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crystal ball. I would have said, hey, you know what, Hey,
Julius Randalls saved that fifty seven for when you can
hold a team under sixty percent from the floor fifty seven,
shut up fifties some defense, mandy seven pullets fifty seven.

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I mean, this is one of those games you look
at and you go, what the hell are we doing?
What the hell are we doing? Julius Randall scores fifty
seven and the Wolves, who are an under five hundred team,
find a way to come into Madison Square Garden after
the Knicks beat the Nuggets, and hey, we want everybody
to take us seriously, right, That's what That's what I
hate about this game is that is that this was Hey, man,

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after this weekend. Even the staunchest of disbelievers who does
never want to give the Knicks credit for anything. They say, hey,
we gotta take the Knicks seriously, and then they see
a game like tonight and go, huh no, you don't.
Come on, man, a Tom Thibodeau team allows allows a
team to shoot sixty percent from the floor and sixty
percent from three point range. Hop five, as come on, man,

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that's I mean, you did have them in your top five.
You gotta be h I mean really, and and and
and Torrian Prince, the guy's averaging eight points a game,
and he's, yeah, but that's the one that game. Yeah,
you gotta pause in that locker room, right because you
pride yourself a bust in your ass for forty eight

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minutes and for playing defense and all this stuff. And
he went and he torched it. Now part of it
becomes the old, hey, he's due to hit a cold streak,
because you know, he's not a guy that scores at all.
You know what, Sometimes every dog has his day, and
today well it was Princess. It was print ed, TJ.

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This is what it sounds like for Prince when the
Knicks cry, t J, I'm sorry, just still in that mode.
I I really know you're right, Hell Edwards, and you
still couldn't beat the word, you know what? And stop
you gave up one couldn't help the Lakers. You were
completely rooting for the Knicks tonight, Yes, you were because
a win would have helped the Lakers. You know what.

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He was only half in And that's the kind of
funny thing about it. As much as it might help
the Knicks, right, help the Lakers. You know? He can't
cheer for the Knicks. Dude, want you to have come?
Frostburger's wearing a Julius Randall jersey. He was all excited, man,
yet the old one A long time. He was ready,

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he was happy, he was excited. Yeah, Julius, Julius, Julia.
Now he was excited. I don't even go near because
they're that guy. Wow, really, Julius is pretty Are they
still in the malls? Are they gone? Oh? I haven't
seen an orange Julius in a long time. I can't
say I spent a lot of time traversing the local
malls except to go to the AMC. But I'm curious. Now,

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look out for the bar in the sinkhole. You'll find
some Orenge Julius. Could that be a show where people
go in search of stores that they wonder are there
any of them left? Oh? That's real? Is that a show?
Because I realized you could just figure it out by
getting on Google. But maybe not, because hey, Orange, let's
try to find an Orange Julius and you go and
you find, oh, there is one that actually exist. I

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had to get in my car to drive five thousand
miles here whatever it was. But the five plays do
they still like? Where are Spencers? Are there still anything?
There's actually a Spencer's in the mall not too close
where I live. There's a Spencers. How do you know?
Because I was in the mall recently and I remember
walking by going, oh my god, there's a Spencer's. Remember
telling Zoe Zoe. When I was a kid, Spenches was

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the place to go because they had clothes, they had gadgets,
they had they had whoopee cushions, they had everything. Man,
Spenches was the best. And if it went past that
little rope in the back there was specialty item. I
don't want to talk to her about going past ropes
in the back. From that's where I got my Prince Albert. No,
I don't want to, you know. That was always that

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was always two things. People would always call the grocery
store I worked in at with when I was a kid.
They would call and say two things. They would say,
do you have Prince Albert in the can? Or they
would say do you have olive oil in your store?
And we would say yes, and they would say, why
don't you let him out? Like that? Would? They would
do that all the time. Do you have olive oil
in the store? Yes? Why don't you let her out?
You know you have Prince Albert in the can? Yet?
Why don't you let him out? People do that all

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the time. Did you eat spinach after that? No? Yeah,
I popped in my mouth just like just like a
crush it out of a can. Yeah no, no, no, no,
I come on me eat spinach of I don't have
to come up. Why would I do that? Hey, we
got Prince Albert in the show. We're winning and spinis
opera Alma's next level stuff right there? All right? Now,
as we get to the sweet sixteen in the NCAA Tournament,

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this story that we thought was over has jumped back
out in a very strange way. Now you probably heard
the name Antoine Davis over the course of the last
couple of weeks. He was a guy that potentially could
have broken the biggest record in all of college basketball.
He was four point shy of breaking the all time
scoring record of pistol Pete Maravich and the lost the

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Horizon League Tournament. Their record was fourteen and eighteen. They
were hoping to get an invitation or the school would
want to pay their way into the CBI so we
could play another game and he could own the all
time scoring record. Except it didn't happen. They were not invited,
and Antoine Davis did an interview today that was pretty
shocking with a couple of things. Talked to the Associated Press,

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he was asked, how do you feel about not getting
another chance to play and ending your career four points
short of the all time record of scoring in college basketball,
and he said, quote, I'm upset about it. I feel
like I got cheated out of something that they can't
ever give back to me. I think it's selfish and
weird that people called or emailed the CBI to say

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we shouldn't be in the tournament because they didn't want
me to break the record. Now, this is a kind
of a couple of shocking things. You know, first Davis
saying I got cheated out of something they can't give me.
And then that people emailed or called the CBI to
say don't let him and his Detroit Mercy team in. Now,
the CBI did say, hey, we did get unsolicited emails

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and voicemails about Detroit Mercy saying we don't want Pete
Maravich's record broken, But the decision we made wasn't based
on whether we wanted him to break the record or not.
So let's deal with that part of it first. First
of all, yes, it's incredibly crappy that people would call
and say, don't let him in, we don't want the
record broken. What do you care? What do you care
if the guy gets in or not? I mean, what what? What?

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Why does that hurt you? Oh? My goodness, how does
that affect your life? If they let him in the
tournament and he breaks Pete Maravich's record? What? What? What
is that? I mean? Really? I mean, I even some
members of Pete Marrivich's family say they love Antoine David. Hey,
if he gets it, he gets it. But you know,
can you let a team in fourteen and eighteen into
the CBI, your season should be over. I kind of

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get that, right, I kind of. But for people to
call that's the first part of it is what the
hell is wrong with you? You really you don't want
to see the guy break an all time record because
it affects you. How how does this affect you? I
don't understand. Tell me, tell me how this makes your
life worse than it was. You just want to say no,
I don't want it because I don't want it for
whatever reason. That that's something I agree, that's a load

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of crap and that's got no place in anything. And
hopefully the CBI wasn't swayed by oh, people calling saying
we don't want Marriviach's record broken. Yeah. I think some
of it goes down to if you're if you're adding
the supporting elements, and we'll get into those as we
flow through. No doubt as to how you would get
to the point of breaking it, then I can understand it.

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If it's just in a vacuum, it's like, oh, we
can't have this guy take down Pistol Pete's record. Well
that's just silly. But when you start taking in the
accompanying stuff. You know, the fact that they were fourteen
and nineteen and they could pay their way into a
postseason tournament. That's kind of problematic to me, Like that,
I understand, don't let them pay their way in. This

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is silly because there was one discussion point where it
was going to cost him, what twenty seven five to
be part of a postseason tournament where he would need
to score another six point or five points to break
the record. Like, when you start getting into that level
of things, like is it worth twenty seven five to
let this guy go break a record? Do we want
to play that badly? Like that's bad business, that's bad basketball,

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and against the spirit of what you're trying to do.
But if it's just in general, I like Pistol Pete
and he deserves to keep this record forever, Yeah, then
you can beat it. You know. Yeah, that's ridiculous now.
But to me, that's the easy part of the conversation,
because the tough part is this is that to hear
Antoine Davis say, I felt like I got cheated out

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of something they can't ever give back to me, And
I say, you know, hang on for one second, I mean,
just let's let's be real for a second. Marovich set
his points record in three seasons. Okay, he played three
seasons of college basketball. There was no three point shot
and freshman couldn't play all right, thirty six hundred and

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sixty seven career points. This is Antoine Davis, who was gonna,
who was four point shy of breaking it, and he
played five years of college basketball because he got the
extra year that everybody got for COVID. And for him
to say I was cheated out of this, I would say, dude,
you had a long time to break this record. You
needed four points short. It sucks, I get it, But

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to say you were cheated out of it as something
they can't give back to you. You could have had
a couple of better games. You had five years to
get a record that someone took three years to make,
and if you don't get it, I don't feel that
awful for you. And for him to say I was
cheated out of it, I'm like, dude, just say I
wish I could have done it. It really would have
been something. It would have been great for me. But

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in the end, really you had five five years. I mean,
sometimes you have to talk about the difference in games played.
I get that we are that we are splitting hairs
and we say, well, here's a record that was set
in one hundred and fifty four games in Major League
Baseball versus one hundred and sixty two, or a record
that was set in the NFL in seventeen game season
versus a sixteen game season. That I understand. Hey, we're

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talking about something that's close. You had two full seasons
more to break this record, mans, and not only that,
you had more games in each regular season to break
this and yes you had the three you have. Oh,
you had all of these things, and you couldn't break it.
Now I don't feel I don't think you got cheated

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out of it. I think you just felt short. You know,
it felt fourteen and in nineteen. This year, your teams stunk.
This is Julius Randall tonight. Great job, good effort. What
was it the twenty fourth fifty point game of the year.
In the end of shut up, that's all fine and good.
You lost, your team went fourteen to nineteen. You're your home.

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Congratulations on a great career. I hope you play basketball
at some level somewhere in the in your future breaking
a record, you know what, you'll go down his number two.
And I guarantee you a week ago, outside of people
that really follow college basketball, nobody had any idea you
were that close to the record. He will always be

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number two. Yeah. Well, and look, and it's not that
he didn't have a great career. He had a tremendous
grubby When would we ever talk when it? When's the
last time we talked about somebody getting close to breaking
the all time scoring record? Right? I mean in college basketball?
I mean never? Right? So you know that's a great thing,

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but you know, I feel like they want to push that.
Oh we could have played and he could have done
it had other schools not called and complained about letting
them in the tournament because the head coach, who's his dad,
Mike Davis, said that, hey, they painted the picture. We
were trying to buy a record because they were going
to spend the twenty seven thousand dollars to get in,

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but the CBI was never going to let us in
because of the backlash, and with everybody calling to say
that again, that's ridiculous, what do you care about letting
them in? It? Really I don't understand that. But at
the same time, I think you should just say, hey,
it was an unbelievable run and he just missed. Well,
I would say this. I care for the integrity of
what your game is supposed to be. This isn't a

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grade school tournament where ay, you got a bunch of
people that can buy their way in to be in
the field of whatever. Like in theory, you should have
some sort of resume, some sort of standards other than
whether a check's gonna clear to be in a postseason
tournament in the nca ballet, Yeah, I mean you can't.

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You can't play the integrity card and say, hey, these
teams had no integrity when you were gonna say, hey,
there's no way we should be near a postseason tournament,
but we'll pay the money to get in just to
do it. No, But that's my point is that yet
that should not exist. Like the fact that that exists
at all well problematic in itself. Dude, the CBI needs
wait Toney money, man, I mean they need that money.

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They gotta find a way. Your team, did you field five?
Got No? My team's out there. Yeah, it's like what
you only have four guys? Hey, I got hackman over there.
I'm good to go. Let's go. I like how it's
twenty seven five hundred, not like thirty grand or No,
twenty seven five hundred. No one's going higher than twenty
seven five. Man, that's all we could put it out
to play in the CBI. Yeah, I think it's a

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better number. Thirty is nice and round. Nah to hell
with that twenty seven five Twitter and out about a fresca.
Mike gets swollen down The Jason Smith Show with My
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the Syracuse women's lacrosse team, now the new number one
team in the country. What's up, Jay? 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

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and we didn't cover. And I haven't been as you do.
They're 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,

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even nominally. I mean, I'm sure as we get closer to,
you know, the the tournament, UM, I'll pay more attention.
But yeah, I know the Maryland men are dominant, but
Johns Hopkins is seemingly down. Loyola has been down for
a while. Towson seems to be down. Yeah, I mean

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a lot of the schools around here are not quite
as dominant as all Right, Well, anyway, I'm good. Yeah,
it was a good breakdown. Will we get lots of
traction in those uh discord? 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. I've done it, only I didn't. It didn't

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work out again. I did it the first week of
the season, which was probably dumb, right. 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,

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Cam Newton, because he says, ain't thirty two people better
than me in the NFL? Looking 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

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something at a pro day that's going to rekindle interest
or take this to a new level or whatever. 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

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started a game last year, so you know what I mean,
Like Sam Ellinger started a game last year. 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

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to frame it? A guy who you know, 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,

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Harris understands what it's like to put an organization together.
He you know, he's done at the NBA, 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

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and the intricacies of the professional sports business. This is
someone who has a legion of people at 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

(18:53):
not necessarily someone to be involved in the nuances of
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

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football side. Like I would expect him to make you know,
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

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has made whoever ends up taking this over will immediately
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,

(19:56):
it absolutely positively feels like ding dung the WI which
is dead, Like you know what I mean, there's a
new you know, new boss coming to town. We just
don't know who it is, but a new day is
upon us. Jason 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

(20:18):
betting in the HIMLA is like we learned about in
French fletch. But this is just as important. It's been
radio silence 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

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Aaron Rodgers, and they could be should be sort of intertwine. Look,
we've never in the history of the league seen a
situation like this very fully healthy, twenty six year old
who has basically won three of every four football games

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he's played in as a professional, and who is a
few years removed from being an unanimous MVP. He's basically
he's unrestricted free agent ish right, Like, he's not fully
of unrestricted free agent, but he's unencumbered of any of

(21:24):
the usual blockage that will prevent anyone from getting an
above above board audience with him at any given time.
You can wind him, you can dine him, he can
come to your place, you can go to his place.
You can spend as much time with him as you
want or desire, whenever, wherever you want or desire. And

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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,
that's that's counterintuitive, that's bizarre, that's baffling. These are the
same billionaires, many of whom were born on third base

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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
to be as exhaustive as possible. They want to explore
every avenue. We want to make sure that we How
many people did Jim Mersey talk to about his head

(22:32):
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
a not so great quarterback draft that he tanked and
Porch and Scorts girthed his season four and hired a

(22:52):
dude office 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
quarterback has fallen to himage up and twice manning him Luck.
The second time he said he's gonna in multiple Super
Bowls with Luck, he never got close to one. And

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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
head coaching job to intervivial 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

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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, nobody
else wanted. He 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

(23:59):
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 sounds like the colluded. Someone better take one or
two for the team and pretend they care about getting better.

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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 which that will
make the MLB one look like chump change, and that

(24:42):
was I believe involved billions. Like somebody, pretend they really
want to get the best and the brightest and one
of the five most impactful football players on the planet,
and you don't have to give him an offer. Just
pretend you care enough about winning and not about protecting

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the shield and camping 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
a collusion lawsuit. Yeah, right now, I just want to

(25:25):
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 MORNINGWEG, you've probably pick You've either asked yourself the
wrong questions or you need you horribly desperately need a

(25:45):
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, Truss Productions could use
some help, and hey, I'll consult for you guys, I'll
do it. You know, gruttise, do you think he discusses
whether he's better than Bailey Zappie or Mac 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

(26:26):
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

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Belichick 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 up this weekend and signed They
signed Juju, a wide receiver who can't move right. Then

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they signed Chris Board like a special please guy, like
what are you doing? Like are you what are you
even trying to do? I mean, but Lamari 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

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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 planet
to do that from the quarterback position than Lamar Jackson.
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Radio Jay is always buddy, great stuff, man, We'll talk
to you. Thanks, gentlemen. Always a great visit from Jason
Locke and four the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike r. He was great. I mean he was
I look, I said it for the longest time, Mike,
I thought, Wednesday, You're gonna have an offer from Belichick
and the Patriots. It's gonna have that poison pill in it,

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that the Ravens can't match, and he's who he wants
because that's the kind of quarterback that Bill Belichick wants.
What's a dual threat quarterback. You got a guy that's
nobody's done it better than Lamar Jackson. I thought he's
ticketed for the Patriots. They're gonna trade mac Jones and
move on from that. And we haven't gotten it. I am,
I really, I am stunned. The Patriots have not done
this well. Where it's fun is the since he doesn't

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have an agent and doesn't have at least from outward appearances,
anybody that's calling Cheft or Diana Rassini or Rappaport, you
all those guys that Aaron Rodgers pretends and pretends that
he doesn't know. No one's calling Michael Rappaport. Come on,
he doesn't have anything about it. You drafted who Look,

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you've got no conduit to the inside of world, right,
Jay Glazer was across the globe, got engaged, guy, congratulations,
look forward to sending you a wedding gift. Might just
be a picture at Guy Fietti. I don't know, but
the idea being that you don't have the normal leagues
and information So for all I know, Lamar Jackson has
talked to five different teams, He's got dossiers on his desk,

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and he's before he does Lamar on Lamar, he makes
some sort of decision or gives us some insight to
what's going on with the Patriots. Jones versus Zappy, not surprised.
Zappy was more a guy just kind of flowing with
things and you know, ready to play like his hair
was on fire, right because he got the opportunity with

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Mac Jones a little more calculated, calibrated and safe, which
really is not winning football, as Locke and for said, hey,
winning seventeen fourteen is just fine by him. So yeah,
I have no doubt the Patriots want to do this.
How much contact there's been, we have no idea, and
I think that's one of the great things. With Aaron Rodgers,

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we've played it out partially in Paul like the other
in absolute darkness, and with Lamar Jackson, we just don't know. Right,
Laramie Tunson went and got a three year deal, making
him the highest paid tackle an extension, and he's got
no agent. He did it all himself, and everybody wants
to blast Lamar. I don't know how many people you
need telling you what you should and shouldn't do. You

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need a lawyer to make sure you're not getting screwed
and that the guaranteed moneies actually will be paid out
and not in you know, some sort of currency, you know,
the old Saturday at Live joke, giant stone coins of
the yapp Islanders, you know that kind of thing. That's
what you need for an agent for. Otherwise it's a

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lot of mystery, and isn't that good for the league?
It is for me. Be sure to catch live editions
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before we get to the play of the night, Mike,
I want to tell you once again evidence that I
could be an NFL GM Evidence, absolute proof. What did
I tell you last week about when this whole crazy
report came out about the Packers have all kinds of
leverage over the Jets because the Packers don't have to

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pay Aaron Rodgers till right before the season, right Ian
Rappaport had a couple of people, what an ingenious thing,
because you know they're getting all their info from the packers. No,
and it was great in theory, like in a theoretical world,
that is absolutely true. And we talked about this at
the time, and while I wasn't as um, you know,
shaking my fist and angry as you, I recognized there's

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a theoretical world and there's the real world. Yeah, there's
there's all of that, right, And so I said, wait
a minute, this is absolutely wrong. The Jets have all
the leverage because a the packers have already said we
want to push Aaron Rodgers out and there's no going back. Okay,
So how can you say you had the leverage? You

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want him gone because you want to move on. And secondly,
if you hold out for too much, the Jets are
gonna say, okay, see you wait what yeah, see you
and you're stuck with Aaron Rodgers and paying him and
all kinds of stuff. So no, you don't have the leverage.
In fact, so much so I think the Jets, I said,
what the Jet should just forget about giving up a

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first and a second or give up like a second
and a third or a third and a fifth. You
could play we will give you nothing, right, you could
play hardball with that. Um. That was last week. That
was the middle of last week. What did x Eagles
president Joe Banner have to say this weekend in an interview? Right,
this is a guy who built the Eagles into a
powerhouse and was the president of the team for like

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twenty years. Right, what was the name of the the
guy that was going after the beer banded? What was
the name Banner? Robert Stack on the side. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's right. Yeah, I forget, I forget. But here's Joe Banner. Right,
this is Joe Banner this weekend. Quote for me, The
Jets can wait without any risk or consequence. The Packers

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by waiting, risk that for some reason the Jets would
not be interested. Then they have no one to trade with,
which really ruins their team for two probably three years. Jason,
how much should you pay him for this? Cameo? I know, right, Sid,
I said, there's nobody else trading for Aaron Rodgers. If
you piss off the Jets, they're not going to trade
for him. He gave him a couple of bars of

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after the Loven when he was Dude, I could have
run the Eagles for close to twenty years. I really
I could have. I could have run the Eagles twenty years.
I could have done it. Unbelievable, right, I could have
been me, could have been crazy, could have could have
been should have been. You know what, the dream's not dead, buddy. No,
you're LinkedIn updated. You're right. No, I still could I still.

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I mean, well, the Eagles are pretty good right now,
so I mean it's not like they need me. But
I mean, well, but the next downturn, oh yeah, yeah, okay,
and it might not be the Eagles might be the Jets.
They don't land Darren Rodgers, because the revolt by fans
in New York and New Jersey could be strong and swift. Uh.
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come from behind with two runs and walk off the
bottom of the ninth thinning of the World Baseball Classic

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and you advance to play the United States in the
World Baseball Classic Championship. You get to be the play
of the night, except it's in Japanese. Suicide. There it

(35:04):
is Japanese television with the play by play call of
the walk off double that won the game. Clearly a shocker.
Mexico looked like they had it. They were three outs away.
O'tany lit off with a double two batters later, it
was over United States Japan for all the marbles tomorrow
coming up next, my buddy Ben mallor you are listening

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to Fox Sports Radio really fifty seven by Julius Randall,
and they couldn't win fifty seventy seven