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Jason’s NFL nightmare is the Jets not being good and the Giants being terrific. The guys give you the first thing they would do if they were managing the USWNT. And Taylor Swift reportedly declined an invitation to play the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hello, Welcome inside Final Hour. Today the Doug Gottlieb Show
here on Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith, Mike Harbon in
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way tire buying should be so. Dalvincook just had his

(00:43):
first press conference as a member of the New York Jets.
He's went the team. Now it's gonna start practicing again
sometime the next couple of days.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
And he was asked, hey, why did you sign with
the Jets And his quote was, Aaron Rodgers don't have
to recruit his game, recruits itself.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Perry a lot more money than any other team was
able to or willing to. Whether he got Baron Rodgers
for freeing up cash to allow me to really break
the bank.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Can I finish the quote? Because that's not what he said?
Can I? Can I finish the quote? Can I finish?
He did not know? Well?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
They brought you mentalist for Hard Knocks part too. I
was trying to be that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Eh, if you don't want to be a part of
something like that that Aaron is a part of. I
don't know what you want in football. Right now, Jets
fans are pulling out their old Jamal Adams jerseys, trying
to just just rip off the Adams nameplate. I could
put a cook on nameplate thirty three on there. Cant
get rid of that Jamal. I've been sitting up here

(01:46):
and collecting dust in a in a in my attic
for the last five years. I want to rip this
thing off and put a new nameplate off.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Mom, Mom, how how long does it take to get
this name plate off?

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Can you off for me?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Can you sew the nameplate off and put a new
name on. See, here's what I would come up with
if I was if I was a Jersey. Now tell
me if you think there's a work a jersey you
buy that is a complete you know, just like you know,
a complete replica jersey or you want the authentic jersey,
but the name plate is you're able to vel crow

(02:23):
it on.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I'm all for it, right, Yeah, So im it's off
and you're putting and you're putting the and you're putting
the new nameplate right on.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh I just need to buy a name plate. Yeah,
the name plate is twenty five dollars. Oh great, that's
what I'll do. I mean, I don't know how many
organizations that sell gear would do that because they'd be
losing a lot of money because people are just going
to buy new jerseys. But what hey, I could just
take that Adam's name plate off and put that cook
nameplate right on.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
But you could sell the name plates, right, I mean,
if you're the manufacturer of the right to match the
font and the size and the spacing whatever. I mean,
there's a whole other market for interchangeable nameplights.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Right.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
We were celebrating the Fernando Vevenezuela weekend, right for the Dodgers.
There were twenty five other players that wore the number
thirty four before him in Dodger history. Yeah, what if
you decided, you know what normally I wear Fernando today,
I'm gonna celebrate one of those other twenty five guys
hasn't been worn by any buddy since nineteen ninety. But
you know, just that idea, or you know, just think

(03:27):
about your favorite team where where a number might have
several Hall of Fame worthy candidates or guys that were
cult heroes for a time with the team, and you
could go and spend say thirty bucks or forty bucks
to get the official velcrow in name plate to where
maybe you can cause a stir. You know what, I'm

(03:47):
gonna go to a game and I don't want to
be one of thousands of people that maybe have Aaron Rodgers.
So I go find an old Jets number eighth.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, why not get Elijah more you were, Let's get
rid of that one. Let's put the Aaron rod People
bought that one by the Aaron Rodgers one.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
But just that idea, I don't want to be with
all of these other people that have worn that that
have the same nameplate. Brownie Nagel yea, maybe you're throwing
back and having a little nod in a wink to
people that remember Jet's history. It's like, ah, this number eight.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Sure he threw for three point fifty his first game
against the Falcons and that was it. Then he was terrible.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
But I think there's a whole other marketing thing is
because you're not necessarily going to go buy a whole
other even if it's a replica at eighty bus, you're
not buying that. But if I can get you a
cheap name plate that I can swap in, I think
we're onto something good.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Starry, what do you got, Frostburg.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
What if the names on the back of the jerseys
go digital and then they just update automatically.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh, that would be cool.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
I got an LED system put in there and then
you can advertise on their backs.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yes, they're in the huddle. This huddle brought to you
buy Tral, so don't try and steal it.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I know that's good. Hey, we just made a lot
of money right now. Velcrone nameplate on jerseys and it
goes because you don't have to worry about you're not
wearing that jersey. You have to worry about it getting
damaged because you're not getting in a fight. You're wearing
it as as a you know, as fast.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
I don't know it's hot out in the summer, Smith,
you don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well, listen, listen, you're wearing jerseys right now. You're not
wearing your jersey right now. You were in this is
Summer is for jerseys, all right, Fall is for jerseys.
That's how it goes.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
I never heard that, but that's good.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
I just made it up right now.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
I do like the Belcrow plan though, that that I
think that does work.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
It's a look and and and you know not that
I'm just trying to find a way to shoehorn in
more Jets content because you know it needs it. That's
kind OF's but that's a big thing. No, it's a
big thing. Look, every day the Jets bring big content,
right every day, no matter what happens in practice, it's
a big deal. Hey, the offensive line was a little shaky,
well all right, but they played without five starters. They

(05:51):
they five starters, They held two guys out, and they're
still trying to figure out who the starters are going
to be at left tackle. Everything is fine, but it
doesn't matter because whatever happens with the Jets, it's oh exactly,
they're big news man, and everything is fine and for
for every day. I want to say this before we
get to a big hot take in the Super Bowl?
Is it for everybody who says, oh, yeah, the Jets

(06:12):
look at their offense a lot of the other line.
There are thirty one teams in the NFL. All thirty
one teams would trade their problems for the Jets problems.
I'm not saying they trade rosters, but they would trade
their problems for the Jets problems. Because what's the Jets
problem right now? What are they? Hey? We got four guys,
we're trying to figure out who our starting tackles are.
What else you got? No, that's it. Everything else has

(06:33):
been solved. We have a top three defense, We have
the best defensive line. We have the best secondary in
the game. We have six really good wide receivers, including
a superstar in Garrett Wilson. We have Aaron Rodgers. We
have the best running back room in the game that
we would stay.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
With you.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
We're figuring it out now. The Chiefs got problem?

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Is this chiefs iteration of their wide receivers going to work?
Are their running backs the.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Reason they swapped them all out? The running be fine, uh,
and the wide receivers will rally. They're just being nice
and giving more people opportunity to win a ring. That's
why they shuffle out their wide receiver.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Who wants to come and win? Who wants to come
and win? More teams out prom the Chiefs defense is
not as good as a Jets defense, right, More teams,
more teams. Every other team has more problems than the
Jets do. I'd like to say, I'm not saying better,
but more. They have more problems. You could go to
any team going well, our safeties are a question mark.
Our middle linebackers are they all of a sudden they

(07:31):
got more? I mean, everybody would say, oh, your problem
is you're trying to figure out which two of the
four offensive tackles you have are going to be starters.
That's it. Yeah, that's it. That's no kicking problems. Nope,
no kicking problem, no, Nope, We're good. We got everything
else taking care of.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
I think with a lot of the teams, though, Jason,
I mean, we can point to the offensive line, as
I'm apt to do as we start doing our whip
around in the in the next week or so of
division by by division and what's trying to settle out.
But we've made a lot of it, and I think
it needs to be underscored the fact that half the
league changed out their ocs. So part of that being

(08:07):
why we're seeing more first units, I think in preseason
games to try to get some reps in. But the
others you might see a little bit of uneven play
to start the season and some panics selling off of
what we're supposed to be breakthrough squads.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, you're seeing more of it the joint practices because
the quarterbacks aren't allowed to get hit, and you can
control the injury aspect of it a little bit more
than you can in the game when everybody is flying
around and let's just say, you play your ones against
another team's twos, and the other teams twos don't know
what they're doing and they're out of position, and this
is when a guy gets falling on or someone's in

(08:43):
the wrong spot and or there's someone trying to make
a really aggressive play they shouldn't. Oh, that's when injuries happen.
So it's more in the controlled situations that we'll get
during the day. But as far as the Jets go right,
you would think that this is my worst nightmare would
be that the Jets stink. No, they're not going I've seen that,
I've been a Jets fan for forty five years. Right,
I've seen that. I've seen that, but it's not it's

(09:05):
not the worst nightmare. My worst nightmare is that the
Jets think and the Giants go to the Super Bowl.
That's because I'm telling you, buddy, for you had Rob
Gronkowski say yesterday on k Adams TV show that the
one guy that could lure him out of retirement would
be Brian Dable. And it's not like he's coming out
because the Giants are said it tight end because you

(09:26):
have Darren Waller, who's terrific as long as he's healthy,
and Daniel Bellinger who looks like he could be pretty good.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
But if nothing else, he's opening things up in the
blocking game for Saquon Barkley.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Right, yeah, you're you're pretty good. So it's not real.
But Rob Gronkowski says, the one guy that I could
that could take me out of here is Brian Dable.
This is my nightmare because the Giants are good enough
to get to the Super Bowl. Brian Dable might be
the new Bill Belichick because watching the Giants play last year,
and I don't mean from the perspective of I'm going
to get a lot of players that are no good

(09:57):
to come in. No from the perspective.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
Wait wait, wait wait, are you talking about the guys
that were middling guys that he made greater? Are you
talking about his talent evaluation last couple of years.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I don't mean I don't mean Viz Belichick. I mean
the Belichick when they were good, when they were winning
Super Bowl. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
The guy that I've been saying for years, the GM
is a guy I'm scratching my head. But boy, as
a coach, he really makes the most out of a
bad roster. Yeah, and even though he builds it.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
And that's what Dable does, and that's what he did
last year, is that he out coached almost everybody that
he coached against. There was not one time the Giants
went into a game where they were not eminently prepared
for whoever they were facing. There was no letdown when
they played against a lesser team, when they played against
team as good as them, they always seem to have
the right formula. Hey, this is how we're going to

(10:45):
attack this game. And it puts the other team back
on skates. And this was not a really talented Giants team.
It wasn't, but it was coached up incredibly well. Mat
I told you last week Middle of the Years and hey,
there's one choice for Coach of the Year, Brian Dabele.
And that's how exactly how it turned out that way.
How prepared the Giants were for every single game they

(11:06):
played was incredibly impressive. And Daniel Jones. They found that
he built the system around Daniel Jones because he's kind
of a Josh Allen light and that works. Saquon Barkley decides, no,
I'm not gonna hold out. I'm gonna come back to
camp this year, and he's angry because he wants a
big contract. He's gonna get ready to have another big year.
And what was the biggest thing they did. They needed weapons.
They need weapons. They needed their offense to be better.

(11:28):
And what they brought in five new wide receivers. Right,
you have Darren Waller coming in who looks like he's
gonna do everything for this team as long as he's healthy.
You drafted a wide receiver in Jalen Hyatt. Isaiah Hodgins
was a guy that came on the end of last year.
He's probably gonna be the number one. You got Wandale
Robinson who was a big weapon coming off of torn
acl He's gonna play. You have surrounded this offense now

(11:48):
with a deep cadre of weapons. And if you want
to sleep on the Giants, go ahead. But every game
they come into they can win. And Brian Dable is
a phenomenal head coach, and I would not be surprising
the Giants in the Super Bowl. And that's my that's
my big fear is that. Oh and all all the
New York papers are right, the same thing. Coming into
this year was all about the Jets. Now it's all

(12:10):
about the Giants. Is the Jets are two and seven
and the Giants are seven to two, and Daniel Jones
is a front runner for MVP. That's my big nightmare.
That's my big nightmare.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Could be the case the man as of the what
about a week ago? Looking at odds, not really a
lot changing to updated obviously the Jets with Dalvin Cook,
but you know the Giants for sixty six to one,
not a lot of believers. But you look at the
receiving corps, a lot of veterans, including a couple of
guys like Beasley that can come in and help you
move the chains. Daniel Jones doesn't have to be a

(12:42):
world beater. That's the thing, Like we get so caught
up in gaudy numbers. He doesn't have to throw for
forty five hundred yards and forty touchdowns. Grind the clock
with Saquon Barkley, utilize and move the chains, and you
got a good defense and you're gonna be able to
win enough games. Now the East is going to be

(13:02):
a bear because I think the Commanders will be just
good enough to screw things up right and steal a
couple of games and make a mess of it. We
keep trying to crown Dallas. Will they be able to
perform when the lights are brightest? Year after year we
keep coming in wishing, wanting, hoping, and watching them fail.

(13:22):
And then it's the Eagles Division, you know, going back
to the depth that you so proclaim of your Jets.
That's the one team that matches up from pillar to post.
But a new offensive coordinator does it run as efficiently
and as well? For Jalen Hurts remains to be seen.
Daniel Jones with an opportunity and for this giant squad

(13:43):
to go make some noise.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
My biggest nightmare. I could just see it unfolding that way,
I can see it unfolding.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Yeah, I'm gonna buy one of those Daniel Jones jerseys
with the velcrow plate. Is that if it goes south,
I can go back in history.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Get ready for the Aaron Rodgers might not be the
best quarterback in your right, they're all gonna come back.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
The young rising star in the fading veteran.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
He's the third best quarterback in the state when you
count Josh Allenslee. That's my worst night because look, the
Giants are that good man. I'm telling you they are
that good and you want to sleep on them. Go ahead,
but wow last year to this year with better players
who look out.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Yeah, if it goes bad, I can make it a
Morton Anderson jersey.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Just put it right on there. Just rip off that
name plate. Jason Smith of Mike Harmon in for Doug
Gottlieb today x at how about a fresca at Swollen
Dome coming up next? Yeah, we have big news as
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Speaker 5 (15:30):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
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Speaker 2 (15:40):
Fox Sports Radio The Doug Gottlieb Show, Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon in for Doug today, and you know, Mike, there's
not a lot of things I want to do besides
uh do radio shows. Like this, there's not a lot
of things.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Well, there's a lot of jobs that you've put up
as occupations that you could do.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Yeah, exactly with littles and no train. Yes, for a
long time.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
And if someone wants to put a dump truck full
of money in front of me, sure I would do.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
I mean, you're you're like our version of Barbie.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Lots of professions in your mind that you've traveled.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
And eventually I'm just gonna be like Ken, my job
is just beach.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Anywhere else i'd be at tench it's beach.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Uh. It add head coach US women's national soccer team
to that list.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh you want to go uh big game, hunting yard.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah. Well, well, first of all, look, Vlacho Adonofsky resigned yesterday,
big news late last night.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yeah, inevitable he u.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, we thought it was gonna happen because he presided
over the worst four run stretch in the history of
Women's World Cup. Sure national team.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Well, I mean his contract was also up at the
end of the year, so it's just a matter of
did he want.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
The rest of the summer? Yeah, and it kind of relaxs.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, not surprising after a third place finish in the
Olympics three years ago, in which the United States looked
old and slow, and now getting knocked out of the
of the World Cup in the first round of the
knock out round. Now I can get this gig because
I have experienced coaching a pretty decently high level of
of women's youth sports. Highly he had no experience, and

(17:09):
he got the gig. Why can't I get the gig?
Why can't I get it?

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Why not him? Because he's good you're not.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
I mean, this goes back to the to the old
Seinfeld and when George was complaining about Ted Danson having
all these advantages.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
But because I could solve the biggest problems faced the
women's national team, I could solve because we talked about
it going into the World Cup. Where are the goals
going to come from? Right? Is alex Morgan still an
elite level striker and forward?

Speaker 4 (17:40):
And didn't think she was well, it was just like
Joe Fla debanded whether he was a leade He was
not elite, she was.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Ted fact, I don't even know that she's going to
be on the team. I wouldn't have her on the
team in a year, never mind four years from now.
When they're playing in the World Cup for the Olympics
next year. I don't know. She's thirty four, and all
she did was every time the play looked like it
was going to happen, she was off side, or she
made a bad decision with the ball, or or couldn't
get a shot on goal, she missed a penalty. She

(18:07):
just isn't the same.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Well, it doesn't have the burst to like. When she
did have opportunities, she would pull back, yeah, I mean
as opposed to the usual explosion and at least get
a shot on net.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
There's some times where a couple of times where she
had a great shot and said, no, I'm gonna try
to pass it through two defensive players to a tend
It's not gonna make it through. Like I said, this
is something I could tell thirteen and fourteen year old girls. Hey,
that pass isn't gonna make it through. It's got to
be either in the air or you got to take
a find a way to get a shot. Right. If
they're playing the past, you take the shot. But that's
the number one thing I would do, is what I would.

(18:39):
I would get on the internet and I would do
interviews and I would say, hey, can you score goals? Hey,
why don't you come down to Westchester Park here in
Los Angeles coming up on Saturday, open tryouts to be
a forward on the US women's national team because we
need scorers. We don't have any. Can you put the
ball in the back of the net? Will you take
shots instead of trying to figure out a fancy play? Hey,

(18:59):
come on down. Uh you know if you it's gonna
be between nine and three, about too early for me.
I like to sleep in. It's gonna be from eleven
till three. And we're gonna have break for lunch. You
can bring lunch. You'll also be food available. We'll have
orange slices ready for.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Everybody, available for purchase.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yes, we're done it. If you need to pick up
your player at three, great pickup. Or if they're if
they're driving themselves drive however, it works, and it would
work because that's the number one thing, and and and
for everybody who says all the women's national team, it
was so disappointing. It was they didn't have anybody that
can score. And just because Sophia Smith and Trinity Rodman

(19:36):
are forwards of this team doesn't mean they're great talented
all world forwards. Why were we able to win the
last couple of World Cups and winning gold medals at
the Olympics Because in her heyday, Megan Rapino and in
her heyday Alex Morgan. Right, just going back four years
for both of them, and Abby Wambach and Mia Hamm
these are some of the greatest forwards, greatest offensive players

(20:01):
in the history of women's soccer. Not just these were
the scorers for Team USA. These players were the best
in history of US soccer. And to expect it suddenly
just because Sophia Smith and Trinity Robin are there and
they have commercials, Thanks Carly Lloyd, doesn't mean they're great players.
Doesn't mean you watch them now. These are players in
their early twenties and could they create separation a little

(20:23):
bit but not enough? Could they get the ball on net? No,
Sophia Smith had a gimme to put the team in
the next round of the World Cup, and she biffed
her penalty like she didn't even want to take it,
and she kicked it off the side of her foot
and it was embarrassing. This is not going to be
solved just by saying, hey, we'll get some players back
who are injured. Is Mallory Swantson gonna be a great

(20:43):
striker again. I mean, this is gonna be a big
time injury. She might not be ready for next year. Right,
Sam Ewis is coming back, She's gonna help the midfield.
She hasn't played in two years. I don't know what
she's ever gonna play again. This is an era of
US women's soccer where you know, you mentioned it last
night on the show. We had fourteen players who were
playing their first World Cup. We also have a lot
of these players who are playing in their last World

(21:04):
Cup because the talent is just not there. It's just
not what it was. It's not that the other countries
have caught up to us, it's that our level of
talent wasn't what we were used to. And the number
one thing is got to be able to score goals.
That's the name of the game, right, not go if
you don't score. My biggest fear, I said, my biggest
fear was we're gonna play against the team in the
knockout round that's gonna be content to play us for

(21:24):
penalties because anything can happen. What happened with Sweden. I
think they were surprised and how well the United States played.
The United States dominated. Hey, we're gonna play for penalties,
and look what happened. United States gacked it and Sweden
went on to play in the next next game in
the World Cup. That's what's got to get solved, and
the United States has no answers for it right now.
So yeah, that's why I would have tryouts. I would

(21:45):
have open tryouts. We need strikers and forwards. But my
daughters at midfield, no, no, stay home. We'll figure that
out another time. This is about solving strikers and forwards.
We're gonna solve this problem right now and then we'll
work on the rest of them.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yeah, but what I also need is in your open tryouts,
and we need all age ranges because right maybe it's
time for the re examination of the feeder system as
well to try to bring people through because we're not
seeing the same results at the levels leading up to
the national team status. You mentioned some of the injuries.

(22:18):
Macario is another name out there that was not available
for this cycle because of an injury. You're missing several
key components forwards, midfielders, a couple of defenders, but a
lot of this squad that we've come to know, and
Hubris is part of it. Part of it is the scheduling,
something you and I have talked about. Basically, it's like,
all right, you're now on break from your women's national

(22:40):
league services. Go meet at the airport and fly and
go play in a World Cup.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Right.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
You didn't have months of training together, months to get
timing together. How much of that would have been solved
with the athletes that you had available, I don't know,
but you can't tell me it wouldn't have had some
bit of difference in terms of building an offensive attack.
And sometimes perception becomes reality when you look at Andonofsky
and his countenance on the sideline, not a whole lot

(23:07):
of emotion at any point. Substitution patterns, What are we doing?

Speaker 3 (23:11):
How are we flowing?

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Do you have another set of bodies that can go
in and maybe give you a couple of offensive rushes
along the way when when you had to go into
penalties your goalies taking one of your penalty kicks.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Right.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
I mean that that's where we're at in the nothing
about her abilities, but that that's where we're at in
terms of trying to find people to step up. You
mentioned Sophia Smith. How does she respond from that miss
right from the televisation?

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Right is that a right word? If not?

Speaker 4 (23:47):
If not, I made it up. But the idea that
she looked like she was on the verge of tears
right from the pressure of that moment, that it overwhelmed her.
So how does she respond to that? Maybe she shakes
it off and gets right back to work, right, goes
back to the NWSL and moves forward and progresses and
greatness ensues. But you've got to replace a lot of

(24:09):
big names, big personalities which were able to get him
his job to begin with. And now you're starting that
cycle over.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Right, So now when you're talking about what's next, right,
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, and for Doug Gottlie today, what's
next is the US women's national team has a lot
in common with the Yankees, with the Dallas Cowboys, with
the Golden State Warriors in that they're dynasties. They're dynasties
that get more attention than all of the other teams

(24:40):
in their leagues because of who they are, right, the Steelers,
all these teams, that's kind of the women's national team.
They're a dynasty. They've been a dynasty for over twenty
years and when you look at the how it went
to get to this point. They have to follow what
we talked about with the Yankees last hour on the show.
Yankees are under five five hundred. They're not going to

(25:00):
make the playoffs. This needs to be a season of
big time change. A new GM, a new head coach,
and a lot of new players. Right, same thing for
the United States here. But what they need to do
for coaching wise, they got to get outside. They got
to get outside. They can't just say hey, here's someone
who the players like, because look at what happened. The
players have been able to call the shots for a
long time. They hated Jill Ellis, right, they hated her, right.

(25:23):
They wanted her fired before the World Cup in nineteen.
What happened? They went on and win the World Cup, right, hey,
and you know what Jill Ellis is going. They didn't
like me, but you know what, they banded together and
if they had a common enemy, fine won say yeah,
we won the World Cup. So they didn't want her.
They wanted her fired us nationally is well, we can't
do it before the World Cup. Afterwards she leaves, they
all like Dandonofski, right, he was an assistant. We want

(25:46):
him to be our guy. Now. Years later, after a
couple of disappointments, what did US Soccer say they did
when they accepted Antonofsky's resignation. We talked to the players,
We talked to the other coaches. This is what we
figured out. I get that you need to talk to
players when it comes to coaches because you want to
make sure they haven't lost the pulse of a team
or things still going right. But in this case, did
you need anything else other than knocked out in the

(26:08):
knockout round and a bronze medal. No, you knew that
Endonofski was out. You can't keep asking the players what
they want right And obviously what's going on right now
is not good enough. Someone's got to come in with
new ideas and a new way of doing things. And
if the players a little uncomfortable, tough, that's how it goes.
You don't normally get to call the shots. The Yankees'
players don't get to call the shots. Who they want

(26:30):
is their next manager. Doesn't happen that way, right, doesn't
the Cowboys? Certainly Jerry Jones decides whoever the hell, he
wants to coach that team players certainly don't get any
kind of input on that. But that's how it goes
when you're successful. You can't just have the players say, oh,
this is who will listen to, this is who we
won't because a minute they hear something they don't like,
they're gonna tune it out. And so you need someone
else to come in. And this is what Carly Lloyd

(26:51):
was talking about, was the culture of the team needs
to change now that Sophia Smith miss that penalty and
Megan Rapino missed that penalty because of the culture of
the team. No, but were we in that spot where
we were in penalties against the Swedes maybe because we
need a little bit of a culture change. Sure, I'm
all up for that. I'm up for that. When you
when you change and do things a little bit better
and you do things a little bit more buttoned up

(27:12):
and the right way, and things don't get as out
of control as they need to be. Yeah, I'm a
firm believer in that. So that's what you need for
this time, going around somebody from outside the team and
come in and say this is how we're gonna do it. Well,
I don't know if I like it. Well, you know what,
I get somebody else to come play midfield. I get
somebody else to come play a center back. I can
do all of these things. That's how the United States
needs to go forward. United States women's team and the Yankees,

(27:34):
same blueprint, same diagram going forward.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Yeah, I mean with the women's national team, it's that
finding that middle right, talking about people who've been there,
done that, and not that they were finished and didn't
put in the work. I'm certainly not going to animate that,
but there may be a disconnect in terms of, you know,
the how that locker room came together and where there
might have been gaps in communications and things that you

(27:59):
just assumed were understood because you had so much power,
so much prestige and history with some of the members
of the squad there. So moving forward, change through. I'll
bring it back to what we talked about with the
NFL too, you know, going back to the b Enemy
story of a week ago that people got all up
in arms about. Sometimes you need to be kicked in

(28:19):
the ass to keep things mout. You need to have
someone who's yelling at you to motivate. And I'm not
saying just for the sake of arguing, but how much
have we watched some of this behind the scenes of
different sports, And it's just a different way to get
after it. And if it's just everybody come along to
get along, the Deon Sanders thing we talked about before,

(28:42):
you need people into the same fight, right, the stakes
have to be the same. And whether it's Patrick mahomes
on quarterback getting at everybody and yelling at his teammates
and whatever else, Max Crosby trying to fight the world
and go on down the line, Robert Salah trying to
evate everybody talking about the roster they have, but it's

(29:03):
gonna live and die by what the offensive line does.
It's trying to get everybody on the same page. I
don't think that you still had that same fire in
the belly unless Andonofsky was two completely different people between
the sideline and pressed demeanor and a guy back in
the locker room. Sometimes you need that, you need to
get up under the skin, you need to call out
mistakes or you know, complacency, And that's I think the

(29:27):
word that might have defined this team more than any
is that you're resting on your laurels and what you've
done in the past, not recognizing that the field got
a little bit better. Maybe you're a quarter step half
step slower and you still need to be able to
generate as you did in the past. Those those past
World Cup wins, they don't carry forward. You don't get

(29:50):
any extra bonus points for those.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
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Jason Smith, Mike Harmon in for Doug gottlie Today. There
we go. So we've solved the problems you women's national
team right there, coming up next to the play of
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well you would be wrong. That's coming up next right
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Jason Smith, Mike Carmon in for Doug Gottlieb today. Uh
here on the program right now, bottom of the nine
fitting the Mariners lead the Royal six four Julio Rodriguez
five for five with five RBI. Do you think now

(31:31):
kJ R will call me for interviews again? No, because
one side went on what I picked them to go
to the the World Series and Jay rod to be
the MVP. I was on. I had interviews KJR on
our affiliate there and afternoons now, but since the Mariners
started out crappy.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
It was.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
It was like I didn't exist. But now Jay Rod's
heating up. The Mariners are making a move. There are
ten games over five hundred. I think they'll call me again.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Well, if nothing else, your love of Gino Smith should
get you a call, right.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Gee, no, gene, no ge.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Come on, he's so entrenched and so important they put
him in bubble wrap for the preseason opener.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Hey. If I said to you a year ago at
this time, Hey, in three hundred and sixty five days,
I'm gonna tell you it's too risky to play Gino
Smith in a preseason game, you'd have told me, turn
in your radio host card, get out, get out. I
can't get out. That's that's take. Is just way too hot.
Even fro A, no, no, no, Here we are a
year later. No way too risky to play Gino Smith in.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
A pre positivity Let's go way too early.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Uh. You think everybody would love the Super Bowl, but
apparently not. Taylor Swift, someone who has already played the
Super Bowl, looked like she was going to potentially perform
at halftime of the twenty twenty four game, but now
she has declined to do it. Reportedly because she has
a busy schedule, other plans going on. She's had a
big set of concerts and so far that brought my

(32:54):
three hundred million dollars worth of money to the City
of Montraitlist. She's got a lot of albums to re record.
At some point she's going to re record the re
recordings of her albums, and she's got a lot of
stuff going on. The Swifties will not be out in
force at the super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Well, they may still be. They'll just be cheering for
someone else that day.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Not Katie Perry. You know that's not happening.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Well, we already had her. I mean she's not.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeah, Taylor Swift too, Yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
I mean she is the hottest thing going right of
this is a white hot event. The ticket and really,
I mean she's bigger than whatever matchup you get.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Well, I don't know about that. Man Jets and the Lions,
come on, Man Jets, Lions, super Bowl, I forget, forget it.
Did the halftime show may as well be Hey, it
may just be like a ceremony before the game, like
the ceremonial coin flipa Lions.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
It is curious to see who does end up becoming
the halftime performer for a Las Vegas Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Wait, I'm seeing it right here. Hang on. According to
new reports, it is going to be James Dolan's band
JD in the straight shot. There we go, James Doll. Okay,
I can.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Get on board. I can get on board that.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
I mean, Billie Eilish is up there as one of
the betting favorites.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Sure, sure, you're just blowing right past JD in the
straight shot straight? I mean, there's only so many. I mean,
what am I gonna do?

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Are they gonna do the halftime show and beam it
in from the sphere Because the only way he would
do it is if he gets to promo his new
shiny new toy and concert venue. There.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Hey, we're gonna see the Knicks in the finals at
some point soon. Here we go. Here's another song for you.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Yeah, you also have to back out that it is
James Dolan, owner of the Knicks band.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
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(35:02):
team was fighting. He was upset that some players weren't
fighting more too. Y'all woke it off over there, and
you gotta keep teammate fight nowhere, not here. They won't fight.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
We all fight.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
You understand that.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
I don't want to say y'all walking off and put
somebody's fight. He's getting a lot of bad pub for
this because he's not saying I wanted you to fight.
He's saying when there's a fight, you don't leave the field.
You stay on with your teammates to make sure they
need whatever you need. He's got a lot of this
story has not not been presented the way that it
actually turned out to me.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, but that's generally the case, isn't it. Something like
this said go for the hot take as opposed to
actually backing it out of Hey, camaraderie, be there for
your teammate and stand together, which is what he's trying
to do in a first year of a program.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Yeah, he Look, there's some things I'll question him on
this is he's just trying to get his players on
there and making sure or they are there for each other.
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