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Aaron Rodgers plans to make Jets debut on Saturday vs. the Giants. Jason explains why it’s time to stop the 'sweat suits & commercials' excuses for the USWNT. They just weren't good enough. Plus, the Progressive play of the night!

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streak is over a streak that maybe a lot of
people weren't really aware of, but you couldn't watch the
Commander's gamesnight against the Ravens without being reminded every five
seconds by ESPN. The Ravens have won twenty four straight
games in the preseason. The drive for twenty five it
stopped by a Joey Slide field goal with nine seconds left.

(01:16):
The Commanders beat the Ravens twenty nine to twenty eight,
a game that both sides did everything they could in
the last eight minutes to win this game. The Ravens
are blitzing the house and the final few plays they
called two timeouts. On the final Commander's possession, the Commanders
were throwing short to get out of bounds to set
up the game winning field goal. It was insane. You

(01:39):
can't sit here and tell me that the Ravens are
gonna walk away and go, oh yeah, we didn't really
care about that. We'd ever talked without that. Now you
were doing everything you could to win this game, and
the Commanders were doing everything they could to win this game.
They didn't want them to win twenty five in a
row on national TV against them. This is the best
they Commanders have agin they won the Super Bowl in
ninety two, back when they were the Washington Redskins. This

(01:59):
is their best day. This franchise is ha this is bigger.
I don't know it's time Super Bowls tough.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
But I mean that's a long time ago. A lot
of these fans don't know that. You know that time
and that period. It's also under the old nickname that
some people would like to just forget and create, like
it's a brand new franchise with new ownership and all
this other stuff, and they're gonna changed the team name again. Yeah,
the next couple of years. Again, I mean branding, marketing, sales,

(02:26):
get in there and sell, sell, sell. But yeah, I
mean this, this is huge on a number of levels.
I mean, you did have an offensive lineman earlier in
the week saying this, you know this doesn't mean blank
blank blank, and then as soon as they're scoring with
the opportunity to tie, when it was twenty eight, twenty six,
he's doing the gritty. So I mean you got everybody
got involved. Everybody was jacked up about it. In those
final couple of minutes. Come on, that played out like

(02:48):
a playoff game.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah. But and here's the thing. This is why it's
still bigger than the super Bowl because if the Jets
had won the Super Bowl in nineteen ninety two, I'd
think about that game every day. I mean, man, thirty
years later, I'd still think about the Jets winning, the
plays from that game. I would watch stuff, I would
watch videos and highlights on I would still think.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
About something you'll never have to worry about there.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Your team has never won the Super Bowl, Frostburg, the
Chargers have never won.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
To keep my team's name out your mouth.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
You have never won, and we're gonna beat you by
fifty and week nine and good luck going back. Man.
We don't want anything to do with the Jets. Waee.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
I mean, you can't even place some friendly wager with Smith.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
He's got Zach Wilson going off that game. I don't
like to say about it.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Zach Wilson ran for one hundred and twenty eight yards
in two touchdown.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well, that's the thing is, I can't make the bet
unless I know that Rogers are gonna be healthy for
that game.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Oh, Rogers is already talking about how in two to
three years he's going to pass the torch back to
Zach Wilson. Yea, so the next week gain a fifteen
year run of terror.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure that's gonna happen. Now, that's just
one of those nice things to say that he said
he's gonna Look, he's gonna play in his first game
this weekend. That was big news over the weekend. Aaron
Rodgers gonna play in his first game, gonna play some
against the Giants on Saturday, which is good. You gotta
play at some point. You gotta be able to get
out there with your guys.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
And I understand.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I like that we're swinging back the other way so
we're actually getting some game time day.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's one thing. It's what. It's one thing if you
are playing on a team where you know the offense,
you know the guys. I don't need to play for
the Packers. I played in the preseason. I get what's
going on. But if it's a new offense, so he's
gonna go play and I get it. And he says,
I'm gonna play for a few years and hand it
over to Zach Wilson. Sack. Wilson's gonna be on his
third te by the time Aaron Rodgers is done playing.

(04:35):
Forget he's done.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
You're sending him down the Sam Darnold road of life.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Is he gonna sit around and continue to sign deals
for two years and nine million to back up Rogers
till he's done? You're our guy? Yeah? I watch him scramble,
that was great. I watch I also watch him throw
the football. He can't throw it more than five yards?

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Are you seven yard? Bomb.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
Okay, hell, are you talking about the reason you gotta
know your squad?

Speaker 1 (05:03):
The only reason he completes because Aaron Rodgers told him
throw it up, Gabe.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Did he complete it? He had the arm streak to
do it. Maybe he just needs someone to believe in him.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
Maybe Aaron Rodgers is that guy that finally said you
can do this.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
The only other person was.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
His mom.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
About a lot of people. Yeah, I know about.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
That, Yeah that is. But look, Rogers is one of
those guys who he'll play as long as he wants
to and and tell me this right, just think about
this for a second. Watch him on Hard Knocks. I
will revisit this because I want to throw this out
there now tomorrow night, baby, and I want people to
watch watch him tomorrow night. We'll get back of this
later on this week. Okay, watch Hard Knocks and watch

(05:44):
Aaron Rodgers, especially coming off of last week.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
How many times did you watch last weeks by the
way before?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Oh why watch you twelve? The first one I watched
three times, This last one I watched twice.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I think you're you're bringing your metal count down a
little bit. I thought you I thought you watched the
first one a couple more times.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
No, I watched first one three times, and then the
second one I watched twice. Oh, but I did watch
the the opening scene with the Mentalist. I've watched with
my friends and my family, Like, I've watched that opening
scene like five times. I keep looking for where does
he get the deck of car? Where do you get
the goldfish to give him to Rogers and all that
stuff and everything? Watch that again. Yeah, it's fine.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
I wanted to say, trot it out the mentalist. You
lost me.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
I wanted to see how the mentalist did his trick.
I guess it was interesting.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Well what if he said giraffe? Now that was funny.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
It was funny. But you watching Rogers, okay, watching him
on the sideline, seeing him sit there, headphones on, he's
advising the offense. You see how it easy is with
the players, how it easy is with the officials, how
it easy is with players on the other team. And
the level of involvement that he has, knowing what has

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to happen for a play on the field, right, you
see him say, oh, this has to be this has
to be a dig and a comeback from Elik Taylor,
that that's gonna be open here and that's the play.
I watch him and I go He's one of those
guys that I can see watch seeing this going. He
can go right from the playing field to being an
NFL head coach. He can go right from playing Now

(07:14):
it would it would disrupt his lifestyle. You can't really
go on ayahuasca retreats and darkness retreats all the time.
And yeah, maybe you can. I don't know he'll be
a new age head coach, but you watch him and
he and you don't tell me. He oozes. He can
go right from the playing field of being an NFL
head coach. Everybody would follow him. Everybody would listen. What
he would know offensively is off the charts. He could

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have a head coach of the defense come in, like
when Sean McVay hired Wade Phillips. Dude, you just take
care of the defense. I'll do the offense great, and
Aaron Rodgers can walk in and he can be a
head coach in the NFL. Now, think about me saying that,
and then go watch Hard Knocks. You're gonna walk away
and go, oh, one hundred percent. He could be He
I wanted to be the head coach of my team
right now. He'd be ready to make that jump whenever

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he wanted to.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
He ain't working that hard for that amount of money.
You get ten million dollars to go sit in a booth,
ten million dollars off sponsors for a podcast, now, no
chance in hell he's doing that to be a head coach.
The amount of hours, No chance. Well, that's what I mean,
even in a softer NFL where where you know they
want life balance, mean, what the hell is that all?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, but he still loves the game though. You can
tell him ten million bucks no chance. Well, it might
be like I said, it's it'd be a different thing
for his lifestyle. And I don't know that that's what
he would want because it'd be other things he wants.
Maybe he wants to make sure everybody. I'm gonna give
you all my political opinions and everything I've thought and
everything i've thought about while under the influence of ayahuasca tea,

(08:40):
whatever it is, I'm gonna give you all that. And
when I'm done playing or I'll give you all that.
But but right now, this is what I'm doing in
football wise, If this is what he wants to do,
he could do it. I mean, I just watch him.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
He let's see how actually Week four in the regular
season robbery he's got to coach Zach Wilson up.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
He just I'm not saying he's gonna coach the Jets,
but you watch Robert Salah and and you know, for
a guy that that also oozed confidence and the players
like him. He seems like he's a position coach running
around getting excited about stuff. And Rogers is the guy
going this play here, let's call this price season. You know,
I had tongue he could do it. He could do it.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
I'm not saying he couldn't. I'm saying he won't. He can,
and then it will never be entertained outside of a
resurrection of pros versus Joe's or something.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Maybe he doesn't want to, but he could, he could.
He could absolutely do it.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, that's that's that's I'm not taking that big a
pay cut to go harder.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Meanwhile, speaking of doing it right, part part of what's
lost in the drama of this game tonight, where the
Commanders broke the streak for the Ravens and it's been well,
I tell you, John Harbough may have to retire after tonight,
Sam Howell had a big first half for Washington and
him going into this year, the three new quarterbacks that

(09:59):
are going to be that have been given handed the team.
They haven't had to beat anybody out in the preseason.
They've been anointed the starters, either after some kind of
sham couple of weeks or they were just promoted because
they felt it was.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Time Sam had to beat out Jacoby.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah, but did you draft Sam Howell that he wouldn't
be be to not have him beat out Jacoby Brissett.
Have you seen Ron rivera coach? Yeah? No, I've seen
Ron rivera coach. But this is how you're drafting it.
You you expect that to happen, and all you have
to do if you're if you're in that position is
just not throw up on yourself because you got to

(10:36):
see a quarterback on the field, right, so you know
at some point he was gonna win. But he's named
the quarterback Desmon Ritter is the quarterback in Atlanta, and
Jordan loves the quarterback in Green Bay. And every day
I feel like people want to make up stuff to
say about Jordan Love. Oh he's not dynamic. We told
you that's not. He's not running the same offense. They're
not going to ask me the same things that Aaron

(10:56):
Rodgers is. They're more running back driven. They want him
to make plays with his leg make plays downfield, but
he's not going to win passing titles. It's a different offense.
Desmond Ritter will be fine as well. He's got a
lot of weapons. He'll be throwing the ball out of
the backfield to his running backs the entire season. You
saw what Bjeon Robinson did this past weekend in a cameo,
Woo look out for him and Howl's the same way.

(11:19):
They have some pretty good weapons out there. Offensively. I
love Dotson. He's the terrific wide receiver. You're hoping McLaurin
comes back, and the injury he received he had tonight
wasn't so bad. He caught three passes from Howl in
the first half. He got Samuels, a pretty good gadget guy.
You got a couple of guys that can run the division.
Isn't that great? Sam Howell, who once upon a time
could have been one of the number one and number

(11:40):
two picks overall in the draft. He looks fine. All
three of those quarterbacks that were handed new jobs this year.
They will all be fine on their teams this season.
We're not going to walk away going hey, they would
be better if their quarterback situation was better. No, the
three of them, they will all be fine. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
I think it works.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
I mean as long as the run games start to churn.
With Howell, we saw him move well on his feet,
pretty strong, live arm. We remember that from college. So
the opportunity certainly there to make some hay. Hopefully McLaurin
is ready to go. We've seen what he's done with
quarterbacks that have been suspect the last couple of years.

(12:17):
But Jordan Love, you've got the duel running back position right.
Aaron Jones came back, redid his deal. AJ Dillon's beast,
and so manage the game and occasionally take your shots downfield.
With the young and up and coming second year wide
outs along the Way and Atlanta, the only thing they
did right was run the football last year, and they

(12:39):
they brought someone in and Bijon Robinson not only helps
you do that, but he also catches the ball out
of the backfield. So it's nothing but a win there.
All three guys set up in pretty good spots to
grow and mature in the game without having to throw
the ball forty times a game and with everything on
their shoulder. Now, for Jordan Love, it'll probably feel like

(13:02):
it until they win a few games, because the eyes
of the football world are in the Hey, you took
over for Aaron Rodgers, and you're the guy that you
know forced this would be and will be first ballot
Hall of Famer out of town. So yeah, the scrutiny
is certainly there. The other guys get to operate in
relative anonymity, I think. So it's it's pretty good, you know.

(13:24):
For Sam Howell, he'll get to grow because you're not
paying attention because Dan Snyder's gone, Right, it's not the
same level of angst over each game, each loss, Oh,
another ugly loss in the Dan Snyder dot. Now it's
gone that that's a it's a new world order there
and Desmond Rinter. Nobody's paying attention to the Falcons, right,

(13:46):
I mean they're they're just not.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
That's a bad division and someone's got it someone, someone's.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Got a Wain.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
I mean, look, in theory, it should be New Orleans
by default, kind of like it was a lot during
the the Peyton Breeze run.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well, are you really saying Carr should win that division
by default?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
He should?

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (14:03):
That's really and you know how long and how much
it takes for me to make that jump.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
Right.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
We just did that fantasy draft Friday for with our
buddy Fabiano, Right, and it's one of those crazy leagues
that has the super flex and whatever. So all the
quarterbacks are going off the board. We get to the
second quarterbacks and I look around, I'm like, I have
to draft Derek Carr. This goes and flies in the
face of everything I've said on the radio, Right is

(14:28):
included or no?

Speaker 1 (14:30):
The new one?

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah? Yeah, no, I did get that. But I mean
as a late number two quarterback. Sure, And do I
think that they win meaningful games? No, But he can
get you to the playoffs with the squad that's assembled.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
Dude, they have a great defense, man.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
No, no, defense.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Defense is good. You got a couple of big receivers.
We'll see what Michael Thomas is. Jamal Williams is there
while Alvin Kamara is suspended, he comes back week four. Otherwise,
I mean the story we haven't gotten to it all
is I mean Baker Mayfiel now suing his old man.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
Yeah, query there, let's go. Where's my twelve million old man?

Speaker 6 (15:05):
So?

Speaker 5 (15:05):
I mean there's a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Where's that money? Oh? I gave it all to Michael Orr.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Wait what No, just kidding, mad craziness, I tell you,
and his wife saying hey, where's my money?

Speaker 1 (15:16):
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just really quick on this, because now it's time for
the narrative surrounding the US women's national team to officially change.

(17:01):
Spain wins the World Cup over the weekend. They beat
England in a great game. Look of the final three games,
the two semi finals, the championship game. Fantastic, right, Spain
wins and you've probably seen the story today. You know,
one of their best players learned of her father's death
after the game. It was a very heartbreaking moment and
you know, trying to celebrate a victory at the same time.

(17:23):
But the one thing that needs to go out the
window is the excuses that are being made for the
US women's national team. Spain wins the World Cup and
a story that we talked about really briefly going in,
but it was Spain, so it was like, ah, you
know that so many these other teams really just everybody
just cares about the US women's team. No, no, I
get it. Spain won the World Cup despite not having

(17:45):
twelve of their fifteen best players in the country. This
is because before the World Cup none of them like
the way that the coach or heey Vildet was coaching
the team and they wanted changes. And of the fifteen
best players in Spain, only three of them played in
the World Cup. Now, the defending Bundor winner played, so

(18:07):
that helps obviously, but they only had three of the
fifteen best players in the country play. The rest of
their roster, they had to fill it out with and
they still went on and won the World Cup. And
they still won, missing twelve of their best players because
they didn't want to play because they had It's not
just they were injury. There was controversy, There was all

(18:29):
kinds of crazy ass stuff Spain was dealing with. Nobody
liked the head coach. Head coach had to find some
new players. A couple of them came back, and they
were still able to go on and go all the
way through and win. All the world is catching up,
I think now the excuse of too many commercials by
the US women's players wearing expensive sweatsuits, making other people

(18:54):
pick up clothes and they leave them on the field. Look,
I get that that that people like Carly Lloyd are
talking about culture around the United States team, and maybe
you know, these are things that she wasn't familiar with.
But don't give me any crap that this is what
caused them to lose the World Cup. Come on, man, Spain,
they dealt with the ultimate inadversity and they won the

(19:16):
World Cup and we couldn't get out of the knockout stage. Okay,
don't give me. They'll give me that it's about sweatsuits,
and and and and team managers and commercials, and and
and being a fat cat. Don't give me that. We
just weren't good enough. That's all it was. We just
weren't good enough. And nobody wants to say that. Nobody
wants to say, oh, but we had injured det No,
our players are coaching not good enough. There needs to

(19:39):
be a complete overhaul of the US women's national team.
We're getting a new head coach and we need some
new players because clearly these players aren't good if we
want some of them play, Hey, is Trinity Robin a
great player or does she have a big name? Trinity
Robin was okay, right, Sophia Smith, she's gonna score a
lot of goals, Well, not so much. She's not a
great player. We didn't get the next generation of great players.

(19:59):
So it's time to go find other players because suddenly
we're gonna go and turn it around in the Olympics
next year. No, we just didn't have enough talent. The
team wasn't good enough. You don't win champ You don't
lose championships because of sweatsuits and commercials. You lose championships
because your team isn't good enough. We weren't even close
to being good enough. And yet nobody wants to say that.

(20:21):
Nobody wants to sit back and say, hey, oh no, no,
if we get the we had the injuries, we had
these players and Sophia Smith will get better in Trinity,
rob will get no. No, no. These players twelve or
fourteen and playing their first World Cup, some of them
are playing in their last World Cup. Because there needs
to be a new influx of talent. There needs to
be new talent out there. We couldn't we can't score goals,
we couldn't dominate the games like we used to. There

(20:41):
needs to be a big overhaul. Yet nobody wants to
admit that. They all want to look at at other
excuses about hey, this is just how the team is
made up, and that's not the case at all.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
There's a million factors to it. And look, even if
you win on those penalty kicks against Sweden, you still
got to go win more games. Did you have enough
to do that? Are you gonna be able to take
down the eventual champion? The answer is probably not. But
we talk about the divide fourteen first time World Cup players,
the women on the last run or presumptive last run. Right,

(21:14):
you had a couple of players announced that they're finished,
and a few others that probably will be. But you
didn't have a lot of practice time together, right, NWSL
commitments and then everybody, hey, meet at the plane and
get on the plane together. So you have that, you
have all the injuries, you have the coach. You know,
this shows, you know, beyond the shadow of now going

(21:34):
back to the Jill Ellis, Hey, you won with her. Well,
sometimes you need that coach that maybe you don't get
along with, maybe the kick in the ass.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
We did this.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
We're talking about Eric b enemy with the commanders and
the complaints thereof you know that sometimes there's a different
focus and anger whatever that comes out of it, and
you play together and you're able to bond together. Look
at what Spain just did right exactly just that. You know,
you had three players, after signing their names to the

(22:05):
letter condemning and putting out their frustrations with the coach,
they still decided to play, but twelve others did not.
But you had a common you know enemy. You know
sometimes that that helps, right, and you're playing for your
nation and all of that roles together, you don't have

(22:26):
some of the distracted. I can't speak for Carly Lloyd's
experience there, but she knows better in the locker room
than we do if there's some level of disconnect between
players and where they're at directionally moving forward. But certainly
from a talent perspective, we didn't have those breakouts. We
didn't have easy goals. Even in the game where we

(22:47):
had twenty eight shots to open things up, they scored
three goals right against a team that was seemingly just
happy to be there. So it's a tough divide. And
you look going down the ranks, there haven't been a
lot of walkover wins there either, so help isn't coming immediately, right,
There's a lot of growth that needs to be done

(23:07):
in Sophia Smith to not to single her out, but
the miss on that penalty kick, a look on her
face is gonna stay with me for a while, and
I'm sure with her and all of those that watch
that game and look forward. So the you know, the curiosity,
who's the next coach? How do they push ahead? Yeah,
there's a lot of questions. It's not just as simple

(23:28):
as putting on different colored sweatsuits and just you know,
cutting out any commercial endorsements.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
That's just foolhardy.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
That's a couple of days shooting and you get back
to work so people can cancel that noise altogether. That's
just people looking to make their political hot take.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
I mean, I really, I don't I get that the
drama that we always want to focus on what's going
on off the field, right, what's going on away from it,
because it's interesting, and I get that, But you can't
just sit here and make excuses why you don't win
and say it's all I mean, look at what Spain
had to get through, and we want to sit here
and say, you know, we've not been wearing those expensive

(24:06):
Nike sweatsuits, we might have been able to win. I really,
I mean if we were, if you were just just
wearing your own clothes, or what do you have left
over from the you know, we're of the twenty nineteen
World Cup swag. Oh maybe what No, we just weren't
good enough and there needs to be a big and
it's it's hard because nobody wants to admit it because
you're what you're saying is, hey, this has not been
run like the dynasty. It's been for the last twenty years.

(24:28):
But this is the truth through the Wind's world cup.
I guess what.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
People get older, people get slower, people have other motivations.
I'm everything else comes together.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
I'm sorry, I don't I don't move nearly as fast
as I used to.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
I don't, right, I mean you move like a three
toed sloth. At this point, what is Aaron Rodgers for
two hundred dollars?

Speaker 1 (24:47):
We got NFL coming up in ninety seconds. And the
most surprising part of Jonathan Taylor's trade potential the Jason
Smiths with Mike Carmen live from the tirec dot Com studios.
All right, so we found today the Colts have granted
Jonathan Taylor the okay to seek a trade. And this
is the most shocking part of this part for me,

(25:10):
is that the Colts have made it, have streamlined it,
and made it easy to get Jonathan Taylor because it's
been reported by many entities. Adam schefter Ian Rapport reported
this earlier in the day, that the Colts will be
seeking a first round pick or a collection of picks
that equates to a first round pick. Now is that

(25:32):
two seconds? Is that a second? And the third is
that that who knows, but this is what they're looking
for for Jonathan Taylor. Now this is really smart because
what you don't want is the cult saying, hey, yes
we're looking for we'll trade Jonathan Taylor. Call me with
your best offer. If you want to make a deal,
If you want to get a deal done, whether it's
in the NFL or in fantasy, you gotta make it

(25:55):
easy for people, right, you have to. So now what
they could have done was say, call me your best offer,
and we're gonna play the game a little bit. We're
gonna play the game and we're gonna say we want
a Christian McCaffrey like package. We want a couple of
first round picks. Don't call me and lets you have
a first or a first and a second and a player,
and we're gonna get outlandish. We're gonna ask for way
too much and we expect to get back and then

(26:16):
we'll figure out from there. No, the Colts are said, hey,
we want to make this happen, basically what Jim Moris
and the Colts has done and says we're gonna trade
Jonathan Taylor. Here's what we want. First round pick or
a package of picks equivalent to a first rounder. Make
your offer and call me, this is what we want.
And that streamlines it, and that makes it a lot
easier for teams to say, Okay, we can get what

(26:37):
what can we get. We can have a meeting in
the morning, and we can call the Colts in the
afternoon and say, hey, we're ready to give you a
first this year and a second next year. A first
this year and a third next year. That can turn
into a second if if he meets certain playing requirements
or leads the league in rushing. There's many ways to
do that. They've made it so easy. I'm telling you
there's a lot of teams that can use him. And
as long as he's going to be healthy and and

(26:58):
and they believe and by all reports he's going to
be one hundred percent healthy. By the end of September,
you're gonna have teams calling. And I expect him to
get traded by the end of the week. By the
time we finish our show Friday into Saturday, some team
is gonna make a move. They will trade for Jonathan Taylor.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah, the the Jets made that move. They bring in
Dalvin Cook. I think the perfect fit is Miami to
counter that you've got a bunch of guys.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
We know, the the.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Rookie suffered an injury, looks like he'll be good to
go in short order. But you've got basically three other
guys that are are solid number twos. But if you
can go get and number one to pair with Hill
and with Waddle and give to another outlet, I mean,
that's the next level stuff. Now if I'm the Colts,

(27:46):
I'm also sitting there and being realistic about it. You know,
we talked about it with Jason Locking for a little
bit earlier in our guy Frostburg's here, so you know
he might want to go earmuffs. But I mean Austin
Eckler got some incentive based, you know, additions to his contract,
but he wanted to trade in and get one marketplace

(28:07):
and trying to establish fair value and also finding a
team ready to pony up some money and add years
on to his deal or any of that stuff.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
I don't I don't know.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
That might be tough coming off an injury. You missed
a bunch of games last year, You've you've been out
during this process. How much of it was gamesmanship over
your contract versus that ankle really could be a long
standing problem. All right, there, there's there's a lot of
considerations here that and URSA can say, well, that's still
not good enough for what I want and not empower

(28:38):
Chris Ballard altogether. And and what's Taylor's recourse? You're really
gonna sit out a season?

Speaker 4 (28:44):
I don't think.

Speaker 5 (28:44):
So Josh is going back?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah? Hey, hey maybe that's the trade, right? Hey, Taylor
for John Josh? Is it that simp? Could really be
that simple? Taylor for Josh Jacobs? Like that made too
much sense? Right?

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Nah, that's an extra six million dollars in salary.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Jason, how do you feel that the Jets rushed it
with Dalvin Cook? Now that Jon Taylor's up.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
There, we don't have to give but we don't have
to give up a first round plick we got. We
got Dalvin Cook for free. We got Dalvin Cook for free.
He ain't free, well, not having to give up anything
for him, and it's not my money, So yeah, we
got it for free. There you go.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Those have been carrying a lot of weight.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
Apparently, look at what you did there.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
I saw see you know what I I.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
We didn't even address that tonight.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
No, no, no, well, well yes, you know what, that
sounds a good idea. Now, Frostburg's gonna get us in trouble.
Coming up next, we have the Play of the Night,
and hey, not just any old play of the night,
but the best preseason kick in NFL history. Plus a
Big Bowl prediction for the NFL next year because of
a story out of college football today. That's next right here,

(29:50):
Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm PACIF.

Speaker 7 (30:01):
He's Mike Carman, I'm Dan Bayern. We have a brand
new fantasy football podcast called I Want Your Flex. Twice
a week, every Tuesday and Friday, we come up with
new episodes to not only look back at what happened,
what you need to do at that minute, and also
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Speaker 4 (30:20):
That's right Dan.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Every week we're gonna scour the waiver wire to find
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Speaker 1 (30:42):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tiraq dot com studio.
It's got to play the night Come in your way
in a couple of minutes. But big story out of
football today that we're getting a suspension for Jim Harbaugh.
Now it's very weird. We got to go back. You

(31:03):
know that he was potentially going to be suspended for
four games. He was working with the NCAA for a
four game suspension for this year due to violations involving
recruiting during the dead COVID period. Okay, well he was
gonna get four games. That are working on a solution
and it didn't work out, and it looked like there
was going to be a push in the suspension to

(31:27):
next year. All right, let's where we're at right now. Okay,
he's going to coach this year. Everything is going to
be fine, Well, not so much. Michigan decides to self
impose a three game ban for Harbaugh. So he's gonna
miss the first three games of the year. East Carolina
UNLV and Bowling Green. They may win each of those
games only by fifty before coming back for the Big
Ten opener against Rutgers. Now, according to many college football insiders,

(31:51):
this was done as a hey, NCAAA, help us out,
go light on us next year. We're suspending him for
three games. Here, you go light and maybe suspend him
for a couple of games next year, because this shows
you that there was likely going to be a big
time suspension coming Harbaugh's way, because here's Michigan trying to
step in and trying to mitigate it a little bit.

(32:12):
But I'll tell you this, Mike, watching this and seeing
how this is unfolding, things are starting to align. The
stars are starting to align. This will be Harbaugh's last
year finally at Michigan, and he'll move on to the
NFL next year. It's going to happen for every year
the last three years it's been is this, It is

(32:33):
Harball going to go to the NFL. He's not quite
as happy. He wants to be happy, or wants a
little bit more money, wants other stuff, and he stays.
And what has he done. He's had his best two
years at Michigan. They're beating the crap out of Ohio State.
They make it to the College Football Playoff two years
in a row. They've won the Big Ten two years
in a row. He's on a high.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
He's going to have his best team that he's had at.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Michigan this year. He's got a superstar quarterback, He's got
two superstar running backs. This is it After next year?
Who knows? And if the NCAA is coming to town
with potentially a big suspension, guess what he will run
to the NFL. Like Pete Carroll ran to the Seahawks
after leaving USC and then suddenly after he left all
this uh suspension and and and sanctions came down. That's

(33:16):
what's going to happen. Everything is lining up for Harbaugh
to go and to leave for the NFL. There'll be
some big openings next year. Potentially Dallas could be open,
the Chargers, the Rams, the Raiders. That could be a
lot of openings next year. This is all lining up
for Harbor to say, this is my last year and
then I'm gonna hit the NFL after the season's over.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yeah, Harbaugh to Dallas ain't gonna happen. I'll tell you
that Jerry Jones isn't bringing that guy in. He needs
yes men in that head coaching job.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
You know, it is just he's but he's just had
a bunch of yes men. He does this once in
a while. He'll go, then hire a strong coach. You
did it with Bill Parcells. He'll sometimes go hire a
strong coach because he needs a strong coach after very
long but it was a long time ago, exactly two thousands.
But if the pressure is out and he's out there, No,
Jerry likes headlines. He likes yes men, but he likes headlines,

(34:04):
and he likes attention. And hiring Jim Harbaugh gets them
all of those things.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Look at you and then and with the Chargers. I mean,
it's Kellen Moore's job, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Isn't it unless Jim Harbo says, hey, I can go
do it.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Thatnewhares is welcome out fast. But you know, it'll be
curious to see what else comes out in this process,
right because as soon as we had the the NCAA
is negotiating, all I could do is laugh at the
whole circumstance, right where no longer is it? Hey, here's
what came down. No, it's look what with tennessee, well
they cooperated, So eight million dollars some vacated wins and

(34:41):
time serve on most of the scholarship reduction. Michigan's trying
to do the same thing. Even though Harbaugh said, I'm
not apologizing. I'm not talking or cooperating with anybody than
he told theater.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
He said in the statement, he said, like I tell
my players, uh, don't get bitter, get better. Like that's
he's already got a inlining moment for this. But look
at this. This is when he goes. This is when
he goes because now it makes sense. It makes sense
for him to go twitter at, how about a fresca
x at, how about a fresca Mike get swollen dome.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the

(35:15):
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(35:36):
goal in the history of preseason in the NFL. You
get to be the play of the night.

Speaker 6 (35:41):
It's a forty nine yard attempt camrage. Chief mean to
snap this what's good? Day gets it down? Kick is
on its way, It is up and it is good it.
It takes the league with nine seconds to go.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
So there it is. Commander's radio network. Break the string,
perfect break snap by cheeseman the t what cheese man?
They break the twenty four game win streak, the Ravens
at the streak is over. What a great day to
be a Washington Commander. The greatest day since they beat
the Bills to win the Super Bowl in ninety two.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
It's kind of a big deal. I mean, they celebrated
running all the way down to the end zone. The
entire squad. They'll tell me they didn't want it. They
wanted it more. It's a new day, a new world
order for the Commanders and Josh Harris still shaking everybody's hands.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Jason, this is bigger than the super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
You think it's bigger. How is it bigger than the
super Bowl?

Speaker 4 (36:40):
It just is.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
No, it's it's you. I mean, did you see that?

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Celebrators?

Speaker 1 (36:45):
They did they did, they did, they did run all
the way down to the end of the stands.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
I mean I was really worried about the guys on
the Ravens side too. Yeah, sadness was overwhelming.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Well look, I think John Harbaugh may quit. I mean
with Babwi up tomorrow morning and find out. Yet, let's
and I've let this organization. That's it. I'm done. Oh,
there you go, and nobody and nobody has to serve
a suspension and we're all good. See, that's why you
get the big money. Mike Harmon, that's a great idea.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
A big deal. That's what I do.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Coming up next, my buddy Ben Mallard from Mike, I'm Jason.
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