people commented and told me how bad it was, Well, dude,
you watch the pregame show. You watch the pregame show. Poop.
I mean, hey, I was all in. I respect my
artistic and journalistic integrity by watching things. So you don't
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have to go you you shut up. You're a liar.
You're a liar. You love the NBA All Star Game,
you love the pregame show. I haven't on my dr
everything I wanted. It was so good. Now before we
get to other big news out of the NBA, just
just selfishly, you know what I love? You know what
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I love tonight? Look the Knicks did the Knicks did
beat the Wizards tonight and the Knicks I told you
before the the before the All Star Game, the couple
of teams you're gonna watch and go on runs in
the last twenty three games, the Knicks are one of them.
All right, watch out. But you know what I love
is the fact that they beat the Wizards tonight, and
they beat Porzingis and the Wizards are on their way
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to another mediocre finishing season and Porzingis playing the Knicks
tonight saying, man, I really screwed up. I was the
king of New York. I was one of the faces
of the league. And Nope, it wasn't enough for me
and my brother and I decided I had to get
out and I had to go someplace else. While the Knicks, hey, stay,
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it's gonna be great. Stay. No, no, no, not enough
for him. So now, oh, I'm gonna go to Dallas.
He'd be great. Oh Dallas didn't work out, And now
I'm just treading water in Washington where every couple of
weeks I'll have a couple of games in a row
that are good. Then I'll disappear. Yeah, boy, I screwed up,
and I love seeing You could just see it in
his eyes every time he's on the court against the
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next boy, Nick's got it going on. They're pretty good.
They got their point guard, they got their boy. I
could have been there. I could have been a legend.
I had five three tonight, I scored twenty three points.
I could have really been nub But now here I
am in basketball purgatory and it's all my faults. John.
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This is why I love Live Drop Friday. This is
gonna be Uh there might be drunk. The way that sounded.
We might have to play that one back just too well.
The thing is, I know ty Shirt, I know ty
Shirt already went to see Cocaine Bear today, so I
know he's fired up. I know he's fired up. I
mean postuously a Leona gets a star on the Walk
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of Fame, and he went and enjoyed a little cocaine base.
Look for Porzingis to start there, not not to say, hey,
the bulls have kept the nets too under thirty percent
shooting tonight, Pat BEV with a hero's welcome in Chicago.
Is the fact that you really think Porzingis would still
be there even if his jackass brother and he hadn't
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concocted any of those plans. They would have ditched him anyway, No,
they would have. He might have been there another year
or two, but he'd be gone now. But who knows
what would have happened. I mean maybe not. You could
be right, he could have been gone now with a
new regiment. But they wanted to give him everything, and
he was a superstar in New York again. He was
one of the faces of the league. And now he's
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just a guy. You know, he's not bad, he's a
guy at the deadline. Now we have Porzingis, will he
help us? I don't know. Maybe he was one of
the faces of the league and New York loved him.
Mattith square Gar multiple songs written about yes, and now
no one's writing to Porzingis song about him. He's screwed
up for whatever reason. No, I'm not happy. I need
to go, whatever reason him and his brother cooked up
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that he had to get out. I don't like the
direction of the team. You don't like the direction of
the team. There's thirty teams in the NBA, twenty five
of them. You won't like the direction of the team.
So I don't know what you're talking about. I don't
like the direction of the team. Christos go to Detroit,
go to one of those teams. You see, if you
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don't like that. I don't like the direction of the team. Yeah, God,
I don't like it. I don't like it. He's screwed
up and now he lives at every single day and
I love it. We have really brought into a really
strange hellscape at this point. Live Drop Friday has really
created a whole taking the thing is because because now
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with Live Drop Friday, like like Tie Shirt and Frostburg
are working on their timing, like okay, ready ready and
three two one soon as Jason's Donne talking, we went
with the other ports inc. Pretty good. Yeah, that wasn't
bad though. I mean they're also working on their harmonies.
They're gonna be out on the road. There's backups for
the Beach Boys pretty soon. Help me, Ron, help The
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Beach Boys are like a hundred, that's all right, that's
why they need an infusion of young blood. You got
Stamos on the drums, and then you guys can come
in and we don't open year olds now the band buddy,
you'll open for James Dolan and you'll if they paid enough,
you'd show up. Who the hell are you kidding? M
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I would I would pay money to see Tight Shirt
and Frostburg. Just do that for like a couple of minutes.
Do you pay money? Hey before we bring up before
come out, here's Frostburg and tight shirt. What man? Just
trust me, just trust me. It's awesome to pay us
in big Max or what five minutes stand up routine
coming from these two. By the end of the day,
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Progressive dot Com. Now the other big NBA story, which
when I when I read about it today, I thought, no, this,
this is not true. Someone just mistyped this. This is
this is not the case, because early today it was
Russell Westbrook will start for the Clippers tonight. Now I'm like, oh, okay,
well he's gonna play. That means he's gonna play for
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the Clippers. I know he's gonna play, and then is it? No, No,
he's going to start. Russell Westbrook is going to start
for the Clippers, not come home bench, not come off
the bench in a defined role where hey, maybe he's
learned a little bit of his NBA humility. Boy, I
couldn't stick with the Lakers, and now I gotta make
it work with the Clippers. Boy, I really have to
understand where I'm at. Nope, Nope, Clippers are putting him
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in the storing water. How could this post to league
go wrong? I don't see there anyway for this to
go wrong. Funny, he's smiless from ear to ear. You
saw the viral video from shoot around earlier where he
hits a three from the corner. He's running around. Evidently
they had some wagers on whether a lot of laughing,
a lot of joking, a lot of excitement. I don't know.
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I'm I'm all for it. Whereas I get to watch
the Suns without Kevin Durant once again as part of
the late night activity in the NBA, as we get
back in full effect off the the quote second half
of the season. But I don't know, I'm curious. Clippers
fans are all excitable, and I would love to see
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Russell Westbrook not be well as horrible as he was
across the locker room there at Crypto dot Com and
actually have some value because he's gotta get a lot
of playing time. We've discussed this before between Kawhi and
Paul George. Plenty of minutes to be had. No, no,
I no, I got that, bunny. But here's the thing
is that all the reasons I liked Russell Westbrook to
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the Clippers because I remember Isaac and people thought I
was gonna zig. All the reasons I liked it was
because why he was coming in with a defined role, right.
He was going to come off the bench, he was
gonna run. He was going to run the second unit,
and it was going to be a defined role, and
it wasn't going to be craziness where he could yo
yo in and out of the lineup, right, Because when
you play in this, when you're a starter and you
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play in the second unit, okay, it's difficult. It's difficult
for a player with the ego because you're used to
being a mail carrier and then yeah, this is me
and I'm the engine of this team, and then you
have to go when you come off the bench, and
that's a difficult thing ego wise. I get it, and
that's why things got difficult with Russell Westbrook. He took
to his role somewhat well, but you have dividing reports
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from different members of the the team saying he was a
great teammate. He was an awful teammate. So now, okay,
bringing him in. Now he's learned his lesson, He understands
this is what you're coming in at. Right, you're knock
gonna be one of those big three guys. We need
you to come in and kind of do what you
were doing on the court with the Lakers. Here we
have a little bit better supporting cast for you. There's
less pressure in coming in. There is no question about
the definition of your role. And that's why I liked
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and instead it's like, nope, we're gonna put him in
the starting lineup and he's gonna start for it. All
the reasons I liked it, Now I don't like it. Well,
it just means you read the room incorrectly, is all
that is. And there he is ready to take on
a massive role, smiling and happy as if everybody was.
That reporter from two weeks ago that complimenting him on
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who he is and what he's all about. Remember that glowing,
glowing interaction there as opposed to what we normally get,
you know, like with guys like our buddy Dan Woike
and others. No positivity here, all sunshine, rainbows, lollypops and
starting lineup. I think the one big wild card to
all this is all right, Tyler, are you ready for it?
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That's it? And now I don't like, can you be
ready for I don't know that you can be. I
don't know that you can be. I don't think you're
ready for this. You just now? So now what happens
when you have to tell Russell Westbrook he's got to
come off the bench right now? I'm sure the one
of the reasons he signed was, remember when we had
Mark Medina on NBA dot Com Insider said, yeah, listen,
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I'm gonna pour some cold water on the on the
Russell Westbrook thing. I've heard the conversations they had. I
don't think it's gonna happen. Then suddenly it does happen. Now,
I would not be surprised at all if one of
the conditions they came back to was Okay, you can start.
You know, you saw we signed you. You can start,
And maybe it was hey, I'd like to come there
while we were thinking to come off the bench and
you're gonna but no, I start or I'm not signing.
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And then if he was able to bulliese way into
the starting line, apiece my hero. Yeah, but I mean,
but hey, thank you, I'm a starter. Okay, we're we're
we're a contending team, and we're gonna acquiesce to a
guy that has bounced around more times than a ball
on a pinball machine than nineteen eighty two. Look, and
I'm not blaming Westbrook on this. This is yeah, he
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was able to pull that off. Now, but I'm gonna
did the Clippers really think, hey, we're in that much
trouble that yes, yes, we'll do whatever you need coming
in to start? Is he is? He is? He wanted
that bet? Like, did they need him that bet? Come on,
you don't need him that bad. You're starting to win,
You're starting to get healthy by the time you get
to the playoffs. As long as Kauhai is good enough
to play every game, hey, yeah, you will be one
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of those rising teams. A lot of experts think the
Clippers can can play really well season. It's all about
it's all about the health of Kauai and and things
are looking up. And now okay, things are good. But
now let's go get Russell Westbrook and and he's gonna
start for us. How is this gonna go? When they realize,
oh man, he's wow. This offense is not working out
well at all and the starters minutes don't work. So hey, Russ,
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remember we remember we've talked about that whole starting thing.
What if you started, but you started the beginning of
the second quarter instead, Like, you're still starting, but you're
starting the beginning of the second We can even have
the the the announcer announce you and into the game
of guard from Los Angeles, Like, we can't even have that.
But instead of starting the beginning of the game, you'll
start the second in quarter of the game with the
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other guys that start the second quarter of the game.
How does that sound? I mean, how's that conversation gonna go?
You know what I think really was the determining factor.
As soon as Medina put that article out that had
the survey and the expectations on the Clippers, they said
all right, all these sheep have jumped on board this way,
which means we need to zag. That means the end
is coming based on past expectations from media members. And
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how do we fix that. We bring in Russ and
we put them in the starting lineup. See what they're doing.
Good luck on Clippers, Good luck. I can't wait. Hey,
the game is fifteen minutes away. I can't wait. I
have the pregame on. I can't wait the dog gun
by halftime. I want to blow the stands. Uh yeah,
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I'm like you with the NBA All Star Game pre game.
I'm on Clippers pregame right now because I'm so excited
to see how this is gonna work, watching to see
all the interactions. Did he smile at anybody? Did anybody
getting mad at him? I shouldn't say how it's going
to work is how it's not going to work. I
wanted to see how it's not going to work. That
that's gonna be the best part. I'm not gonna lie.
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Eventually it goes to the road to WrestleMania, and now
all of this goes in the ether, but that's okay.
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Right now, everybody in Los Angeles, we all have our
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lighters out. The rain in Los Angeles lasts twenty four
hours has been insane. It's a day lose it's end
times lightning sound effect and make it rain, t J.
It's not November, but a February rain in Los Angeles.
Thunder sound effect still lied to through song. Well rain
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in southern California, well and well and hippie sons and
guns lied to us all those weeks. Listen, Hey, God
didn't make little green apples and it don't rain in
Indianapolis in the wintertime or the summertime or mini apple?
What are you scared of? A little rings? One of those?
I don't know, it's one of those. No, no no, no,
it ain't. It ain't being a scared. It's just that
dope drivers are even worse. I'm scared of the rain.
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I can't dride with the ring. Oh, I mean we
did have a guy hit a monster truck hit a
poddle at about fifty miles an hour. Did he get
you walking the dog? And he got as good. There
was a guy driving a monster truck in the road
near where you are. He was driving a monster truck.
That try it monster monster monster. It was crook as
it was going for a better visual as a monster
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truck as opposed to and why do you need and
you know an F one fifty driving around the streets
of the South Bay. See you know what it really was?
Monster truck sounded? I bet it was a ten year
old girl and a pedal bike who just watched at
you would say, hey, far king and then just took off.
What did you do to piss off grave digger Mike?
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Well you Oh, there was a time I mispronounced it
in a promo promo promo for Sunday Sunday Sunday, and
they've never forgiven me race fast. I bet that's what
it was. Monster truck driving in the streets, crushing cars
as they go over and over and over and over.
Today was a day and a half. If you are
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Bronchos quarterback Russell Wilson, the athletic with a huge story,
huge boner with a huge story, it is live drop
Friday with a huge story today that prior to his
trade from the Seahawks to the Broncos, Wilson told the
team he wanted them to fire GM John Schneider and
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head coach Pete Carroll. Let's ride, WHOA, You're fire. The
Seahawks have had no comment on this. Russell Wilson, when
he saw this story, put out a tweet saying, no,
I have nothing but love for John Schneider and Pete
Carroll and this story is completely fabricated. Also part of
this report by the Athletic is that in the first
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year that Russell Wilson had with the Broncos, he had
an office that was on the second floor of the
building with the players on the first floor, and Wilson
had an open door policy for people who wanted to
come up and talk to him about plays and things
on the offense. People who have been in the office
that he had a big white grease board with inspirational
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slogans and plays on there, and and people were to
come up and talk to him, and according to the report,
not many people did so. Now, whose fault is that
if he had an open door policy? Okay, sure, now
your ass up some stairs. You're running miles every day anyway, Now,
hang on, it's Friday. I was saying that mister, mister, mister, mister,
mister unlimited. Yeah, and if you go to the second floor,
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you better address him as mister mister, mister Wilson too. No,
I do you think on the door it said mister Unlimited,
like in a big shiny plate. It said mister Unlimited
on there. And trademarks on any logos or anything with
mister unlimited here he had. He's a business. But I
but I don't know that there's you can buy any
mister unlimited gear. Can you? Like, are there mister unlimited
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T shirts you can buy? Of course, can you? It's
a matter of licensing T shirts. I'm sure someone wrote
the word miss man. I'm on eBay right now, mister Unlimited.
The first thing that comes up is um net Gear, Nighthawk,
T Mobile, unlimited data, Pokemon Unlimited Hologram, Pokemon Unlimited Holograph.
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That's you. You do, mister unlimited into into eBay, and
that's what comes up. It's mainly all Pokemon. Well, I
mean he did file a trademark. There's an old story
from twenty twenty where he trademarked let Russ cook. Yeah,
but I got nothing about mister, mister, mister unlimited, and
would you say mister, mister, mister or just mister, it's fives.
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It's five, mistress, it's five, it's five, mistress. Now, any
other night we would start with, Hey, he wanted the
head coach and him of his team fired and he
lost that power circle. But because it's Friday, let's talk
about the fact dude had an office on the second
floor of the Broncos facility and inspirational quotes. You can
see that right like the post. It's with all the
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inspirational quotes all over the white board, like you know,
if you're not first, your last, or all the you know,
all different things from Maya Angelou and and and and
Dwight D. Eisenhower and all these big all these big
quotes just all over like different quotes all over the room.
I could see it. I could see it. And then
there's pictures of him like in action, like from his
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playing days, like you know that that's up on the
wall behind him, like him throwing a touchdown, him running
for a touchdown, trophies that he won from when he
was a kid and in college. And I could see
I could see the Russell Wilson office. And I can
see where this pisses so many people off, and I
could see why people don't like him, and I can
see why he struggled so much. You can see all
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of it just with the story of the office. You
can see everything with Russell Wilson with the story of
the office. And in the corner is truly it is
what they call inspiration corner, not a man corner. And
like you're on a golf work No, no inspiration corner.
And there's a picture of Malcolm Butler. Oh wow, so
he had a different I was thinking inspiration corner, like
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that's where kids would go to make out. Well, that's
inspiration point from inspiration corner. Yeah, inspiration corner. That's what's
happening well him and he has given us some random
videos of he and Sierra and Ben in the past
which were as hell. But you know, hey, but look,
I'll tell you. I'll tell you one thing is that
he's someone who I don't know that he knows who
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he is as a person as a leader, because everything
he does is awkward. You can you could basically say
is he real? Is he genuine? Because we kind of
get to Russell Wilson's right, we get the Russell Wilson
of here he is and he's a nice guy and
everybody likes him. He does a lot of things, and
then you get the Russell Wilson behind closed door stories
that we're getting that are, Hey, dude has an office. Man,
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he wanted people to come up and talk to him
about plays. How I just talked to you about plays
in the locker room or on the plane. I gotta
come up to your office, man. I'll tell you. Having
an office is that is one of the biggest workplace
culture divisive things you could possibly have, all right, if
you live, if you live in them in a workplace
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environment where some people have offices, some people have cubicles,
and and it's one of those things where, hey, the
promotion comes with a big office, the corner office. It's
just good from a guy who's never had an office. No,
it's because I'm gonna tell you a great So I'm
gonna tell you a great story about his office is
the counter of McDonald's. Um, and that's my office. I'm
like Gretzky, but instead behind the net, it's me ordering
a McDonald's. The way. I don't like the way that
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I have to go to the kiosk now instead of
going up to the front. I like to say, okay, anyway, Um, Look,
having an office is divisive because it promotes envy and bitterness.
And I can't even tell you when I was at ESPN, right,
this is back in the mid when I'll pull the
curtain back, and it's a really good story. When I
was at ESPN in the mid nineties, everybody had cubicles, right,
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everybody had If you were like production assistants, didn't have cubicles.
When you got promoted you were an associate producer, you
had a desk. You had a phone, Like that's why
you had a cubicle with a phone and drawers. That's
what it was. And the thing is aps had the
same sized desk as the producers. Producers had the same
size desk as talent, right, Dan Patrick, Keith Olberman, all
these guys they had, they didn't have offices. They had cubicles,
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and they would be at their cubicle writing, at their
desk writing. Then it would come to the newsroom to
do the show. We've seen the commercials. That's the way
it was, right, you see, Yeah, you seen him in
the commercial like those are really where they sat and
then right around like it was only a couple of
months before I left, Chris Burman got in office, like
when they did a little bit of expansion and Burman
got in office. And I can't tell you how and
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not not Danner Keith, but I can't tell you how
many talents were so pissed that he got in office
and they didn't other talent who were there for a
while where I'm on the air more, I'm how does
he get in office? People were so mad that Berman
had an office and it was a big topic of
conversation for a once. It's got the guy's got any
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and you know, who knows what people you know, what
happens after that, what people think of somebody. But I'm like,
the guy built ESPN, the guy you know Burman and
the fun stuff we do with his nicknames. But Berman
and his nicknames put ESPN on the bleep in map.
I mean, there's not enough they could do for him
because he was the personality when they were just trying
to find their way back in the eighties. And it's
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like they should. They could give him a whole bleep
in wing at ESPN. Beach because he's that talented, because
he's done that much for the for the company. But
people were really mad, and they were they were mad
about it, and then they had to give some other
talent some offices. Now I think a lot of the
talent have offices, but there was a time they were
all in cubicles. Everything was nobody really complained about it.
But Burman got one, and then everybody was mad. And
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I can't believe how mad people got. But that's what
it is. The office is so divisive, right, It's it's
just it's just and and and when you walk into
someone's office and they have motivational quotes up everywhere, I'm
saying to myself, what is this a beautiful mind? Is
this the wire? Are you trying to find somebody? And
you show me where the money flows to, you know,
to get Marlow on the corner, and what happens where
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the money gets to Avon and Stringer. I mean it.
I don't think that this is something that's real. I think, Okay,
this is an image thing you want to put out there.
Here's motivational quotes. How about you just put stuff up
there that helps instead of I gotta go up here
and look at Oh, yeah, you know dude, blah blah
blah blah blah. I don't care about that man that
tells me that are you a real person or you
just some Oh I like that quote. I think that
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sounds good. I'm gonna make that my mantra. I mean,
come on, I mean, there's certain things that coaches say
and the people say that make you stop and pay attention.
But those are things that are rooted in reality and
what they believe. Not Hey, here's a big quote. Man, Hey,
let this inspire you for your day. How about you?
How about you give me something to inspire me. How
about you do something? How about you come down to
the locker room when you have an idea for plays
that of having to come up to to see you.
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I can see how it all went sideways for Russell Wilson.
I can see all of it. And the offense like
almost fame. The T shirt is everything. The office for
Russell Wilson is everything. This is why he has so
much trouble. This is why you wake up every day
and you see stories about Russell Wilson. Hey, look at
this man. They didn't like him in Seattle. This guy
didn't like him. This guy didn't like him. This guy
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didn't like him, This guy didn't like him. Now go
to Denver. Look what happened. Now, this guy didn't like him,
This guy didn't like him. This guy, this coach got fired.
This guy happened. This happened here, this happened here. He's
got an office. He said he wanted the other coaches fired.
You see why this happens, and you see why he struggles.
This is everything you need to know about why Wilson
is at the point he's at in his career. Well,
it always comes back to me is if you want
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to be one of the guys, then genuinely be one
of the guys. If there's going to be that separation
or something whereby you're apart from the team, recognize that
it can be problematic in a locker room, and own
the fact that you're the villain. Now, the whole firing
of Carol and Schneider thing is an interesting second part
to this, But just staying in the Denver side and
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Sean Payton being asked about all the consider rations that
Russell was given just kind of looked around like, I
don't know anything about it. That's not the way this
works was to paraphrase, what do you had to say
about that? So certainly it will be some change along
the process. But it's like anything, you know, any negotiation,
You do anything to get negotiating space in your home right,
(26:19):
anybody out there and where wherever you're at, you're listening,
you share a space. What do you do and you're
trying to get a little extra closet space, maybe an
extra shelf put up to display your knickknacks and collectibles
or ceramic plates from from the mint right and all
of those things you've got that where you're trying to
(26:41):
inch out. In this case, you're a guy that is
debating his future and you've broker this giant deal to
get sent to Denver, and what do you do you
ask for the world and in the end, if you're
the player that they thought you were going to be.
None of this is an issue right the fact that
he came in, as Tariq Woolin said for week one,
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hey looked like he was a sack of potatoes. That's
a bigger issue. I don't care how many inspirational quotes.
If that's what's getting him up through the day and
the Stuart Smalley. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and
gosh darted, some people like me. God bless him. Right
whoever you are out there, guys in the studio, guys
in the edit base, whatever, whatever motivate you to go
(27:23):
do your job and not be a jerk to the
people you work with or live with. The God bless you.
Go find it, go figure it out. And if it's
a bunch of a hang in there, of a cat
on a high wire, that's great too. I will care.
And everybody comes to everybody comes to it their own way.
But when things are going sideways, then you gotta go
(27:44):
and reconfigure and recalibrate and see where you can fix
that divide. So, if this was expressed, and it was
understood that there was a divide between he and the
other members of the Broncos because he was the guy
with the office, seems like me, I'd be up there
all time because he probably had some snacks, a nice
comfy couch. I don't want to be on the bench
or whatever I got going on in the law. You'd
(28:06):
be watching Law and Order up there. I do watch
a lot of Law and Order, There's no question about it.
Especially if we're in the meat meaty range of Jerry
Orbach episodes. I'm in, but everybody be quiet. The Pioneer
woman is on. Hang on, I gotta turn that on.
It's noon and it's a double lighter, back to back it.
But well, I mean I needed a new recipe I got.
I had a big social to bring food for. You know,
(28:30):
it's a pot luck. Hey, you into Red Drumming because
I'm gonna watch Pioneer you know what. Hang out for
an hour and then tell me about the place. You're like,
I'm gonna watch Redrummond. Okay, here we go. Every time
Harmon walks through the door of his office, the glass
breaks like he's stone cold. Hell yeah, gotta fix it.
Gotta fix that. What's that? When when I come into
your office? Harmon? What do you got? What I got
to do? Well? You take two of those beers out
(28:51):
of that bucket right there. You gotta smash it together
and yeo, hell yeah. But this look, this is why
the guy struggles, right, this is the story, why all
this Russell Wilson hate, Why does this come up? It's
stuff like this. He just doesn't know how to lead,
how to be himself. And you're seeing all the stories
come out in Seattle and this because of that now
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and there's no I mean, that's it. The office is
the only story you need. Why Oh, now, I get it.
Because he's that kind of guy. I want an office
a second floor above the players. And you know that
eventually he's going to rub everybody the wrong way. I
mean that, that's just the way it is. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific,
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
(29:34):
friend Mike Harman. Today's Friday. It's a live drop Friday.
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(29:55):
you know, Mike, I hate to say I told you
so something. Nah, Well, I really don't know what's Friday.
You gotta get a couple more in because then it's
dark for a little bit. So you got you gotta
make sure you add an extra one today. Yeah, today
is Friday. A few stories today involving Derek Carr. One
is his contract demands, reportedly are thirty five million dollars
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a year from his next team. The yet next one
is that, according to a couple of NFL insiders, there
are three new teams in the mix for him, Cleveland, Ohhi,
mystery teams, but for some reason, they're not made public. Okay,
I believe the first part of this. I don't believe
the second part. O Hi, it's a little bit longer.
(30:41):
It's Cleveland, oh Hi, a little too nice job quick that. Yeah,
well it's a dramatic I'll believe the first part. Thirty
five million dollars a year. Look, the guy turned down
a contract that you know, or had a contract at
forty million a year and thirty million next year, forty
million a year after that. So yeah, yeah, thirty five
million a year. Sure we'll get that from somebody. Yeah,
(31:02):
if I really want Derek Carr, would I give him
two years and seventy million? Yeah? I can see that happening.
So I'm so I'm with that. But there's new teams
in the mix, and we don't know who they are really, really,
I don't believe that for a bleep in second. And
this is where I say, I hate to say, I
told you so. Are there even other teams in the mix?
Or is this Derek Carr's people trying to drum up
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interest in him because when he was let go, any
team could have talked to him, but it was the
Saints before before he got released and they found out
his contract demands and Saint said thank you, but no
thank you. They've gone to the sidelines. Derek Carr visit
with the Jets, He's still a free agent. Who else
is he meeting with? Why is no one trying to
meet with Derek Carr in the days leading up the
free agency? Why is Derek Carr? There's nobody I said.
(31:47):
That's why I said it earlier in the week. The
fact that there's no interest in this guy. The league
is telling you what they really think about Derek Carr.
And where teams like the Titans and the Commanders and
all these other teams need quarterbacks. Hey, if Derek Carr
is that good, If Derek Carr's a Super Bowl sorry,
first ballot Hall of Famer quarterback with your team, other
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teams are interested, but they're not Oh, but there's mystery teams.
That's a load of crap, because there's no team that
has to disguise their interest from Derek Carr. Right, Derek
Carr is a middle of the pack to maybe a
tiny bit above middle of pack quarterback. If you absolutely
need a guy, you talk to Derek Carr. When we
have mystery teams is when it's a big time player
available that we already have an in trench quarterback will
(32:30):
move on from because hey, we could trade for Lamar Jackson.
We don't want people to know. For instance, say in Miami,
hey we could trade Ta in a deal for Lamar Jackson.
When it's a big time name available, that's when you
see the mystery teams. But really, there's mystery teams or
Derek Carr, it's a load of crap. There's hardly any
interest in him, and I'm sure his contract value has
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made teams say, yeah, you know what, we like Derek Carr,
But oh, do we like him at thirty five million
a year or do we like Jimmy Garoppolo at eighteen
million for the next two years? Doing like Ryan Tanner
for twenty million a year? Is the Is the tradeoff
that much drop off and talent from Derek car to
Jimmy Garoppolo worth that kind of money that weady to
spend other places on our team. Derek Carr is going
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to talk himself out of a contract and out of
a preferred destination because he's sticking to this money that
he wants and he doesn't see that he needs to
sign with a team before free agency. Yeah, I'm all
for trying to go into the marketplace, much like Russell
Wilson and whatever demands and I want this, and I
want to paint it this way, and I want a
mural that has me as a king on top of
a mountain like I'm at the end of Conan the Barbarian.
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Go see if you can find that it's you. Go
and ask for what you can and you can be
told no. The problem is in a marketplace like this
very fast evolving or behind the scenes, one would think
we're just going to spread quickly. And in New Orleans,
they've got a lot of other needs they got to
deal with whatever. Maybe the reality with Alvin Kamara in
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the process as well, Michael Thomas got a lot of
a lot of irons in the proverbial fire to to
kind of process and get ready for next year. Having
a quarterback that wants thirty five to forty million dollars
ain't help in the process. All these other teams same idea.
While he may be the best, how much higher is
he other than Garoppolo's injury history? You look at Tannehill,
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keep going on down your guy, Baker Mayfield, all of those,
Saint Mike White, how much greater is he? And if
it's going to preclude you from making other moves, then yeah,
forget about it. So asking price and having David Carr
out there talking about how long it's going to take
trying to intrench yourself into some position is a bad
way to be je te jets. I mean, the interest
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is lukewarm league wide, league wide. Ask yourself, why is
Derek Carr not on some kind of tour right now?
I get a Guns and Roses announced yet another tour,
and people say, just keep going coming here, They're not coming. No, no, no,
no no, no, there's there's time, there's time, and there's
a show San Diego on Sunday night. But anyway, but
still man and I'll be going to one of them regardless.
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Maybe we go to Wrigley Field, we go see him there. Um.
I think the other part to this that I find
most entertaining, Jason is the number of people that kept
trying to tell me it was nothing but the raider's fault.
Really kind of kills all that media hype now, doesn't
it just trying to drum up interest in him. It's embarrassing,
But I look, what do I know? I just told
(35:27):
you everything about this, wrote right into this good luck,
good luck Hey coming up next. I'm paying for that.
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Let me stop you right there. The Nick suck. Not
a drop, not a real drop. Sorry, not no note,
not a real drop, not a real drop. That's about
the Mets. And you can't say that about the Knicks
because the Knicks just won again. The Knicks may never
(01:06):
lose again. Julius Randall had seventy five points. Look out,
here come the Knicks greatest motivator, his kid mocking him
at the All Star break, So that's good. You can't
shoot it. Dad, can't watch me? Kid? You want to
eat dinner, You want me to go, You want to
go back to Chuck e Cheese. You better watch built
a brick house he had. Morty doesn't matter because you
(01:29):
know why, because the All Star Game doesn't count. You
know how I know it doesn't count because nobody watched
it. It It doesn't count if nobody watches when a lot
of people commented and told me how bad it was, Well, dude,
you watch the pregame show. You watch the pregame show. Poop.
I mean, hey, I was all in. I respect my
artistic and journalistic integrity by watching things. So you don't
(01:52):
have to go you you shut up. You're a liar.
You're a liar. You love the NBA All Star Game,
you love the pregame show. I haven't on my dr
everything I wanted. It was so good. Now before we
get to other big news out of the NBA, just
just selfishly, you know what I love? You know what
(02:13):
I love tonight? Look the Knicks did the Knicks did
beat the Wizards tonight and the Knicks I told you
before the the before the All Star Game, the couple
of teams you're gonna watch and go on runs in
the last twenty three games, the Knicks are one of them.
All right, watch out. But you know what I love
is the fact that they beat the Wizards tonight, and
they beat Porzingis and the Wizards are on their way
(02:36):
to another mediocre finishing season and Porzingis playing the Knicks
tonight saying, man, I really screwed up. I was the
king of New York. I was one of the faces
of the league. And Nope, it wasn't enough for me
and my brother and I decided I had to get
out and I had to go someplace else. While the Knicks, hey, stay,
(02:58):
it's gonna be great. Stay. No, no, no, not enough
for him. So now, oh, I'm gonna go to Dallas.
He'd be great. Oh Dallas didn't work out, And now
I'm just treading water in Washington where every couple of
weeks I'll have a couple of games in a row
that are good. Then I'll disappear. Yeah, boy, I screwed up,
and I love seeing You could just see it in
his eyes every time he's on the court against the
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next boy, Nick's got it going on. They're pretty good.
They got their point guard, they got their boy. I
could have been there. I could have been a legend.
I had five three tonight, I scored twenty three points.
I could have really been nub But now here I
am in basketball purgatory and it's all my faults. John.
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This is why I love Live Drop Friday. This is
gonna be Uh there might be drunk. The way that sounded.
We might have to play that one back just too well.
The thing is, I know ty Shirt, I know ty
Shirt already went to see Cocaine Bear today, so I
know he's fired up. I know he's fired up. I
mean postuously a Leona gets a star on the Walk
(04:02):
of Fame, and he went and enjoyed a little cocaine base.
Look for Porzingis to start there, not not to say, hey,
the bulls have kept the nets too under thirty percent
shooting tonight, Pat BEV with a hero's welcome in Chicago.
Is the fact that you really think Porzingis would still
be there even if his jackass brother and he hadn't
(04:23):
concocted any of those plans. They would have ditched him anyway, No,
they would have. He might have been there another year
or two, but he'd be gone now. But who knows
what would have happened. I mean maybe not. You could
be right, he could have been gone now with a
new regiment. But they wanted to give him everything, and
he was a superstar in New York again. He was
one of the faces of the league. And now he's
(04:44):
just a guy. You know, he's not bad, he's a
guy at the deadline. Now we have Porzingis, will he
help us? I don't know. Maybe he was one of
the faces of the league and New York loved him.
Mattith square Gar multiple songs written about yes, and now
no one's writing to Porzingis song about him. He's screwed
up for whatever reason. No, I'm not happy. I need
to go, whatever reason him and his brother cooked up
(05:06):
that he had to get out. I don't like the
direction of the team. You don't like the direction of
the team. There's thirty teams in the NBA, twenty five
of them. You won't like the direction of the team.
So I don't know what you're talking about. I don't
like the direction of the team. Christos go to Detroit,
go to one of those teams. You see, if you
(05:27):
don't like that. I don't like the direction of the team. Yeah, God,
I don't like it. I don't like it. He's screwed
up and now he lives at every single day and
I love it. We have really brought into a really
strange hellscape at this point. Live Drop Friday has really
created a whole taking the thing is because because now
(05:49):
with Live Drop Friday, like like Tie Shirt and Frostburg
are working on their timing, like okay, ready ready and
three two one soon as Jason's Donne talking, we went
with the other ports inc. Pretty good. Yeah, that wasn't
bad though. I mean they're also working on their harmonies.
They're gonna be out on the road. There's backups for
the Beach Boys pretty soon. Help me, Ron, help The
(06:10):
Beach Boys are like a hundred, that's all right, that's
why they need an infusion of young blood. You got
Stamos on the drums, and then you guys can come
in and we don't open year olds now the band buddy,
you'll open for James Dolan and you'll if they paid enough,
you'd show up. Who the hell are you kidding? M
(06:30):
I would I would pay money to see Tight Shirt
and Frostburg. Just do that for like a couple of minutes.
Do you pay money? Hey before we bring up before
come out, here's Frostburg and tight shirt. What man? Just
trust me, just trust me. It's awesome to pay us
in big Max or what five minutes stand up routine
coming from these two. By the end of the day,
(06:51):
we'll be all night America America. Yeah, uh twitter at
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Progressive dot Com. Now the other big NBA story, which
when I when I read about it today, I thought, no, this,
this is not true. Someone just mistyped this. This is
this is not the case, because early today it was
Russell Westbrook will start for the Clippers tonight. Now I'm like, oh, okay,
well he's gonna play. That means he's gonna play for
(07:35):
the Clippers. I know he's gonna play, and then is it? No, No,
he's going to start. Russell Westbrook is going to start
for the Clippers, not come home bench, not come off
the bench in a defined role where hey, maybe he's
learned a little bit of his NBA humility. Boy, I
couldn't stick with the Lakers, and now I gotta make
it work with the Clippers. Boy, I really have to
understand where I'm at. Nope, Nope, Clippers are putting him
(07:57):
in the storing water. How could this post to league
go wrong? I don't see there anyway for this to
go wrong. Funny, he's smiless from ear to ear. You
saw the viral video from shoot around earlier where he
hits a three from the corner. He's running around. Evidently
they had some wagers on whether a lot of laughing,
a lot of joking, a lot of excitement. I don't know.
(08:18):
I'm I'm all for it. Whereas I get to watch
the Suns without Kevin Durant once again as part of
the late night activity in the NBA, as we get
back in full effect off the the quote second half
of the season. But I don't know, I'm curious. Clippers
fans are all excitable, and I would love to see
(08:41):
Russell Westbrook not be well as horrible as he was
across the locker room there at Crypto dot Com and
actually have some value because he's gotta get a lot
of playing time. We've discussed this before between Kawhi and
Paul George. Plenty of minutes to be had. No, no,
I no, I got that, bunny. But here's the thing
is that all the reasons I liked Russell Westbrook to
(09:02):
the Clippers because I remember Isaac and people thought I
was gonna zig. All the reasons I liked it was
because why he was coming in with a defined role, right.
He was going to come off the bench, he was
gonna run. He was going to run the second unit,
and it was going to be a defined role, and
it wasn't going to be craziness where he could yo
yo in and out of the lineup, right, Because when
you play in this, when you're a starter and you
(09:23):
play in the second unit, okay, it's difficult. It's difficult
for a player with the ego because you're used to
being a mail carrier and then yeah, this is me
and I'm the engine of this team, and then you
have to go when you come off the bench, and
that's a difficult thing ego wise. I get it, and
that's why things got difficult with Russell Westbrook. He took
to his role somewhat well, but you have dividing reports
(09:44):
from different members of the the team saying he was a
great teammate. He was an awful teammate. So now, okay,
bringing him in. Now he's learned his lesson, He understands
this is what you're coming in at. Right, you're knock
gonna be one of those big three guys. We need
you to come in and kind of do what you
were doing on the court with the Lakers. Here we
have a little bit better supporting cast for you. There's
less pressure in coming in. There is no question about
the definition of your role. And that's why I liked
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and instead it's like, nope, we're gonna put him in
the starting lineup and he's gonna start for it. All
the reasons I liked it, Now I don't like it. Well,
it just means you read the room incorrectly, is all
that is. And there he is ready to take on
a massive role, smiling and happy as if everybody was.
That reporter from two weeks ago that complimenting him on
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who he is and what he's all about. Remember that glowing,
glowing interaction there as opposed to what we normally get,
you know, like with guys like our buddy Dan Woike
and others. No positivity here, all sunshine, rainbows, lollypops and
starting lineup. I think the one big wild card to
all this is all right, Tyler, are you ready for it?
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That's it? And now I don't like, can you be
ready for I don't know that you can be. I
don't know that you can be. I don't think you're
ready for this. You just now? So now what happens
when you have to tell Russell Westbrook he's got to
come off the bench right now? I'm sure the one
of the reasons he signed was, remember when we had
Mark Medina on NBA dot Com Insider said, yeah, listen,
(11:13):
I'm gonna pour some cold water on the on the
Russell Westbrook thing. I've heard the conversations they had. I
don't think it's gonna happen. Then suddenly it does happen. Now,
I would not be surprised at all if one of
the conditions they came back to was Okay, you can start.
You know, you saw we signed you. You can start,
And maybe it was hey, I'd like to come there
while we were thinking to come off the bench and
you're gonna but no, I start or I'm not signing.
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And then if he was able to bulliese way into
the starting line, apiece my hero. Yeah, but I mean,
but hey, thank you, I'm a starter. Okay, we're we're
we're a contending team, and we're gonna acquiesce to a
guy that has bounced around more times than a ball
on a pinball machine than nineteen eighty two. Look, and
I'm not blaming Westbrook on this. This is yeah, he
(11:56):
was able to pull that off. Now, but I'm gonna
did the Clippers really think, hey, we're in that much
trouble that yes, yes, we'll do whatever you need coming
in to start? Is he is? He is? He wanted
that bet? Like, did they need him that bet? Come on,
you don't need him that bad. You're starting to win,
You're starting to get healthy by the time you get
to the playoffs. As long as Kauhai is good enough
to play every game, hey, yeah, you will be one
(12:18):
of those rising teams. A lot of experts think the
Clippers can can play really well season. It's all about
it's all about the health of Kauai and and things
are looking up. And now okay, things are good. But
now let's go get Russell Westbrook and and he's gonna
start for us. How is this gonna go? When they realize,
oh man, he's wow. This offense is not working out
well at all and the starters minutes don't work. So hey, Russ,
(12:41):
remember we remember we've talked about that whole starting thing.
What if you started, but you started the beginning of
the second quarter instead, Like, you're still starting, but you're
starting the beginning of the second We can even have
the the the announcer announce you and into the game
of guard from Los Angeles, Like, we can't even have that.
But instead of starting the beginning of the game, you'll
start the second in quarter of the game with the
(13:01):
other guys that start the second quarter of the game.
How does that sound? I mean, how's that conversation gonna go?
You know what I think really was the determining factor.
As soon as Medina put that article out that had
the survey and the expectations on the Clippers, they said
all right, all these sheep have jumped on board this way,
which means we need to zag. That means the end
is coming based on past expectations from media members. And
(13:24):
how do we fix that. We bring in Russ and
we put them in the starting lineup. See what they're doing.
Good luck on Clippers, Good luck. I can't wait. Hey,
the game is fifteen minutes away. I can't wait. I
have the pregame on. I can't wait the dog gun
by halftime. I want to blow the stands. Uh yeah,
(13:45):
I'm like you with the NBA All Star Game pre game.
I'm on Clippers pregame right now because I'm so excited
to see how this is gonna work, watching to see
all the interactions. Did he smile at anybody? Did anybody
getting mad at him? I shouldn't say how it's going
to work is how it's not going to work. I
wanted to see how it's not going to work. That
that's gonna be the best part. I'm not gonna lie.
(14:06):
Eventually it goes to the road to WrestleMania, and now
all of this goes in the ether, but that's okay.
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Right now, everybody in Los Angeles, we all have our
(14:27):
lighters out. The rain in Los Angeles lasts twenty four
hours has been insane. It's a day lose it's end
times lightning sound effect and make it rain, t J.
It's not November, but a February rain in Los Angeles.
Thunder sound effect still lied to through song. Well rain
(14:54):
in southern California, well and well and hippie sons and
guns lied to us all those weeks. Listen, Hey, God
didn't make little green apples and it don't rain in
Indianapolis in the wintertime or the summertime or mini apple?
What are you scared of? A little rings? One of those?
I don't know, it's one of those. No, no no, no,
it ain't. It ain't being a scared. It's just that
dope drivers are even worse. I'm scared of the rain.
(15:15):
I can't dride with the ring. Oh, I mean we
did have a guy hit a monster truck hit a
poddle at about fifty miles an hour. Did he get
you walking the dog? And he got as good. There
was a guy driving a monster truck in the road
near where you are. He was driving a monster truck.
That try it monster monster monster. It was crook as
it was going for a better visual as a monster
(15:38):
truck as opposed to and why do you need and
you know an F one fifty driving around the streets
of the South Bay. See you know what it really was?
Monster truck sounded? I bet it was a ten year
old girl and a pedal bike who just watched at
you would say, hey, far king and then just took off.
What did you do to piss off grave digger Mike?
(15:59):
Well you Oh, there was a time I mispronounced it
in a promo promo promo for Sunday Sunday Sunday, and
they've never forgiven me race fast. I bet that's what
it was. Monster truck driving in the streets, crushing cars
as they go over and over and over and over.
Today was a day and a half. If you are
(16:19):
Bronchos quarterback Russell Wilson, the athletic with a huge story,
huge boner with a huge story, it is live drop
Friday with a huge story today that prior to his
trade from the Seahawks to the Broncos, Wilson told the
team he wanted them to fire GM John Schneider and
(16:40):
head coach Pete Carroll. Let's ride, WHOA, You're fire. The
Seahawks have had no comment on this. Russell Wilson, when
he saw this story, put out a tweet saying, no,
I have nothing but love for John Schneider and Pete
Carroll and this story is completely fabricated. Also part of
this report by the Athletic is that in the first
(17:02):
year that Russell Wilson had with the Broncos, he had
an office that was on the second floor of the
building with the players on the first floor, and Wilson
had an open door policy for people who wanted to
come up and talk to him about plays and things
on the offense. People who have been in the office
that he had a big white grease board with inspirational
(17:24):
slogans and plays on there, and and people were to
come up and talk to him, and according to the report,
not many people did so. Now, whose fault is that
if he had an open door policy? Okay, sure, now
your ass up some stairs. You're running miles every day anyway, Now,
hang on, it's Friday. I was saying that mister, mister, mister, mister,
mister unlimited. Yeah, and if you go to the second floor,
(17:46):
you better address him as mister mister, mister Wilson too. No,
I do you think on the door it said mister Unlimited,
like in a big shiny plate. It said mister Unlimited
on there. And trademarks on any logos or anything with
mister unlimited here he had. He's a business. But I
but I don't know that there's you can buy any
mister unlimited gear. Can you? Like, are there mister unlimited
(18:08):
T shirts you can buy? Of course, can you? It's
a matter of licensing T shirts. I'm sure someone wrote
the word miss man. I'm on eBay right now, mister Unlimited.
The first thing that comes up is um net Gear, Nighthawk,
T Mobile, unlimited data, Pokemon Unlimited Hologram, Pokemon Unlimited Holograph.
(18:29):
That's you. You do, mister unlimited into into eBay, and
that's what comes up. It's mainly all Pokemon. Well, I
mean he did file a trademark. There's an old story
from twenty twenty where he trademarked let Russ cook. Yeah,
but I got nothing about mister, mister, mister unlimited, and
would you say mister, mister, mister or just mister, it's fives.
(18:52):
It's five, mistress, it's five, it's five, mistress. Now, any
other night we would start with, Hey, he wanted the
head coach and him of his team fired and he
lost that power circle. But because it's Friday, let's talk
about the fact dude had an office on the second
floor of the Broncos facility and inspirational quotes. You can
see that right like the post. It's with all the
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inspirational quotes all over the white board, like you know,
if you're not first, your last, or all the you know,
all different things from Maya Angelou and and and and
Dwight D. Eisenhower and all these big all these big
quotes just all over like different quotes all over the room.
I could see it. I could see it. And then
there's pictures of him like in action, like from his
(19:33):
playing days, like you know that that's up on the
wall behind him, like him throwing a touchdown, him running
for a touchdown, trophies that he won from when he
was a kid and in college. And I could see
I could see the Russell Wilson office. And I can
see where this pisses so many people off, and I
could see why people don't like him, and I can
see why he struggled so much. You can see all
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of it just with the story of the office. You
can see everything with Russell Wilson with the story of
the office. And in the corner is truly it is
what they call inspiration corner, not a man corner. And
like you're on a golf work No, no inspiration corner.
And there's a picture of Malcolm Butler. Oh wow, so
he had a different I was thinking inspiration corner, like
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that's where kids would go to make out. Well, that's
inspiration point from inspiration corner. Yeah, inspiration corner. That's what's
happening well him and he has given us some random
videos of he and Sierra and Ben in the past
which were as hell. But you know, hey, but look,
I'll tell you. I'll tell you one thing is that
he's someone who I don't know that he knows who
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he is as a person as a leader, because everything
he does is awkward. You can you could basically say
is he real? Is he genuine? Because we kind of
get to Russell Wilson's right, we get the Russell Wilson
of here he is and he's a nice guy and
everybody likes him. He does a lot of things, and
then you get the Russell Wilson behind closed door stories
that we're getting that are, Hey, dude has an office. Man,
(20:57):
he wanted people to come up and talk to him
about plays. How I just talked to you about plays
in the locker room or on the plane. I gotta
come up to your office, man. I'll tell you. Having
an office is that is one of the biggest workplace
culture divisive things you could possibly have, all right, if
you live, if you live in them in a workplace
(21:19):
environment where some people have offices, some people have cubicles,
and and it's one of those things where, hey, the
promotion comes with a big office, the corner office. It's
just good from a guy who's never had an office. No,
it's because I'm gonna tell you a great So I'm
gonna tell you a great story about his office is
the counter of McDonald's. Um, and that's my office. I'm
like Gretzky, but instead behind the net, it's me ordering
a McDonald's. The way. I don't like the way that
(21:41):
I have to go to the kiosk now instead of
going up to the front. I like to say, okay, anyway, Um, Look,
having an office is divisive because it promotes envy and bitterness.
And I can't even tell you when I was at ESPN, right,
this is back in the mid when I'll pull the
curtain back, and it's a really good story. When I
was at ESPN in the mid nineties, everybody had cubicles, right,
(22:02):
everybody had If you were like production assistants, didn't have cubicles.
When you got promoted you were an associate producer, you
had a desk. You had a phone, Like that's why
you had a cubicle with a phone and drawers. That's
what it was. And the thing is aps had the
same sized desk as the producers. Producers had the same
size desk as talent, right, Dan Patrick, Keith Olberman, all
these guys they had, they didn't have offices. They had cubicles,
(22:26):
and they would be at their cubicle writing, at their
desk writing. Then it would come to the newsroom to
do the show. We've seen the commercials. That's the way
it was, right, you see, Yeah, you seen him in
the commercial like those are really where they sat and
then right around like it was only a couple of
months before I left, Chris Burman got in office, like
when they did a little bit of expansion and Burman
got in office. And I can't tell you how and
(22:48):
not not Danner Keith, but I can't tell you how
many talents were so pissed that he got in office
and they didn't other talent who were there for a
while where I'm on the air more, I'm how does
he get in office? People were so mad that Berman
had an office and it was a big topic of
conversation for a once. It's got the guy's got any
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and you know, who knows what people you know, what
happens after that, what people think of somebody. But I'm like,
the guy built ESPN, the guy you know Burman and
the fun stuff we do with his nicknames. But Berman
and his nicknames put ESPN on the bleep in map.
I mean, there's not enough they could do for him
because he was the personality when they were just trying
to find their way back in the eighties. And it's
(23:30):
like they should. They could give him a whole bleep
in wing at ESPN. Beach because he's that talented, because
he's done that much for the for the company. But
people were really mad, and they were they were mad
about it, and then they had to give some other
talent some offices. Now I think a lot of the
talent have offices, but there was a time they were
all in cubicles. Everything was nobody really complained about it.
But Burman got one, and then everybody was mad. And
(23:52):
I can't believe how mad people got. But that's what
it is. The office is so divisive, right, It's it's
just it's just and and and when you walk into
someone's office and they have motivational quotes up everywhere, I'm
saying to myself, what is this a beautiful mind? Is
this the wire? Are you trying to find somebody? And
you show me where the money flows to, you know,
to get Marlow on the corner, and what happens where
(24:12):
the money gets to Avon and Stringer. I mean it.
I don't think that this is something that's real. I think, Okay,
this is an image thing you want to put out there.
Here's motivational quotes. How about you just put stuff up
there that helps instead of I gotta go up here
and look at Oh, yeah, you know dude, blah blah
blah blah blah. I don't care about that man that
tells me that are you a real person or you
just some Oh I like that quote. I think that
(24:33):
sounds good. I'm gonna make that my mantra. I mean,
come on, I mean, there's certain things that coaches say
and the people say that make you stop and pay attention.
But those are things that are rooted in reality and
what they believe. Not Hey, here's a big quote. Man, Hey,
let this inspire you for your day. How about you?
How about you give me something to inspire me. How
about you do something? How about you come down to
the locker room when you have an idea for plays
that of having to come up to to see you.
(24:54):
I can see how it all went sideways for Russell Wilson.
I can see all of it. And the offense like
almost fame. The T shirt is everything. The office for
Russell Wilson is everything. This is why he has so
much trouble. This is why you wake up every day
and you see stories about Russell Wilson. Hey, look at
this man. They didn't like him in Seattle. This guy
didn't like him. This guy didn't like him. This guy
(25:15):
didn't like him, This guy didn't like him. Now go
to Denver. Look what happened. Now, this guy didn't like him,
This guy didn't like him. This guy, this coach got fired.
This guy happened. This happened here, this happened here. He's
got an office. He said he wanted the other coaches fired.
You see why this happens, and you see why he struggles.
This is everything you need to know about why Wilson
is at the point he's at in his career. Well,
it always comes back to me is if you want
(25:35):
to be one of the guys, then genuinely be one
of the guys. If there's going to be that separation
or something whereby you're apart from the team, recognize that
it can be problematic in a locker room, and own
the fact that you're the villain. Now, the whole firing
of Carol and Schneider thing is an interesting second part
to this, But just staying in the Denver side and
(25:57):
Sean Payton being asked about all the consider rations that
Russell was given just kind of looked around like, I
don't know anything about it. That's not the way this
works was to paraphrase, what do you had to say
about that? So certainly it will be some change along
the process. But it's like anything, you know, any negotiation,
You do anything to get negotiating space in your home right,
(26:19):
anybody out there and where wherever you're at, you're listening,
you share a space. What do you do and you're
trying to get a little extra closet space, maybe an
extra shelf put up to display your knickknacks and collectibles
or ceramic plates from from the mint right and all
of those things you've got that where you're trying to
(26:41):
inch out. In this case, you're a guy that is
debating his future and you've broker this giant deal to
get sent to Denver, and what do you do you
ask for the world and in the end, if you're
the player that they thought you were going to be.
None of this is an issue right the fact that
he came in, as Tariq Woolin said for week one,
(27:02):
hey looked like he was a sack of potatoes. That's
a bigger issue. I don't care how many inspirational quotes.
If that's what's getting him up through the day and
the Stuart Smalley. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and
gosh darted, some people like me. God bless him. Right
whoever you are out there, guys in the studio, guys
in the edit base, whatever, whatever motivate you to go
(27:23):
do your job and not be a jerk to the
people you work with or live with. The God bless you.
Go find it, go figure it out. And if it's
a bunch of a hang in there, of a cat
on a high wire, that's great too. I will care.
And everybody comes to everybody comes to it their own way.
But when things are going sideways, then you gotta go
(27:44):
and reconfigure and recalibrate and see where you can fix
that divide. So, if this was expressed, and it was
understood that there was a divide between he and the
other members of the Broncos because he was the guy
with the office, seems like me, I'd be up there
all time because he probably had some snacks, a nice
comfy couch. I don't want to be on the bench
or whatever I got going on in the law. You'd
(28:06):
be watching Law and Order up there. I do watch
a lot of Law and Order, There's no question about it.
Especially if we're in the meat meaty range of Jerry
Orbach episodes. I'm in, but everybody be quiet. The Pioneer
woman is on. Hang on, I gotta turn that on.
It's noon and it's a double lighter, back to back it.
But well, I mean I needed a new recipe I got.
I had a big social to bring food for. You know,
(28:30):
it's a pot luck. Hey, you into Red Drumming because
I'm gonna watch Pioneer you know what. Hang out for
an hour and then tell me about the place. You're like,
I'm gonna watch Redrummond. Okay, here we go. Every time
Harmon walks through the door of his office, the glass
breaks like he's stone cold. Hell yeah, gotta fix it.
Gotta fix that. What's that? When when I come into
your office? Harmon? What do you got? What I got
to do? Well? You take two of those beers out
(28:51):
of that bucket right there. You gotta smash it together
and yeo, hell yeah. But this look, this is why
the guy struggles, right, this is the story, why all
this Russell Wilson hate, Why does this come up? It's
stuff like this. He just doesn't know how to lead,
how to be himself. And you're seeing all the stories
come out in Seattle and this because of that now
(29:11):
and there's no I mean, that's it. The office is
the only story you need. Why Oh, now, I get it.
Because he's that kind of guy. I want an office
a second floor above the players. And you know that
eventually he's going to rub everybody the wrong way. I
mean that, that's just the way it is. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific,
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
(29:34):
friend Mike Harman. Today's Friday. It's a live drop Friday.
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(29:55):
you know, Mike, I hate to say I told you
so something. Nah, Well, I really don't know what's Friday.
You gotta get a couple more in because then it's
dark for a little bit. So you got you gotta
make sure you add an extra one today. Yeah, today
is Friday. A few stories today involving Derek Carr. One
is his contract demands, reportedly are thirty five million dollars
(30:17):
a year from his next team. The yet next one
is that, according to a couple of NFL insiders, there
are three new teams in the mix for him, Cleveland, Ohhi,
mystery teams, but for some reason, they're not made public. Okay,
I believe the first part of this. I don't believe
the second part. O Hi, it's a little bit longer.
(30:41):
It's Cleveland, oh Hi, a little too nice job quick that. Yeah,
well it's a dramatic I'll believe the first part. Thirty
five million dollars a year. Look, the guy turned down
a contract that you know, or had a contract at
forty million a year and thirty million next year, forty
million a year after that. So yeah, yeah, thirty five
million a year. Sure we'll get that from somebody. Yeah,
(31:02):
if I really want Derek Carr, would I give him
two years and seventy million? Yeah? I can see that happening.
So I'm so I'm with that. But there's new teams
in the mix, and we don't know who they are really, really,
I don't believe that for a bleep in second. And
this is where I say, I hate to say, I
told you so. Are there even other teams in the mix?
Or is this Derek Carr's people trying to drum up
(31:24):
interest in him because when he was let go, any
team could have talked to him, but it was the
Saints before before he got released and they found out
his contract demands and Saint said thank you, but no
thank you. They've gone to the sidelines. Derek Carr visit
with the Jets, He's still a free agent. Who else
is he meeting with? Why is no one trying to
meet with Derek Carr in the days leading up the
free agency? Why is Derek Carr? There's nobody I said.
(31:47):
That's why I said it earlier in the week. The
fact that there's no interest in this guy. The league
is telling you what they really think about Derek Carr.
And where teams like the Titans and the Commanders and
all these other teams need quarterbacks. Hey, if Derek Carr
is that good, If Derek Carr's a Super Bowl sorry,
first ballot Hall of Famer quarterback with your team, other
(32:08):
teams are interested, but they're not Oh, but there's mystery teams.
That's a load of crap, because there's no team that
has to disguise their interest from Derek Carr. Right, Derek
Carr is a middle of the pack to maybe a
tiny bit above middle of pack quarterback. If you absolutely
need a guy, you talk to Derek Carr. When we
have mystery teams is when it's a big time player
available that we already have an in trench quarterback will
(32:30):
move on from because hey, we could trade for Lamar Jackson.
We don't want people to know. For instance, say in Miami,
hey we could trade Ta in a deal for Lamar Jackson.
When it's a big time name available, that's when you
see the mystery teams. But really, there's mystery teams or
Derek Carr, it's a load of crap. There's hardly any
interest in him, and I'm sure his contract value has
(32:51):
made teams say, yeah, you know what, we like Derek Carr,
But oh, do we like him at thirty five million
a year or do we like Jimmy Garoppolo at eighteen
million for the next two years? Doing like Ryan Tanner
for twenty million a year? Is the Is the tradeoff
that much drop off and talent from Derek car to
Jimmy Garoppolo worth that kind of money that weady to
spend other places on our team. Derek Carr is going
(33:12):
to talk himself out of a contract and out of
a preferred destination because he's sticking to this money that
he wants and he doesn't see that he needs to
sign with a team before free agency. Yeah, I'm all
for trying to go into the marketplace, much like Russell
Wilson and whatever demands and I want this, and I
want to paint it this way, and I want a
mural that has me as a king on top of
a mountain like I'm at the end of Conan the Barbarian.
(33:34):
Go see if you can find that it's you. Go
and ask for what you can and you can be
told no. The problem is in a marketplace like this
very fast evolving or behind the scenes, one would think
we're just going to spread quickly. And in New Orleans,
they've got a lot of other needs they got to
deal with whatever. Maybe the reality with Alvin Kamara in
(33:55):
the process as well, Michael Thomas got a lot of
a lot of irons in the proverbial fire to to
kind of process and get ready for next year. Having
a quarterback that wants thirty five to forty million dollars
ain't help in the process. All these other teams same idea.
While he may be the best, how much higher is
he other than Garoppolo's injury history? You look at Tannehill,
(34:18):
keep going on down your guy, Baker Mayfield, all of those,
Saint Mike White, how much greater is he? And if
it's going to preclude you from making other moves, then yeah,
forget about it. So asking price and having David Carr
out there talking about how long it's going to take
trying to intrench yourself into some position is a bad
way to be je te jets. I mean, the interest
(34:43):
is lukewarm league wide, league wide. Ask yourself, why is
Derek Carr not on some kind of tour right now?
I get a Guns and Roses announced yet another tour,
and people say, just keep going coming here, They're not coming. No, no, no,
no no, no, there's there's time, there's time, and there's
a show San Diego on Sunday night. But anyway, but
still man and I'll be going to one of them regardless.
(35:06):
Maybe we go to Wrigley Field, we go see him there. Um.
I think the other part to this that I find
most entertaining, Jason is the number of people that kept
trying to tell me it was nothing but the raider's fault.
Really kind of kills all that media hype now, doesn't
it just trying to drum up interest in him. It's embarrassing,
But I look, what do I know? I just told
(35:27):
you everything about this, wrote right into this good luck,
good luck Hey coming up next. I'm paying for that.
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