August 24, 2023 • 38 mins
Jason and Mike pay their respects to wrestling Legend Terry Funk. Sam Darnold tabbed as 49ers' backup quarterback over Trey Lance. MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi checks in for all the big headlines from around the diamond. And Jason shares his fear with the Jets this season.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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get to the latest, involving Trey Lance, who now really
looks like he's on the way out and is going
to be traded. Who told you that like a long
time ago that was gonna happen. You know it'll it'll
come to me. But Mike, we lost an absolute legend
today breaking in the middle of the day. Terry Funk,
WWE Hall of Famer passed away at the age of
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seventy nine. The guy had a forty year career in
just about any wrestling league that you could possibly imagine.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
He wrestled. He was still active up until like five
or seven years ago. I think in twenty fourteen he
was still somewhat active. And he was one of those
legends that came up and got the big push in
the eighties when when the WWF back then, the WWF
went mainstream with Hulk Hogan and Terry Funked and he
had hass and Jimmy Jack the Funk Brothers, and it
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was just an unbelievable run. And this guy is one
of the biggest wrestlers in the history of the sport.
And to los him at seventy nine, it really was
a tough one because he was, like I said, his career,
he had a forty year plus career in wrestling.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well as I beat it out after hearing about this,
I just thought back to all those you know, matches
that we would have in the backyard where eventually someone
got hit with a stick, a baseball bat, a piece
of rebar, whatever the hell was laying around, and it
was all in the good name of Terry Funk and
some of the crazy matches that he would find himself in.
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But you know, growing up him and you look at
Jack Brisco and the early years of Rick Flair, Dusky
wrote all these guys that he battled with, Jerry the
King Lawler and stuff at its formation, just so much
great footage. The Crimson mask, I think would be it
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was him and Abdullah the Butcher, the two of the
guys I think that bled the most over that thirty
year period. But just you never left anything in the ring, right,
I mean, he was a showman and really good at
screaming and yelling of video is making the round because
Paul Hayman, who we celebrate all the time now, especially
when he talks about Brock Purdy or Roman Reins. Back
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in E. C wh when he was talking about Funk's
daughters and trying to make a joke and Funk walked
out slapped him in the face a couple of times.
So like all of those things that started to make
the rounds. H really, you just took me back to
a lot of basement jumping off couches and beating the
hell out of my brothers.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So fun, dude, every time we played we played WWF
like when I was young, when I was little, everybody's
into wrestling when you're like eight, nine, ten years old.
I always had to be Terry Funk because we would
usually this usually happened in the summer, when you would
play all your friends are gone all day you're born.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Oh, let's played WWF. What's wrestle?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I would always have to be Terry Funk because I
had really I mean, you don't know this because when
you met me, I didn't have any hair. But I
used to have really curly brown hair. And when it
would get wet, like if I go in the pool,
my hair would look like Terry Funk's got it's good.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
They would see me going Terry Funk, Terry Funck, Jason
g do't good to water? He look like Terry Funk.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So I would always have to be Terry Funk every
time he wrestled because my hair would look the way
and they would go, No, you gotta go in the
house and wet your hair and then you gotta come
out and then we wrestle. You gotta look like to
So I would have to go and if I was
at somebody else's house, i'd coincide and my friend would say, Hey,
Jason's got to get his hair wet in the sink. Mom,
what what are you talking about? No, he's got to
be Terry whatever, just do it, just to use the
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hose outside next time.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So I would always do that, and I would have
to be Terry Funk. Wrest What do you even know?
Who the hell Terry Funk is? Terry Funk? Yeah? Sure?
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Do I know?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You sure you got the right guy? Yeah? You look
at it. Look at look at Terry Funk from the eighties.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Look at Terry. Yeah, I don mean Terry Funk from
five years ago. I meant Terry Funk from the eighties.
It would say, oh, it's Terry Funk. My hair would
be like, you might not let that cunk is?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think? Justin does young man your face right now?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Hey? Now? A lot of barbed wire matches, the Kendo
sticks and everything that became so popular for a while
and where E c W had its run. He was
the crazy veteran that they would still get to go
in and look, sell, sell, sell some of the stuff
these guys did to their bodies.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh, look at the fact that he got to seventy nine.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, I mean, I you know, we joke about it
on the show for years of Hey, this guy had
a good run.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
This guy had a good run. Everybody was throwing the chairs. Yeah,
that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The big Battle Royal where people I mean, how does
that get okayed? Where you watch this? And that's the
biggest thing that was trending with Terry Funk today was
this Battle Oil match he had where people keep throwing
chairs into the ring at the wrestlers and they're missing
him and they're landing and it's like, fifty chairs are
getting thrown. I'm saying to myself, how do you who
signs a waiver saying yes, okay, the chair you're trusting?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Who are you trying?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You have five people that work for WWE at that point,
going you throw the chairs in, They're gonna land on somebody,
and Terry Funk had to evade them. He was one
of the last guys standing at the end of that match.
I'd watch these chairs going and I go, how did
this get approved? I can't leave that guy to prove yes,
we're gonna throw fifty chairs in the ring at wrestlers
who were in the middle of the ring. I don't
get that part now.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
For everybody else, maybe maybe you don't know him from
the wrestling world, but you certainly know him from cinema
when we talk about over the Top and some of
those other roadhouse But rod Well, that's what I was leading.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Kard Barber College is hiring, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Right, I mean that's where many folks know him from.
Beyond the Mat, which is really a classic, a documentary
about the wrestling business that was late nineties. I mean
so many things, and such an instrumental force and pushing
things forward and pushing the envelope right to make the
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game a little bit different and make it more theatrical,
and so many outpouring tributes from people wrestling today just
go oh. I remember meeting him along the way and
he'd come when we were in school and you know,
going and doing this stuff, and he would yell at
us if we didn't sell it well enough. It's like, yeah,
but if I go over that, it doesn't matter, sell,
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sell sell. That was Terry Funk in a nutshell O.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Rest in peace, Terry Funk, absolute legend, WWE Hall of Famer.
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frostburg over chair over the head with the chair tonight,
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Speaker 4 (07:33):
Those chairs aren't so easy. We have the folding chairs
around the studios anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I think there's a couple. I go find a couple.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Fine, I might find him tucked under Matt somewhere.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You know, I bet your Brian Fenley's got a couple
tucked under. He's ready.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Because I ever walked in to go do what's up?
He would hit me in then with a chair. Oh hey,
too soon. On Peter Alonzo, Man, Peter al I'm getting
scared about Peter A Lonzo. But but but I know,
I know, but but but but but but uh, Trey Lance,
you know we promised this a few minutes ago. We
got into the Jonathan Taylor side of things. Trey Lance
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officially is the number three quarterback for the San Francisco
forty nine ers. Brock Purdy is going into the season
as the unquestioned number one starter, and Sam Darnold has
now ascended to the number two job. You know, we
heard Brian Billick last hour tell us I don't know
how much he beat him out as much as well.
He's the number two quarterback. And now Lance is in limbo.
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And we've told you for a long time, I'm gonna
go back to before the draft, where you could have
called and gotten Trey Lance from the San Francisco forty
nine ers. They were itching to trade Trey Lance. And
the only thing I can say about the forty nine
ers is that they were too afraid to pull the
trigger at any time. They could have traded him any time,
they could have got stuff for him, but they were
always afraid. Are we are we selling selling him off
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too early? Are we getting rid of him too early?
But now they've given him every chance they can to
win a job and go forward. The guys, I mean,
I mean, the guy's gonna go four years taking a
handful of snaps in one game in the NFL. That's
just not gonna do it. And you're coming off here
with Diinian play in his last year in college. They've
done all they can and we told you for a
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long time there's no way he's gonna win the job.
When they signed Sam Darnald, we told you this is
it for Trey Lance. You're not signing Sam Donald unless
you think this is it for four and a half
months ago. I wish I could be this right with
the stock market. I know where it's gonna be in
five months, but I do. They signed Sam Donald. That's
not bringing in Sam Donald to be the number three quarterback.
That's bringing in Sam Donald to be your backup because
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you don't think Trey Lance can do it. Now, Trey
Lance should get traded. It's not gonna be anything big.
It'll maybe be a conditional fifth or sixth round pick
that can that can stay there, depending on playing time
or how long he's on the roster. But there will
be teams that will make a move for him because
they'll say, well, we can put a flyer on getting
a guy who once upon a time went number three overall.
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But it's time for the Niners to say it's we
have to cut bait on. We tried, We're moving on. Hey,
we moved up to draft Trey Lance. We got lucky
with Brock Perdy. You know what you give and you get.
Sometimes you evaluate a quarterback and it works. Sometimes you
just get lucky because you throw a dart and the
guy shows up and mister irrelevant gets you to the
NFC Championship Game and maybe to the Super Bowl if
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he didn't get hurt.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So it's okay.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
No one's gonna go crazy, no one's gonna come for
John Lynch's head. No one's who met at Shanahan going oh,
I can't believe you did. The Niners had a pretty
good track record of success the last couple of years
since they drafted Trey Lance.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You can move on.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I expect them to move on, and I expect a team,
like we said a few days ago, a team like
New England or Washington to jump out front to say, hey,
here's a conditional pick to get a guy coming in
that maybe could play for them at some point this year. Absolutely,
Trey Lance is gonna go. Jonathan Taylor will go first.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Trey Lance is gonna go as well.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah. I think that's one of the big things to
remember in the process is that you have had a
team that has been winning, which means it was never
a hate. Turn the the game over to this guy,
and let's see what he does, as you normally would
with a quarterback that you're drafting. Where he was right,
it's normally the all right, you now have the keys
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to the kingdoms. Like No, you still had a roster
that was competing for division and conference crowns year after year,
which means he's not getting the number one reps. He's
not getting out. Do you assume you have some growth
and maybe some leaps in terms of training and what
he's been able to do, and with groppolo injuries and
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whatever else, that maybe that time would have allowed him
to make a bit of a leap when he was
getting more and more first team reps. Sure, but you know,
as I asked coach Billick last hour, you know part
of it. You know, you're a victim of circumstance. You're
just not in a position where it's all right, kid,
here's the ball, Go play to find out whether you're
any good or not. Go back to not having played
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a lot of college ball, and to where you are.
I mean, I'm not saying that he's gonna suddenly find
a new home and become this world beater, but do
we have any idea really what he is right now? No,
he was a guy that wasn't ready to beat beat
out Sam Darnold, who, for all of his faults, has
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a lot of experience in the NFL, and you feel
that you can coax him along that and win games
based on the roster that you have, whereas perhaps you're
not as comfortable with that, should an injury befall brock
Purty and handing the reins to Trey Lance. That's really
all it is, like, I can't bury the guy because
I've heard some try to do the long, hard take
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on it. It's like, yeah, I like hot take nonsense
as much as the next guy. To a point, I
don't know what this guy is. They took a shot
that he would grow and they'd have something down the
road that has not happened. And whenever you draft your
guy up top, you know you put your name on it.
But if you hit consistently elsewhere, it's one blip on
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an otherwise pretty good resume for the front office there
in San Francisco. And oh, it's not like they've been
losing a lot of games in the interim, right, And yes,
I saw the great Hey let's go through the draft
of who they could have taken that year.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You can do that for any team.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Look who they could have taken it everything, especially the Jets,
and look who they could have taken into Look Trey Lance.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
That was a rare occurrence though, where most of the
guys are actually players. Normally it's like, all right, there
was a guy you know two picks later, there was
a guy twenty picks later. It's like, no, no, no,
here you actually have a run of start.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yes, any you could have taken to any of those guys. Look,
Lance is a curiosity, That's what he is. And there's
gonna be teams that think we can get what we
want out of him. And if we can't, okay, but
it's got to be a team where he can slide in,
stay out of limelight for a while, learn the playbook,
and then maybe mid season, if the team is faltering,
he gets a chance to play. You're looking for a
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team that's kind of between quarterbacks or not quite soild
with their quarterback. Now, that's why I say teams like
New England, where you know Belichick doesn't like mac Jones.
Maybe Trey Lance is the guy In Washington, Sam Howell
seems like the guy, and I like Sam Howell.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Leave Sam Howell and Alabama, McAlone.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
What if something happens to Sam Howell right and he's
not good and you have nowhere else to go, maybe
Trey Lance could be your guy. That's where he has it,
that's his sweet spot. And there'll be a team that
will say, hey, yeah, here's a sixth round pick for him.
Or if you really want to get guts to go, yeah,
you got your quarterback with the seventh round pick, final
pick in the seventh round.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
How about that's so we're gonna give you.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
We're gonna give you our last pick in the seventh round,
and you go get your next quarterback. That's how it's
gonna end up. Trey Lance is gonna be gone, and
it's just a matter of time trading. It'll be a
big fight. I think Taylor will get traded first because
there's more of an impetus to get a deal done.
And then it's gonna be Trey Lance, probably over the weekend,
where a team can get him in next week and
have at least ten or twelve days to start learning
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the playbook before he winds up having to be on
the field for real on Twitter? And how about a
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really a disaster of a season for the Yankees?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yes? What is next for them? Oh boy, it's tough.
Are the Dodgers peaking at the wrong time? Wait? What
is pedal Lions? Are really getting traded? Wait? Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
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Waters of any kind of head for the Dodgers?
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And is the Yankee season really a disaster? Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Joining us now the hotline to break it all down,
nobody better inside it for MLB Network. And now a
man who likely is back on track to coach the
Michigan Wolverines their first three games of the year This
year in college football, it's John PALMERROSI JP.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
What's happening, Buddy Good evening.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I believe that first matchup against East Carolina will be
a comfortable for the Mazing Blue. Whether it is me
or anyone else on the coaching staff on the sidelines,
I think mister McCarthy and company should be able to
handle a victory there for the opening weekend and then
we shall see the balance of the schedule. I do
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have my heart set on the Michigan Penn State showdown
with mister Ornberger's nitney A lot lions that I've been
talking about with him for months. I'm that's sort of
one of our back and forth. You know, on this
show we talk about where Pete Alonso is going to go,
and on the Sunday Show and I check in with
Rich and Steve, we talk about where Ornberger is going
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to find me some great seats to be able to
watch Michigan Penn State.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
This November JP.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
If you were the head coach of Michigan this fall
and during a game you got a huge breaking news
major league bat like Otani's going to go back to Japan,
would you contractually have to break that news or would
you wait until after the game was over and then
break that news.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Who's paying me more?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I'd have to go and prioritize things accordingly. Right based
on that, sure.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Maybe a halftime interview. Hey, here's a halftime with Phil
and head coach John palm Rosi. JP, you're down thirty
six nothing to East Carolina.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, if you have this to say, show heyo TODDI
is going back to Japan.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
He's leaving the Angels right now. But what about this game?
Did you hear me? Not just say show he TODDI is?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I would probably have to go right in the air
with that one. And by the way, do you And
I'm curious about this. I've only done I did one
football game as a sideline reporter. Loved it, had a
great time. It was for Fox back in twenty eighteen.
My question for you is, do you if I ever
were to have another sideline opportunity in the future, what
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do you believe are the two go to questions going
into the tunnel or out of the tunnel at halftime
in your in your experience? What do you got?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Okay, the hell happened? Well, okay, that's a good one.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
The other one is will your team fight the other
team in the tunnel? Going to the locker room at halftime.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yeah, that's that is a very very crucial question. We
shall see what eventuates here this fall. But I do
think we've got we have got tremendous amounts of very
fertile ground to cover with respect to We could go Mets,
we could go White Sox, we could go Yankees, we
could go Rangers, who all of a sudden have stumbled
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and they've welcomed the Astros and Mariners right back on
the Al West Race. We got some serious storylines right
now around Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Well let's start with the Yankees. They get a three
home run game from Aaron Judge to snap a streak.
But cash Men said, what we've been talking about here
for months, JP, it's a disaster. How much change is
immin it in the Bronx. Is Cashman just getting out
in front of it to try to save himself.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Well, it's Mike, it's a it's a great question. I
I would say this that I still expect that Cashman
will be back next year. I don't have any information
to suggest the counter to that. I also think that
the longer that they play this poorly and again they
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win tonight, But it's just a parenthetical around what's been
a disastrous stretch of late. If you look at this roster,
the most glaring number of many glaring numbers, is that
they've got the oldest team in the American League position
player wise. And when you've got an old team that
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is not playing well and is also one of the
most expensive teams in the game, you've got problems. And
I don't care if it's Brian Cashman or either of
you or me making the moves. This roster is not
in good shape right now, and it's going to take
a long time. It's the magic of the fit stripes.
Is not just all of a sudden, like fairy dust,
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change this whole conversation by next year. The roster does
not fit. It is comprised of older players who are
not especially productive, with the obvious exception of number ninety nine,
and that's where they're at. The young guys have not
shown there ready yet, and the old guys are playing
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like they're old. And that's the result. And you are in,
by the way, a very unforgiving division. So the Yankees,
they can make whatever changes they want to for an
office or to the coaching staff, but it's the players
right now that need to be better, and I just
I don't see this as being a quick fix. You
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could argue, well, go out there and sign the best
pitcher you can. Well, they tried that last offseason and
it hasn't worked. That was Carlos Rodin. So yeah, sign
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, signed Cody Bellinger, go way over the luxury tax,
and then we'll see. I mean, like, the fine point
I want to make on the Yankees is that have
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they had injuries? Sure they have. Everybody has injuries, and
I think it is being used as an excuse for
them way more than other teams. Look at the Dodgers,
for example, Kushaw's been on the IL, May's out for
the year, Bilder had and thrown a pitch, Consolin's on
the IL long term, Urrias has missed a significant portion
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of the season. And where are they in first place?
Like they always are because they've got the organizational infrastructure
to do it. They're balanced, they've got a good farm
system that it works, the culture there works. It is
not working right now with the Yankees, and I think
they need to have some pretty fundamental decisions to be
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made and taken because as one of my friends observed
me over the weekend. Yeah, the Mets seem to be
outwardly as much of a disaster as the Yankees are,
but they're actually not because their owner doesn't really care
about a budget. Just paid down almost ninety million bucks
just to buy some prospects. Man, they're in better shape
(23:15):
for next year. So right now, I really, truly I
am a little more worried about the next three to
four years of the Yankees than I am the next
three to four years of the Mets.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Now you bring up then.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Here, Well, here's where you're not worried, and where I'm worried,
because this is where you know, wein and yang a
little bit. The last few days, this Pete Alonzo trade
story has started to really creep up. We had heard
reports and at the deadline, hey, the Mets made all
their players available, and the stories that we got were, hey,
they need a lot of help. Alonzo could help change
the trading. Alonzo would bring more talent in, it would
(23:51):
help change the clubhouse. And then today we find out
report out of the Athletic that the Mets and the
Brewers were in quote field goal range about a trade
for a Lonzo, but they didn't get close enough to
pull the trigger. Now I understand all of this, and
Alonzo's going to be up. He's going to be doing
a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I get this.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
But here's what I like you coming back to JP,
is that Steve Cohen is not shy about spending money.
Pete Alonzo is the one guy on the Mets who
seemingly deserves it, the guy even when he's hitting two twenty,
he's going to knock in one hundred and ten runs.
And I keep going back to this, Why is Peter
Alonzo on the trade block? Why is a guy who
should be a building block, Why is he on the
trade block? What are we not being told what is happening?
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Because there's no sense anywhere that should tell you that, yes,
Peter Alonzo is on the trade block.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
So here's my thought on this twofold number one. The
Mets already know what his number would be to sign them.
They already know that number. They have to There's just
no way that they don't know what that number is
because they've had him since day one. They've had conversations
about as arbitration deals. They know what the number is,
(24:55):
and clearly to this point, they haven't been able to
meet it or don't want to meet it, and they're
not meeting him there on that Okay, So they clearly
at this moment in time, are not on the doorstep
of an extension. He's got one year left after this year.
If you're not on the doorstep of an extension and
you got one year left, by definition, you're pricing him
(25:18):
out in the market. You have to do that. That's
just part of the normal course of baseball. And so
if you are in a headspace where you do not
believe that you're going to be able to sign him,
or you don't want to meet the price that he's
giving you, and you look at this situation for all
the world, Jason, We've been friends for a long time.
(25:41):
I see no way. This is just John Rose's opinion
right now. I see no way, no way that the
Mets are a better team than the Braves in twenty
twenty four zero. It is just not going to happen.
Look at the Braves, Look how good they are, Look
how young they are, Look how they play, look at
(26:03):
their pitching depth, everything. The Mets are not going to
be as good as the Braves next year and So
if you don't have the guy signed beyond twenty twenty
four and for between now and twenty twenty four, you
are going to be an inferior team to the Atlanta
Braves in your division. You pursue trades for the player.
In my opinion, that's just how I look at it.
(26:23):
It's he's a He is a great player. He is
the one player that when you look at you know,
talent in terms of home runs. He is the guy
without and next year you'll have Edwin Diaz the trumpets back.
But how many Mets I'm asking the perfect person this question.
How many players on the active roster right now? Will
you buy a ticket to watch play?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Ooh? Him?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
And Lindore and Das okay, and so Di has obviously injured, Lindor.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Interesting, and mister Met and missus Mett.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Those are locked. But I'm glad, I'm glad that you
mentioned I'm glad you mentioned Lindor because I wasn't sure
that you would say Lindoor. I still think he's an
exciting player, and I think the al rez is the
catchers getting into that same class too. But I think
the question now is who who is the face of
(27:19):
the franchise, and if you're not ready to make Alonso
the next David Wright and pay him like that, then
trade him. Just give what you can for him, because
there will be and I'll say this, there will be
a lot of teams out there that will need him
the next this coming off season. The irony is, of
(27:40):
course that one of them would be the Phillies, and
I don't think that's going to happen. So it's you know,
put u pin in this. We'll revisit it. But I
think more than you do that that was a very rational,
reasonable approach because the Mets front office knows they watch
the games like we do, not better than the Braves,
(28:01):
and they're not going to be and so once you
get to that headspace, it makes a lot more sense
to trade pe Alonzo.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi MLB Network Insider into a Michigan Wolverine's head coach.
He does it all. JP is always buddy, appreciate your time,
my friend. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
We're gonna run the wing t in the first week,
the wing tea, which, by the way, there's gotta be
some other high school football players from the nineteen nineties
out there that relate to this.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I found the wing T to be the most foolish
offense that it's ever graced the earth. It made no
sense to me, at least through the wing I. The
wing I was infinitely better than the wing ta. Wing
team made no sense. Throw the wishbone. Wishbones better than
the wing tea. Pullouts backfield, also better than the wing tea.
The single wing it like blows your mind and it's
(28:54):
better than the wing tea. The wing T was the worst.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Get ready JJ McCarthy to throw three passes Open week, Carolina.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
We're gonna run and we're gonna run the swinging gate
every extra point.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Oh see you, buddy, talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Let's run the swinging gait on the extra point. That
was Lane Kiffin's special.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Oh, we're gonna line up this way.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Lane, They're okay, fine, Uh, now you know, look, a
lot of great points made it look. We talked about
this beginning of the show, the two directions of the
Dodgers and the Yankee in which way they were going,
And honestly, the only thing that comes to me for
the Dodgers, what what what can I see ahead for them,
right the Yankees, clearly they got a lot of work.
They'll be doing a lot of shovel and left. We
gotta get rid of this, We gotta get rid of this,
(29:39):
We gotta go with this. But the Dodgers, the only
thing is are they peaking too early? Because now, no
matter what they do, everything is a machine. Everything every
day is the same thing. Mookie Betts gets at least
two hits, Freddy Freeman gets two doubles, Will Smith gets
a hit, Somebody in the bottom four of the order
knocks in three runs and gets two wits in a game,
and they're starting pitching, gives them an innings to get
(30:00):
to the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
And they win.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Like everything is such machine like for the Dodgers right now.
But it's still the middle endish part of August, and
we got a long way to go until we get
to October.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
And that's my only worry is are they peaking a
little bit too early?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Well, it's unfortunately this the song remains the same. Right
to steal him. And it was Robert Plant's birthday the
other day, so we celebrate him again. As you look
at the Dodgers and rolling through the Division and the
would be challenger of the Padres that never materialized. And
here we are rolling towards September and it's the same thing,
(30:39):
all right, division's one. Let's get October like the big
thing is. Because we just flash forward and get to
the heart of the matter. Doesn't mean you don't love
the ups and downs and the crazy run they're on
and the heroics on a nightly basis of all right,
they're gonna win the game. Just how are they gonna
do it? That's all fun, fun and good, But I
can I'm sure as we're here in Los Angeles and
(31:02):
know so many, including our guy Frostburg sitting there, it's
it's all right, what's what happens comes October? Right? What
happens come October? Are these guys healthy? Are the pitchers
ready to go? And is lanceln the guy that showed
up on the doorstep at the trade deadline? When it
comes to winning time?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
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Speaker 1 (32:35):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
You know, I just had a couple of friends who
are listening to the show text me and say, no, way,
you had seventy seventy five on the radar gun when
you were playing baseball.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
I'm like, you'll screw you guys. Good man, I was good.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I will take your center field at guaranteed rate field.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
We'll settle this right now. Oh no, I can't hit
seventy anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
I can't say no, no, no, I'm I'm not Kevin
Hard who thinks I could beat a for NFL player
in the rates and wind up in a wheelchair. No, no, no,
I I know I can't do it anymore, But back then,
no I could. I couldn't hit seventy in a car. No, dude,
I you kidding.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
I was good.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I was a good player man. Baseball and hockey were
my two sports. Baseball hockey by two sports. And then
and then you know, in the one in the world
of men's softball, I was legend.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
I mean legend games.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Are you kidding? I signed autographs, it was. It was
incredible in I mean I had.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
To walk off out. Okay, here you go, Yes, here
you go. Sorry, ladies, I'm married. Here you go. Yeah,
best of lucky. Who's this for your husband's big fan?
All right, here you go, there you go, Here you go.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Why would you tell them you're married? Well, because my
wife was actually watched all the games. Pam came to
all the game.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
But if you're a star, who cares.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
You know, we have one of those old style old
Hollywood relationships, you know, And it was one person.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
No, no, no, you can't say that.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
If it was old Hollywood, old Holleywood, I say.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
You and all the stuff, and people just don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I mean, that's old Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Come on, smoking a cigarette out of a filter and
driving a Rolls Royce. Yes, that's what I was doing
though everybody was going through the service elevator in the
old Hollywood. I had a party one time with Peter
Lawford and Betty Davis. And let me tell you what
that party was like that every day the Jets make headlines.
(34:24):
They just don't stop. No other team in the NFL
where it would be a big headline if one of
their offensive tackles was coming back to play. Yet that
was the case with the Jets today Dwayne Brown coming back,
so now half of their offensive line problems have been solved.
Corey Davis walking away from the NFL at the age
of twenty eight, Hey, Jets, it's a story. Corey Davis
(34:46):
may not have made the team, he's been away from
the team.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
For a while.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
But Rogers, they have a lot of wide receivers, They
have young guys who they were probably gonna give a
job to. And I don't know that Corey Davis would
have made the team, and his money isn't guaranteed. He's
walking away from the NFL. Is this a big headline?
If it's Washington or if it's Detroit, it's not. But
the Jets, everything they do is a headline coming off
(35:09):
of Hard Knocks. Here's all the big things from Hard
Knocks last night, all the big things we saw. And
here's Randall Cobb and how he's addressing the wide receiver room.
You want to know my one big worry about the
Jets that's not injury related, because obviously everybody's worried about injury.
Is Roger's gonna walk away from this weekend with two
good calves. You know, how long do his Calves go
I love before I got to reach in, grab what
(35:30):
of yours and give it to them. Injury everybody is
concerned about, right, but my concern for the Jets, the
biggest one, My biggest fear is how are they gonna
handle the overwhelming pressure when the footballs fly for real?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Because right now, this is great.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
They can love the attention they're getting because it's a
love fest, because it's the summer, and Rogers looks great
and they're playing well for the most part in preseason games.
And yes, hard knocks is out the field, but guess what,
Rogers entertaining and they're having fun, and there's so much
talent and they just signed a great running back. Everything
is great, But are the Jets ready for being under
(36:06):
the biggest microscope in the NFL. It's not gonna be
in Dallas, it's not gonna be in Denver. It's not
gonna be in Pittsburgh, it's not gonna be in San Francisco.
Everything the Jets does, everything the Jets do when the
season begins from now to is going to be front
page news. And when they lose a game, or they
lose two games in a row, or there's a big
(36:26):
question mark for a play call at the end of
the game, because you've seen that with Aaron Rodgers before.
How are the Jets gonna handle it? Are they built
to handle what this spotlight's going to be, because I
don't think they truly understand exactly what kind of spotlight
they're under. They are a national story every single day
and they're under the microscope of New York every single day.
(36:49):
Whatever they do is dissected, put up on TV right
after it gets done. The Jets have never been that
way before. There's never been that interest in the team
where hey, no, it's They've always been the number two
team in the market, And how are they really going
to do this? Well, we're kind of under the radar,
it's fun. Now they are the number one story coast
to coast and this brings pressure, this brings drama, and
(37:10):
are they ready to handle it? And that's my big question,
because I'll be honest with you, I don't know that
they are. I don't know that they're ready for exactly
what this pressure is gonna be when the footballs fly
for real.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yeah, I mean, Rogers will handle it really well in
the regular season. See what I did.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Then say anything, jerk, I gave you a moment. I
gave your moment you always say, I gave you your
way for it moment I let you lick your lips,
which we all heard on the radio. Now and now
your moment's over, so keep talking.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Now.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
It's a good moment because we've seen him melt in
the playoffs, and now maybe he has another opportunity to
do that in a cannibalization that is the AFC East,
Because even if you try to dismiss New England, they're
good enough to just be annoying to you and your
Jets fandom. Look the fact that you do have a
few guys that have come over, these veterans that have
(37:57):
been through it, because for Rogers, it's been the last
couple of years, right, a lot of it with his
off and out of football actions and comments. But uh,
those guys are going to be able to help the
youngsters get through it. And sometimes you don't know what
you don't know, right, I mean, but saying Garrett Wilson,
Sauce Gardner, guys that were number one picks, and you know,
(38:20):
in the case of Garrett Wilson where he played at college,
they've seen the microscope. They've been there, They've they've done that.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
It's all.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
I'm more worried about your coach and how he handles
it on because normally he just starts swatting at everybody.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Really, are they ready for what this is? I don't.
I don't think they are.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
I just don't think they're good enough, So I don't
think it matters.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Oh come on, they're loaded. But but they think they're
good enough. They think they can handle it. But boy,
telling you just watch, just w that's my big fear too,
to exit. How about a Fresca exit swollen dome? Coming
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Speaker 3 (38:54):
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get to the latest, involving Trey Lance, who now really
looks like he's on the way out and is going
to be traded. Who told you that like a long
time ago that was gonna happen. You know it'll it'll
come to me. But Mike, we lost an absolute legend
today breaking in the middle of the day. Terry Funk,
WWE Hall of Famer passed away at the age of
(01:12):
seventy nine. The guy had a forty year career in
just about any wrestling league that you could possibly imagine.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
He wrestled. He was still active up until like five
or seven years ago. I think in twenty fourteen he
was still somewhat active. And he was one of those
legends that came up and got the big push in
the eighties when when the WWF back then, the WWF
went mainstream with Hulk Hogan and Terry Funked and he
had hass and Jimmy Jack the Funk Brothers, and it
(01:45):
was just an unbelievable run. And this guy is one
of the biggest wrestlers in the history of the sport.
And to los him at seventy nine, it really was
a tough one because he was, like I said, his career,
he had a forty year plus career in wrestling.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well as I beat it out after hearing about this,
I just thought back to all those you know, matches
that we would have in the backyard where eventually someone
got hit with a stick, a baseball bat, a piece
of rebar, whatever the hell was laying around, and it
was all in the good name of Terry Funk and
some of the crazy matches that he would find himself in.
(02:20):
But you know, growing up him and you look at
Jack Brisco and the early years of Rick Flair, Dusky
wrote all these guys that he battled with, Jerry the
King Lawler and stuff at its formation, just so much
great footage. The Crimson mask, I think would be it
(02:41):
was him and Abdullah the Butcher, the two of the
guys I think that bled the most over that thirty
year period. But just you never left anything in the ring, right,
I mean, he was a showman and really good at
screaming and yelling of video is making the round because
Paul Hayman, who we celebrate all the time now, especially
when he talks about Brock Purdy or Roman Reins. Back
(03:05):
in E. C wh when he was talking about Funk's
daughters and trying to make a joke and Funk walked
out slapped him in the face a couple of times.
So like all of those things that started to make
the rounds. H really, you just took me back to
a lot of basement jumping off couches and beating the
hell out of my brothers.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So fun, dude, every time we played we played WWF
like when I was young, when I was little, everybody's
into wrestling when you're like eight, nine, ten years old.
I always had to be Terry Funk because we would
usually this usually happened in the summer, when you would
play all your friends are gone all day you're born.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Oh, let's played WWF. What's wrestle?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I would always have to be Terry Funk because I
had really I mean, you don't know this because when
you met me, I didn't have any hair. But I
used to have really curly brown hair. And when it
would get wet, like if I go in the pool,
my hair would look like Terry Funk's got it's good.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
They would see me going Terry Funk, Terry Funck, Jason
g do't good to water? He look like Terry Funk.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So I would always have to be Terry Funk every
time he wrestled because my hair would look the way
and they would go, No, you gotta go in the
house and wet your hair and then you gotta come
out and then we wrestle. You gotta look like to
So I would have to go and if I was
at somebody else's house, i'd coincide and my friend would say, Hey,
Jason's got to get his hair wet in the sink. Mom,
what what are you talking about? No, he's got to
be Terry whatever, just do it, just to use the
(04:20):
hose outside next time.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
So I would always do that, and I would have
to be Terry Funk. Wrest What do you even know?
Who the hell Terry Funk is? Terry Funk? Yeah? Sure?
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Do I know?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You sure you got the right guy? Yeah? You look
at it. Look at look at Terry Funk from the eighties.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Look at Terry. Yeah, I don mean Terry Funk from
five years ago. I meant Terry Funk from the eighties.
It would say, oh, it's Terry Funk. My hair would
be like, you might not let that cunk is?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think? Justin does young man your face right now?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Hey? Now? A lot of barbed wire matches, the Kendo
sticks and everything that became so popular for a while
and where E c W had its run. He was
the crazy veteran that they would still get to go
in and look, sell, sell, sell some of the stuff
these guys did to their bodies.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Oh, look at the fact that he got to seventy nine.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, I mean, I you know, we joke about it
on the show for years of Hey, this guy had
a good run.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
This guy had a good run. Everybody was throwing the chairs. Yeah,
that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The big Battle Royal where people I mean, how does
that get okayed? Where you watch this? And that's the
biggest thing that was trending with Terry Funk today was
this Battle Oil match he had where people keep throwing
chairs into the ring at the wrestlers and they're missing
him and they're landing and it's like, fifty chairs are
getting thrown. I'm saying to myself, how do you who
signs a waiver saying yes, okay, the chair you're trusting?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Who are you trying?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You have five people that work for WWE at that point,
going you throw the chairs in, They're gonna land on somebody,
and Terry Funk had to evade them. He was one
of the last guys standing at the end of that match.
I'd watch these chairs going and I go, how did
this get approved? I can't leave that guy to prove yes,
we're gonna throw fifty chairs in the ring at wrestlers
who were in the middle of the ring. I don't
get that part now.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
For everybody else, maybe maybe you don't know him from
the wrestling world, but you certainly know him from cinema
when we talk about over the Top and some of
those other roadhouse But rod Well, that's what I was leading.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Kard Barber College is hiring, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Right, I mean that's where many folks know him from.
Beyond the Mat, which is really a classic, a documentary
about the wrestling business that was late nineties. I mean
so many things, and such an instrumental force and pushing
things forward and pushing the envelope right to make the
(06:41):
game a little bit different and make it more theatrical,
and so many outpouring tributes from people wrestling today just
go oh. I remember meeting him along the way and
he'd come when we were in school and you know,
going and doing this stuff, and he would yell at
us if we didn't sell it well enough. It's like, yeah,
but if I go over that, it doesn't matter, sell,
(07:03):
sell sell. That was Terry Funk in a nutshell O.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Rest in peace, Terry Funk, absolute legend, WWE Hall of Famer.
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frostburg over chair over the head with the chair tonight,
just to celebrate.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Those chairs aren't so easy. We have the folding chairs
around the studios anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I think there's a couple. I go find a couple.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Fine, I might find him tucked under Matt somewhere.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
You know, I bet your Brian Fenley's got a couple
tucked under. He's ready.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Because I ever walked in to go do what's up?
He would hit me in then with a chair. Oh hey,
too soon. On Peter Alonzo, Man, Peter al I'm getting
scared about Peter A Lonzo. But but but I know,
I know, but but but but but but uh, Trey Lance,
you know we promised this a few minutes ago. We
got into the Jonathan Taylor side of things. Trey Lance
(08:07):
officially is the number three quarterback for the San Francisco
forty nine ers. Brock Purdy is going into the season
as the unquestioned number one starter, and Sam Darnold has
now ascended to the number two job. You know, we
heard Brian Billick last hour tell us I don't know
how much he beat him out as much as well.
He's the number two quarterback. And now Lance is in limbo.
(08:29):
And we've told you for a long time, I'm gonna
go back to before the draft, where you could have
called and gotten Trey Lance from the San Francisco forty
nine ers. They were itching to trade Trey Lance. And
the only thing I can say about the forty nine
ers is that they were too afraid to pull the
trigger at any time. They could have traded him any time,
they could have got stuff for him, but they were
always afraid. Are we are we selling selling him off
(08:51):
too early? Are we getting rid of him too early?
But now they've given him every chance they can to
win a job and go forward. The guys, I mean,
I mean, the guy's gonna go four years taking a
handful of snaps in one game in the NFL. That's
just not gonna do it. And you're coming off here
with Diinian play in his last year in college. They've
done all they can and we told you for a
(09:12):
long time there's no way he's gonna win the job.
When they signed Sam Darnald, we told you this is
it for Trey Lance. You're not signing Sam Donald unless
you think this is it for four and a half
months ago. I wish I could be this right with
the stock market. I know where it's gonna be in
five months, but I do. They signed Sam Donald. That's
not bringing in Sam Donald to be the number three quarterback.
That's bringing in Sam Donald to be your backup because
(09:34):
you don't think Trey Lance can do it. Now, Trey
Lance should get traded. It's not gonna be anything big.
It'll maybe be a conditional fifth or sixth round pick
that can that can stay there, depending on playing time
or how long he's on the roster. But there will
be teams that will make a move for him because
they'll say, well, we can put a flyer on getting
a guy who once upon a time went number three overall.
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But it's time for the Niners to say it's we
have to cut bait on. We tried, We're moving on. Hey,
we moved up to draft Trey Lance. We got lucky
with Brock Perdy. You know what you give and you get.
Sometimes you evaluate a quarterback and it works. Sometimes you
just get lucky because you throw a dart and the
guy shows up and mister irrelevant gets you to the
NFC Championship Game and maybe to the Super Bowl if
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he didn't get hurt.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
So it's okay.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
No one's gonna go crazy, no one's gonna come for
John Lynch's head. No one's who met at Shanahan going oh,
I can't believe you did. The Niners had a pretty
good track record of success the last couple of years
since they drafted Trey Lance.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
You can move on.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I expect them to move on, and I expect a team,
like we said a few days ago, a team like
New England or Washington to jump out front to say, hey,
here's a conditional pick to get a guy coming in
that maybe could play for them at some point this year. Absolutely,
Trey Lance is gonna go. Jonathan Taylor will go first.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Trey Lance is gonna go as well.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah. I think that's one of the big things to
remember in the process is that you have had a
team that has been winning, which means it was never
a hate. Turn the the game over to this guy,
and let's see what he does, as you normally would
with a quarterback that you're drafting. Where he was right,
it's normally the all right, you now have the keys
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to the kingdoms. Like No, you still had a roster
that was competing for division and conference crowns year after year,
which means he's not getting the number one reps. He's
not getting out. Do you assume you have some growth
and maybe some leaps in terms of training and what
he's been able to do, and with groppolo injuries and
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whatever else, that maybe that time would have allowed him
to make a bit of a leap when he was
getting more and more first team reps. Sure, but you know,
as I asked coach Billick last hour, you know part
of it. You know, you're a victim of circumstance. You're
just not in a position where it's all right, kid,
here's the ball, Go play to find out whether you're
any good or not. Go back to not having played
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a lot of college ball, and to where you are.
I mean, I'm not saying that he's gonna suddenly find
a new home and become this world beater, but do
we have any idea really what he is right now? No,
he was a guy that wasn't ready to beat beat
out Sam Darnold, who, for all of his faults, has
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a lot of experience in the NFL, and you feel
that you can coax him along that and win games
based on the roster that you have, whereas perhaps you're
not as comfortable with that, should an injury befall brock
Purty and handing the reins to Trey Lance. That's really
all it is, like, I can't bury the guy because
I've heard some try to do the long, hard take
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on it. It's like, yeah, I like hot take nonsense
as much as the next guy. To a point, I
don't know what this guy is. They took a shot
that he would grow and they'd have something down the
road that has not happened. And whenever you draft your
guy up top, you know you put your name on it.
But if you hit consistently elsewhere, it's one blip on
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an otherwise pretty good resume for the front office there
in San Francisco. And oh, it's not like they've been
losing a lot of games in the interim, right, And yes,
I saw the great Hey let's go through the draft
of who they could have taken that year.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You can do that for any team.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Look who they could have taken it everything, especially the Jets,
and look who they could have taken into Look Trey Lance.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
That was a rare occurrence though, where most of the
guys are actually players. Normally it's like, all right, there
was a guy you know two picks later, there was
a guy twenty picks later. It's like, no, no, no,
here you actually have a run of start.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Yes, any you could have taken to any of those guys. Look,
Lance is a curiosity, That's what he is. And there's
gonna be teams that think we can get what we
want out of him. And if we can't, okay, but
it's got to be a team where he can slide in,
stay out of limelight for a while, learn the playbook,
and then maybe mid season, if the team is faltering,
he gets a chance to play. You're looking for a
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team that's kind of between quarterbacks or not quite soild
with their quarterback. Now, that's why I say teams like
New England, where you know Belichick doesn't like mac Jones.
Maybe Trey Lance is the guy In Washington, Sam Howell
seems like the guy, and I like Sam Howell.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Leave Sam Howell and Alabama, McAlone.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
What if something happens to Sam Howell right and he's
not good and you have nowhere else to go, maybe
Trey Lance could be your guy. That's where he has it,
that's his sweet spot. And there'll be a team that
will say, hey, yeah, here's a sixth round pick for him.
Or if you really want to get guts to go, yeah,
you got your quarterback with the seventh round pick, final
pick in the seventh round.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
How about that's so we're gonna give you.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
We're gonna give you our last pick in the seventh round,
and you go get your next quarterback. That's how it's
gonna end up. Trey Lance is gonna be gone, and
it's just a matter of time trading. It'll be a
big fight. I think Taylor will get traded first because
there's more of an impetus to get a deal done.
And then it's gonna be Trey Lance, probably over the weekend,
where a team can get him in next week and
have at least ten or twelve days to start learning
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the playbook before he winds up having to be on
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Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yes? What is next for them? Oh boy, it's tough.
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Joining us now the hotline to break it all down,
nobody better inside it for MLB Network. And now a
man who likely is back on track to coach the
Michigan Wolverines their first three games of the year This
year in college football, it's John PALMERROSI JP.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
What's happening, Buddy Good evening.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I believe that first matchup against East Carolina will be
a comfortable for the Mazing Blue. Whether it is me
or anyone else on the coaching staff on the sidelines,
I think mister McCarthy and company should be able to
handle a victory there for the opening weekend and then
we shall see the balance of the schedule. I do
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have my heart set on the Michigan Penn State showdown
with mister Ornberger's nitney A lot lions that I've been
talking about with him for months. I'm that's sort of
one of our back and forth. You know, on this
show we talk about where Pete Alonso is going to go,
and on the Sunday Show and I check in with
Rich and Steve, we talk about where Ornberger is going
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to find me some great seats to be able to
watch Michigan Penn State.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
This November JP.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
If you were the head coach of Michigan this fall
and during a game you got a huge breaking news
major league bat like Otani's going to go back to Japan,
would you contractually have to break that news or would
you wait until after the game was over and then
break that news.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Who's paying me more?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I'd have to go and prioritize things accordingly. Right based
on that, sure.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Maybe a halftime interview. Hey, here's a halftime with Phil
and head coach John palm Rosi. JP, you're down thirty
six nothing to East Carolina.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Well, if you have this to say, show heyo TODDI
is going back to Japan.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
He's leaving the Angels right now. But what about this game?
Did you hear me? Not just say show he TODDI is?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I would probably have to go right in the air
with that one. And by the way, do you And
I'm curious about this. I've only done I did one
football game as a sideline reporter. Loved it, had a
great time. It was for Fox back in twenty eighteen.
My question for you is, do you if I ever
were to have another sideline opportunity in the future, what
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do you believe are the two go to questions going
into the tunnel or out of the tunnel at halftime
in your in your experience? What do you got?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Okay, the hell happened? Well, okay, that's a good one.
I like that.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
The other one is will your team fight the other
team in the tunnel? Going to the locker room at halftime.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yeah, that's that is a very very crucial question. We
shall see what eventuates here this fall. But I do
think we've got we have got tremendous amounts of very
fertile ground to cover with respect to We could go Mets,
we could go White Sox, we could go Yankees, we
could go Rangers, who all of a sudden have stumbled
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and they've welcomed the Astros and Mariners right back on
the Al West Race. We got some serious storylines right
now around Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Well let's start with the Yankees. They get a three
home run game from Aaron Judge to snap a streak.
But cash Men said, what we've been talking about here
for months, JP, it's a disaster. How much change is
immin it in the Bronx. Is Cashman just getting out
in front of it to try to save himself.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Well, it's Mike, it's a it's a great question. I
I would say this that I still expect that Cashman
will be back next year. I don't have any information
to suggest the counter to that. I also think that
the longer that they play this poorly and again they
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win tonight, But it's just a parenthetical around what's been
a disastrous stretch of late. If you look at this roster,
the most glaring number of many glaring numbers, is that
they've got the oldest team in the American League position
player wise. And when you've got an old team that
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is not playing well and is also one of the
most expensive teams in the game, you've got problems. And
I don't care if it's Brian Cashman or either of
you or me making the moves. This roster is not
in good shape right now, and it's going to take
a long time. It's the magic of the fit stripes.
Is not just all of a sudden, like fairy dust,
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change this whole conversation by next year. The roster does
not fit. It is comprised of older players who are
not especially productive, with the obvious exception of number ninety nine,
and that's where they're at. The young guys have not
shown there ready yet, and the old guys are playing
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like they're old. And that's the result. And you are in,
by the way, a very unforgiving division. So the Yankees,
they can make whatever changes they want to for an
office or to the coaching staff, but it's the players
right now that need to be better, and I just
I don't see this as being a quick fix. You
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could argue, well, go out there and sign the best
pitcher you can. Well, they tried that last offseason and
it hasn't worked. That was Carlos Rodin. So yeah, sign
Yoshinobu Yamamoto, signed Cody Bellinger, go way over the luxury tax,
and then we'll see. I mean, like, the fine point
I want to make on the Yankees is that have
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they had injuries? Sure they have. Everybody has injuries, and
I think it is being used as an excuse for
them way more than other teams. Look at the Dodgers,
for example, Kushaw's been on the IL, May's out for
the year, Bilder had and thrown a pitch, Consolin's on
the IL long term, Urrias has missed a significant portion
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of the season. And where are they in first place?
Like they always are because they've got the organizational infrastructure
to do it. They're balanced, they've got a good farm
system that it works, the culture there works. It is
not working right now with the Yankees, and I think
they need to have some pretty fundamental decisions to be
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made and taken because as one of my friends observed
me over the weekend. Yeah, the Mets seem to be
outwardly as much of a disaster as the Yankees are,
but they're actually not because their owner doesn't really care
about a budget. Just paid down almost ninety million bucks
just to buy some prospects. Man, they're in better shape
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for next year. So right now, I really, truly I
am a little more worried about the next three to
four years of the Yankees than I am the next
three to four years of the Mets.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Now you bring up then.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Here, Well, here's where you're not worried, and where I'm worried,
because this is where you know, wein and yang a
little bit. The last few days, this Pete Alonzo trade
story has started to really creep up. We had heard
reports and at the deadline, hey, the Mets made all
their players available, and the stories that we got were, hey,
they need a lot of help. Alonzo could help change
the trading. Alonzo would bring more talent in, it would
(23:51):
help change the clubhouse. And then today we find out
report out of the Athletic that the Mets and the
Brewers were in quote field goal range about a trade
for a Lonzo, but they didn't get close enough to
pull the trigger. Now I understand all of this, and
Alonzo's going to be up. He's going to be doing
a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I get this.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
But here's what I like you coming back to JP,
is that Steve Cohen is not shy about spending money.
Pete Alonzo is the one guy on the Mets who
seemingly deserves it, the guy even when he's hitting two twenty,
he's going to knock in one hundred and ten runs.
And I keep going back to this, Why is Peter
Alonzo on the trade block? Why is a guy who
should be a building block, Why is he on the
trade block? What are we not being told what is happening?
(24:28):
Because there's no sense anywhere that should tell you that, yes,
Peter Alonzo is on the trade block.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
So here's my thought on this twofold number one. The
Mets already know what his number would be to sign them.
They already know that number. They have to There's just
no way that they don't know what that number is
because they've had him since day one. They've had conversations
about as arbitration deals. They know what the number is,
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and clearly to this point, they haven't been able to
meet it or don't want to meet it, and they're
not meeting him there on that Okay, So they clearly
at this moment in time, are not on the doorstep
of an extension. He's got one year left after this year.
If you're not on the doorstep of an extension and
you got one year left, by definition, you're pricing him
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out in the market. You have to do that. That's
just part of the normal course of baseball. And so
if you are in a headspace where you do not
believe that you're going to be able to sign him,
or you don't want to meet the price that he's
giving you, and you look at this situation for all
the world, Jason, We've been friends for a long time.
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I see no way. This is just John Rose's opinion
right now. I see no way, no way that the
Mets are a better team than the Braves in twenty
twenty four zero. It is just not going to happen.
Look at the Braves, Look how good they are, Look
how young they are, Look how they play, look at
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their pitching depth, everything. The Mets are not going to
be as good as the Braves next year and So
if you don't have the guy signed beyond twenty twenty
four and for between now and twenty twenty four, you
are going to be an inferior team to the Atlanta
Braves in your division. You pursue trades for the player.
In my opinion, that's just how I look at it.
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It's he's a He is a great player. He is
the one player that when you look at you know,
talent in terms of home runs. He is the guy
without and next year you'll have Edwin Diaz the trumpets back.
But how many Mets I'm asking the perfect person this question.
How many players on the active roster right now? Will
you buy a ticket to watch play?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Ooh? Him?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
And Lindore and Das okay, and so Di has obviously injured, Lindor.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Interesting, and mister Met and missus Mett.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Those are locked. But I'm glad, I'm glad that you
mentioned I'm glad you mentioned Lindor because I wasn't sure
that you would say Lindoor. I still think he's an
exciting player, and I think the al rez is the
catchers getting into that same class too. But I think
the question now is who who is the face of
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the franchise, and if you're not ready to make Alonso
the next David Wright and pay him like that, then
trade him. Just give what you can for him, because
there will be and I'll say this, there will be
a lot of teams out there that will need him
the next this coming off season. The irony is, of
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course that one of them would be the Phillies, and
I don't think that's going to happen. So it's you know,
put u pin in this. We'll revisit it. But I
think more than you do that that was a very rational,
reasonable approach because the Mets front office knows they watch
the games like we do, not better than the Braves,
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and they're not going to be and so once you
get to that headspace, it makes a lot more sense
to trade pe Alonzo.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi MLB Network Insider into a Michigan Wolverine's head coach.
He does it all. JP is always buddy, appreciate your time,
my friend. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
We're gonna run the wing t in the first week,
the wing tea, which, by the way, there's gotta be
some other high school football players from the nineteen nineties
out there that relate to this.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I found the wing T to be the most foolish
offense that it's ever graced the earth. It made no
sense to me, at least through the wing I. The
wing I was infinitely better than the wing ta. Wing
team made no sense. Throw the wishbone. Wishbones better than
the wing tea. Pullouts backfield, also better than the wing tea.
The single wing it like blows your mind and it's
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better than the wing tea. The wing T was the worst.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Get ready JJ McCarthy to throw three passes Open week, Carolina.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
We're gonna run and we're gonna run the swinging gate
every extra point.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Oh see you, buddy, talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Let's run the swinging gait on the extra point. That
was Lane Kiffin's special.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Oh, we're gonna line up this way.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Lane, They're okay, fine, Uh, now you know, look, a
lot of great points made it look. We talked about
this beginning of the show, the two directions of the
Dodgers and the Yankee in which way they were going,
And honestly, the only thing that comes to me for
the Dodgers, what what what can I see ahead for them,
right the Yankees, clearly they got a lot of work.
They'll be doing a lot of shovel and left. We
gotta get rid of this, We gotta get rid of this,
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We gotta go with this. But the Dodgers, the only
thing is are they peaking too early? Because now, no
matter what they do, everything is a machine. Everything every
day is the same thing. Mookie Betts gets at least
two hits, Freddy Freeman gets two doubles, Will Smith gets
a hit, Somebody in the bottom four of the order
knocks in three runs and gets two wits in a game,
and they're starting pitching, gives them an innings to get
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to the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
And they win.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Like everything is such machine like for the Dodgers right now.
But it's still the middle endish part of August, and
we got a long way to go until we get
to October.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
And that's my only worry is are they peaking a
little bit too early?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Well, it's unfortunately this the song remains the same. Right
to steal him. And it was Robert Plant's birthday the
other day, so we celebrate him again. As you look
at the Dodgers and rolling through the Division and the
would be challenger of the Padres that never materialized. And
here we are rolling towards September and it's the same thing,
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all right, division's one. Let's get October like the big
thing is. Because we just flash forward and get to
the heart of the matter. Doesn't mean you don't love
the ups and downs and the crazy run they're on
and the heroics on a nightly basis of all right,
they're gonna win the game. Just how are they gonna
do it? That's all fun, fun and good, But I
can I'm sure as we're here in Los Angeles and
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know so many, including our guy Frostburg sitting there, it's
it's all right, what's what happens comes October? Right? What
happens come October? Are these guys healthy? Are the pitchers
ready to go? And is lanceln the guy that showed
up on the doorstep at the trade deadline? When it
comes to winning time?
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Speaker 4 (32:56):
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Speaker 3 (33:00):
We'll settle this right now. Oh no, I can't hit
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Hard who thinks I could beat a for NFL player
in the rates and wind up in a wheelchair. No, no, no,
I I know I can't do it anymore, But back then,
no I could. I couldn't hit seventy in a car. No, dude,
I you kidding.
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I was good.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I was a good player man. Baseball and hockey were
my two sports. Baseball hockey by two sports. And then
and then you know, in the one in the world
of men's softball, I was legend.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
I mean legend games.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Are you kidding? I signed autographs, it was. It was
incredible in I mean I had.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
To walk off out. Okay, here you go, Yes, here
you go. Sorry, ladies, I'm married. Here you go. Yeah,
best of lucky. Who's this for your husband's big fan?
All right, here you go, there you go, Here you go.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Why would you tell them you're married? Well, because my
wife was actually watched all the games. Pam came to
all the game.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
But if you're a star, who cares.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
You know, we have one of those old style old
Hollywood relationships, you know, And it was one person.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
No, no, no, you can't say that.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
If it was old Hollywood, old Holleywood, I say.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
You and all the stuff, and people just don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I mean, that's old Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Come on, smoking a cigarette out of a filter and
driving a Rolls Royce. Yes, that's what I was doing
though everybody was going through the service elevator in the
old Hollywood. I had a party one time with Peter
Lawford and Betty Davis. And let me tell you what
that party was like that every day the Jets make headlines.
(34:24):
They just don't stop. No other team in the NFL
where it would be a big headline if one of
their offensive tackles was coming back to play. Yet that
was the case with the Jets today Dwayne Brown coming back,
so now half of their offensive line problems have been solved.
Corey Davis walking away from the NFL at the age
of twenty eight, Hey, Jets, it's a story. Corey Davis
(34:46):
may not have made the team, he's been away from
the team.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
For a while.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
But Rogers, they have a lot of wide receivers, They
have young guys who they were probably gonna give a
job to. And I don't know that Corey Davis would
have made the team, and his money isn't guaranteed. He's
walking away from the NFL. Is this a big headline?
If it's Washington or if it's Detroit, it's not. But
the Jets, everything they do is a headline coming off
(35:09):
of Hard Knocks. Here's all the big things from Hard
Knocks last night, all the big things we saw. And
here's Randall Cobb and how he's addressing the wide receiver room.
You want to know my one big worry about the
Jets that's not injury related, because obviously everybody's worried about injury.
Is Roger's gonna walk away from this weekend with two
good calves. You know, how long do his Calves go
I love before I got to reach in, grab what
(35:30):
of yours and give it to them. Injury everybody is
concerned about, right, but my concern for the Jets, the
biggest one, My biggest fear is how are they gonna
handle the overwhelming pressure when the footballs fly for real?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Because right now, this is great.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
They can love the attention they're getting because it's a
love fest, because it's the summer, and Rogers looks great
and they're playing well for the most part in preseason games.
And yes, hard knocks is out the field, but guess what,
Rogers entertaining and they're having fun, and there's so much
talent and they just signed a great running back. Everything
is great, But are the Jets ready for being under
(36:06):
the biggest microscope in the NFL. It's not gonna be
in Dallas, it's not gonna be in Denver. It's not
gonna be in Pittsburgh, it's not gonna be in San Francisco.
Everything the Jets does, everything the Jets do when the
season begins from now to is going to be front
page news. And when they lose a game, or they
lose two games in a row, or there's a big
(36:26):
question mark for a play call at the end of
the game, because you've seen that with Aaron Rodgers before.
How are the Jets gonna handle it? Are they built
to handle what this spotlight's going to be, because I
don't think they truly understand exactly what kind of spotlight
they're under. They are a national story every single day
and they're under the microscope of New York every single day.
(36:49):
Whatever they do is dissected, put up on TV right
after it gets done. The Jets have never been that
way before. There's never been that interest in the team
where hey, no, it's They've always been the number two
team in the market, And how are they really going
to do this? Well, we're kind of under the radar,
it's fun. Now they are the number one story coast
to coast and this brings pressure, this brings drama, and
(37:10):
are they ready to handle it? And that's my big question,
because I'll be honest with you, I don't know that
they are. I don't know that they're ready for exactly
what this pressure is gonna be when the footballs fly
for real.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Yeah, I mean, Rogers will handle it really well in
the regular season. See what I did.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Then say anything, jerk, I gave you a moment. I
gave your moment you always say, I gave you your
way for it moment I let you lick your lips,
which we all heard on the radio. Now and now
your moment's over, so keep talking.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Now.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
It's a good moment because we've seen him melt in
the playoffs, and now maybe he has another opportunity to
do that in a cannibalization that is the AFC East,
Because even if you try to dismiss New England, they're
good enough to just be annoying to you and your
Jets fandom. Look the fact that you do have a
few guys that have come over, these veterans that have
(37:57):
been through it, because for Rogers, it's been the last
couple of years, right, a lot of it with his
off and out of football actions and comments. But uh,
those guys are going to be able to help the
youngsters get through it. And sometimes you don't know what
you don't know, right, I mean, but saying Garrett Wilson,
Sauce Gardner, guys that were number one picks, and you know,
(38:20):
in the case of Garrett Wilson where he played at college,
they've seen the microscope. They've been there, They've they've done that.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
It's all.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
I'm more worried about your coach and how he handles
it on because normally he just starts swatting at everybody.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Really, are they ready for what this is? I don't.
I don't think they are.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
I just don't think they're good enough, So I don't
think it matters.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Oh come on, they're loaded. But but they think they're
good enough. They think they can handle it. But boy,
telling you just watch, just w that's my big fear too,
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