September 15, 2023 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon can’t believe Justin Jefferson now has more career receiving yards than anyone in the Bears franchise history. That's over 100 YEARS OF HISTORY!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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The way tire buying should be Well. This has been
a week of prognostication for fans. We had the guy
that had his Twitter account deactivated because he said, hey,
in two and a half hours, Aaron Rodgers is gonna
blow out his achille. He's on this wet Met Life
Stadium field. It happened. Well, he was predicting violence. We
also have a big prediction from an Eagles fan that
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came true today. We're going to get to that in
a couple of minutes. But first file this under the
category of Mike Harmon takes one on the chin and
in the teeth at the exact same time. Bears. I
couldn't believe this stat was true. Yeah, but it is.
I cannot this is true. I cannot believe this is true.
(01:29):
This from Sam Monson of Pro Football Focus. Justin Jefferson
at a big night tonight. Yeah right, No, that's the
big night tonight. Right. He now has over fifty one
hundred receiving yards. He is twenty four years old. Yeah,
all right, fifty one hundred receiving yards, twenty four years old,
(01:50):
Justin Jefferson, Justin Jefferson has more career receiving yards than
any Bears receiver in their one hundred plus year history. Yeah,
Bears leading receivers.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
A guy most wouldn't have recognized even in the city
of Chicago unless they reminded you that he played because
he was a broadcaster.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
He's twenty four. Yeah, I'm trying to give Mike a
heart attack. He has. He's got more yards receiving than
anybody in the history and the Bears, Sippowitz or anybody else.
Some guy named Johnny Morris with five fifty nine, Get
the Beatles. Johnny Morris was a big deal. He went
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into broadcasting and he was the lead anchor and lead
sports guy on CBS for years. One hundred years they've
been playing football, and three years, not one guy, not
one guy. They got a lot of lead rushers. He's
twenty four. I get we throw the football a lot now,
but come on, man, wasn't there long enough. Brandon Marshall
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was the number launch, Johnny Morris, number two, Harlan Hill
fifty four to sixty one, and then el Sean jeff
Sean Jeffrey from twenty twelve to twenty sixteen at forty
five hundred insame Peyton Ditka, number six, Curtis Conway, number seven,
Matt Fourte out of the backfield, number eight, the legendary
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Marty Booker, number nine, Willie Galton, number ten, Ken Kavanaugh,
going back to the forties, before we see one hundred years,
Mike Allen Robinson, Dick Gordon, and then Brandon Marshall Corps
went out for my one hundred years of football.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
To show one shot, to show you worthy franchise, I'm
gonna give you a stat that's even gonna make it
magnified that much better.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Not one dot twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
First in team history is Devin Hester, who was a
failed experiment. Yeah, becoming a wide receiver should be in
the Hall of Fame as a return man.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Hands down ye fifty yards receiving twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Eight hundred, Okay, but still he was there a long
time and it was overall an experiment that did not work.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
In nineteen twenty, George Hallis, the original George Hallis, probably said, Okay,
you know, we're gonna do the future of this game.
We're gonna throw the football and we're gonna get the
best receivers in the game to do it. One hundred
years go by, visit for Mike and Papa Bear Hallis.
One hundred years go by, Still haven't had that guy
(04:21):
you could? I mean, how do you not draft one guy,
not one guy that can be with the team long
enough to have more than than just five good years
five good years? Sew Jeffrey was going to be that
guy five good but but but I'm saying, no, no, no,
don't that's one guy in one hundred years. How do
you not have I ever never played, not one guy
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five thousand yards even when you talk about years where
where teams don't throw the football as much, you go
back to the seventies. In the eighties, guys would hit
a thousand yards. That's always been the Bay thousand yards
receiving thousand yard receivers thousand that's just five years. You
haven't had one guy that could say, hey, we put
together five good years as a wide receiver here in Chicago.
(05:04):
Fun five. I mean that, that's that that's insane to me. Yeah,
the last wide receiver they picked in the first round
was the aforementioned Kevin White out of West Virginia, seventh overall.
Then you have to go back to two thousand and
one with David Trell. That is quod a Michigan boy.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But think about that they used them twice on the
wide receiver position in all those years.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Now they did they have trades. Another thing matter. You
didn't get lucky with anybody any second round, third round
wide receiver, free agent. The guy that you signed undrafted
free agent walks in off the street. Some were not
one guy. Not In one hundred years, where you go
through probably ten guys a year at the position, you
probably figure about five or six receivers a year. Now
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the teams have more receivers, but you figure about five
or six receivers a couple of guys get hurt, practice squad.
You have about ten wide receivers a year. All right,
you're talking ten wide receivers a year for one hundred years.
That's a that's that's that. That's over a thousand and
players and not one guy could be as good as
Justin Jefferson, who's twenty four is thirty year. What about
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all those guys they passed on in the draft that
have done it well? Certainly that is the day.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
There's myriad opportunities there to have pointed out failures in
the Bears drafting. I mean, we could do that already.
Maybe watch Jalen Carter getting after it again today. You know,
you go and take a guy Mike Tomlin doesn't want.
I saw this laid out, so I forget who it was.
But take a guy in Claypool that Mike Tombwell was like, yeah,
get out, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You go and you make other moves and acquire players
that other teams have had their fill of or don't
think are good character guys for the locker room. And
then you state very emphatically. You know what, this guy
can't come into the room because he's got off the
field issues and now he's dominant, so you know the
decision making all along. And look, we've been doing it
(06:56):
for a decade. I've pulled no punches. Bash that team
at every opportunity this because it's been replete with failures
since I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Dude. This makes the Jets inability to get a quarterback
look like a kid given out can. But the Bears
do that too. Okay, you can't even have that, bro, Yes,
we only had no We hit the naymoth and that's
we haven't had a god we got I got many,
that's fifty. You want a super Bowl with McMahon, You
got a quarterback you want to but you got him. Yeah,
in nineteen sixty nine, Fine, go back another eighth. That's far,
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but go back another fifty plus years past that, beyond
before that, and Si, nobody, nobody good enough to be
better than Justin Jefferson this early in his career. You
guys right now are the Spider Man gift. No, we
sucked that, we sucked more. Now we suck. You want
to insert Brandon Staley into the conversation. Shut your mouth over. Wait,
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let me see, let me shoot my team. Out your mouth.
I just gotta say, you want in on this, mister Helper,
come on in, we got we got players, No way.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You just have to coach him up. As Austin Eckler
alluded to earlier this week, but yeah, it's it's a
disaster and it has been forever, and so long as
the mc caskeys and Hollises own the team you're gonna have,
you're gonna keep trying to do the same thing. It's
the definition of insanity. This is a stat ranks where
they need to sell the team. You put this out
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in front of them.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
No, Well, what the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
First thing to do is make sure they really get
paid out, and that's go own your own stadium, get
a couple of Taylor Swift shows to come through the
Stones when they do Hackney Diamonds Tour and all that.
When you can do that, well, because as of now,
you got nothing right, You're you're a tenant in a
Really we talk about the Jets and that facility and
(08:41):
the turf and everything else. The Bears, nobody wants to
go play there at all. I mean, I know Quinn
Williams got kind of funny saying I'll play on concrete.
Damn it, let's go. But the Bears Soldier Field. Nobody
wants to go play on that. It's where you go
to die. You can have a monster truck rally on
a Thursday, a concert on a Friday, and then a
high school football game at ten, one and four on Saturday,
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and then the Bears have to come in and play
on whatever's left.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
No, no, that's forever now. The high school team plays first.
The Bears play play on Friday nights. The Decatur Staley's
the Staleys. Yeah, the organization that eventually became the Chicago Bears. No,
that's the mascot's name Stan. We're founded in nineteen nineteen.
The next year the company hired former University of Illinois
teammates George Hallis and Dutch Tournament to run the team.
(09:31):
So in ninety Dutch was connected. In nineteen twenty, the
name is Kid Double Dutch. In nineteen twenty thirteen, team
representatives met in Canton, Ohio to create a new football league.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I'm alright ready about to kick you in the ad
go into the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I hate you.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I even bought you a sandwich, and yet you're still
taking a baseball back to me. This is worse than
the near assault of our friend Jay Glazer by his
uber driver and best friend Howie Long.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Teen twenty the Staley's won ten games, all by shutouts. Yeah,
but lost to the Akron Pros the first league championship.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, defense and run the ball, I mean, that's what
that's what we know, what we're known for, and deep
dish pizzam.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Nineteen twenty one was their first year as the Chicago
Bears and sacrize of the Bears. They played at Staley Field,
which seated fifteen hundred people reading it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You're gonna do that, You're gonna go this whole way,
eighteen hundred people, And in all that time, they've not
gone one guy, and I gotten one guy.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know what, in today's NFL thousand yards, how many
of those rushing attempts would count as pass attempts the
way we score things now, little shovels and all.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
That isn't enough to be more to pass.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You might have had a couple of running backs that
would have been credited with receiving.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Let's say that happened. Let's I'll give you some of
that in three weeks, justin Jefferson would pass that number. Funny.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I'm trying to do it without just laughing uncontrollably because
I was listening to the you know, the great Ringo
star in town this weekend. If anybody wants to go
Sunday night is uh, you know if the laughs so
you don't cry kind of thing. When I think of
the long storied history of this team, grabbed my white
Sox in except for a couple of brief glimpses of glory,
(11:23):
a couple of years of the Blackhawks and those near
runs in the the Ronic days and all of that
back when Eddie bellfour was getting after it before they
got bludgeoned by the Penguins. All of those things. You know,
I've had a few of those, but the Bears each
and every year. And we did it Friday when we
were going through picks for Game one. I set it
(11:45):
up on a tee exactly what was gonna play out.
And now the guy that they brought in as a
big acquisition doesn't look like he's gonna be deactivated. But damn,
it's close in Claypool and you've already got fields to
talking about conservative play calling everything else. We're pointing fingers
at a rate unseen, unheard of, and it's great. It's great.
(12:09):
I want to watch it burn. I'm gonna go learn
to play fiddle by some YouTube videos.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Justin Jefferson has been in the league three years and
two weeks. Three good and two weeks. Captain Kirk future
jet in your world. He's really good. And at some
point there will be and we mock the primetime game
record and all those things, there's gonna be an appreciation
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for how good he actually has been. It may not
come until long after he's retired, but he's been pretty
good for a long time. And Justin Jefferson is an
all world receiver. Yeah. Oh, he's the best wide receiver
in the NFL. That's absolutely the best. He's been playing
three years and two weeks. The best Big Tyreek Hill though,
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one hundred dude, Mike's on the ropes and you're still
going for the knockouty, No, I'm throwing bolo punches now.
A hundred year, three years and two games, a hundred year.
I mean, Prosper's been ringing the bell for four minutes.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
My best friend is this Justin Jefferson, you bought me
this sandwich that I wolfed down in record speed has
played out.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'm gonna do this. Justin Jefferson's played fifty one games
the Chicago Bears have played how many twenty thousand?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And he's played in about as many meaningful ones as
we have.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Again that that that doesn't bode well for you because
he's three years. I know you're a hundred years. I
know that was the Joes a hundred years, A hundred.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, when you've only got a hundred years year.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Too, if Johnny Moore has had another thousand yards, Justin Jefferson,
would Patson? You know what thought?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Johnny Morris was great friends with Walter Payton, some of
their exchanges through the years, and with Coach Dita some
of the finest television moments we had.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And that's great.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Does not add to his about his receiving total. Now,
he and Jeannie Morris were legends in the field in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I wanted thirty for thirty on Bears wide receivers, one
hundred years of Bear's receivers. That's why, why do you
want to do that? We even met Brandy Marshall, you
didn't even show up. Remember Puppy monkey Baby. Puppy monkey Baby.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I was showing the kids that picture the other day
and they both said, where's Jason.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Could have held on to him, he can come out.
Could have held on to Brandon Marshall didn't bother to
show up. Could have held on to him not Jason
was playing with his puppy monkey baby. He wanted more stats.
I was there for puppy monkey Baby.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I was there.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That woman brought more baby over. I was I was
there for puppy monkey baby and Aaron Rodgers played the
second half. She brought over shit. The woman brought over
puppy monkey baby, and I was there for puppy monkey baby. Yes,
I was there puppy monkey Baby. I was there for
puppy monkey Baby. I was there. Twitter at how about
a fresco Mike get hundred years of Bears bring it on,
hashtag on hundred years of Bears at Swollen Dome.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Hey your jokes in it's a chuckle head on a
Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Do the next two and a half hours just on
this stag on Justin Jefferson, bring it. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven pm Pacific, Al
Michaels welcoming viewers into Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia tonight into
the Vet. We're into the vet. Long long time ago.
(15:33):
See and the first one he said, play it again,
played again, played again, Stadium in Philadelphia. It sounded like
he's saying welcome to Houston, because I hear the banging
like it's the trash cans. It sounds, oh, welcome to Houston. No,
welcome to the VET. Welcome to the Vet. He had
all the Eagles plays Veterans, Welcome to Veteran STANDI in Philadelphia.
(15:53):
Ron Jaworski and the Eagles have the lead right here. Well,
a touchdown past to Harold Carmichael has given them the
twelve point leader late in the third quarter.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
To be fair, we have talked about game planning and
scripts for a long time in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Veterans statem in Philadelphia. Yeah, that was demolished to know fou. Yeah,
a long time ago, long long time ago, long time. Hey,
you know you only have five receivers that have more
yards than justin Jefferson. That's five. Here goes to Spider
Man five your team such too, if you missed the
last few minutes. All my stat on Justin Jefferson, who
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now who has been in the league for three years
and two games, he now has more career receiving yards
than anyone in the history of the Bears. Yeah, so
Aaron Rodgers owns the Bears than three year history of
the Bears, they have not had one person to pass
the five thousand, ninety five yard mark. Because that's what
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Justin Jefferson did tonight. He's the youngest player to get
to five thousand yards earliest in his career. He did
it in early in the first quarter in this game.
But now more yards in this first three years and
two games than anyone the Bears have had in their history.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah. As I've gotten older, I've been, you know, be
less sensitive to the things I align myself with that
get cut down right. Teams, music, movies, television shows, you
like all of those things, and then every once in
a while, there's something that just kind of gets in there. Yeah,
you know, like the earworm. You know, songs that Ty
(17:26):
Shirt plays you don't like that. You know, you could
see you visibly disturbed by the opening chords of this
one hits because you've talked about it since while you
were able to go to the lunch room table at
high school. Yeah, and you get there early, and you'd
all be sitting there talking about the squad and what
needs to be done.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
And it was always I don't feel passing you, Mike.
Was Chris Farley, the lunch lady, you know what, one
of the people working there kind of kind of resembled.
It's funny you say that you talk about stuff today
got thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I mean that you're right that your team sucks, and
it's not that no, but here it is with specificity,
not just Bear steak, Bear Steak packers own you, Bear's
wide receiver stink. Now, let's go into parts of your
squad that have never been right in for thirty years.
Quarterback right there we go, but like for a lifetime.
(18:21):
It's this bearstat is one hundred half, but see hundreds
of thee I'm only going into my adult life one
hundred years when I'm eighteen plus. Franz Ferdinand was still alive,
the archdew and this was going on. He was still
the arch Duke, still alive. That's a joke that you've
(18:42):
got to be of a certain age, or just really
like Saturday Night Live to understand what the hell.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
The White Sucks hadn't thrown the World Series yet. That's
how long ago it was about. It was about in
concert with the opening of things.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, twenty nine is not thirty, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I don't think Sister Jean was even born to that point.
Was one? She would have been one. Sister Jean was one. Yeah,
Sester Jean was in diapers one hundred years, little buddy diaper,
one hundred years. The Bears have not had one wide
receiver that could top more than fifty one hundred yards receiving.
Justin Jefferson does it in three years of two games. Jason,
(19:26):
you're right behind them.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Oh, oh, this is any like he did say he's
got five. What's interesting though, because you haven't had anybody,
uh later than Lavinius Coals. Yeah, did his Jets run
in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, I know it hasn't been great, but that's still
that's okay, that's that's we got Lavernius Coles in your quarterback.
Mike has his achilles attacked. That's fifteen years. That's fifteen years.
This is one hundred. Yeah, I years did a bit
when I was in you only got one hundred years.
Here's ago to get a wide receiver to catch passes.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
We broke her to deal with a place where if
you won your or premium league, you got to choose
from a bevy of jersey, so several per team player
or whatever. And the bit was in my video segments.
I would wear one of those jerseys each week. At
some point, I think they got thrown out by someone
I'm not gonna name, but Lavarnius Coals was one of
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those jerseys and I had at one point, Yeah, I
had that.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I had.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
To Eagles jersey. I mean like, all right, it's some cool,
some cool stuff. But I remember the Lavernius coles for whatever,
Like normally they were just the replicas, so what sixty
nine seventy nine dollars retail? The Lavinius Coals they sent
me was like an authentic like it made no sense.
Everything else was kind of like the cheap, kind of
flimsy thing you could find in any sporting goods stores.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
This one was pretty Yeah. I was like, can I
choose the name plate on it? Any game Warn Firemen
ed Cups? No, the only game Warn jersey I have.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I actually have two, the Magliar Donas, and then at
one point I was gifted a Travis Hafner Rangers Travis
after very nice Wow when he was still on the upswing.
At some point we were at a baseball game and
we were sitting next to his agent. Unbeknownst us, Oh
my guys like, hey, let me send you something.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Okay, alright, cool, that's cool Jason Mark Sanchez, but foomball
game warn Jersey. No, I think the last that would
be kind of cool. I think the last Jets jersey
I owned that I bought. I mean I've had I
think the last two, the last two because I got
in the same time. The last two Jets jerseys I
bought were Freeman McNeil and Wesley Walker throwbacks. Those are
(21:39):
the last two I bought. That's a long time ago. Yeah, No,
I mean like I bought like the like years after
they retired. I bought their throwbacks, but that was years ago.
Oh I had. I had a bunch of Curtis Martin jerseys,
but this is the last I remember. These are the
last ones I bought. Yeah, public signing John Abraham. I
had a bunch of a I had a lavernis, I
had the black jersey. Oh yeah, they're not letting Jason Curtison. Actually,
(22:04):
you know what his picture might be on the table.
Jason hasn't washed his hand since now. Look, I want
to say this, listen, this is that's time to get
serious here for a couple minutes, because we've had you
want to play the little violin music. No, no, no,
no no, we're just a tough guy. We're done with
fast fry my ass in the blink of in n
(22:24):
sixty seven is gone. We're moving jerk when you've only
got one hundred years to find a wide receiver who
can catch more passes than Justin Jefferson in his first
three years and two games. Okay, doctor Evil, never say
well he's kind of five for fighting. It's kind of
got that little bit of a little bit of that
(22:47):
one hundred years Superman. Oh that's a good song. That's
a good song. Now we have to be serious here
because there's a lot of people that we have that
I understand aren't going through a great time right now
that we have to make some time for because it's
it's it's about that too, and this is everyone look
coming off this big Thursday night game. Seeing the Eagles way.
There are many people and a lot a lot of
(23:09):
people who are coming off this and they're in despair
and there's a lot of anguish because they all left
DeAndre Swift on their benches in fantasy and there's a
lot of upset. I don't know how you would have
thought with Gain well, even if you didn't trust the
workload split, which I think we did. I think we
all had some mistrust of how the workload split would go,
(23:32):
but that he would see a double digit touchcount. Yeah,
just by accident. It's tough, but it's it's tough on
a It's it's tough on a Thursday to say I
want to play him, I trust him to play running
back because it's it's like Thursday is different because you
got to go there's a Thursday night trust thing. Well,
to be fair, he didn't exactly play a lot. Know
(23:53):
who can? You who can? Much? So because you have,
because you have, because you have Thursday night games. You
have to make that decision. And it's boy, do I
really trust to the guy that carried the ball once
last week? Now there's a couple of injuries. Looks like
he may carry the ball a lot, but I don't know.
It's Thursday night. Do I have better options available? It
(24:14):
is easy to talk yourself out of that. It is
two starters, and it's it's easy to talk yourself out
of that. It's because you talk your flex is gonna
wind up being a wide receiver most likely. It's like,
but can I trust me? It's not like he had
any kind of He didn't get the ball at all
in week one. You didn't get it at all. I
didn't yet, Yes I have. I'm going to start him
at my as an RB two this week. I don't know.
(24:35):
You can do it. You know this guy you did?
Oh yeah, congratulate. Oh very nice. Well you're not the
only guy, because if you were paying attention to the today,
there was an Eagles fan who showed up at Veterans
(24:57):
Stadium today. Who showed up at the stadium today, Well,
it's a parking four thirty in the morning, he shows
up to the field to start the tailgate. It's a
lunch pale kind of thing on Thursday night. So a
local news station did an interview with this guy. Four
thirty in the morning, he shows up to tailgate and oh,
(25:19):
by the way, did he or did he not tell
you exactly how this game was gonna go.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
DeAndre Swift, I think he's really going to stop up
for the Birds and six point win.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You're calling it my prediction to what happened Bears he
won six points, but DeAndre Swift ran for one hundred
and seventy.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Andre Swift, I think he's really going to stop up
for the Burrs and six point win.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Calling it my predictions the wait, wait now, now you're
getting my Philadelphia accent because that was anything like this
with the Birds, it was birds. He's a bird.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
De Andre Swift, I think he's really going to stop
up for the birs.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Birds, Birds, Birds. That's it's DeAndre Swift will step up
for the birds. We win by six points. You got
the push because it was a six point spread. Did
you bring a HOGI for me? You came to do
an interview with me. I'm not getting paid. You get
you get a hogie? You know you get some format birds.
Birds give me birds, give me a bird weight like
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one line. He just went straight to birds. Win by
six thirty four to twenty eight was the final. Deander
Swift was gonna go off one hundred and seventy yards. Well,
you know there.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Are a lot of betters out there thanking Captain Kirk
for that last touchdown Birds to get the push when.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You're right, you're right. I mean, this is the second
person who was really scarily accurately correct in something they're
predicting about national televised games. Have we done church to
find out they have a thing? What if now? Because
we you know, I don't know about the the mummified
bodies in Mexico. What if now we're finding out that
(26:59):
ali people are actually traveling to Earth from the future.
And to get everybody used to the fact that hey
we can time travel or aliens can come, We're gonna
just start slow by predicting big things in NFL games. Well,
BET's see everybody gets used because you had the guy
predicting the Rogers' injury. Now you have the guy predicting
the Birds. Hey, hey, you know, not money enough, p
Can you talk in an accent like this? Yeah? I
(27:20):
could do that for Okay, great, just make a prediction
and get you know, hey, DeAndre Swift has that big
game right, yeah, okay, so just say we have that.
I mean, maybe this is what we're getting everybody used
to the fact that there is time travel and there
are aliens, and it's hey, if we tell you how
a sporting event goes, it gets you used to things,
and then all right, then you get used to the
fact that, okay, well we can time travel, and I
(27:42):
go back in time, and I can go back to
nineteen twenty and tell George Allis, hey traft some wide receivers, okay,
and don't pass on Justin Jefferson to be fair, the
over on Peko.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
There's a lot where Jay Glazer and Howie Long I
used to get to play over there a little bit
and run around the back lots. They produced a little
show called The Simpsons that had been predicting a lot
of things for thirty four years.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Well, the aliens had already landing. You have a lot
of on the Fox lots. It's a lot of shows.
It's twenty two episodes a year. It's a lot along
so a lot of man. Yeah, but what if you
know it's maybe maybe the very first coming over has
been Okay, time travel, and we do it through the Simpsons,
and then people get you saw I get a little
bit of attention. Okay, that's Grammer Simpsons predicted the Trump
(28:31):
presidency in twenty sixteen. Right if, what if someone starts
talking about Burley you want to hear my feary? What
do you have for Rosburg? What if Arian Foster's really
going ethan Hunt and Mission Impossible style where it's just
a mask of these guys, but it's really Arian Foster underneath.
Oh okay, the script okay, and he's got the script
(28:53):
that could be he's got I remember interviewing him years ago.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, it was an interesting fifteen He's interesting, dude, did he.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Tell you this, jeff justin Jefferson stat was gonna happen?
Maybe he really does have the script because anytime something
really big happens that could blow your mind, you need
it in low doses, right, like remember a contact with
Jodie Foster and the alien finally shows up at the end,
and it's a real letdown because it's her dad and
they're like, it's David Morse. He's been an actor's since
(29:21):
he's on Saint Elsewhere a million things, and and what
does the alien say, Hey, this is how we do it.
We gotta do it. In slow doses on why we
want you to be comfortable. This is not the form
I take, but this is what it is. I want
you to get used to the fact there's alien life,
and then he's that's how we do and then uh,
this is how we get used to the fact that, okay,
there are alternate dimensions time travel, and we slowly let
(29:43):
everybody know until they're comfortable with it and their minds
don't get blown.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
The other thing, just the mummified you know, go brillions
that we saw in Mexico allegedly. Are they the kind
they look like those things you take out of the capsules, like, oh,
you got a dinosaur and he put them at wall
and water and all.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Of a sudden up a little bit. Yeah, yeah, okay,
maybe little.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Let's kind of what happened if he puffed out a
little bit like he's I don't know, like a dough
you let it, let it proof a little bit.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
What do you got tight shirt? So this is crazy.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
So now you mentioned the guy who predicted Aaron Rodgers
tour an Achilles.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Uh huh do you know who he is?
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Uh? Okay, so this is crazy. Actually he turned out
the guy's name is David zal Lav. Zal Lav have
you heard of him. No, he is literally the Warner
Brothers Discovery CEO that tweeted that out.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
He's the CEO with Yes, that's who was the guy
that sweeted it out. How crazy is that? Wow? Why
didn't they tell me that Wonder Woman eighty four was
going to be so bad early on? You could have
protected the future, told me, hey, don't worry about it. Man,
it's not very good. Oh thanks, thanks Warner Brothers. That's wild. Wow.
See I'm telling you to time travel. Be sure to
(30:52):
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wide receiver. Jefferson's twenty four for a moment.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
We started playing in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Took him while to draft Curtis Conway and then he
got hurt. Then we got Marty Booker.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Next, we had Brandon Marshall for a moment, but he
had to go, so we started over again.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I'm trying to think of who you kind of sound
like as a sportscaster singing.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Not quite Dick Shepp, but I'm Dick Shep. Fox Sports Radio,
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Rmy
just gotta listen.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
We had a great Thursday night football game and then
it all became about the Bears.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
In my one hundred years of futility, you would think
the Vikings won the game. We're talking about justin Jefferson time.
That doesn't't matter. But listen, I just wanted to throw
this out because we have big stuff on Dion Sanders
coming up in about ten minutes. Kirk Cousins has another
great game tonight, but now the Vikings fall to Owen two. Yeah,
(32:18):
all right, As we get close to the trade deadline,
Zach Wilson's going to be the Jets quarterback. He's going
to be the Jets quarterback from now at least until
the deadline. There's no better choices. We've talked about this.
No one's trading their backup because they're keeping their backup,
and nobody off the street is any good. So Zach
has the next six seven weeks because the trading deadline
(32:41):
is November first, to prove he can do it. He's
the guy. Now. If the Jets wind up being three
and four, four and three, they're right there. Hey, if
we just get a little bit better quarterback play, we're
gonna start winning some games. There's only two players that
the Jets will go out and trade for, and it
depends on those teams playing well and punting on the
(33:02):
season saying we're gonna tank. We're gonna get our next
quarterback in the draft, whatever it is, because the Jets
are only gonna get two guys, because they're not gonna
bring in anybody with salary because Aaron Rodgers is trying
to come back next year. So it's got to be
someone that you can walk away from after this year.
That knocks out Matters Stafford and knocks out a lot
of guys. But the two guys that fit that bill,
and only two guys, The only guys that fit the
(33:23):
suit are Kirk Cousins and Ryan Tannehill. Yeah, Tannehill may
be eminently available sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
But if you want in his assessment of Tannehill's because look,
that was a winnable game, because that's the thing, right,
five field goals, sixteen fifteen loss to the Saints team
that everybody loves. Everybody loves the Saints, and Tannehill shot
them in the foot repeatedly. Right, that was one of
(33:52):
the worst quarterback games I think I've seen in a while.
I mean, because he had players, he had opportunity. And
now you're going to week two, No Deanry Hopkins. We
did the schedule game.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
A little bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Obviously, they got the Chargers coming to town. Do the
Titans this week? Then they face the Browns offensive and
defensive line. I think one and one A. If we're
gonna rank those sixty four units across the the NFL,
it's about as good as it gets as them and
the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Uh, then they've.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Got Week three or no, Week four, I should say
the Bengals, who we have to believe will get better
Week five, the Colts. It's always a party when those
two teams get together. Then you got the Ravens at home,
and then you play the Falcons. There's not a gimme
on there at all. Nor is it guaranteed that Tannehill
hasn't played himself out of the job from Alik Willis
(34:41):
to take over.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, but if you're waiting, if the if you're watching,
because the teams ought to be bad, so the title bet.
But here are the Vikings zero to two. If they're
one and four one and five. You're waiting them one
and five, one and six, Come on, gonna pull that trigger.
Hey we need we're gonna need a new quarterback, right
because we have Jefferson and Addison and Hawkinson. The guys
are all young. We need that young guy. And hey,
we could get Caleb Williams or may or Shrador Sanders
(35:04):
or somebody else. Guess what, he's the guy you want
to wait to see if he's available, because Cousins is
the better quarterback. Yeah, but those are the only guys.
Those are the I'm giving you names. It's Zach Wilson,
and then it's either Ryan Tannehill or Kirk Cousins or
it stays Zach Wilson. That's how it goes.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, I mean this is really just the follow up
and when the reason we hammer it today I think
because this is the conversation Monday, right as we started
going down the list of who would be available. You
know that's on the street in a broadcast booth. Backups
are a non entity. And who's better than Zach anyway, Yeah,
you'd look at these two options, and Kirk Cousins if
(35:40):
you're able to wrest him away, to guide your squad
think about Garrett Wilson, how happy he'd.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Be Kirk Cousins finally Jet's quarterback.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Garrett Wilson's gonna have more than any Bears receiver in
about a year.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Big stuff on Dion coming up next. Fox. You like
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The way tire buying should be Well. This has been
a week of prognostication for fans. We had the guy
that had his Twitter account deactivated because he said, hey,
in two and a half hours, Aaron Rodgers is gonna
blow out his achille. He's on this wet Met Life
Stadium field. It happened. Well, he was predicting violence. We
also have a big prediction from an Eagles fan that
(01:09):
came true today. We're going to get to that in
a couple of minutes. But first file this under the
category of Mike Harmon takes one on the chin and
in the teeth at the exact same time. Bears. I
couldn't believe this stat was true. Yeah, but it is.
I cannot this is true. I cannot believe this is true.
(01:29):
This from Sam Monson of Pro Football Focus. Justin Jefferson
at a big night tonight. Yeah right, No, that's the
big night tonight. Right. He now has over fifty one
hundred receiving yards. He is twenty four years old. Yeah,
all right, fifty one hundred receiving yards, twenty four years old,
(01:50):
Justin Jefferson, Justin Jefferson has more career receiving yards than
any Bears receiver in their one hundred plus year history. Yeah,
Bears leading receivers.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
A guy most wouldn't have recognized even in the city
of Chicago unless they reminded you that he played because
he was a broadcaster.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
He's twenty four. Yeah, I'm trying to give Mike a
heart attack. He has. He's got more yards receiving than
anybody in the history and the Bears, Sippowitz or anybody else.
Some guy named Johnny Morris with five fifty nine, Get
the Beatles. Johnny Morris was a big deal. He went
(02:32):
into broadcasting and he was the lead anchor and lead
sports guy on CBS for years. One hundred years they've
been playing football, and three years, not one guy, not
one guy. They got a lot of lead rushers. He's
twenty four. I get we throw the football a lot now,
but come on, man, wasn't there long enough. Brandon Marshall
(02:53):
was the number launch, Johnny Morris, number two, Harlan Hill
fifty four to sixty one, and then el Sean jeff
Sean Jeffrey from twenty twelve to twenty sixteen at forty
five hundred insame Peyton Ditka, number six, Curtis Conway, number seven,
Matt Fourte out of the backfield, number eight, the legendary
(03:14):
Marty Booker, number nine, Willie Galton, number ten, Ken Kavanaugh,
going back to the forties, before we see one hundred years,
Mike Allen Robinson, Dick Gordon, and then Brandon Marshall Corps
went out for my one hundred years of football.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
To show one shot, to show you worthy franchise, I'm
gonna give you a stat that's even gonna make it
magnified that much better.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Not one dot twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
First in team history is Devin Hester, who was a
failed experiment. Yeah, becoming a wide receiver should be in
the Hall of Fame as a return man.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Hands down ye fifty yards receiving twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Eight hundred, Okay, but still he was there a long
time and it was overall an experiment that did not work.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
In nineteen twenty, George Hallis, the original George Hallis, probably said, Okay,
you know, we're gonna do the future of this game.
We're gonna throw the football and we're gonna get the
best receivers in the game to do it. One hundred
years go by, visit for Mike and Papa Bear Hallis.
One hundred years go by, Still haven't had that guy
(04:21):
you could? I mean, how do you not draft one guy,
not one guy that can be with the team long
enough to have more than than just five good years
five good years? Sew Jeffrey was going to be that
guy five good but but but I'm saying, no, no, no,
don't that's one guy in one hundred years. How do
you not have I ever never played, not one guy
(04:41):
five thousand yards even when you talk about years where
where teams don't throw the football as much, you go
back to the seventies. In the eighties, guys would hit
a thousand yards. That's always been the Bay thousand yards
receiving thousand yard receivers thousand that's just five years. You
haven't had one guy that could say, hey, we put
together five good years as a wide receiver here in Chicago.
(05:04):
Fun five. I mean that, that's that that's insane to me. Yeah,
the last wide receiver they picked in the first round
was the aforementioned Kevin White out of West Virginia, seventh overall.
Then you have to go back to two thousand and
one with David Trell. That is quod a Michigan boy.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But think about that they used them twice on the
wide receiver position in all those years.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Now they did they have trades. Another thing matter. You
didn't get lucky with anybody any second round, third round
wide receiver, free agent. The guy that you signed undrafted
free agent walks in off the street. Some were not
one guy. Not In one hundred years, where you go
through probably ten guys a year at the position, you
probably figure about five or six receivers a year. Now
(05:45):
the teams have more receivers, but you figure about five
or six receivers a couple of guys get hurt, practice squad.
You have about ten wide receivers a year. All right,
you're talking ten wide receivers a year for one hundred years.
That's a that's that's that. That's over a thousand and
players and not one guy could be as good as
Justin Jefferson, who's twenty four is thirty year. What about
(06:06):
all those guys they passed on in the draft that
have done it well? Certainly that is the day.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
There's myriad opportunities there to have pointed out failures in
the Bears drafting. I mean, we could do that already.
Maybe watch Jalen Carter getting after it again today. You know,
you go and take a guy Mike Tomlin doesn't want.
I saw this laid out, so I forget who it was.
But take a guy in Claypool that Mike Tombwell was like, yeah,
get out, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You go and you make other moves and acquire players
that other teams have had their fill of or don't
think are good character guys for the locker room. And
then you state very emphatically. You know what, this guy
can't come into the room because he's got off the
field issues and now he's dominant, so you know the
decision making all along. And look, we've been doing it
(06:56):
for a decade. I've pulled no punches. Bash that team
at every opportunity this because it's been replete with failures
since I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Dude. This makes the Jets inability to get a quarterback
look like a kid given out can. But the Bears
do that too. Okay, you can't even have that, bro, Yes,
we only had no We hit the naymoth and that's
we haven't had a god we got I got many,
that's fifty. You want a super Bowl with McMahon, You
got a quarterback you want to but you got him. Yeah,
in nineteen sixty nine, Fine, go back another eighth. That's far,
(07:26):
but go back another fifty plus years past that, beyond
before that, and Si, nobody, nobody good enough to be
better than Justin Jefferson this early in his career. You
guys right now are the Spider Man gift. No, we
sucked that, we sucked more. Now we suck. You want
to insert Brandon Staley into the conversation. Shut your mouth over. Wait,
(07:48):
let me see, let me shoot my team. Out your mouth.
I just gotta say, you want in on this, mister Helper,
come on in, we got we got players, No way.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You just have to coach him up. As Austin Eckler
alluded to earlier this week, but yeah, it's it's a
disaster and it has been forever, and so long as
the mc caskeys and Hollises own the team you're gonna have,
you're gonna keep trying to do the same thing. It's
the definition of insanity. This is a stat ranks where
they need to sell the team. You put this out
(08:19):
in front of them.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
No, Well, what the.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
First thing to do is make sure they really get
paid out, and that's go own your own stadium, get
a couple of Taylor Swift shows to come through the
Stones when they do Hackney Diamonds Tour and all that.
When you can do that, well, because as of now,
you got nothing right, You're you're a tenant in a
Really we talk about the Jets and that facility and
(08:41):
the turf and everything else. The Bears, nobody wants to
go play there at all. I mean, I know Quinn
Williams got kind of funny saying I'll play on concrete.
Damn it, let's go. But the Bears Soldier Field. Nobody
wants to go play on that. It's where you go
to die. You can have a monster truck rally on
a Thursday, a concert on a Friday, and then a
high school football game at ten, one and four on Saturday,
(09:05):
and then the Bears have to come in and play
on whatever's left.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
No, no, that's forever now. The high school team plays first.
The Bears play play on Friday nights. The Decatur Staley's
the Staleys. Yeah, the organization that eventually became the Chicago Bears. No,
that's the mascot's name Stan. We're founded in nineteen nineteen.
The next year the company hired former University of Illinois
teammates George Hallis and Dutch Tournament to run the team.
(09:31):
So in ninety Dutch was connected. In nineteen twenty, the
name is Kid Double Dutch. In nineteen twenty thirteen, team
representatives met in Canton, Ohio to create a new football league.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I'm alright ready about to kick you in the ad
go into the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I hate you.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I even bought you a sandwich, and yet you're still
taking a baseball back to me. This is worse than
the near assault of our friend Jay Glazer by his
uber driver and best friend Howie Long.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Teen twenty the Staley's won ten games, all by shutouts. Yeah,
but lost to the Akron Pros the first league championship.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, defense and run the ball, I mean, that's what
that's what we know, what we're known for, and deep
dish pizzam.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Nineteen twenty one was their first year as the Chicago
Bears and sacrize of the Bears. They played at Staley Field,
which seated fifteen hundred people reading it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
You're gonna do that, You're gonna go this whole way,
eighteen hundred people, And in all that time, they've not
gone one guy, and I gotten one guy.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
You know what, in today's NFL thousand yards, how many
of those rushing attempts would count as pass attempts the
way we score things now, little shovels and all.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
That isn't enough to be more to pass.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You might have had a couple of running backs that
would have been credited with receiving.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Let's say that happened. Let's I'll give you some of
that in three weeks, justin Jefferson would pass that number. Funny.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I'm trying to do it without just laughing uncontrollably because
I was listening to the you know, the great Ringo
star in town this weekend. If anybody wants to go
Sunday night is uh, you know if the laughs so
you don't cry kind of thing. When I think of
the long storied history of this team, grabbed my white
Sox in except for a couple of brief glimpses of glory,
(11:23):
a couple of years of the Blackhawks and those near
runs in the the Ronic days and all of that
back when Eddie bellfour was getting after it before they
got bludgeoned by the Penguins. All of those things. You know,
I've had a few of those, but the Bears each
and every year. And we did it Friday when we
were going through picks for Game one. I set it
(11:45):
up on a tee exactly what was gonna play out.
And now the guy that they brought in as a
big acquisition doesn't look like he's gonna be deactivated. But damn,
it's close in Claypool and you've already got fields to
talking about conservative play calling everything else. We're pointing fingers
at a rate unseen, unheard of, and it's great. It's great.
(12:09):
I want to watch it burn. I'm gonna go learn
to play fiddle by some YouTube videos.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Justin Jefferson has been in the league three years and
two weeks. Three good and two weeks. Captain Kirk future
jet in your world. He's really good. And at some
point there will be and we mock the primetime game
record and all those things, there's gonna be an appreciation
(12:36):
for how good he actually has been. It may not
come until long after he's retired, but he's been pretty
good for a long time. And Justin Jefferson is an
all world receiver. Yeah. Oh, he's the best wide receiver
in the NFL. That's absolutely the best. He's been playing
three years and two weeks. The best Big Tyreek Hill though,
(13:00):
one hundred dude, Mike's on the ropes and you're still
going for the knockouty, No, I'm throwing bolo punches now.
A hundred year, three years and two games, a hundred year.
I mean, Prosper's been ringing the bell for four minutes.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
My best friend is this Justin Jefferson, you bought me
this sandwich that I wolfed down in record speed has
played out.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I'm gonna do this. Justin Jefferson's played fifty one games
the Chicago Bears have played how many twenty thousand?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And he's played in about as many meaningful ones as
we have.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Again that that that doesn't bode well for you because
he's three years. I know you're a hundred years. I
know that was the Joes a hundred years, A hundred.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, when you've only got a hundred years year.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Too, if Johnny Moore has had another thousand yards, Justin Jefferson,
would Patson? You know what thought?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Johnny Morris was great friends with Walter Payton, some of
their exchanges through the years, and with Coach Dita some
of the finest television moments we had.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
And that's great.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Does not add to his about his receiving total. Now,
he and Jeannie Morris were legends in the field in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I wanted thirty for thirty on Bears wide receivers, one
hundred years of Bear's receivers. That's why, why do you
want to do that? We even met Brandy Marshall, you
didn't even show up. Remember Puppy monkey Baby. Puppy monkey Baby.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I was showing the kids that picture the other day
and they both said, where's Jason.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Could have held on to him, he can come out.
Could have held on to Brandon Marshall didn't bother to
show up. Could have held on to him not Jason
was playing with his puppy monkey baby. He wanted more stats.
I was there for puppy monkey Baby.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I was there.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That woman brought more baby over. I was I was
there for puppy monkey baby and Aaron Rodgers played the
second half. She brought over shit. The woman brought over
puppy monkey baby, and I was there for puppy monkey baby. Yes,
I was there puppy monkey Baby. I was there for
puppy monkey Baby. I was there. Twitter at how about
a fresco Mike get hundred years of Bears bring it on,
hashtag on hundred years of Bears at Swollen Dome.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Hey your jokes in it's a chuckle head on a
Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Do the next two and a half hours just on
this stag on Justin Jefferson, bring it. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven pm Pacific, Al
Michaels welcoming viewers into Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia tonight into
the Vet. We're into the vet. Long long time ago.
(15:33):
See and the first one he said, play it again,
played again, played again, Stadium in Philadelphia. It sounded like
he's saying welcome to Houston, because I hear the banging
like it's the trash cans. It sounds, oh, welcome to Houston. No,
welcome to the VET. Welcome to the Vet. He had
all the Eagles plays Veterans, Welcome to Veteran STANDI in Philadelphia.
(15:53):
Ron Jaworski and the Eagles have the lead right here. Well,
a touchdown past to Harold Carmichael has given them the
twelve point leader late in the third quarter.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
To be fair, we have talked about game planning and
scripts for a long time in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Veterans statem in Philadelphia. Yeah, that was demolished to know fou. Yeah,
a long time ago, long long time ago, long time. Hey,
you know you only have five receivers that have more
yards than justin Jefferson. That's five. Here goes to Spider
Man five your team such too, if you missed the
last few minutes. All my stat on Justin Jefferson, who
(16:28):
now who has been in the league for three years
and two games, he now has more career receiving yards
than anyone in the history of the Bears. Yeah, so
Aaron Rodgers owns the Bears than three year history of
the Bears, they have not had one person to pass
the five thousand, ninety five yard mark. Because that's what
(16:50):
Justin Jefferson did tonight. He's the youngest player to get
to five thousand yards earliest in his career. He did
it in early in the first quarter in this game.
But now more yards in this first three years and
two games than anyone the Bears have had in their history.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Yeah. As I've gotten older, I've been, you know, be
less sensitive to the things I align myself with that
get cut down right. Teams, music, movies, television shows, you
like all of those things, and then every once in
a while, there's something that just kind of gets in there. Yeah,
you know, like the earworm. You know, songs that Ty
(17:26):
Shirt plays you don't like that. You know, you could
see you visibly disturbed by the opening chords of this
one hits because you've talked about it since while you
were able to go to the lunch room table at
high school. Yeah, and you get there early, and you'd
all be sitting there talking about the squad and what
needs to be done.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
And it was always I don't feel passing you, Mike.
Was Chris Farley, the lunch lady, you know what, one
of the people working there kind of kind of resembled.
It's funny you say that you talk about stuff today
got thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
I mean that you're right that your team sucks, and
it's not that no, but here it is with specificity,
not just Bear steak, Bear Steak packers own you, Bear's
wide receiver stink. Now, let's go into parts of your
squad that have never been right in for thirty years.
Quarterback right there we go, but like for a lifetime.
(18:21):
It's this bearstat is one hundred half, but see hundreds
of thee I'm only going into my adult life one
hundred years when I'm eighteen plus. Franz Ferdinand was still alive,
the archdew and this was going on. He was still
the arch Duke, still alive. That's a joke that you've
(18:42):
got to be of a certain age, or just really
like Saturday Night Live to understand what the hell.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
The White Sucks hadn't thrown the World Series yet. That's
how long ago it was about. It was about in
concert with the opening of things.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, twenty nine is not thirty, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I don't think Sister Jean was even born to that point.
Was one? She would have been one. Sister Jean was one. Yeah,
Sester Jean was in diapers one hundred years, little buddy diaper,
one hundred years. The Bears have not had one wide
receiver that could top more than fifty one hundred yards receiving.
Justin Jefferson does it in three years of two games. Jason,
(19:26):
you're right behind them.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Oh, oh, this is any like he did say he's
got five. What's interesting though, because you haven't had anybody,
uh later than Lavinius Coals. Yeah, did his Jets run
in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, I know it hasn't been great, but that's still
that's okay, that's that's we got Lavernius Coles in your quarterback.
Mike has his achilles attacked. That's fifteen years. That's fifteen years.
This is one hundred. Yeah, I years did a bit
when I was in you only got one hundred years.
Here's ago to get a wide receiver to catch passes.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
We broke her to deal with a place where if
you won your or premium league, you got to choose
from a bevy of jersey, so several per team player
or whatever. And the bit was in my video segments.
I would wear one of those jerseys each week. At
some point, I think they got thrown out by someone
I'm not gonna name, but Lavarnius Coals was one of
(20:19):
those jerseys and I had at one point, Yeah, I
had that.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I had.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
To Eagles jersey. I mean like, all right, it's some cool,
some cool stuff. But I remember the Lavernius coles for whatever,
Like normally they were just the replicas, so what sixty
nine seventy nine dollars retail? The Lavinius Coals they sent
me was like an authentic like it made no sense.
Everything else was kind of like the cheap, kind of
flimsy thing you could find in any sporting goods stores.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
This one was pretty Yeah. I was like, can I
choose the name plate on it? Any game Warn Firemen
ed Cups? No, the only game Warn jersey I have.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I actually have two, the Magliar Donas, and then at
one point I was gifted a Travis Hafner Rangers Travis
after very nice Wow when he was still on the upswing.
At some point we were at a baseball game and
we were sitting next to his agent. Unbeknownst us, Oh
my guys like, hey, let me send you something.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Okay, alright, cool, that's cool Jason Mark Sanchez, but foomball
game warn Jersey. No, I think the last that would
be kind of cool. I think the last Jets jersey
I owned that I bought. I mean I've had I
think the last two, the last two because I got
in the same time. The last two Jets jerseys I
bought were Freeman McNeil and Wesley Walker throwbacks. Those are
(21:39):
the last two I bought. That's a long time ago. Yeah, No,
I mean like I bought like the like years after
they retired. I bought their throwbacks, but that was years ago.
Oh I had. I had a bunch of Curtis Martin jerseys,
but this is the last I remember. These are the
last ones I bought. Yeah, public signing John Abraham. I
had a bunch of a I had a lavernis, I
had the black jersey. Oh yeah, they're not letting Jason Curtison. Actually,
(22:04):
you know what his picture might be on the table.
Jason hasn't washed his hand since now. Look, I want
to say this, listen, this is that's time to get
serious here for a couple minutes, because we've had you
want to play the little violin music. No, no, no,
no no, we're just a tough guy. We're done with
fast fry my ass in the blink of in n
(22:24):
sixty seven is gone. We're moving jerk when you've only
got one hundred years to find a wide receiver who
can catch more passes than Justin Jefferson in his first
three years and two games. Okay, doctor Evil, never say
well he's kind of five for fighting. It's kind of
got that little bit of a little bit of that
(22:47):
one hundred years Superman. Oh that's a good song. That's
a good song. Now we have to be serious here
because there's a lot of people that we have that
I understand aren't going through a great time right now
that we have to make some time for because it's
it's it's about that too, and this is everyone look
coming off this big Thursday night game. Seeing the Eagles way.
There are many people and a lot a lot of
(23:09):
people who are coming off this and they're in despair
and there's a lot of anguish because they all left
DeAndre Swift on their benches in fantasy and there's a
lot of upset. I don't know how you would have
thought with Gain well, even if you didn't trust the
workload split, which I think we did. I think we
all had some mistrust of how the workload split would go,
(23:32):
but that he would see a double digit touchcount. Yeah,
just by accident. It's tough, but it's it's tough on
a It's it's tough on a Thursday to say I
want to play him, I trust him to play running
back because it's it's like Thursday is different because you
got to go there's a Thursday night trust thing. Well,
to be fair, he didn't exactly play a lot. Know
(23:53):
who can? You who can? Much? So because you have,
because you have, because you have Thursday night games. You
have to make that decision. And it's boy, do I
really trust to the guy that carried the ball once
last week? Now there's a couple of injuries. Looks like
he may carry the ball a lot, but I don't know.
It's Thursday night. Do I have better options available? It
(24:14):
is easy to talk yourself out of that. It is
two starters, and it's it's easy to talk yourself out
of that. It's because you talk your flex is gonna
wind up being a wide receiver most likely. It's like,
but can I trust me? It's not like he had
any kind of He didn't get the ball at all
in week one. You didn't get it at all. I
didn't yet, Yes I have. I'm going to start him
at my as an RB two this week. I don't know.
(24:35):
You can do it. You know this guy you did?
Oh yeah, congratulate. Oh very nice. Well you're not the
only guy, because if you were paying attention to the today,
there was an Eagles fan who showed up at Veterans
(24:57):
Stadium today. Who showed up at the stadium today, Well,
it's a parking four thirty in the morning, he shows
up to the field to start the tailgate. It's a
lunch pale kind of thing on Thursday night. So a
local news station did an interview with this guy. Four
thirty in the morning, he shows up to tailgate and oh,
(25:19):
by the way, did he or did he not tell
you exactly how this game was gonna go.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
DeAndre Swift, I think he's really going to stop up
for the Birds and six point win.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You're calling it my prediction to what happened Bears he
won six points, but DeAndre Swift ran for one hundred
and seventy.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Andre Swift, I think he's really going to stop up
for the Burrs and six point win.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Calling it my predictions the wait, wait now, now you're
getting my Philadelphia accent because that was anything like this
with the Birds, it was birds. He's a bird.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
De Andre Swift, I think he's really going to stop
up for the birs.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Birds, Birds, Birds. That's it's DeAndre Swift will step up
for the birds. We win by six points. You got
the push because it was a six point spread. Did
you bring a HOGI for me? You came to do
an interview with me. I'm not getting paid. You get
you get a hogie? You know you get some format birds.
Birds give me birds, give me a bird weight like
(26:19):
one line. He just went straight to birds. Win by
six thirty four to twenty eight was the final. Deander
Swift was gonna go off one hundred and seventy yards. Well,
you know there.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Are a lot of betters out there thanking Captain Kirk
for that last touchdown Birds to get the push when.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You're right, you're right. I mean, this is the second
person who was really scarily accurately correct in something they're
predicting about national televised games. Have we done church to
find out they have a thing? What if now? Because
we you know, I don't know about the the mummified
bodies in Mexico. What if now we're finding out that
(26:59):
ali people are actually traveling to Earth from the future.
And to get everybody used to the fact that hey
we can time travel or aliens can come, We're gonna
just start slow by predicting big things in NFL games. Well,
BET's see everybody gets used because you had the guy
predicting the Rogers' injury. Now you have the guy predicting
the Birds. Hey, hey, you know, not money enough, p
Can you talk in an accent like this? Yeah? I
(27:20):
could do that for Okay, great, just make a prediction
and get you know, hey, DeAndre Swift has that big
game right, yeah, okay, so just say we have that.
I mean, maybe this is what we're getting everybody used
to the fact that there is time travel and there
are aliens, and it's hey, if we tell you how
a sporting event goes, it gets you used to things,
and then all right, then you get used to the
fact that, okay, well we can time travel, and I
(27:42):
go back in time, and I can go back to
nineteen twenty and tell George Allis, hey traft some wide receivers, okay,
and don't pass on Justin Jefferson to be fair, the
over on Peko.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
There's a lot where Jay Glazer and Howie Long I
used to get to play over there a little bit
and run around the back lots. They produced a little
show called The Simpsons that had been predicting a lot
of things for thirty four years.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Well, the aliens had already landing. You have a lot
of on the Fox lots. It's a lot of shows.
It's twenty two episodes a year. It's a lot along
so a lot of man. Yeah, but what if you
know it's maybe maybe the very first coming over has
been Okay, time travel, and we do it through the Simpsons,
and then people get you saw I get a little
bit of attention. Okay, that's Grammer Simpsons predicted the Trump
(28:31):
presidency in twenty sixteen. Right if, what if someone starts
talking about Burley you want to hear my feary? What
do you have for Rosburg? What if Arian Foster's really
going ethan Hunt and Mission Impossible style where it's just
a mask of these guys, but it's really Arian Foster underneath.
Oh okay, the script okay, and he's got the script
(28:53):
that could be he's got I remember interviewing him years ago.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Yeah, it was an interesting fifteen He's interesting, dude, did he.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Tell you this, jeff justin Jefferson stat was gonna happen?
Maybe he really does have the script because anytime something
really big happens that could blow your mind, you need
it in low doses, right, like remember a contact with
Jodie Foster and the alien finally shows up at the end,
and it's a real letdown because it's her dad and
they're like, it's David Morse. He's been an actor's since
(29:21):
he's on Saint Elsewhere a million things, and and what
does the alien say, Hey, this is how we do it.
We gotta do it. In slow doses on why we
want you to be comfortable. This is not the form
I take, but this is what it is. I want
you to get used to the fact there's alien life,
and then he's that's how we do and then uh,
this is how we get used to the fact that, okay,
there are alternate dimensions time travel, and we slowly let
(29:43):
everybody know until they're comfortable with it and their minds
don't get blown.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
The other thing, just the mummified you know, go brillions
that we saw in Mexico allegedly. Are they the kind
they look like those things you take out of the capsules, like, oh,
you got a dinosaur and he put them at wall
and water and all.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Of a sudden up a little bit. Yeah, yeah, okay,
maybe little.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Let's kind of what happened if he puffed out a
little bit like he's I don't know, like a dough
you let it, let it proof a little bit.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
What do you got tight shirt? So this is crazy.
Speaker 5 (30:10):
So now you mentioned the guy who predicted Aaron Rodgers
tour an Achilles.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Uh huh do you know who he is?
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Uh? Okay, so this is crazy. Actually he turned out
the guy's name is David zal Lav. Zal Lav have
you heard of him. No, he is literally the Warner
Brothers Discovery CEO that tweeted that out.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
He's the CEO with Yes, that's who was the guy
that sweeted it out. How crazy is that? Wow? Why
didn't they tell me that Wonder Woman eighty four was
going to be so bad early on? You could have
protected the future, told me, hey, don't worry about it. Man,
it's not very good. Oh thanks, thanks Warner Brothers. That's wild. Wow.
See I'm telling you to time travel. Be sure to
(30:52):
catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike
harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. To get a
wide receiver. Jefferson's twenty four for a moment.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
We started playing in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Took him while to draft Curtis Conway and then he
got hurt. Then we got Marty Booker.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
Next, we had Brandon Marshall for a moment, but he
had to go, so we started over again.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I'm trying to think of who you kind of sound
like as a sportscaster singing.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Not quite Dick Shepp, but I'm Dick Shep. Fox Sports Radio,
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Rmy
just gotta listen.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
We had a great Thursday night football game and then
it all became about the Bears.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
In my one hundred years of futility, you would think
the Vikings won the game. We're talking about justin Jefferson time.
That doesn't't matter. But listen, I just wanted to throw
this out because we have big stuff on Dion Sanders
coming up in about ten minutes. Kirk Cousins has another
great game tonight, but now the Vikings fall to Owen two. Yeah,
(32:18):
all right, As we get close to the trade deadline,
Zach Wilson's going to be the Jets quarterback. He's going
to be the Jets quarterback from now at least until
the deadline. There's no better choices. We've talked about this.
No one's trading their backup because they're keeping their backup,
and nobody off the street is any good. So Zach
has the next six seven weeks because the trading deadline
(32:41):
is November first, to prove he can do it. He's
the guy. Now. If the Jets wind up being three
and four, four and three, they're right there. Hey, if
we just get a little bit better quarterback play, we're
gonna start winning some games. There's only two players that
the Jets will go out and trade for, and it
depends on those teams playing well and punting on the
(33:02):
season saying we're gonna tank. We're gonna get our next
quarterback in the draft, whatever it is, because the Jets
are only gonna get two guys, because they're not gonna
bring in anybody with salary because Aaron Rodgers is trying
to come back next year. So it's got to be
someone that you can walk away from after this year.
That knocks out Matters Stafford and knocks out a lot
of guys. But the two guys that fit that bill,
and only two guys, The only guys that fit the
(33:23):
suit are Kirk Cousins and Ryan Tannehill. Yeah, Tannehill may
be eminently available sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
But if you want in his assessment of Tannehill's because look,
that was a winnable game, because that's the thing, right,
five field goals, sixteen fifteen loss to the Saints team
that everybody loves. Everybody loves the Saints, and Tannehill shot
them in the foot repeatedly. Right, that was one of
(33:52):
the worst quarterback games I think I've seen in a while.
I mean, because he had players, he had opportunity. And
now you're going to week two, No Deanry Hopkins. We
did the schedule game.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
A little bit earlier.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Obviously, they got the Chargers coming to town. Do the
Titans this week? Then they face the Browns offensive and
defensive line. I think one and one A. If we're
gonna rank those sixty four units across the the NFL,
it's about as good as it gets as them and
the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Uh, then they've.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Got Week three or no, Week four, I should say
the Bengals, who we have to believe will get better
Week five, the Colts. It's always a party when those
two teams get together. Then you got the Ravens at home,
and then you play the Falcons. There's not a gimme
on there at all. Nor is it guaranteed that Tannehill
hasn't played himself out of the job from Alik Willis
(34:41):
to take over.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yeah, but if you're waiting, if the if you're watching,
because the teams ought to be bad, so the title bet.
But here are the Vikings zero to two. If they're
one and four one and five. You're waiting them one
and five, one and six, Come on, gonna pull that trigger.
Hey we need we're gonna need a new quarterback, right
because we have Jefferson and Addison and Hawkinson. The guys
are all young. We need that young guy. And hey,
we could get Caleb Williams or may or Shrador Sanders
(35:04):
or somebody else. Guess what, he's the guy you want
to wait to see if he's available, because Cousins is
the better quarterback. Yeah, but those are the only guys.
Those are the I'm giving you names. It's Zach Wilson,
and then it's either Ryan Tannehill or Kirk Cousins or
it stays Zach Wilson. That's how it goes.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Yeah, I mean this is really just the follow up
and when the reason we hammer it today I think
because this is the conversation Monday, right as we started
going down the list of who would be available. You
know that's on the street in a broadcast booth. Backups
are a non entity. And who's better than Zach anyway, Yeah,
you'd look at these two options, and Kirk Cousins if
(35:40):
you're able to wrest him away, to guide your squad
think about Garrett Wilson, how happy he'd.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Be Kirk Cousins finally Jet's quarterback.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Garrett Wilson's gonna have more than any Bears receiver in
about a year.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Big stuff on Dion coming up next. Fox. You like
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