April 1, 2023 • 34 mins
Jason and Mike discuss some college hoops as the last four teams face off for the women's division. Jason Cole joins the show to talk about Anthony Richardson's draft stock.
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way tire buying should be Well. Big night in the NBA.
The Lakers are wait Frostburg, the Lakers back? Are they back?
The Lakers back there? What was? What was that? That's
not even from I can't decided to speak for him,
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So I got you. The Lakers now tied for seventh
after beating the Timberwolves earlier tonight. And now that ay,
all right, We've had the big marquee games in the
NBA complete come to a nan look. Jalen Brunson's everybody's MVP.
He had seventy eight points. That already had forty eight
points night as a Knicks pat Cleveland, and now everybody's
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attention can turn to the biggest star on a court.
Right now, Caitlin Clark Iowa leads South Carolina fifty one
forty nine with three minutes to go in the third quarter,
the best player in the game, leading the undefeated South
Carolina Gamecox now by four fifty three to forty nine,
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and so far for Clark, she's having a huge night tonight.
Maybe she doesn't get to fifty or sixty, but she
has twenty three right now with Iowa the four point
lead coming to the end. I mean, this is this
is a game that should be in the final right
like this should be. You're talking about someone who who
has taken over the news cycle over the past couple
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of weeks, the big forty point triple double that she had.
What she's been doing for women's sports the last couple
of weeks has been amazing. And here you are, the
best player in the in the game trying to ruin
an undefeated season for the best team in the game
with a big rock star coach and Don Staley. I
feel weird this is the final four, you know, it's like, oh,
this should be the championship game. But okay, that's what
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we have right now. But Caitlin Clark now twenty five
and seven assists make it a three point lead for
IOWA again late in the third quarter. Well, one of
the things that's been great watching her play and watching
the women's game get the attention it did. Right that
that game last week had more viewers than any NBA
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regular season game this year, made their last win, which
is just incredible, right the numbers that she put up,
as you talked about, but huge in the community. Uh,
doing all sorts of great things got her start. If
you read any of the biographies, they didn't have girls
teams where she was growing up, so she played on
the boys team. They tried to ban her because she
was too good. So it was all that guy weren't
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champions led by led by Caitlyn over there. It's like,
damn you, damn you. And they tried to get her
ousted too bad. And now here she is dominating on
this stage, does all the visits to the to the
big hospital that we always do the wave to during
football games, all of those great things, and just a
fantastic run that Iowa's had here. Earlier tonight you had
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the Kim Malki looking like she stole wardrobe from Charlotte Flair.
So they're ready and awaiting the winner. I mean that
flared out. Oh yeah, yeah, I can't wait to see
what she's got in the National Championship on Monday night.
She's gonna she's gonna walk in like Macho Man used
to walk in with the big robes and the and
the cleaming diamonds, and they'll play pumping circumstance. Dun dun, dun,
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dun dun. I mean, you want to talk about an
extension of WrestleMania Weekend? Are you kidding me? Coming out?
He was always my favorite entrance because, like it's pumping circumstance,
they play the congratulations when Yeah, but every kid, now,
for what thirty five years, there's at least one jackass
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that's coming up the aisle, Influenced by mom, dad, and
aunt and uncle, at grandpa, an older brother, someone in
their life who celebrated the macho man and introduced it.
And you know that that gown starts to flare out
a little bit, especially in places where they let you
decorate him. Then it's the next level macho man stuff
going on. Come on now, congratulations to Jason Smith are valedictorian.
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He's got a couple words for us, Madam Square Garden. Yeah, oh,
I didn't go to any classes my senior year. Yeah,
I just hung out in the gym and in the pool.
Oh yeah, that would leave campus and go to Subway
to have lunch every day. That's macho man. That's a
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great macho Are you kidding? That's a great macho man impression.
You're crazy, Frostburg. That was a punch drunk macho Manzella
Allen freaked out now speaking of at TJ, speaking of Savage.
One of the big plays from this game early in
the first half, because this is part of Caitlyn Clark's game,
Like you see kateln carpet, go, oh, she's a stone
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cold killer, right, like she's Kobe, Like she does stuff.
It's like, wow, she is a killer. There was a
possession in the first half where of the game tonight,
South Carolina has the ball and they're setting up their
offense and their freshman point guard Raven Johnson has the ball,
and she's got the ball outside like maybe two feet
beyond the three point line, and it's Caitlyn Clark's job
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to get out there and defend. And she sees her
and knows she's never gonna shoot or they'll give her
the shot show she waves off guarding her like she's
got the ball all bye. There's nobody within fifteen feet
of her anywhere, and Caitlin Clark takes a couple of
steps like she's gonna guard her, and she just dismisses
her with a wave of the hand and says, you're
not gonna shoot. I'm staying here. And then of course
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she doesn't shoot. She waits and she passed into somebody
who comes out for the ball. That's like the biggest
look you do on the play on the playground. It's like, yeah, dude,
you could take it. I'll give it to you. And
then of course you had to take the shot, right
because anybody's saying i'll give it to you had to
take it. She doesn't take the shot, she passes off,
but seeing that, I'd mean that that is you know
that is some kind of move, just like yeah, yeah,
you're not gonna take the shot, I'm leaving you. But
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that's just it. Though. She embraces the hype and the
hatred and all of it that flows together. Because when
you're that good, right, Reggie Jackson, as he taught us
all those years ago, fans don't boo nobodies. So she's
getting all all worked in. At one point, she hit
her six three point shot in the game, and she
did the John Cena you can't see me running down
the court. John Cena picked up on it on Twitter
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and tagged on is part of the big WrestleMania card
this weekend. The other one was they had an inbounds
play and defender was starting to body up a little bit.
What was John at her? She looked at her and said,
just shut up. You're down fifteen. That's great, look at
the scoreboard. Embrace your villainy man. That's the one thing
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with all of these athletes that we've talked about, going
all the way back to Lebron's James decision. Right as
the age of social media really came into effects, like
if you're going to do something, you've got people around you,
you should think of that, think about it again before
you hit send, right. Otherwise, if you don't want the smoke,
you don't want the reaction, don't hit send. You tell
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them Herm Edwards, don't hit send. So again we'll have
more on this game coming up again, finalment of the
third quarter. It is a two point game Iowa and
South Carolina. Meanwhile, tomorrow with the Final four and and
it's it's a it's a week where it's been a
weird week for the Final four. Certainly the beginning of
the Major League Baseball season and the drama with the
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quarterbacks are still waiting for Aaron Rodgers and Lamar Jackson.
And no, it's not been the heritage teams that are
in the Final four this year. We have four teams
that are just crazy that nobody really picked. As we
get closer and we saw Jim Larenego, the head coach
at University of Miami's he gets set for the Final
Four tomorrow, very excited to be back. Remember he's first
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in the Final four seventeen years ago when he took
George Mason, the very first real Cinderella of the New Millennium,
to get to the Final Four. They beat Yukon to
get there, and he was so happy, so excited to Hey,
why don't we expand the tournament? Let ninety six in
and you know, look, we talked about this going into
last weekend. The big effect of this tournament. This tournament
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is going to have such a huge impact on the
future of college basketball. I can't even tell you because
the blue bloods don't stick around like they used to
in year's pass right. The talent is spread out. You
have one and Dunn's, you can succeed more. You have
smaller schools that stayed together, or or mid major schools
with with veteran leadership. It's just never coming back to Hey, eventually,
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you know, this is just a crazy year. But next
year we're gonna have Kentucky and Duke in Kansas and
North Carolina. Yeah we might. And it's not like they're
gonna they're gonna fall off the face of the earth.
But the days of writing Duke into the Elite eight
in Final four are over. They're over. The same thing
for Kansas and North it's too difficult. Everything is spread
out now, anyone can win the tournament. This is the
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way college basketball has evolved over the past few years.
So if you're at a time now where yeah, anyone
can win, and you look at here's Florida Atlantic, for instance,
who came in fifth in their conference the regular season,
it's hey, anybody can win. Is it really fair that
we don't let as many teams as we can in?
Why not go to ninety six teams and we let everybody.
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We have to figure out a way to make the
regular season worth something when you're letting in ninety six teams,
but still this whole sixty eight teams. It's not gonna
happen anymore because the heritage Power five teams conference are
gonna say, hey, we play a better schedule than they do.
And I get that you're letting them in the tournament
when you're letting them all in at our expense, that's
not right because we play a better season schedule than
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teams like Florida Atlantic do, and I can't argue with that.
But at the same time, you got teams like Floor
Atlantic going, hey, there are two other teams in our
conference couldn't get to the final four. I mean, they
were just as good as us, better than us during
the regular season. So there's going to be no way
out except for to expand the tournament. And I'm sure
it's gonna jump to ninety six teams sometime in the
next three or four years. You're gonna see that. Okay,
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we we have the first four, Now that's great. Ody
want to go to seventy two. No, it's gonna be
a big jump to ninety six teams. Say, okay, we
can let more power fives in, we can let more
mid majors in, and we can have more chaos. We
can have four nights the opening week of sixteen games,
which will be outstanding. We can start Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
sixteen games each day, more TV revenue, more everything. That's
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the big legacy of this NCAA Tournament's going to be
a ninety sixteen tournament, and it's coming in the next
couple of years, you know what I mean. I love
whenever we can start talking about expansion, rapid expanse right.
The NFL story of hey, there may be a division
in Europe coming down the line, and it's something that's
been bandied about and whispered about all these years that
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maybe because of these international Games, you can expand to Jacksonville.
Jaguars always advancing and people wring their hands and say
that's not pure. It's like it's a business. It grows
where it can grow. It grows like our business. Right,
we're on the radio, We're on four hundred plus affiliates nationwide.
But there's podcasts, there's social media accounts. There's Twitter where
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you get engaged with folks there and get softy and
our guys at Seattle mad at you. All of those
kind of things. Me over at Swollen Dome, ig TikTok,
whatever else we got popping. Whatever the new era brings
you expand your audio business, video business, it's the personality
side of things continues to grow. Likewise, the NFL, the NCAA,
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everybody wants to grow their pie. And then if that
means more seats at the table, especially when trying to
decide between one of twenty five similar schools is a mess,
then why why not invite everybody you know extra round
of play or just expanded exposure to different cities. You
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get to see some of the stars that you only
read about or watch on clips or highlights, or if
you're tuning into regular season games, maybe get a little
bit of a glimpse of who these heavyweights are. But
I mean, what's interesting is you got Conference USA right,
they're trying to go for the hat trick right now,
North Texas UAB right. North Texas wins the n I,
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Charlotte won the CBI, so I man, they could do
the hat trick here if FAU can find their way through.
They're called the beach Boys, by the way, because they
were well, they thought they were soft because they were smaller.
But the expansion helped me Randa explain why that's not
the case. But the expansion does lend us more of
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these stories, and you see the competitiveness and in one
and done scenario which has always been the hallmark and
the calling card for the NC Double A tournament, and
particularly now when more of the dare I use the
term dinosaurs are there. Doesn't mean the programs go away,
but the people who've been synonymous with college buckets are retiring,
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getting fired, being asked nicely to walk away. Maybe their
key cards don't work at their syricu's office anymore. Whatever
the case, maybe you've got Izzo and a couple of guys.
Otherwise it's a and Laranaga obviously is still around, but
not to the same level of celebration right as some
of these other coaches. But has more of those guys
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dip and are out of the game, then you have
more conversation because you don't have the people in the
room standing for the guys that have been their friends
for forty years. Syracuse still not getting in. Well, you
know what, do you still have to have at least
a five hundred records? They can expand it to a
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thousand because remember when they were trying to buy their
way in from Mike Davis's kids so he could break
the scoring record and it was only twenty seven thousand,
five hundred. They couldn't come up with twenty seven five
What the hell? How much are they gonna pay Mellow's kid?
Twitter and out about a fresco Mike had swallowed them?
Get ready next couple of years. Ninety six teams book it.
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What's happening, man, I want my original drop backs? That's right,
we read all of that there, right, all right, got
like ten guys from my fancy baseball league that we're
drafting tonight. They're listening in and that's like tripled your audience.
Oh hey are they? Are? They? They also all going
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into the Pro Football Hall of Fame next year? Are
you voting all of them into? So? So like all
the mess players from this year's team that's team money
could buy. Yeah, sure, sure they're doing well, right, doesn't doesn't?
Anthony Richardson, you lost? You lost to the Marlins today? Yeah, okay,
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we lost a game today. It's okay, it happens. Yeah,
it's all right, and that season is going to go.
You know, we're Aaron Rodgers. Stop man, I know what
you really think about. Aaron Rodgers. We're going to the
Super Bowl and you're right there with it. You know
it's stop stop trying to or super Bowl or cave.
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That's what we're doing. If they don't make a super Bowl,
they're going to the Dark Place or whatever they call that. Right,
is the entire the entire downbe in southern Oregon meditating
in the dark. If they don't make the super Bowl.
That's and Woody Johnson will be there with this propeller hat.
If the Jets, okay, probably right. If the Jets were
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super you need to go on a darkness retreat. That's
the deal. If the Jets win, you need are are
you paying for the dark How much does the darkness
retreat cost? It's as much as though it wasn't that bad.
It was under a brand and that was going to Guatemala,
so we have to pay a little bit more. I
haven't looked into the Oregon Place. You have to look
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at the Oregon Cave thing. Okay, so we go there's
a gat they do Guatemala Darkness Retreat. Yeah, that's right.
Harmon's Harmon's found it on the internet and he won't
let it go. It's it's crazy, you just won't let
it go. He just keeps talking about this, well talked
about it. In weeks you bring to alter it as
a team retreat this fall once Aaron Rodgers doesn't come
back to Jaron Rodgers. Actually, you know what they're gonna do.
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This is what Aaron's gonna do. He's going to do
a darkness retreat. You know how like quarterbacks sometimes invite
their you know, receivers, tight ends and wide receivers m
for a little bit of practice. He's going to use
to practice in the darkness retreat in Oregon. He'll be
throwing fasts to them in the dark to see if
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he can a dark football. Hey, that help win the
super Bowl? Straight out of Charlie Finlay. That's that's what
it'll be. Ow I just got hit? Stop? How I
just got stop? Sarah Wilson comes out with like a
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detached rhetman is out for like five years or so,
that chips. Hey, hey, what what is this going to happen?
What is this deal going to get done? I gotta
think of the next few years, right, You get like
the deadline is the draft because the Packers are gonna
want to use the picks. That's what it is. And
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and there's no practice going on right now. So if
there's no practice, there's no reason to do this. So
there's basically two deadlines. You have the deadline of the
draft where the Packers should want to want the picks.
That's the that's the most obvious one. And the second
one is when the Jets start the off season program
because they need him at that point in time now,
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getting him out of a darkness retreat to go to Jersey,
which is sort of like another darkness, retreating a different way. Okay,
um is you know that will be? That will be tough.
Aaron Rodgers on the East coast living on the East
Coast is fascinating to me, it really is. Come on, wait, wait, wait,
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you really don't you still Jersey Shore or Jersey Boys,
which hey, Frankie Valley everybody, Uh, you don't think he's
He's still gonna live in in Wisconsin. He's just gonna
fly in and fly home after every practice. You'll fly
in for practice, fly home at night, fly back the
next day. It's all. What's gonna work. He's got a
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Friday flight into Oshkosh after every game. That's good. That
that'll work. Yeah, that's that. That will build camaraderie like
no team you've ever seen before. Sort of like the
mets um stop but one and one? Would you stop
with that? Anthony Richardson, Yes, impressive. You guys wanted to
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talk about aim Listen. No, here's the thing. Is that
because we talked about this last night. Is that seeing
a see knowing how the NFL works and knowing how
teams think, and knowing that Tepper one is that when
they see a good looking man in shorts, automatically he
becomes a top three pick. Is that? Yeah? We can
we can forget about what we saw on tape. We
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look at Bryce Young. He's four feet tall, he weighs
seventy five pounds. We can't draft the guy. Richardson's gonna
go number one overall. At the end of the day,
the Panthers are gonna say his potential everything else, we're
in love with the guy. If we're not sure about
Bryce Young, we kind of like CJ. Stroud, We want
to make a splash. It's gonna be Anthony Richardson number one. Well,
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there are some justifications for doing that. I mean, this
is real, this is real. I'm trying out to be sarcastic. Yeah, yeah, Now,
Anthony Richardson, in a lot of ways tests out like,
I mean, he's he's a unicorn at quarterback, Like you
just don't find the human beings who can do stuff
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like this, but they're so little known because again, he
threw three hundred and ninety three passes in college. And
trust me, like he went to the same high school
that my kids went to, so I know how bad
his high school football program was, right, Like, it was
dreadfully bad and he would missed half of his senior
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year there, so he learned very little. Even though they
played spread offense, he learned very little about playing quarterback there.
But he's a sharp kid, he's dedicated to his craft.
There are a lot of pluses for him on that side.
Very mature kid in a lot of ways. So there's
hope on that side. But there's nothing you and due
to replace not having made a lot of throws at college.
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And I looked this up. There's there's in all the
quarterbacks drafted since nineteen ninety in the first round, which
is I don't know, one hundred hundred something quarterbacks drafted
in the first round since nineteen ninety, he has the
second fewest pass attempts of any of those guys, and
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the only guy with fewer pass attempts than him is
Trey Lance. So in terms of just experience seeing plays,
like seeing the defense, what it does, how they rolled coverages,
how they rotate coverages, what kind of blitz as they
show to you. You know, all these different things that
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you just have to experience, and nothing, nothing teaches you
anything better than actually experiencing it. He's at the very
low end of the spectrum. And most quarterbacks who win
Super Bowls Chord drafted in the first round go have
it over a thousand pass attempts in their college career,
like Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Patrick Mahomes. Now
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Brady is an exception. He had like six hundred pass
attempts in his last two years. But he did play
four years at Michigan, right, and he was around at practice,
and you know it's not game experience, but even six
hundred is fifty percent more than what Anthony Richardson has.
So I was talking to one of his advisers today
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and you know, he just admitted, Look, I think there's
a lot of pluses to him, but the one factor
that we can't answer is game experience. You know, just
having been out there. It's like, you know, taking it
at bats in baseball. You know, nothing replaces seeing, you know,
seeing different kinds of pitches and what happens, you know,
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and nothing replaces seeing different kind of coverages. So Anthony
Richardson is one of the greatest question marks in the
history of the NFL draft. And so when you say
he could go number one, you're absolutely right, as painful
as that is for me to admit that you might
be right about something, like the first time in ten
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years that I'm willing to say you might be right,
because he is such a phenomenal specimen as an athlete
and such a good kid, right and and well meaning
and and pretty sharp, you know in terms of you
know both you know, just street smarts, you know, common sense,
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but also was pretty good on the board with a
lot of teams at the combine. So his knowledge of
football is more extensive than you would think for a
guy who hasn't played that much. But there's still you
haven't thrown that many passes in college, and guys like
this in this realm, i'man Trey Lance. I think Mark
Sanchez was in the five hundreds, so you know what
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that experience is like. As a Jets fan. Um, if
I need to remind you, I mean, you know, the
best look he ever had was running up the rear
side of one of his offensive linemans. Hey, hey, you're
talking about a guy that for like the first fifteen
years of Tom Brady's career, Mark Sanchez had more road
playoff wins than he did. Okay, wow, that counts for
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a lot again, Sure it does. Mark. Mark Sanchez was
so responsible for all of that. He was you give
me butt fumble, I give you two thousand and ten playoffs.
I'm going interception, interception thrown to a defensive lineman. There
were a few of us. There were there were a
few of us. Lies, damn lies and statistics, Jacole, you
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know that through an interception to a defensive lineman who
was rushing the pastor everybody. Everybody can throw a bad pass. Now,
this was not a guy dropping into coverage in a zone.
Blit Jets you Okay, he just he threw it and
the defensive lineman snagged it and said, look at this
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gift I have from heaven. And then it was the
spectacular nature of fat guy running with a football like
that's just you know, there's nothing there's nothing that matches that. Yeah,
now that was against the Lions. Actually that was against
the Lions. Did that threw an interception against the Lions?
Do it? Defensive linemen? How does that that defines your career?
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Doesn't it even more than the butt fumble to a
defensive li know, in terms of fame or whatever notoriety,
the butt fumble is there, But right behind is this
note through an interception to a Lion defensive linemens. You
can fall on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That's
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at Jason Coles code. I sang, go right now nicely
to check out a lot of words in on that.
You guys all suck all of you. Jay Cole, good
luck with your fantasy baseball draft. My friend later he
just hates having to agree with me on Anthony Richard
number one. I gotta got to. I have to participate
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in that discussion as you guys slap the fut for
no he didn't, Yes he did, No he didn't. Yeah
it was fat guy touchdown right right here you go.
You just summed up the last like five minutes I
was in seconds. All I can do is laugh. I'm like,
I want I want to ask himbout Lamar Jackson. Can
we get to Lamar Jackson? Yeah, next week, because that's
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not going anywhere. That's going. He's gonna keep going. Fat
guy touchdown, Yeah, yeah yeah. Be sure to catch live
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You're a horrible individual tie shirt, and you know, I
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know it's kind of hyperbole and kind of prisoner of
the moment right here, but watching Caitlyn Clark and her
presence on the court, it really it's like watching Jordan
in a finals game. I realize you're talking about the
NBA Finals versus you know, Women's Final four, in the
level of play from amateurs to professionals, and I get that,
but it's it's watching how what their presence is like
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on the court and how they're treating how everybody knows
where the ball is going to go on, how every
eye is on her, and where she looks like she's
the only person on the court. That's what this game
looks like right now. And Iowa's going to wind up
going to the Championship game. Caitlin Clark forty points. There's
just two seconds left. All I was got to do
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is inbound the basketball. They did. She throws the ball
into the stands, and Iowa moves onto the National Championship
game on Monday night beating South Carolina seventies are Sunday
seventy seven. All right, let's replace the men's with the
women's game on Monday. I'd rather see that, right, The
reviewers put the women's on Monday Show tonight. You know
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what she was celebrating after getting that inbound play and
dribbling out and then she flipped it back over her shoulder.
It landed about depth perception becomes an issue as to
how close on the live view, but just a couple
of feet from the front of the rim. So even
when she wasn't trying, she was nearly money. And the
final score seventy seven seventy three, Iowa thirteen of thirteen
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from the free throw line, South Carolina nine of thirteen.
Oh you know this is how do I say this? Um?
South Carolina? All right? Just for a second to thomb
of the impact Caitlin Clark has had in this South
Carolina was the biggest, baddest team in college basketball. All
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season long, they were undefeated. This is a thirty six
and Z team that you watched Don Staley and she's
feuding with Gino Orima all through this season. How much
fun it is? Look don Staleley's created the pre eminent
team in college basketball now. You know, for a long
time was Yukon and Tennessee and now look at what
Don Staley's done. This is an undefeated team looking to
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cap an undefeated season. And watching them the last few minutes,
Caitlyn Clark and Iowa made them look like a team.
They had no composure. It's like there was no effort
to try to deny her the ball, to just sell out,
to stop Caitlyn Clark from getting the ball, make somebody
else handle the basketball, and made nobody else is gonna shoot.
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They're all just get it. Looking back for Caitlyn Clark. Okay,
we're gonna give it to you, because Caitlyn Clark is
Kobe in the eighty one point game. She's Michael Jordan
in an NBA Finals game. In the last few minutes,
the ball's gonna go there. And South Carolina, who was
that kind of team looked like they had no idea
how to defend Caitlyn Clark. The looks on Don Staley's
face in the fourth quarter was just what has happened
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to us? I can't believe we're doing this. They were
completely discombobulated. They had no answer for Caitlin Clark. They
couldn't figure out how defense that was. Hey, let's roll
a couple of players towards her, make her pass to
somebody else. They may make it more difficult for her
to get the basketball. And there was none of that.
It was like it was it was lost in the
hypnotism of watching Caitlin Clark play, and it was to
be able to do that to a team that good.
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I mean, this is not just hey, here's Iowa, and
you know, here's a regular two seed or a three seed.
You're talking about a team that was going for an
undefeated season, that was far and away the best team
in college basketball. And this is what Caitlyn Clark does
to them forty one points on the night they go
to the national title game, South Carolina four of twenty
from three point range. Get this, forty nine rebounds to
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Iowa's twenty five twenty six offensive rebounds twenty six. Yeah, exactly,
shoot thirty nine percent for the game. Uh, your point
on Clark, a lot of a lot of standing around
all watching and in the inability like she was even
pulling up from forty at the end. Yeah, I think,
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all right, how mean you look? You saw? You saw
the couple of times in the last couple minutes her
teammates got the basketball. It was, let's go right back
to you right, like, we're not looking to make a play.
There's no like, hey, we have the numbers. Now there's
two defenders on Caitlin. We're able to turn. I get no.
It was if Caitlyn has to pick up her dribble,
I got to give the ball right back to her.
So I don't understand how South Carolina toy. Hey, hey ladies,
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let's focus here. Let's make sure that we deny her
the ball. Let's roll a couple of players towards her.
Somebody else is gonna make a shot. Somebody else besides
Caitlyn Clark is going to do this. And still they
weren't able to do it. She was still able to
get the ball. Greatness, this is just mind blowing six.
But we we've known this, right, is when you're you're
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a dominant squad and then all of a sudden you
get tested their margins of victory in the tournament thirty two,
thirty one, sixteen and eleven. It beat the hell out
of everybody, and suddenly you're down the stretch and you
could see it in their faces. They plus three seventy
five was iowan the money line by and now it's
now it's Caitlin Clark versus Kim Mulkie natural Champion. It's like,
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The Lakers are wait Frostburg, the Lakers back? Are they back?
The Lakers back there? What was? What was that? That's
not even from I can't decided to speak for him,
(01:08):
So I got you. The Lakers now tied for seventh
after beating the Timberwolves earlier tonight. And now that ay,
all right, We've had the big marquee games in the
NBA complete come to a nan look. Jalen Brunson's everybody's MVP.
He had seventy eight points. That already had forty eight
points night as a Knicks pat Cleveland, and now everybody's
(01:30):
attention can turn to the biggest star on a court.
Right now, Caitlin Clark Iowa leads South Carolina fifty one
forty nine with three minutes to go in the third quarter,
the best player in the game, leading the undefeated South
Carolina Gamecox now by four fifty three to forty nine,
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and so far for Clark, she's having a huge night tonight.
Maybe she doesn't get to fifty or sixty, but she
has twenty three right now with Iowa the four point
lead coming to the end. I mean, this is this
is a game that should be in the final right
like this should be. You're talking about someone who who
has taken over the news cycle over the past couple
(02:12):
of weeks, the big forty point triple double that she had.
What she's been doing for women's sports the last couple
of weeks has been amazing. And here you are, the
best player in the in the game trying to ruin
an undefeated season for the best team in the game
with a big rock star coach and Don Staley. I
feel weird this is the final four, you know, it's like, oh,
this should be the championship game. But okay, that's what
(02:34):
we have right now. But Caitlin Clark now twenty five
and seven assists make it a three point lead for
IOWA again late in the third quarter. Well, one of
the things that's been great watching her play and watching
the women's game get the attention it did. Right that
that game last week had more viewers than any NBA
(02:55):
regular season game this year, made their last win, which
is just incredible, right the numbers that she put up,
as you talked about, but huge in the community. Uh,
doing all sorts of great things got her start. If
you read any of the biographies, they didn't have girls
teams where she was growing up, so she played on
the boys team. They tried to ban her because she
was too good. So it was all that guy weren't
(03:18):
champions led by led by Caitlyn over there. It's like,
damn you, damn you. And they tried to get her
ousted too bad. And now here she is dominating on
this stage, does all the visits to the to the
big hospital that we always do the wave to during
football games, all of those great things, and just a
fantastic run that Iowa's had here. Earlier tonight you had
(03:41):
the Kim Malki looking like she stole wardrobe from Charlotte Flair.
So they're ready and awaiting the winner. I mean that
flared out. Oh yeah, yeah, I can't wait to see
what she's got in the National Championship on Monday night.
She's gonna she's gonna walk in like Macho Man used
to walk in with the big robes and the and
the cleaming diamonds, and they'll play pumping circumstance. Dun dun, dun,
(04:04):
dun dun. I mean, you want to talk about an
extension of WrestleMania Weekend? Are you kidding me? Coming out?
He was always my favorite entrance because, like it's pumping circumstance,
they play the congratulations when Yeah, but every kid, now,
for what thirty five years, there's at least one jackass
(04:26):
that's coming up the aisle, Influenced by mom, dad, and
aunt and uncle, at grandpa, an older brother, someone in
their life who celebrated the macho man and introduced it.
And you know that that gown starts to flare out
a little bit, especially in places where they let you
decorate him. Then it's the next level macho man stuff
going on. Come on now, congratulations to Jason Smith are valedictorian.
(04:48):
He's got a couple words for us, Madam Square Garden. Yeah, oh,
I didn't go to any classes my senior year. Yeah,
I just hung out in the gym and in the pool.
Oh yeah, that would leave campus and go to Subway
to have lunch every day. That's macho man. That's a
(05:08):
great macho Are you kidding? That's a great macho man impression.
You're crazy, Frostburg. That was a punch drunk macho Manzella
Allen freaked out now speaking of at TJ, speaking of Savage.
One of the big plays from this game early in
the first half, because this is part of Caitlyn Clark's game,
Like you see kateln carpet, go, oh, she's a stone
(05:30):
cold killer, right, like she's Kobe, Like she does stuff.
It's like, wow, she is a killer. There was a
possession in the first half where of the game tonight,
South Carolina has the ball and they're setting up their
offense and their freshman point guard Raven Johnson has the ball,
and she's got the ball outside like maybe two feet
beyond the three point line, and it's Caitlyn Clark's job
(05:53):
to get out there and defend. And she sees her
and knows she's never gonna shoot or they'll give her
the shot show she waves off guarding her like she's
got the ball all bye. There's nobody within fifteen feet
of her anywhere, and Caitlin Clark takes a couple of
steps like she's gonna guard her, and she just dismisses
her with a wave of the hand and says, you're
not gonna shoot. I'm staying here. And then of course
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she doesn't shoot. She waits and she passed into somebody
who comes out for the ball. That's like the biggest
look you do on the play on the playground. It's like, yeah, dude,
you could take it. I'll give it to you. And
then of course you had to take the shot, right
because anybody's saying i'll give it to you had to
take it. She doesn't take the shot, she passes off,
but seeing that, I'd mean that that is you know
that is some kind of move, just like yeah, yeah,
you're not gonna take the shot, I'm leaving you. But
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that's just it. Though. She embraces the hype and the
hatred and all of it that flows together. Because when
you're that good, right, Reggie Jackson, as he taught us
all those years ago, fans don't boo nobodies. So she's
getting all all worked in. At one point, she hit
her six three point shot in the game, and she
did the John Cena you can't see me running down
the court. John Cena picked up on it on Twitter
(06:58):
and tagged on is part of the big WrestleMania card
this weekend. The other one was they had an inbounds
play and defender was starting to body up a little bit.
What was John at her? She looked at her and said,
just shut up. You're down fifteen. That's great, look at
the scoreboard. Embrace your villainy man. That's the one thing
(07:18):
with all of these athletes that we've talked about, going
all the way back to Lebron's James decision. Right as
the age of social media really came into effects, like
if you're going to do something, you've got people around you,
you should think of that, think about it again before
you hit send, right. Otherwise, if you don't want the smoke,
you don't want the reaction, don't hit send. You tell
(07:42):
them Herm Edwards, don't hit send. So again we'll have
more on this game coming up again, finalment of the
third quarter. It is a two point game Iowa and
South Carolina. Meanwhile, tomorrow with the Final four and and
it's it's a it's a week where it's been a
weird week for the Final four. Certainly the beginning of
the Major League Baseball season and the drama with the
(08:05):
quarterbacks are still waiting for Aaron Rodgers and Lamar Jackson.
And no, it's not been the heritage teams that are
in the Final four this year. We have four teams
that are just crazy that nobody really picked. As we
get closer and we saw Jim Larenego, the head coach
at University of Miami's he gets set for the Final
Four tomorrow, very excited to be back. Remember he's first
(08:26):
in the Final four seventeen years ago when he took
George Mason, the very first real Cinderella of the New Millennium,
to get to the Final Four. They beat Yukon to
get there, and he was so happy, so excited to Hey,
why don't we expand the tournament? Let ninety six in
and you know, look, we talked about this going into
last weekend. The big effect of this tournament. This tournament
(08:49):
is going to have such a huge impact on the
future of college basketball. I can't even tell you because
the blue bloods don't stick around like they used to
in year's pass right. The talent is spread out. You
have one and Dunn's, you can succeed more. You have
smaller schools that stayed together, or or mid major schools
with with veteran leadership. It's just never coming back to Hey, eventually,
(09:13):
you know, this is just a crazy year. But next
year we're gonna have Kentucky and Duke in Kansas and
North Carolina. Yeah we might. And it's not like they're
gonna they're gonna fall off the face of the earth.
But the days of writing Duke into the Elite eight
in Final four are over. They're over. The same thing
for Kansas and North it's too difficult. Everything is spread
out now, anyone can win the tournament. This is the
(09:34):
way college basketball has evolved over the past few years.
So if you're at a time now where yeah, anyone
can win, and you look at here's Florida Atlantic, for instance,
who came in fifth in their conference the regular season,
it's hey, anybody can win. Is it really fair that
we don't let as many teams as we can in?
Why not go to ninety six teams and we let everybody.
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We have to figure out a way to make the
regular season worth something when you're letting in ninety six teams,
but still this whole sixty eight teams. It's not gonna
happen anymore because the heritage Power five teams conference are
gonna say, hey, we play a better schedule than they do.
And I get that you're letting them in the tournament
when you're letting them all in at our expense, that's
not right because we play a better season schedule than
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teams like Florida Atlantic do, and I can't argue with that.
But at the same time, you got teams like Floor
Atlantic going, hey, there are two other teams in our
conference couldn't get to the final four. I mean, they
were just as good as us, better than us during
the regular season. So there's going to be no way
out except for to expand the tournament. And I'm sure
it's gonna jump to ninety six teams sometime in the
next three or four years. You're gonna see that. Okay,
(10:37):
we we have the first four, Now that's great. Ody
want to go to seventy two. No, it's gonna be
a big jump to ninety six teams. Say, okay, we
can let more power fives in, we can let more
mid majors in, and we can have more chaos. We
can have four nights the opening week of sixteen games,
which will be outstanding. We can start Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
sixteen games each day, more TV revenue, more everything. That's
(11:00):
the big legacy of this NCAA Tournament's going to be
a ninety sixteen tournament, and it's coming in the next
couple of years, you know what I mean. I love
whenever we can start talking about expansion, rapid expanse right.
The NFL story of hey, there may be a division
in Europe coming down the line, and it's something that's
been bandied about and whispered about all these years that
(11:22):
maybe because of these international Games, you can expand to Jacksonville.
Jaguars always advancing and people wring their hands and say
that's not pure. It's like it's a business. It grows
where it can grow. It grows like our business. Right,
we're on the radio, We're on four hundred plus affiliates nationwide.
But there's podcasts, there's social media accounts. There's Twitter where
(11:43):
you get engaged with folks there and get softy and
our guys at Seattle mad at you. All of those
kind of things. Me over at Swollen Dome, ig TikTok,
whatever else we got popping. Whatever the new era brings
you expand your audio business, video business, it's the personality
side of things continues to grow. Likewise, the NFL, the NCAA,
(12:06):
everybody wants to grow their pie. And then if that
means more seats at the table, especially when trying to
decide between one of twenty five similar schools is a mess,
then why why not invite everybody you know extra round
of play or just expanded exposure to different cities. You
(12:32):
get to see some of the stars that you only
read about or watch on clips or highlights, or if
you're tuning into regular season games, maybe get a little
bit of a glimpse of who these heavyweights are. But
I mean, what's interesting is you got Conference USA right,
they're trying to go for the hat trick right now,
North Texas UAB right. North Texas wins the n I,
(12:56):
Charlotte won the CBI, so I man, they could do
the hat trick here if FAU can find their way through.
They're called the beach Boys, by the way, because they
were well, they thought they were soft because they were smaller.
But the expansion helped me Randa explain why that's not
the case. But the expansion does lend us more of
(13:17):
these stories, and you see the competitiveness and in one
and done scenario which has always been the hallmark and
the calling card for the NC Double A tournament, and
particularly now when more of the dare I use the
term dinosaurs are there. Doesn't mean the programs go away,
but the people who've been synonymous with college buckets are retiring,
(13:39):
getting fired, being asked nicely to walk away. Maybe their
key cards don't work at their syricu's office anymore. Whatever
the case, maybe you've got Izzo and a couple of guys.
Otherwise it's a and Laranaga obviously is still around, but
not to the same level of celebration right as some
of these other coaches. But has more of those guys
(14:01):
dip and are out of the game, then you have
more conversation because you don't have the people in the
room standing for the guys that have been their friends
for forty years. Syracuse still not getting in. Well, you
know what, do you still have to have at least
a five hundred records? They can expand it to a
(14:22):
thousand because remember when they were trying to buy their
way in from Mike Davis's kids so he could break
the scoring record and it was only twenty seven thousand,
five hundred. They couldn't come up with twenty seven five
What the hell? How much are they gonna pay Mellow's kid?
Twitter and out about a fresco Mike had swallowed them?
Get ready next couple of years. Ninety six teams book it.
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What's happening, man, I want my original drop backs? That's right,
we read all of that there, right, all right, got
like ten guys from my fancy baseball league that we're
drafting tonight. They're listening in and that's like tripled your audience.
Oh hey are they? Are? They? They also all going
(17:01):
into the Pro Football Hall of Fame next year? Are
you voting all of them into? So? So like all
the mess players from this year's team that's team money
could buy. Yeah, sure, sure they're doing well, right, doesn't doesn't?
Anthony Richardson, you lost? You lost to the Marlins today? Yeah, okay,
(17:22):
we lost a game today. It's okay, it happens. Yeah,
it's all right, and that season is going to go.
You know, we're Aaron Rodgers. Stop man, I know what
you really think about. Aaron Rodgers. We're going to the
Super Bowl and you're right there with it. You know
it's stop stop trying to or super Bowl or cave.
(17:45):
That's what we're doing. If they don't make a super Bowl,
they're going to the Dark Place or whatever they call that. Right,
is the entire the entire downbe in southern Oregon meditating
in the dark. If they don't make the super Bowl.
That's and Woody Johnson will be there with this propeller hat.
If the Jets, okay, probably right. If the Jets were
(18:06):
super you need to go on a darkness retreat. That's
the deal. If the Jets win, you need are are
you paying for the dark How much does the darkness
retreat cost? It's as much as though it wasn't that bad.
It was under a brand and that was going to Guatemala,
so we have to pay a little bit more. I
haven't looked into the Oregon Place. You have to look
(18:27):
at the Oregon Cave thing. Okay, so we go there's
a gat they do Guatemala Darkness Retreat. Yeah, that's right.
Harmon's Harmon's found it on the internet and he won't
let it go. It's it's crazy, you just won't let
it go. He just keeps talking about this, well talked
about it. In weeks you bring to alter it as
a team retreat this fall once Aaron Rodgers doesn't come
back to Jaron Rodgers. Actually, you know what they're gonna do.
(18:49):
This is what Aaron's gonna do. He's going to do
a darkness retreat. You know how like quarterbacks sometimes invite
their you know, receivers, tight ends and wide receivers m
for a little bit of practice. He's going to use
to practice in the darkness retreat in Oregon. He'll be
throwing fasts to them in the dark to see if
(19:10):
he can a dark football. Hey, that help win the
super Bowl? Straight out of Charlie Finlay. That's that's what
it'll be. Ow I just got hit? Stop? How I
just got stop? Sarah Wilson comes out with like a
(19:30):
detached rhetman is out for like five years or so,
that chips. Hey, hey, what what is this going to happen?
What is this deal going to get done? I gotta
think of the next few years, right, You get like
the deadline is the draft because the Packers are gonna
want to use the picks. That's what it is. And
(19:52):
and there's no practice going on right now. So if
there's no practice, there's no reason to do this. So
there's basically two deadlines. You have the deadline of the
draft where the Packers should want to want the picks.
That's the that's the most obvious one. And the second
one is when the Jets start the off season program
because they need him at that point in time now,
(20:13):
getting him out of a darkness retreat to go to Jersey,
which is sort of like another darkness, retreating a different way. Okay,
um is you know that will be? That will be tough.
Aaron Rodgers on the East coast living on the East
Coast is fascinating to me, it really is. Come on, wait, wait, wait,
(20:33):
you really don't you still Jersey Shore or Jersey Boys,
which hey, Frankie Valley everybody, Uh, you don't think he's
He's still gonna live in in Wisconsin. He's just gonna
fly in and fly home after every practice. You'll fly
in for practice, fly home at night, fly back the
next day. It's all. What's gonna work. He's got a
(20:55):
Friday flight into Oshkosh after every game. That's good. That
that'll work. Yeah, that's that. That will build camaraderie like
no team you've ever seen before. Sort of like the
mets um stop but one and one? Would you stop
with that? Anthony Richardson, Yes, impressive. You guys wanted to
(21:17):
talk about aim Listen. No, here's the thing. Is that
because we talked about this last night. Is that seeing
a see knowing how the NFL works and knowing how
teams think, and knowing that Tepper one is that when
they see a good looking man in shorts, automatically he
becomes a top three pick. Is that? Yeah? We can
we can forget about what we saw on tape. We
(21:38):
look at Bryce Young. He's four feet tall, he weighs
seventy five pounds. We can't draft the guy. Richardson's gonna
go number one overall. At the end of the day,
the Panthers are gonna say his potential everything else, we're
in love with the guy. If we're not sure about
Bryce Young, we kind of like CJ. Stroud, We want
to make a splash. It's gonna be Anthony Richardson number one. Well,
(22:00):
there are some justifications for doing that. I mean, this
is real, this is real. I'm trying out to be sarcastic. Yeah, yeah, Now,
Anthony Richardson, in a lot of ways tests out like,
I mean, he's he's a unicorn at quarterback, Like you
just don't find the human beings who can do stuff
(22:20):
like this, but they're so little known because again, he
threw three hundred and ninety three passes in college. And
trust me, like he went to the same high school
that my kids went to, so I know how bad
his high school football program was, right, Like, it was
dreadfully bad and he would missed half of his senior
(22:42):
year there, so he learned very little. Even though they
played spread offense, he learned very little about playing quarterback there.
But he's a sharp kid, he's dedicated to his craft.
There are a lot of pluses for him on that side.
Very mature kid in a lot of ways. So there's
hope on that side. But there's nothing you and due
to replace not having made a lot of throws at college.
(23:03):
And I looked this up. There's there's in all the
quarterbacks drafted since nineteen ninety in the first round, which
is I don't know, one hundred hundred something quarterbacks drafted
in the first round since nineteen ninety, he has the
second fewest pass attempts of any of those guys, and
(23:28):
the only guy with fewer pass attempts than him is
Trey Lance. So in terms of just experience seeing plays,
like seeing the defense, what it does, how they rolled coverages,
how they rotate coverages, what kind of blitz as they
show to you. You know, all these different things that
(23:49):
you just have to experience, and nothing, nothing teaches you
anything better than actually experiencing it. He's at the very
low end of the spectrum. And most quarterbacks who win
Super Bowls Chord drafted in the first round go have
it over a thousand pass attempts in their college career,
like Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Patrick Mahomes. Now
(24:13):
Brady is an exception. He had like six hundred pass
attempts in his last two years. But he did play
four years at Michigan, right, and he was around at practice,
and you know it's not game experience, but even six
hundred is fifty percent more than what Anthony Richardson has.
So I was talking to one of his advisers today
(24:36):
and you know, he just admitted, Look, I think there's
a lot of pluses to him, but the one factor
that we can't answer is game experience. You know, just
having been out there. It's like, you know, taking it
at bats in baseball. You know, nothing replaces seeing, you know,
seeing different kinds of pitches and what happens, you know,
(24:57):
and nothing replaces seeing different kind of coverages. So Anthony
Richardson is one of the greatest question marks in the
history of the NFL draft. And so when you say
he could go number one, you're absolutely right, as painful
as that is for me to admit that you might
be right about something, like the first time in ten
(25:18):
years that I'm willing to say you might be right,
because he is such a phenomenal specimen as an athlete
and such a good kid, right and and well meaning
and and pretty sharp, you know in terms of you
know both you know, just street smarts, you know, common sense,
(25:41):
but also was pretty good on the board with a
lot of teams at the combine. So his knowledge of
football is more extensive than you would think for a
guy who hasn't played that much. But there's still you
haven't thrown that many passes in college, and guys like
this in this realm, i'man Trey Lance. I think Mark
Sanchez was in the five hundreds, so you know what
(26:04):
that experience is like. As a Jets fan. Um, if
I need to remind you, I mean, you know, the
best look he ever had was running up the rear
side of one of his offensive linemans. Hey, hey, you're
talking about a guy that for like the first fifteen
years of Tom Brady's career, Mark Sanchez had more road
playoff wins than he did. Okay, wow, that counts for
(26:28):
a lot again, Sure it does. Mark. Mark Sanchez was
so responsible for all of that. He was you give
me butt fumble, I give you two thousand and ten playoffs.
I'm going interception, interception thrown to a defensive lineman. There
were a few of us. There were there were a
few of us. Lies, damn lies and statistics, Jacole, you
(26:51):
know that through an interception to a defensive lineman who
was rushing the pastor everybody. Everybody can throw a bad pass. Now,
this was not a guy dropping into coverage in a zone.
Blit Jets you Okay, he just he threw it and
the defensive lineman snagged it and said, look at this
(27:14):
gift I have from heaven. And then it was the
spectacular nature of fat guy running with a football like
that's just you know, there's nothing there's nothing that matches that. Yeah,
now that was against the Lions. Actually that was against
the Lions. Did that threw an interception against the Lions?
Do it? Defensive linemen? How does that that defines your career?
(27:34):
Doesn't it even more than the butt fumble to a
defensive li know, in terms of fame or whatever notoriety,
the butt fumble is there, But right behind is this
note through an interception to a Lion defensive linemens. You
can fall on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That's
(27:57):
at Jason Coles code. I sang, go right now nicely
to check out a lot of words in on that.
You guys all suck all of you. Jay Cole, good
luck with your fantasy baseball draft. My friend later he
just hates having to agree with me on Anthony Richard
number one. I gotta got to. I have to participate
(28:18):
in that discussion as you guys slap the fut for
no he didn't, Yes he did, No he didn't. Yeah
it was fat guy touchdown right right here you go.
You just summed up the last like five minutes I
was in seconds. All I can do is laugh. I'm like,
I want I want to ask himbout Lamar Jackson. Can
we get to Lamar Jackson? Yeah, next week, because that's
(28:39):
not going anywhere. That's going. He's gonna keep going. Fat
guy touchdown, Yeah, yeah yeah. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays
at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
You're a horrible individual tie shirt, and you know, I
(29:01):
know it's kind of hyperbole and kind of prisoner of
the moment right here, but watching Caitlyn Clark and her
presence on the court, it really it's like watching Jordan
in a finals game. I realize you're talking about the
NBA Finals versus you know, Women's Final four, in the
level of play from amateurs to professionals, and I get that,
but it's it's watching how what their presence is like
(29:25):
on the court and how they're treating how everybody knows
where the ball is going to go on, how every
eye is on her, and where she looks like she's
the only person on the court. That's what this game
looks like right now. And Iowa's going to wind up
going to the Championship game. Caitlin Clark forty points. There's
just two seconds left. All I was got to do
(29:46):
is inbound the basketball. They did. She throws the ball
into the stands, and Iowa moves onto the National Championship
game on Monday night beating South Carolina seventies are Sunday
seventy seven. All right, let's replace the men's with the
women's game on Monday. I'd rather see that, right, The
reviewers put the women's on Monday Show tonight. You know
(30:10):
what she was celebrating after getting that inbound play and
dribbling out and then she flipped it back over her shoulder.
It landed about depth perception becomes an issue as to
how close on the live view, but just a couple
of feet from the front of the rim. So even
when she wasn't trying, she was nearly money. And the
final score seventy seven seventy three, Iowa thirteen of thirteen
(30:32):
from the free throw line, South Carolina nine of thirteen.
Oh you know this is how do I say this? Um?
South Carolina? All right? Just for a second to thomb
of the impact Caitlin Clark has had in this South
Carolina was the biggest, baddest team in college basketball. All
(30:55):
season long, they were undefeated. This is a thirty six
and Z team that you watched Don Staley and she's
feuding with Gino Orima all through this season. How much
fun it is? Look don Staleley's created the pre eminent
team in college basketball now. You know, for a long
time was Yukon and Tennessee and now look at what
Don Staley's done. This is an undefeated team looking to
(31:17):
cap an undefeated season. And watching them the last few minutes,
Caitlyn Clark and Iowa made them look like a team.
They had no composure. It's like there was no effort
to try to deny her the ball, to just sell out,
to stop Caitlyn Clark from getting the ball, make somebody
else handle the basketball, and made nobody else is gonna shoot.
(31:38):
They're all just get it. Looking back for Caitlyn Clark. Okay,
we're gonna give it to you, because Caitlyn Clark is
Kobe in the eighty one point game. She's Michael Jordan
in an NBA Finals game. In the last few minutes,
the ball's gonna go there. And South Carolina, who was
that kind of team looked like they had no idea
how to defend Caitlyn Clark. The looks on Don Staley's
face in the fourth quarter was just what has happened
(32:00):
to us? I can't believe we're doing this. They were
completely discombobulated. They had no answer for Caitlin Clark. They
couldn't figure out how defense that was. Hey, let's roll
a couple of players towards her, make her pass to
somebody else. They may make it more difficult for her
to get the basketball. And there was none of that.
It was like it was it was lost in the
hypnotism of watching Caitlin Clark play, and it was to
be able to do that to a team that good.
(32:22):
I mean, this is not just hey, here's Iowa, and
you know, here's a regular two seed or a three seed.
You're talking about a team that was going for an
undefeated season, that was far and away the best team
in college basketball. And this is what Caitlyn Clark does
to them forty one points on the night they go
to the national title game, South Carolina four of twenty
from three point range. Get this, forty nine rebounds to
(32:44):
Iowa's twenty five twenty six offensive rebounds twenty six. Yeah, exactly,
shoot thirty nine percent for the game. Uh, your point
on Clark, a lot of a lot of standing around
all watching and in the inability like she was even
pulling up from forty at the end. Yeah, I think,
(33:05):
all right, how mean you look? You saw? You saw
the couple of times in the last couple minutes her
teammates got the basketball. It was, let's go right back
to you right, like, we're not looking to make a play.
There's no like, hey, we have the numbers. Now there's
two defenders on Caitlin. We're able to turn. I get no.
It was if Caitlyn has to pick up her dribble,
I got to give the ball right back to her.
So I don't understand how South Carolina toy. Hey, hey ladies,
(33:26):
let's focus here. Let's make sure that we deny her
the ball. Let's roll a couple of players towards her.
Somebody else is gonna make a shot. Somebody else besides
Caitlyn Clark is going to do this. And still they
weren't able to do it. She was still able to
get the ball. Greatness, this is just mind blowing six.
But we we've known this, right, is when you're you're
(33:48):
a dominant squad and then all of a sudden you
get tested their margins of victory in the tournament thirty two,
thirty one, sixteen and eleven. It beat the hell out
of everybody, and suddenly you're down the stretch and you
could see it in their faces. They plus three seventy
five was iowan the money line by and now it's
now it's Caitlin Clark versus Kim Mulkie natural Champion. It's like,
(34:12):
I want to know, I'll add that tonight two of
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