August 22, 2023 • 36 mins
Jason and Mike recap the greatest preseason game in NFL history. Michigan is self-imposing a 3-game suspension for Coach Jim Harbaugh. The Colts finally grant running back Jonathan Taylor permission to seek a trade. And the mariners extend their winning streak to 7 games!
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streak is over. Joey Sli's field goal wins it for
the Commanders their greatest moment in franchise history since say
beat the Bills to win the Super Bowl in nineteen
ninety two. Mark Rippin, you know, I remember that Super
Bowl so well because it was it was a game
in which I predicted the final score really like we
like I was in this huge pool at at school
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and it was picked the final score and the MVP,
and I picked the final score right on thirty seven
to twenty four, and Mark Rippon was the MVP, and
I won. Asked me what I won?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What'd you win?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I want to bag of doritos?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, I mean, it's that's it. That's all I stick
in the eye. I want to bag well and bragging
rides forever. You're bringing it back up on the radio
all these years later. It's obviously near and dear to
your heart.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So that's always really that.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Did you wash them down with a capri son?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I just oh no, no, no, no, no, back then
was a zema? It was. It was nicely done. Yes, yeah,
no no.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
But like the opening said, I was levitating and I
was pondering all the ways that this game could end,
and I held up one finger.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
It had to be Sly.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
No, it had to be Sly. Joey Sly does it
with a forty nine yard field goal in a game
that looked quite honestly, it was embarrassing, but it was great.
It's weird. That's because it's embarrassing because you saw the
way the teams were treating this game. In the last
half of the fourth quarter, the Ravens called two timeouts
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on the Commander's final drive. The Commanders are just trying
to get in a field goal range and not running
their offense. They're just Hey, each side was trying to
win this game, do their best to it. So you
can't sit here tell me the Ravens don't care about winning,
and the Commanders didn't care about breaking the streak because
it was all they cared about in the fourth quarter,
which is kind of embarrassing, but embarrassing because you play
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to win the game, season game. It's if winning was
such a big deal, then the games would count in
the standings of the run.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
And I was joking, I'm trying to bring it up
to another level. We're getting notes from people saying they
were enraptured and had to sit in their car as
we brought it to its close.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'll always remember where I was when the Commanders beat
the Ravens to end that twenty four.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, it was about us calling the greatness of the
Commanders beating the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, but that's what made it great is that it
was embarrassing that they treated this game like it was
a regular season game. But it made it great because
it's like we got an extra regular season game because
of the way they both.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Took one hundred and seventy three. We celebrate them all.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It was so you gotta say two to seventy three.
Now you can't say two seventy two.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Now I added an extra one.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I celebrated all two seventeen.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
So forever more.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
When when the Ravens and the Commanders or whatever they're
gonna be called in two years get together. That's part
of the regular season slate.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Look, you're the commander, your your your area rival that
won the Super Bowl a few years ago, that that
you had to watch your team in the embarrassment you
had with Daniel started. You win this game. It's the
greatest moment in thirty years in franchise history, not even
making the play. Also a few years ago they made
it was in twenty twenty and twenty fifteen. This is
even big.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Wait in a second, This is bigger than the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh no, going back to when they won, this is
the biggest, going back to ninety this was bigger. No,
I don't know, man, they won the Super Bowl that
was pretty big. This is bigger I don't know. Man, dude,
they won the Super Bowl. I'll go I'll go far
with the hot tape, but I don't want to go
that far.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Come on, Smith, you had the obvious joke in one
liner to throw it prospering and you need not throw
the haymaker.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
How dare you?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What what you got?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Soft on me?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Like a Mets batter?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
What line did I miss?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
What?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Do you know what it feels like? Winning a Super Bowl?
It was garanteed up for you. It was your and
you didn't take it. I missed it, but you know
why you missed it. Like so many Mets batters at
the Blake this year on fat balls, I missed it
throwing to them.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I missed it. Like the Ravens making a game winning tackles.
I was all wrapped up in the Ravens out That's
what it was. I got two wrapped up in the Ravens.
That's what happened.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You got all up in your own head. It was
like it was clogged with special sauce or something.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Come on, man, there, you're better than that.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The streak is over. I've been sometimes when I get
focused at you don't see stuff out it. It's like
Luke when he blows to blow up the Death Star
for some reason, he can't say anything else Aroundhi, everybody's
gotta protect him. Biggs has to die, sorry, bigs a wedge. Oh,
I can't leave. I'm gonna die. I gotta go Luke sorry,
and he's you know, you can't do anything but fly?
And why do have to fly? Why did he have
to fly in that all the Why couldn't you just
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get in there at the end, Like, why have to
fly all the way down there the entire time? Right,
you just gotta get in there at the end.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
And shoot, you're talking about and we saw that Lea
spoiler alert can fly.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Why couldn't Luke have just flown himself? Why did he
need a ship?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, Leah could have done it. Sure, sure
Lea could have done that one hundred percent. But she
didn't know that at that point.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
No, no, no, But I mean, did Luke know that he
could fly like that?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I don't know. The force was strong with him. It
took it was hard for Darth Vader Bullet, but then
you know, Han Solo comes back sorry spoiler at the
very last one exactly. Yeah. Uh, that's how big is
funny uh Twitter and about a Fresco Mike and Small
and do the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live
the diirec dot Com studios. Now, today was a big
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day in college football zero week here, and I kind
of like zero week it. It makes me think of
having to get up early without having to get up early,
like I can enjoy zero week and I have to
worry about getting up at like six o'clock in the morning.
Michigan has self imposed a three game ban for Jim Harball.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
After all the negotiations broke off.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So if you remember this story, first, it came out
due to a cheeseburger. Now it's not about a cheeseburger.
Jim Harbaugh has been on the verge of a suspension
stemming from alleged violations during the COVID nineteen dead period.
It's been time since he was recruiting when he wasn't
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supposed to know. You're going back three years when he
weren't supposed to be recruiting and they got caught recruiting.
The NCA wanted us to know this is not about
him buying cheeseburgers for people on campus and cheeseburgers, but
about us very serious violation about recruiting during a dead period.
So okay, we thought a couple weeks ago that this
was going to be solved, where it looked like Harball
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was working with the NCAAA towards a four game suspension
that would start the beginning of this season. They could
not agree on it, which meant that Harbaugh probably wouldn't
be suspended this year because they wanted to look into
it more, and maybe his suspension would be in twenty
twenty four. Okay, so now we've gotten rid of that. No,
not so much, because today Michigan announced they're self imposing
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the three game suspension for Harbaugh independent of whatever the
NFL or whatever the NCAAA finds out in their investigation.
So nothing else is happening to Harball this year. Three
game suspension by Michigan and whatever else the NCAA finds,
the rulings will come out in a year now. According
to a couple of ESPN insiders, including ESPN's Pet Demal,
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this is Michigan saying, hey, we're throwing ourselves on your mercy.
We don't want something really really serious next year. So
if we suspend him for three games. Now, Now, maybe
you suspend him for three games next year or something
really light. Now, this tells me this is where things
get bigger than just hey, Jim Harball being suspended for
three games, because look, these are three games the Michigan's
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going to win. He comes back for the for the
first Big Ten game and against Rutgers that they got,
they're gonna he's gonna miss games against Bowling Green UNLV
in East Carolina. Right, this is his best Michigan team
yet on paper. And you're talking about a guy who
has finally found a way not just to beat Ohio State,
but beat them badly over the last couple of years,
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make it to the College Football Playoff two years in
a row, all right, and this is likely going to
be his best team. He's got a superstar quarterback, He's
got two superstar running backs. This is his team. I
will tell you this, Mike. Everything seems to be aligning
that this will be his last year with Michigan. I
know that Michigan is putting in this three game thing here,
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but this seems like it's gonna be serious. And the
NCAA may say, Okay, you did it here's three games,
here's four games. But with Harbaugh every year, his status
at Michigan being in question. Every year is a hey,
I might go, I might stay. He gets a little
bit of extra money, he decides to stay. We know
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that he has had the wandering eye for the NFL.
Nothing pushes a guy out of college football to the
NFL faster than a suspension or some kind of sanctions.
See how surprising that Pete Carroll, after all those years,
finally decided I'm headed to the NFL. Oh look what happened.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
On probation from a sinking ship.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, so this, this is it. This will be Harbaugh's
last year at Michigan because it, like I said, it
all lines up. You have the NCAA coming to town
and it could be a big suspension. Is he gonna
wait around for it or at the end of the year,
is he gonna say, now's my chance to go. There
could be some high profile openings in the NFL next year.
Dallas could be opened, The Chargers could be open, The
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Raiders could be open. If he wanted to go to
the Los Angeles could be open. If Sean McVay leaves,
Bill Belichick could leave Newingland. Not that he'd want to
follow Belichick, but there will be some big openings next year.
It's all going to line up. Okay, I'm gonna get suspended.
Now I'm going to go, and he'll get hired somewhere
because now he's got Michigan up. This is two great years,
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gonna be another third great year in a row. His
status is back to where Okay, he can come back
to the NFL where he had amazing success in a
very short amount of time with the forty nine ers.
So this is gonna be it. He's gonna go and
after this, after this year is over, we're gonna hear
the whispers. We're gonna say yeah. And Harbaugh does this
every year, but this is it. This is the time
Harbaugh goes. He'll have this year with Michigan and then
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next year he'll wind up someplace big with in a
big market or a high profile team in the NFL,
and he will leave Michigan behind, but leave it in.
What he's hoping and thinking is, hey, we we're back
to the to getting to the playoff, We're back to
winning Big Ten championships, We're back to beating Ohio State.
I don't know what's gonna happen. Now USC and USLA
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are joining an Ni Yllen all this crazy stuff with
a big ten. How is recruiting going to be? How
much more difficult is recruiting going to be now that
we're gonna have twenty schools of the Big ten? This
is his final year to go amid head to the NFL.
It's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Wow, look at you been at Michigan since twenty fifteen?
What five double digit win seasons? All these things. Now,
when I saw the news come down earlier, Jason, I
chuckled and I said, well, here it is the old
a NC DOUBLEA. We saw what you did for Tennessee.
Give us some of that love. Right, here's an eight
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million dollar fine. They had two hundred plus in fractions, Jason,
two hundred plus. Well, vacate and wins. Nobody cares. Are
you're taking any of the money back? Those games were played.
Nobody's given up any memories. This is not like Harry Potter.
This is not like Men in Black, where suddenly those
things are vacated from your brains and then they had
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to do some scholarship production. Remember, the statement put out
was well, because they cooperated and they fell on the
sword and they worked with us or whatever. And for
the most part, it just seems Michigan is whether Harbaugh
acquiesces or not, well, doesn't matter three games here, a
lot of it being COVID era violations when they made
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more restrictions on recruiting and such, and he just said, well, evidently,
you know, the old man doesn't know what he's talking about.
I'm gonna go do my own thing. So I think
it's interesting though, when you bring up the NFL. I mean,
that's a long time since that last job in college wise,
where you going that's eliminating somebody from their coaching position
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that's at a better spot than what you are, right,
So it's curious from the NFL perspective if we got
guys complaining about Eric the enemy being a hard ass.
Remember what everything was going on in San Francisco, the
infighting with the GM and everything else. But a lot
of the rumblings were that he'd worn out his welcome
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and the players were done with the message he was
selling there too. Now they were still winning, but still
to that point of where are you gonna go? And
I'd be curious to see how deep this gets, right,
because it was categorically dismissed as a ah, he bought
a hamburger, and they made sure and I don't know
how much they were within their rights to do so
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to put out that statement. We assure you it's much
more than a cheeseburger. I don't know that anybody was
supposed to be talking at that the point, because it
seemed like everybody had, you know, gag orders to shut
up and let the investigation roll through. So I think
that was a little bit of bad faith on the
NCAA side of things as it flowed. But I find
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it curious. Is he gonna be the new Jets coach
for Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh hey maybe hey right, hey listen or Eric listen.
Aaron Rodgers may be his own head coach. So there
is that, but maybe.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Somewhere else it takes over for Robert Sala.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Like I said, there's a lot of big time openings
now next year, right, Dallas will probably be open. Like
I said, there's a lot of teams.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Now, you're already killing off the Cowboys teams out there.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
There's great expectations for the Cowboys this year, and you
just tried to throw them to the trash.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Just watch and with that suspension, youth, time to go.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
You think Jerry Jones is hiring this guy?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Time to go?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Sure, he won't chance in the hell he's hiring a
guy like that, of course, because.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
He'll have visions to Jimmy Johnson. He wanted to put
him in the damn rink of honor and he's been retired.
How long you been hired a guy like Harball? That
not a yes man?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Jerry wants to win. Jerry wants to win.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I don't exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
He wants to wait. And trust me, just watch Twitter
and out about a Fresco Mike and swollen dough markt down.
This is Harball's last year at Michigan. He'll be in
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drama we saw tonight, Joey Slide the biggest preseason kicking
preseason history of the NFL.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
The Colts are now ready to move on from Jonathan
Taylor and I hate to say I told you so,
but it was on. It was not well, not for
this when I told HER's gonna happen. Like again, I
feel like I can be an insider. On August eighth,
we talked about this right coming coming off the the
weekend in which Jonathan Taylor wanted more money and Jim
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or Say Colts owner had the most ridiculously had the
worst response to any player wanting something ever by saying, well,
if I die tomorrow, when Jonathan Taylor is not in
the game, no one's going to care about us.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I really like that one though.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Really, yeah, really, why did you like? Because he really
what he did was insult his best player. He insulted
and pissed off.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Sometimes you gotta pull it back to the harsh brass
tax in reality.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Really, really, you know you want you want to say
that quiet part out loud. Really, you'd be a horrible owner.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Like we talked about it today.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
It happened he was in China where he was gonna
get a lot of people to rally behind him against
Darryl Morey. You know what, owner just saying, Look, I
don't want to give you more money, like he didn't
want to extend him.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You would say, why would you why would you make
you don't have to extend him. You don't have to
give him more money. Why would you make it combative?
Why would you say we don't need you. Nobody cares
about you. I could say nobody, but I exactly. It's
a huge mistic Nobody pisses off their best player. Nobody
does that to the point in the NFL where they
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have to go. And when that does happen very rarely.
Look at what goes on. The Patriots pissed off Tom
Brady so much. What happened, He went to Tampa Bay
and won the Super Bowl. And now Belichick is coaching
for his life in New England.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And Belichick doesn't it doesn't happen. Give him whatever he wants. Yeah,
outing himself as a major swiftye.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
He is. He is a big sifty. He is a
big experienced.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Another thing that the genius and I are in lockstep
on along the way.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But it doesn't happen. You don't do it. He could have.
He could have walked around it any way possible and said, hey, Jonathan,
give me a call, let's talk with this. We'll figure
something else out Here's where we're at. Doesn't mean Jonathan
Taylor isn't gonna get upset, But if he decided I'm
gonna go public and I'm gonna stand up at a
time in which he didn't understand that that tempers were
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a little short with running backs. Because this is on
the heels of none of these guys getting paid. Auton
Eckler didn't get paid in the offseason, Saquon Barkley got franchised,
Josh Jacobs wasn't getting paid, and they were having zoom
meetings to discuss do we hold out, what do we do?
And this is when he's got to say, yeah, no
one cares. Oh, I'm gonna stand up for this now. No,
it's a awful decision when you when your owner alienates
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your best player and now you're trading your best player. Sorry,
that's a ridiculously awful move. And I'm glad that as
bad of an owner as Woody Johnson is, I'm glad
Jim Mercy doesn't own my team, and there's thirty one
other teams going. I'm glad Jim Mercy isn't my owner
because he just alienated our play when he didn't have
to do it. He didn't have to do it. I
get not paid. You didn't have to pay him. You
didn't have to make it combative. But he decided, hey,
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I want to do it because I feel like it.
And now he's got to trade Jonathan Taylor away.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Yes, yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I don't think what he said was the worst I mean,
little tone death on stuff, given the sensitivities at all.
But you know, in the end, he and Jerry Jones
were the two guys that stepped forward and said, hey,
look at what the position is, look at the other
guys that need to get paid, and in this case,
like he took himself out in the process.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, but John, you don't care about that. You insulted.
I don't care if you insult yourself. You insulted me.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
But someone's got to be able to look at Jonathan
Taylor and just say, hey, you recognize this is not
a personal thing.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
This is just a This is is impersonal. It's just business.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
But he made it personal. Why it's singling him out
and saying if you weren't here, nobody would care. How
did that make you feel about an employee? If they said,
if someone said that.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
To you, I hear every day.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
How do you hear I f Fox said that to you.
If you're if ire managing. You know, if Arvin was
here or not, nobody would care. Nobody can. No, it
would piss you. I would piss me off if they
said that about me. It would piss you off too.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I mean I would motivate me to come back and
do the best damn show.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Possibly, sure you would ask for a trade. I'm not
saying it would, but I recognize the realities of it.
The reality is there's there's now you can ask for.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
The trade's trying to find the trade. There's there's a
reason they have to acquiesce.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
But there's a difference between recognizing the reality and being
and the owner saying you're not important to us. That's
that that's different. That's the how I ever heard it.
If you're not here, nobody would care. How does know?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
But he was talking about in a long term, that
history moves on.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That's what he said about Jonathan Taylor. That's what he
said about Jonathan Taylor. That's what he said about a
star player. If you weren't here, nobody would care. If
you want to have one of those, if you want
to have a darkness retreat with Aaron Rodgers and drink
some ayahuasca tea and all and hang out and talk
about Hey man, none of us are big deal here. Man, Okay,
that's great, But when you're talking in direct response to
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a guy that wants to get traded or use your
best player and maybe he wants out, how do you
say that? I mean, really, there's there's no leg for
him to stand on on it. There's no there's a leg.
Not paying him is and is different from than pushing
him out the door. Right. I agree with you on
paying running backs. Right, We've talked about this. You don't
have to pay. You have to figure out a way
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around it. Running Backs have to figure out their own
way in getting paid. I understand that that's that's you
and iron lockstep on. But there's a difference between that
and your best and your owner insulting your best player
to the point where you know you couldn't bring him back.
And now today the cults say, hey, we're taking calls.
Now we're okay, call us with offers. We're looking for
an equivalent of a first round pick for Jonathan Taylor
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h And now they got to move on from And
now the life of your rookie quarterback has made a
lot more difficult because what are you gonna have you
had one of the best running backs in the NFL
who is gonna come back at some point play, and
now you got to move on, all right. I don't
see how this was done with the best efforts of
the Colts in mind. This is him being pissed off
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because Taylor wanted money and for some reason he made
it personal. And I'm sure the after effect of this
was Let's make Anthony Richardson the starter, but he hasn't
earned it yet. He's kind of surprised. Make him the starter.
Make him the starter because he's our I want to
show everybody that he is our franchise. I want to
show Jonathan Taylor that Anthony Richardson is our franchise and
he's who were going forward. But he might not be ready,
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doesn't matter. I don't want this headline. We're moving on
from Jonathan Taylor. I don't want this anymore. Let's go forward.
So now this has been pushed up because you know,
he's pissed off about Taylor. If Taylor wasn't an issue
right now, it would still be Richardson competing. He's going
to be the quarterback at some point. He needs more
reps when the guy himself says, I was surprised to
be named the quarterback. What does that tell you? He
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has not been operating. Ersa has not been operating with
the best with the best intention of the Colts in
mind at all. It's all been personal for him. And
now he's pushing his best player out the door and
not setting up his quarterback for success.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Oh, he retained Chris Allard as his GM. He was
already operating indeed not in the best interest of his team.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
There is that, yes, there is so.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I mean, you got that working for you as well.
But you know with Taylor, and again it's it's the
we We've seen this from Ersa for years. So it's
the guys just talking crazy again, at least from you
and I for for Taylor. Sure, you're entrenched and angry
and you want to get paid, but it's also reading
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the room of where you're at. You just missed a
bunch of games due to injury. There's still a question like,
right now, do we know how healthy his ankle is? Like,
if you're gonna look to trade him and you're gonna
have to be the team to pay him, are you.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
On board that bandwagon right now? I'm sure as hell not.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Anybody, or you just get no, no, no. But then you
get him for a year and then hey, we're gonna
we'll extend you for one year. We'll pay you for year.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
What are you gonna pay him beyond the four million
he's supposed to get for this year.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I would know that you're getting paid this year, and
then hey, we'll extend you for a year next year,
and it's twelve million dollars next year guaranteed. Okay, you
had a twenty four year old running back in his prime, who, yes,
is coming back from injury, but that's been the only
injury that he's really had in his NFL career.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's kind of a big one.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So it has a big but he's still played eleven games.
Didn't he missed the whole mony, but he didn't miss
the whole season. It's one injury. He played in the
majority of the season for a really bad team. So, okay,
four million this year, and then we'll pay you for
next year. If it doesn't work out next year, then
you move on. You're out from under it, and you
move on.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
It's still a significant amount that we're looking to uh
to tack on for a running back that would be
beyond what the uh well, that would be basically what
next year's franchise tag number would be expected at, with
a lot invested in that the ankle is going to
be right and at this point that he's going to
be ready to come in and contribute immediately.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Is he that's the shape or anywhere close to it?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, that's why this year, this year, you're not giving
any more money. I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
I don't want to pretty year, he's not gonna be
able to play?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
What am I give it up? He's well, he's supposed
to be ready to come back now. Is he going
to be back ready for Week one? Probably not. I'll
call you that. He's probably that week one, but bye.
By everything that I that I've heard and taught, he's
gonna probably be ready to go for the end of September.
So you're getting him for whatever it is this year Formeralion.
This year, you're getting him for the last thirteen is
games of the year's and that would be and that
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certainly would be enough for one team to get over
the top. If you're looking for a running back, and
there's lots of teams looking for a running back. There's
tons of teams he should go down. Why do you
want to do that to me? Because it's the obvious fit.
They don't have eight guys. There's so many other obvious
fits there. Why do you want to put that.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Horrible thing to push you over the top.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It's horrible.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
A little more protection for to a tongue of I looa.
Take the most of.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
What you've got because right you drafted a rookie, got hurt,
and then you've got a bunch of jags.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
No, it's a horrible fit.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
You can't play Voltron. Okay, only one of those guys
could be on the field.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Look, the Jetsalvin Cook early.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Why we're fine. We're only paying him for this year.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Ummy award goes to the Jets for signing Dalvin Cook.
Rushing into it now Jonathan Taylor is available.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, right, but now we don't have to give it
a first round pick for him or the equivalent.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
But what's the equivalent of it? That's the worst phrasing
in anything. The equivalent of a first round pick?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well, that that's when they that's when the teams go
over the Hey, what's the value of this pick and
plus that pick. That's the value of a first round pick.
They'll they'll say, hey, two seconds is a value of it,
or a second and a third is a value of first.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Wilson was a first pick.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, oh, I'll trade Zach Wilson for Jonathan Taylor. We
could do that. That's fine. Uh so look they don't.
It doesn't need to be a first round pick, and
certainly a really good team that is projecting to finish
in the twenties that needs a running back, someone like
the Chiefs or whoever else got Hey, guess what, Yeah,
we can give you a first round pick. What do
we get it's a twenty eighth pick in the draft
or the twenty seventh pick in the draft. We'll give
you that for Jonathan Taylor. Now we got a great
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running back for the next uh, you know, at least
two years plus.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
The Jel's got a guy that's half as good because
they rushed there.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Oh they're fine, but you're just you're inventing stuff to
say about that.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
You just really really Jonathan Taylor's out there now, and
you guys rushed in Signingdalvin Code feel stupid.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
All we had to do is give is pay money
for this year. We don't have to give it up anything.
We got draft picks everything else next year. Sorry, I'm sorry,
you could win. How stupid do you feel giving Austin
Eckler extra money? You could have gone out and got
Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
The guy scores touchdowns. I don't feel like that.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
They didn't have to guarantee him any extra It's all
incentive base.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Where's the loss?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You have more touchdowns than the Jets combined last year?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, last year? Yeah? No, no, last year. No.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
But legitimately, I mean they gave him more incentive money.
Like why the Colts come back to Jonathan Taylor's like, like,
we freed up four million dollars that you can earn.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Just get on the field and perform.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Beyond those two games that you piled up forty percent
of your rushing yards in.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'll tell you this is gonna wind up being somebody's
big game because Jim Mersay can't stay out of it
and doesn't know how to run a team. And so
now now I'm gonna trade my best player. I mean,
just think about this. This is not something that he
was forcing.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
You know what's gonna be great about it, though, Jason.
Once he's gone, someone else becomes the team's best player.
Oh look what I did there. I just filled Jim
Mersey's prophecy.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That that is true. But you know it's it's like, Hey,
I was a number one overall picking the draft. Yeah,
but you're not nearly as good as a guy that
was number one the year before. But I was still
number one, Still number one in that matter. It makes
no difference.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Yeah, not my fault. The team was foolish for taking
me No. One overall.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
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Now you remember all the way back beginning of the
baseball season and who go on, who did I say
was going to the World Series in the American League?
I told you the Seattle Mariners were doing it. And
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suddenly it's like they were encumbered and over encumbered by
the weight of my expectation. I said, Jay Rod's gonna
be the MVP. And what happened? They couldn't get off
outside of five hundred for the first three and a
half months of the season. But look where they are
right now. They have won seven in a row after tonight,
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they are now just two games out of first place
in the AL West. The Rangers have lost five in
a row. They're starting to come back to the pack
a little bit. The Astros, Yes, the Asses are terrific.
The Mariners now fifteen games over five hundred, and while
it's a little late for Jay Rod to be MVP,
well what sixteen hits in four games?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
No, no, don't get me seventeen seventeen hits in four games.
He had as many hits in those four games as
the Yankees did as a team during the exact same period.
They were like seventeen for I think it was one
nineteen and he was seventeen of twenty two it was.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
It's been some kind of run for them, who are
finally now playing expectation. They got a lot of matters
on the team. The rotation is pretty good. It just
took them a while. I mean, I mean, I'm better
late than never, head started better late than never getting
on here. But here they are now hottest team in
baseball over the course of the past month or so.
And now this is a dangerous team. Man. They are
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a dangerous, dangerous team coming in, especially when the American
League you could say, okay, well where are we at? Well,
look at the teams. The Orioles are really good. Will
they be able to make it through the pressure cooker
of October having not been there in forever? That's a
big question, right the Twins. Nobody in the Central is
really good. The Twins are there because there's nobody else. Yes,
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the Astros have done it before, they've won the World Series.
But we feel pretty good about playing them. We play
them all the time in our division. We know them
pretty well. The American League is sort of wide open
and you get hot now into August, into September, into
the playoffs. Yeah, it's there for you. Unlike the National League,
where it's like we could have the Dodgers and the
Braves right now, like let's let's have Dodgers Braves as
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what are we waiting for? But the American League much
more wide open. But look at this, My Mariners, Mike Carmon,
My Mariners finally coming along.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Are they going to bring you back on to KJR?
Are you still banned?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I don't know, man, I mean, I you know it
was the beginning of the year, and then Softy and
the guys at KJR. It's oh, we love how I said, yes,
we love it. We have the guys on here all
the time, like, yeah, why don't you come on like
once a month and hang out and talk and talk
about Yeah. Sure. The beginning of that season, the Mariners stunk.
They haven't called me since.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
This wind streak. The fact that they're playing great baseball
now it changes nothing. You've already put the curse on them, No,
I said.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
They're it just they just needed to live up to
my expectation that I put on them.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Or are they're really just taunting you to get you
feeling good about yourself only to let you down later,
kind of like the Jets are doing before the season, dude,
come on. Or the Mets did spending all that money?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Oh yeah, well yeah, no the Mets. Now, No, the Mets,
finally you're playing well now they got rid of all
their players. Maybe it was justin Furlander and Max Shirtter's fault.
Maybe it was weighty.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Expectations.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Maybe it was how do we trade those guys? Wait
a minute, we've actually had a better record without them
then we have. Maybe it was those guys, fault.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
What's the.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Mets to win the NL East and their magic number?
Hang on, it's uh six hundred and seventy three to
win the NL East. Well, there you go, there, you
go right there. But I'm telling you look at the Marinis,
watch out, watch out.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well, but I mean you look at their schedule going forward.
You play in the White Sox now fourteen to two,
your final today, two more games against them, Then you
got three against Kansas City. Oh, and then you got
three against the A's. Yeah, and then and then for
a game you can go see for as low as
four dollars, they begin a series against the Mets' gardship
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table still cursed.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, they may not lose again.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Then you've got Cincinnati, then you got Tampa, then you
got the Angels.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Well then he played the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah, but they may have a clinch by that. It
doesn't They could have it all clinch by run off
twenty seven. Their next thirty doesn't matter. Well, they need
to because eventually, you know, Gino and and and the
Seahawks are gonna take over. So they have to get
that done by right there.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
The best of the Julio Rodriguez streak, though.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
During those four days, he raised his season batting average
twenty two points.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Yeah, fifty six and all the way up to seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah. I mean look at him now, I mean, look,
Otani probably is still going to win the NV.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Is not even gonna be close.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
No, he's not close. Yeah. No, it's been a fun
four day run. But you know, the Mariners in the
World Series. Okay, I'm feeling pretty good about that. Now
about that big pick man.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Yeah, do they have enough pitching will be the question.
But the look for the next couple of weeks, they
should be playing some really good, winning baseball because those
are some really terrible teams.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Oh, yet they run on here.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Yeah, they and they and they get to add to
the Yankees or no, I'm sorry, it's the Mets in
that sea. I was gonna say it's the Yankees. No, no, no,
they get well, good luck playing the men. We're playing
good now.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
You wait, we're trotting guys that wouldn't even make our
Triple A team out there, starting pitching and we're winning games.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
So he could be like the Angels, Hey, you were
drafted forty days ago. We need to show something to Himani.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
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Coming up next, The streak is over, and what do
we have to say about three quarterbacks, including one who
had a big role in tonight's streak busting winning by
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the Commanders over the Ravens. That's next, right here, Jason
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streak is over. Joey Sli's field goal wins it for
the Commanders their greatest moment in franchise history since say
beat the Bills to win the Super Bowl in nineteen
ninety two. Mark Rippin, you know, I remember that Super
Bowl so well because it was it was a game
in which I predicted the final score really like we
like I was in this huge pool at at school
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and it was picked the final score and the MVP,
and I picked the final score right on thirty seven
to twenty four, and Mark Rippon was the MVP, and
I won. Asked me what I won?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
What'd you win?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I want to bag of doritos?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, I mean, it's that's it. That's all I stick
in the eye. I want to bag well and bragging
rides forever. You're bringing it back up on the radio
all these years later. It's obviously near and dear to
your heart.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
So that's always really that.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Did you wash them down with a capri son?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I just oh no, no, no, no, no, back then
was a zema? It was. It was nicely done. Yes, yeah,
no no.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
But like the opening said, I was levitating and I
was pondering all the ways that this game could end,
and I held up one finger.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
It had to be Sly.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
No, it had to be Sly. Joey Sly does it
with a forty nine yard field goal in a game
that looked quite honestly, it was embarrassing, but it was great.
It's weird. That's because it's embarrassing because you saw the
way the teams were treating this game. In the last
half of the fourth quarter, the Ravens called two timeouts
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on the Commander's final drive. The Commanders are just trying
to get in a field goal range and not running
their offense. They're just Hey, each side was trying to
win this game, do their best to it. So you
can't sit here tell me the Ravens don't care about winning,
and the Commanders didn't care about breaking the streak because
it was all they cared about in the fourth quarter,
which is kind of embarrassing, but embarrassing because you play
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to win the game, season game. It's if winning was
such a big deal, then the games would count in
the standings of the run.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
And I was joking, I'm trying to bring it up
to another level. We're getting notes from people saying they
were enraptured and had to sit in their car as
we brought it to its close.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'll always remember where I was when the Commanders beat
the Ravens to end that twenty four.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, it was about us calling the greatness of the
Commanders beating the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, but that's what made it great is that it
was embarrassing that they treated this game like it was
a regular season game. But it made it great because
it's like we got an extra regular season game because
of the way they both.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Took one hundred and seventy three. We celebrate them all.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
It was so you gotta say two to seventy three.
Now you can't say two seventy two.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Now I added an extra one.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I celebrated all two seventeen.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
So forever more.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
When when the Ravens and the Commanders or whatever they're
gonna be called in two years get together. That's part
of the regular season slate.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Look, you're the commander, your your your area rival that
won the Super Bowl a few years ago, that that
you had to watch your team in the embarrassment you
had with Daniel started. You win this game. It's the
greatest moment in thirty years in franchise history, not even
making the play. Also a few years ago they made
it was in twenty twenty and twenty fifteen. This is
even big.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Wait in a second, This is bigger than the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh no, going back to when they won, this is
the biggest, going back to ninety this was bigger. No,
I don't know, man, they won the Super Bowl that
was pretty big. This is bigger I don't know. Man, dude,
they won the Super Bowl. I'll go I'll go far
with the hot tape, but I don't want to go
that far.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Come on, Smith, you had the obvious joke in one
liner to throw it prospering and you need not throw
the haymaker.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
How dare you?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What what you got?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Soft on me?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Like a Mets batter?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
What line did I miss?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
What?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Do you know what it feels like? Winning a Super Bowl?
It was garanteed up for you. It was your and
you didn't take it. I missed it, but you know
why you missed it. Like so many Mets batters at
the Blake this year on fat balls, I missed it
throwing to them.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I missed it. Like the Ravens making a game winning tackles.
I was all wrapped up in the Ravens out That's
what it was. I got two wrapped up in the Ravens.
That's what happened.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
You got all up in your own head. It was
like it was clogged with special sauce or something.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Come on, man, there, you're better than that.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The streak is over. I've been sometimes when I get
focused at you don't see stuff out it. It's like
Luke when he blows to blow up the Death Star
for some reason, he can't say anything else Aroundhi, everybody's
gotta protect him. Biggs has to die, sorry, bigs a wedge. Oh,
I can't leave. I'm gonna die. I gotta go Luke sorry,
and he's you know, you can't do anything but fly?
And why do have to fly? Why did he have
to fly in that all the Why couldn't you just
(05:22):
get in there at the end, Like, why have to
fly all the way down there the entire time? Right,
you just gotta get in there at the end.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
And shoot, you're talking about and we saw that Lea
spoiler alert can fly.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Why couldn't Luke have just flown himself? Why did he
need a ship?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, Leah could have done it. Sure, sure
Lea could have done that one hundred percent. But she
didn't know that at that point.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
No, no, no, But I mean, did Luke know that he
could fly like that?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I don't know. The force was strong with him. It
took it was hard for Darth Vader Bullet, but then
you know, Han Solo comes back sorry spoiler at the
very last one exactly. Yeah. Uh, that's how big is
funny uh Twitter and about a Fresco Mike and Small
and do the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live
the diirec dot Com studios. Now, today was a big
(06:05):
day in college football zero week here, and I kind
of like zero week it. It makes me think of
having to get up early without having to get up early,
like I can enjoy zero week and I have to
worry about getting up at like six o'clock in the morning.
Michigan has self imposed a three game ban for Jim Harball.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
After all the negotiations broke off.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So if you remember this story, first, it came out
due to a cheeseburger. Now it's not about a cheeseburger.
Jim Harbaugh has been on the verge of a suspension
stemming from alleged violations during the COVID nineteen dead period.
It's been time since he was recruiting when he wasn't
(06:47):
supposed to know. You're going back three years when he
weren't supposed to be recruiting and they got caught recruiting.
The NCA wanted us to know this is not about
him buying cheeseburgers for people on campus and cheeseburgers, but
about us very serious violation about recruiting during a dead period.
So okay, we thought a couple weeks ago that this
was going to be solved, where it looked like Harball
(07:08):
was working with the NCAAA towards a four game suspension
that would start the beginning of this season. They could
not agree on it, which meant that Harbaugh probably wouldn't
be suspended this year because they wanted to look into
it more, and maybe his suspension would be in twenty
twenty four. Okay, so now we've gotten rid of that. No,
not so much, because today Michigan announced they're self imposing
(07:30):
the three game suspension for Harbaugh independent of whatever the
NFL or whatever the NCAAA finds out in their investigation.
So nothing else is happening to Harball this year. Three
game suspension by Michigan and whatever else the NCAA finds,
the rulings will come out in a year now. According
to a couple of ESPN insiders, including ESPN's Pet Demal,
(07:50):
this is Michigan saying, hey, we're throwing ourselves on your mercy.
We don't want something really really serious next year. So
if we suspend him for three games. Now, Now, maybe
you suspend him for three games next year or something
really light. Now, this tells me this is where things
get bigger than just hey, Jim Harball being suspended for
three games, because look, these are three games the Michigan's
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going to win. He comes back for the for the
first Big Ten game and against Rutgers that they got,
they're gonna he's gonna miss games against Bowling Green UNLV
in East Carolina. Right, this is his best Michigan team
yet on paper. And you're talking about a guy who
has finally found a way not just to beat Ohio State,
but beat them badly over the last couple of years,
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make it to the College Football Playoff two years in
a row, all right, and this is likely going to
be his best team. He's got a superstar quarterback, He's
got two superstar running backs. This is his team. I
will tell you this, Mike. Everything seems to be aligning
that this will be his last year with Michigan. I
know that Michigan is putting in this three game thing here,
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but this seems like it's gonna be serious. And the
NCAA may say, Okay, you did it here's three games,
here's four games. But with Harbaugh every year, his status
at Michigan being in question. Every year is a hey,
I might go, I might stay. He gets a little
bit of extra money, he decides to stay. We know
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that he has had the wandering eye for the NFL.
Nothing pushes a guy out of college football to the
NFL faster than a suspension or some kind of sanctions.
See how surprising that Pete Carroll, after all those years,
finally decided I'm headed to the NFL. Oh look what happened.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
On probation from a sinking ship.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, so this, this is it. This will be Harbaugh's
last year at Michigan because it, like I said, it
all lines up. You have the NCAA coming to town
and it could be a big suspension. Is he gonna
wait around for it or at the end of the year,
is he gonna say, now's my chance to go. There
could be some high profile openings in the NFL next year.
Dallas could be opened, The Chargers could be open, The
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Raiders could be open. If he wanted to go to
the Los Angeles could be open. If Sean McVay leaves,
Bill Belichick could leave Newingland. Not that he'd want to
follow Belichick, but there will be some big openings next year.
It's all going to line up. Okay, I'm gonna get suspended.
Now I'm going to go, and he'll get hired somewhere
because now he's got Michigan up. This is two great years,
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gonna be another third great year in a row. His
status is back to where Okay, he can come back
to the NFL where he had amazing success in a
very short amount of time with the forty nine ers.
So this is gonna be it. He's gonna go and
after this, after this year is over, we're gonna hear
the whispers. We're gonna say yeah. And Harbaugh does this
every year, but this is it. This is the time
Harbaugh goes. He'll have this year with Michigan and then
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next year he'll wind up someplace big with in a
big market or a high profile team in the NFL,
and he will leave Michigan behind, but leave it in.
What he's hoping and thinking is, hey, we we're back
to the to getting to the playoff, We're back to
winning Big Ten championships, We're back to beating Ohio State.
I don't know what's gonna happen. Now USC and USLA
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are joining an Ni Yllen all this crazy stuff with
a big ten. How is recruiting going to be? How
much more difficult is recruiting going to be now that
we're gonna have twenty schools of the Big ten? This
is his final year to go amid head to the NFL.
It's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Wow, look at you been at Michigan since twenty fifteen?
What five double digit win seasons? All these things. Now,
when I saw the news come down earlier, Jason, I
chuckled and I said, well, here it is the old
a NC DOUBLEA. We saw what you did for Tennessee.
Give us some of that love. Right, here's an eight
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million dollar fine. They had two hundred plus in fractions, Jason,
two hundred plus. Well, vacate and wins. Nobody cares. Are
you're taking any of the money back? Those games were played.
Nobody's given up any memories. This is not like Harry Potter.
This is not like Men in Black, where suddenly those
things are vacated from your brains and then they had
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to do some scholarship production. Remember, the statement put out
was well, because they cooperated and they fell on the
sword and they worked with us or whatever. And for
the most part, it just seems Michigan is whether Harbaugh
acquiesces or not, well, doesn't matter three games here, a
lot of it being COVID era violations when they made
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more restrictions on recruiting and such, and he just said, well, evidently,
you know, the old man doesn't know what he's talking about.
I'm gonna go do my own thing. So I think
it's interesting though, when you bring up the NFL. I mean,
that's a long time since that last job in college wise,
where you going that's eliminating somebody from their coaching position
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that's at a better spot than what you are, right,
So it's curious from the NFL perspective if we got
guys complaining about Eric the enemy being a hard ass.
Remember what everything was going on in San Francisco, the
infighting with the GM and everything else. But a lot
of the rumblings were that he'd worn out his welcome
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and the players were done with the message he was
selling there too. Now they were still winning, but still
to that point of where are you gonna go? And
I'd be curious to see how deep this gets, right,
because it was categorically dismissed as a ah, he bought
a hamburger, and they made sure and I don't know
how much they were within their rights to do so
(13:25):
to put out that statement. We assure you it's much
more than a cheeseburger. I don't know that anybody was
supposed to be talking at that the point, because it
seemed like everybody had, you know, gag orders to shut
up and let the investigation roll through. So I think
that was a little bit of bad faith on the
NCAA side of things as it flowed. But I find
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it curious. Is he gonna be the new Jets coach
for Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh hey maybe hey right, hey listen or Eric listen.
Aaron Rodgers may be his own head coach. So there
is that, but maybe.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Somewhere else it takes over for Robert Sala.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Like I said, there's a lot of big time openings
now next year, right, Dallas will probably be open. Like
I said, there's a lot of teams.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Now, you're already killing off the Cowboys teams out there.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
There's great expectations for the Cowboys this year, and you
just tried to throw them to the trash.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Just watch and with that suspension, youth, time to go.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
You think Jerry Jones is hiring this guy?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Time to go?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Sure, he won't chance in the hell he's hiring a
guy like that, of course, because.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
He'll have visions to Jimmy Johnson. He wanted to put
him in the damn rink of honor and he's been retired.
How long you been hired a guy like Harball? That
not a yes man?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Jerry wants to win. Jerry wants to win.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I don't exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
He wants to wait. And trust me, just watch Twitter
and out about a Fresco Mike and swollen dough markt down.
This is Harball's last year at Michigan. He'll be in
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preseason history of the NFL.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
The Colts are now ready to move on from Jonathan
Taylor and I hate to say I told you so,
but it was on. It was not well, not for
this when I told HER's gonna happen. Like again, I
feel like I can be an insider. On August eighth,
we talked about this right coming coming off the the
weekend in which Jonathan Taylor wanted more money and Jim
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or Say Colts owner had the most ridiculously had the
worst response to any player wanting something ever by saying, well,
if I die tomorrow, when Jonathan Taylor is not in
the game, no one's going to care about us.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I really like that one though.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Really, yeah, really, why did you like? Because he really
what he did was insult his best player. He insulted
and pissed off.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Sometimes you gotta pull it back to the harsh brass
tax in reality.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Really, really, you know you want you want to say
that quiet part out loud. Really, you'd be a horrible owner.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Like we talked about it today.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
It happened he was in China where he was gonna
get a lot of people to rally behind him against
Darryl Morey. You know what, owner just saying, Look, I
don't want to give you more money, like he didn't
want to extend him.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You would say, why would you why would you make
you don't have to extend him. You don't have to
give him more money. Why would you make it combative?
Why would you say we don't need you. Nobody cares
about you. I could say nobody, but I exactly. It's
a huge mistic Nobody pisses off their best player. Nobody
does that to the point in the NFL where they
(18:31):
have to go. And when that does happen very rarely.
Look at what goes on. The Patriots pissed off Tom
Brady so much. What happened, He went to Tampa Bay
and won the Super Bowl. And now Belichick is coaching
for his life in New England.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
And Belichick doesn't it doesn't happen. Give him whatever he wants. Yeah,
outing himself as a major swiftye.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
He is. He is a big sifty. He is a
big experienced.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Another thing that the genius and I are in lockstep
on along the way.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
But it doesn't happen. You don't do it. He could have.
He could have walked around it any way possible and said, hey, Jonathan,
give me a call, let's talk with this. We'll figure
something else out Here's where we're at. Doesn't mean Jonathan
Taylor isn't gonna get upset, But if he decided I'm
gonna go public and I'm gonna stand up at a
time in which he didn't understand that that tempers were
(19:21):
a little short with running backs. Because this is on
the heels of none of these guys getting paid. Auton
Eckler didn't get paid in the offseason, Saquon Barkley got franchised,
Josh Jacobs wasn't getting paid, and they were having zoom
meetings to discuss do we hold out, what do we do?
And this is when he's got to say, yeah, no
one cares. Oh, I'm gonna stand up for this now. No,
it's a awful decision when you when your owner alienates
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your best player and now you're trading your best player. Sorry,
that's a ridiculously awful move. And I'm glad that as
bad of an owner as Woody Johnson is, I'm glad
Jim Mercy doesn't own my team, and there's thirty one
other teams going. I'm glad Jim Mercy isn't my owner
because he just alienated our play when he didn't have
to do it. He didn't have to do it. I
get not paid. You didn't have to pay him. You
didn't have to make it combative. But he decided, hey,
(20:04):
I want to do it because I feel like it.
And now he's got to trade Jonathan Taylor away.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Yes, yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
I don't think what he said was the worst I mean,
little tone death on stuff, given the sensitivities at all.
But you know, in the end, he and Jerry Jones
were the two guys that stepped forward and said, hey,
look at what the position is, look at the other
guys that need to get paid, and in this case,
like he took himself out in the process.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, but John, you don't care about that. You insulted.
I don't care if you insult yourself. You insulted me.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
But someone's got to be able to look at Jonathan
Taylor and just say, hey, you recognize this is not
a personal thing.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
This is just a This is is impersonal. It's just business.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
But he made it personal. Why it's singling him out
and saying if you weren't here, nobody would care. How
did that make you feel about an employee? If they said,
if someone said that.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
To you, I hear every day.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
How do you hear I f Fox said that to you.
If you're if ire managing. You know, if Arvin was
here or not, nobody would care. Nobody can. No, it
would piss you. I would piss me off if they
said that about me. It would piss you off too.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I mean I would motivate me to come back and
do the best damn show.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Possibly, sure you would ask for a trade. I'm not
saying it would, but I recognize the realities of it.
The reality is there's there's now you can ask for.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
The trade's trying to find the trade. There's there's a
reason they have to acquiesce.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
But there's a difference between recognizing the reality and being
and the owner saying you're not important to us. That's
that that's different. That's the how I ever heard it.
If you're not here, nobody would care. How does know?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
But he was talking about in a long term, that
history moves on.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That's what he said about Jonathan Taylor. That's what he
said about Jonathan Taylor. That's what he said about a
star player. If you weren't here, nobody would care. If
you want to have one of those, if you want
to have a darkness retreat with Aaron Rodgers and drink
some ayahuasca tea and all and hang out and talk
about Hey man, none of us are big deal here. Man, Okay,
that's great, But when you're talking in direct response to
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a guy that wants to get traded or use your
best player and maybe he wants out, how do you
say that? I mean, really, there's there's no leg for
him to stand on on it. There's no there's a leg.
Not paying him is and is different from than pushing
him out the door. Right. I agree with you on
paying running backs. Right, We've talked about this. You don't
have to pay. You have to figure out a way
(22:24):
around it. Running Backs have to figure out their own
way in getting paid. I understand that that's that's you
and iron lockstep on. But there's a difference between that
and your best and your owner insulting your best player
to the point where you know you couldn't bring him back.
And now today the cults say, hey, we're taking calls.
Now we're okay, call us with offers. We're looking for
an equivalent of a first round pick for Jonathan Taylor
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h And now they got to move on from And
now the life of your rookie quarterback has made a
lot more difficult because what are you gonna have you
had one of the best running backs in the NFL
who is gonna come back at some point play, and
now you got to move on, all right. I don't
see how this was done with the best efforts of
the Colts in mind. This is him being pissed off
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because Taylor wanted money and for some reason he made
it personal. And I'm sure the after effect of this
was Let's make Anthony Richardson the starter, but he hasn't
earned it yet. He's kind of surprised. Make him the starter.
Make him the starter because he's our I want to
show everybody that he is our franchise. I want to
show Jonathan Taylor that Anthony Richardson is our franchise and
he's who were going forward. But he might not be ready,
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doesn't matter. I don't want this headline. We're moving on
from Jonathan Taylor. I don't want this anymore. Let's go forward.
So now this has been pushed up because you know,
he's pissed off about Taylor. If Taylor wasn't an issue
right now, it would still be Richardson competing. He's going
to be the quarterback at some point. He needs more
reps when the guy himself says, I was surprised to
be named the quarterback. What does that tell you? He
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has not been operating. Ersa has not been operating with
the best with the best intention of the Colts in
mind at all. It's all been personal for him. And
now he's pushing his best player out the door and
not setting up his quarterback for success.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Oh, he retained Chris Allard as his GM. He was
already operating indeed not in the best interest of his team.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
There is that, yes, there is so.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I mean, you got that working for you as well.
But you know with Taylor, and again it's it's the
we We've seen this from Ersa for years. So it's
the guys just talking crazy again, at least from you
and I for for Taylor. Sure, you're entrenched and angry
and you want to get paid, but it's also reading
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the room of where you're at. You just missed a
bunch of games due to injury. There's still a question like,
right now, do we know how healthy his ankle is? Like,
if you're gonna look to trade him and you're gonna
have to be the team to pay him, are you.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
On board that bandwagon right now? I'm sure as hell not.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Anybody, or you just get no, no, no. But then you
get him for a year and then hey, we're gonna
we'll extend you for one year. We'll pay you for year.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
What are you gonna pay him beyond the four million
he's supposed to get for this year.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I would know that you're getting paid this year, and
then hey, we'll extend you for a year next year,
and it's twelve million dollars next year guaranteed. Okay, you
had a twenty four year old running back in his prime, who, yes,
is coming back from injury, but that's been the only
injury that he's really had in his NFL career.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
It's kind of a big one.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So it has a big but he's still played eleven games.
Didn't he missed the whole mony, but he didn't miss
the whole season. It's one injury. He played in the
majority of the season for a really bad team. So, okay,
four million this year, and then we'll pay you for
next year. If it doesn't work out next year, then
you move on. You're out from under it, and you
move on.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
It's still a significant amount that we're looking to uh
to tack on for a running back that would be
beyond what the uh well, that would be basically what
next year's franchise tag number would be expected at, with
a lot invested in that the ankle is going to
be right and at this point that he's going to
be ready to come in and contribute immediately.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
Is he that's the shape or anywhere close to it?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Well, that's why this year, this year, you're not giving
any more money. I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
I don't want to pretty year, he's not gonna be
able to play?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
What am I give it up? He's well, he's supposed
to be ready to come back now. Is he going
to be back ready for Week one? Probably not. I'll
call you that. He's probably that week one, but bye.
By everything that I that I've heard and taught, he's
gonna probably be ready to go for the end of September.
So you're getting him for whatever it is this year Formeralion.
This year, you're getting him for the last thirteen is
games of the year's and that would be and that
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certainly would be enough for one team to get over
the top. If you're looking for a running back, and
there's lots of teams looking for a running back. There's
tons of teams he should go down. Why do you
want to do that to me? Because it's the obvious fit.
They don't have eight guys. There's so many other obvious
fits there. Why do you want to put that.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Horrible thing to push you over the top.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It's horrible.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
A little more protection for to a tongue of I looa.
Take the most of.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
What you've got because right you drafted a rookie, got hurt,
and then you've got a bunch of jags.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
No, it's a horrible fit.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
You can't play Voltron. Okay, only one of those guys
could be on the field.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
That it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Look, the Jetsalvin Cook early.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Why we're fine. We're only paying him for this year.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Ummy award goes to the Jets for signing Dalvin Cook.
Rushing into it now Jonathan Taylor is available.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, right, but now we don't have to give it
a first round pick for him or the equivalent.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
But what's the equivalent of it? That's the worst phrasing
in anything. The equivalent of a first round pick?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well, that that's when they that's when the teams go
over the Hey, what's the value of this pick and
plus that pick. That's the value of a first round pick.
They'll they'll say, hey, two seconds is a value of it,
or a second and a third is a value of first.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Wilson was a first pick.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, oh, I'll trade Zach Wilson for Jonathan Taylor. We
could do that. That's fine. Uh so look they don't.
It doesn't need to be a first round pick, and
certainly a really good team that is projecting to finish
in the twenties that needs a running back, someone like
the Chiefs or whoever else got Hey, guess what, Yeah,
we can give you a first round pick. What do
we get it's a twenty eighth pick in the draft
or the twenty seventh pick in the draft. We'll give
you that for Jonathan Taylor. Now we got a great
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running back for the next uh, you know, at least
two years plus.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
The Jel's got a guy that's half as good because
they rushed there.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Oh they're fine, but you're just you're inventing stuff to
say about that.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
You just really really Jonathan Taylor's out there now, and
you guys rushed in Signingdalvin Code feel stupid.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
All we had to do is give is pay money
for this year. We don't have to give it up anything.
We got draft picks everything else next year. Sorry, I'm sorry,
you could win. How stupid do you feel giving Austin
Eckler extra money? You could have gone out and got
Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
The guy scores touchdowns. I don't feel like that.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
They didn't have to guarantee him any extra It's all
incentive base.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Where's the loss?
Speaker 3 (28:37):
You have more touchdowns than the Jets combined last year?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, last year? Yeah? No, no, last year. No.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
But legitimately, I mean they gave him more incentive money.
Like why the Colts come back to Jonathan Taylor's like, like,
we freed up four million dollars that you can earn.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Just get on the field and perform.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Beyond those two games that you piled up forty percent
of your rushing yards in.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'll tell you this is gonna wind up being somebody's
big game because Jim Mersay can't stay out of it
and doesn't know how to run a team. And so
now now I'm gonna trade my best player. I mean,
just think about this. This is not something that he
was forcing.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
You know what's gonna be great about it, though, Jason.
Once he's gone, someone else becomes the team's best player.
Oh look what I did there. I just filled Jim
Mersey's prophecy.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
That that is true. But you know it's it's like, Hey,
I was a number one overall picking the draft. Yeah,
but you're not nearly as good as a guy that
was number one the year before. But I was still
number one, Still number one in that matter. It makes
no difference.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Yeah, not my fault. The team was foolish for taking
me No. One overall.
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah Mine live fromthtirack dot com studios.
Now you remember all the way back beginning of the
baseball season and who go on, who did I say
was going to the World Series in the American League?
I told you the Seattle Mariners were doing it. And
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suddenly it's like they were encumbered and over encumbered by
the weight of my expectation. I said, Jay Rod's gonna
be the MVP. And what happened? They couldn't get off
outside of five hundred for the first three and a
half months of the season. But look where they are
right now. They have won seven in a row after tonight,
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they are now just two games out of first place
in the AL West. The Rangers have lost five in
a row. They're starting to come back to the pack
a little bit. The Astros, Yes, the Asses are terrific.
The Mariners now fifteen games over five hundred, and while
it's a little late for Jay Rod to be MVP,
well what sixteen hits in four games?
Speaker 4 (31:49):
No, no, don't get me seventeen seventeen hits in four games.
He had as many hits in those four games as
the Yankees did as a team during the exact same period.
They were like seventeen for I think it was one
nineteen and he was seventeen of twenty two it was.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
It's been some kind of run for them, who are
finally now playing expectation. They got a lot of matters
on the team. The rotation is pretty good. It just
took them a while. I mean, I mean, I'm better
late than never, head started better late than never getting
on here. But here they are now hottest team in
baseball over the course of the past month or so.
And now this is a dangerous team. Man. They are
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a dangerous, dangerous team coming in, especially when the American
League you could say, okay, well where are we at? Well,
look at the teams. The Orioles are really good. Will
they be able to make it through the pressure cooker
of October having not been there in forever? That's a
big question, right the Twins. Nobody in the Central is
really good. The Twins are there because there's nobody else. Yes,
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the Astros have done it before, they've won the World Series.
But we feel pretty good about playing them. We play
them all the time in our division. We know them
pretty well. The American League is sort of wide open
and you get hot now into August, into September, into
the playoffs. Yeah, it's there for you. Unlike the National League,
where it's like we could have the Dodgers and the
Braves right now, like let's let's have Dodgers Braves as
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what are we waiting for? But the American League much
more wide open. But look at this, My Mariners, Mike Carmon,
My Mariners finally coming along.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Are they going to bring you back on to KJR?
Are you still banned?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
I don't know, man, I mean, I you know it
was the beginning of the year, and then Softy and
the guys at KJR. It's oh, we love how I said, yes,
we love it. We have the guys on here all
the time, like, yeah, why don't you come on like
once a month and hang out and talk and talk
about Yeah. Sure. The beginning of that season, the Mariners stunk.
They haven't called me since.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
This wind streak. The fact that they're playing great baseball
now it changes nothing. You've already put the curse on them, No,
I said.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
They're it just they just needed to live up to
my expectation that I put on them.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Or are they're really just taunting you to get you
feeling good about yourself only to let you down later,
kind of like the Jets are doing before the season, dude,
come on. Or the Mets did spending all that money?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Oh yeah, well yeah, no the Mets. Now, No, the Mets,
finally you're playing well now they got rid of all
their players. Maybe it was justin Furlander and Max Shirtter's fault.
Maybe it was weighty.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Expectations.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Maybe it was how do we trade those guys? Wait
a minute, we've actually had a better record without them
then we have. Maybe it was those guys, fault.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
What's the.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Mets to win the NL East and their magic number?
Hang on, it's uh six hundred and seventy three to
win the NL East. Well, there you go, there, you
go right there. But I'm telling you look at the Marinis,
watch out, watch out.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well, but I mean you look at their schedule going forward.
You play in the White Sox now fourteen to two,
your final today, two more games against them, Then you
got three against Kansas City. Oh, and then you got
three against the A's. Yeah, and then and then for
a game you can go see for as low as
four dollars, they begin a series against the Mets' gardship
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table still cursed.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, they may not lose again.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Then you've got Cincinnati, then you got Tampa, then you
got the Angels.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Well then he played the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah, but they may have a clinch by that. It
doesn't They could have it all clinch by run off
twenty seven. Their next thirty doesn't matter. Well, they need
to because eventually, you know, Gino and and and the
Seahawks are gonna take over. So they have to get
that done by right there.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
The best of the Julio Rodriguez streak, though.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
During those four days, he raised his season batting average
twenty two points.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Yeah, fifty six and all the way up to seventy eight.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah. I mean look at him now, I mean, look,
Otani probably is still going to win the NV.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Is not even gonna be close.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
No, he's not close. Yeah. No, it's been a fun
four day run. But you know, the Mariners in the
World Series. Okay, I'm feeling pretty good about that. Now
about that big pick man.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Yeah, do they have enough pitching will be the question.
But the look for the next couple of weeks, they
should be playing some really good, winning baseball because those
are some really terrible teams.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Oh, yet they run on here.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Yeah, they and they and they get to add to
the Yankees or no, I'm sorry, it's the Mets in
that sea. I was gonna say it's the Yankees. No, no, no,
they get well, good luck playing the men. We're playing
good now.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
You wait, we're trotting guys that wouldn't even make our
Triple A team out there, starting pitching and we're winning games.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
So he could be like the Angels, Hey, you were
drafted forty days ago. We need to show something to Himani.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
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Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, The streak is over, and what do
we have to say about three quarterbacks, including one who
had a big role in tonight's streak busting winning by
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the Commanders over the Ravens. That's next, right here, Jason
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