August 17, 2023 • 39 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if EVERY SINGLE TEAM in the NFL would trade their problems for the Jets problems. Vlatko Andonovski has resigned as manager of the USWNT. And Jason still thinks some NFL team will trade a conditional 6th or 7th round pick to the 49ers for Trey Lance.
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be well. If today is any indication, Michael, you and
I should have had some kind of skirmish on the
field earlier today, you and I throwing punches at each
other before being separated, because that seemed to be the
theme of the day in the NFL. No one can
escape it. It's hot out. I get it. You and
I should have fought today. We should have we should
have done a solid and done that and then comeing
and done the show.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, I mean we did a little of that in
in our back and forth, you know, prep of hear
some stories. Here's some verbal barbs over the ineptitude and
pathetic nature that is the Jets offensive line. Stop. Stop
everything that we should have met in the middle somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
There's still time. Stop. Listen.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I could get in a car right now.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You know, listen, you guys, I just want you to stop. Yes,
did we find out today the Jets didn't have a
great practice and the offensive line wasn't great? Yeah? Were
they missing three starters who didn't practice today? Yeah? Would
any team in the NFL, even the Chiefs, would any
team in the NFL trade their problems for the Jets problems?
(01:51):
Of course they would. Jets, what are your problems?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
What are the Chiefs problems?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, we're trying to figure out what the Jets. Well,
we're trying to figure out our tackles. We have three
or four guys, we're rotating out. What are the problems?
Do you have none really yet? None? Really yet? None? Oh? Okay,
then well all right, that's it. That's the Jets problem.
They're trying to figure where their tackles are. Yet it
looks like every day And I get that's part of
the attention of Hard Knocks that, oh, the Jets had
(02:15):
a bad practice on the offensive line. Yeah, you know what,
half the league had bad practice on the offensive line today.
That's gonna just make the Super Bowl all that sweeter
Mike Garbon. But every team, they would trade their problems
cite unseen for the Jets problems. Now we would trade
the problems.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, I mean it always comes back to I mean
what I've been preaching on this show and long before.
Show me the team that has five offensive linemen that
they feel comfortable going to week one with, and I'll
show you a winner. I'll show you a team that
has an opportunity for greatness right now for your Jets.
I mean that was part of Hard Knocks Episode two,
which I've know you've seen three times Robert Sala talking
(02:52):
about problems against Carolina. Now we're watching it and we
just keep getting update after update about how bad it is.
And yes, I I stipulate to the fact that you
had multiple offensive linemen not practice today. However, however, the
show is today. The practice was today, and everybody was
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fighting mad, and part of it was because their offensive
line stink, which means the quarterback's gonna start cursing at
the guys that are out there, maybe cursing the guys
that couldn't make it onto the field today, and it's
gonna start spilling over because everybody's tired of this ruse
that we call the preseason.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It doesn't matter it happens in August. Hey, you played
like you practiced, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Don't go trying to steal the rocks quote. If you're
gonna do it, put some put something behind it.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It doesn't matter. Yes, did all teams have? Show me
a team where at the end of a practice a
coach can say, hey, we practice great and every facet
of the game today. How if the defense practice is great,
that meets the offense didn't practice great. If the offense
practiced great, that means the defense didn't practice great.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I want to coach to just go to the podium
and go, you know what, we had a good stalemate today.
We'll get after it again.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
We had a good step, we threw a couple of touchdowns,
we stopped a couple of times. No, then you're upset
that neither side was good and neither side stood out today.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I mean, you're feeling pretty good today.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Trust me, every every team would trade their problems for
the Jets. And I'm not saying they trade their rosters.
But what's Kansas City's problem? Okay, we're redoing our wide
receiver room again.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, that's exactly but you know, hey, you're talking about, Hey,
do we have the right mix again?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's a concern. Can we run the football like we
did in the past, that's going to be a concern.
Can we trust? But checko are are are we going
to be able to do that? Those are a couple
of those are right right away? Two more problems than
the Jets have right right away. All are the more
problems than the Jets have. So yeah, any team would
trade their problems. We have three or four offensive tackles.
We're trying to figure out who the two guys are
the going to be there the inside. We have two
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Pro bowlers at right and left guard. So we're feeling
pretty good about that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, you can't clone. I wish, Hey, they can only
pick up so much.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, at least maybe we can. Maybe we can maybe
doctor Oz the guy with the jetsamentalist is figured out
a way to clone people, and then you watch and
see we have five Anthony Munos's starting along the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The only thing you'd get out of that is like
third rate offensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It would be like multiplicity when every time they cloned
Michael Keaton he was a little bit worse than the one, a.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Little bit dumber, a little bit less on top of things,
no question about it. Or you get a.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Giraffe, well there's that too, hey, you know what could happen?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Otherwise you end up down down the road of like
in Batman versus Superman, and you got Luther who finds
the kryptonite and he builds that monstrosity that you know,
just stakes a terrible villain.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Now let's get into because this is this. We did
have a ton of stuff today, A ton of skirmish, right,
skirmish is always a big word. It's a big word
because everything. We had fights all over pres Yesterday, Mark
Andrews body slammed somebody during a joint practice. Today, Max
Crosby was going at it with Cam Akers and he
was talking smack after it was over. When they had
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their joint practice, Matthew Stafford says, every time Crosby's within
five feet of me, he's yelling sack, sack, sack, because
you got a lot to hit the quarterback. And these
joint practices, like we're seeing the Dallas Cowboys had had
a big, uh skirmish at practice today that that that
almost got out of control. Look, one of the Jets
coaches had to go to the hospital because he was
trying to break up, you know, a bit at the joint.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Prere the hell out of there. That's a bad job by.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Blaming the guy who got hurt, Yes, and tried to
do something, tried to help, he dissipated, he tried to help,
he tried to All of this happened. And here's the
thing is I have a solution for all of these
things because these are all stupid, right, these are all
Whenever you're fighting at practice, it's stupid. And and you look,
I get it. During a game, when you haven't hit somebody,
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it's a game, it's the other thing I understand. But
during practice it's stupid. And it's really simple because why
do you get to that point where you're ready to
just thump somebody on the other team because you're practicing
in the absolute god awful worst heat of the year,
which is the middle of August. And I don't care
what side you come down on as far as climate
(07:25):
change goes. The planet is getting hotter, right, The planet's
got There's there's no debating that the planet is getting hotter,
and so summers are hotter now than they've ever been.
Look here in La I told you, by the time
the Olympics get here in twenty twenty eight, it's gonna
be ninety degrees every day. It's gonna be ninety degrees
every day. There's a hurricane coming to Los Angeles. I
know this weekend. I know it's it's look, it's everything
(07:46):
is look the world, the globe is getting hotter, right,
But let's keep this about foot, keep it about football.
Is that what would it really kill you to have
a couple of night practices, because that's honestly what has
people with such short You go out there and you
are sweating your ass off every single day. And I
know that it's not nearly as much as it was
because of the new CBA the last couple of times,
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and there's no more to a day practices. But would
it kill you to have one practice at night. Hey,
it's gonna be nice. It's cool out at night. We
can work on things because when you practice so much
during the day, especially that it's hotter than it's ever been.
And I don't think teams are taking that into account.
There's more fights now than they've ever been, and that's
a big reason because it's bleeping hot.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
It's hot every day. And not only is it hot,
it's oppressively hot, and it's hotter than it was. And
when that happens, you show me somebody who can be
that hot and can have a really cool temperament and
understand what's going on and focus and play football. No,
you can't. When I'm hot, I can't think. I'm like,
if I don't get a drink right now, I'm gonna
I'm gonna just explode. I gotta get a diet coke,
(08:50):
diet coke, diet coke. So yeah, I mean, what would
it kill you once in a while to Hey, let's
have a nighttime practice. Let's practice at night.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Why do we do that? That's good. According to several
climate sites, the Earth's temperatures risen by an average of
one point one four degrees fahrenheit per decade since eighteen eighty,
so it's always been hot, Jason, it's always been hot.
It's and I appreciate the.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Hurricane coming to La. We got hurric hurricane.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But just like you know, the the full moon will
turn people a little bit crazy or give them an
excuse to do something crazy. For some it will turn
them into werewolves. But the idea is that we know
that happens.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Man, that'd be pretty good. I kind of would want
to see that. You want, you know, I want big globe.
Look the ever read the Weekly World News. How dare you?
The Jets had a night practice. What happened? Garrett Wilson's
a werewolf? Man? He was taking bites out of everybody.
I can't believe that.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Now he's taken up the mantle from Teen Wolf two
and Jason bateon not to be confused with the TV show,
cause that added much darker tone to it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
No, no, no, no, no, I know, and I like Teen Wolf.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I was good. I'm not going to say it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I don't love to have been in a basketball game
where a player turns into a werewolf and then he
turns into a great player, Like that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But but I mean, that's what I mean. We got
to stay with the movies because they kept it light. Yeah,
they were interpersonal conflicts. But the other the show do
you like Boof? Do you like the other girl who
was in the you know, in the play and everything else.
You can say that this early why.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Boof is her nickname? That was a name Boof, They
called it Boof.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That was so anyway, the point I'm making is that
it's always been hot, and so we can ration.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But it's hotter now. But it's hotter now, it's it's
not that much. It's not it's hotter one degree, it's hotter.
It's hot. It's an average of one degree across. But
you have you have certain cities where it's hotter in
the summer because it is.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But it's hot. It's always hot. Richard Daily, mayor of
Chicago thirty five years ago, was talking about cooling centers, going,
what do you want me to say? It's hot?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, you have air conditioning, but you can't have air
conditioning on the field. So how about you just have
how about you just have a couple of prey Either way,
and you came, you could still have some stuff at
night and not have to worry about all the fights
because if it was hot today, you're still gonna fight.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
When they're opposite team, you're still gonna beat the hell
out of This is all the pent up frustration of
the guy lined up across now in their normal team practices,
that they've been told you can't beat the hell out
of this guy because we got to get through the
season together. Now. We don't care if you take a
swing at Max Crosby. You know what, He's not your
problem after these three days.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
No, not when it's a hot, not when it's out. Listen,
Lowly tell you this.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Just give everybody ice cream. That's I mean, that's where
you're at.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You if you walked into the studio and I said
to you right now at seven twelve at night, you hey,
Oh by the way, first picture of the Dodgers was
seven ten fifty seven Clayton curse seven. He's he's feeling okay?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Uh? If you came into the studio tonorw you'd walk in.
You're sending your air conditioned car. You come in air
conditioned studio, you would sit down. I'd say, hey, guess
what man, we decided to do this. You know, we
have your credit card on file. We ordered fat salas
for everybody. It's gonna be like one hundred and twenty bucks. Now,
you'd be upset, right, but you would be well, we
got to figure this out and we talk about it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
There.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You would be upset, but there'd be calm, cool reasoning. Now,
let's just say you took the same ride up here
without the air conditioning on, and your windows were rolled
all the way up and there's no airn wear a
suit and there's no air conditioning in the studio, and
all you did all day was move stuff up and downstairs.
That's all you did was move stuff up and move
(12:29):
stupsat And then you come in here and you're sweating
your ass off, and you come sit down and I go, hey,
we disordered fat salas and we use your credit card
bands like one hundred and twenty bucks. You would start
throwing punches. You would be the Tasmanian devil in this
studio because it was so hot. That's what happened.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Well, I'm not gonna say that. I mean, you might
not be verbally assaulted, but I'm smart enough to know
even with.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Now, when it's hot, n you would get out of control.
I could see no.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I mean, look, you misjudged me and mischaracterize me, and
I got a relationship all the time. Oh you're olding all.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
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You guys are.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Highly successful running a business.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I wear it suits now, I wear suits well, I
wear suits.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Now, I wear I mean, I'm wearing my sparkle glitter
suit from the Tailor Swift Show right now because I
wanted to be immersed in that memory of positivity as
I sit with you here on a Wednesday night at.
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who's a bad choice. You could solve a lot of
those problems just by having a couple of practices at night,
and then you have way less people wanting to fight
Max Crosby.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
If you had one of those personal fans attached to
your helmet, do you think you might have gone after
cam Akers.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Don't punch me, dude, just don't punch me. Don't punch me, dude,
don't punch me. Don't punch me. Hey, Hey, Hey, it's
going Don't don't punch me. Man, don't punch me. Don't
punch me, dude, dude, Crosby, just watch the punch. Don't
punch me, man, don't.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So is he gonna be the next gut to fight
Logan Paul because it seems like all he wants to
do is get in scrapes.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
You know, I didn't know Max Crosby had the strong
tattoo game that he did. Because we need this press conference.
They talking about the fight with cam Akers. He's got
no shirt and I'm like, he's got no spot on
his body that isn't covered with a tattoo.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Well, I mean, you haven't seen me shirt less. You
have no idea.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
No, I don't think you're You're not like him, though
I've seen you with I've seen you in short sleeves.
I've seen you in short sleeves, Max Crost, there's not
now any man.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I'm a businessman, which means I can't have the sleeves
like that, you know, trying to do the show with you.
I'm been told that that wouldn't be good for business.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You're not so.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I mean the tattoos are all covered up.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You're not me part time. Max Crosby needs to have
big years and designed big contracts. He's got a four tattoos.
I mean just if he didn't pay. If he'd ever
got a tattoo, he probably would have about five or
six more million dollars in the bank.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Tight shirt? What's an average tattoo? Run?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So, do you want a good one or a bad one? No,
it's got to be good, be an NFL got to
be a good one. A bad are doing like a
whole piece or just a little part?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I would I would like a nice piece like you
know the guillotine logo that I showed you from the
Afghan weeds thing Like what would that run me to
be done? Well?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Oh gosh, I'm gonna say, if you go to an
actual talented artist that takes his time, especially with the freehand,
you're looking at two sessions, probably almost around two grand
two fifth for like a six by six touches six
inch by six touches exactly, he would have like five
million more dollars. Or do you want tattoos? What would
you rather have?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well? He made his choice he made his choice. His
body is his temple, his body is his business. And
he wanted to show off the tattoos. You had a
kid's head up there. You had all sorts of slogans.
I'm in it. It's rich tapestry.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Don't a big mac on Jason's lower back and a cost.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That he punched me.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Don't punch me. Hey, I actually went to McDonald's tonight
and did not get a big mac chalk whoa who
walk in sandwich and and and three.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Chicks can't even really go?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Then I did. I did, And I came in and
I had chocolate chip cookies. She said, oh you got
I said, yeah, you want it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Seriously?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, come on, man, no I want one. I said, okay,
go grab one. He goes back, Oh no, I changed
my mind. And he's eating watermelon like out of just
He's just eating just to cut the watermelon in half.
It's just like spooning into the middle of the watermelon,
eating it. The watermelon's a bull for itself. But Jason,
I thought you had actual cookies. That was McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
McDonald's cookies are pretty good. They're pretty good eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox a Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next. I'm pretty
sure that I now qualify for one of the biggest
jobs in sports that is now open. It's next right here,
Jason and Mike.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (16:44):
We got to hear this song again. It's in every
open all right, Frostburg, all right, all right? Harmon, all right,
all right? What you can take either side of this bet? Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Does Alex ty Shirt know the name of this group?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
What side do you want for a buck? I'll take yes, yes, okay, Frostburg, Yes.
Does Tyshert know who this is? I would say no,
but he's staring at it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh? Is he h?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Who is it? Alex Tishert? This is my twisted sister.
You're looking right down at it as you're saying it.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That doesn't matter, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
The problem is you asked a terrible question. I set
yourself up to lose a bet.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I didn't know he would look at the job. I
see you right there. Who all right? So sandwiches are
on you? Then you won the bet?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You one?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Congratulations? You want you won the bet?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Friday morning, I'll bring donut.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Drink, ty shirt. Who's what's the lead singer of Twisted Sister.
What's his name? Uh? Nicholas Cage? It is Nick Cage.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Can they do a cover of prints?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
No? No, yeah they do play the play the Twisted
Sister version of Purple Rain. Now well, actually, maybe maybe
I should buy the next the next dinner, because I'm
pretty sure I could become the next head coach of
the US women's national team. I'm pretty sure I have
just as much experience as Loacholandanofsky had when he got
(18:18):
the job a few years ago. I be a nice guy,
same level experience, same level of experience.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You know, youth coach at a pretty high level for
a while, and now they're looking for a new I
think I could be the new head coach. I think
I can interview pretty well. I think I could be it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, it's not a bad, bad opportunity to try to
throw your hat in the ring. I mean, they're they're
gonna be open to all options unless they won't. History
history would say we probably on both sides, we hire retreads,
don't we. You've had this job before. Would you like
to come back? Yes? Right, I mean Jill.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Leplace could come back.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's all new.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Imagine like most of these people do.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
They're on their last But so it's gonna be a
whole new roster that never dealt with her.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I heard nobody liked her Da Da da Da. No,
you're thinking of Dale Ellis. Nobody liked Daale Elis even
sharpshooter for the Sonics, nobody nobody liked him. Jill Ellis
is fine, hees. Earlier today, Lacowandanofsky stepped down as manager
of the US women's national team, uh likely before he
could be fired as least successful head coach the US
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women's national team in the last twenty years, getting a
bronze medal in the Olympics and now getting knocked out
of the World Cup in the first game of the
knockout round a few days ago, in the middle of
the night against Sweden. So he stepped down, and and
you know, but why I can have this job before
I get into something that that that really just gets
(19:45):
me about this and why this is gonna be such
a difficult needle to threat is that you know what
I would do. The first thing I would do if
you said, Jason, you're you're the head coach? Great, all right,
what I suppose I've coached youth sports girls, uh, young
women for a long time. Now, okay, great, what would
you do? I said, Wall, would you here's a well, yes,
sandwich is true. We would have sandwiches every day, right,
sandwiches every day.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
The first thing I do is I say, listen, Uh,
I'm gonna put this out in all the big cities.
I'm gonna put up a lot of flyers. We are
going to have open tryouts for forwards, and I'm gonna
put it on the flyer. Can you score a goal?
Can you put the ball in the back of the net.
Do you know when to shoot? Not try to pass
through three defenders like Alex Morgan. If so, then come
to Westchester Park on Saturday for open tryouts to be
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a forward on the US women's national team. Just show up,
sign that waiver in case something happens. I'm not gonna
be not gonna be liable if something happens. You know
you get out there and practice. Sign the waiver and
I'll take the best people, and you're gonna wind up
being my forwards. Because boy, that's the number one thing
that no one ever thought we were gonna struggle with,
was are we gonna score goals? And we never had it.
(20:49):
Alex Morgan wasn't the same player. I told you my
number one worry going into the World Cup was who's
gonna score? I don't think Alex Morgan's the same elite
player she was, and she's not. She's not even close
to know if she'll even make the team for the
for the Olympics, let alone the next World Cup. I
know you can even put her out there because she
struggled so badly. There's nobody who can score. When are
these players gonna come back? Is Mallory Swanson gonna be
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able to come back? Is she an elite scorer? Just
because Malory Swanson scores goals and Sophia Smith has scored goals?
What are you gonna do in the international stage. You
look at the list of players who have scored the
most goals in history, and you look at all the forwards,
and Morgan and Rapino in their heyday, they scored tons
of goals, tons of goals. Then you look down, you say,
here's here's here's Alex Morgan eighty seven goals. Next, here's
(21:34):
Mallory peughho's five years younger, thirty one, you know, and
here's Sophia Smith twelve. They're not great scorers. They're not
We don't have that. We don't have the next great
superstar who can put the ball in the net. When
we've won our World Cups and gold medals in the
last years, we have had the best offensive players on
the planet, from Abby Womback to Rapino to Alex Morgan
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when she was in like her heyday from five years ago.
We had great, great players. It started off with Mia Han.
We had great, great players who could score and we
were relentless, and we just don't have that. It's not
that cycle in the Women's World Cup. Is Trinity Rodman
gonna suddenly be a great scorer? Is she gonna be
Alex Morgan or is she just Hey, she's famous because
she's a good player and she's Dennis Rodman's kid. Uh No,
(22:19):
that's what people are forgetting in this whole thing is
that we didn't have players. We didn't have the players
well in the United States not scoring goals. Yeah, that's
because we didn't have the players. And you talk about
the injured players. Yeah, maybe Mallory Swanson when she comes back,
it can come back. Maybe Sam Ewis she's been out
for two years. Who knows she's even gonna get to
play again. So there's so many problems. The team is
(22:40):
just not that good, and yet we have this image
of the team that boy, it's great, and it really underachieved. Now,
some parts of the team are really good. Some parts
of the team are elite level, but some parts of
the team it's not nearly at the average level where
we are across the globe. Look what we did in
the World Cup. Nobody scored, nobody scored goal. We scored again,
we scored against Vietnam, that's it. In their first appearance
(23:00):
in the World Cup, every we scored three goals and
that was it. Yeah, we got problems, and that's the
first problem I would solve. Come to open tryouts. It's
gonna last until lunch. If you come, bring water, we'll
have a snack for you at ten thirty and then
you know, any questions, we'll answer all this and we'll
talk about what it means. We'll come with the practice
schedule would be like if you get selected and I'm
gonna start it right there, we will search for three
(23:23):
new star forwards come to open. You never know. If
you can put the ball to harmon, you could put
a wig on, show up and you got a strong
left leg, put it in the net. Hey, I'll pick
you for the team. You just have to you have
to make sure.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Send my daughter.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
No, no, no, you gotta know you gotta come. We
so much fun if you came, I mean so much fun.
If you came with a wig and you have that,
that would be pretty cool. Or send your daughter, say
send both your daughters. Send, I'm gonna send. Send everybody.
You want to send everybody to come to practice because
you never know we're gonna get the next core from well.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I mean, look, all it takes is an opportunity, right,
You just need to get in the door. I mean,
you just went through your entire scenario as you were.
George Costanzo when he was spit balling with Jerry Seinfeld
about a new job and talking about becoming a baseball analyst.
You know they usually give that job to former ballplayers.
And things like that, what about this, I could do this?
(24:11):
What about the GM I make you know, I know
the game, right, I could do this stuff. But yeah,
I mean you start going through the list.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Of trade Jerry, I could be on trade, right, I.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Mean Swanson, mccari, Muis press Heath, I mean some veterans
mixed in there, but all folks that missed this cycle.
You had fourteen players playing in their first World Cup
and several that, if those other players are healthy, might
not have made the team at all, right, might not
have seen minutes, might have just been out there for
(24:42):
the courtesy wave and riding off into the sunset. I
appreciate all the effort to get back and everything, but
to your point, we talked about it a lot going
into the World Cup and even continuing as we're watching
it get down to the final four that you know,
you gotta put them all on the back of the net.
You control and possession. I watched it, you know, even
just going down to junior level watching my daughter squad
(25:05):
this last week. They had a game where they probably
had possession of the ball eighty percent of the time.
Guess what one nothing loss off a penalty cake. Sorry,
that's the way it works. If you don't score, don't
take advantage of opportunities, And in this case, you've got
all sorts of mismanagement, or at least hey address the
fact that you're weird in your substitution pattern and I
use that term purposefully explain your ractionale as do why
(25:28):
you did or didn't make the substitutions that you did right,
because we saw players coming in much earlier than its disicipated.
We saw other times like, all right, you got about
ten to twelve minutes left, it's time to get a
little bit of a surge. Anybody up and stretching up, No,
everybody's just clapping and watching along. So it certainly problematic
(25:49):
substitution patterns. I read an article our buddy Bill plashki
over at the LA Times kind of talking at it
from a developmental side as well, going down into juniors
and you know, the stages leading up to battling for
a spot on this roster, of whether that needs to
be revamped right, that maybe maybe you're missing some athletes
(26:12):
in the selection process because you're not, you know, turn
overturning every stone right to go find players if they
don't get into the right feeder. System that maybe, uh,
they're not getting a chance to play like there's there's
a lot going on to systemic woes. As we're here now.
It is one loss, catastrophic and ugly loss at that.
(26:35):
And not to mention if that post hadn't happened, well
they're they're not even making it out of the group stage.
But they did. Okay, So you know, we can talk
about ifs and ands and butts all we want, but
that's the case. Can you rally who's the next head coach,
who's the right person to go and build this transition?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yes? Oh, can you I'm coaching both teams. I'm coaching both.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Teams until I'm gonna coach.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna We're just gonna have practice
at one field and I was gonna ping pong back
and forth between the two teams, and I'm gonna I'm
a coach with a megaphone and I'm gonna turn to
one side of the field when i want to say
one thing. Turned the other side. Oh, that would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I would say with this right. It's the and we
referenced it a lot because I mean it's you know,
one of the great pop culture references of the last
decade or so. I mean, this was about as inevitable
as it could. Yeah, of course, like it was just
a matter of all right, he only had a contract
running through December. Obviously, the results really drew the ire
of everyone. And it was bad enough because you do
(27:37):
have the the part of the Megan Rappino part of things.
So now you're getting it from not just sports people
and people who analyzed and well people who didn't and
just kind of jumped on the train based on a
couple of headlines. But then you add the cacophony of
voices coming out of the political and news and everything else,
that it became a much more magnified like it was
(27:59):
just the him. Oh they lost, Like, well that sucks,
But this team represents so much more. So it takes
on a whole other scale in a much bigger spotlight.
And so we'll see who's ready to take on that role,
because well, you're starting from scratch.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I mean I'm ready. But honestly, the biggest thing that
I see already from this is that let's go back
to Jill ellis right, None of the players like Jill Ellis,
but they won a World Cup. And after the World
Cup was over, the player the players wanted her fired, right,
they went and they wanted her fired. US Soccer said, no,
she coaches for the World Cup. She leaves. They all
(28:38):
wanted Antonofsky to get the gig right because they all
liked him. They liked him assistant coming up, they liked him.
And now as we see, he wasn't up for it,
and now he's resigned. According to the story, the last
couple of weeks, the US Soccer Federation has spent a
lot of time talking to players, coaches, staff, and Adonofski
(28:58):
himself about the direction that what went on. This is
now like the third time that it's come up in
the last few years where the players have been heavily
consulted about who the coach should be. And you know what,
can't do that? Can't do that, man, You can't just
say who do the players want?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
No team?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Does that? Sometimes you do you ask players, hey, do
you still buy into what this coach has to say? Yes?
I do, No, I don't this, but I feel like
the players are running everything here. They wanted jillell Us
out and they were told no. Then they got her
out anyway we wanted Andonovsky, No, he's no good. Now
now he's out, we're talking. We weren't ready all the ready,
we weren't ready. We weren't ready. Now he's out, and
(29:38):
now they're asked about what's going on next. You have
to look at this much more clinically and say who's
coming in to be the leader here? And I'm sorry,
but you know, when you're the players, you're not the coach.
You don't get to pick the coach. Sometimes you get
asked because they were, But I feel like they've had
too much power in who's going to coach because of
(29:59):
the power or of the team and how popular there.
I think we're the dream team right there. They're there,
they're the US Soccer dream team right and and we
can we can call our own shots because all we
do is win all wet.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
But that's the thing, right You have a lot of
the one in that position, Yeah, can't your players confessional
and global superstars. You represent a lot, which means, look,
you're gonna do that flex and and I can't blame
folks for doing that, right in any walk of life,
whatever you do for a job, if you've got an
opportunity to flex your position, maybe there's a part of
your job you'd love offloaded to somebody else on the
(30:32):
staff and you can get that done. I gonna stop you.
I ain't gonna blame you. I mean, we all have
parts of our jobs we we want to move off
or or where you know, there's folks that you're like,
you know, this really doesn't quite work for me. So
for for the women's team, yeah, I I appreciate they
exercised that right. However, it meant a nice early exit
(30:55):
and all the derision that comes with it.
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we had high drama in the Bay Area today. We'll
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start with San Francisco, where I hate to say I
told you so, you know. I hate to say, but
according to some reports, Sam Darnald will start the next
preseason game for the forty nine ers, still brock Perty's
job now. Obviously, Donald and Lance are battling it out
to be the second string quarterback, and now it looks
(33:32):
like Donald might get the start, which means he's likely ahead.
And hate to say I told you so, but that
Trey Lance trade is gonna happen any day now because
you're not giving up anything for trade. Now, you take
a team wouldn't call and say, hey, conditional sixth round
(33:54):
pick for Trey Lance. Have you seen his highlights? Yeah,
but you have a lot of teams that would say
we go back to how we evaluated him at the draft,
because you have to because you know it's four years.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
It's a long time ago, but it's.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Not like he's had a lot of football. Teams will
go back and say this is how we had him
evaluated in the draft, and maybe at worst you evaluate
him as a second round pick. Hey, we can trade
a conditional sixth or a seventh round pick to get
Trey Lance now and maybe change the scenery. He can
be good. If not, what does it matter? Right? If not,
what does it really matter? But we have a chance
to maybe get a quarterback position right, because maybe we
(34:29):
get lucky. He's a lottery ticket. Yeah, a guy was
taking number three overall in the draft for a reason.
And there's gonna be at least a couple of teams
that would say, yeah, we'd like to have that, add
that to our quarterback groop and just see and if
it doesn't work, it doesn't work. We're not spending a
lot on him. But that trade's gonna happen, because there's
no way he goes into the season sitting there at
number three and the Niners every week no matter what
happens with Brock perty it's well, Brock is the guy.
(34:52):
But if he falters is it's Sam is a tray
is what They're not gonna do it. That trade will
happen any day now.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, it's just a question of who comes for I
would agree with you that there's got to be some
team that just says, all right, it's worth it to
just bring him into the system and see what's there.
I would just like to make sure that we at
least put this as a blemish on the record of
Lynch in company, since everybody's so quick to bow down
and genuflect and talk about how genius they are time
(35:20):
and time again. This one didn't quite go their way,
Nor did really the other one that they get lauded
for back in twenty seventeen. The Saints won that one.
But you move forward, and yeah, if Sam Darnold from
all reports has been more consistent, more accurate, and he'll
get a shot here with the ones in preseason game
number two for Trey Lance seems the writings on the wall,
(35:42):
because let's face it, anybody who declares themselves to be
a quarterback expert, as in former quarterbacks or former front
office executives have gone out of their way to take
a baseball bat to this guy and is throwing motion,
his progressions and everything else over the last couple of days.
So yeah, it would look like his tenures there is done.
(36:04):
But you wait it out right, we still haven't had
the injury at the quarterback position. We've had a lot
of near misses and scares in the wide receiving side
of things. But maybe the next sack in these joint
practices actually happens and someone gets a hit and suddenly
there's a need for Trey Lance. I think they do
the brave heart hold hold as long as they can,
(36:26):
because then maybe someone else is desperate enough to give
something of a little more value.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah, it may it. Maybe we don't like our quarterback room,
or it could be there's an injury to our backup
or something else happens. Taken all this out, but it's
gonna happen. You're gonna get that. You're gonna get it.
Now the other quarterback position, formerly of the Bay Area,
now in Vegas. Let's talk about the Raiders for a second.
They get good news today. DeVante Adams back at practice.
Remember he left practice, the joint practice with the forty
(36:50):
nine ers on Friday with a foot injury. As oh,
Devanta Adams or now that looks like he's ready to go.
All the quotes today, he's ready to go. He's ready
to roll. And you know, people are to talking a
lot about Aid and O'Connell and how good he looked
in his first extensive action in preseason. And I'm telling you,
Mike Carmen, I'm doubling down on this. Aid and O'Connell
is gonna start half the games this year for the Raiders.
(37:12):
He will start at least eight games at quarterback for
them this season.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Well, now, are you just wishing injuries on Jimmy?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I'm not wishing injuries. That's exactly where you're gonna know.
He number one, Jimmy Garoppolo can't stay healthy. Number two,
Jimmy Garoppolo is not great. So either a combination of
those two things, Aid O'Connell's gonna end up playing half
the season. They're not gonna sit here and go, oh, Jimmy,
if Jimmy, if Jimmy can't do it, guess Jimmy can't
do it. Jimmy's not gonna play. Jimmy's not gonna play.
(37:40):
Aid O'Connell's gonna wind up by and by some way,
shape or form, he will wind up playing half the games.
And I'll tell you what the kid is good. I've
watched a lot of him in college. He is accurate.
He is a gamer. He's a guy that shows up
and you go, how is he completing these passes? He
sees the play, he sees the field terrific. He anticipates
where the players are gonna be. This is a guy
(38:00):
that moves the ball down the field like a video game.
Watch trust me, Aid and O'Connell, and he's going to
be a cult hero in Vegas. Look as we solve her.
We didn't know we solved our quarterback job.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
And Aiden O'Connell trust me, Yeah, I don't think he's
stealing the job. The potential there is always for injury.
I think Jimmy Garoppolo is actually in a position with
this roster with this UH. Once Josh Jacobs comes back
and gets ready to play, of course, with this offense
and the way they're looking to deploy things, that he'll
put up better numbers than he has elsewhere.
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be well. If today is any indication, Michael, you and
I should have had some kind of skirmish on the
field earlier today, you and I throwing punches at each
other before being separated, because that seemed to be the
theme of the day in the NFL. No one can
escape it. It's hot out. I get it. You and
I should have fought today. We should have we should
have done a solid and done that and then comeing
and done the show.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, I mean we did a little of that in
in our back and forth, you know, prep of hear
some stories. Here's some verbal barbs over the ineptitude and
pathetic nature that is the Jets offensive line. Stop. Stop
everything that we should have met in the middle somewhere.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
There's still time. Stop. Listen.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I could get in a car right now.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You know, listen, you guys, I just want you to stop. Yes,
did we find out today the Jets didn't have a
great practice and the offensive line wasn't great? Yeah? Were
they missing three starters who didn't practice today? Yeah? Would
any team in the NFL, even the Chiefs, would any
team in the NFL trade their problems for the Jets problems?
(01:51):
Of course they would. Jets, what are your problems?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
What are the Chiefs problems?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, we're trying to figure out what the Jets. Well,
we're trying to figure out our tackles. We have three
or four guys, we're rotating out. What are the problems?
Do you have none really yet? None? Really yet? None? Oh? Okay,
then well all right, that's it. That's the Jets problem.
They're trying to figure where their tackles are. Yet it
looks like every day And I get that's part of
the attention of Hard Knocks that, oh, the Jets had
(02:15):
a bad practice on the offensive line. Yeah, you know what,
half the league had bad practice on the offensive line today.
That's gonna just make the Super Bowl all that sweeter
Mike Garbon. But every team, they would trade their problems
cite unseen for the Jets problems. Now we would trade
the problems.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, I mean it always comes back to I mean
what I've been preaching on this show and long before.
Show me the team that has five offensive linemen that
they feel comfortable going to week one with, and I'll
show you a winner. I'll show you a team that
has an opportunity for greatness right now for your Jets.
I mean that was part of Hard Knocks Episode two,
which I've know you've seen three times Robert Sala talking
(02:52):
about problems against Carolina. Now we're watching it and we
just keep getting update after update about how bad it is.
And yes, I I stipulate to the fact that you
had multiple offensive linemen not practice today. However, however, the
show is today. The practice was today, and everybody was
(03:13):
fighting mad, and part of it was because their offensive
line stink, which means the quarterback's gonna start cursing at
the guys that are out there, maybe cursing the guys
that couldn't make it onto the field today, and it's
gonna start spilling over because everybody's tired of this ruse
that we call the preseason.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It doesn't matter it happens in August. Hey, you played
like you practiced, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Don't go trying to steal the rocks quote. If you're
gonna do it, put some put something behind it.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
It doesn't matter. Yes, did all teams have? Show me
a team where at the end of a practice a
coach can say, hey, we practice great and every facet
of the game today. How if the defense practice is great,
that meets the offense didn't practice great. If the offense
practiced great, that means the defense didn't practice great.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I want to coach to just go to the podium
and go, you know what, we had a good stalemate today.
We'll get after it again.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
We had a good step, we threw a couple of touchdowns,
we stopped a couple of times. No, then you're upset
that neither side was good and neither side stood out today.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I mean, you're feeling pretty good today.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Trust me, every every team would trade their problems for
the Jets. And I'm not saying they trade their rosters.
But what's Kansas City's problem? Okay, we're redoing our wide
receiver room again.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, that's exactly but you know, hey, you're talking about, Hey,
do we have the right mix again?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
That's a concern. Can we run the football like we
did in the past, that's going to be a concern.
Can we trust? But checko are are are we going
to be able to do that? Those are a couple
of those are right right away? Two more problems than
the Jets have right right away. All are the more
problems than the Jets have. So yeah, any team would
trade their problems. We have three or four offensive tackles.
We're trying to figure out who the two guys are
the going to be there the inside. We have two
(05:01):
Pro bowlers at right and left guard. So we're feeling
pretty good about that.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, you can't clone. I wish, Hey, they can only
pick up so much.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, at least maybe we can. Maybe we can maybe
doctor Oz the guy with the jetsamentalist is figured out
a way to clone people, and then you watch and
see we have five Anthony Munos's starting along the offensive line.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The only thing you'd get out of that is like
third rate offensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It would be like multiplicity when every time they cloned
Michael Keaton he was a little bit worse than the one, a.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Little bit dumber, a little bit less on top of things,
no question about it. Or you get a.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Giraffe, well there's that too, hey, you know what could happen?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Otherwise you end up down down the road of like
in Batman versus Superman, and you got Luther who finds
the kryptonite and he builds that monstrosity that you know,
just stakes a terrible villain.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Now let's get into because this is this. We did
have a ton of stuff today, A ton of skirmish, right,
skirmish is always a big word. It's a big word
because everything. We had fights all over pres Yesterday, Mark
Andrews body slammed somebody during a joint practice. Today, Max
Crosby was going at it with Cam Akers and he
was talking smack after it was over. When they had
(06:17):
their joint practice, Matthew Stafford says, every time Crosby's within
five feet of me, he's yelling sack, sack, sack, because
you got a lot to hit the quarterback. And these
joint practices, like we're seeing the Dallas Cowboys had had
a big, uh skirmish at practice today that that that
almost got out of control. Look, one of the Jets
coaches had to go to the hospital because he was
trying to break up, you know, a bit at the joint.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Prere the hell out of there. That's a bad job by.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Blaming the guy who got hurt, Yes, and tried to
do something, tried to help, he dissipated, he tried to help,
he tried to All of this happened. And here's the
thing is I have a solution for all of these
things because these are all stupid, right, these are all
Whenever you're fighting at practice, it's stupid. And and you look,
I get it. During a game, when you haven't hit somebody,
(07:04):
it's a game, it's the other thing I understand. But
during practice it's stupid. And it's really simple because why
do you get to that point where you're ready to
just thump somebody on the other team because you're practicing
in the absolute god awful worst heat of the year,
which is the middle of August. And I don't care
what side you come down on as far as climate
(07:25):
change goes. The planet is getting hotter, right, The planet's
got There's there's no debating that the planet is getting hotter,
and so summers are hotter now than they've ever been.
Look here in La I told you, by the time
the Olympics get here in twenty twenty eight, it's gonna
be ninety degrees every day. It's gonna be ninety degrees
every day. There's a hurricane coming to Los Angeles. I
know this weekend. I know it's it's look, it's everything
(07:46):
is look the world, the globe is getting hotter, right,
But let's keep this about foot, keep it about football.
Is that what would it really kill you to have
a couple of night practices, because that's honestly what has
people with such short You go out there and you
are sweating your ass off every single day. And I
know that it's not nearly as much as it was
because of the new CBA the last couple of times,
(08:08):
and there's no more to a day practices. But would
it kill you to have one practice at night. Hey,
it's gonna be nice. It's cool out at night. We
can work on things because when you practice so much
during the day, especially that it's hotter than it's ever been.
And I don't think teams are taking that into account.
There's more fights now than they've ever been, and that's
a big reason because it's bleeping hot.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
It's hot every day. And not only is it hot,
it's oppressively hot, and it's hotter than it was. And
when that happens, you show me somebody who can be
that hot and can have a really cool temperament and
understand what's going on and focus and play football. No,
you can't. When I'm hot, I can't think. I'm like,
if I don't get a drink right now, I'm gonna
I'm gonna just explode. I gotta get a diet coke,
(08:50):
diet coke, diet coke. So yeah, I mean, what would
it kill you once in a while to Hey, let's
have a nighttime practice. Let's practice at night.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Why do we do that? That's good. According to several
climate sites, the Earth's temperatures risen by an average of
one point one four degrees fahrenheit per decade since eighteen eighty,
so it's always been hot, Jason, it's always been hot.
It's and I appreciate the.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Hurricane coming to La. We got hurric hurricane.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But just like you know, the the full moon will
turn people a little bit crazy or give them an
excuse to do something crazy. For some it will turn
them into werewolves. But the idea is that we know
that happens.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Man, that'd be pretty good. I kind of would want
to see that. You want, you know, I want big globe.
Look the ever read the Weekly World News. How dare you?
The Jets had a night practice. What happened? Garrett Wilson's
a werewolf? Man? He was taking bites out of everybody.
I can't believe that.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Now he's taken up the mantle from Teen Wolf two
and Jason bateon not to be confused with the TV show,
cause that added much darker tone to it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
No, no, no, no, no, I know, and I like Teen Wolf.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I was good. I'm not going to say it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I don't love to have been in a basketball game
where a player turns into a werewolf and then he
turns into a great player, Like that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But but I mean, that's what I mean. We got
to stay with the movies because they kept it light. Yeah,
they were interpersonal conflicts. But the other the show do
you like Boof? Do you like the other girl who
was in the you know, in the play and everything else.
You can say that this early why.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Boof is her nickname? That was a name Boof, They
called it Boof.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That was so anyway, the point I'm making is that
it's always been hot, and so we can ration.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
But it's hotter now. But it's hotter now, it's it's
not that much. It's not it's hotter one degree, it's hotter.
It's hot. It's an average of one degree across. But
you have you have certain cities where it's hotter in
the summer because it is.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But it's hot. It's always hot. Richard Daily, mayor of
Chicago thirty five years ago, was talking about cooling centers, going,
what do you want me to say? It's hot?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, you have air conditioning, but you can't have air
conditioning on the field. So how about you just have
how about you just have a couple of prey Either way,
and you came, you could still have some stuff at
night and not have to worry about all the fights
because if it was hot today, you're still gonna fight.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
When they're opposite team, you're still gonna beat the hell
out of This is all the pent up frustration of
the guy lined up across now in their normal team practices,
that they've been told you can't beat the hell out
of this guy because we got to get through the
season together. Now. We don't care if you take a
swing at Max Crosby. You know what, He's not your
problem after these three days.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
No, not when it's a hot, not when it's out. Listen,
Lowly tell you this.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Just give everybody ice cream. That's I mean, that's where
you're at.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You if you walked into the studio and I said
to you right now at seven twelve at night, you hey,
Oh by the way, first picture of the Dodgers was
seven ten fifty seven Clayton curse seven. He's he's feeling okay?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Uh? If you came into the studio tonorw you'd walk in.
You're sending your air conditioned car. You come in air
conditioned studio, you would sit down. I'd say, hey, guess
what man, we decided to do this. You know, we
have your credit card on file. We ordered fat salas
for everybody. It's gonna be like one hundred and twenty bucks. Now,
you'd be upset, right, but you would be well, we
got to figure this out and we talk about it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
There.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
You would be upset, but there'd be calm, cool reasoning. Now,
let's just say you took the same ride up here
without the air conditioning on, and your windows were rolled
all the way up and there's no airn wear a
suit and there's no air conditioning in the studio, and
all you did all day was move stuff up and downstairs.
That's all you did was move stuff up and move
(12:29):
stupsat And then you come in here and you're sweating
your ass off, and you come sit down and I go, hey,
we disordered fat salas and we use your credit card
bands like one hundred and twenty bucks. You would start
throwing punches. You would be the Tasmanian devil in this
studio because it was so hot. That's what happened.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Well, I'm not gonna say that. I mean, you might
not be verbally assaulted, but I'm smart enough to know
even with.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Now, when it's hot, n you would get out of control.
I could see no.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I mean, look, you misjudged me and mischaracterize me, and
I got a relationship all the time. Oh you're olding all.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Season one of the Bear. You're all richie, I know what.
You guys are.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Highly successful running a business.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I wear it suits now, I wear suits well, I
wear suits.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Now, I wear I mean, I'm wearing my sparkle glitter
suit from the Tailor Swift Show right now because I
wanted to be immersed in that memory of positivity as
I sit with you here on a Wednesday night at.
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who's a bad choice. You could solve a lot of
those problems just by having a couple of practices at night,
and then you have way less people wanting to fight
Max Crosby.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
If you had one of those personal fans attached to
your helmet, do you think you might have gone after
cam Akers.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Don't punch me, dude, just don't punch me. Don't punch me, dude,
don't punch me. Don't punch me. Hey, Hey, Hey, it's
going Don't don't punch me. Man, don't punch me. Don't
punch me, dude, dude, Crosby, just watch the punch. Don't
punch me, man, don't.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So is he gonna be the next gut to fight
Logan Paul because it seems like all he wants to
do is get in scrapes.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
You know, I didn't know Max Crosby had the strong
tattoo game that he did. Because we need this press conference.
They talking about the fight with cam Akers. He's got
no shirt and I'm like, he's got no spot on
his body that isn't covered with a tattoo.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Well, I mean, you haven't seen me shirt less. You
have no idea.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
No, I don't think you're You're not like him, though
I've seen you with I've seen you in short sleeves.
I've seen you in short sleeves, Max Crost, there's not
now any man.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I'm a businessman, which means I can't have the sleeves
like that, you know, trying to do the show with you.
I'm been told that that wouldn't be good for business.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
You're not so.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I mean the tattoos are all covered up.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
You're not me part time. Max Crosby needs to have
big years and designed big contracts. He's got a four tattoos.
I mean just if he didn't pay. If he'd ever
got a tattoo, he probably would have about five or
six more million dollars in the bank.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Tight shirt? What's an average tattoo? Run?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
So, do you want a good one or a bad one? No,
it's got to be good, be an NFL got to
be a good one. A bad are doing like a
whole piece or just a little part?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I would I would like a nice piece like you
know the guillotine logo that I showed you from the
Afghan weeds thing Like what would that run me to
be done? Well?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Oh gosh, I'm gonna say, if you go to an
actual talented artist that takes his time, especially with the freehand,
you're looking at two sessions, probably almost around two grand
two fifth for like a six by six touches six
inch by six touches exactly, he would have like five
million more dollars. Or do you want tattoos? What would
you rather have?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well? He made his choice he made his choice. His
body is his temple, his body is his business. And
he wanted to show off the tattoos. You had a
kid's head up there. You had all sorts of slogans.
I'm in it. It's rich tapestry.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Don't a big mac on Jason's lower back and a cost.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That he punched me.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Don't punch me. Hey, I actually went to McDonald's tonight
and did not get a big mac chalk whoa who
walk in sandwich and and and three.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Chicks can't even really go?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Then I did. I did, And I came in and
I had chocolate chip cookies. She said, oh you got
I said, yeah, you want it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Seriously?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yeah, come on, man, no I want one. I said, okay,
go grab one. He goes back, Oh no, I changed
my mind. And he's eating watermelon like out of just
He's just eating just to cut the watermelon in half.
It's just like spooning into the middle of the watermelon,
eating it. The watermelon's a bull for itself. But Jason,
I thought you had actual cookies. That was McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
McDonald's cookies are pretty good. They're pretty good eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox a Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next. I'm pretty
sure that I now qualify for one of the biggest
jobs in sports that is now open. It's next right here,
Jason and Mike.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (16:44):
We got to hear this song again. It's in every
open all right, Frostburg, all right, all right? Harmon, all right,
all right? What you can take either side of this bet? Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Does Alex ty Shirt know the name of this group?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Or no?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
What side do you want for a buck? I'll take yes, yes, okay, Frostburg, Yes.
Does Tyshert know who this is? I would say no,
but he's staring at it? Okay?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh? Is he h?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Who is it? Alex Tishert? This is my twisted sister.
You're looking right down at it as you're saying it.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
That doesn't matter, It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
The problem is you asked a terrible question. I set
yourself up to lose a bet.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I didn't know he would look at the job. I
see you right there. Who all right? So sandwiches are
on you? Then you won the bet?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
You one?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Congratulations? You want you won the bet?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Friday morning, I'll bring donut.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Drink, ty shirt. Who's what's the lead singer of Twisted Sister.
What's his name? Uh? Nicholas Cage? It is Nick Cage.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Can they do a cover of prints?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
No? No, yeah they do play the play the Twisted
Sister version of Purple Rain. Now well, actually, maybe maybe
I should buy the next the next dinner, because I'm
pretty sure I could become the next head coach of
the US women's national team. I'm pretty sure I have
just as much experience as Loacholandanofsky had when he got
(18:18):
the job a few years ago. I be a nice guy,
same level experience, same level of experience.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You know, youth coach at a pretty high level for
a while, and now they're looking for a new I
think I could be the new head coach. I think
I can interview pretty well. I think I could be it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, it's not a bad, bad opportunity to try to
throw your hat in the ring. I mean, they're they're
gonna be open to all options unless they won't. History
history would say we probably on both sides, we hire retreads,
don't we. You've had this job before. Would you like
to come back? Yes? Right, I mean Jill.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Leplace could come back.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's all new.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Imagine like most of these people do.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
They're on their last But so it's gonna be a
whole new roster that never dealt with her.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I heard nobody liked her Da Da da Da. No,
you're thinking of Dale Ellis. Nobody liked Daale Elis even
sharpshooter for the Sonics, nobody nobody liked him. Jill Ellis
is fine, hees. Earlier today, Lacowandanofsky stepped down as manager
of the US women's national team, uh likely before he
could be fired as least successful head coach the US
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women's national team in the last twenty years, getting a
bronze medal in the Olympics and now getting knocked out
of the World Cup in the first game of the
knockout round a few days ago, in the middle of
the night against Sweden. So he stepped down, and and
you know, but why I can have this job before
I get into something that that that really just gets
(19:45):
me about this and why this is gonna be such
a difficult needle to threat is that you know what
I would do. The first thing I would do if
you said, Jason, you're you're the head coach? Great, all right,
what I suppose I've coached youth sports girls, uh, young
women for a long time. Now, okay, great, what would
you do? I said, Wall, would you here's a well, yes,
sandwich is true. We would have sandwiches every day, right,
sandwiches every day.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
The first thing I do is I say, listen, Uh,
I'm gonna put this out in all the big cities.
I'm gonna put up a lot of flyers. We are
going to have open tryouts for forwards, and I'm gonna
put it on the flyer. Can you score a goal?
Can you put the ball in the back of the net.
Do you know when to shoot? Not try to pass
through three defenders like Alex Morgan. If so, then come
to Westchester Park on Saturday for open tryouts to be
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a forward on the US women's national team. Just show up,
sign that waiver in case something happens. I'm not gonna
be not gonna be liable if something happens. You know
you get out there and practice. Sign the waiver and
I'll take the best people, and you're gonna wind up
being my forwards. Because boy, that's the number one thing
that no one ever thought we were gonna struggle with,
was are we gonna score goals? And we never had it.
(20:49):
Alex Morgan wasn't the same player. I told you my
number one worry going into the World Cup was who's
gonna score? I don't think Alex Morgan's the same elite
player she was, and she's not. She's not even close
to know if she'll even make the team for the
for the Olympics, let alone the next World Cup. I
know you can even put her out there because she
struggled so badly. There's nobody who can score. When are
these players gonna come back? Is Mallory Swanson gonna be
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able to come back? Is she an elite scorer? Just
because Malory Swanson scores goals and Sophia Smith has scored goals?
What are you gonna do in the international stage. You
look at the list of players who have scored the
most goals in history, and you look at all the forwards,
and Morgan and Rapino in their heyday, they scored tons
of goals, tons of goals. Then you look down, you say,
here's here's here's Alex Morgan eighty seven goals. Next, here's
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Mallory peughho's five years younger, thirty one, you know, and
here's Sophia Smith twelve. They're not great scorers. They're not
We don't have that. We don't have the next great
superstar who can put the ball in the net. When
we've won our World Cups and gold medals in the
last years, we have had the best offensive players on
the planet, from Abby Womback to Rapino to Alex Morgan
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when she was in like her heyday from five years ago.
We had great, great players. It started off with Mia Han.
We had great, great players who could score and we
were relentless, and we just don't have that. It's not
that cycle in the Women's World Cup. Is Trinity Rodman
gonna suddenly be a great scorer? Is she gonna be
Alex Morgan or is she just Hey, she's famous because
she's a good player and she's Dennis Rodman's kid. Uh No,
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that's what people are forgetting in this whole thing is
that we didn't have players. We didn't have the players
well in the United States not scoring goals. Yeah, that's
because we didn't have the players. And you talk about
the injured players. Yeah, maybe Mallory Swanson when she comes back,
it can come back. Maybe Sam Ewis she's been out
for two years. Who knows she's even gonna get to
play again. So there's so many problems. The team is
(22:40):
just not that good, and yet we have this image
of the team that boy, it's great, and it really underachieved. Now,
some parts of the team are really good. Some parts
of the team are elite level, but some parts of
the team it's not nearly at the average level where
we are across the globe. Look what we did in
the World Cup. Nobody scored, nobody scored goal. We scored again,
we scored against Vietnam, that's it. In their first appearance
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in the World Cup, every we scored three goals and
that was it. Yeah, we got problems, and that's the
first problem I would solve. Come to open tryouts. It's
gonna last until lunch. If you come, bring water, we'll
have a snack for you at ten thirty and then
you know, any questions, we'll answer all this and we'll
talk about what it means. We'll come with the practice
schedule would be like if you get selected and I'm
gonna start it right there, we will search for three
(23:23):
new star forwards come to open. You never know. If
you can put the ball to harmon, you could put
a wig on, show up and you got a strong
left leg, put it in the net. Hey, I'll pick
you for the team. You just have to you have
to make sure.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Send my daughter.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
No, no, no, you gotta know you gotta come. We
so much fun if you came, I mean so much fun.
If you came with a wig and you have that,
that would be pretty cool. Or send your daughter, say
send both your daughters. Send, I'm gonna send. Send everybody.
You want to send everybody to come to practice because
you never know we're gonna get the next core from well.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I mean, look, all it takes is an opportunity, right,
You just need to get in the door. I mean,
you just went through your entire scenario as you were.
George Costanzo when he was spit balling with Jerry Seinfeld
about a new job and talking about becoming a baseball analyst.
You know they usually give that job to former ballplayers.
And things like that, what about this, I could do this?
(24:11):
What about the GM I make you know, I know
the game, right, I could do this stuff. But yeah,
I mean you start going through the list.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Of trade Jerry, I could be on trade, right, I.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Mean Swanson, mccari, Muis press Heath, I mean some veterans
mixed in there, but all folks that missed this cycle.
You had fourteen players playing in their first World Cup
and several that, if those other players are healthy, might
not have made the team at all, right, might not
have seen minutes, might have just been out there for
(24:42):
the courtesy wave and riding off into the sunset. I
appreciate all the effort to get back and everything, but
to your point, we talked about it a lot going
into the World Cup and even continuing as we're watching
it get down to the final four that you know,
you gotta put them all on the back of the net.
You control and possession. I watched it, you know, even
just going down to junior level watching my daughter squad
(25:05):
this last week. They had a game where they probably
had possession of the ball eighty percent of the time.
Guess what one nothing loss off a penalty cake. Sorry,
that's the way it works. If you don't score, don't
take advantage of opportunities, And in this case, you've got
all sorts of mismanagement, or at least hey address the
fact that you're weird in your substitution pattern and I
use that term purposefully explain your ractionale as do why
(25:28):
you did or didn't make the substitutions that you did right,
because we saw players coming in much earlier than its disicipated.
We saw other times like, all right, you got about
ten to twelve minutes left, it's time to get a
little bit of a surge. Anybody up and stretching up, No,
everybody's just clapping and watching along. So it certainly problematic
(25:49):
substitution patterns. I read an article our buddy Bill plashki
over at the LA Times kind of talking at it
from a developmental side as well, going down into juniors
and you know, the stages leading up to battling for
a spot on this roster, of whether that needs to
be revamped right, that maybe maybe you're missing some athletes
(26:12):
in the selection process because you're not, you know, turn
overturning every stone right to go find players if they
don't get into the right feeder. System that maybe, uh,
they're not getting a chance to play like there's there's
a lot going on to systemic woes. As we're here now.
It is one loss, catastrophic and ugly loss at that.
(26:35):
And not to mention if that post hadn't happened, well
they're they're not even making it out of the group stage.
But they did. Okay, So you know, we can talk
about ifs and ands and butts all we want, but
that's the case. Can you rally who's the next head coach,
who's the right person to go and build this transition?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yes? Oh, can you I'm coaching both teams. I'm coaching both.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Teams until I'm gonna coach.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna We're just gonna have practice
at one field and I was gonna ping pong back
and forth between the two teams, and I'm gonna I'm
a coach with a megaphone and I'm gonna turn to
one side of the field when i want to say
one thing. Turned the other side. Oh, that would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I would say with this right. It's the and we
referenced it a lot because I mean it's you know,
one of the great pop culture references of the last
decade or so. I mean, this was about as inevitable
as it could. Yeah, of course, like it was just
a matter of all right, he only had a contract
running through December. Obviously, the results really drew the ire
of everyone. And it was bad enough because you do
(27:37):
have the the part of the Megan Rappino part of things.
So now you're getting it from not just sports people
and people who analyzed and well people who didn't and
just kind of jumped on the train based on a
couple of headlines. But then you add the cacophony of
voices coming out of the political and news and everything else,
that it became a much more magnified like it was
(27:59):
just the him. Oh they lost, Like, well that sucks,
But this team represents so much more. So it takes
on a whole other scale in a much bigger spotlight.
And so we'll see who's ready to take on that role,
because well, you're starting from scratch.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I mean I'm ready. But honestly, the biggest thing that
I see already from this is that let's go back
to Jill ellis right, None of the players like Jill Ellis,
but they won a World Cup. And after the World
Cup was over, the player the players wanted her fired, right,
they went and they wanted her fired. US Soccer said, no,
she coaches for the World Cup. She leaves. They all
(28:38):
wanted Antonofsky to get the gig right because they all
liked him. They liked him assistant coming up, they liked him.
And now as we see, he wasn't up for it,
and now he's resigned. According to the story, the last
couple of weeks, the US Soccer Federation has spent a
lot of time talking to players, coaches, staff, and Adonofski
(28:58):
himself about the direction that what went on. This is
now like the third time that it's come up in
the last few years where the players have been heavily
consulted about who the coach should be. And you know what,
can't do that? Can't do that, man, You can't just
say who do the players want?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
No team?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Does that? Sometimes you do you ask players, hey, do
you still buy into what this coach has to say? Yes?
I do, No, I don't this, but I feel like
the players are running everything here. They wanted jillell Us
out and they were told no. Then they got her
out anyway we wanted Andonovsky, No, he's no good. Now
now he's out, we're talking. We weren't ready all the ready,
we weren't ready. We weren't ready. Now he's out, and
(29:38):
now they're asked about what's going on next. You have
to look at this much more clinically and say who's
coming in to be the leader here? And I'm sorry,
but you know, when you're the players, you're not the coach.
You don't get to pick the coach. Sometimes you get
asked because they were, But I feel like they've had
too much power in who's going to coach because of
(29:59):
the power or of the team and how popular there.
I think we're the dream team right there. They're there,
they're the US Soccer dream team right and and we
can we can call our own shots because all we
do is win all wet.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
But that's the thing, right You have a lot of
the one in that position, Yeah, can't your players confessional
and global superstars. You represent a lot, which means, look,
you're gonna do that flex and and I can't blame
folks for doing that, right in any walk of life,
whatever you do for a job, if you've got an
opportunity to flex your position, maybe there's a part of
your job you'd love offloaded to somebody else on the
(30:32):
staff and you can get that done. I gonna stop you.
I ain't gonna blame you. I mean, we all have
parts of our jobs we we want to move off
or or where you know, there's folks that you're like,
you know, this really doesn't quite work for me. So
for for the women's team, yeah, I I appreciate they
exercised that right. However, it meant a nice early exit
(30:55):
and all the derision that comes with it.
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we had high drama in the Bay Area today. We'll
(33:11):
start with San Francisco, where I hate to say I
told you so, you know. I hate to say, but
according to some reports, Sam Darnald will start the next
preseason game for the forty nine ers, still brock Perty's
job now. Obviously, Donald and Lance are battling it out
to be the second string quarterback, and now it looks
(33:32):
like Donald might get the start, which means he's likely ahead.
And hate to say I told you so, but that
Trey Lance trade is gonna happen any day now because
you're not giving up anything for trade. Now, you take
a team wouldn't call and say, hey, conditional sixth round
(33:54):
pick for Trey Lance. Have you seen his highlights? Yeah,
but you have a lot of teams that would say
we go back to how we evaluated him at the draft,
because you have to because you know it's four years.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
It's a long time ago, but it's.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Not like he's had a lot of football. Teams will
go back and say this is how we had him
evaluated in the draft, and maybe at worst you evaluate
him as a second round pick. Hey, we can trade
a conditional sixth or a seventh round pick to get
Trey Lance now and maybe change the scenery. He can
be good. If not, what does it matter? Right? If not,
what does it really matter? But we have a chance
to maybe get a quarterback position right, because maybe we
(34:29):
get lucky. He's a lottery ticket. Yeah, a guy was
taking number three overall in the draft for a reason.
And there's gonna be at least a couple of teams
that would say, yeah, we'd like to have that, add
that to our quarterback groop and just see and if
it doesn't work, it doesn't work. We're not spending a
lot on him. But that trade's gonna happen, because there's
no way he goes into the season sitting there at
number three and the Niners every week no matter what
happens with Brock perty it's well, Brock is the guy.
(34:52):
But if he falters is it's Sam is a tray
is what They're not gonna do it. That trade will
happen any day now.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, it's just a question of who comes for I
would agree with you that there's got to be some
team that just says, all right, it's worth it to
just bring him into the system and see what's there.
I would just like to make sure that we at
least put this as a blemish on the record of
Lynch in company, since everybody's so quick to bow down
and genuflect and talk about how genius they are time
(35:20):
and time again. This one didn't quite go their way,
Nor did really the other one that they get lauded
for back in twenty seventeen. The Saints won that one.
But you move forward, and yeah, if Sam Darnold from
all reports has been more consistent, more accurate, and he'll
get a shot here with the ones in preseason game
number two for Trey Lance seems the writings on the wall,
(35:42):
because let's face it, anybody who declares themselves to be
a quarterback expert, as in former quarterbacks or former front
office executives have gone out of their way to take
a baseball bat to this guy and is throwing motion,
his progressions and everything else over the last couple of days.
So yeah, it would look like his tenures there is done.
(36:04):
But you wait it out right, we still haven't had
the injury at the quarterback position. We've had a lot
of near misses and scares in the wide receiving side
of things. But maybe the next sack in these joint
practices actually happens and someone gets a hit and suddenly
there's a need for Trey Lance. I think they do
the brave heart hold hold as long as they can,
(36:26):
because then maybe someone else is desperate enough to give
something of a little more value.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Yeah, it may it. Maybe we don't like our quarterback room,
or it could be there's an injury to our backup
or something else happens. Taken all this out, but it's
gonna happen. You're gonna get that. You're gonna get it.
Now the other quarterback position, formerly of the Bay Area,
now in Vegas. Let's talk about the Raiders for a second.
They get good news today. DeVante Adams back at practice.
Remember he left practice, the joint practice with the forty
(36:50):
nine ers on Friday with a foot injury. As oh,
Devanta Adams or now that looks like he's ready to go.
All the quotes today, he's ready to go. He's ready
to roll. And you know, people are to talking a
lot about Aid and O'Connell and how good he looked
in his first extensive action in preseason. And I'm telling you,
Mike Carmen, I'm doubling down on this. Aid and O'Connell
is gonna start half the games this year for the Raiders.
(37:12):
He will start at least eight games at quarterback for
them this season.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Well, now, are you just wishing injuries on Jimmy?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I'm not wishing injuries. That's exactly where you're gonna know.
He number one, Jimmy Garoppolo can't stay healthy. Number two,
Jimmy Garoppolo is not great. So either a combination of
those two things, Aid O'Connell's gonna end up playing half
the season. They're not gonna sit here and go, oh, Jimmy,
if Jimmy, if Jimmy can't do it, guess Jimmy can't
do it. Jimmy's not gonna play. Jimmy's not gonna play.
(37:40):
Aid O'Connell's gonna wind up by and by some way,
shape or form, he will wind up playing half the games.
And I'll tell you what the kid is good. I've
watched a lot of him in college. He is accurate.
He is a gamer. He's a guy that shows up
and you go, how is he completing these passes? He
sees the play, he sees the field terrific. He anticipates
where the players are gonna be. This is a guy
(38:00):
that moves the ball down the field like a video game.
Watch trust me, Aid and O'Connell, and he's going to
be a cult hero in Vegas. Look as we solve her.
We didn't know we solved our quarterback job.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
And Aiden O'Connell trust me, Yeah, I don't think he's
stealing the job. The potential there is always for injury.
I think Jimmy Garoppolo is actually in a position with
this roster with this UH. Once Josh Jacobs comes back
and gets ready to play, of course, with this offense
and the way they're looking to deploy things, that he'll
put up better numbers than he has elsewhere.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
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