March 4, 2023 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss all things Lamar Jackson and his future with the Ravens. NBA’s heading down the stretch and the guys cover a huge night in the association, including Julius Randle’s game wining 3 pointer and so much more! Plus, Longtime NFL Insider Jason Cole joins the guys!
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Jen A, Yeah, I was gonna say, we've got all
of those uh Forrest gumpisms that hour in the system
that Alex used yesterday, see, are really drops. That's just
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what Alex decides to say when he turns the mic on, right,
but then he records them and edits them, so they
thereby become drops. Yeah, but he's got to edit them.
And I have not heard anything than him just turning
the mic on and saying it. There's a reason to
drop as a drop. Why can't you jump, Lieutenant Diane,
don't bring that back before? Bring that best stop man Friday, Everybody,
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what is wrong with you? Yes, it is a live
drop Friday here at Fox Sports Radio. Today was the
first big day we got to hear from many of
the prospective top five, top ten picks in the NFL Draft.
We had Bryce Young talking about his height. C J
Strout says, I'm the best player in the draft. Will
levisays I can't wait to show off the cannon. Yeah.
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But Carson Wentz says he wants to be a jet.
Carson Wentz dresses back up as a prospect to try
to get draft. I want to start over again. That
Eli Manning thing right when he was hanging out the colleges,
Yeah it was he Chad Powers right name, Yeah, Jed.
I want to go back in man. I want to
do it all over again. I wasn't MVP my second
year in the league. Of now, no one's gonna say yeah.
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But once they see that noodle arm throw. They'll know
it's hit me immediately once they see him not listening
to coaches. It's gonna be okay, no, not no. Outside
of that that guy, no, no, no, I'd see it.
That's Cartson. Wesideknew it. But tonight is a big night,
and yet we have a huge night in the NBA's night.
There's so many different storylines. We have the Lakers playing
without Lebron, without DeAngelo Russell. We have the Clippers playing
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with Russell Westbrook. We have this son Leonard no Kawhi
Leonard resting the game tonight. Um Kevin Durant in a
second game with the Sons, and the Sons are in
control against Phoenix right now with seven and a half
to go in the fourth quarter, the Knicks on top
of Miami with eight minutes ago. The Knicks could win again.
But um, there may be a new beast in the East,
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Mike Harmon, because if you look at how the Knicks
beat the Celtics the other night and now the Nets
without any stars, are in the process of finishing off
a big win over Boston. You can knock the Celtics
away as being contenders anymore. They're done well, when you
used to play the Legion of Boom and then the
next week the quarterbacks sucked and everybody was terrible because
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they got beat up. Yeah, yeah, like it's really now
it's it's it's the Knicks and and the Bucks. That's
really the Eastern Conference. Now you lose like this to
the Nets. This way, I'll come on. The Knicks. Just
beat the Nets like one eighty to one twelve. I
because it's it's the Knicks and the Bucks. Here, let's
fast forward to the Eastern Conference finals. Nixt Bucks. Yeah, unfortunately,
you know, you look at the Celtics and they can
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take a couple of nights off they've played really sorry, buddy,
it's like then the Bucks, like you want to play
it now, let's just kind of go through the motions
because at times kind of look like the Celtics have
been going through the motions. In the second half of
this game, well, they blow this hugely. They're leading by
twenty two after the first quarter, and you know that
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sometimes that's the worst thing you can do. No, no,
I'd rather be up twenty two than down twenty two.
I don't care what kind of world you live in.
I'd rather be the team with the twenty two point
lead than not have it. But here are the Celtics. Man. Look, look,
maybe they're just completely out of gas and they're done.
They might not win a game the rest of the way,
Jason and the Bucks. I mean, as we found out
on Sunday, I mean, you can come back from a
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twenty seven point deposit even though it had been held
onto one hundred and thirty eight times this season. Again,
why is there no more outcry outside of me shouting
from the rooftops about the fact that teams have been
buried by at least twenty seven points more than one
hundred and thirty eight times this year. About some competitive juices,
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I about some flow, How about some intestinal fortitude instead
of nights off? You say, you say, but look, we're slowly,
we're slowly knocking teams out of contention in the East.
And tonight, you know we have to scratch the Celtics' sorry,
but we like that. You just, yeah, they're done, They're done,
and I'm gonna scratch the I'm gonna scratch the Sixers too,
just because you know, I mean, I hadn't we already
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kind of put them scratching where we took their magnet.
Like we're at the end of Friday Night Lights and
we've kind of moved it to the second string or no, no,
what you know when when you move the player because
they graduated, you pulled that trash. That's what happens. They
can't play. There no edge of eligibility. They're done. Now
you just just falls down to the ground and someone
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up is no in this case, they're they're just uh
well not quite injured. They're still active, but they don't
get them as many reps because you still have the
Doc Rivers effect. And don't forget what else we have tonight, guys,
it's Live Drop Friday. Well, yeah, obviously we have a
lot of football. We have a lot of NBA. I
heard the Sacramento Kings are gonna play four on five
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defense against the Clippers. I'm just gonna make you we're
also Westbrook wide open. I am glad you brought that
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player with a worst narrative in sports right now on
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the court, on the court than Russell Westbrook. Nobody. I
mean the personal losing street that Russell Westbrook has. The
Lakers trade him, Hey, suddenly everything is possible. But Lebron's
hurt and ad is hurt and Dannis rod doesn't matter.
We're still winning games. But Russell Westwards with the Clippers,
and the Clippers haven't won a game. And you get
the viral video last night of Draymond Green deciding I'm
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just gonna let you have the ball at the top
of the key because I don't care I want you
to shoot, because I don't have any respect for who
you are. Now, to be fair that it's been employed
in the NBA for a number of years, including times
against Draymond Green and going back all those years ago
when Dennis Rodman was out there and he would occasionally
step out and he hit a three point shot, but
it was generally, hey Dennis, if you want to shoot
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from out there, have at it. So this is not
completely new to the NBA, but yes, with russ So Westbrook,
the number of instances that you can quickly cobble together
for a super cut video. Highly problematic. Dude, teams us
that against the Knicks for their entire team. Hey, whenever
they have the ball outside the three, just let them
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have it the day because like Matthew McConaughey said, no,
he always hits that shout. He always hits that What
do you mean? I want five guys around you and
let everybody else go. However close they get you, let
them shoot. But this is the thing, and this is
you know, Westbrook has taken over storyline after storyline because
of how poorly as teams have played. And now maybe
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it was Westbrook's fault. With the Lakers, you can take
out we have we have two games, big games coming up, right,
We got the Kings and the Clippers, and we have
Minnesota and the Lakers, two games with huge playoff potential
and impact in the Western Conference. And the thing with
Westbrook and the Clippers, right, because I've heard about this
today and it's like, I feel like people just forget
stuff about Westbrook. Man. I like the move that the
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Clippers made to bring him in because I thought, and
this is me being an NBA coach. Okay, Westbrook's gonna
come in, gonna play with the second unit, and it's
gonna be great. Right, He's gonna come because he did
pretty well with that. If you're talking about on the court,
his role with the Lakers running the second unit, he
did that pretty well. He had some games where you
would say, boy, Westbrook's a real difference maker here, right,
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that's kind of where he is at this point in
his career. And I thought that this is gonna be
great for the Clippers because they starting to figure it out,
they're getting their guys back, they're healthy, they're winning. Now
they're going to add a guy who's gonna be dynamic
on the second unit. Awesome. Now, likely he had a
couple of other suitors or he just played his cards great,
because i'm sure whether I'm sure there was some kind
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of agreement that, hey, if I sign with you, I
start and don't come off the bench, because it doesn't
make sense to suddenly put Russell Westbrook in the starting
lineup for the Clippers when hey, wait a minute, We've
been trying to get this team together all year long,
and now we got it and we're winning games. Now
we're gonna disrupt this by putting westbrook In. But for
whatever reason, they put him in the starting lineup, and
here it is. Maybe it's something where it's, hey, we'll
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do it for for the first five games and see
where we're at. Something. But the fact that he gets
in the starting lineup and what happens. The Clippers functionality
ceases and they can't win a game, and it's it's
the Clippers decided they got too cute with a team
that they said, hey, we're finally making up making a
run here. We got all our players healthy. Yes, we
got to manage the lone maintenance with Kawai and Paul George.
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And I get that part of it, and I get
Kawhi sitting out tonight because look, the Clippers are are
in the seventh spot right now. They're not in the
twelfth spot trying to climb up. But he didn't play
the second half yesterday. I know he's taking a game
and a half play. It's a game and a half. Listen,
I'm gonna take a unofficial half game off. Why because
I'm just gonna hang out like like near Russ. But
we're you know, so you know. But that's the thing
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is that they they screwed up a good thing. They
had it going pretty well and they decided we need
this to come in and be a difference maker. And
it's what do you how do you think you need
Russell Westbrook in the starting lineup to suddenly screw all
the things up you had going on? What have you
seen the last couple of years to tell you, hey,
Westbrook's gotta get in the start. I'm hoping this is
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a temporary thing because with with the with the second unit, yeah,
this could be pretty good, but first unit it's a disaster. Man.
They went from we're winning every game and where everybody's
darling coming out of the break. How many people in
the media said, you know, the team to make a
big run in the second half of the year is
gonna wind up being the Clippers. I told you blink that, man.
Don't don't hate on the Knicks. The Knicks are that team,
that's right, Knicks, Nicks, Knicks, Nick. But the Clippers where
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everybody's darling. And it was yes, because they figured it out,
and it's no, no, no, Now we're gonna we're gonna
put a new point guard and who's a ball dominant
guy and everybody else has to get used to it.
Did you really need to do that? No, you didn't,
and now you got too cute. And look where you
are right now. You're fumbling for answers. It's gonna wind
up being dramatic. It's gonna be Kawhi Leonard having to say, Hey,
we got to go back to something different. I want this,
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I want this, And it's just a mess right now
with the Clippers, because that's kind of who the Clippers
have been, all right, if I forget about the embarrassment
that they've had for the majority of their existence. Steve
Balmer buys the team, things get better, right, they sign
star players, they bring in big coaches, But forever they
found a way and have found a way to just
shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly. Hey, nothing should be
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able to go wrong here. Nope, things are going wrong.
And now here's the latest thing. We're playing great, we're
winning game after game after game Boy era, and now
now we put that Now we've given back that big
wind streak and all the good feeling and all the
momentum that we built because we got to have Russell
westbrook In in the starting lineup. Yeah, I think the's
a couple of things to go back to the Lakers
really quickly. You know. Part of it was the curiosity
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of out of spite, you know, as we'd heard reports
of a Lebron you built this thing, get yourself out
of it. And then when when it was realized that
he couldn't and you were getting to the deadline, it
became a all right, now we make this move and
ship Westbrook off and bolstered the squad. Because there's no
two ways about it. The front office gets credit for
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that move, right, there's no clutch sports Lebron James, anybody
gets credit here. Now you got the Clippers move. According
to reports, Paul George was a guy that was the
big vouch for Westbrook here, so he doesn't get to
help with the grocery shopping anymore. Lots of players you
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want to bring your guys in because he made you
look good. But in this case, also with the Clippers,
as we talked with Dan Woikey about this the other night,
just the idea that you've got so many players now
you you you're trying to figure out rotations, responsibilities, etc.
One guy in particular, I mean you look at Norman Powell,
who'd been such a force for them even in that
(12:34):
ridiculous one seventy six one seventy five loss, still played
nearly forty minutes. He's been invisible and his shooting percentage
has gone to hell. So he's clearly not the same
guy in these rotations and what his responsibilities are. So
unless they get that sorted out quickly, all of a sudden,
they're gonna be down in the playing rounds, which is
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just absurd from where they russell, what's gonna watch the
We're in the downhill elevator and the Lakers are now elevator. Hey,
they're waving too over there us new phone. Who it is?
It's It's amazing, it really is, because we go to
the you know, my buddies. The Tankathon strength of schedule
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Clippers have the eighth artist schedule, remaining seventh artist tied
with pot Portland. So but sitting there. Uh, and then
you've got the Lakers only Oklahoma City, New Orleans and
Cleveland with easier runs based on the current winning percentages
of remaining opponents. Twitter at how about a fresca Mike
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friend Mike Carment. You get count on the Clippers just
screw it up, and yet we get to watch again
tonight Lakers and Clippers and it. Oh by the way, hey,
how about Memphis in Denver? Happy Friday night, everybody? Yeah, buddy,
Well we got that. And then the Bulls were down
seven to the Suns with about five minutes left. Now
it's uh uh one seventeen. Mike, you know who was
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also down by a lot. But now they're right back
in it. The Miami Heat. They're back in. They're still
losing the heater stair lead to the Knicks. Julius Randall
has sixty seven points tonight. Okay, all right, he's got
thirty five and it'll be a loss. Uh just just wait,
we said that four minutes to go. You rate where
they want? Yeah, Twitter, and about a Fresca. Mike gets
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I see the Clippers do things, and I go, I'm
a better GM sometimes and people, what, really, I'm a
better I could do that. This is not gonna work.
Second unit. No, he wants a guarantee, no guarantee that
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he's going someplace else. Okay, goodbye, look, good luck. We'll
go win games without your good luck. I don't I
don't get it. I mean it. So many jobs. Well,
one last question before we go here. Um, well, okay, Colombo.
One last thing where we pause and moved to say
one more question. More question, okay, one more question? Are
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the nick in the back official team of Friday Nights
in the NBA? We maybe it? Maybe they seem to
be on every Friday. Yeah, I know it's great, right
and there in our national teams, it's not great. The
official team of Friday Night, the New York Knicks eight
seven seven ninety nine one. Fox is the number eight
seven seven nine nine six six three six nine Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, live from the tirect dot com studios. So
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much more, NBA on the way, Such a great night
with drama. But coming up next the prank that nearly
had Lamar Jackson traded earlier today. My goodness, that's next.
Ride here Jason and Mike Fox Cleveland, Oh hi oh.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Grievings and welcome him Inside an hour two of The
Jason Smith Show with My bass friend Mike Harmon. Tell
Alan that the nits suck. What are you even saying?
You're not even saying nicks. It sounds like you're saying nits,
(16:12):
like it's a little bug. It's nicks, it's nicks. The
nz No, they're not the nits. No, that's a little bug.
That's a little bugs. That's what they are. Then the
nitz Tell how are kind of annoying? Like a nit? Nitzio.
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Tirerac dot com the way tire bugs should be. Let
me stop you right there. The knits suck. Okay, well
right now, right now, because I'm always about the next
generation of people coming up and who's gonna do they
are like twenty one twenty two year old kids right now,
listen to the show going, man, this is a big show.
It's on nationally, It's on more five hundred stations from
(16:56):
coast to coast, which is like an unheard of number
from m bigs. Oh yeah yeah, but not on in
New York. And they're sitting there and they're going and
the guy who is it, who is the heartbeat of
the show that is at the Nerve Ventrical system thinks
the Knicks are the Knits. Okay, all right? That that well,
but I mean that's the level of respect he's he
knows damn well what they are. He's a bright man.
(17:19):
Do you think saw something about Syracuse in the n
I t and he's just missing it up. Could be
been a lot of talk about, you know, all those
secondary tournaments because of the scoring record and all of
those things going on. Right, So and maybe you know,
he's been thinking of nice barbs for your Syracuse orange
(17:42):
and maybe he wrote those down and now he's having
fun with your knicks. Then, not not the Knits, the Knicks. Well,
I said nicks because I'm not stealing his bit. I mean,
he's suck and nits do suck. They're light's eggs. I
know exactly, but that's what I was saying, listen, listen,
(18:03):
not that, because because off the top of my head,
I will tell you that that you know, nitzer Light's
eggs that are laid by the adult female headlouse at
the base of the hair shaft nearest the scalp. Uh.
They're firmly attached to the hair shaft, oval shaped, very small,
about the size of a knot and thread, and they're
pretty hard to see. That's the fact of my head.
You know, you really did that, and you emphasized a
couple of words were specifically that's so we're just gonna
(18:27):
let that go that I didn't know. I didn't see
that off the official CDC website. No, no, no, I
knew that top of my head. And oh, by the way,
hey shout out CDC that we can talk about them
in a fun way. And it's not. Well, the CDC
has ruined everything during the zombie apocalypse, right, so we
got to get to the CDs. How do they not
have a cure of the zombies the CDC. Every time
to get to the CDC, CDC prec turns side and says, hey, man,
(18:49):
we did. We got bit by the Lakers zombies too.
The Lakers are back. We're closed, We're closed. Don't come here.
One point lead, two minutes. We're hitting in the first quarter, Lakers.
Let's get to the CDC. That's where everybody goes in
a zombie apocalypse, the CDC. What let's go to the
mountains because let's just let's just be there. Why am
I going to the CDC? Why am I doing that?
(19:11):
The mountains right now? It's just traffic. I did see
some cool videos about the mountains and and our guy
Tim Conway Junior talking about the rainfall and and what
it's done to where you really don't have a drought
in California anyway, said there's too much traffic, zero traffic.
It rained for like fourteen days. Yeah, guy over at
(19:35):
uh CAF. I so you got that going for you too.
So Yeah, a lot lot's going on, a lot of sports,
a lot of knowledge being passed around. I mean, we
are we are a show that leaves no stone unturned. Man,
we are getting after Yeah, some guy hit a big
lucky shot I did. Yeah, speaking of what I got
going for me, let's hear that Julius Randall final call
of that three Wait, wait a minute, wait, we don't
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have it. How do we It's the biggest play trip,
biggest play in the history of sports. How do we
not have it? That didn't happen in the Laker game? Oh?
How do we not have Oh we got it, We
got it. Wait, I'll just have to do it for everybody. Here,
you set it up right. Here, I'll say here. You
just didn't set up right. Julius Randall was falling all
over himself. No, here's here's here's the correct final call
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of of the nixt game. All right, here we go. This.
This is what it would be if I was calling it.
Nick's down too with the ball. This has to be
Jalen Brunson. He's the best player in the league. He
needs to be able to make this shot. Look at this,
there's three defenders. They're not letting him by. He's gonna
pass the ball to Julius Randall. This is not gonna
end well, because Julius Randall can hit shots in the
final minute. Agod, they just he just lost it near
(20:43):
mid court. This is not gonna end. He just lost
the ball again. It almost went out of bounce. What
the hell he made it? Oh, Juli Randall, Julian's Randall.
You forgot one main thing, Jason bombs the travel Uh
not a travel wasn't called a number and number two
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it wasn't it. Just because you say things like that
doesn't mean like, oh it was a missed call. All right,
people are thinking, oh it's like the super Bowl and
they grabbed it was Mike Julius rand There was no
there was no travel. Have you seen the highlight there's it. Yes,
I've seen it. I've seen it like five thousand times
that I keep watching. I can't not watch it. Julius
(21:23):
Randall travel. I'm looking. No one's saying about no. No.
The last time Julius Randall travel is trending is from
March of twenty twenty one. No, wait a minute, from
thirty four minutes ago. Nick's MSG N Julius Randall is clutch.
(21:43):
There you go, buddy. Although I will say this the
second thing that if you google Julius Randall travel, the
second thing that comes up to someone who said players
with the most travel since January first, Julius Randall is third.
There is Russell Westbrook for travel. That's good. But since
the All Star Game, as we talked about last hour
(22:05):
twenty eight for fifty seven from how bad after his
kid might needed that. Maybe his kid is the real MVP,
well like Draymond's kid was last year. Now we have
the transference to Julius Randall's kids tackle that teammate at
at his game, right, because that was making the rounds
last week. And Julius Randall travels and Randall gets bubbled
(22:30):
five seconds ship Paul Louis Randall gets it back three
seconds fraight away for three y s down right on
the quarter. Seven ago, Wait are you up the next game?
Jason cried? The Knicks half the league? What's twenty two?
What's twenty seen in Miami? So let us rando? Let's
(22:50):
just fly a broken play and the next sleep by
two play seven ago, Jason, what are you doing there?
That's me? I was the analyst on that call. That
was yet even getting pretty close to Caesar Romero's joker.
What do you have for us? I got nothing but WHOA?
I got nothing but who who knew? Rick Flair was
on the call? Ronnie Jo out of the old Cubs guy.
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Clearly t J Julius Randall has the rolls. Royce's baby,
He's got him, and there it is with a three.
I mean that now that you don't get that kind
of basketball analysis just anywhere, mean that you could talk
about tone it Jim, Jim him and just see that place.
I mean you could talk but that, but just you know,
the analysts just going whoa. I mean for like thirty seconds,
(23:35):
I'm now going to next year, next football season, every fumble,
recovery or interception by the Bears defense, we will have
the radio call Paul. Yeah, sometimes that's the best call.
Play it again. I mean really that that's the kind
of analysis that is sorely lacking, and so we can
(23:56):
only play it again if you set it up right. Though.
Let's say, okay, Nicks with the ball they're down to
I don't know how they're gonna give the ball to
Julius Randall, but they gotta get it to him here
at the end, maybe for some kind of off balance
three tom more than an Indian play here and then
Lens Changes gets hit the ball and it's alive the travel.
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But there's also things never said before by Smith. Can't
get the ball to Randall in the final minute when
he end, and he just set it up like you
gotta get them Yeah, no, no, I mean you've got
I will admit my take of that of a week
and a half ago did not age well, did not.
But that's okay. I'm okay with a cold takes here.
It is the Knicks down by two again with time
(24:41):
running out. Listen to the expert color analyst being able
to tell you exactly what's going on with the game,
Tom more than an Indian apprist. People about enough of
this play here, and then lens Changes gets hit. The
ball is loose and it's a live Yeah, no, set
up correctly? No, what do you mean? Set it up correctly?
What the hell are you talking about? I'll help you
(25:03):
out what Julius Randall travels and this is what happened.
Grandell gets funding five seconds, ship by Louis Randel gets
shot back three seconds, fraight away for three, don't sit
down right on the quarter with play to seven Ago
brand the next half believe what's twenty two? I'm twenty
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see in Miami, s let us Rando, let's find a
broken play and the next sleep by two with poy
seven Ago can you travel without legs? Lieutenant Diane. People
are like, what the hell is that? We gotta listen
to the whole show. Yeah, this a little show. But
you don't get you don't get an analysis like that
just anywhere, man. I mean, that's special stuff. That special
(25:48):
encapsulates the moment in the grandest way possible. Look at that,
Julius randalm Be sure to catch live editions of The
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is not tall, Stetson Bennett has issues. C J. Strout
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is the best. Well. Levis can't wait to show off
his candid of an arm and oh, by the way,
everybody's still waiting for Aaron Rodgers to make his decision.
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two students all Right. He is also a long time
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Hall of Very Good voter. Jake Hole, what's happening? Buddy
Levey's beautiful? What's going on? Guys? Tell him good evening
talking Matthew's blowing by the Hall of Very Good thing
because you're gonna have to own that for a while.
Let's keep his pleasant, okay. I mean I didn't put
up a really cool picture of Zach Thomas earlier that
(26:53):
was really cool. And he is a two Hall of
Tame okay, and he was a Cowboys uniforms that look.
I understand that to let in a guiding that that
was a Hall of Famer, you gotta let it like
five guys who were not Hall of famers, hall of
very good. There you go. Yeah, but I like that
now that he's going into the Hall of Fame, he's
(27:14):
a chirping about quarterbacks and what should should be done.
I don't think we ever really heard him talk about
what the management should do. Now He's like, hey, I'm jesty,
I'm GM Now I'm taking over, baby, he is, this
is felt taking over the Yankees and said he I
(27:35):
could be making trades, Jerry, I could be making trades.
This is why the Yankees haven't won in twenty five years.
I gotta feel like this is how it goes. Rogers
get me. Carson went, yes, you know I wants he
wants a tough guy who's trying to overcome things. That's
that's that's why, that's that's why defensive lineman not good GMS. No,
(27:58):
but but what about it this? But if this happens,
I just think about this for a second. At the combine,
Carson Wentz tries to do an Eli Manning Chad powers
and convince people he's coming out of the draft and
he puts on a disguise and he throws for James
as a fifth round pick. A person like Carson, our
(28:20):
seven quarterback, just says, I'll go back in. He's been
like Derek Carr goes back in. They're like, yeah, third
round tops, man, really, third round tops. Listen, you're a
Day three guy. But you never know, right, you never
know a quoterback position of need for a lot of teams,
you never know. I remember where Maurice poirette we call it,
when when we went to the combine failed to do
(28:42):
the bench press. I was like, day he's a Day
four guy. And when he when he didn't he run that?
Didn't he run the forty yard dash in like nine
seconds or something insane like that? He had at times
nine five or something like that. He like, actually, rich
Rich Eisen beat him on the forties. I remember that.
I remember the early gifts of that of like photoshop
(29:04):
of of of a guy like in his walker, like
passing him like as he's running like like through there.
Oh man, hey when it's the third a mile with
Garrett Blunt, Like Garrett Blunt ran that like five point
one seconds as a running back, which tells you, like
how meaningless it is because he actually had a really
kind of decent career a bower rider break looked like
(29:27):
he was carrying an Ellison on his back. Hey, So
apparently people are just finding out Bryce Young is not tall.
I mean, I don't know. I made my big pretty
much is. People are just finding that out right now,
and it might be a big deal. He's skinny, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
(29:47):
he's not a big man. You didn't see all those
six foot five offensive linemen in the surrounding him as
he looked like he was five foot eight in the huddle.
Um yeah, but he had all those pads on. I
feel like that would be what Henry Winkler for a
Rust of Development would say, it's kind of hard. Guys
have all the pads I've got. I've got pads. I've
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got pads. I really I got pads. I can bulk
up protect me. I won't wear that. Joey boasts a
little baby shoulder pads. I'll put like big time shoulder
pads on. Yeah, it looks like those the Pop Warner
kids When I first put on pads. Man, just get
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a full bread. Yeah, I look, this is a real deal.
This is a real thing, and people need to understand
it's a real thing because you have to be able
to take hits in this league and this so this matters.
And it's not the height, it's the it's your your
body strength because it's like Russell Wilson's not very big guy,
(30:50):
but he's you know, he's a well built guy, which
is why he's last year is slung now last season
aside for Russell Wilson, he obviously had rich first nine
years to his career, right, and part of that that was,
you know, he's a strong guy. Drew Brees. If you've
ever stood next to Drew Brees, he's not. He's a muscular,
(31:11):
well built guy, but pretty put together, which he had
to become in his career after the shoulder injuries. But
people worry about like two attack looks like mister Universe
next to Bryce Young right, like and TWA gets ragdalled
on a regular basis. So Bryce Young has some real
(31:32):
work ahead of him to make sure he puts on
some proper weight. Now, there have been guys who are
skinning quarterbacks. Jared Goff is, you know, not the biggest
guy in the world. Joe Montana was not a particularly
big guy. But you know, ay, Jared Goff is not
exactly mister I'm going to hold the ball and take
a shot here. You know, that's one of one of
(31:53):
his biggest problems is he don't like to get hit right.
He plays tackle football for living. I don't want to
get in right. And you're, like, no quarterback likes to
get hit. But there are some guys who are Phil Sims.
And then there's the other end of the spectrum, and
that would be Jared gosh right, and so like that's
a problem. And then you know, Joe Montana was not
(32:15):
a very big guy, and he got rag dolled a
lot in his career. And there's a reason why he's
missed a lot of tears of his career, Like he
missed I think, if you put it together, like four
full seasons of action overall in his career because of
all the injuries that he suffered. So as great as
(32:35):
he was even he had his problems. I mean, Kurt
Warner is tough of guys as there's ever been. Guy
missed a lot of time. So, yes, this is a
real concern with Bryce yea. And the question is not
so much what does he weigh today? Okay, it's it's
obviously concern, but can he put on weight? Can he
(32:55):
gets strong enough? And I think, unfortunately an answer is
probably know that if you take this guy, you're gonna
have to live with the fact that he's going to
struggle to get to two hundred pounds or you know,
two hundred and five pounds, and you're gonna have to
find a way to really protect him and have a
great line which you have to take into consideration when
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you're building a team around him. So how desperate to
teams get at the top? You know, he's the head
and no, no, he goes he goes first, but then
the other three three guys, I mean, how quickly they
come off. I don't know if he goes first. Yeah,
I don't know about you and Richardson guy now because
(33:37):
Smith Adams the cole is gonna be the guy to
say if Geordan Love was coming out of this draft
he'd be the number one overall pick um well, based
on the fact that Jordan was actually played. Yeah, probably,
but um no. I mean what I would say is,
if all things are equal, you take the bigger guy. Now,
(33:59):
Anthony Richardson is the extreme the other direction, because like
where Bryce Young played in a in a pro style
offense at Alabama and had a lot of throws the
last couple of years, right, and played in a similar
kind of offense in high school and through the ball,
you know, a couple of thousand times basically, you know,
(34:22):
in all those drills. Anthony Richardson hasn't even thrown four
hundred passes since the beginning of his senior year. And
I so it's a Trey Lance situation. No no, no, no, no,
no no. I have the exact match for this. Anthony
Richardson should go to the Cowboys because Mike McCarthy doesn't
(34:44):
want to throw the football, so they would be perfect.
He doesn't have to throw the football. He's it's a
Bray's a match made in heaven, right there, Anthony Richardson.
I think Anthony Richardson's best off going to the Jets.
Can you really say anybody is best off going to
the Jets. I mean, really, is that a real sentence? No,
(35:05):
you tried to make that happen. I appreciate that, Like
I was thinking about some snarky remark and in response,
But no, I can't justify saying to anyone that they
should go to the Jets. That's just that's just it's
not a healthy thing for any player. No, because I
know if if the Packers come to Aaron Rodgers, who
I want to continue my career? You're sure, yes I do? Okay,
(35:28):
So what is it? Well, it's the Jets or nobody. Well,
get my retirement papers ready, I'm walking away. I've done
the Jets or nobody if it's ready. If it's the
Jets or nobody, He'll choose nobody, because that's how it
goes for the Jets now. Jake Cole, Yeah, we've always
had the Ravens as one of those exemplary kind of organizations.
(35:50):
But it seems like the building's burning right now. A
lot a lot of infight. Margin. Well, look, I mean
they know we've been talking about this for what the
last year. Like if they wanted to sign them, they
would have signed them, right. Oh, I'm talking about the
whole thing between that, the players survey, the wide receiver
(36:13):
fight with Dakasta, it's really uh quickly yeah, But I mean, look,
the other stuff is small potatoes. When your quarterback, when
you don't know if you have a quarterback or not,
that's a much more essential problem. And but how many teams,
how many teams really took it on the chin and
that that survey. I mean there's there's what a dozen
(36:34):
teams that just got hammered in that survey, basically a
third of the league. And they deserve it, right, like
Arizona Cardinals. Like charging for meals? Really, is that worse
than the rats? That's like in that's like in college
when you go in for your meal, I'm sorry, your
your meals are up for the week. You can't you
can't get a meal here. You can all have to
(36:55):
pay for it? Oh man, I mean, I mean the Bidwells,
Bidwell's gonna bid Well. I'm just gonna say that that's
what they got, you know, like Charlie's been dead for
a long time. Build Bidwells, you know, been dead for
a while here. But Michael Bidwell, Yeah, let's charge the
players for food. We want them to eat well, but
(37:16):
let's charge them for their meals when they come in.
I like the ruin where the weight rooms not you know,
you know, like the day that you're supposed to work out,
the weight rooms locked part of the day and then oh,
come on, man, Like teams just don't get it, Like,
they just don't get it. You want your guys to
train in your facility. Don't give them reasons not to train,
(37:38):
Like here's the one they like, Oh, you've got to
show up for all these offseason programs, but I can't
give you a ham sandwich. I really need me to train.
I need you to show up all the time. Oh no,
tune for you, No, no, no, no vitamins in Cincinnati, right.
(38:05):
These are professional athletes, you morons doing. You see them
in peaks in the goal conditions, and you want to
keep track of them, but you find reasons to drive
them away. You guys are idiots. You're just idiots over
stuff that is nickel, the most nickel and dime crap
(38:26):
of all time, like the ham sandwich. Yeah, I'm you know, like, oh,
we can't have a guy come in to you know,
make up some hot food or something like for that. No,
we can't afford the couple one hundred bucks a day
it might cost to actually, you know, have the cafeteria working.
That was my favorite one. Forget about the rats in
the in the hamper and Jacksonville because you just bring
(38:47):
in the cocaine bear to take care of that. My
favorite was the Bengals. Their cafeteria is not open for dinner. Wait,
so like, hey, I'm still hungry. Nope, now don't we
send everybody home. We're not paying anybody more than eight hours.
We're done. Everybody's going. Well, yeah, and here and and
by the way, if you've ever been to like you know,
like their train facility is in downtown Cincinnati, right, Like
(39:10):
the closest food to that is like Skyline Chili, which
is just direct Like that's that's just awful. Yeah, I
mean Skyline Chili. Come on, just stop just u But um, like,
like there's not like food, easy access food. So now
you're your coaching staff can't even have dinner. Like you're
(39:33):
expecting those guys to eat late to stay late in
the work, but we can't get them any food either.
It's just mind boggling the kind of stupid stuff that
teams do. Um where they just don't take care of
the people who are supposed to take care of and
I mean Washington, I mean the Washington story about ESPN
(39:55):
this week was it was a classic. But the fact
that they've like that, the fact that Dan Snyder's paying
himself four and a half million dollars a year to
put the Washington logo on his private jet and call
that advertising is one of the greatest things ever because
like that money actually doesn't go to the Saffary cap
(40:18):
as a result of that. It's just a classic. All
the stuff that they call Follow them on Twitter at
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drop Friday here at Fox Sports Radio. Today was the
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We had Bryce Young talking about his height. C J
Strout says, I'm the best player in the draft. Will
levisays I can't wait to show off the cannon. Yeah.
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But Carson Wentz says he wants to be a jet.
Carson Wentz dresses back up as a prospect to try
to get draft. I want to start over again. That
Eli Manning thing right when he was hanging out the colleges,
Yeah it was he Chad Powers right name, Yeah, Jed.
I want to go back in man. I want to
do it all over again. I wasn't MVP my second
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(02:12):
But once they see that noodle arm throw. They'll know
it's hit me immediately once they see him not listening
to coaches. It's gonna be okay, no, not no. Outside
of that that guy, no, no, no, I'd see it.
That's Cartson. Wesideknew it. But tonight is a big night,
and yet we have a huge night in the NBA's night.
There's so many different storylines. We have the Lakers playing
without Lebron, without DeAngelo Russell. We have the Clippers playing
(02:36):
with Russell Westbrook. We have this son Leonard no Kawhi
Leonard resting the game tonight. Um Kevin Durant in a
second game with the Sons, and the Sons are in
control against Phoenix right now with seven and a half
to go in the fourth quarter, the Knicks on top
of Miami with eight minutes ago. The Knicks could win again.
But um, there may be a new beast in the East,
(02:56):
Mike Harmon, because if you look at how the Knicks
beat the Celtics the other night and now the Nets
without any stars, are in the process of finishing off
a big win over Boston. You can knock the Celtics
away as being contenders anymore. They're done well, when you
used to play the Legion of Boom and then the
next week the quarterbacks sucked and everybody was terrible because
(03:17):
they got beat up. Yeah, yeah, like it's really now
it's it's it's the Knicks and and the Bucks. That's
really the Eastern Conference. Now you lose like this to
the Nets. This way, I'll come on. The Knicks. Just
beat the Nets like one eighty to one twelve. I
because it's it's the Knicks and the Bucks. Here, let's
fast forward to the Eastern Conference finals. Nixt Bucks. Yeah, unfortunately,
you know, you look at the Celtics and they can
(03:39):
take a couple of nights off they've played really sorry, buddy,
it's like then the Bucks, like you want to play
it now, let's just kind of go through the motions
because at times kind of look like the Celtics have
been going through the motions. In the second half of
this game, well, they blow this hugely. They're leading by
twenty two after the first quarter, and you know that
(04:00):
sometimes that's the worst thing you can do. No, no,
I'd rather be up twenty two than down twenty two.
I don't care what kind of world you live in.
I'd rather be the team with the twenty two point
lead than not have it. But here are the Celtics. Man. Look, look,
maybe they're just completely out of gas and they're done.
They might not win a game the rest of the way,
Jason and the Bucks. I mean, as we found out
on Sunday, I mean, you can come back from a
(04:22):
twenty seven point deposit even though it had been held
onto one hundred and thirty eight times this season. Again,
why is there no more outcry outside of me shouting
from the rooftops about the fact that teams have been
buried by at least twenty seven points more than one
hundred and thirty eight times this year. About some competitive juices,
(04:46):
I about some flow, How about some intestinal fortitude instead
of nights off? You say, you say, but look, we're slowly,
we're slowly knocking teams out of contention in the East.
And tonight, you know we have to scratch the Celtics' sorry,
but we like that. You just, yeah, they're done, They're done,
and I'm gonna scratch the I'm gonna scratch the Sixers too,
just because you know, I mean, I hadn't we already
(05:07):
kind of put them scratching where we took their magnet.
Like we're at the end of Friday Night Lights and
we've kind of moved it to the second string or no, no,
what you know when when you move the player because
they graduated, you pulled that trash. That's what happens. They
can't play. There no edge of eligibility. They're done. Now
you just just falls down to the ground and someone
(05:28):
up is no in this case, they're they're just uh
well not quite injured. They're still active, but they don't
get them as many reps because you still have the
Doc Rivers effect. And don't forget what else we have tonight, guys,
it's Live Drop Friday. Well, yeah, obviously we have a
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(05:48):
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(06:10):
the court, on the court than Russell Westbrook. Nobody. I
mean the personal losing street that Russell Westbrook has. The
Lakers trade him, Hey, suddenly everything is possible. But Lebron's
hurt and ad is hurt and Dannis rod doesn't matter.
We're still winning games. But Russell Westwards with the Clippers,
and the Clippers haven't won a game. And you get
the viral video last night of Draymond Green deciding I'm
(06:32):
just gonna let you have the ball at the top
of the key because I don't care I want you
to shoot, because I don't have any respect for who
you are. Now, to be fair that it's been employed
in the NBA for a number of years, including times
against Draymond Green and going back all those years ago
when Dennis Rodman was out there and he would occasionally
step out and he hit a three point shot, but
it was generally, hey Dennis, if you want to shoot
(06:53):
from out there, have at it. So this is not
completely new to the NBA, but yes, with russ So Westbrook,
the number of instances that you can quickly cobble together
for a super cut video. Highly problematic. Dude, teams us
that against the Knicks for their entire team. Hey, whenever
they have the ball outside the three, just let them
(07:14):
have it the day because like Matthew McConaughey said, no,
he always hits that shout. He always hits that What
do you mean? I want five guys around you and
let everybody else go. However close they get you, let
them shoot. But this is the thing, and this is
you know, Westbrook has taken over storyline after storyline because
of how poorly as teams have played. And now maybe
(07:37):
it was Westbrook's fault. With the Lakers, you can take
out we have we have two games, big games coming up, right,
We got the Kings and the Clippers, and we have
Minnesota and the Lakers, two games with huge playoff potential
and impact in the Western Conference. And the thing with
Westbrook and the Clippers, right, because I've heard about this
today and it's like, I feel like people just forget
stuff about Westbrook. Man. I like the move that the
(08:00):
Clippers made to bring him in because I thought, and
this is me being an NBA coach. Okay, Westbrook's gonna
come in, gonna play with the second unit, and it's
gonna be great. Right, He's gonna come because he did
pretty well with that. If you're talking about on the court,
his role with the Lakers running the second unit, he
did that pretty well. He had some games where you
would say, boy, Westbrook's a real difference maker here, right,
(08:21):
that's kind of where he is at this point in
his career. And I thought that this is gonna be
great for the Clippers because they starting to figure it out,
they're getting their guys back, they're healthy, they're winning. Now
they're going to add a guy who's gonna be dynamic
on the second unit. Awesome. Now, likely he had a
couple of other suitors or he just played his cards great,
because i'm sure whether I'm sure there was some kind
(08:41):
of agreement that, hey, if I sign with you, I
start and don't come off the bench, because it doesn't
make sense to suddenly put Russell Westbrook in the starting
lineup for the Clippers when hey, wait a minute, We've
been trying to get this team together all year long,
and now we got it and we're winning games. Now
we're gonna disrupt this by putting westbrook In. But for
whatever reason, they put him in the starting lineup, and
here it is. Maybe it's something where it's, hey, we'll
(09:01):
do it for for the first five games and see
where we're at. Something. But the fact that he gets
in the starting lineup and what happens. The Clippers functionality
ceases and they can't win a game, and it's it's
the Clippers decided they got too cute with a team
that they said, hey, we're finally making up making a
run here. We got all our players healthy. Yes, we
got to manage the lone maintenance with Kawai and Paul George.
(09:24):
And I get that part of it, and I get
Kawhi sitting out tonight because look, the Clippers are are
in the seventh spot right now. They're not in the
twelfth spot trying to climb up. But he didn't play
the second half yesterday. I know he's taking a game
and a half play. It's a game and a half. Listen,
I'm gonna take a unofficial half game off. Why because
I'm just gonna hang out like like near Russ. But
we're you know, so you know. But that's the thing
(09:46):
is that they they screwed up a good thing. They
had it going pretty well and they decided we need
this to come in and be a difference maker. And
it's what do you how do you think you need
Russell Westbrook in the starting lineup to suddenly screw all
the things up you had going on? What have you
seen the last couple of years to tell you, hey,
Westbrook's gotta get in the start. I'm hoping this is
(10:07):
a temporary thing because with with the with the second unit, yeah,
this could be pretty good, but first unit it's a disaster. Man.
They went from we're winning every game and where everybody's
darling coming out of the break. How many people in
the media said, you know, the team to make a
big run in the second half of the year is
gonna wind up being the Clippers. I told you blink that, man.
Don't don't hate on the Knicks. The Knicks are that team,
that's right, Knicks, Nicks, Knicks, Nick. But the Clippers where
(10:29):
everybody's darling. And it was yes, because they figured it out,
and it's no, no, no, Now we're gonna we're gonna
put a new point guard and who's a ball dominant
guy and everybody else has to get used to it.
Did you really need to do that? No, you didn't,
and now you got too cute. And look where you
are right now. You're fumbling for answers. It's gonna wind
up being dramatic. It's gonna be Kawhi Leonard having to say, Hey,
we got to go back to something different. I want this,
(10:50):
I want this, And it's just a mess right now
with the Clippers, because that's kind of who the Clippers
have been, all right, if I forget about the embarrassment
that they've had for the majority of their existence. Steve
Balmer buys the team, things get better, right, they sign
star players, they bring in big coaches, But forever they
found a way and have found a way to just
shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly. Hey, nothing should be
(11:11):
able to go wrong here. Nope, things are going wrong.
And now here's the latest thing. We're playing great, we're
winning game after game after game Boy era, and now
now we put that Now we've given back that big
wind streak and all the good feeling and all the
momentum that we built because we got to have Russell
westbrook In in the starting lineup. Yeah, I think the's
a couple of things to go back to the Lakers
really quickly. You know. Part of it was the curiosity
(11:33):
of out of spite, you know, as we'd heard reports
of a Lebron you built this thing, get yourself out
of it. And then when when it was realized that
he couldn't and you were getting to the deadline, it
became a all right, now we make this move and
ship Westbrook off and bolstered the squad. Because there's no
two ways about it. The front office gets credit for
(11:53):
that move, right, there's no clutch sports Lebron James, anybody
gets credit here. Now you got the Clippers move. According
to reports, Paul George was a guy that was the
big vouch for Westbrook here, so he doesn't get to
help with the grocery shopping anymore. Lots of players you
(12:14):
want to bring your guys in because he made you
look good. But in this case, also with the Clippers,
as we talked with Dan Woikey about this the other night,
just the idea that you've got so many players now
you you you're trying to figure out rotations, responsibilities, etc.
One guy in particular, I mean you look at Norman Powell,
who'd been such a force for them even in that
(12:34):
ridiculous one seventy six one seventy five loss, still played
nearly forty minutes. He's been invisible and his shooting percentage
has gone to hell. So he's clearly not the same
guy in these rotations and what his responsibilities are. So
unless they get that sorted out quickly, all of a sudden,
they're gonna be down in the playing rounds, which is
(12:55):
just absurd from where they russell, what's gonna watch the
We're in the downhill elevator and the Lakers are now elevator. Hey,
they're waving too over there us new phone. Who it is?
It's It's amazing, it really is, because we go to
the you know, my buddies. The Tankathon strength of schedule
(13:18):
Clippers have the eighth artist schedule, remaining seventh artist tied
with pot Portland. So but sitting there. Uh, and then
you've got the Lakers only Oklahoma City, New Orleans and
Cleveland with easier runs based on the current winning percentages
of remaining opponents. Twitter at how about a fresca Mike
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(13:40):
friend Mike Carment. You get count on the Clippers just
screw it up, and yet we get to watch again
tonight Lakers and Clippers and it. Oh by the way, hey,
how about Memphis in Denver? Happy Friday night, everybody? Yeah, buddy,
Well we got that. And then the Bulls were down
seven to the Suns with about five minutes left. Now
it's uh uh one seventeen. Mike, you know who was
(14:03):
also down by a lot. But now they're right back
in it. The Miami Heat. They're back in. They're still
losing the heater stair lead to the Knicks. Julius Randall
has sixty seven points tonight. Okay, all right, he's got
thirty five and it'll be a loss. Uh just just wait,
we said that four minutes to go. You rate where
they want? Yeah, Twitter, and about a Fresca. Mike gets
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I see the Clippers do things, and I go, I'm
a better GM sometimes and people, what, really, I'm a
better I could do that. This is not gonna work.
Second unit. No, he wants a guarantee, no guarantee that
(14:44):
he's going someplace else. Okay, goodbye, look, good luck. We'll
go win games without your good luck. I don't I
don't get it. I mean it. So many jobs. Well,
one last question before we go here. Um, well, okay, Colombo.
One last thing where we pause and moved to say
one more question. More question, okay, one more question? Are
(15:07):
the nick in the back official team of Friday Nights
in the NBA? We maybe it? Maybe they seem to
be on every Friday. Yeah, I know it's great, right
and there in our national teams, it's not great. The
official team of Friday Night, the New York Knicks eight
seven seven ninety nine one. Fox is the number eight
seven seven nine nine six six three six nine Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, live from the tirect dot com studios. So
(15:29):
much more, NBA on the way, Such a great night
with drama. But coming up next the prank that nearly
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Alan that the nits suck. What are you even saying?
You're not even saying nicks. It sounds like you're saying nits,
(16:12):
like it's a little bug. It's nicks, it's nicks. The
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That's a little bugs. That's what they are. Then the
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me stop you right there. The knits suck. Okay, well
right now, right now, because I'm always about the next
generation of people coming up and who's gonna do they
are like twenty one twenty two year old kids right now,
listen to the show going, man, this is a big show.
It's on nationally, It's on more five hundred stations from
(16:56):
coast to coast, which is like an unheard of number
from m bigs. Oh yeah yeah, but not on in
New York. And they're sitting there and they're going and
the guy who is it, who is the heartbeat of
the show that is at the Nerve Ventrical system thinks
the Knicks are the Knits. Okay, all right? That that well,
but I mean that's the level of respect he's he
knows damn well what they are. He's a bright man.
(17:19):
Do you think saw something about Syracuse in the n
I t and he's just missing it up. Could be
been a lot of talk about, you know, all those
secondary tournaments because of the scoring record and all of
those things going on. Right, So and maybe you know,
he's been thinking of nice barbs for your Syracuse orange
(17:42):
and maybe he wrote those down and now he's having
fun with your knicks. Then, not not the Knits, the Knicks. Well,
I said nicks because I'm not stealing his bit. I mean,
he's suck and nits do suck. They're light's eggs. I
know exactly, but that's what I was saying, listen, listen,
(18:03):
not that, because because off the top of my head,
I will tell you that that you know, nitzer Light's
eggs that are laid by the adult female headlouse at
the base of the hair shaft nearest the scalp. Uh.
They're firmly attached to the hair shaft, oval shaped, very small,
about the size of a knot and thread, and they're
pretty hard to see. That's the fact of my head.
You know, you really did that, and you emphasized a
couple of words were specifically that's so we're just gonna
(18:27):
let that go that I didn't know. I didn't see
that off the official CDC website. No, no, no, I
knew that top of my head. And oh, by the way,
hey shout out CDC that we can talk about them
in a fun way. And it's not. Well, the CDC
has ruined everything during the zombie apocalypse, right, so we
got to get to the CDs. How do they not
have a cure of the zombies the CDC. Every time
to get to the CDC, CDC prec turns side and says, hey, man,
(18:49):
we did. We got bit by the Lakers zombies too.
The Lakers are back. We're closed, We're closed. Don't come here.
One point lead, two minutes. We're hitting in the first quarter, Lakers.
Let's get to the CDC. That's where everybody goes in
a zombie apocalypse, the CDC. What let's go to the
mountains because let's just let's just be there. Why am
I going to the CDC? Why am I doing that?
(19:11):
The mountains right now? It's just traffic. I did see
some cool videos about the mountains and and our guy
Tim Conway Junior talking about the rainfall and and what
it's done to where you really don't have a drought
in California anyway, said there's too much traffic, zero traffic.
It rained for like fourteen days. Yeah, guy over at
(19:35):
uh CAF. I so you got that going for you too.
So Yeah, a lot lot's going on, a lot of sports,
a lot of knowledge being passed around. I mean, we
are we are a show that leaves no stone unturned. Man,
we are getting after Yeah, some guy hit a big
lucky shot I did. Yeah, speaking of what I got
going for me, let's hear that Julius Randall final call
of that three Wait, wait a minute, wait, we don't
(19:59):
have it. How do we It's the biggest play trip,
biggest play in the history of sports. How do we
not have it? That didn't happen in the Laker game? Oh?
How do we not have Oh we got it, We
got it. Wait, I'll just have to do it for everybody. Here,
you set it up right. Here, I'll say here. You
just didn't set up right. Julius Randall was falling all
over himself. No, here's here's here's the correct final call
(20:22):
of of the nixt game. All right, here we go. This.
This is what it would be if I was calling it.
Nick's down too with the ball. This has to be
Jalen Brunson. He's the best player in the league. He
needs to be able to make this shot. Look at this,
there's three defenders. They're not letting him by. He's gonna
pass the ball to Julius Randall. This is not gonna
end well, because Julius Randall can hit shots in the
final minute. Agod, they just he just lost it near
(20:43):
mid court. This is not gonna end. He just lost
the ball again. It almost went out of bounce. What
the hell he made it? Oh, Juli Randall, Julian's Randall.
You forgot one main thing, Jason bombs the travel Uh
not a travel wasn't called a number and number two
(21:03):
it wasn't it. Just because you say things like that
doesn't mean like, oh it was a missed call. All right,
people are thinking, oh it's like the super Bowl and
they grabbed it was Mike Julius rand There was no
there was no travel. Have you seen the highlight there's it. Yes,
I've seen it. I've seen it like five thousand times
that I keep watching. I can't not watch it. Julius
(21:23):
Randall travel. I'm looking. No one's saying about no. No.
The last time Julius Randall travel is trending is from
March of twenty twenty one. No, wait a minute, from
thirty four minutes ago. Nick's MSG N Julius Randall is clutch.
(21:43):
There you go, buddy. Although I will say this the
second thing that if you google Julius Randall travel, the
second thing that comes up to someone who said players
with the most travel since January first, Julius Randall is third.
There is Russell Westbrook for travel. That's good. But since
the All Star Game, as we talked about last hour
(22:05):
twenty eight for fifty seven from how bad after his
kid might needed that. Maybe his kid is the real MVP,
well like Draymond's kid was last year. Now we have
the transference to Julius Randall's kids tackle that teammate at
at his game, right, because that was making the rounds
last week. And Julius Randall travels and Randall gets bubbled
(22:30):
five seconds ship Paul Louis Randall gets it back three
seconds fraight away for three y s down right on
the quarter. Seven ago, Wait are you up the next game?
Jason cried? The Knicks half the league? What's twenty two?
What's twenty seen in Miami? So let us rando? Let's
(22:50):
just fly a broken play and the next sleep by
two play seven ago, Jason, what are you doing there?
That's me? I was the analyst on that call. That
was yet even getting pretty close to Caesar Romero's joker.
What do you have for us? I got nothing but WHOA?
I got nothing but who who knew? Rick Flair was
on the call? Ronnie Jo out of the old Cubs guy.
(23:15):
Clearly t J Julius Randall has the rolls. Royce's baby,
He's got him, and there it is with a three.
I mean that now that you don't get that kind
of basketball analysis just anywhere, mean that you could talk
about tone it Jim, Jim him and just see that place.
I mean you could talk but that, but just you know,
the analysts just going whoa. I mean for like thirty seconds,
(23:35):
I'm now going to next year, next football season, every fumble,
recovery or interception by the Bears defense, we will have
the radio call Paul. Yeah, sometimes that's the best call.
Play it again. I mean really that that's the kind
of analysis that is sorely lacking, and so we can
(23:56):
only play it again if you set it up right. Though.
Let's say, okay, Nicks with the ball they're down to
I don't know how they're gonna give the ball to
Julius Randall, but they gotta get it to him here
at the end, maybe for some kind of off balance
three tom more than an Indian play here and then
Lens Changes gets hit the ball and it's alive the travel.
(24:19):
But there's also things never said before by Smith. Can't
get the ball to Randall in the final minute when
he end, and he just set it up like you
gotta get them Yeah, no, no, I mean you've got
I will admit my take of that of a week
and a half ago did not age well, did not.
But that's okay. I'm okay with a cold takes here.
It is the Knicks down by two again with time
(24:41):
running out. Listen to the expert color analyst being able
to tell you exactly what's going on with the game,
Tom more than an Indian apprist. People about enough of
this play here, and then lens Changes gets hit. The
ball is loose and it's a live Yeah, no, set
up correctly? No, what do you mean? Set it up correctly?
What the hell are you talking about? I'll help you
(25:03):
out what Julius Randall travels and this is what happened.
Grandell gets funding five seconds, ship by Louis Randel gets
shot back three seconds, fraight away for three, don't sit
down right on the quarter with play to seven Ago
brand the next half believe what's twenty two? I'm twenty
(25:25):
see in Miami, s let us Rando, let's find a
broken play and the next sleep by two with poy
seven Ago can you travel without legs? Lieutenant Diane. People
are like, what the hell is that? We gotta listen
to the whole show. Yeah, this a little show. But
you don't get you don't get an analysis like that
just anywhere, man. I mean, that's special stuff. That special
(25:48):
encapsulates the moment in the grandest way possible. Look at that,
Julius randalm Be sure to catch live editions of The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific. Tell Alan Uh, we have more on
the NBA coming up in a bit. But Bryce Young
is not tall, Stetson Bennett has issues. C J. Strout
(26:10):
is the best. Well. Levis can't wait to show off
his candid of an arm and oh, by the way,
everybody's still waiting for Aaron Rodgers to make his decision.
Joining us now on the hotline. He is a longtime
NFL inside To check out his latest on out Kick,
you can follow him on Twitter at Jason cole sixty
two students all Right. He is also a long time
(26:32):
Hall of Very Good voter. Jake Hole, what's happening? Buddy
Levey's beautiful? What's going on? Guys? Tell him good evening
talking Matthew's blowing by the Hall of Very Good thing
because you're gonna have to own that for a while.
Let's keep his pleasant, okay. I mean I didn't put
up a really cool picture of Zach Thomas earlier that
(26:53):
was really cool. And he is a two Hall of
Tame okay, and he was a Cowboys uniforms that look.
I understand that to let in a guiding that that
was a Hall of Famer, you gotta let it like
five guys who were not Hall of famers, hall of
very good. There you go. Yeah, but I like that
now that he's going into the Hall of Fame, he's
(27:14):
a chirping about quarterbacks and what should should be done.
I don't think we ever really heard him talk about
what the management should do. Now He's like, hey, I'm jesty,
I'm GM Now I'm taking over, baby, he is, this
is felt taking over the Yankees and said he I
(27:35):
could be making trades, Jerry, I could be making trades.
This is why the Yankees haven't won in twenty five years.
I gotta feel like this is how it goes. Rogers
get me. Carson went, yes, you know I wants he
wants a tough guy who's trying to overcome things. That's
that's that's why, that's that's why defensive lineman not good GMS. No,
(27:58):
but but what about it this? But if this happens,
I just think about this for a second. At the combine,
Carson Wentz tries to do an Eli Manning Chad powers
and convince people he's coming out of the draft and
he puts on a disguise and he throws for James
as a fifth round pick. A person like Carson, our
(28:20):
seven quarterback, just says, I'll go back in. He's been
like Derek Carr goes back in. They're like, yeah, third
round tops, man, really, third round tops. Listen, you're a
Day three guy. But you never know, right, you never
know a quoterback position of need for a lot of teams,
you never know. I remember where Maurice poirette we call it,
when when we went to the combine failed to do
(28:42):
the bench press. I was like, day he's a Day
four guy. And when he when he didn't he run that?
Didn't he run the forty yard dash in like nine
seconds or something insane like that? He had at times
nine five or something like that. He like, actually, rich
Rich Eisen beat him on the forties. I remember that.
I remember the early gifts of that of like photoshop
(29:04):
of of of a guy like in his walker, like
passing him like as he's running like like through there.
Oh man, hey when it's the third a mile with
Garrett Blunt, Like Garrett Blunt ran that like five point
one seconds as a running back, which tells you, like
how meaningless it is because he actually had a really
kind of decent career a bower rider break looked like
(29:27):
he was carrying an Ellison on his back. Hey, So
apparently people are just finding out Bryce Young is not tall.
I mean, I don't know. I made my big pretty
much is. People are just finding that out right now,
and it might be a big deal. He's skinny, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
(29:47):
he's not a big man. You didn't see all those
six foot five offensive linemen in the surrounding him as
he looked like he was five foot eight in the huddle.
Um yeah, but he had all those pads on. I
feel like that would be what Henry Winkler for a
Rust of Development would say, it's kind of hard. Guys
have all the pads I've got. I've got pads. I've
(30:08):
got pads. I really I got pads. I can bulk
up protect me. I won't wear that. Joey boasts a
little baby shoulder pads. I'll put like big time shoulder
pads on. Yeah, it looks like those the Pop Warner
kids When I first put on pads. Man, just get
(30:30):
a full bread. Yeah, I look, this is a real deal.
This is a real thing, and people need to understand
it's a real thing because you have to be able
to take hits in this league and this so this matters.
And it's not the height, it's the it's your your
body strength because it's like Russell Wilson's not very big guy,
(30:50):
but he's you know, he's a well built guy, which
is why he's last year is slung now last season
aside for Russell Wilson, he obviously had rich first nine
years to his career, right, and part of that that was,
you know, he's a strong guy. Drew Brees. If you've
ever stood next to Drew Brees, he's not. He's a muscular,
(31:11):
well built guy, but pretty put together, which he had
to become in his career after the shoulder injuries. But
people worry about like two attack looks like mister Universe
next to Bryce Young right, like and TWA gets ragdalled
on a regular basis. So Bryce Young has some real
(31:32):
work ahead of him to make sure he puts on
some proper weight. Now, there have been guys who are
skinning quarterbacks. Jared Goff is, you know, not the biggest
guy in the world. Joe Montana was not a particularly
big guy. But you know, ay, Jared Goff is not
exactly mister I'm going to hold the ball and take
a shot here. You know, that's one of one of
(31:53):
his biggest problems is he don't like to get hit right.
He plays tackle football for living. I don't want to
get in right. And you're, like, no quarterback likes to
get hit. But there are some guys who are Phil Sims.
And then there's the other end of the spectrum, and
that would be Jared gosh right, and so like that's
a problem. And then you know, Joe Montana was not
(32:15):
a very big guy, and he got rag dolled a
lot in his career. And there's a reason why he's
missed a lot of tears of his career, Like he
missed I think, if you put it together, like four
full seasons of action overall in his career because of
all the injuries that he suffered. So as great as
(32:35):
he was even he had his problems. I mean, Kurt
Warner is tough of guys as there's ever been. Guy
missed a lot of time. So, yes, this is a
real concern with Bryce yea. And the question is not
so much what does he weigh today? Okay, it's it's
obviously concern, but can he put on weight? Can he
(32:55):
gets strong enough? And I think, unfortunately an answer is
probably know that if you take this guy, you're gonna
have to live with the fact that he's going to
struggle to get to two hundred pounds or you know,
two hundred and five pounds, and you're gonna have to
find a way to really protect him and have a
great line which you have to take into consideration when
(33:15):
you're building a team around him. So how desperate to
teams get at the top? You know, he's the head
and no, no, he goes he goes first, but then
the other three three guys, I mean, how quickly they
come off. I don't know if he goes first. Yeah,
I don't know about you and Richardson guy now because
(33:37):
Smith Adams the cole is gonna be the guy to
say if Geordan Love was coming out of this draft
he'd be the number one overall pick um well, based
on the fact that Jordan was actually played. Yeah, probably,
but um no. I mean what I would say is,
if all things are equal, you take the bigger guy. Now,
(33:59):
Anthony Richardson is the extreme the other direction, because like
where Bryce Young played in a in a pro style
offense at Alabama and had a lot of throws the
last couple of years, right, and played in a similar
kind of offense in high school and through the ball,
you know, a couple of thousand times basically, you know,
(34:22):
in all those drills. Anthony Richardson hasn't even thrown four
hundred passes since the beginning of his senior year. And
I so it's a Trey Lance situation. No no, no, no, no,
no no. I have the exact match for this. Anthony
Richardson should go to the Cowboys because Mike McCarthy doesn't
(34:44):
want to throw the football, so they would be perfect.
He doesn't have to throw the football. He's it's a
Bray's a match made in heaven, right there, Anthony Richardson.
I think Anthony Richardson's best off going to the Jets.
Can you really say anybody is best off going to
the Jets. I mean, really, is that a real sentence? No,
(35:05):
you tried to make that happen. I appreciate that, Like
I was thinking about some snarky remark and in response,
But no, I can't justify saying to anyone that they
should go to the Jets. That's just that's just it's
not a healthy thing for any player. No, because I
know if if the Packers come to Aaron Rodgers, who
I want to continue my career? You're sure, yes I do? Okay,
(35:28):
So what is it? Well, it's the Jets or nobody. Well,
get my retirement papers ready, I'm walking away. I've done
the Jets or nobody if it's ready. If it's the
Jets or nobody, He'll choose nobody, because that's how it
goes for the Jets now. Jake Cole, Yeah, we've always
had the Ravens as one of those exemplary kind of organizations.
(35:50):
But it seems like the building's burning right now. A
lot a lot of infight. Margin. Well, look, I mean
they know we've been talking about this for what the
last year. Like if they wanted to sign them, they
would have signed them, right. Oh, I'm talking about the
whole thing between that, the players survey, the wide receiver
(36:13):
fight with Dakasta, it's really uh quickly yeah, But I mean, look,
the other stuff is small potatoes. When your quarterback, when
you don't know if you have a quarterback or not,
that's a much more essential problem. And but how many teams,
how many teams really took it on the chin and
that that survey. I mean there's there's what a dozen
(36:34):
teams that just got hammered in that survey, basically a
third of the league. And they deserve it, right, like
Arizona Cardinals. Like charging for meals? Really, is that worse
than the rats? That's like in that's like in college
when you go in for your meal, I'm sorry, your
your meals are up for the week. You can't you
can't get a meal here. You can all have to
(36:55):
pay for it? Oh man, I mean, I mean the Bidwells,
Bidwell's gonna bid Well. I'm just gonna say that that's
what they got, you know, like Charlie's been dead for
a long time. Build Bidwells, you know, been dead for
a while here. But Michael Bidwell, Yeah, let's charge the
players for food. We want them to eat well, but
(37:16):
let's charge them for their meals when they come in.
I like the ruin where the weight rooms not you know,
you know, like the day that you're supposed to work out,
the weight rooms locked part of the day and then oh,
come on, man, Like teams just don't get it, Like,
they just don't get it. You want your guys to
train in your facility. Don't give them reasons not to train,
(37:38):
Like here's the one they like, Oh, you've got to
show up for all these offseason programs, but I can't
give you a ham sandwich. I really need me to train.
I need you to show up all the time. Oh no,
tune for you, No, no, no, no vitamins in Cincinnati, right.
(38:05):
These are professional athletes, you morons doing. You see them
in peaks in the goal conditions, and you want to
keep track of them, but you find reasons to drive
them away. You guys are idiots. You're just idiots over
stuff that is nickel, the most nickel and dime crap
(38:26):
of all time, like the ham sandwich. Yeah, I'm you know, like, oh,
we can't have a guy come in to you know,
make up some hot food or something like for that. No,
we can't afford the couple one hundred bucks a day
it might cost to actually, you know, have the cafeteria working.
That was my favorite one. Forget about the rats in
the in the hamper and Jacksonville because you just bring
(38:47):
in the cocaine bear to take care of that. My
favorite was the Bengals. Their cafeteria is not open for dinner. Wait,
so like, hey, I'm still hungry. Nope, now don't we
send everybody home. We're not paying anybody more than eight hours.
We're done. Everybody's going. Well, yeah, and here and and
by the way, if you've ever been to like you know,
like their train facility is in downtown Cincinnati, right, Like
(39:10):
the closest food to that is like Skyline Chili, which
is just direct Like that's that's just awful. Yeah, I
mean Skyline Chili. Come on, just stop just u But um, like,
like there's not like food, easy access food. So now
you're your coaching staff can't even have dinner. Like you're
(39:33):
expecting those guys to eat late to stay late in
the work, but we can't get them any food either.
It's just mind boggling the kind of stupid stuff that
teams do. Um where they just don't take care of
the people who are supposed to take care of and
I mean Washington, I mean the Washington story about ESPN
(39:55):
this week was it was a classic. But the fact
that they've like that, the fact that Dan Snyder's paying
himself four and a half million dollars a year to
put the Washington logo on his private jet and call
that advertising is one of the greatest things ever because
like that money actually doesn't go to the Saffary cap
(40:18):
as a result of that. It's just a classic. All
the stuff that they call Follow them on Twitter at
Jason Cole sixty two. That is, at Jason Coles sixty two.
He's the guy saying ikey, Icky, ikey. Jordan loves Zoezy Skyline.
(40:41):
My review of Skyline Chili coming up next. Do you
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very quickly? Yeah, thank you. Yeah. No, They'll never give
you dinner in Cincinnati again. That's okay. I'm never going
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