March 21, 2023 • 42 mins
Jason Smith with Mike Harmon discuss the crazy World Classic Baseball Game between Japan and Mexico! USA and Japan face off tomorrow night for the championship game, and Jason La Canfora - NFL Insider joins the guys!
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Julius Randall could score sixty and then Nicks are gonna lose.
It doesn't matter. Can I get the tops now, Carlac,
they don't have a basketball license. Maybe I'll do a
custom guard for you. Oh, you score sixty, but it'll
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have a big font. But they lose. It's the final
next yo, Yeah, I watched thirty points. Yeah, fifty seven
points for Julius Randall tonight and the Knicks lose one
forty to one thirty Julius Channel fourth quarter. I'll tell
you the Wolves shoot sixty percent from the floor and
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sixty percent from three point range. Fightty one point. Torrian Prince,
who's averaging eight points a game, had thirty five tonight.
He didn't miss. He's eight out of eight from three
point range. Should Tom Tibodeau be fired on principal when
something like that happened? I mean, really, your whole thing
is about effort and defense. This is like, what what
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is this? Who are who are you? And who have
you turned into? Like suddenly he's gonna unzip his head.
He's gonna like Paul Westhead or you know, just hey,
all we did was trying to put points on the board.
We don't care about defense. You know, he's a guy
that decided that he wants to own the garden. He's retired,
Lebron's not playing Nick Show. So I'm gonna go in
there and I'm going to be the Prince of New York.
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Let's go sixty percent from the floor, sixty percent from
three and the Wolves beat the Knicks one. I really
this is one of those games like their really like
really like really like what like, come on, man, seriously,
like really this that really really really you know, what
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what do you do? I mean? I was all excited
because we beat the crap out of the Nuggets over
the weekend, and I'm like, yeah, you gotta take us seriously. Now,
you gotta take us seriously now. And now you know,
the Wolves come in, who were barely five hundred, not even,
and they shoot six percent from the floor and they
win this game. I believe the great artist Paula Abdul
said it best. Two steps forward, two steps back, and
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then dance with the cartoon cat DJ. We come together
because opposites attract DJ uh. Yeah, so already was starting
tonight now I'm like, yeah, oh, but you just don't
get to have nice things, man, no, no act. Last
week people were asking me. We talk a lot about
the World Baseball Classic, right, We've got great game going
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on in Mexico, Japan. Randy Rosarina is now a superhero
who signs autographs during pitching changes, robbing uh, fly ball
after flyball and would be home runs. Nope, not in
my house. All of these things. Uh, and we go
back to the big injury because look, nobody, nobody's crying
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for al Tuove. See how different the reaction was. Your
guy gets hurt, goes silent. Yeah yeah, Edward Diez gets hurt,
and everybody cries about what the world why are playing it?
Yeah that al Tuove gets hit, breaks his hand, and
everybody goes consta douing business. What do you get? Yeah,
yeah to completely response, cheater, Yeah yeah, but it was
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to day weekend. Okay, but yeah, but it was out too, man.
I mean, you know, you're right, that's exactly what the
reaction was to this. And look, to be quite honest,
right now it is it is a very big moment
right now in the World Baseball Classic United States in
the championship game tomorrow night. Mexico leads Japan right now
four three. As Mexico coming to bat now in the
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top of the eighth inning, they have just pushed across
a run to take the lead. They have runners at
second and third and two out. Uh. You know, the
winner of this game will play the United States. Otani
pitch to Otani's playing tonight, and you know, everybody's going
crazy about the batting practice he had. He's hitting almost
five hundred in the World Baseball Classic. Here's the best
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I can do for you, right, here's the best I
can do. The best I can do is yeah, And
I'm sure I'll be excited tomorrow night with the United
States playing in the Championship, and it'll it'll be fun.
All the superstars are out there. But I kind of
feel like when you're watching the Olympics, right, and it's
an event that you don't really care about, but you're
rooting for the United States. Can't because we live in
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the United States. Why States to win? But if they lose,
you know, it's like, oh, that's too bad. But you
know that guy from Germany deserved it, or you know
that that woman from China deserved it, or that guy
from Canada, or that you know that woman from South
Korea whatever it is. He Oh yeah, are that team
from from Jamaica, whatever it is. You know, I have
Bob sled team Boy. They were great. I did. That's
kind of how I feel like it. Maybe it's my
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age because I grew up in a different time and
this was foisted upon us, Like now you have to
care about the world Baseball Classic. And all I could
think of is, I don't care about this as much
as I want my guys to stay healthy. And here
I am this year having to deal with Edwin Diaz
being done for the season because of bleeping jumping up
and down celebrating over winning a game that doesn't really count.
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So maybe that's it and you have this. Yeah, you
got to hook this next generation of fans who have
grown up knowing nothing but the World Baseball Classic, right
because we've been doing this now for for fifteen sixteen years. Uh,
you know, it's been around enough time for now for
people who are in their mid twenties or or or
younger or thirty, say, hey, it's always been a part
of my life. And I like the World Baseball Classic.
And we see that the ratings are okay, the the
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ratings across the globe are phenomenal. Uh. The in person
attendance is fantastic, The atmosphere is electric. I mean, maybe
I'm just the wrong person. And if you ask me
this with Edwin a healthy Edwin Diaz, maybe I give
you a different answer. But the best I can give
you is met I mean, last I'm sure I'll be
excited I can do no and I get it right.
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And it's like we always have been using the Kevin
Durant sound clip and it applies here. I talked about
it a little bit yesterday. Dan Bayer was in with
me on Fox Sports Sunday. Uh, you know you don't
like it, don't watch right, I can't force you to
like it. There's plenty of sporting events that you can
casually go through, right. It might be on in someone's house,
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or it's on on the bar, and you don't care
enough to say, hey, can you change that over to
whatever you leave it on because it's still a sporting event, right.
And with the World Baseball Classic, you know, there's just
all the other ancillary parts to it that I think
you know and me, this goes back to my boring,
pragmatic approach to the world and good business and promotion
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and the fact that you've got guys who in players
who have more excitement and intrigue in this scenario than
they've been able to have in most of their professional lives.
And of course I'm looking right at you, Mike Trout,
where you know Weatherman and Eagles fan, right, those are
the two most interesting things and denying you know who
he's going to give his next All Star MVP truck too,
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Like that's been the highlights of his major league baseball
career for the most part these last couple of years,
and instead you've got him rejuvenated. What the crowd sounded
like after that trade turner Grand Slam over the weekend,
you get goosebumps watching the replay or just hearing the
audio from it, because it is a big moment. The
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players want in and the owners. Look, if they wanted to,
they could block it right. You had obviously some big
conversations with Clayton Kershaw about his participation and where he's
at physically and age and everything else, and whether it
was a good idea bad idea. You're ramping up just
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maybe a little more aggressively in terms of your preparation
than you would be if you were in Arizona or Florida.
You're still getting the work in right at the cage
and the infield, the outfield and on the mound, and
you're throwing days. So you know, it parallels not like
you're suddenly, you know, in a lumberjack contest flipping logs. No,
you're pitching a baseball, just like you get paid to do.
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So all of that comes together. But to your point, yeah,
if it's not your thing, and take Edwin Diaz out
of the equation for a second. I know that's hard
to do right now, but take him out of the equation.
You know, if you're you're not into it because you
want to watch the Knicks lose Julius Randell. We've moved
on from then, We've moved on from Jermaine, from Jermaine
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to what we're doing here. If you want to walk
on from it, you know, recalibrate your bracket for the
you know, Sweet sixteen, or you're whatever you got going
on in your life. Maybe you're just looking for the
next episode of ted Lasso or seeing if Krim's got
a great question in the in the gallery. I don't know.
But the fact is, you know this, this has gotten
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a little bit of traction. It's not for everybody, as
the ratings attest to, but you know what, damn it,
I'm in you. Yes, I get it. Yeah, Yes, it's yeah,
it's the it's the it's the you know, obviously, the
pride of country, and you know it's easy to get
up for that. You look, I'm mixed. Look, I want
to see the United States win and and Mexico was
six out outs away from the United States Mexico game
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because they they're going to the bottom of the eighth
now up five three over Japan. But at the same time,
like if the United States loses, I'm I'm I'm getting back. Okay,
I'm moving on from that. Five minutes after the game
is over, And what's gonna happen is all the champagne
is gonna dry and the dust is gonna settle, and
I still don't have edwin DZ for the season. Well, no,
no matter what, tomorrow this season Now we'll be on
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air tomorrow, So five minutes after the game, we'll be
talking about what it means for US baseball and our
prospects going forward, how much we dominate the world, and
we're the best country there's ever been created. Or were
cursing the system, We're cursing the minor leagues and wondering
why we're not churning out better players. You know how
this goes? Hey, right, the greatest countries ever right now
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eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Where is the
United States? Are they the best? Is Canada better right now.
Eight here's a hot take for you. I would take
Canada over the United States right now, just because of
the free healthcare eight seven, seven ninety nine five. United
States might not even be on my Mount Rushmore of
greatest countries. Ever, I will tell you this. The World
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Happiness Report came out today and the United States is fifteenth.
I take ames first. Yeah, but there's a lot of
countries though. That's fifteen out of how many? Yeah, I
mean top ten. It's not like it's not like fifteen
out of It's not like we're reseating the sweet sixteen
and you are the fifteenth of the sixty. I get that, Okay,
everybody eight happy meals, Like Jason, we'd be number one. Well,
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we'd also be really poor now because they're they're now.
Let me guess number one is gotta be. I get
three guesses at number one, because they're all the same,
they're all in the same area. I'm gonna say either Norway, Finland,
or Sweden. One of number one, Finland number six, Norway
as seven. Finland's been number one, I think for five
or six years, six years now. I do you think
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that's a real like do we have that kind of
like you think about like the United States Mexico soccer rivalry,
and like the United States Russia hockey rivalry, United States Canada,
Like do do those Do those countries have a real
rivalry with each other? Because everybody across the globe just thinks.
For all that said, Finland, Sweden, nor the Scandinavian countries,
do you think they have like a real one. No,
they don't. They don't necessarily like each other. No, Norway
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really don't like each other. I want to see a
third spent a lot of time in Sweden. Yeah, yeah,
like people want and Norway, though, they go hey blank,
you go yeah blank, Finland or that there's like some
kind of thing you say. I tell them I'm from
Chicago and I now live in Los Angeles. I'm the
most interesting man in the in the room, and I
don't pay for a beer. Oh all right, I either
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know gangsters or movie stars. Wow. Okay, okay, Wow, that's
the assumption over there. Okay. From one of those places
was Denmark? Sure, Denmark's still up there? No, no, no,
there's why there's always something rotten. Second, yeah, I mean
something was rotten in Denmark for Shakespeare and they killed
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Hamlet there. I mean, howk out great? He was indecisive
if he had he had done something, what do you
mean he had to come and he tried to save everybody.
What do you don't mean handling? Yeah, but he waited
too long? Happy he did? He did? He couldn't. He
waited too long. It's been more proactive. The latent U
Gangston anxiety over his appearance wouldn't have been there. She
got the top five. You've got Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Israel
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and the Netherlands, all these places where it's cold all
the time. Well, but do you know what you do
when it's cold all the time? That's right, let's get
it on. Yeah, okay, wow, chill out over there all
of a sudden four times, man pose four right? Like, really,
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everybody wants to live where it's warm, Yet the happiest
people seem to be where it's cold all the time.
I mean, look, I love wearing like warm stuff and
Patagonia jackets and so I like that in hoodies and stuff.
But I mean I'd want to be where it's warm. No,
I mean that's where you want to go really, So, like,
are the unhappiest places like like like the where they're
the temperatures are hot, like I don't understand. Yeah, I
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don't know. I'm looking at the just the top. I
got the top twenty four here. I don't know why
I'd stopped to twenty four where the twenty fifth was
left off the list. I don't know. But twenty four
is Romine, twenty three is Costa Rica. I mean there's
a lot of stuff that can kill you there, wild
animals and stuff. Uh. Slovenia is at twenty two, France
at twenty one, Lithuania, the UK at nineteen. Um, somehow
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Chechdia's above the United Kingdom. Really, that one's a little curious, Yeah,
not as curious. Then go Belgium, then Germany, and then
you get fifteen from the United States. Ireland just ahead
of the US, Canada at thirteen. Australia at twelve. Austria.
You talking about places where there are things that can
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kill you anytime that's on streets. I mean, yeah, animals,
perhaps you're what's that money, I said, Bluie, No, that's right,
you get you, Louie Blue. Very nice for Austbrook. I
can't believe that that's this nation. I think that's a
Bad's a bad list, man, that's a bad list. Australia
is too dangerous. Australia is entirely populated with criminals. But but,
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but it might be a case in Australia just like
what the cold countries. You're worried everything could kill you.
You stay inside and take area business. Be sure to
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Harman weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. Well,
we now know the United States will play Japan in
the final of the World Baseball Classic. Mexico had everything.
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They were winning the entire game. It was four one,
it was four two four, and then Japan comes up
in the ninth inning and Mexico does not record an out,
a leadoff double by show Hey Otani. Two batters later,
Murakami with a double to end it a walk off
for Japan. They win at six to five. So it's
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the US and Japan tomorrow in the final. As I
said earlier, I'll tell you the same thing. Hey, I'm
still kind of met on it. It's okay, I'm kind
of It'll be exciting tomorrow and at the end I
won't have d so that's Sarah. That's where I'm at.
We won't have hater either. Don't date on. This is
incredible theater. This Knight's gonna be epic. Man, it's great theater.
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I said it's going to be fun. It'll be fun.
I'm telling you, man, it'll be fun watching the best
line I've ever put out there. Yeah yeah, then's gonna
and then I'm gonna go. Yeah. We don't have our closer,
we don't have a guy. Isn't about the Matt suck.
Sure it is, Sure it is. It's about everything. But
you know what Frostburg for someone who you know should
have been rooting for the Knicks tonight and being very happy.
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No I was rooting four Yeah I was, yeah, yeah, yeah,
no I was. Oh no, no you were, but you
weren't because even in our text threat, it's like, man,
all of these things are great, but I can't cheer
for the Knicks. I was at one hell of a
four team parlay. If you went down that road, do
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you want the Lakers and move up in the standings
or not? It's it's pretty much that simple. Yeah all
right then so okay, see, so it comes back to
your squad even though, we get the temporary joy the
Knicks losing despite Julius Randall's fifty seven points. Shut up,
yeah that that he had, has that great game, and
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they still lose. They give up one hundred and forty points.
This Tom Thibadeau Doberman defense. Uh, standing around watching the
world go by. Uh So, long term, you know that
that doesn't help the Lakers. Right, so tonight you get
to chuckle at the Knicks losing, but it's not achieving
the full goal. Likewise, here Jason can appreciate the short term,
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but still he's got to go one hundred and sixty
two days of you and me and tie shirt and
Steve mocking him when they can't close out a game.
Yeah no, I mean, like I said, the the the
champagne will dry very quickly, is how I should say that.
Of however, this game goes tomorrow, now the good champagne room, Uh,
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it will dry very quickly. The good news is that
if the United States loses, I could at least go, ahha,
we could have won. Oh well, I mean be easy
for it'll be easy for me to move off of.
Oh yeah great, when Tommy got his chitle, now he
can move on, when is Aaron Rodgers coming? When is
Aaron Rodgers coming out? That really keeps drag on, When
is it coming? When is it coming? When? Hey? Not
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for nothing? Not for nothing? But I you know, I
say all the time that our show is ahead of
the curve. I always say, and it is. And I
always say that I could be a general manager in sports, right,
I could be a generalman sport. What did I tell
you last week when the story came out, when it
was first pushed slash The slant towards the Packers were
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reported by members of the media who were all too eager,
whether it's Ian Rappaport or chef or whoever else, want
to say, Oh, hey, the Packers have no hurry to
trade Aaron Rodgers because they put an ingenious clause in
his contract where his money's not due until right before
the league year. They can wait all summer long to
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trade him, which you know, so now you know the
insiders they're getting all their stuff from the Packers. And
what did I tell you soon as that came out
that was completely false? Why they have no leverage? They
have already made a public They want to move on. Right,
We said this all last week right. We said this
last week right, they made a public they want to
move on from Aaron Rodgers. Can't have the guy back.
We're we're moving on to Jordan's love. You can't have
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the guy back number two. And it's a big deal.
If you ask for too much and you piss the
Jets off, the Jets are gonna leave. And nobody else
is trading for Aaron Rodgers. There's no other team, and
you're stuck with the guy. So yeah, doesn't help the Jets. No,
but the Jets are in no worse position than they
were going into this. They we didn't get Aaron row Okay,
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now we'll go get somebody else who knows what it is.
But we'll go get somebody else. And you're stuck with
a guy that you don't want, that's not going to play,
that is impossible to trade, and you'll have to eat
money just to let them go. And then the Jets
can say, Okay, Aaron Rodgers here, come to us. So
the Packers have no leverage. The Jets have all the leverage. Right.
This is from former Eagles president than Joe Banner, who
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had an unbelievable career with the Eagles. He built them
into a powerhouse. He was the president for almost twenty years. Right,
there's a guy who's a team president for twenty years.
What did he say over the weekend? Quote the Packers
by waiting risk that for some reason the Jets would
not be interested, then they have no one to trade with,
which ruins their team for possibly two or three years.
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Believing the Jets will do something that will reflect in
patience is not leverage. That's just hoping they're stupid. I
could have been at g We told you this last week,
and here's the former president of the Eagles, I mean,
not the band, the Eagles. All that would have been
something too, president of the Eagles who said exactly what
we told you last year. They don't have leverage. They
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don't have leverage. It's a great game of chicken, right,
because if you're the Jets chicken, well yeah, I mean,
you know, you can fry it, you can baste it,
you can roast it. You kid anyway, Uh shrimp, jumbo shrimp, shrimp,
kebab shrimp, Hi gotta find Bubba. Look the the idea,
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here's the giant game of chicken. For the fact that
the Packers clearly you're done with this, right, You've told
every insider, You've had Murphy talking outside of the state
high school girls championships and everything else, talking about where
they're at, and you've got Jordan Love ready to go.
You'd like to get Aaron Rodgers off the books and
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out of your minds, because the longer he's there and
this hangs in limbo, you've got to think about it
of what the next step is and how a lot
of what he's doing has been for spite and rectifying
that situation, whatever that means, swallowing your pride, eating more
of the money, you know, all of those mechanics that
have to come true. So that's the Packers side. On
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the Jet side, it's the all right, all the guys,
all the dance cards been filled for all the middling
quarterbacks Okay, not all, but most, and with the Jets
fans ravenous and having men teas for multiple weeks, with
every type of shot you could possibly have of Aaron
Rodgers photoshopped into a Jets jersey pondering the greatness simulating games. Yeah,
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you don't know the sequence of games to be played
in twenty twenty three, but you know the opponents. You
can start going through that. Look at we can go
eleven and six or maybe thirteen and four. Maybe we
could run the table all of those things, and then
maybe to have to come back to say, wait, who's left? Man,
we can't even get Minshew at this point we got,
we got who and maybe they've already pivoted to a
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whole thing to try to woo and bring Lamar Jackson
in something that again I had at the curve. We
had that as we talked it out several weeks ago
on this very program that you know that would be
planned b if you're the Jet, because that is still
potentially in the offing with the way the Ravens have
played things out. And for two first round picks, well,
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if Jackson does his jobs, those are pretty crappy first
round picks. Right. See, But here's a thing. Here's a thing,
And now I'm gonna raise the stakes on you, right
because here's so much where I told you last week
that the Jets have all the leverage because the Packers
have overplayed their hand and they've pushed Aaron Rodgers out.
Now I say, oh wait, you wanted a first round pick,
and maybe you know you're looking for another pick in
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twenty twenty four. So yeah, no, no, we're worth you
on that. You want two picks, Yeah, that's fine. Yeah,
but he's worth the first anyway. But you know, but
here's the thing, you know, the big sunny weaver the world.
It's a different world we're in thirty seconds ago. How
about it's a second and a fourth the more you
want to wait, how about that? How about we give
you now, now that's the best offer on the table,
a second round pick this year and a fourth round
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pick next year. And maybe you can sweet talk me
into a second this year and a third next year.
And I could say, okay, but you've all already misplayed
your hand. You are the Packers just when it came
down to it, they couldn't wait to be able to
say we want to push this guy out. They were
patient all the way until the end. And this is
why some people are great poker players and some people aren't,
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because this gets to the very end of a negotiation,
and this is when things get really tense, and this
is where closers come into close things, and you see
someone who's strong for so long melt down. The Packers
have been fine for the last years. They have taken
all Aaron Rodgers crap, the two MVP years last year. Okay,
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now we don't have to anymore. We can take a
little bit more of the leverage here. We can push
it forward and try and say we want to move
on from ri great, but now that it got this
close to the finish line before they crossed it, they
couldn't help themselves. We're moving on. Our preferred situation is
to have Jordan love b Our quarterback. That we want
what's best for Aaron and he had a great career
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here and talking about them in the past tense, they
got all giddy, they overplayed their head. And now the
Jets are backing up, going, oh hey, wait a minute,
we could keep that first round pick. What do you
think Joe d and Robert Salis going, yeah, wait a
little bit. Who else they gonna trade him to? There's
nobody else. Yeah, maybe a second and a fourth, second,
and maybe a third and a fourth, third and a fifth.
Maybe you just say you're gonna give them to us.
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We're gonna give you a conditional draft pick. Now the
Jets can play hardball with it because it's the only place.
So the Packers went from the erroneous report of we
have leverage too. Maybe we don't have leverage too. Now
the Jets have leverage, and now it's you better say
yes or this offer just get It just gets worse.
How much you paid Joe Banner? Did we cord this cameo?
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I paid? I paid Joe Banner nothing I paid Joe bad.
I think the big thing with it is just the
as Banner goes to the terms stupid, I go again
to my pragmatism and wanting to save face, the fan base,
all of those things that roll into where the Jets.
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The longer it hangs out, perhaps there's a level of mistrust.
Now if you're comfortable in your job and you don't
care and you don't think the public opinion is going
to sway Woody Johnson, which, let's face it, oftentimes he
hasn't seemed like he's well. He hasn't even been in
the country, so let's let's just go there. He hasn't
been handling the day to days of the business at all,
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back when he was overseas as a member of political administration.
But the fact is that I think you're playing towards
the sensibilities and wondering if that doesn't overwhelm what I
do find and justin you could back me on this one.
I found it interesting that he used what really should
be a trigger word for all his emotions and you know,
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the retreat into a pint of ice cream, by saying
you got to bring in the closer to get it done.
Oh yeah, as soon as you said that, I almost
started laughing, like, wow, you can't even leave that out
of the lexicon, couldn't find another term, didn't go to
your thesaurus at all. You just dropped the closer and
then you started thinking about your guy that won't be
(27:07):
coming in and Timmy Trumpet is unemployed l L Trumpet,
Mike Please, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Yes, Timmy el Jason.
That Joe banner singing you happy birthday at the end
of the video too, Maybe he did. Maybe he said, Hey,
you know I like that take you Can I use
that this weekend? Yeah? Joe Information scream one, Joe Joe,
(27:29):
He'll He'll call, he said, listen, I gotta call behind
the day before then I call you. Those will be
my birthday phone calls this year. Jets, Jets, Jets. I
just like that. It still hangs out in limbo. Yeah,
and even if it's ninety nine percent done, it is,
and the chat every day that goes on the deal's
gonna get worse. No, no, no, But I'm just saying
(27:51):
for us in this world, there's just a lot of screams, scrambling,
and let's face it, outside of our guy, Jay Glazer,
congratulations on the age. Yeah, Mozzel, Yeah, everybody else chasing
their tails on this story and they're being forced by
their bosses to make some cockamami thing up On a
daily basis, Is there any movement while we're hearing it's
(28:12):
inching ever closer? How close is itching? I mean, are
we talking about the length of a snail? We're talking
about the length of the you know whatever. It's just
like every day, it's the same nonsense, like you want
to do it appearance. I got no new news. Now
you gotta go do it appearance on that show. You're
gonna do the whole car watch, damn it, and you're
gonna come up with something interesting to say. Be sure
(28:34):
to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
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in the National Football League. A man taking time away
from the big ten thousand word columnies got for the
Washington Post on the Syracuse Orange number one ranked women's
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lacrosse team. It's Jay be locking for it. J what's happening, buddy,
What's what's going on? I gotta admit I have paid
no attention to lacrosse. I put like a twenty five
dollar bet on the Towson Tigers getting a goal and
a half with I think it was Albany coming here
like three weeks ago and we didn't cover. And I
(29:22):
haven't been a should do for all since. So I
will take your word for it that the Syracuse gals
are ranked first. Yeah, I have. I'm totally checked out. Wow,
you you've stopped. That's great. You have stopped betting lacrosse.
I think when you're betting lacrosse, even nominally, I mean,
(29:43):
I'm sure as we get closer to, you know, the
the tournament, um, I'll pay more attention. But uh, yeah,
I know the Maryland men are dominant, but Johns Hopkins
is seemingly down. We all has been down for a while,
Colson seems to be down. Yeah, I mean a lot
of schools around here are not quite as dominant as normal.
(30:08):
All right, Well, anyway, I'm good. That was a good breakdown.
Will get lots of traction in those uh discos. Do
we know anybody five thousand people just turned their radio
off at the same time? Do we know anybody who
bets lacrosse? Oh, let's get Jason Locke for I've done it,
only I didn't work out again. I did it the
first week of the season, which was probably dumb, right,
(30:29):
I should have probably waited till I actually, like take
in a little bit more and have a little bit
more empirical evidence. But yeah, all right, so let's get
to this because this is kind of fun the last
few hours. I'm gonna have an interesting person throwing at
Auburn's pro day tomorrow, Cam Newton, because he says, ain't
thirty two people better than me in the NFL? Looking
(30:50):
for a comeback from Cam Newton? How does this play out? Jay? Oh, geez,
I don't think there's a body of work. He's played
in the Super Bowl, you know what I mean. He's
been an MVP, like really like We're going to see
something at a pro day that that's going to rekindle
interest or take this to a new level or whatever.
(31:14):
I look, I mean, do I think he there's a
spot for him in the league somewhere? I mean there
could be, I guess, But I mean I'm torn because
Jared Stidham started a game last year, so you know
what I mean, Like Sam Ellinger started a game last year.
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So I don't know. I'm conflicted. But I think Cam's
had his time and I think Cam's body kind of
started breaking down on him, right. And I mean not
to say he can't play in the league, but does
Cam really need to be or want to be? Is
a better way to frame it? A guy who you know,
(31:57):
is making two and a half million dollars to basically
hold a clipboard? I don't know. So what's the feeling
out there with the talk of Magic Johnson now joining
in on the ownership possibility there for the Commanders? Yeah,
I mean, look, Harris understands what it's like to put
an organization together. He you know, he's done at the NBA,
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He's done at the NHL. He's a guy who if
it is him, and I won't be totally convinced that
Bezos is entirely out of it, you know what I mean,
until we see the final outcome. But if it does
go Harris's way, like this is someone who understands the
ins and outs and the intricacies of the professional sports business.
This is someone who has a legion of people at
(32:44):
a speed dot who he knows can be a marketing guru, right,
can be a director of sales, can be a head
of promotions, can be a team president. Could you know,
even on the football operations side, someone to oversee that
not necessarily someone to be involved in the nuances of
(33:07):
who to take in the seventh round, but someone who
as a team president could oversee all of the Washington commandos,
and they'll always be the commandos to me, the commandos
day to day operations on the business side and the
football side. Like I would expect him to make you know,
(33:27):
his imprints on that organization sooner rather than later, if
that is the direction that it goes in, given that
he has the level of acumen that he has in
terms of you know what I mean, how the sausage
has made. Whoever ends up taking this over will immediately
(33:49):
be infinitely more hardwired to succeed than Dan Snyder ever was.
I mean, this truly is a case of nowhere to
go but up, and it to the people in that organization,
it absolutely positively feels like ding dung the witch is dead.
Like you know what I mean, there's a new you know,
(34:10):
new boss coming to town. We just don't know who
it is. But a new day is upon us. Jayson
Lock and for with US Odyssey, Washington Post, NFL Inside
of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon. Okay, so
the other big story kind of like off track betting
in the HIMLA is like we learned about in French fletch.
But this is just as important. It's been radio silence
(34:31):
for Lamar Jackson. Everybody could talk to him last Wednesday, Hey,
where's everybody talking? Where's this at? And it's been like
five days of nothing. What's happening with this? Jay No?
I mean, I think there's really the two biggest sort
of quarterback stories in the league have stagnated, Lamar and
Aaron Rodgers, and they could be should be sort of intertwined. Look,
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we've never in history of the league's seen a situation
like this where fully healthy twenty six year old who
has basically won three of every four football games he's
played in as a professional, and who is a few
years removed from being a unanimous MVP. He's basically he's
(35:21):
unrestricted free agent ish, right, Like, he's not fully of
unrestricted free agent, but he's unencumbered of any of the
usual blockages that will prevent anyone from getting an above
or above board audience with him at any given time.
You can wind him, you can dine him, he can
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come to your place, you can go to his place.
He can spend as much time with him as you
want or desire, whenever, wherever you want or desire. And
yet no one has even acknowledged this right. No team
has even acknowledged this to the point where anyone has
spent an iota of time seemingly with him. I mean,
(36:07):
that's that's counterintuitive, that's bizarre, that's baffling. These are the
same billionaires, many of whom were born on third base
and barely stumbled home drunkenly to home plate, who will
interview fifteen or sixteen people for a head coaching job
knowing that they'll only hire one, right, But they want
(36:30):
to be as exhaustive as possible. They want to explore
every avenue. We want to make sure that we How
many people did Jim Mercy talk to about his head
coaching job eighteen? He called me at the end, and
I want to talk to him our jackson. Right, he's
in line to get possibly the fourth best quarterback in
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a not so great quarterback draft that he and Torch
and Scort skirts his season four and hired a dude
off his couch in Atlanta who loven't a good high
school football coach to try to get the first overall pick,
because the only time he hasn't been a total jamoke
in this league is when a one one difference maker
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quarterback has fallen the image up and twice manning him
luck the second time he said he's gonna in multiple
Super Bowls with luck, he never go close to one.
And he's sitting there at four knowing quarterbacks are going one,
two and knowing Arizona is going to trade out of three,
and he doesn't want to take the time after interviewing
every Tom, Dick and Harry in this league for his
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head coaching job, to them even a quarterback and find
out from his own mouth what He wants what he
can do for us, what we could do for him,
and how he could strategize in a manner by which
I might only have to give up two picks for him.
This is a guy who bit against himself four years
ago for the services too dead to Right Philip Rivers,
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nobody else wanted, who was ready to go to Alabama
or whatever and coach high school football, and he bit
himself up to thirty million for him. But he doesn't
want to find out what Lamar Jackson should like would
cost him. Make any of this makes sense. It looks
to me like a super fishy situation. And if they
are colluding, that sound like the colluding. Someone better take
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one or two for the team and pretend they care
about getting better. Pretend that this is a meritocracy, Pretend
that this is about doing whatever we can possibly do
to win and not just you know, abiding by the
whims of our other business partners. And get an audience
with this kid, because if you don't, you're going to
get a collusion lawsuit handed to you, the likes of
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which that will make the MLB one look like chump change.
And that was I believe involved billions like somebody, pretend
they really want to get the best and the brightest
and one of the five most packful football players on
the planet, and you don't have to give him an offer.
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Just pretend you care enough about winning and not about
protecting the shield and tamping down salaries and doing what
your fellow billionaire boys club guys would want you to do,
and find out from Lamar himself where he's at, because
anything short of that is just it's begging. It's begging
(39:28):
a collusion lawsuit. Yeah, right now, I just want to
go get some oxtails and I want to watch the
Between two Ferns episode that he's doing Lamar on Lamar, Well, yeah,
I look, and I gotta say. When your teaser when
you're sizzle real and your teaser clip involves talking about
Marty Morning Weeg, You've probably think you've either ask yourself
the wrong questions or you need, you horribly desperately need
(39:51):
a new editor slash producer to pick something out that's
going to make people want to watch. Now, I'm going
to watch no matter what. But yeah, Trud's productions could
use some help. And hey, I'll consult for you, guys.
I'll do it. You know Grutchies. Do you think he
discusses whether he's better than Bailey Zappie or Matt Jones. Well,
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but that is I mean that. Look, there's four teams
right now who the rest of the league is really
looking at more than everybody else saying what the hell
are you doing in regard to this kid? And the
Patriots are certainly one of them is the Patriots, the
Colts is, the Jets, and the Falcons, Like, you can't
make it make sense that none of them have already
gone down there to at least hear from the kid's
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own lips where he is, what he wants, what you
could do for him, what he could do for you?
Like it, like, make that makes sense? Like make that compute?
How can they? You know, none of them even want
to go down the road. And maybe it will be Belichick.
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He has no like that team is so unathletic, that
team is so like non electric, non dynamic. It's plotting,
it's it's They went out this weekend and signed They
signed Juju, a wide receiver who can't move right. Then
they signed Chris Board like a special please guy, Like
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what are you doing? Like what are you? What are
you even trying to do. I mean, but Lamar himself
singularly couldn't make them a whole different thing. And if
all Bill Balchick wants to do is Beaches seventeen fourteen,
if he just wants to play old school football, he
wants to play rugby, you know, he wants to play
a time at possession game, which it seems like he
wants to do. Who the hell's better equipped on the
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planet to do that from the quarterback position than Lamar Jackson.
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Julius Randall could score sixty and then Nicks are gonna lose.
It doesn't matter. Can I get the tops now, Carlac,
they don't have a basketball license. Maybe I'll do a
custom guard for you. Oh, you score sixty, but it'll
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have a big font. But they lose. It's the final
next yo, Yeah, I watched thirty points. Yeah, fifty seven
points for Julius Randall tonight and the Knicks lose one
forty to one thirty Julius Channel fourth quarter. I'll tell
you the Wolves shoot sixty percent from the floor and
(01:27):
sixty percent from three point range. Fightty one point. Torrian Prince,
who's averaging eight points a game, had thirty five tonight.
He didn't miss. He's eight out of eight from three
point range. Should Tom Tibodeau be fired on principal when
something like that happened? I mean, really, your whole thing
is about effort and defense. This is like, what what
(01:48):
is this? Who are who are you? And who have
you turned into? Like suddenly he's gonna unzip his head.
He's gonna like Paul Westhead or you know, just hey,
all we did was trying to put points on the board.
We don't care about defense. You know, he's a guy
that decided that he wants to own the garden. He's retired,
Lebron's not playing Nick Show. So I'm gonna go in
there and I'm going to be the Prince of New York.
(02:10):
Let's go sixty percent from the floor, sixty percent from
three and the Wolves beat the Knicks one. I really
this is one of those games like their really like
really like really like what like, come on, man, seriously,
like really this that really really really you know, what
(02:33):
what do you do? I mean? I was all excited
because we beat the crap out of the Nuggets over
the weekend, and I'm like, yeah, you gotta take us seriously. Now,
you gotta take us seriously now. And now you know,
the Wolves come in, who were barely five hundred, not even,
and they shoot six percent from the floor and they
win this game. I believe the great artist Paula Abdul
said it best. Two steps forward, two steps back, and
(02:57):
then dance with the cartoon cat DJ. We come together
because opposites attract DJ uh. Yeah, so already was starting
tonight now I'm like, yeah, oh, but you just don't
get to have nice things, man, no, no act. Last
week people were asking me. We talk a lot about
the World Baseball Classic, right, We've got great game going
(03:20):
on in Mexico, Japan. Randy Rosarina is now a superhero
who signs autographs during pitching changes, robbing uh, fly ball
after flyball and would be home runs. Nope, not in
my house. All of these things. Uh, and we go
back to the big injury because look, nobody, nobody's crying
(03:40):
for al Tuove. See how different the reaction was. Your
guy gets hurt, goes silent. Yeah yeah, Edward Diez gets hurt,
and everybody cries about what the world why are playing it?
Yeah that al Tuove gets hit, breaks his hand, and
everybody goes consta douing business. What do you get? Yeah,
yeah to completely response, cheater, Yeah yeah, but it was
(04:05):
to day weekend. Okay, but yeah, but it was out too, man.
I mean, you know, you're right, that's exactly what the
reaction was to this. And look, to be quite honest,
right now it is it is a very big moment
right now in the World Baseball Classic United States in
the championship game tomorrow night. Mexico leads Japan right now
four three. As Mexico coming to bat now in the
(04:26):
top of the eighth inning, they have just pushed across
a run to take the lead. They have runners at
second and third and two out. Uh. You know, the
winner of this game will play the United States. Otani
pitch to Otani's playing tonight, and you know, everybody's going
crazy about the batting practice he had. He's hitting almost
five hundred in the World Baseball Classic. Here's the best
(04:47):
I can do for you, right, here's the best I
can do. The best I can do is yeah, And
I'm sure I'll be excited tomorrow night with the United
States playing in the Championship, and it'll it'll be fun.
All the superstars are out there. But I kind of
feel like when you're watching the Olympics, right, and it's
an event that you don't really care about, but you're
rooting for the United States. Can't because we live in
(05:09):
the United States. Why States to win? But if they lose,
you know, it's like, oh, that's too bad. But you
know that guy from Germany deserved it, or you know
that that woman from China deserved it, or that guy
from Canada, or that you know that woman from South
Korea whatever it is. He Oh yeah, are that team
from from Jamaica, whatever it is. You know, I have
Bob sled team Boy. They were great. I did. That's
kind of how I feel like it. Maybe it's my
(05:30):
age because I grew up in a different time and
this was foisted upon us, Like now you have to
care about the world Baseball Classic. And all I could
think of is, I don't care about this as much
as I want my guys to stay healthy. And here
I am this year having to deal with Edwin Diaz
being done for the season because of bleeping jumping up
and down celebrating over winning a game that doesn't really count.
(05:51):
So maybe that's it and you have this. Yeah, you
got to hook this next generation of fans who have
grown up knowing nothing but the World Baseball Classic, right
because we've been doing this now for for fifteen sixteen years. Uh,
you know, it's been around enough time for now for
people who are in their mid twenties or or or
younger or thirty, say, hey, it's always been a part
of my life. And I like the World Baseball Classic.
And we see that the ratings are okay, the the
(06:13):
ratings across the globe are phenomenal. Uh. The in person
attendance is fantastic, The atmosphere is electric. I mean, maybe
I'm just the wrong person. And if you ask me
this with Edwin a healthy Edwin Diaz, maybe I give
you a different answer. But the best I can give
you is met I mean, last I'm sure I'll be
excited I can do no and I get it right.
(06:33):
And it's like we always have been using the Kevin
Durant sound clip and it applies here. I talked about
it a little bit yesterday. Dan Bayer was in with
me on Fox Sports Sunday. Uh, you know you don't
like it, don't watch right, I can't force you to
like it. There's plenty of sporting events that you can
casually go through, right. It might be on in someone's house,
(06:57):
or it's on on the bar, and you don't care
enough to say, hey, can you change that over to
whatever you leave it on because it's still a sporting event, right.
And with the World Baseball Classic, you know, there's just
all the other ancillary parts to it that I think
you know and me, this goes back to my boring,
pragmatic approach to the world and good business and promotion
(07:20):
and the fact that you've got guys who in players
who have more excitement and intrigue in this scenario than
they've been able to have in most of their professional lives.
And of course I'm looking right at you, Mike Trout,
where you know Weatherman and Eagles fan, right, those are
the two most interesting things and denying you know who
he's going to give his next All Star MVP truck too,
(07:42):
Like that's been the highlights of his major league baseball
career for the most part these last couple of years,
and instead you've got him rejuvenated. What the crowd sounded
like after that trade turner Grand Slam over the weekend,
you get goosebumps watching the replay or just hearing the
audio from it, because it is a big moment. The
(08:03):
players want in and the owners. Look, if they wanted to,
they could block it right. You had obviously some big
conversations with Clayton Kershaw about his participation and where he's
at physically and age and everything else, and whether it
was a good idea bad idea. You're ramping up just
(08:24):
maybe a little more aggressively in terms of your preparation
than you would be if you were in Arizona or Florida.
You're still getting the work in right at the cage
and the infield, the outfield and on the mound, and
you're throwing days. So you know, it parallels not like
you're suddenly, you know, in a lumberjack contest flipping logs. No,
you're pitching a baseball, just like you get paid to do.
(08:44):
So all of that comes together. But to your point, yeah,
if it's not your thing, and take Edwin Diaz out
of the equation for a second. I know that's hard
to do right now, but take him out of the equation.
You know, if you're you're not into it because you
want to watch the Knicks lose Julius Randell. We've moved
on from then, We've moved on from Jermaine, from Jermaine
(09:06):
to what we're doing here. If you want to walk
on from it, you know, recalibrate your bracket for the
you know, Sweet sixteen, or you're whatever you got going
on in your life. Maybe you're just looking for the
next episode of ted Lasso or seeing if Krim's got
a great question in the in the gallery. I don't know.
But the fact is, you know this, this has gotten
(09:26):
a little bit of traction. It's not for everybody, as
the ratings attest to, but you know what, damn it,
I'm in you. Yes, I get it. Yeah, Yes, it's yeah,
it's the it's the it's the you know, obviously, the
pride of country, and you know it's easy to get
up for that. You look, I'm mixed. Look, I want
to see the United States win and and Mexico was
six out outs away from the United States Mexico game
(09:48):
because they they're going to the bottom of the eighth
now up five three over Japan. But at the same time,
like if the United States loses, I'm I'm I'm getting back. Okay,
I'm moving on from that. Five minutes after the game
is over, And what's gonna happen is all the champagne
is gonna dry and the dust is gonna settle, and
I still don't have edwin DZ for the season. Well, no,
no matter what, tomorrow this season Now we'll be on
(10:09):
air tomorrow, So five minutes after the game, we'll be
talking about what it means for US baseball and our
prospects going forward, how much we dominate the world, and
we're the best country there's ever been created. Or were
cursing the system, We're cursing the minor leagues and wondering
why we're not churning out better players. You know how
this goes? Hey, right, the greatest countries ever right now
(10:30):
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Where is the
United States? Are they the best? Is Canada better right now.
Eight here's a hot take for you. I would take
Canada over the United States right now, just because of
the free healthcare eight seven, seven ninety nine five. United
States might not even be on my Mount Rushmore of
greatest countries. Ever, I will tell you this. The World
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Happiness Report came out today and the United States is fifteenth.
I take ames first. Yeah, but there's a lot of
countries though. That's fifteen out of how many? Yeah, I
mean top ten. It's not like it's not like fifteen
out of It's not like we're reseating the sweet sixteen
and you are the fifteenth of the sixty. I get that, Okay,
everybody eight happy meals, Like Jason, we'd be number one. Well,
(11:16):
we'd also be really poor now because they're they're now.
Let me guess number one is gotta be. I get
three guesses at number one, because they're all the same,
they're all in the same area. I'm gonna say either Norway, Finland,
or Sweden. One of number one, Finland number six, Norway
as seven. Finland's been number one, I think for five
or six years, six years now. I do you think
(11:37):
that's a real like do we have that kind of
like you think about like the United States Mexico soccer rivalry,
and like the United States Russia hockey rivalry, United States Canada,
Like do do those Do those countries have a real
rivalry with each other? Because everybody across the globe just thinks.
For all that said, Finland, Sweden, nor the Scandinavian countries,
do you think they have like a real one. No,
they don't. They don't necessarily like each other. No, Norway
(11:59):
really don't like each other. I want to see a
third spent a lot of time in Sweden. Yeah, yeah,
like people want and Norway, though, they go hey blank,
you go yeah blank, Finland or that there's like some
kind of thing you say. I tell them I'm from
Chicago and I now live in Los Angeles. I'm the
most interesting man in the in the room, and I
don't pay for a beer. Oh all right, I either
(12:20):
know gangsters or movie stars. Wow. Okay, okay, Wow, that's
the assumption over there. Okay. From one of those places
was Denmark? Sure, Denmark's still up there? No, no, no,
there's why there's always something rotten. Second, yeah, I mean
something was rotten in Denmark for Shakespeare and they killed
(12:43):
Hamlet there. I mean, howk out great? He was indecisive
if he had he had done something, what do you
mean he had to come and he tried to save everybody.
What do you don't mean handling? Yeah, but he waited
too long? Happy he did? He did? He couldn't. He
waited too long. It's been more proactive. The latent U
Gangston anxiety over his appearance wouldn't have been there. She
got the top five. You've got Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Israel
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and the Netherlands, all these places where it's cold all
the time. Well, but do you know what you do
when it's cold all the time? That's right, let's get
it on. Yeah, okay, wow, chill out over there all
of a sudden four times, man pose four right? Like, really,
(13:29):
everybody wants to live where it's warm, Yet the happiest
people seem to be where it's cold all the time.
I mean, look, I love wearing like warm stuff and
Patagonia jackets and so I like that in hoodies and stuff.
But I mean I'd want to be where it's warm. No,
I mean that's where you want to go really, So, like,
are the unhappiest places like like like the where they're
the temperatures are hot, like I don't understand. Yeah, I
(13:50):
don't know. I'm looking at the just the top. I
got the top twenty four here. I don't know why
I'd stopped to twenty four where the twenty fifth was
left off the list. I don't know. But twenty four
is Romine, twenty three is Costa Rica. I mean there's
a lot of stuff that can kill you there, wild
animals and stuff. Uh. Slovenia is at twenty two, France
at twenty one, Lithuania, the UK at nineteen. Um, somehow
(14:12):
Chechdia's above the United Kingdom. Really, that one's a little curious, Yeah,
not as curious. Then go Belgium, then Germany, and then
you get fifteen from the United States. Ireland just ahead
of the US, Canada at thirteen. Australia at twelve. Austria.
You talking about places where there are things that can
(14:33):
kill you anytime that's on streets. I mean, yeah, animals,
perhaps you're what's that money, I said, Bluie, No, that's right,
you get you, Louie Blue. Very nice for Austbrook. I
can't believe that that's this nation. I think that's a
Bad's a bad list, man, that's a bad list. Australia
is too dangerous. Australia is entirely populated with criminals. But but,
(14:56):
but it might be a case in Australia just like
what the cold countries. You're worried everything could kill you.
You stay inside and take area business. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harman weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. Well,
we now know the United States will play Japan in
the final of the World Baseball Classic. Mexico had everything.
(15:20):
They were winning the entire game. It was four one,
it was four two four, and then Japan comes up
in the ninth inning and Mexico does not record an out,
a leadoff double by show Hey Otani. Two batters later,
Murakami with a double to end it a walk off
for Japan. They win at six to five. So it's
(15:41):
the US and Japan tomorrow in the final. As I
said earlier, I'll tell you the same thing. Hey, I'm
still kind of met on it. It's okay, I'm kind
of It'll be exciting tomorrow and at the end I
won't have d so that's Sarah. That's where I'm at.
We won't have hater either. Don't date on. This is
incredible theater. This Knight's gonna be epic. Man, it's great theater.
(16:05):
I said it's going to be fun. It'll be fun.
I'm telling you, man, it'll be fun watching the best
line I've ever put out there. Yeah yeah, then's gonna
and then I'm gonna go. Yeah. We don't have our closer,
we don't have a guy. Isn't about the Matt suck.
Sure it is, Sure it is. It's about everything. But
you know what Frostburg for someone who you know should
have been rooting for the Knicks tonight and being very happy.
(16:28):
No I was rooting four Yeah I was, yeah, yeah, yeah,
no I was. Oh no, no you were, but you
weren't because even in our text threat, it's like, man,
all of these things are great, but I can't cheer
for the Knicks. I was at one hell of a
four team parlay. If you went down that road, do
(16:48):
you want the Lakers and move up in the standings
or not? It's it's pretty much that simple. Yeah all
right then so okay, see, so it comes back to
your squad even though, we get the temporary joy the
Knicks losing despite Julius Randall's fifty seven points. Shut up,
yeah that that he had, has that great game, and
(17:09):
they still lose. They give up one hundred and forty points.
This Tom Thibadeau Doberman defense. Uh, standing around watching the
world go by. Uh So, long term, you know that
that doesn't help the Lakers. Right, so tonight you get
to chuckle at the Knicks losing, but it's not achieving
the full goal. Likewise, here Jason can appreciate the short term,
(17:30):
but still he's got to go one hundred and sixty
two days of you and me and tie shirt and
Steve mocking him when they can't close out a game.
Yeah no, I mean, like I said, the the the
champagne will dry very quickly, is how I should say that.
Of however, this game goes tomorrow, now the good champagne room, Uh,
(17:51):
it will dry very quickly. The good news is that
if the United States loses, I could at least go, ahha,
we could have won. Oh well, I mean be easy
for it'll be easy for me to move off of.
Oh yeah great, when Tommy got his chitle, now he
can move on, when is Aaron Rodgers coming? When is
Aaron Rodgers coming out? That really keeps drag on, When
is it coming? When is it coming? When? Hey? Not
(18:13):
for nothing? Not for nothing? But I you know, I
say all the time that our show is ahead of
the curve. I always say, and it is. And I
always say that I could be a general manager in sports, right,
I could be a generalman sport. What did I tell
you last week when the story came out, when it
was first pushed slash The slant towards the Packers were
(18:36):
reported by members of the media who were all too eager,
whether it's Ian Rappaport or chef or whoever else, want
to say, Oh, hey, the Packers have no hurry to
trade Aaron Rodgers because they put an ingenious clause in
his contract where his money's not due until right before
the league year. They can wait all summer long to
(18:57):
trade him, which you know, so now you know the
insiders they're getting all their stuff from the Packers. And
what did I tell you soon as that came out
that was completely false? Why they have no leverage? They
have already made a public They want to move on. Right,
We said this all last week right. We said this
last week right, they made a public they want to
move on from Aaron Rodgers. Can't have the guy back.
We're we're moving on to Jordan's love. You can't have
(19:17):
the guy back number two. And it's a big deal.
If you ask for too much and you piss the
Jets off, the Jets are gonna leave. And nobody else
is trading for Aaron Rodgers. There's no other team, and
you're stuck with the guy. So yeah, doesn't help the Jets. No,
but the Jets are in no worse position than they
were going into this. They we didn't get Aaron row Okay,
(19:40):
now we'll go get somebody else who knows what it is.
But we'll go get somebody else. And you're stuck with
a guy that you don't want, that's not going to play,
that is impossible to trade, and you'll have to eat
money just to let them go. And then the Jets
can say, Okay, Aaron Rodgers here, come to us. So
the Packers have no leverage. The Jets have all the leverage. Right.
This is from former Eagles president than Joe Banner, who
(20:01):
had an unbelievable career with the Eagles. He built them
into a powerhouse. He was the president for almost twenty years. Right,
there's a guy who's a team president for twenty years.
What did he say over the weekend? Quote the Packers
by waiting risk that for some reason the Jets would
not be interested, then they have no one to trade with,
which ruins their team for possibly two or three years.
(20:24):
Believing the Jets will do something that will reflect in
patience is not leverage. That's just hoping they're stupid. I
could have been at g We told you this last week,
and here's the former president of the Eagles, I mean,
not the band, the Eagles. All that would have been
something too, president of the Eagles who said exactly what
we told you last year. They don't have leverage. They
(20:46):
don't have leverage. It's a great game of chicken, right,
because if you're the Jets chicken, well yeah, I mean,
you know, you can fry it, you can baste it,
you can roast it. You kid anyway, Uh shrimp, jumbo shrimp, shrimp,
kebab shrimp, Hi gotta find Bubba. Look the the idea,
(21:10):
here's the giant game of chicken. For the fact that
the Packers clearly you're done with this, right, You've told
every insider, You've had Murphy talking outside of the state
high school girls championships and everything else, talking about where
they're at, and you've got Jordan Love ready to go.
You'd like to get Aaron Rodgers off the books and
(21:33):
out of your minds, because the longer he's there and
this hangs in limbo, you've got to think about it
of what the next step is and how a lot
of what he's doing has been for spite and rectifying
that situation, whatever that means, swallowing your pride, eating more
of the money, you know, all of those mechanics that
have to come true. So that's the Packers side. On
(21:55):
the Jet side, it's the all right, all the guys,
all the dance cards been filled for all the middling
quarterbacks Okay, not all, but most, and with the Jets
fans ravenous and having men teas for multiple weeks, with
every type of shot you could possibly have of Aaron
Rodgers photoshopped into a Jets jersey pondering the greatness simulating games. Yeah,
(22:22):
you don't know the sequence of games to be played
in twenty twenty three, but you know the opponents. You
can start going through that. Look at we can go
eleven and six or maybe thirteen and four. Maybe we
could run the table all of those things, and then
maybe to have to come back to say, wait, who's left? Man,
we can't even get Minshew at this point we got,
we got who and maybe they've already pivoted to a
(22:46):
whole thing to try to woo and bring Lamar Jackson
in something that again I had at the curve. We
had that as we talked it out several weeks ago
on this very program that you know that would be
planned b if you're the Jet, because that is still
potentially in the offing with the way the Ravens have
played things out. And for two first round picks, well,
(23:07):
if Jackson does his jobs, those are pretty crappy first
round picks. Right. See, But here's a thing. Here's a thing,
And now I'm gonna raise the stakes on you, right
because here's so much where I told you last week
that the Jets have all the leverage because the Packers
have overplayed their hand and they've pushed Aaron Rodgers out.
Now I say, oh wait, you wanted a first round pick,
and maybe you know you're looking for another pick in
(23:30):
twenty twenty four. So yeah, no, no, we're worth you
on that. You want two picks, Yeah, that's fine. Yeah,
but he's worth the first anyway. But you know, but
here's the thing, you know, the big sunny weaver the world.
It's a different world we're in thirty seconds ago. How
about it's a second and a fourth the more you
want to wait, how about that? How about we give
you now, now that's the best offer on the table,
a second round pick this year and a fourth round
(23:53):
pick next year. And maybe you can sweet talk me
into a second this year and a third next year.
And I could say, okay, but you've all already misplayed
your hand. You are the Packers just when it came
down to it, they couldn't wait to be able to
say we want to push this guy out. They were
patient all the way until the end. And this is
why some people are great poker players and some people aren't,
(24:16):
because this gets to the very end of a negotiation,
and this is when things get really tense, and this
is where closers come into close things, and you see
someone who's strong for so long melt down. The Packers
have been fine for the last years. They have taken
all Aaron Rodgers crap, the two MVP years last year. Okay,
(24:36):
now we don't have to anymore. We can take a
little bit more of the leverage here. We can push
it forward and try and say we want to move
on from ri great, but now that it got this
close to the finish line before they crossed it, they
couldn't help themselves. We're moving on. Our preferred situation is
to have Jordan love b Our quarterback. That we want
what's best for Aaron and he had a great career
(24:58):
here and talking about them in the past tense, they
got all giddy, they overplayed their head. And now the
Jets are backing up, going, oh hey, wait a minute,
we could keep that first round pick. What do you
think Joe d and Robert Salis going, yeah, wait a
little bit. Who else they gonna trade him to? There's
nobody else. Yeah, maybe a second and a fourth, second,
and maybe a third and a fourth, third and a fifth.
Maybe you just say you're gonna give them to us.
(25:20):
We're gonna give you a conditional draft pick. Now the
Jets can play hardball with it because it's the only place.
So the Packers went from the erroneous report of we
have leverage too. Maybe we don't have leverage too. Now
the Jets have leverage, and now it's you better say
yes or this offer just get It just gets worse.
How much you paid Joe Banner? Did we cord this cameo?
(25:41):
I paid? I paid Joe Banner nothing I paid Joe bad.
I think the big thing with it is just the
as Banner goes to the terms stupid, I go again
to my pragmatism and wanting to save face, the fan base,
all of those things that roll into where the Jets.
(26:01):
The longer it hangs out, perhaps there's a level of mistrust.
Now if you're comfortable in your job and you don't
care and you don't think the public opinion is going
to sway Woody Johnson, which, let's face it, oftentimes he
hasn't seemed like he's well. He hasn't even been in
the country, so let's let's just go there. He hasn't
been handling the day to days of the business at all,
(26:24):
back when he was overseas as a member of political administration.
But the fact is that I think you're playing towards
the sensibilities and wondering if that doesn't overwhelm what I
do find and justin you could back me on this one.
I found it interesting that he used what really should
be a trigger word for all his emotions and you know,
(26:47):
the retreat into a pint of ice cream, by saying
you got to bring in the closer to get it done.
Oh yeah, as soon as you said that, I almost
started laughing, like, wow, you can't even leave that out
of the lexicon, couldn't find another term, didn't go to
your thesaurus at all. You just dropped the closer and
then you started thinking about your guy that won't be
(27:07):
coming in and Timmy Trumpet is unemployed l L Trumpet,
Mike Please, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Yes, Timmy el Jason.
That Joe banner singing you happy birthday at the end
of the video too, Maybe he did. Maybe he said, Hey,
you know I like that take you Can I use
that this weekend? Yeah? Joe Information scream one, Joe Joe,
(27:29):
He'll He'll call, he said, listen, I gotta call behind
the day before then I call you. Those will be
my birthday phone calls this year. Jets, Jets, Jets. I
just like that. It still hangs out in limbo. Yeah,
and even if it's ninety nine percent done, it is,
and the chat every day that goes on the deal's
gonna get worse. No, no, no, But I'm just saying
(27:51):
for us in this world, there's just a lot of screams, scrambling,
and let's face it, outside of our guy, Jay Glazer,
congratulations on the age. Yeah, Mozzel, Yeah, everybody else chasing
their tails on this story and they're being forced by
their bosses to make some cockamami thing up On a
daily basis, Is there any movement while we're hearing it's
(28:12):
inching ever closer? How close is itching? I mean, are
we talking about the length of a snail? We're talking
about the length of the you know whatever. It's just
like every day, it's the same nonsense, like you want
to do it appearance. I got no new news. Now
you gotta go do it appearance on that show. You're
gonna do the whole car watch, damn it, and you're
gonna come up with something interesting to say. Be sure
(28:34):
to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app well, joining
us now on the hotline for all the latest news
in the National Football League. A man taking time away
from the big ten thousand word columnies got for the
Washington Post on the Syracuse Orange number one ranked women's
(28:58):
lacrosse team. It's Jay be locking for it. J what's happening, buddy,
What's what's going on? I gotta admit I have paid
no attention to lacrosse. I put like a twenty five
dollar bet on the Towson Tigers getting a goal and
a half with I think it was Albany coming here
like three weeks ago and we didn't cover. And I
(29:22):
haven't been a should do for all since. So I
will take your word for it that the Syracuse gals
are ranked first. Yeah, I have. I'm totally checked out. Wow,
you you've stopped. That's great. You have stopped betting lacrosse.
I think when you're betting lacrosse, even nominally, I mean,
(29:43):
I'm sure as we get closer to, you know, the
the tournament, um, I'll pay more attention. But uh, yeah,
I know the Maryland men are dominant, but Johns Hopkins
is seemingly down. We all has been down for a while,
Colson seems to be down. Yeah, I mean a lot
of schools around here are not quite as dominant as normal.
(30:08):
All right, Well, anyway, I'm good. That was a good breakdown.
Will get lots of traction in those uh discos. Do
we know anybody five thousand people just turned their radio
off at the same time? Do we know anybody who
bets lacrosse? Oh, let's get Jason Locke for I've done it,
only I didn't work out again. I did it the
first week of the season, which was probably dumb, right,
(30:29):
I should have probably waited till I actually, like take
in a little bit more and have a little bit
more empirical evidence. But yeah, all right, so let's get
to this because this is kind of fun the last
few hours. I'm gonna have an interesting person throwing at
Auburn's pro day tomorrow, Cam Newton, because he says, ain't
thirty two people better than me in the NFL? Looking
(30:50):
for a comeback from Cam Newton? How does this play out? Jay? Oh, geez,
I don't think there's a body of work. He's played
in the Super Bowl, you know what I mean. He's
been an MVP, like really like We're going to see
something at a pro day that that's going to rekindle
interest or take this to a new level or whatever.
(31:14):
I look, I mean, do I think he there's a
spot for him in the league somewhere? I mean there
could be, I guess, But I mean I'm torn because
Jared Stidham started a game last year, so you know
what I mean, Like Sam Ellinger started a game last year.
(31:34):
So I don't know. I'm conflicted. But I think Cam's
had his time and I think Cam's body kind of
started breaking down on him, right. And I mean not
to say he can't play in the league, but does
Cam really need to be or want to be? Is
a better way to frame it? A guy who you know,
(31:57):
is making two and a half million dollars to basically
hold a clipboard? I don't know. So what's the feeling
out there with the talk of Magic Johnson now joining
in on the ownership possibility there for the Commanders? Yeah,
I mean, look, Harris understands what it's like to put
an organization together. He you know, he's done at the NBA,
(32:21):
He's done at the NHL. He's a guy who if
it is him, and I won't be totally convinced that
Bezos is entirely out of it, you know what I mean,
until we see the final outcome. But if it does
go Harris's way, like this is someone who understands the
ins and outs and the intricacies of the professional sports business.
This is someone who has a legion of people at
(32:44):
a speed dot who he knows can be a marketing guru, right,
can be a director of sales, can be a head
of promotions, can be a team president. Could you know,
even on the football operations side, someone to oversee that
not necessarily someone to be involved in the nuances of
(33:07):
who to take in the seventh round, but someone who
as a team president could oversee all of the Washington commandos,
and they'll always be the commandos to me, the commandos
day to day operations on the business side and the
football side. Like I would expect him to make you know,
(33:27):
his imprints on that organization sooner rather than later, if
that is the direction that it goes in, given that
he has the level of acumen that he has in
terms of you know what I mean, how the sausage
has made. Whoever ends up taking this over will immediately
(33:49):
be infinitely more hardwired to succeed than Dan Snyder ever was.
I mean, this truly is a case of nowhere to
go but up, and it to the people in that organization,
it absolutely positively feels like ding dung the witch is dead.
Like you know what I mean, there's a new you know,
(34:10):
new boss coming to town. We just don't know who
it is. But a new day is upon us. Jayson
Lock and for with US Odyssey, Washington Post, NFL Inside
of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon. Okay, so
the other big story kind of like off track betting
in the HIMLA is like we learned about in French fletch.
But this is just as important. It's been radio silence
(34:31):
for Lamar Jackson. Everybody could talk to him last Wednesday, Hey,
where's everybody talking? Where's this at? And it's been like
five days of nothing. What's happening with this? Jay No?
I mean, I think there's really the two biggest sort
of quarterback stories in the league have stagnated, Lamar and
Aaron Rodgers, and they could be should be sort of intertwined. Look,
(34:59):
we've never in history of the league's seen a situation
like this where fully healthy twenty six year old who
has basically won three of every four football games he's
played in as a professional, and who is a few
years removed from being a unanimous MVP. He's basically he's
(35:21):
unrestricted free agent ish, right, Like, he's not fully of
unrestricted free agent, but he's unencumbered of any of the
usual blockages that will prevent anyone from getting an above
or above board audience with him at any given time.
You can wind him, you can dine him, he can
(35:42):
come to your place, you can go to his place.
He can spend as much time with him as you
want or desire, whenever, wherever you want or desire. And
yet no one has even acknowledged this right. No team
has even acknowledged this to the point where anyone has
spent an iota of time seemingly with him. I mean,
(36:07):
that's that's counterintuitive, that's bizarre, that's baffling. These are the
same billionaires, many of whom were born on third base
and barely stumbled home drunkenly to home plate, who will
interview fifteen or sixteen people for a head coaching job
knowing that they'll only hire one, right, But they want
(36:30):
to be as exhaustive as possible. They want to explore
every avenue. We want to make sure that we How
many people did Jim Mercy talk to about his head
coaching job eighteen? He called me at the end, and
I want to talk to him our jackson. Right, he's
in line to get possibly the fourth best quarterback in
(36:51):
a not so great quarterback draft that he and Torch
and Scort skirts his season four and hired a dude
off his couch in Atlanta who loven't a good high
school football coach to try to get the first overall pick,
because the only time he hasn't been a total jamoke
in this league is when a one one difference maker
(37:12):
quarterback has fallen the image up and twice manning him
luck the second time he said he's gonna in multiple
Super Bowls with luck, he never go close to one.
And he's sitting there at four knowing quarterbacks are going one,
two and knowing Arizona is going to trade out of three,
and he doesn't want to take the time after interviewing
every Tom, Dick and Harry in this league for his
(37:34):
head coaching job, to them even a quarterback and find
out from his own mouth what He wants what he
can do for us, what we could do for him,
and how he could strategize in a manner by which
I might only have to give up two picks for him.
This is a guy who bit against himself four years
ago for the services too dead to Right Philip Rivers,
(37:58):
nobody else wanted, who was ready to go to Alabama
or whatever and coach high school football, and he bit
himself up to thirty million for him. But he doesn't
want to find out what Lamar Jackson should like would
cost him. Make any of this makes sense. It looks
to me like a super fishy situation. And if they
are colluding, that sound like the colluding. Someone better take
(38:22):
one or two for the team and pretend they care
about getting better. Pretend that this is a meritocracy, Pretend
that this is about doing whatever we can possibly do
to win and not just you know, abiding by the
whims of our other business partners. And get an audience
with this kid, because if you don't, you're going to
get a collusion lawsuit handed to you, the likes of
(38:44):
which that will make the MLB one look like chump change.
And that was I believe involved billions like somebody, pretend
they really want to get the best and the brightest
and one of the five most packful football players on
the planet, and you don't have to give him an offer.
(39:04):
Just pretend you care enough about winning and not about
protecting the shield and tamping down salaries and doing what
your fellow billionaire boys club guys would want you to do,
and find out from Lamar himself where he's at, because
anything short of that is just it's begging. It's begging
(39:28):
a collusion lawsuit. Yeah, right now, I just want to
go get some oxtails and I want to watch the
Between two Ferns episode that he's doing Lamar on Lamar, Well, yeah,
I look, and I gotta say. When your teaser when
you're sizzle real and your teaser clip involves talking about
Marty Morning Weeg, You've probably think you've either ask yourself
the wrong questions or you need, you horribly desperately need
(39:51):
a new editor slash producer to pick something out that's
going to make people want to watch. Now, I'm going
to watch no matter what. But yeah, Trud's productions could
use some help. And hey, I'll consult for you, guys.
I'll do it. You know Grutchies. Do you think he
discusses whether he's better than Bailey Zappie or Matt Jones. Well,
(40:12):
but that is I mean that. Look, there's four teams
right now who the rest of the league is really
looking at more than everybody else saying what the hell
are you doing in regard to this kid? And the
Patriots are certainly one of them is the Patriots, the
Colts is, the Jets, and the Falcons, Like, you can't
make it make sense that none of them have already
gone down there to at least hear from the kid's
(40:33):
own lips where he is, what he wants, what you
could do for him, what he could do for you?
Like it, like, make that makes sense? Like make that compute?
How can they? You know, none of them even want
to go down the road. And maybe it will be Belichick.
(40:56):
He has no like that team is so unathletic, that
team is so like non electric, non dynamic. It's plotting,
it's it's They went out this weekend and signed They
signed Juju, a wide receiver who can't move right. Then
they signed Chris Board like a special please guy, Like
(41:19):
what are you doing? Like what are you? What are
you even trying to do. I mean, but Lamar himself
singularly couldn't make them a whole different thing. And if
all Bill Balchick wants to do is Beaches seventeen fourteen,
if he just wants to play old school football, he
wants to play rugby, you know, he wants to play
a time at possession game, which it seems like he
wants to do. Who the hell's better equipped on the
(41:41):
planet to do that from the quarterback position than Lamar Jackson.
You can follow on Twitter at Jason Locke and Flora
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