April 11, 2023 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you how many points USC is going to put up this season with Kliff Kingsbury as the team’s quarterbacks coach. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora drops in for all the latest on Lamar Jackson. And the guys give you their thoughts on what triggered Rudy Gobert to throw a punch at teammate Kyle Anderson.
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on the back end of our day night doubleheaders. We
were in earlier today for Doug gott Lee from twelve
to two Pacific. We're here now and remember you need
to buy separate tickets for the Jay Night doublehead, or
you don't just get in for one price. It's separate.
You have to leave the ballpark and come back in
the turnstile for the night game. This is not a
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twin bill. This is not one yet. You have to
pay separately for our shows tonight. Well, except if we
build out that that arrangement whereby maybe there's a nap place.
Maybe there's a ball pit, a little bit of a
side carnival thing, kind of like baby sitting in between. Okay,
you had to go to work, maybe you had to
go to the bar across the street, but you wanted
to leave the kids with an activity. They get to
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run around the bases in between or something. We look,
we're looking for every revenue stream we can get, so
maybe we do that. There the official nap suite, right,
there's a barca lounger or a shower, some snacks, yeah, no,
some of them. And you just make some of the
seats into reclining seats where you can just lay on
them and put your feet up on the ones in
front of you, and that you get a nap. You
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get a nap between games. That's what I like. Hey,
you got three hours, what are you gonna do. I'm
gonna nap. I'm gonna take a walk up to the
storm and to buy a hat or a joy or something,
and I'm gonna walk around and get a hot dog.
All there's hardly anybody in the park amn't had this.
Like the ballpark is like it's its own thing for
me right now, And I'll pay extra money to stay
in the park in between games. Sure, how about how
about that you take one of the sections and you
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make that the bark a lounger section. Look at you
thinking right there, although, and you get someone to check
on you every half hour to make sure you don't
get sunstroke and to give you um water and m
and sunscreen. Yeah, but the leather would crack pretty quick
being out in the sun the seats all the time.
Well no, but I mean you you gotta take care
of that. You gotta condition that leather. You gotta make
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sure you cover it up when the games are not
in session or it's not nap time in between your
double header. Okay, it works, now, we could do that,
all right, We could do that now. Look, we got
a lot to talk about tonight with the playing round
starting tomorrow for the NBA. But I have a big
question because you know, justin Frostburg, I produced spend a
lot of time to me today telling me, warning me
about how Max shures or what is outing was going
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to be tonight. Hey Frostburg, how did Max shures or
do tonight? My internet hasn't been working. How how did
you do today? Because I haven't seen that. What did
you get up? Like four or five six runs in
a hand up banner? You played the Padres? How did
you do? You played the Padre? You should be thanking
me for beating the Padres. You should be thanking well.
Thank you? You mean you mean everybody's all American World
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Series prognostication. The champion parade. They had it last year
when they were in the hunt. Uh, Max Scherzer Tonight,
five innings, one hit, Mets beat the Padres. Thank you,
thank you very much, thank you, thank you, get to
the real big thank you, thank you. Look, Mookie Bets
gotta hit. Mookie Bets gotta hit. He actually he did
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not strike out, He did not into a double play.
He actually got hit. That hit went over the fence. No,
it was it was good. It was good. And and
maybe Giants. Yeah, we got a lot of big games tonight.
And the Rays may never lose, and and the Lakers
are bleeping. We'll get to the Lakers. The Tampa Bay
Rays win again today. They are now ten and oh,
first team to start ten and O since nineteen eighty seven.
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Now they've been play in the absolute worst teams in
Major League Baseball, but still they have like twenty five
home runs. They've allowed like eight runs. And yes, it
is the A's, it's the worst seams, but Tenano is
still tenan. No, the Rays may never lose again. Schedule right, yeah,
they may never lose again. Well that's why everybody here
in Los Angeles is losing their mind because the Dodgers
have been struggling against the Diamondbacks. Yeah, so there's a
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little bit there. But I mean, you go back to
those eighty seven Brewers man Rob Dear, Glenn Braggs, little
BJ Surhoff getting after Dale's fame. Oh yeah, oh that
was yeah, that was a good demember. BJ Surhoff. He
was supposed to be great. He's supposed to be a
Hall of Famer. BJ Surhoff nineteen eighty seven tops cards.
I had many that was like Robin. And that's when
Robin Yatt was winning an MVP playing center field. I think, yeah, right,
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he when m VP playing shortstop in like eighty three,
and then he won one in like eighty seven, eighty
eight playing playing center field. He's a fourth D three RB. Yeah.
Hell of a first name. I'll tell you. I'll tell
you no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no no
no stop stop stop stop stop. But no, seriously to
say something and this is this is tough because I'm
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going to say something good about something I'm not a
big fan of. It. All is that this year, more
so than any other in the last few years, the
beginning of the Major League Baseball season feels like the
beginning of the NBA season, where it's a celebration of
the sport and there are big matchups that we pay
attention to, and Opening Night of the NBA really lasts
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for about a month because we get great matchups. Oh,
this is the first time we're getting Lakers Clippers. This
is the first time we're getting buck Sixers. Oh, we
got a great one tonight because it's the Nuggets and
the Knicks, whatever it is. And that's the way, and
it feels great for the NBA for the first month
the year because we're not only are we celebrating the sport,
there's a big level of excitement and every night feels
like Opening Night. It feels that way with Major League
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Baseball this year, where things are being paid attention to
a lot more unsure. Some of it is the effective
shoeo Donni and what he's been able to do. But
baseball came in at instead of ramping up and into
the season, Baseball came in at a really high level,
coming off the drama of the World Baseball Classic. And
as much as I don't like it, because you know,
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see Edwin Diaz, I can't deny that it's had a
great impact on the sport and on the fans and
on its relevancy. So much so, how far are we
from saying, hey, maybe we should play the WBC every
two years, every three, every four years. That's great, But
how about we play it every We can play the
w We made this thing up like twelve years ago,
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why why not play it now? We're gonna see more WBC.
The players love it, yes, the teams aren't. Big fans
still gonna try to keep some players away from it
because they don't want them to get hurt. All of
these things are gonna happen, but we're still going to
see more of it and baseball, and that's one thing
I gotta say I love the fact that baseball has
started up at a ten coming into the season. Instead
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of being hey, baseball is here. No more people are
paying attention. Everything is up, interaction is up. It's up.
Younger people are paying more attention. And it's a direct
result of because of the excitement of the World Baseball Classic.
And I gotta give the nine you know, you know me,
you know I believe it because I'm giving a nod
to something I don't want to see ever again, because
I don't want to see anybody get hurt, especially on
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my team. You know, I'm telling you the truth. And
this is a This is a huge, huge jump for
baseball to start the way it has in the past
couple of weeks. Well, you prime the pump, all your
stars at the ready, and some of the biggest names
maybe showed a little more of themselves. One of the
things that think that came out of the World Baseball
Classic and into this year Mike Trout. He's been a
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little more vocal and we're getting to see a little
more of him. Hell, Tops did a thing where they
inserted these cards. You'd love it. One is bid over
four grand right now, ninety nine cards different athletes, you
get a follow back from him. Now, it doesn't guarantee interaction,
but someone's bid up four thousand dollars hoping that Mike
Trout will call and tell them about the weather or something.
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But it's that kind of thing. The rules changes and
seeing how those would be implemented, whether there'd be a
bunch of meltdowns and issues. Yeah, we've had a couple
of grizzly injuries. That O'Neil Cruse play at the play
that got everybody excitable yesterday was was rough. Your guy
Diaz going down today in a rundown to covering third base.
Tim Anderson gets clipped and has to leave the game
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as the White Sox played the Twins. So you got
a lot of that flowing, but big moments, uh, and
just an anticipation on how this is gonna flow? Right?
Are we gonna get more offense, generate more activity, games
are shorter, I don't know. There's just a little more
palpable excitement for baseball than there's been in a while.
And and as I guess, an old man, because that's
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what I'm supposed to be, right, old man that likes baseball.
I'm pretty excited about it, and here I was. I
was just excited until I stopped talking and the Braves
just walked off. So now now I hate baseball again.
I said, to watch the Braves walk off and rip
the jersey off. I like the Brave. I know it's
the Reds, but I'm like, I don't know why the
Braves just make me hate baseball. I don't know why
they just do they just because they dominate vision, they
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just irk me. It's my one of my favorite words,
vex or two of the greatest words in the English language.
That vex is a pretty good word. It's a pretty
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Jackson visit with Jason Lockin for coming up in a
few minutes because after the news of Odell Beckham Junior,
could finally we see things turning around a little bit.
But this story just broke a little while ago. And yeah,
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I don't know it. See, I don't know if this
is good or bad For a guy who's gonna go
number one overall in the draft in the year, Caleb
Williams is gonna have a new guy in his year
in his ear at USC as Lincoln Riley is expected
to hire former Cardinals head coach Cliff Kingsbury. There you
go to work with the team's quarterbacks, according to sources
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college football sources putting this out. So Kingsbury, who, of
course coach Kyler Murray, who was taking number one overall,
now working with who is going to be the next
number one overall, picking Caleb Williams. They're gonna score like
sixty a game, I'm sure, but I don't know. William's
arm might fall off at the end of it. Who knows. Well,
I think when you when you talk about just pure
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quarterback play, this is a victory. Kingsbury doesn't have to
have anything to do with the defense, doesn't have to
try to shepherd a team on the back hand of
the schedule, you just give him a game note, don't
put any date on there. Don't put any week nine,
week ten, because he starts freaking out and bad things
happen from there going all the way back to his
days at Texas Tech. Don't do that. I don't do that.
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Just it's in a vacuum. The weather is nice here
in southern California, a little chillier at night. But you
know what you can, you can excuse that away. Just
keep him a prize that it might as well be
game three of the season and everything will be just fine.
So what you so, So, what you're telling me is
then if I think I can read you right, they'll
start out seven and zero and then lose their last
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five games. But I'm optimistic by the fact that he
doesn't have to try to coach up the full roster. See,
he's got nothing to do with the defensive end of things.
It's all just about keeping the foot on the pedal,
and I think offensively, and we could go through the metrics.
The offense for the most part still worked now in
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Arizona bogged down because while they were, the attrition was
awful year after year, and Kyler Murray. You know, as
Steve Kim told us, he could have worked harder. We'll
get to Steve Kim because I have some choice thoughts
for his level and special brand of idiocy in terms
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of getting chirpy about himself. He's basically talking himself out
of any future jobs. But for Kingsbury, you've seen the
success that he's had with QBS. Again, as long as
he doesn't have to manage an entire roster and try
to get the game planning of all of it together,
this will work. Yeah, just help him help with the quarterbacks. Hell,
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be an advisor, hang out at the beach, come in
and tap in for a couple hours, give some advice,
give some nuance, and then and then walk away. It's good.
But yeah, the seven and oh certainly is is on
the table. Yeah, and then and then seven and five
and then But how do you like he already threw
the ball five hundred times last year? Caleb Williams did
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Cliff Kingsbury in his interview say, hey, I saw you
missed like four or five chances in a couple of games.
You could have thrown the football again. How about we guy,
we go wait, we could throw the football more. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
let's get those Let's get those passing attempts well up
over forty a game in every game. We could do it.
I mean, like, I don't know that the passing game
was the problem with Well, I don't think. I don't think.
I don't think he was the issue. But now we
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got another guy coming in here who's coached number one
overall pick. How about you have somebody coming in and
coach defense a little bit. I think I think we
need that. I think that a little bit more. Well,
I think I think for Lincoln Riley that probably would
have been the better move. Here's Wade Phillips or somebody
to come in and help on defense. But either way,
the more names you bring in, the less it's on you.
I mean, look the advisor. I don't know what he
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was doing in that room. I don't know what kakes
he did. Do him, Jason. When you put up seventy
a game like they're going to, now, you don't need
a defense. No, it's gonna be add seventy. But let's
talk about the eight touchdown passes Caleb Williams through in
that eighty four seventy loss to Oregon on Saturday. What
an unbelievable day. Man, those interns at Sports Center are
going to be busy. Yeah, I gotta say, you want
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to talk about speed editing to get those highlights up
and flowing. Here we go, Twitter it out about a fresca.
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news the last twenty four hours. Could Lamar Jackson actually
be staying in Baltimore? That's coming up next right here
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huge headline in the NFL from this weekend, Odell Beckham
Junior the beneficiary. You have a huge bidding war, except
not at all. The Baltimore Ravens decide we'll give you
fifteen million dollars to play here next year. Shortly after
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pictures on his Instagram of him and Lamar Jackson congratulating
each other. NFL Network reporting earlier today that both Lamar
and Odell had talked in the offseason about teaming up
to win a Super Bowl. So this year, does this
mean Lamar is gonna be a Raven? After all the
crap that's gone on, Nobody better help us break it down.
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Join us on the hot line right now. Long time
NFL insider for Odyssey the Washington Post. You can follow
him on Twitter at Jason Locke and for It is
Jason Locke and for What's happening? Jay? What's going on? Gentlemen? Dude?
But that's my question for you. All this Lamar Lamar,
and now over the weekend he and Odell are talking
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and he signs, I mean, is Lamar Jackson gonna stay
now after all of this, look all right, let's kind
of start going through this and sorting it out. Ken
having Odell Beckham be like a re recruiter calling card
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someone to sort of be a beacon of goodwill between
the franchise and him. Absolutely, like, are these dudes having
fun in South Florida? And are they magnetic athletes and
magnetic personalities who could do some really cool things together.
Definitely does overpaying for Hotel Beckham mean that Lamar Jackson's
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coming back. No, No, Odell Beckham is here for one reason,
because look, yesterday's Easter Sunday. Obviously people are doing things
with their family. I had three people in the NFL,
including two of whom I would say are very religious,
and so it is like, you know, a very holy
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day for them. Call me saying, what the hell are
the Ravens doing? Like, who were they bidding against? Why
were they doing this? No one else would have given
them more than ten? How could this really be fifteen?
So part of it is optics, right. Part of it
is the fact that the Ravens have been peeing down
their own collective leg for the better part of the
last five or six weeks, if not the last few years,
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and they've certainly been taking a lot of pr hits,
and they're having trouble selling tickets here, and people are
not really enthused about the type of football they're going
to be playing, and they didn't have any body on
the roster at the wide receiver position who had any
sort of NFL pedigree catching passes. So I understand it
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from that standpoint, and it is absolutely positively a move
born of desperation. Doesn't mean it won't work, doesn't mean
it won't be effective, but it's desperate. But let's be real,
money talks, right, follow the money. If they're not willing
to do for Lamar Jackson what they just did for
Odell Beckham, who's never played it down for them, which
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is we're gonna, you know, blow people away and show
you how much we think of you, then Lamar Jackson
will still hold out or Lamar Right. I can't even
say hold out because if he doesn't sign the franchise tender,
it's not a holdout. It's just him, you know, maximizing
his leverage. But like, if they don't come to him
sometime after July seventeenth, the deadline to extend them and
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sweeten the pot for him, like they sweetened the pot
for Odell Right and incentivize him, like the incentivize Odell
Or liked incentivized Roquan Smith. You know two and a
half months ago for him to sign a contract here
despite only being here for six weeks, then nothing's gonna change. Um.
So yeah, do I think it's it's an our branch
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of sorts. Do I think it could help their re
recruitment of Lamar? Absolutely, but they've still got a major
issue with Lamar. Did you and your Baltimore brethren in
radio and television bullied the Costa into that move? I
don't think it's the Costa. I think it's the owner.
We do. I think that my show in particular, No, no, no,
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I in general sense. I mean it's conceivable. We we've
been pointing out for the better part of the last
three years since we started the show that they've never
paid any receiver more in one year than they gave
Michael Crabtree six five six years ago. Come here, right,
they never paid anybody more than eight million a year.
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So the fact that they got doubled and do I
think they were shamed into some of this? Yeah? And
look if Darius Slay takes what was on the table
a couple of weeks ago and comes here to work
with his former defensive backs coach Denard Wilson, who left
Philadelphia to come here instead of staying in Philadelphia. Is Lamar,
is Lamar Jackson, Odell Beckham even the thing, no, because
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these guys are in a situation where they can only
make one significant swing and if Slay takes their money,
there is no money for Odell. But let's just be real.
If they thought O'Dell Beckham was truly worth fifteen million
for one year at a minimum, wouldn't they have just
done it three weeks ago and blown everybody out of
the water then, Like, if that's what they truly think
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he was worth, and why receiver is a massive need
here and he has ties to you know, their offensive coordinator.
Wouldn't they have just done it then? They would have?
Why did it happen now? It happened now because Slade
didn't take their money because they had a press conference
last week in which their PR director acted like an
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absolute infant. He had a gong show. He was a
total clown screaming at people. They've so lost the plot.
They can't get through a simple press conference without looking
like a bunch of jackasses. Right, They've got more drama
with Lamar and he's the last man standing. They're not
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going to pay DeAndre Hopkins twenty five year or twenty
year or whatever. This was it. This was their last
chance to do something to change perception, to get people
to stop talking about all the things that they've leaped up.
And so yeah, they gave Odell Beckham probably fifty percent
more than anybody else in the market would have given him,
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including the Jets who are about to talk to him.
And we'll see. Does he play eight games, does he
play ten games? Does he play seventeen games? I mean
he started twenty games total in the last three years.
That's gotta give you pause. Jason Locke and for our
guest here the Jason Smithworth, Mike Harmon Live and the
Tirac dot com studios. All right, so if there's still
ways to go here for Lamar Jackson. The other big
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news today potentially we could see a big shake up
in the draft. As many as six teams have called
the Cardinals to see if they would trade the number
three pick. I can't see him staying there and not
taking a quarterback. Jay, But hey, my philosophy be if
you're calling me, I would say, what if we keep
the pick and we give you Kyler Murray and you
give us another pick, like I would try to do
the old bait and switch if they call me in
that case. Yeah, I don't think these owners are nearly
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that savvy. I don't think that franchise is that progressive.
They're you know, stupid, is a stupid does so? No. Look,
I've been reporting in the Washington Post for a month
that that pick will absolutely be traded. There's no with
Cardinals are going to pick third overall and quarterbacks are
gonna go one, two, three, four in this draft. That's happening.
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It's going to happen that that's just the reality. Yeah.
How many teams have called I don't know, but I
think if you look at a cluster of teams, I mean,
Seattle probably doesn't do it, you know. I think they
just take Jolle and Carter, or maybe they trade back
a little bit because that's what they love to do,
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and still take Jolle and Carter. But you're sitting there
looking at the Lions. You're looking at you know, the
Raiders and the Falcons. I mean, really, desmont Ritter, are
we really buying it? And if the owner there doesn't
want to pay quarterbacks anymore, even though he paid Matt
Ryan top dollar three years after he was worth top
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dollar anymore. If they want to do it with a
chief quarterback, wouldn't Richardson or even Levis make more sense?
The Desmond Ritter like they are really buying, doesn't Ritter?
You know, Jimmy g how many games is he playing?
Four or five? Eight, ten, eleven? I doubt seventeen? You know,
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that's just to get me over kind of proposition. And
don't they need to sort of have their quarterback of
the future on the roster somewhere? So and there could
be somebody like you know, Minnesota coming way out of
sort of left field and making multiple moves to get
up there, although I doubt it, but I think of
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those previous three teams I mentioned, one of them end
up at three, you know, and if they get ahead
of the Colts, you know, are the Colts fine with
taking loves there? Maybe they are? Or do the Colts
try to force, you know, something with the Ravens for Hey,
we're gonna give you the fourth overall pick, and you
could do it now and get a quarterback, or we'll
do something after the draft and you know, we'll just
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take the pass rusher from Georgia and then we'll come
for your quarterback after the draft. And now you're even
a little bit more leverage against the cap because you
get all that money to odell even as avoidable years.
So there's still some obvious things to play out here.
But yes, Arizona will not be picking throw it overall now,
Joe Douglas decided he needed to get out of a
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bar unscathed, so he said, I promised that Aaron Rodgers
is showing up Smith calls it Roger's Eve every day,
and eventually he's gonna be like an Eagles fan and
he's gonna hate santic Lost. You you will You'll be
You'll be on it. You and Trey Wingo, you guys
will be so patico. It's gonna eventually it's gonna eventually
work out for you. When is that though? When is that? When?
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When is Can you tell me when that day? Is
it going to be the first day of the draft?
Is going to be the second day of the draft?
The draft? If it? Yeah, um, when, I don't know,
sometime between now and I'll say three pm Eastern time,
April twenty seven, Okay, then all right, then, so every day,
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every day will be Aaron Rodgers even till then. It's okay, Okay,
it's exciting, it's good. I'm glad you got that. I
feel good about that. It's like how the Christmas season expands, right,
the Christmas season used to be like December, and then
it became like, you know, okay, Thanksgiving, and then now
it's like Halloween. You know, they started running the commercials day.
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It just it just keeps growing. No. Now it's like
right after the fourth of July, we go, we go
right to Christmas. Yeah right, lay, yeah, you go. You
go to Costco and the Christmas trees are up in
the in the middle of July. That's outwards. He's on
Twitter at Jason locking for that is at Jason lock
and Ford. Check out his latest on the Watchington Post.
Check them out on Odyssey as well. Jay is always buddy,
appreciating my friend. We'll talk to you, thank you. But
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I'm digging that sometime between now and three pm on
April twenty seventh. Okay, now, I'm good with that. I
can have every day be Aaron Rodgers even till then. See,
you can rest a little bit. You don't have to
just fuel up on coffee and extra sugar to keep
yourself awake. Just knowing that there is a finite amount
of time in which this can transpire doesn't mean you're
(27:08):
not going to be anxious. You'll, you know, have the
the elixir of the Mets games, yea and whatever to
try to get you through. But as Frostburg laughs in
the back, between now and three pm, there's still a
chance that doesn't. That's all, hey, and how much how
great do I feel? Earlier today when we filled in
(27:31):
on the Dug GOTTLEIAP show, I told you after the
move with the Cardinals looking to make this move, I said, hey,
quarterbacks are going one two three four in the draft.
When it's all said and done, when all the when
all the maneuvering is finished, the teams are gonna be there.
Quarterbacks are gonna go one two three four. And here's
Jason saying, yeah, one two three four. I feel pretty good.
I feel like I could be an insider slash GM.
I can be I could do both jobs, because quarterbacks
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are gonna go one two three four feeling good and
the Jets are gonna be stuck with that. It's Aaron
Rodgers Wentz. No. We saw that hers has already been
He's already gone. He's already gone. Bad. Captain not happening,
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going into the playing round. There was a punch, there
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few minutes. But the big news in the NBA today
the Timberwolves will be without two of their better players
going into the playing game against the Lakers tomorrow, One
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because he smashed his hand punching a locker in frustration,
the other because he punched a teammate in frustration. Rudy
Gobert has been suspended for the playing game the Wolves
will be playing against the Lakers tomorrow night, after he
was caught on camera punching one of his teammates, Kyle
on camera on camera on very important punching, throwing a
(30:24):
punch at Kyle Anderson in a team huddle on Sunday.
They were going back and forth about why don't you
block a shot, why don't you get a better defense?
And Kyle Anderson apparently called him the B word, and
that's when Rudy Gobert swung at his teammate. And now
we're sitting here going into the playing game where Gobert
is not going to play, and it's going to be difficult.
(30:47):
It's gonna be difficult already without him and McDaniels as well. Look,
he scores twelve a game too. He decides to punch
a locker and Jane McDaniels is now out because he's
got a fractured hand. I gotta think and this is
just me taking this conversation a different direction from what
we've talked about earlier today. I gotta think there's a
(31:07):
little bit more at work than just Rudy Gobert throws
a punch at Kyle Anderson with getting him suspended. There's
there's something else that we don't know that's either been
brewing under under the headlines, because look, it's Minnesota. How
often do you really get headlines out of there? Um?
This could have been one of those hey, boys will
be boys kind of thing. We're gonna handle it internally.
(31:28):
The guys will be ready for the playing game against
the Lakers tomorrow. This wasn't a punch that was thrown
against another player, This wasn't something that involved another team.
This was a family thing. Right, Okay, we'll handle it.
But the fact that they're going out of their way
to sit him for the playing game tomorrow night tells
me something else is up. Something else is up with Gobert,
his relationship with the team, something Because this this normally
(31:51):
does not happen, you want to try to win it.
You're already in the playing round, so you may as
well try. Unless not at all. We still we still
can get knocked out. We still get a pick. You
know he's gonna Um, there's something going on something, and
it could be as much as we really don't want
to pick, uh, don't want to play. We'd love to
get back in and and not be involved in the playoffs.
(32:12):
We saw that with the Dallas Mavericks. But something under
beneath the scene, underbelly of this story is absolutely going on. No,
it's good. I mean, we don't know the history here.
The fact that the play by play it just seemed like, oh,
there goes all right, almost like they had bets as
to when it was gonna happen and it finally did. Uh.
And no excitement, no one flection of the voice. Look
(32:34):
at look at that over by the bench. Something's happening there. Uh.
And you flow from there. So you don't know how
long this has been building, what's behind the scene. Gobert
obviously has had his issues. You go back to Donovan Mitchell,
you go back a couple of years. He's a guy
that uh, people have a liking problem with him at
times and that they don't uh. But his whole issue
is the one that overshadows McDaniels just being an absolute
(32:58):
dope and punching punching the wall. Right, We've got Gobert
and and Anderson and you don't know how long it pokes. Right,
It's like all relationships that you may have, Jason, It's
like there's little things and those you letted slides like
all right, not big enough to raise a point, and
then files like you left a toilet seat up again
you jerk, you know, and it blows up into this
(33:19):
whole other thing. And here, you know, he said the
word that getting Is that really all that that's to it?
I think we'll get more to the store. You say
one more word about Max Sherzer, and we are going down.
We are going at it right now. One more word,
one more Mets, Mets, Mets, and I'm just gonna blow
a fuse belt. But man McDaniels, oh, I'm one of
their top defenders. And then he goes and and and
(33:42):
that's as dopey as it get. Do we need to
install speedbags or heavy bags and the hallways, you know,
things are getting a little testy out there. Equipment guy,
make sure not only do we have you know, a
little extra tape on the side, make sure the speedbag
is up there and ready to go, because you know
they're gonna be throwing punches as they head towards the
locker room. Hey, guys, let's be honest. They were never
beating the Lakers anyway. Now see here back yeah, but here. See.
(34:03):
Here's the thing though, if the late I don't like
the Lakers matchup. If they have to play Memphis, memphisis
is peaking. They're playing really well. Don't you think they're
gonna run them out of the gym. But if they
somehow lose and then win and get to play Denver,
I can say that I will pick that upset. I
(34:24):
will pick the Lakers to beat Denver. Denver is struggling
down the stretch. Michael Malone has had to try to
motivate the team going into the playoffs. No, the the
new look Lakers, they can give the Nuggets all they
just did not too long ago. They can give the
Nuggets all they can handle. I would almost tell they, listen,
let everybody's gonna be mad for a day. But let's
not beat the Wolves, and let's win that second so
(34:47):
we can get the Nuggets instead of the Grizzlies. Let's
do that instead. Because I really I don't like the
match up against the Grizzlies, but I love the match
up against the Nuggets Lakers. The trendy pick for trendy people.
Oh if only they're ho. But we were saying that
before the season, right, well, you con was a trendy
pick and I went to gets it and I'm pissed off.
I know. So now you're diving and leaning into the lake.
I'm sorry, Crosberg. It's all over for you. Now. I
(35:09):
could have won the bracketbuster thing here at Foxes. That
are coming in third. It's coming in third is great,
but I could have got nothing. I'll hang the what
could have been banner? Just hang me? Might have been
country song? Yeah, no, hang the me coming in third
place and the Fox Sports Radio bracketbuster contest. Uh, coming
in third is pretty good. I'm pretty happy with that. Yeah,
(35:30):
that was a three way hang that banner. Hey, hang
that manner. I came in third. Yeah, nobody cares I
came in third third, got Hey, you gotta celeb What
do you always say in my Carmen, celebrate your wins.
Celebrate your wins every day. And that was a couple
of weeks ago, So find a new one, will have you.
But the results just came out a couple of days ago.
More on Gobar, and more on Lamar Jackson. Next on
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pay separately for our shows tonight. Well, except if we
build out that that arrangement whereby maybe there's a nap place.
Maybe there's a ball pit, a little bit of a
side carnival thing, kind of like baby sitting in between. Okay,
you had to go to work, maybe you had to
go to the bar across the street, but you wanted
to leave the kids with an activity. They get to
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run around the bases in between or something. We look,
we're looking for every revenue stream we can get, so
maybe we do that. There the official nap suite, right,
there's a barca lounger or a shower, some snacks, yeah, no,
some of them. And you just make some of the
seats into reclining seats where you can just lay on
them and put your feet up on the ones in
front of you, and that you get a nap. You
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get a nap between games. That's what I like. Hey,
you got three hours, what are you gonna do. I'm
gonna nap. I'm gonna take a walk up to the
storm and to buy a hat or a joy or something,
and I'm gonna walk around and get a hot dog.
All there's hardly anybody in the park amn't had this.
Like the ballpark is like it's its own thing for
me right now, And I'll pay extra money to stay
in the park in between games. Sure, how about how
about that you take one of the sections and you
(02:13):
make that the bark a lounger section. Look at you
thinking right there, although, and you get someone to check
on you every half hour to make sure you don't
get sunstroke and to give you um water and m
and sunscreen. Yeah, but the leather would crack pretty quick
being out in the sun the seats all the time.
Well no, but I mean you you gotta take care
of that. You gotta condition that leather. You gotta make
(02:34):
sure you cover it up when the games are not
in session or it's not nap time in between your
double header. Okay, it works, now, we could do that,
all right, We could do that now. Look, we got
a lot to talk about tonight with the playing round
starting tomorrow for the NBA. But I have a big
question because you know, justin Frostburg, I produced spend a
lot of time to me today telling me, warning me
about how Max shures or what is outing was going
(02:54):
to be tonight. Hey Frostburg, how did Max shures or
do tonight? My internet hasn't been working. How how did
you do today? Because I haven't seen that. What did
you get up? Like four or five six runs in
a hand up banner? You played the Padres? How did
you do? You played the Padre? You should be thanking
me for beating the Padres. You should be thanking well.
Thank you? You mean you mean everybody's all American World
(03:14):
Series prognostication. The champion parade. They had it last year
when they were in the hunt. Uh, Max Scherzer Tonight,
five innings, one hit, Mets beat the Padres. Thank you,
thank you very much, thank you, thank you, get to
the real big thank you, thank you. Look, Mookie Bets
gotta hit. Mookie Bets gotta hit. He actually he did
(03:36):
not strike out, He did not into a double play.
He actually got hit. That hit went over the fence. No,
it was it was good. It was good. And and
maybe Giants. Yeah, we got a lot of big games tonight.
And the Rays may never lose, and and the Lakers
are bleeping. We'll get to the Lakers. The Tampa Bay
Rays win again today. They are now ten and oh,
first team to start ten and O since nineteen eighty seven.
(03:59):
Now they've been play in the absolute worst teams in
Major League Baseball, but still they have like twenty five
home runs. They've allowed like eight runs. And yes, it
is the A's, it's the worst seams, but Tenano is
still tenan. No, the Rays may never lose again. Schedule right, yeah,
they may never lose again. Well that's why everybody here
in Los Angeles is losing their mind because the Dodgers
have been struggling against the Diamondbacks. Yeah, so there's a
(04:20):
little bit there. But I mean, you go back to
those eighty seven Brewers man Rob Dear, Glenn Braggs, little
BJ Surhoff getting after Dale's fame. Oh yeah, oh that
was yeah, that was a good demember. BJ Surhoff. He
was supposed to be great. He's supposed to be a
Hall of Famer. BJ Surhoff nineteen eighty seven tops cards.
I had many that was like Robin. And that's when
Robin Yatt was winning an MVP playing center field. I think, yeah, right,
(04:41):
he when m VP playing shortstop in like eighty three,
and then he won one in like eighty seven, eighty
eight playing playing center field. He's a fourth D three RB. Yeah.
Hell of a first name. I'll tell you. I'll tell
you no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no no
no stop stop stop stop stop. But no, seriously to
say something and this is this is tough because I'm
(05:02):
going to say something good about something I'm not a
big fan of. It. All is that this year, more
so than any other in the last few years, the
beginning of the Major League Baseball season feels like the
beginning of the NBA season, where it's a celebration of
the sport and there are big matchups that we pay
attention to, and Opening Night of the NBA really lasts
(05:24):
for about a month because we get great matchups. Oh,
this is the first time we're getting Lakers Clippers. This
is the first time we're getting buck Sixers. Oh, we
got a great one tonight because it's the Nuggets and
the Knicks, whatever it is. And that's the way, and
it feels great for the NBA for the first month
the year because we're not only are we celebrating the sport,
there's a big level of excitement and every night feels
like Opening Night. It feels that way with Major League
(05:46):
Baseball this year, where things are being paid attention to
a lot more unsure. Some of it is the effective
shoeo Donni and what he's been able to do. But
baseball came in at instead of ramping up and into
the season, Baseball came in at a really high level,
coming off the drama of the World Baseball Classic. And
as much as I don't like it, because you know,
(06:07):
see Edwin Diaz, I can't deny that it's had a
great impact on the sport and on the fans and
on its relevancy. So much so, how far are we
from saying, hey, maybe we should play the WBC every
two years, every three, every four years. That's great, But
how about we play it every We can play the
w We made this thing up like twelve years ago,
(06:28):
why why not play it now? We're gonna see more WBC.
The players love it, yes, the teams aren't. Big fans
still gonna try to keep some players away from it
because they don't want them to get hurt. All of
these things are gonna happen, but we're still going to
see more of it and baseball, and that's one thing
I gotta say I love the fact that baseball has
started up at a ten coming into the season. Instead
(06:48):
of being hey, baseball is here. No more people are
paying attention. Everything is up, interaction is up. It's up.
Younger people are paying more attention. And it's a direct
result of because of the excitement of the World Baseball Classic.
And I gotta give the nine you know, you know me,
you know I believe it because I'm giving a nod
to something I don't want to see ever again, because
I don't want to see anybody get hurt, especially on
(07:08):
my team. You know, I'm telling you the truth. And
this is a This is a huge, huge jump for
baseball to start the way it has in the past
couple of weeks. Well, you prime the pump, all your
stars at the ready, and some of the biggest names
maybe showed a little more of themselves. One of the
things that think that came out of the World Baseball
Classic and into this year Mike Trout. He's been a
(07:29):
little more vocal and we're getting to see a little
more of him. Hell, Tops did a thing where they
inserted these cards. You'd love it. One is bid over
four grand right now, ninety nine cards different athletes, you
get a follow back from him. Now, it doesn't guarantee interaction,
but someone's bid up four thousand dollars hoping that Mike
Trout will call and tell them about the weather or something.
(07:49):
But it's that kind of thing. The rules changes and
seeing how those would be implemented, whether there'd be a
bunch of meltdowns and issues. Yeah, we've had a couple
of grizzly injuries. That O'Neil Cruse play at the play
that got everybody excitable yesterday was was rough. Your guy
Diaz going down today in a rundown to covering third base.
Tim Anderson gets clipped and has to leave the game
(08:12):
as the White Sox played the Twins. So you got
a lot of that flowing, but big moments, uh, and
just an anticipation on how this is gonna flow? Right?
Are we gonna get more offense, generate more activity, games
are shorter, I don't know. There's just a little more
palpable excitement for baseball than there's been in a while.
And and as I guess, an old man, because that's
(08:33):
what I'm supposed to be, right, old man that likes baseball.
I'm pretty excited about it, and here I was. I
was just excited until I stopped talking and the Braves
just walked off. So now now I hate baseball again.
I said, to watch the Braves walk off and rip
the jersey off. I like the Brave. I know it's
the Reds, but I'm like, I don't know why the
Braves just make me hate baseball. I don't know why
they just do they just because they dominate vision, they
(08:57):
just irk me. It's my one of my favorite words,
vex or two of the greatest words in the English language.
That vex is a pretty good word. It's a pretty
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few minutes because after the news of Odell Beckham Junior,
could finally we see things turning around a little bit.
But this story just broke a little while ago. And yeah,
(09:40):
I don't know it. See, I don't know if this
is good or bad For a guy who's gonna go
number one overall in the draft in the year, Caleb
Williams is gonna have a new guy in his year
in his ear at USC as Lincoln Riley is expected
to hire former Cardinals head coach Cliff Kingsbury. There you
go to work with the team's quarterbacks, according to sources
(10:01):
college football sources putting this out. So Kingsbury, who, of
course coach Kyler Murray, who was taking number one overall,
now working with who is going to be the next
number one overall, picking Caleb Williams. They're gonna score like
sixty a game, I'm sure, but I don't know. William's
arm might fall off at the end of it. Who knows. Well,
I think when you when you talk about just pure
(10:21):
quarterback play, this is a victory. Kingsbury doesn't have to
have anything to do with the defense, doesn't have to
try to shepherd a team on the back hand of
the schedule, you just give him a game note, don't
put any date on there. Don't put any week nine,
week ten, because he starts freaking out and bad things
happen from there going all the way back to his
days at Texas Tech. Don't do that. I don't do that.
(10:42):
Just it's in a vacuum. The weather is nice here
in southern California, a little chillier at night. But you
know what you can, you can excuse that away. Just
keep him a prize that it might as well be
game three of the season and everything will be just fine.
So what you so, So, what you're telling me is
then if I think I can read you right, they'll
start out seven and zero and then lose their last
(11:03):
five games. But I'm optimistic by the fact that he
doesn't have to try to coach up the full roster. See,
he's got nothing to do with the defensive end of things.
It's all just about keeping the foot on the pedal,
and I think offensively, and we could go through the metrics.
The offense for the most part still worked now in
(11:25):
Arizona bogged down because while they were, the attrition was
awful year after year, and Kyler Murray. You know, as
Steve Kim told us, he could have worked harder. We'll
get to Steve Kim because I have some choice thoughts
for his level and special brand of idiocy in terms
(11:45):
of getting chirpy about himself. He's basically talking himself out
of any future jobs. But for Kingsbury, you've seen the
success that he's had with QBS. Again, as long as
he doesn't have to manage an entire roster and try
to get the game planning of all of it together,
this will work. Yeah, just help him help with the quarterbacks. Hell,
(12:05):
be an advisor, hang out at the beach, come in
and tap in for a couple hours, give some advice,
give some nuance, and then and then walk away. It's good.
But yeah, the seven and oh certainly is is on
the table. Yeah, and then and then seven and five
and then But how do you like he already threw
the ball five hundred times last year? Caleb Williams did
(12:25):
Cliff Kingsbury in his interview say, hey, I saw you
missed like four or five chances in a couple of games.
You could have thrown the football again. How about we guy,
we go wait, we could throw the football more. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
let's get those Let's get those passing attempts well up
over forty a game in every game. We could do it.
I mean, like, I don't know that the passing game
was the problem with Well, I don't think. I don't think.
I don't think he was the issue. But now we
(12:47):
got another guy coming in here who's coached number one
overall pick. How about you have somebody coming in and
coach defense a little bit. I think I think we
need that. I think that a little bit more. Well,
I think I think for Lincoln Riley that probably would
have been the better move. Here's Wade Phillips or somebody
to come in and help on defense. But either way,
the more names you bring in, the less it's on you.
I mean, look the advisor. I don't know what he
(13:08):
was doing in that room. I don't know what kakes
he did. Do him, Jason. When you put up seventy
a game like they're going to, now, you don't need
a defense. No, it's gonna be add seventy. But let's
talk about the eight touchdown passes Caleb Williams through in
that eighty four seventy loss to Oregon on Saturday. What
an unbelievable day. Man, those interns at Sports Center are
going to be busy. Yeah, I gotta say, you want
(13:30):
to talk about speed editing to get those highlights up
and flowing. Here we go, Twitter it out about a fresca.
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and Odell had talked in the offseason about teaming up
to win a Super Bowl. So this year, does this
mean Lamar is gonna be a Raven? After all the
crap that's gone on, Nobody better help us break it down.
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Join us on the hot line right now. Long time
NFL insider for Odyssey the Washington Post. You can follow
him on Twitter at Jason Locke and for It is
Jason Locke and for What's happening? Jay? What's going on? Gentlemen? Dude?
But that's my question for you. All this Lamar Lamar,
and now over the weekend he and Odell are talking
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and he signs, I mean, is Lamar Jackson gonna stay
now after all of this, look all right, let's kind
of start going through this and sorting it out. Ken
having Odell Beckham be like a re recruiter calling card
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someone to sort of be a beacon of goodwill between
the franchise and him. Absolutely, like, are these dudes having
fun in South Florida? And are they magnetic athletes and
magnetic personalities who could do some really cool things together.
Definitely does overpaying for Hotel Beckham mean that Lamar Jackson's
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coming back. No, No, Odell Beckham is here for one reason,
because look, yesterday's Easter Sunday. Obviously people are doing things
with their family. I had three people in the NFL,
including two of whom I would say are very religious,
and so it is like, you know, a very holy
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day for them. Call me saying, what the hell are
the Ravens doing? Like, who were they bidding against? Why
were they doing this? No one else would have given
them more than ten? How could this really be fifteen?
So part of it is optics, right. Part of it
is the fact that the Ravens have been peeing down
their own collective leg for the better part of the
last five or six weeks, if not the last few years,
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and they've certainly been taking a lot of pr hits,
and they're having trouble selling tickets here, and people are
not really enthused about the type of football they're going
to be playing, and they didn't have any body on
the roster at the wide receiver position who had any
sort of NFL pedigree catching passes. So I understand it
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from that standpoint, and it is absolutely positively a move
born of desperation. Doesn't mean it won't work, doesn't mean
it won't be effective, but it's desperate. But let's be real,
money talks, right, follow the money. If they're not willing
to do for Lamar Jackson what they just did for
Odell Beckham, who's never played it down for them, which
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is we're gonna, you know, blow people away and show
you how much we think of you, then Lamar Jackson
will still hold out or Lamar Right. I can't even
say hold out because if he doesn't sign the franchise tender,
it's not a holdout. It's just him, you know, maximizing
his leverage. But like, if they don't come to him
sometime after July seventeenth, the deadline to extend them and
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sweeten the pot for him, like they sweetened the pot
for Odell Right and incentivize him, like the incentivize Odell
Or liked incentivized Roquan Smith. You know two and a
half months ago for him to sign a contract here
despite only being here for six weeks, then nothing's gonna change. Um.
So yeah, do I think it's it's an our branch
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of sorts. Do I think it could help their re
recruitment of Lamar? Absolutely, but they've still got a major
issue with Lamar. Did you and your Baltimore brethren in
radio and television bullied the Costa into that move? I
don't think it's the Costa. I think it's the owner.
We do. I think that my show in particular, No, no, no,
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I in general sense. I mean it's conceivable. We we've
been pointing out for the better part of the last
three years since we started the show that they've never
paid any receiver more in one year than they gave
Michael Crabtree six five six years ago. Come here, right,
they never paid anybody more than eight million a year.
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So the fact that they got doubled and do I
think they were shamed into some of this? Yeah? And
look if Darius Slay takes what was on the table
a couple of weeks ago and comes here to work
with his former defensive backs coach Denard Wilson, who left
Philadelphia to come here instead of staying in Philadelphia. Is Lamar,
is Lamar Jackson, Odell Beckham even the thing, no, because
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these guys are in a situation where they can only
make one significant swing and if Slay takes their money,
there is no money for Odell. But let's just be real.
If they thought O'Dell Beckham was truly worth fifteen million
for one year at a minimum, wouldn't they have just
done it three weeks ago and blown everybody out of
the water then, Like, if that's what they truly think
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he was worth, and why receiver is a massive need
here and he has ties to you know, their offensive coordinator.
Wouldn't they have just done it then? They would have?
Why did it happen now? It happened now because Slade
didn't take their money because they had a press conference
last week in which their PR director acted like an
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absolute infant. He had a gong show. He was a
total clown screaming at people. They've so lost the plot.
They can't get through a simple press conference without looking
like a bunch of jackasses. Right, They've got more drama
with Lamar and he's the last man standing. They're not
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going to pay DeAndre Hopkins twenty five year or twenty
year or whatever. This was it. This was their last
chance to do something to change perception, to get people
to stop talking about all the things that they've leaped up.
And so yeah, they gave Odell Beckham probably fifty percent
more than anybody else in the market would have given him,
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including the Jets who are about to talk to him.
And we'll see. Does he play eight games, does he
play ten games? Does he play seventeen games? I mean
he started twenty games total in the last three years.
That's gotta give you pause. Jason Locke and for our
guest here the Jason Smithworth, Mike Harmon Live and the
Tirac dot com studios. All right, so if there's still
ways to go here for Lamar Jackson. The other big
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news today potentially we could see a big shake up
in the draft. As many as six teams have called
the Cardinals to see if they would trade the number
three pick. I can't see him staying there and not
taking a quarterback. Jay, But hey, my philosophy be if
you're calling me, I would say, what if we keep
the pick and we give you Kyler Murray and you
give us another pick, like I would try to do
the old bait and switch if they call me in
that case. Yeah, I don't think these owners are nearly
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that savvy. I don't think that franchise is that progressive.
They're you know, stupid, is a stupid does so? No. Look,
I've been reporting in the Washington Post for a month
that that pick will absolutely be traded. There's no with
Cardinals are going to pick third overall and quarterbacks are
gonna go one, two, three, four in this draft. That's happening.
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It's going to happen that that's just the reality. Yeah.
How many teams have called I don't know, but I
think if you look at a cluster of teams, I mean,
Seattle probably doesn't do it, you know. I think they
just take Jolle and Carter, or maybe they trade back
a little bit because that's what they love to do,
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and still take Jolle and Carter. But you're sitting there
looking at the Lions. You're looking at you know, the
Raiders and the Falcons. I mean, really, desmont Ritter, are
we really buying it? And if the owner there doesn't
want to pay quarterbacks anymore, even though he paid Matt
Ryan top dollar three years after he was worth top
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dollar anymore. If they want to do it with a
chief quarterback, wouldn't Richardson or even Levis make more sense?
The Desmond Ritter like they are really buying, doesn't Ritter?
You know, Jimmy g how many games is he playing?
Four or five? Eight, ten, eleven? I doubt seventeen? You know,
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that's just to get me over kind of proposition. And
don't they need to sort of have their quarterback of
the future on the roster somewhere? So and there could
be somebody like you know, Minnesota coming way out of
sort of left field and making multiple moves to get
up there, although I doubt it, but I think of
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those previous three teams I mentioned, one of them end
up at three, you know, and if they get ahead
of the Colts, you know, are the Colts fine with
taking loves there? Maybe they are? Or do the Colts
try to force, you know, something with the Ravens for Hey,
we're gonna give you the fourth overall pick, and you
could do it now and get a quarterback, or we'll
do something after the draft and you know, we'll just
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take the pass rusher from Georgia and then we'll come
for your quarterback after the draft. And now you're even
a little bit more leverage against the cap because you
get all that money to odell even as avoidable years.
So there's still some obvious things to play out here.
But yes, Arizona will not be picking throw it overall now,
Joe Douglas decided he needed to get out of a
(25:13):
bar unscathed, so he said, I promised that Aaron Rodgers
is showing up Smith calls it Roger's Eve every day,
and eventually he's gonna be like an Eagles fan and
he's gonna hate santic Lost. You you will You'll be
You'll be on it. You and Trey Wingo, you guys
will be so patico. It's gonna eventually it's gonna eventually
work out for you. When is that though? When is that? When?
(25:37):
When is Can you tell me when that day? Is
it going to be the first day of the draft?
Is going to be the second day of the draft?
The draft? If it? Yeah, um, when, I don't know,
sometime between now and I'll say three pm Eastern time,
April twenty seven, Okay, then all right, then, so every day,
(26:01):
every day will be Aaron Rodgers even till then. It's okay, Okay,
it's exciting, it's good. I'm glad you got that. I
feel good about that. It's like how the Christmas season expands, right,
the Christmas season used to be like December, and then
it became like, you know, okay, Thanksgiving, and then now
it's like Halloween. You know, they started running the commercials day.
(26:23):
It just it just keeps growing. No. Now it's like
right after the fourth of July, we go, we go
right to Christmas. Yeah right, lay, yeah, you go. You
go to Costco and the Christmas trees are up in
the in the middle of July. That's outwards. He's on
Twitter at Jason locking for that is at Jason lock
and Ford. Check out his latest on the Watchington Post.
Check them out on Odyssey as well. Jay is always buddy,
appreciating my friend. We'll talk to you, thank you. But
(26:45):
I'm digging that sometime between now and three pm on
April twenty seventh. Okay, now, I'm good with that. I
can have every day be Aaron Rodgers even till then. See,
you can rest a little bit. You don't have to
just fuel up on coffee and extra sugar to keep
yourself awake. Just knowing that there is a finite amount
of time in which this can transpire doesn't mean you're
(27:08):
not going to be anxious. You'll, you know, have the
the elixir of the Mets games, yea and whatever to
try to get you through. But as Frostburg laughs in
the back, between now and three pm, there's still a
chance that doesn't. That's all, hey, and how much how
great do I feel? Earlier today when we filled in
(27:31):
on the Dug GOTTLEIAP show, I told you after the
move with the Cardinals looking to make this move, I said, hey,
quarterbacks are going one two three four in the draft.
When it's all said and done, when all the when
all the maneuvering is finished, the teams are gonna be there.
Quarterbacks are gonna go one two three four. And here's
Jason saying, yeah, one two three four. I feel pretty good.
I feel like I could be an insider slash GM.
I can be I could do both jobs, because quarterbacks
(27:51):
are gonna go one two three four feeling good and
the Jets are gonna be stuck with that. It's Aaron
Rodgers Wentz. No. We saw that hers has already been
He's already gone. He's already gone. Bad. Captain not happening,
twittering out about a Fresco Mike has swollen down. The
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going into the playing round. There was a punch, there
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your podcasts. Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmen live from the tirerac dot
Com Studios. You got more NFL coming up in a
few minutes. But the big news in the NBA today
the Timberwolves will be without two of their better players
going into the playing game against the Lakers tomorrow, One
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because he smashed his hand punching a locker in frustration,
the other because he punched a teammate in frustration. Rudy
Gobert has been suspended for the playing game the Wolves
will be playing against the Lakers tomorrow night, after he
was caught on camera punching one of his teammates, Kyle
on camera on camera on very important punching, throwing a
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punch at Kyle Anderson in a team huddle on Sunday.
They were going back and forth about why don't you
block a shot, why don't you get a better defense?
And Kyle Anderson apparently called him the B word, and
that's when Rudy Gobert swung at his teammate. And now
we're sitting here going into the playing game where Gobert
is not going to play, and it's going to be difficult.
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It's gonna be difficult already without him and McDaniels as well. Look,
he scores twelve a game too. He decides to punch
a locker and Jane McDaniels is now out because he's
got a fractured hand. I gotta think and this is
just me taking this conversation a different direction from what
we've talked about earlier today. I gotta think there's a
(31:07):
little bit more at work than just Rudy Gobert throws
a punch at Kyle Anderson with getting him suspended. There's
there's something else that we don't know that's either been
brewing under under the headlines, because look, it's Minnesota. How
often do you really get headlines out of there? Um?
This could have been one of those hey, boys will
be boys kind of thing. We're gonna handle it internally.
(31:28):
The guys will be ready for the playing game against
the Lakers tomorrow. This wasn't a punch that was thrown
against another player, This wasn't something that involved another team.
This was a family thing. Right, Okay, we'll handle it.
But the fact that they're going out of their way
to sit him for the playing game tomorrow night tells
me something else is up. Something else is up with Gobert,
his relationship with the team, something Because this this normally
(31:51):
does not happen, you want to try to win it.
You're already in the playing round, so you may as
well try. Unless not at all. We still we still
can get knocked out. We still get a pick. You
know he's gonna Um, there's something going on something, and
it could be as much as we really don't want
to pick, uh, don't want to play. We'd love to
get back in and and not be involved in the playoffs.
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We saw that with the Dallas Mavericks. But something under
beneath the scene, underbelly of this story is absolutely going on. No,
it's good. I mean, we don't know the history here.
The fact that the play by play it just seemed like, oh,
there goes all right, almost like they had bets as
to when it was gonna happen and it finally did. Uh.
And no excitement, no one flection of the voice. Look
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at look at that over by the bench. Something's happening there. Uh.
And you flow from there. So you don't know how
long this has been building, what's behind the scene. Gobert
obviously has had his issues. You go back to Donovan Mitchell,
you go back a couple of years. He's a guy
that uh, people have a liking problem with him at
times and that they don't uh. But his whole issue
is the one that overshadows McDaniels just being an absolute
(32:58):
dope and punching punching the wall. Right, We've got Gobert
and and Anderson and you don't know how long it pokes. Right,
It's like all relationships that you may have, Jason, It's
like there's little things and those you letted slides like
all right, not big enough to raise a point, and
then files like you left a toilet seat up again
you jerk, you know, and it blows up into this
(33:19):
whole other thing. And here, you know, he said the
word that getting Is that really all that that's to it?
I think we'll get more to the store. You say
one more word about Max Sherzer, and we are going down.
We are going at it right now. One more word,
one more Mets, Mets, Mets, and I'm just gonna blow
a fuse belt. But man McDaniels, oh, I'm one of
their top defenders. And then he goes and and and
(33:42):
that's as dopey as it get. Do we need to
install speedbags or heavy bags and the hallways, you know,
things are getting a little testy out there. Equipment guy,
make sure not only do we have you know, a
little extra tape on the side, make sure the speedbag
is up there and ready to go, because you know
they're gonna be throwing punches as they head towards the
locker room. Hey, guys, let's be honest. They were never
beating the Lakers anyway. Now see here back yeah, but here. See.
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Here's the thing though, if the late I don't like
the Lakers matchup. If they have to play Memphis, memphisis
is peaking. They're playing really well. Don't you think they're
gonna run them out of the gym. But if they
somehow lose and then win and get to play Denver,
I can say that I will pick that upset. I
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will pick the Lakers to beat Denver. Denver is struggling
down the stretch. Michael Malone has had to try to
motivate the team going into the playoffs. No, the the
new look Lakers, they can give the Nuggets all they
just did not too long ago. They can give the
Nuggets all they can handle. I would almost tell they, listen,
let everybody's gonna be mad for a day. But let's
not beat the Wolves, and let's win that second so
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we can get the Nuggets instead of the Grizzlies. Let's
do that instead. Because I really I don't like the
match up against the Grizzlies, but I love the match
up against the Nuggets Lakers. The trendy pick for trendy people.
Oh if only they're ho. But we were saying that
before the season, right, well, you con was a trendy
pick and I went to gets it and I'm pissed off.
I know. So now you're diving and leaning into the lake.
I'm sorry, Crosberg. It's all over for you. Now. I
(35:09):
could have won the bracketbuster thing here at Foxes. That
are coming in third. It's coming in third is great,
but I could have got nothing. I'll hang the what
could have been banner? Just hang me? Might have been
country song? Yeah, no, hang the me coming in third
place and the Fox Sports Radio bracketbuster contest. Uh, coming
in third is pretty good. I'm pretty happy with that. Yeah,
(35:30):
that was a three way hang that banner. Hey, hang
that manner. I came in third. Yeah, nobody cares I
came in third third, got Hey, you gotta celeb What
do you always say in my Carmen, celebrate your wins.
Celebrate your wins every day. And that was a couple
of weeks ago, So find a new one, will have you.
But the results just came out a couple of days ago.
More on Gobar, and more on Lamar Jackson. Next on
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