October 6, 2023 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the passing of legendary Bears Linebacker, Dick Butkus.
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the third quarter of the Thursday Night game tonight, there
is one large conclusion we need to come to. Maybe
it was all Chase Claypool's fault. Maybe it was what else?
What else?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Maybe it was all Chase Klaypoolswalt Well work out a
short week. They can't overthink it. Maybe, but I mean,
I've seen this act before. We saw it for three
quarters just the other day against Denver before things went
to hell. Yeah, but Bear's really oh no, never mind, Yeah,
Bears with a brilliant first half. I'm still not gonna
understand why you kick the field goal, you know, at
the ten yard line on a fourth and one. You're
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dominating the game, you're zero to four. How about you,
you know, just do the old thing from the two
old to rock and Roll too Young to Die cover
from the Jeth Throat Tall album where it's the old
h blank you kind of symbol. Instead, they kicked the
field goal, baby steps, baby steps for you. But an
impressive first half and then well then they came out,
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did the Washington Commanders, and your guy Sam Sam Sam
marched them right down the field. So all of a
sudden it got interesting and there's fantasy points galore out there.
But right now I'm pretty happy. It's a nice bounce
back from this afternoon at the news of the passing
of Dick Butkus. Been a very emotional day.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, we'll get to the passing of but Gets in
a second. Obviously, the game tonight here a little bit,
the Bears playing on the night that with their biggest
legend in team history. He and Walter Payton, but certainly
the mythicism of Dick Butckis, who died earlier today at
the age of eighty. But you know, just real quick
on the game tonight is we watch Justin Fields throw
three touchdowns in the first half, two to DJ Moore.
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DJ Moore working on a thirty point first half in fantasy,
and the Bears could do no wrong. And now, of course,
you know, hey, Commanders get there coming out real little pissed.
In the second half, Bears play soft defense and the
Commanders go all the way down the field and Sam
Howell throws a touchdown and runs into two point conversion.
So it's a two point game. So there's still a
lot of time left to go.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Possession game. Sorry, two possession game.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I'm looking ahead an Arian Foster script, the two possession
game still can you imagine get to be a two
point game? And I'm right, but this is look to
talk about Justin Fields for a second, because he's the story. Yes,
you could blame Chase Claypool, but since Justin Fields decided
to go to the media and say, hey, you know what,
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I'm not in the best position to succeed here. And
we taught that was a big deal for a couple
of days. Wait, you're not You're not in the right
place to succeed. What what's going on? You're being made
to succeed, are you not? He just wasn't happy, wasn't
happy with how the game was called, and he went
about it a really bad way and saying that I
get coached too much. They're coaching me too much, and
I gotta forget about that, and I just got to
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go out and play instinctively. Better ways to go about it,
as certainly he shouldn't shouldn't say I get coached too much.
This dude, you need this coach. You can't go out
and play without coaching. But if his point was, hey,
give me the give me the stuff during the week,
and implement that on the week on Sundays or Thursdays,
whatever day it is. But mostly you gotta trust me
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that I'm going to be able to make the instinctual
plays because you drafted me to be this kind of quarterback.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You draft them to be.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
A different kind of guy who can make plays with
his legs and his arm. Like we just saw where
a design run where nothing was working to the right
side looked like a five yard loss. He turns it
back inside and gains three. Another play where there was
a busted handoff in the backfield and hey, could have
been his fault, could have been the running backs fault.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
But what does he do?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
He scrambles for twelve yards like that's what he does.
And since that moment, and since he decided to have
that moment with the bear saying, hey, you're coaching me
too much, all of a sudden, hey, Justin Fields is
playing freer, looser and better. I guarantee you behind closed doors,
they made the changes he wanted to be made. Whether
they're not talking to him in his headset and or
whatever it is, but they made the changes he wanted
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to say. All right, if this, if we're gonna lose,
we gotta lose. We got we gotta, we gotta, we
gotta do something. Let's go for broke. Let's let Justin
Fields be who he is and look at.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
What we've gotten. Production wise, you can't argue the last
six seven quarters from him. Well. DJ Moore also a
question of you know, his usage and a lot of
talking local media and national about the routes being run
and the opportunities that have been there look, the deep
ball has been there since the beginning of the season.
They were very effective throwing the ball twenty yards and beyond,
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and certainly in the red zone early on. Problem is
you didn't see the red zone a lot. And then
you look at the game last week against Denver moving
the ball. Now, Denver's not the proper barometer because they
made be the worst defense in the National Football League,
But you take away some of the positives. He was
getting the ball out, not holding it, the four point five,
four point eight second, standing in the pocket, not moving,
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not creating plays. That guy was gone. And then in
the fourth quarter they reverted to some play calling that
was suspected best and you had the turnovers. And then
for the interception, you can still argue, all right, was
that Comet sat down too early and was supposed to
keep running his route, or was that on fields that
he should have known that Comet was sitting down. Whatever
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the case was, you have a turnover and you end
up losing that game. Tonight, deep balls time, and again
you had Mooney right off the jump, a ball that
should have been completed, overshot him. I think he just
got wide eyed that Moon. He was running so free
in the secondary, while he didn't make the same mistake
DJ Moore, as you mentioned, a thirty point first half
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for fantasy owners as they opened up the game, they
got the ground game rolling Khalil Herbert nine for seventy
six thus far, and they've called him more design runs
for fields, which has been non existent. He ran for
over one thousand yards last year. Why because you had
a bunch of design games. You know how many they'd
called it through four games? Eight like yeah, that was
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like six, it's like eight eight design runs. It doesn't
I don't know why teams decide to say, here's a quarterback,
here's his skill set, and we're gonna change what you do. Well,
can't do it right? Right, you get you can change
change it slightly, right, you modify it. You hope to
round out in the other places where they're they're good,
but to get them to great. Right, it's a Lamar
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Jackson thing. Right. You don't take away what he does.
When Cam Newton was at his best and maybe he's
a jet, you don't take away in what he does.
You just try to make the other parts of his game.
You bang out that. What do I say, you bang
out the dents.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Right, that's that's what you do at this point, at
this level of the quarterback, he's coming to you as
a finished product. Now the years have gone by, where
hey here's a here's a kid coming out. Well, yeah,
we love what you do. You're a smart quarterback.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You do X, Y and Z.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But you need to do this to be successful in
the NFL. Now it's I'm coming to the NFL. This
is who I am. Okay, you want to succeed, this
is who I am. I need design runs. I need
to be able to have freedom in the pocket. I
need to be able to get outside and make plays
with my legs. I need to improvise. Right, No one
said Ben Roethlisberger needed less improvisational plays when he was quarterback.
And how many times, how many design plays? I don't
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know that Roethlisberger hit his first read in the history
of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's probably a one percentage. Sure.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Roethlisberger always found a way to keep the play alive.
And then Antonio Brown was open, somebody was open, he
would find that was a way. That was the same thing, really, right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
The prossess of what Tebow's NFL success and certainly college
was keep a play alive. Eventually someone's gonna run open. Yeah,
see what I did? I got Tim Tebow? He did.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That was nice, That was nice. But you have to
you have to just decide, we're gonna bang out the
dents on a guy. We're gonna leave him the player
he is, and we're gonna design the offense around him.
Because you have to do that. Now, you can't, you
can't know. You can no longer take a quarterback and say,
all right, who do we want for our system? No,
it's who do we want and what kind of system
can we work around him?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And that works? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What do we hear yesterday the the defensive coach that
said the Patriots are just killing Matt Jones because they're
making him run a system that he's not good at
and and they're not let going to run a system
that he had at Alabama. This is what you have
to do with quarter It's not rocket science, now, I
mean it's not. It's it's you and you get a player,
you bang out the dents. All right, we gotta teach
Justin Fields to be a pocket quarterback. He's never gonna
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be a good pocket quarterback. You could teach him he's
never gonna do that, right, because that's not what he does.
You can say me, Jason, Hey, you're a good radio
so you know, I think you'd be able to do Hey.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
What's that.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think you can be a you PS delivery driver,
an ice road trucker. Well, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, but you know, you know how to do things
on the fly, and your your instincts are good and
you have pretty good fast twitch reactions. I think he'd
be a good ice road truck driver. No, I really wouldn't.
I really wouldn't be No, but I think you can
do that. Now. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I would fall off the road. I would be spinning
around going ah. No, I'd be pretty good.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
On that show, though, I wouldn't do it entertaining in
the co for a very short amount of time. Oh,
I mean we only need you for an episode, the
season premiere. How long do we have Jason? Well, like,
we're putting him on a bridge in the end of
the first episode. Can we can we get him to
promote the show? Oh? Well, you know, I don't want
to spoil the season for you, but he's not available
to be here with us, and it's not always going
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to be pretty. No, it's not always going to be
something that looks aesthetically great. There's gonna be plays where wow,
justin fields through that pass to nobody, or wow, justin
field through that pass directly to the defender, or how
does he not see what happened? There's gonna be plays
like that. But you're gonna get games like this where
here he is three touchdowns, he's running free. That's how
you have to deal with a quarter You gotta let
him go. I watch it with Zach Wilson. They tried
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to say, don't make mistakes them when when did he
start playing well? When?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
When when did he start playing with When they decided,
screw it, you're gonna throw downfield against the Chiefs, and
he's the first quarterback in the history since Pat Mahomes
has been in the league to have more attempts, completions, touchdowns,
and less interceptions in a game against Mahomes. No one's
ever done that against that one. We might have to
because one and three now, but they let somebody be
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who he is, and that's who Zach Wilson was. He's
a gun slinger. Let him be a gun slinger. No, no, no,
we're gonna try to do this to you and it's
never gonna work. Quarterbacks they have to go. I mean,
this is where they say, no, you're gonna try to
put me in a system. I'm gonna hold out. I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna come in here because this
is not gonna be good for me. I gotta go
someplace where they're gonna allow me to be eventually coach me,
but I need to be who I am at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, and we're just watching the sequence that just went
down about midway through the third quarter. The offensive line
for the Bears is battered, and look, they weren't terribly
good to begin with, but you've got a couple of
backups in and pressure from that Washington front. And this
was one of the questions coming into the game was
how do you get fields out of the pocket around
the tackles and give him a chance for some throwing lanes.
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And right now it's just been an abject failure. Get
the touchdown of the two point conversion and now you're
getting the ball back after a woeful possession for the Bears.
But it was interesting, you know, coming into the studio,
as we do to yell at each other during Monday
and Thursday night football. You know, I hear a little
of the radio broadcast. I wanted to do the quick
compare contrast for you between our guy Kevin Harlan and
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Iron Eagle as to how they set up a game,
because one of the first things you said to me
when come in is I kind of like those commander's uniform. Yeah,
what does Kevin Harlan do? He strides out to the field,
bare armed, black jersey with the yellow accent, the bright
black helmet in the whole nine yards Iron Eagle and
Ross Tucker chopping it up today kind of looks like
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the Hamburglar. That's how he described the uniforms. There you go.
You will not unsee that they're all really short, the commanders,
it is all four foot eleven. Look at them all run.
I can't tell who's got the ball. But see you
all have the capes. I know if you can overlay
the aliens from Joy's story as Hamburglars instead, and now
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we make it the McDonald's. Yeah, but game. See that's
from the from the ball pit then and we have
some fun.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And now thinking that's where you go back to the
single wing offense, because if you have like three or
four running backs and they're all Hamburglars and they wear
the capes, they can cover, you know, they could send
all different directions and and suddenly it's it's who's got
the ball. I don't know who has the ball. I
don't know where the ball is. See there you go,
I thought he had it. That Hamburglars can work. It
was just pretty funny, like sets it up in Harlan always.
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He strides to the line of scrimmage. He's bare armed
on this cold, wintry Buffalo night, you know, all of this,
and then they're chopping ups like, yeah, what's it look like?
It looks like the Hamburgler Like there you go, eagle.
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It's not too difficult. Let the guy go, coach him,
let him go, let him be who he isn't look
justin fields is pretty good. Still a two touchdown lead
and two point conversion lead for the Bears. They fumbled,
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the Commanders fumbled. The Bears couldn't do anything with the
next possessions. Now Commanders have the football again, down twenty
seven to eleven midway through the third quarter. But we
have more NFL, Big time NFL coming up next. We
remember an absolute legend who left us earlier today. Keep
it right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (14:00):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Field goal by the Commanders makes it
a twenty seven to fourteen game.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't know about that field goal. I don't know.
Why do you kick the field goal.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You're down twenty seven to eleven, You're facing a fourth
down in about three or four from the twenty yard line,
and you kick a field goal.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Your defensive line is just awakened. In the second half, Yeah,
you move the ball. Okay, I'm not a fam you
came overcame the Thomas fumble, right, he tried to fight
for extra yardage, had it stripped, and then you went
and you obliterated the Bears on the next possession. Yeah,
couple of sacks. You're starting to get after fields a
bunch and you kick the field.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I look at it like this. It was a two
touchdown game. Now, grand yes, it was a two touchdown
to two point conversion game, but it was a two
touchdown game, and your field goal made it a two
touchdown game. Not saying the points are useless, but at
that point, it's it's it's twenty seven to eleven, you're
on the twenty, it's four, it's fourth and three. Your
quarterback has just scrambled for nine yards. Yeah, I try
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to stick that in the end zone. Oh, you've got
to go for it there on four? Because what what?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
What? What happens? All right? We don't get it? The
Bears are on the twenty and it's still a two
touchdown game. Bears. Bears were dopey taking the field goal earlier.
Shoot dope, So we're now even. We're one dopey move
field goal. This is like McDaniel's coaching against Brandon Staley. Yeah,
you Dopey move up, Sey, Dopey move.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You just watched Uh, so we'll have more on this
again three minutes ago on the third quarter, Bears lead
at twenty seven to fourteen over the Washington Commanders. And and
really just an odd day, the Bears playing on Thursday,
on a day they lost one of the biggest icons
and franchise and National Football League history, Dick Buckis, passing away.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
At the age of eighty. Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
He died of his house in Malibu here in Los Angeles.
Earlier in the day there was an medical emergency and
they rushed to Dick Buckus's home and Dick Buckus did
not make it. He was one of the most ferocious
players in NFL history. He was he You talk about
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the image of someone that would always look like he's
someone who wanted to.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Beat the crap out of you. That was Dick Buckets.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And even in retirement he had kept a big profile,
still did some things, did a little bit of announcing,
did a little bit of stayed in the public eye
and and and really was kind of fun is that
even in the last few months he become a fun
uh follow on Twitter, where he would say something fine,
here here's the guy's.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Joyed.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, yeah, you know he was. He was really fun.
And the picture opening day of him with his cane saying,
someone find me a quarterback that I can go hit.
They made a big round on social media, and so
he was still enjoying being Dick Buckets and and and
getting another run in who he was and now you know,
reaching out on social media and uh it, you know,
it's a shame. This is a guy who really embodied
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the NFL of the sixties, which the people, the heroes
of the sixties were larger than life. These were guys
of your stories about the ego. There's no way that's true. No,
that's exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened. And Dick
Buckets was the embodiment of those guys in the sixties
with Bart Starr and Jim Taylor and and the end
that got to the NFL stars of the seventies which
turned into Bradshawn Staubach and but Gus was the leader
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and there was nobody more ferocious and nobody players more
afraid of than Dick Buckis.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Well, he's a guy obviously for me growing up in Chicago.
There's certain players that have that they're they're a thread
right in terms of the fandom between generations, And it
says nothing about the love for Walter Peyton, Mike Ditka.
You know, depending on who you are, you don't even
remember that he was a player, right, He was a
Hall of Fame player before he ever became a coach.
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But you know, we still we still have coach with us.
But when you talk about the legend and legacy of
the Bears, it really does start with Bukiss and we
talk about linebackers. All these years, there's been just a
litany of big time players at that position. But he
went to Hollywood, right, Johnny Dangerously he was in that
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he was on Hangtime if you watch Saturday morning television,
a bunch of movies, bunch of TV shows. I had
a good opportunity to meet him a couple of times
when he released his autobiography, and on a couple of
other occasions at events, you know, at home whatever. He
did a lot, a lot of work, you know, helping
retired players, very active in that part of his life.
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But yeah, fiery guy. The first time you meet him,
I don't get intimidated like you've been with me, you know,
when we go to super Bowl week and whatever. There's
a lot of these guys that you know, they're legends
in their own right, but it's like, hey, how you doing.
Good to meet you this guy, You're like, I'm mister,
but waiting from the punch in the head. And I
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put it up on Twitter. It was funny. You know.
I got some award at a third grade thing in
grade school on the priests. I'm walking up the aisle
and he goes, oh, we got our own little junior
Dick buckets there. So that stuck for a while. Then
I stopped growing. I was a big kid, yeah, and
then then I stopped growing and that was the end
of that. But always one that you held up as
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one of the meanest sobs in the game. And a
lot of the hits, yeah they wouldn't be legal now, no,
no no, but in a different style, set the tone, uh,
and the highlight reels when you add Facenda's voice over
the top of it, because there are many of those
making the rounds. This evening just goes and shows you
a different time for the NFL and right now a
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city in morning.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, you know, I I shared an elevator with him
once and here's you know, we'll talk about the image
of Dick Buckets. Well, this was at Fox, probably about
twenty some odd years ago, and when I was working,
when I was working over at Fox. This this is
before he even became a radio talle It was still
in production. And you know, the people coming to in
the Fox building here in La at all, you know
all the time because NFL and Fox was headquarters.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Around there, and and you know, the movie's a lot
and everything so much. That's a fun place to work.
And so I got in the elevator, remember, on the
third floor, because I worked on the third floor. And
I get in on the third floor, and coming down
from the fourth floor was Dick Buckets. It was four
floor building. Was Dick Buckus. And I walk in. I go, oh,
Dick Buckets, I might get a chance to meet Dick Buckets.
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And he's looking at a piece of paper, so obviously
he was in for a meeting or something with Fox.
And he's looking at a piece of paper. And I
walk in and he and he kind of looks up
because people getting on the elevator, and he just gives
me a look, and I just say to myself, I
am not going to meet. I'm not going to eage.
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna stand in the corner
of this elevator and when we get to the first floor,
I'm gonna walk out. I was like, Oh, I'm gonna
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general direction and I'm gonna leave it. That's tick buckas
it said. He just looked up and I was like,
I'm I'm gonna stand over here. And it's not like
he did anything weird, Like I walked up to one
and said, Hi, how you doing. My name's dates and
you you great? No, I just walked in.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I saw him and I just oh, no, I'm not
gonna say a word, no, not nothing. He just it
was just that, okay, yeah, this is this will be
a quiet eleihitor right, you on one side, on the
other side.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
So it's funny. I saw this afternoon. I'm finishing making
dinner and I have I put the score on, and
it's whatever, it's delayed, it's behind. So I'm like, I
figured I want to hear the host talk about Bucket
is figuring they'd grab some audio and maybe get some
of the legends, and and then at some point they had.
They played this montage and it starts with Fasenda and
it ends with Buffoone yelling, and he never admitted that
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he started that fire on my door. I'm like, what
the hell is that? I was like, that's how they
ended the mile. I'm like, I gotta go find that audio.
I walked right in the middle of the conversation fire.
I'm like, there's all these clips talking like on these
people talking about a little sound bites of people through
the years, of media members and folks that had worked
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with them, and then there's this last clip and then
they go to the commercial to go throw it to
you know, their pregame cover zone. Just like, what is that? Why? Well,
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I always thought what I think of My favorite quote
from Dick Buckis was when you know, he was always
thought of as you know, illegal hits and he was
a dirty player. He was so ferocious, and there's two
things that he was. He got in trouble and one
of the best NFL films on him was hit. He
was miked up and he was scraping across the line
of scrimmage before a play and he's going hut hut
hut hot hut hut, and you know, he was trying
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to get the senator snapped the ball, and a couple
of times it happened, and he's going hot, hot, hut hut,
and he just keeps saying it. And final they blow
the whistle and the refic was, officers, you can't do that,
and he goes, that's a signal to my linebackers. What
do you mean he's going hot, just trying to get
to stab the ball and uh. And he did an
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interview once and they asked him about his style of
play and he said, look, he said, let me let
me set the record straight. I never in my life
set out intentionally to hurt anybody unless it was something
really important, like.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
A league game. So that was that.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Never did unless it was a league game, Smoky, then
it was a league game. The first league game, smoking
reference we had. That's about it, right, oh man, Rest
in peace. Dick Buckets eighty years old. Absolute Bears Icon
will continue to remember him throughout the show tonight. Meanwhile,
on the field, the Bears have the football. However, Khalil
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Herbert just he's having a great game of it, his
best game this season. He's got seventy five yards rushing.
I don't know if he's going to be in the
game again. They gave him the ball on one of
those quick swing plays and he just went down like
it was one of those plays where it looks like
the player goes down because he wants to stay in bounds.
Khalil Herbert gets the ball, goes about five or six
(23:44):
yards to the right and just just goes down. And
he gets up and he walks very gingerly off the
field and you can tell that he is in pain,
and it did not look good. Don't know if Khalil
Herbert is going to come back. Anytime you see an
instance like that, you go, oh, man, is he okay?
Especially since he went and he went down without getting
touched the play after that, and I'm still waiting to
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see the replay on this. DJ Moore, who was having
an unbelievable game, is hit with a pass in the flat.
He gets by the dB and he is running down
the sideline. Another Washington dB comes to try to knock
him out of bounds. He can't and Dj Moore is
still skipping up the sideline and he gets about the
ten yard line and suddenly he goes, oh, he throws
the football up in the air and the referees whistled
(24:28):
him out of bounds. I have not seen one good
look to say that, Okay, he was in bounds, he
was out of bounds. But boy, the couple of ones
I saw, I did not see him anywhere near the
out of bounds marker. Now we've seen that running, he's
running free for maybe it's a DJ Moore guy, right,
maybe maybe it's a DJ Moore guy.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
May you're out of bounds? The blind referee memes are
starting our r yeah, because.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
They didn't show a good replay. Didn't because what you
need is the over the head replay of it. It's
what we've seen is the replay from the field angle.
We've seen the replay from the side angle, but I
have not seen over the head replay, which is what
you need. And I don't know if Amazon doesn't have it.
We got to call Jeff Bezos and say, did we
did over the head replay? But it looked like it
was going to be another fifty yard touchdown for DJ
(25:11):
Moore and instead it was just a nice completion for
a first down.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I can tell you at this point watching the replay,
we've got it on a loop here in the studio.
I defy you to show me where he stepped out
a pounds from the replay there. It doesn't even look close.
It looks like another one of those. Yeah, there's a
couple of inches between he and the painted grass. But yeah,
they rule it down, and well that's that's the end
(25:35):
of that. He's salty, Bears will be salty. The written letter,
it's a file under protest should they blow this game
has already been written. Yeah, I really want to see that.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I really want to see that, because that was a touchdown,
that was six and instead the Commanders hold tight and
the Bears kick a field goal. So now it's a
thirty to fourteen lead that Chicago has very early in
the fourth quarter, fourteen oh nine left to go. Oh
for more of this. Maybe he's seen an angle of it.
Maybe yes, maybe he has.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
He's a wizard. You never know.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
It's special delivery. Steve disaga with that, and what is
trending in the wide world of sports, that's d.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I think Amazon has the replay you are discussing. It's
just there's some sort of delay in shipping.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Oh maybe by noontower attempted delivery and then they claim
they couldn't get in the building. That's how it was
time to go home.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So if I put the replay in my cart, I
won't be able to check.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Can I pick it up at a locker right nearby? Yes, yes,
you can drive.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Get in your car and drive and go pick up
the replay by noon tomorrow. Bears say running back a
little Herbert with the ankle injury is quote questionable to return.
It is a thirty to fourteen Bears lead early in
the fourth quarter at Washington tonight. You know, the NFL
just put out a list of in Bear's history in
the Super Bowl era, So this is over fifty years
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of history. The number of Bears players who've had in
the team's first five games of a season at least
four hundred and fifty yards receiving and four receiving touchdowns
are more. DJ Moore and that's the list.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Djow that's it and DJ Moore, DJ Moore and DJ Moore.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Three touchdown passes for Justin Fields tonight, and the halftime
lead for the Bears was twenty seven to three. Have
we mentioned they're oh to four this season and have
lost fourteen straight games going back about twelve months.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
They still have not won a game since Elon Musk
bought Twitter. Wow, every other every professional every other professional
sports team.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
You want to go at one hundred and twenty three MLS.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
How you're going, NBA, NFL, MLB, They've all won a
game since Elon Musk bought Twitter last October.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
The Bears are the only ones without without haven't gotten
that yet.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
That'll be a tough one to crack. So you're saying
the Bears do not have their blue check mark at
this point.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh no, no, no they I didn't pay for mine either.
They got that taken away.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
DJ Moore, by the way, it's been targeted eight times.
He has seven catches, one hundred and seventy four yards
and two touchdowns. Recently, Washington settled for a field goal
after a seventy yard drive. The Bears answered with a
field goal on their very next drive. Right now, Washington
with the ball at midfield, thirteen minutes to go. It's
the Bears in the league thirty to fourteen. On the
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day that Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Buckis passed away
at the age of eighty, he was a pro bowler
in his first eight seasons, all with the Bears. Buckas
was born in Chicago played for the University of Illinois.
He's in the College Football Hall of Fame as well.
Rams wide receiver Cooper Cup practice fully today after his
hamstring injury. Dallas wide receiver Cede Lamb was a full participant.
(28:35):
Raven's wide out Rashad Bateman practice fully. He's had a
hamstring injury. Bill's linebacker Von Miller is traveling to London
with his team so he could debut Sunday against Jacksonville
after his torn acl last year. Lions star wide receiver
i'm and ross Saint Brown did not practice again today
abdominal injury, and Bengals wide receiver T Higgins mispractice again
(28:55):
with a rib injury. Panthers running back Miles Sanders was
limited again today with a groin injury. NBA MVP Joel
mb To Philadelphia will play for the US at next
summer's Paris Olympics, not for France. He's now a US citizen.
At the last gold medal final, the US beat France
eighty seven eighty two. The best of five MLB Division
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series all start this Saturday. FS one will have Texas
at Baltimore than Minnesota at Houston on both Saturday and Sunday.
And finally, Mets general manager Billy Eppler resigned. The new
Baseball operations president there is David Stearns from the Brewers.
The Mets are looking for a new manager as well,
after Buck Showalter was fired. Eppler is the focus of
(29:37):
MLB's investigation currently of improper use of the injured list
as well. It's the Bears in the lead early fourth
quarter at Washington, thirty to fourteen.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Back to you, thanks a bunch, Steve, though, the commander
is trying to get down the field right now, down
by two touchdowns, and Sam Howel is making some throws
in traffic across his body that look like they should
be picked off, but he's hitting receivers in between two defenders. Look,
I'll tell you this is why I always like Sam Howell.
I watched him a lot. Look Like I said, I
(30:07):
watch acc football, so you don't have to. He was
someone who once upon a time could have been the
number one and number two overall pick in the draft
right going into his senior year. He didn't have a
great year, so we stumbled all the way through.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Now they lost several top notch players on the offense. Yeah,
it was that line struggle, I mean going on.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
He just didn't have that year that he needed to
have and he winds up slipping in the draft and
Washington takes him and they do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We're gonna sit you for a whole year, learn, and
then we see where you're at. It's a very old
school way to do things, but sometimes that's the right
thing to do, right, That's the way it used to
be in bad Hey, you're a quarterback of the feud.
You're not gonna play the first year, and then we're
gonna see you play the next year. And what I
see him doing with Washington is a lot of what
I saw in North Carolina. He could have a quarter
where at Carolina when he was a quarterback where I
(30:55):
would say, oh my Goodnes, this is this is terrible.
I did. Carolina is not going to score the entire
They're gonna lose thirty eight to three. And then all
of a sudden, he can't miss. When he gets hot.
He is fun to watch, and he is he is
right now. He's on a heater and he's throwing balls
in between in between defenders. That receivers are making plays on.
He is really on a heater. And what he looks
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like when he's like this is he looks like Carson
Wentz when Carson Wentz was good, Like back in the beginning,
when Carson Wentz was a thirty three touchdowns and seven picks,
a big quarterback that's a little mobile that will get
outside the pocket and make plays. That's kind of what
Sam hell. He looks like Carson Wentz went not Carson Wentz.
Now who's hunting and saying, hey, call me, I'm ready,
I can be here. No, But Carson Wentz when he
(31:37):
was good, he can. He's a big kid that can
see up over the line. Can I never I never
watch him and think, oh, he's out of a play,
even when it looks like there he's about to get
swallowed up by the defensive line. When Sam Howell gets hot,
he is really something. Yeah, we've watched a couple of
times Tonight held the ball a little too long, trying
to wait for something to develop. But I mean that's
the young quarterback, right. You're used to your eyes finding
(32:01):
that daylight and being able to throw to that area
instead of having to throw them open and right now.
He is just carving up what is a bad Bear secondary.
This is unexpected, even legitimately coming into this game. It
was all right, Fantasy rankings hes top ten for the week. Yeah,
like he just is. You got too many weapons. And
this is with McLaurin being a bystander most of this game. Uh,
(32:24):
much to the chagrin of their fantasy of his fantasy owners.
But he's found a rhythm pushing the ball down field.
He's got good velocity on it right, coming over the
top and really making plays downfield. And he stretched a
few of his legs. He's been betrayed by his receivers
a couple of times on a couple of balls that
(32:45):
should have been caught, you know, the dive and it
still hits them in both hands and what have you.
But it's interesting. And look, this game is far from over. Yeah,
we've seen this act before. Sam Howell has the Commanders
down on the Bears goal line. Again.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
It's a score game, but there's still eleven minutes to
go in the fourth quarter. Thirty to fourteen. A fun,
fun game.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Yeah, first and goal. Good play by the defensive back
to get in the way of Logan Thomas to deny
him the end zone. But yeah, stressful moments for Bears fans.
No Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam
Sam Sam Sam Sam.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Sam gonna be third and goal for the Commanders. When
we speak next, are we talking about a one score game?
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Speaker 1 (34:36):
Lead the Commander's thirty to twenty, still nine and a
half to go in the fourth quarter, Commanders getting the
football back. We'll have more on this game coming up
in about ten minutes, but after to show you that
certain teams can have nice things. After news today, there
is no doubt in my mind that some lucky team
is going to wind up making a trade with the
(34:58):
Mets for Pete Alonzo, and Alonzo is going to be
an x Met maybe before next season begins, but it's
gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You add the.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Dual news today first that hey, Pete Alonzo has retaining
Scott Boris as his agent, which, okay, Scott Boris usually
hates the Mets, but he's negotiated big deals with the
Mets in the last couple of years for a lot
of money. You know, sures are a lunch of others.
But the fact that Alonzo is even out there tells
me that already he's so far apart from what the
(35:27):
Mets want to give him, and there's no reason why
you wouldn't want to keep He's a homegrown superstar. He
is a guy that came up through the miners. He
loves being a Met, The fans love him. The guy produces.
He had two to twenty this year and still, you know,
fifty home runs and one hundred and twenty five RBIs
he's still a great player. The fact that he's out
there and we're talking about him being dealt in the
Cubs won him. Supposedly that was a story a couple
(35:48):
of days ago. They want to go all in for pee.
Alonzo tells me they are so far apart on what
he asked. He's asking for it. The Mets want to
give him that, they say, we're just gonna have to
trade him. And now you're throw in the news today.
Billy Eppler, who was the Mets general manager, now David
Stern sterns he comes in to run the team and
Billy Eppler, who was the GM running the team for
(36:10):
the last couple of years, resigns today. Well wait a minute,
I thought he was out up he decided to resign. Initially,
it wasn't that weird to me because I'm like, well,
Stern's is gonna make the call and Billy Eppler is
not gonna make the calls anymore. I don't think that's
that big a deal. But then, of course, you know,
Mets can't have nice things. Apparently there was a probe
going on the Mets misused the injured list this year,
(36:30):
and maybe that Billy Eppler is falling on his sword
and being the guy to hey, because he even said
in leaving today, I want to put David Stearns on
even foot. I want to have a clean slate. So
whatever happened last year with the injured list, he's gonna
wind up, get it. It's last night. We find out
that Billy Eppler wanted Daniel volgelback to play and built
Buck Showalter and he fought about it. Okay, that was
(36:52):
a crazy ass story. Now today Eppler resigns and there's
controversy and Pete Lonzo, so it's all coming down to
the Mets can't even hire a guy that everybody says
is one of the top two executives in all of baseball.
It should be a celebratory day. And here Eppler is leaving.
There could be an investigation and now I know Peede
Alonzo is gone. Mets can't have nice things, man, Well.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
This strikes to me as one of those nzaa self
sanctioned kind of things. We fix the glitch. You don't
need to penalize us, take draft picks, take any of
our international pool money. You know, whatever restrictions you might
put on us, don't do it. Because that guy did it.
It was all him. It was all Eppler. So, yeah,
(37:36):
just a weird couple of days, right, Bucks gone. Alonso
was not happy about that, and very vocal, you know
he was. He did the old Hey, I'm glad it happened.
You know, sorry, it's over and all, but you know,
I'm glad that it happened. And for his own time, right,
the fans gave him a standing ovation in his final
at bat, all of those great things. But when you
(37:57):
hire Boris Corp. To start going and building the nine
thousand page dossier probably doesn't bode well for the incumbent.
Means that you wanted to go further in the numbers
and your your efforts and what you mean to the
team than whatever their metrics are. Right, because at hitting
two seventeen I think was what his batting average was
(38:19):
this year, that's you know, traditional metrics, and the team's
gonna say, well, that's not good. We need you to
at least be league average.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yeah, but certain metrics don't matter when you're a power
hitter and you're hitting forty five home runs, knocking a
hundred twenty, hit two twenty, that's Grant's it.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Okay, we cant hit two twenty. That's all right. Not
when I'm gonna pay you a giant extension. I'm gonna
try to use that against you. Yeah, whereas Boris korp
is gonna come back over the top.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Here's the money that Peter Alonzo brings in for parking.
Here's the extra fans that come to the ballpark to
see Pee Alonzo. Here's the cut of the jerseys out
he saw. Pee Alonzo pays for himself. He needs five
hundred million dollars. That's that's what Scott boy.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
And he's gonna do it really well, because we've seen
this act for a couple of decades at this point
of making far lesser players than Alonso. Uh, you know,
in that one hundred million plus club. So I'm certainly
expected here now the Cubs being part of the act.
You know, there's been a lot of questions of spending
money in which teams would get involved, uh in potentially
(39:19):
trade market. I don't know. I think there's gonna be
some chaos this charge with your gay.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
It could even be early. They could even trade him
early in the off season if someone comes up with
a big offer. Hey, that that makes it because what
the Mets are looking for is they're looking for who's
gonna help us now and in the future. And if
you can do that, Hey, peter A, Lonzo's gonna be gone.
Like I've already come come to terms with like it's happening.
It's gonna happen. I've moved past. I'm in the acceptance stage,
(39:44):
and now I'm just okay, what what can we get?
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Can you send? What are we gonna get? Oh? Man,
I don't know. I don't know. Man, that's another guy
they can afford. I don't know. I trade him for
Juan Soto. Well, that's kind of what I'm gonna do.
Give you. He doesn't want to sign with you. Our
guy doesn't want to sign with us. How do we
make this right? Yeah? Or just I thought you meant
just going to San Diego. No, no, no, he's still
gotta be uh, there's still gotta be some compensation there,
(40:08):
and I mean it's not an easy Hey, he just
leaves Padres payroll is a billion dollars. Congratulations. I have
still finished second exit out about a Fresca exit.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Swallen Dome coming up next. Got a big story out
of the NFL. Will keep you update on what could
be a much closer TNF game. As the Commanders are
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the third quarter of the Thursday Night game tonight, there
is one large conclusion we need to come to. Maybe
it was all Chase Claypool's fault. Maybe it was what else?
What else?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Maybe it was all Chase Klaypoolswalt Well work out a
short week. They can't overthink it. Maybe, but I mean,
I've seen this act before. We saw it for three
quarters just the other day against Denver before things went
to hell. Yeah, but Bear's really oh no, never mind, Yeah,
Bears with a brilliant first half. I'm still not gonna
understand why you kick the field goal, you know, at
the ten yard line on a fourth and one. You're
(01:26):
dominating the game, you're zero to four. How about you,
you know, just do the old thing from the two
old to rock and Roll too Young to Die cover
from the Jeth Throat Tall album where it's the old
h blank you kind of symbol. Instead, they kicked the
field goal, baby steps, baby steps for you. But an
impressive first half and then well then they came out,
(01:48):
did the Washington Commanders, and your guy Sam Sam Sam
marched them right down the field. So all of a
sudden it got interesting and there's fantasy points galore out there.
But right now I'm pretty happy. It's a nice bounce
back from this afternoon at the news of the passing
of Dick Butkus. Been a very emotional day.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, we'll get to the passing of but Gets in
a second. Obviously, the game tonight here a little bit,
the Bears playing on the night that with their biggest
legend in team history. He and Walter Payton, but certainly
the mythicism of Dick Butckis, who died earlier today at
the age of eighty. But you know, just real quick
on the game tonight is we watch Justin Fields throw
three touchdowns in the first half, two to DJ Moore.
(02:28):
DJ Moore working on a thirty point first half in fantasy,
and the Bears could do no wrong. And now, of course,
you know, hey, Commanders get there coming out real little pissed.
In the second half, Bears play soft defense and the
Commanders go all the way down the field and Sam
Howell throws a touchdown and runs into two point conversion.
So it's a two point game. So there's still a
lot of time left to go.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Possession game. Sorry, two possession game.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I'm looking ahead an Arian Foster script, the two possession
game still can you imagine get to be a two
point game? And I'm right, but this is look to
talk about Justin Fields for a second, because he's the story. Yes,
you could blame Chase Claypool, but since Justin Fields decided
to go to the media and say, hey, you know what,
(03:13):
I'm not in the best position to succeed here. And
we taught that was a big deal for a couple
of days. Wait, you're not You're not in the right
place to succeed. What what's going on? You're being made
to succeed, are you not? He just wasn't happy, wasn't
happy with how the game was called, and he went
about it a really bad way and saying that I
get coached too much. They're coaching me too much, and
I gotta forget about that, and I just got to
(03:33):
go out and play instinctively. Better ways to go about it,
as certainly he shouldn't shouldn't say I get coached too much.
This dude, you need this coach. You can't go out
and play without coaching. But if his point was, hey,
give me the give me the stuff during the week,
and implement that on the week on Sundays or Thursdays,
whatever day it is. But mostly you gotta trust me
(03:53):
that I'm going to be able to make the instinctual
plays because you drafted me to be this kind of quarterback.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You draft them to be.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
A different kind of guy who can make plays with
his legs and his arm. Like we just saw where
a design run where nothing was working to the right
side looked like a five yard loss. He turns it
back inside and gains three. Another play where there was
a busted handoff in the backfield and hey, could have
been his fault, could have been the running backs fault.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
But what does he do?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
He scrambles for twelve yards like that's what he does.
And since that moment, and since he decided to have
that moment with the bear saying, hey, you're coaching me
too much, all of a sudden, hey, Justin Fields is
playing freer, looser and better. I guarantee you behind closed doors,
they made the changes he wanted to be made. Whether
they're not talking to him in his headset and or
whatever it is, but they made the changes he wanted
(04:35):
to say. All right, if this, if we're gonna lose,
we gotta lose. We got we gotta, we gotta, we
gotta do something. Let's go for broke. Let's let Justin
Fields be who he is and look at.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
What we've gotten. Production wise, you can't argue the last
six seven quarters from him. Well. DJ Moore also a
question of you know, his usage and a lot of
talking local media and national about the routes being run
and the opportunities that have been there look, the deep
ball has been there since the beginning of the season.
They were very effective throwing the ball twenty yards and beyond,
(05:04):
and certainly in the red zone early on. Problem is
you didn't see the red zone a lot. And then
you look at the game last week against Denver moving
the ball. Now, Denver's not the proper barometer because they
made be the worst defense in the National Football League,
But you take away some of the positives. He was
getting the ball out, not holding it, the four point five,
four point eight second, standing in the pocket, not moving,
(05:28):
not creating plays. That guy was gone. And then in
the fourth quarter they reverted to some play calling that
was suspected best and you had the turnovers. And then
for the interception, you can still argue, all right, was
that Comet sat down too early and was supposed to
keep running his route, or was that on fields that
he should have known that Comet was sitting down. Whatever
(05:50):
the case was, you have a turnover and you end
up losing that game. Tonight, deep balls time, and again
you had Mooney right off the jump, a ball that
should have been completed, overshot him. I think he just
got wide eyed that Moon. He was running so free
in the secondary, while he didn't make the same mistake
DJ Moore, as you mentioned, a thirty point first half
(06:12):
for fantasy owners as they opened up the game, they
got the ground game rolling Khalil Herbert nine for seventy
six thus far, and they've called him more design runs
for fields, which has been non existent. He ran for
over one thousand yards last year. Why because you had
a bunch of design games. You know how many they'd
called it through four games? Eight like yeah, that was
(06:32):
like six, it's like eight eight design runs. It doesn't
I don't know why teams decide to say, here's a quarterback,
here's his skill set, and we're gonna change what you do. Well,
can't do it right? Right, you get you can change
change it slightly, right, you modify it. You hope to
round out in the other places where they're they're good,
but to get them to great. Right, it's a Lamar
(06:53):
Jackson thing. Right. You don't take away what he does.
When Cam Newton was at his best and maybe he's
a jet, you don't take away in what he does.
You just try to make the other parts of his game.
You bang out that. What do I say, you bang
out the dents.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Right, that's that's what you do at this point, at
this level of the quarterback, he's coming to you as
a finished product. Now the years have gone by, where
hey here's a here's a kid coming out. Well, yeah,
we love what you do. You're a smart quarterback.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You do X, Y and Z.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
But you need to do this to be successful in
the NFL. Now it's I'm coming to the NFL. This
is who I am. Okay, you want to succeed, this
is who I am. I need design runs. I need
to be able to have freedom in the pocket. I
need to be able to get outside and make plays
with my legs. I need to improvise. Right, No one
said Ben Roethlisberger needed less improvisational plays when he was quarterback.
And how many times, how many design plays? I don't
(07:41):
know that Roethlisberger hit his first read in the history
of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's probably a one percentage. Sure.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Roethlisberger always found a way to keep the play alive.
And then Antonio Brown was open, somebody was open, he
would find that was a way. That was the same thing, really, right.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
The prossess of what Tebow's NFL success and certainly college
was keep a play alive. Eventually someone's gonna run open. Yeah,
see what I did? I got Tim Tebow? He did.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
That was nice, That was nice. But you have to
you have to just decide, we're gonna bang out the
dents on a guy. We're gonna leave him the player
he is, and we're gonna design the offense around him.
Because you have to do that. Now, you can't, you
can't know. You can no longer take a quarterback and say,
all right, who do we want for our system? No,
it's who do we want and what kind of system
can we work around him?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And that works? Right?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What do we hear yesterday the the defensive coach that
said the Patriots are just killing Matt Jones because they're
making him run a system that he's not good at
and and they're not let going to run a system
that he had at Alabama. This is what you have
to do with quarter It's not rocket science, now, I
mean it's not. It's it's you and you get a player,
you bang out the dents. All right, we gotta teach
Justin Fields to be a pocket quarterback. He's never gonna
(08:47):
be a good pocket quarterback. You could teach him he's
never gonna do that, right, because that's not what he does.
You can say me, Jason, Hey, you're a good radio
so you know, I think you'd be able to do Hey.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
What's that.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think you can be a you PS delivery driver,
an ice road trucker. Well, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, but you know, you know how to do things
on the fly, and your your instincts are good and
you have pretty good fast twitch reactions. I think he'd
be a good ice road truck driver. No, I really wouldn't.
I really wouldn't be No, but I think you can
do that. Now. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I would fall off the road. I would be spinning
around going ah. No, I'd be pretty good.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
On that show, though, I wouldn't do it entertaining in
the co for a very short amount of time. Oh,
I mean we only need you for an episode, the
season premiere. How long do we have Jason? Well, like,
we're putting him on a bridge in the end of
the first episode. Can we can we get him to
promote the show? Oh? Well, you know, I don't want
to spoil the season for you, but he's not available
to be here with us, and it's not always going
(09:41):
to be pretty. No, it's not always going to be
something that looks aesthetically great. There's gonna be plays where wow,
justin fields through that pass to nobody, or wow, justin
field through that pass directly to the defender, or how
does he not see what happened? There's gonna be plays
like that. But you're gonna get games like this where
here he is three touchdowns, he's running free. That's how
you have to deal with a quarter You gotta let
him go. I watch it with Zach Wilson. They tried
(10:03):
to say, don't make mistakes them when when did he
start playing well? When?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
When when did he start playing with When they decided,
screw it, you're gonna throw downfield against the Chiefs, and
he's the first quarterback in the history since Pat Mahomes
has been in the league to have more attempts, completions, touchdowns,
and less interceptions in a game against Mahomes. No one's
ever done that against that one. We might have to
because one and three now, but they let somebody be
(10:28):
who he is, and that's who Zach Wilson was. He's
a gun slinger. Let him be a gun slinger. No, no, no,
we're gonna try to do this to you and it's
never gonna work. Quarterbacks they have to go. I mean,
this is where they say, no, you're gonna try to
put me in a system. I'm gonna hold out. I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna come in here because this
is not gonna be good for me. I gotta go
someplace where they're gonna allow me to be eventually coach me,
but I need to be who I am at quarterback.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, and we're just watching the sequence that just went
down about midway through the third quarter. The offensive line
for the Bears is battered, and look, they weren't terribly
good to begin with, but you've got a couple of
backups in and pressure from that Washington front. And this
was one of the questions coming into the game was
how do you get fields out of the pocket around
the tackles and give him a chance for some throwing lanes.
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And right now it's just been an abject failure. Get
the touchdown of the two point conversion and now you're
getting the ball back after a woeful possession for the Bears.
But it was interesting, you know, coming into the studio,
as we do to yell at each other during Monday
and Thursday night football. You know, I hear a little
of the radio broadcast. I wanted to do the quick
compare contrast for you between our guy Kevin Harlan and
(11:34):
Iron Eagle as to how they set up a game,
because one of the first things you said to me
when come in is I kind of like those commander's uniform. Yeah,
what does Kevin Harlan do? He strides out to the field,
bare armed, black jersey with the yellow accent, the bright
black helmet in the whole nine yards Iron Eagle and
Ross Tucker chopping it up today kind of looks like
(11:56):
the Hamburglar. That's how he described the uniforms. There you go.
You will not unsee that they're all really short, the commanders,
it is all four foot eleven. Look at them all run.
I can't tell who's got the ball. But see you
all have the capes. I know if you can overlay
the aliens from Joy's story as Hamburglars instead, and now
(12:17):
we make it the McDonald's. Yeah, but game. See that's
from the from the ball pit then and we have
some fun.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
And now thinking that's where you go back to the
single wing offense, because if you have like three or
four running backs and they're all Hamburglars and they wear
the capes, they can cover, you know, they could send
all different directions and and suddenly it's it's who's got
the ball. I don't know who has the ball. I
don't know where the ball is. See there you go,
I thought he had it. That Hamburglars can work. It
was just pretty funny, like sets it up in Harlan always.
(12:46):
He strides to the line of scrimmage. He's bare armed
on this cold, wintry Buffalo night, you know, all of this,
and then they're chopping ups like, yeah, what's it look like?
It looks like the Hamburgler Like there you go, eagle.
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It's not too difficult. Let the guy go, coach him,
let him go, let him be who he isn't look
justin fields is pretty good. Still a two touchdown lead
and two point conversion lead for the Bears. They fumbled,
(13:31):
the Commanders fumbled. The Bears couldn't do anything with the
next possessions. Now Commanders have the football again, down twenty
seven to eleven midway through the third quarter. But we
have more NFL, Big time NFL coming up next. We
remember an absolute legend who left us earlier today. Keep
it right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Be sure to 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.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Field goal by the Commanders makes it
a twenty seven to fourteen game.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't know about that field goal. I don't know.
Why do you kick the field goal.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You're down twenty seven to eleven, You're facing a fourth
down in about three or four from the twenty yard line,
and you kick a field goal.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Your defensive line is just awakened. In the second half, Yeah,
you move the ball. Okay, I'm not a fam you
came overcame the Thomas fumble, right, he tried to fight
for extra yardage, had it stripped, and then you went
and you obliterated the Bears on the next possession. Yeah,
couple of sacks. You're starting to get after fields a
bunch and you kick the field.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I look at it like this. It was a two
touchdown game. Now, grand yes, it was a two touchdown
to two point conversion game, but it was a two
touchdown game, and your field goal made it a two
touchdown game. Not saying the points are useless, but at
that point, it's it's it's twenty seven to eleven, you're
on the twenty, it's four, it's fourth and three. Your
quarterback has just scrambled for nine yards. Yeah, I try
(15:08):
to stick that in the end zone. Oh, you've got
to go for it there on four? Because what what?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
What? What happens? All right? We don't get it? The
Bears are on the twenty and it's still a two
touchdown game. Bears. Bears were dopey taking the field goal earlier.
Shoot dope, So we're now even. We're one dopey move
field goal. This is like McDaniel's coaching against Brandon Staley. Yeah,
you Dopey move up, Sey, Dopey move.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
You just watched Uh, so we'll have more on this
again three minutes ago on the third quarter, Bears lead
at twenty seven to fourteen over the Washington Commanders. And and
really just an odd day, the Bears playing on Thursday,
on a day they lost one of the biggest icons
and franchise and National Football League history, Dick Buckis, passing away.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
At the age of eighty. Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
He died of his house in Malibu here in Los Angeles.
Earlier in the day there was an medical emergency and
they rushed to Dick Buckus's home and Dick Buckus did
not make it. He was one of the most ferocious
players in NFL history. He was he You talk about
(16:11):
the image of someone that would always look like he's
someone who wanted to.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Beat the crap out of you. That was Dick Buckets.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And even in retirement he had kept a big profile,
still did some things, did a little bit of announcing,
did a little bit of stayed in the public eye
and and and really was kind of fun is that
even in the last few months he become a fun
uh follow on Twitter, where he would say something fine,
here here's the guy's.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Joyed.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, yeah, you know he was. He was really fun.
And the picture opening day of him with his cane saying,
someone find me a quarterback that I can go hit.
They made a big round on social media, and so
he was still enjoying being Dick Buckets and and and
getting another run in who he was and now you know,
reaching out on social media and uh it, you know,
it's a shame. This is a guy who really embodied
(17:01):
the NFL of the sixties, which the people, the heroes
of the sixties were larger than life. These were guys
of your stories about the ego. There's no way that's true. No,
that's exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened. And Dick
Buckets was the embodiment of those guys in the sixties
with Bart Starr and Jim Taylor and and the end
that got to the NFL stars of the seventies which
turned into Bradshawn Staubach and but Gus was the leader
(17:24):
and there was nobody more ferocious and nobody players more
afraid of than Dick Buckis.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Well, he's a guy obviously for me growing up in Chicago.
There's certain players that have that they're they're a thread
right in terms of the fandom between generations, And it
says nothing about the love for Walter Peyton, Mike Ditka.
You know, depending on who you are, you don't even
remember that he was a player, right, He was a
Hall of Fame player before he ever became a coach.
(17:51):
But you know, we still we still have coach with us.
But when you talk about the legend and legacy of
the Bears, it really does start with Bukiss and we
talk about linebackers. All these years, there's been just a
litany of big time players at that position. But he
went to Hollywood, right, Johnny Dangerously he was in that
(18:12):
he was on Hangtime if you watch Saturday morning television,
a bunch of movies, bunch of TV shows. I had
a good opportunity to meet him a couple of times
when he released his autobiography, and on a couple of
other occasions at events, you know, at home whatever. He
did a lot, a lot of work, you know, helping
retired players, very active in that part of his life.
(18:33):
But yeah, fiery guy. The first time you meet him,
I don't get intimidated like you've been with me, you know,
when we go to super Bowl week and whatever. There's
a lot of these guys that you know, they're legends
in their own right, but it's like, hey, how you doing.
Good to meet you this guy, You're like, I'm mister,
but waiting from the punch in the head. And I
(18:54):
put it up on Twitter. It was funny. You know.
I got some award at a third grade thing in
grade school on the priests. I'm walking up the aisle
and he goes, oh, we got our own little junior
Dick buckets there. So that stuck for a while. Then
I stopped growing. I was a big kid, yeah, and
then then I stopped growing and that was the end
of that. But always one that you held up as
(19:14):
one of the meanest sobs in the game. And a
lot of the hits, yeah they wouldn't be legal now, no,
no no, but in a different style, set the tone, uh,
and the highlight reels when you add Facenda's voice over
the top of it, because there are many of those
making the rounds. This evening just goes and shows you
a different time for the NFL and right now a
(19:36):
city in morning.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, you know, I I shared an elevator with him
once and here's you know, we'll talk about the image
of Dick Buckets. Well, this was at Fox, probably about
twenty some odd years ago, and when I was working,
when I was working over at Fox. This this is
before he even became a radio talle It was still
in production. And you know, the people coming to in
the Fox building here in La at all, you know
all the time because NFL and Fox was headquarters.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Around there, and and you know, the movie's a lot
and everything so much. That's a fun place to work.
And so I got in the elevator, remember, on the
third floor, because I worked on the third floor. And
I get in on the third floor, and coming down
from the fourth floor was Dick Buckets. It was four
floor building. Was Dick Buckus. And I walk in. I go, oh,
Dick Buckets, I might get a chance to meet Dick Buckets.
(20:20):
And he's looking at a piece of paper, so obviously
he was in for a meeting or something with Fox.
And he's looking at a piece of paper. And I
walk in and he and he kind of looks up
because people getting on the elevator, and he just gives
me a look, and I just say to myself, I
am not going to meet. I'm not going to eage.
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna stand in the corner
of this elevator and when we get to the first floor,
I'm gonna walk out. I was like, Oh, I'm gonna
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general direction and I'm gonna leave it. That's tick buckas
it said. He just looked up and I was like,
I'm I'm gonna stand over here. And it's not like
he did anything weird, Like I walked up to one
and said, Hi, how you doing. My name's dates and
you you great? No, I just walked in.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I saw him and I just oh, no, I'm not
gonna say a word, no, not nothing. He just it
was just that, okay, yeah, this is this will be
a quiet eleihitor right, you on one side, on the
other side.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
So it's funny. I saw this afternoon. I'm finishing making
dinner and I have I put the score on, and
it's whatever, it's delayed, it's behind. So I'm like, I
figured I want to hear the host talk about Bucket
is figuring they'd grab some audio and maybe get some
of the legends, and and then at some point they had.
They played this montage and it starts with Fasenda and
it ends with Buffoone yelling, and he never admitted that
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he started that fire on my door. I'm like, what
the hell is that? I was like, that's how they
ended the mile. I'm like, I gotta go find that audio.
I walked right in the middle of the conversation fire.
I'm like, there's all these clips talking like on these
people talking about a little sound bites of people through
the years, of media members and folks that had worked
(21:50):
with them, and then there's this last clip and then
they go to the commercial to go throw it to
you know, their pregame cover zone. Just like, what is that? Why? Well,
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I always thought what I think of My favorite quote
from Dick Buckis was when you know, he was always
thought of as you know, illegal hits and he was
a dirty player. He was so ferocious, and there's two
things that he was. He got in trouble and one
of the best NFL films on him was hit. He
was miked up and he was scraping across the line
of scrimmage before a play and he's going hut hut
hut hot hut hut, and you know, he was trying
(22:24):
to get the senator snapped the ball, and a couple
of times it happened, and he's going hot, hot, hut hut,
and he just keeps saying it. And final they blow
the whistle and the refic was, officers, you can't do that,
and he goes, that's a signal to my linebackers. What
do you mean he's going hot, just trying to get
to stab the ball and uh. And he did an
(22:44):
interview once and they asked him about his style of
play and he said, look, he said, let me let
me set the record straight. I never in my life
set out intentionally to hurt anybody unless it was something
really important, like.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
A league game. So that was that.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Never did unless it was a league game, Smoky, then
it was a league game. The first league game, smoking
reference we had. That's about it, right, oh man, Rest
in peace. Dick Buckets eighty years old. Absolute Bears Icon
will continue to remember him throughout the show tonight. Meanwhile,
on the field, the Bears have the football. However, Khalil
(23:23):
Herbert just he's having a great game of it, his
best game this season. He's got seventy five yards rushing.
I don't know if he's going to be in the
game again. They gave him the ball on one of
those quick swing plays and he just went down like
it was one of those plays where it looks like
the player goes down because he wants to stay in bounds.
Khalil Herbert gets the ball, goes about five or six
(23:44):
yards to the right and just just goes down. And
he gets up and he walks very gingerly off the
field and you can tell that he is in pain,
and it did not look good. Don't know if Khalil
Herbert is going to come back. Anytime you see an
instance like that, you go, oh, man, is he okay?
Especially since he went and he went down without getting
touched the play after that, and I'm still waiting to
(24:06):
see the replay on this. DJ Moore, who was having
an unbelievable game, is hit with a pass in the flat.
He gets by the dB and he is running down
the sideline. Another Washington dB comes to try to knock
him out of bounds. He can't and Dj Moore is
still skipping up the sideline and he gets about the
ten yard line and suddenly he goes, oh, he throws
the football up in the air and the referees whistled
(24:28):
him out of bounds. I have not seen one good
look to say that, Okay, he was in bounds, he
was out of bounds. But boy, the couple of ones
I saw, I did not see him anywhere near the
out of bounds marker. Now we've seen that running, he's
running free for maybe it's a DJ Moore guy, right,
maybe maybe it's a DJ Moore guy.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
May you're out of bounds? The blind referee memes are
starting our r yeah, because.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
They didn't show a good replay. Didn't because what you
need is the over the head replay of it. It's
what we've seen is the replay from the field angle.
We've seen the replay from the side angle, but I
have not seen over the head replay, which is what
you need. And I don't know if Amazon doesn't have it.
We got to call Jeff Bezos and say, did we
did over the head replay? But it looked like it
was going to be another fifty yard touchdown for DJ
(25:11):
Moore and instead it was just a nice completion for
a first down.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I can tell you at this point watching the replay,
we've got it on a loop here in the studio.
I defy you to show me where he stepped out
a pounds from the replay there. It doesn't even look close.
It looks like another one of those. Yeah, there's a
couple of inches between he and the painted grass. But yeah,
they rule it down, and well that's that's the end
(25:35):
of that. He's salty, Bears will be salty. The written letter,
it's a file under protest should they blow this game
has already been written. Yeah, I really want to see that.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I really want to see that, because that was a touchdown,
that was six and instead the Commanders hold tight and
the Bears kick a field goal. So now it's a
thirty to fourteen lead that Chicago has very early in
the fourth quarter, fourteen oh nine left to go. Oh
for more of this. Maybe he's seen an angle of it.
Maybe yes, maybe he has.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
He's a wizard. You never know.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
It's special delivery. Steve disaga with that, and what is
trending in the wide world of sports, that's d.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I think Amazon has the replay you are discussing. It's
just there's some sort of delay in shipping.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Oh maybe by noontower attempted delivery and then they claim
they couldn't get in the building. That's how it was
time to go home.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So if I put the replay in my cart, I
won't be able to check.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Can I pick it up at a locker right nearby? Yes, yes,
you can drive.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Get in your car and drive and go pick up
the replay by noon tomorrow. Bears say running back a
little Herbert with the ankle injury is quote questionable to return.
It is a thirty to fourteen Bears lead early in
the fourth quarter at Washington tonight. You know, the NFL
just put out a list of in Bear's history in
the Super Bowl era, So this is over fifty years
(26:53):
of history. The number of Bears players who've had in
the team's first five games of a season at least
four hundred and fifty yards receiving and four receiving touchdowns
are more. DJ Moore and that's the list.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Djow that's it and DJ Moore, DJ Moore and DJ Moore.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Three touchdown passes for Justin Fields tonight, and the halftime
lead for the Bears was twenty seven to three. Have
we mentioned they're oh to four this season and have
lost fourteen straight games going back about twelve months.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
They still have not won a game since Elon Musk
bought Twitter. Wow, every other every professional every other professional
sports team.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
You want to go at one hundred and twenty three MLS.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
How you're going, NBA, NFL, MLB, They've all won a
game since Elon Musk bought Twitter last October.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
The Bears are the only ones without without haven't gotten
that yet.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
That'll be a tough one to crack. So you're saying
the Bears do not have their blue check mark at
this point.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Oh no, no, no they I didn't pay for mine either.
They got that taken away.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
DJ Moore, by the way, it's been targeted eight times.
He has seven catches, one hundred and seventy four yards
and two touchdowns. Recently, Washington settled for a field goal
after a seventy yard drive. The Bears answered with a
field goal on their very next drive. Right now, Washington
with the ball at midfield, thirteen minutes to go. It's
the Bears in the league thirty to fourteen. On the
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day that Hall of Fame linebacker Dick Buckis passed away
at the age of eighty, he was a pro bowler
in his first eight seasons, all with the Bears. Buckas
was born in Chicago played for the University of Illinois.
He's in the College Football Hall of Fame as well.
Rams wide receiver Cooper Cup practice fully today after his
hamstring injury. Dallas wide receiver Cede Lamb was a full participant.
(28:35):
Raven's wide out Rashad Bateman practice fully. He's had a
hamstring injury. Bill's linebacker Von Miller is traveling to London
with his team so he could debut Sunday against Jacksonville
after his torn acl last year. Lions star wide receiver
i'm and ross Saint Brown did not practice again today
abdominal injury, and Bengals wide receiver T Higgins mispractice again
(28:55):
with a rib injury. Panthers running back Miles Sanders was
limited again today with a groin injury. NBA MVP Joel
mb To Philadelphia will play for the US at next
summer's Paris Olympics, not for France. He's now a US citizen.
At the last gold medal final, the US beat France
eighty seven eighty two. The best of five MLB Division
(29:16):
series all start this Saturday. FS one will have Texas
at Baltimore than Minnesota at Houston on both Saturday and Sunday.
And finally, Mets general manager Billy Eppler resigned. The new
Baseball operations president there is David Stearns from the Brewers.
The Mets are looking for a new manager as well,
after Buck Showalter was fired. Eppler is the focus of
(29:37):
MLB's investigation currently of improper use of the injured list
as well. It's the Bears in the lead early fourth
quarter at Washington, thirty to fourteen.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Back to you, thanks a bunch, Steve, though, the commander
is trying to get down the field right now, down
by two touchdowns, and Sam Howel is making some throws
in traffic across his body that look like they should
be picked off, but he's hitting receivers in between two defenders. Look,
I'll tell you this is why I always like Sam Howell.
I watched him a lot. Look Like I said, I
(30:07):
watch acc football, so you don't have to. He was
someone who once upon a time could have been the
number one and number two overall pick in the draft
right going into his senior year. He didn't have a
great year, so we stumbled all the way through.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Now they lost several top notch players on the offense. Yeah,
it was that line struggle, I mean going on.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
He just didn't have that year that he needed to
have and he winds up slipping in the draft and
Washington takes him and they do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We're gonna sit you for a whole year, learn, and
then we see where you're at. It's a very old
school way to do things, but sometimes that's the right
thing to do, right, That's the way it used to
be in bad Hey, you're a quarterback of the feud.
You're not gonna play the first year, and then we're
gonna see you play the next year. And what I
see him doing with Washington is a lot of what
I saw in North Carolina. He could have a quarter
where at Carolina when he was a quarterback where I
(30:55):
would say, oh my Goodnes, this is this is terrible.
I did. Carolina is not going to score the entire
They're gonna lose thirty eight to three. And then all
of a sudden, he can't miss. When he gets hot.
He is fun to watch, and he is he is
right now. He's on a heater and he's throwing balls
in between in between defenders. That receivers are making plays on.
He is really on a heater. And what he looks
(31:16):
like when he's like this is he looks like Carson
Wentz when Carson Wentz was good, Like back in the beginning,
when Carson Wentz was a thirty three touchdowns and seven picks,
a big quarterback that's a little mobile that will get
outside the pocket and make plays. That's kind of what
Sam hell. He looks like Carson Wentz went not Carson Wentz.
Now who's hunting and saying, hey, call me, I'm ready,
I can be here. No, But Carson Wentz when he
(31:37):
was good, he can. He's a big kid that can
see up over the line. Can I never I never
watch him and think, oh, he's out of a play,
even when it looks like there he's about to get
swallowed up by the defensive line. When Sam Howell gets hot,
he is really something. Yeah, we've watched a couple of
times Tonight held the ball a little too long, trying
to wait for something to develop. But I mean that's
the young quarterback, right. You're used to your eyes finding
(32:01):
that daylight and being able to throw to that area
instead of having to throw them open and right now.
He is just carving up what is a bad Bear secondary.
This is unexpected, even legitimately coming into this game. It
was all right, Fantasy rankings hes top ten for the week. Yeah,
like he just is. You got too many weapons. And
this is with McLaurin being a bystander most of this game. Uh,
(32:24):
much to the chagrin of their fantasy of his fantasy owners.
But he's found a rhythm pushing the ball down field.
He's got good velocity on it right, coming over the
top and really making plays downfield. And he stretched a
few of his legs. He's been betrayed by his receivers
a couple of times on a couple of balls that
(32:45):
should have been caught, you know, the dive and it
still hits them in both hands and what have you.
But it's interesting. And look, this game is far from over. Yeah,
we've seen this act before. Sam Howell has the Commanders
down on the Bears goal line. Again.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
It's a score game, but there's still eleven minutes to
go in the fourth quarter. Thirty to fourteen. A fun,
fun game.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Yeah, first and goal. Good play by the defensive back
to get in the way of Logan Thomas to deny
him the end zone. But yeah, stressful moments for Bears fans.
No Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam
Sam Sam Sam Sam.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Sam gonna be third and goal for the Commanders. When
we speak next, are we talking about a one score game?
Or does something happen Twitter? Or how about a fresca?
Mike get swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Carmon. Well, after the crazy news today,
I am pretty positive that one MLB superstar, is Red,
(33:41):
will be available in trade. And it pains me to
say it, but I'm pretty sure you can go get him,
and you can go get him right now.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
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Speaker 1 (34:36):
Lead the Commander's thirty to twenty, still nine and a
half to go in the fourth quarter, Commanders getting the
football back. We'll have more on this game coming up
in about ten minutes, but after to show you that
certain teams can have nice things. After news today, there
is no doubt in my mind that some lucky team
is going to wind up making a trade with the
(34:58):
Mets for Pete Alonzo, and Alonzo is going to be
an x Met maybe before next season begins, but it's
gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
You add the.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Dual news today first that hey, Pete Alonzo has retaining
Scott Boris as his agent, which, okay, Scott Boris usually
hates the Mets, but he's negotiated big deals with the
Mets in the last couple of years for a lot
of money. You know, sures are a lunch of others.
But the fact that Alonzo is even out there tells
me that already he's so far apart from what the
(35:27):
Mets want to give him, and there's no reason why
you wouldn't want to keep He's a homegrown superstar. He
is a guy that came up through the miners. He
loves being a Met, The fans love him. The guy produces.
He had two to twenty this year and still, you know,
fifty home runs and one hundred and twenty five RBIs
he's still a great player. The fact that he's out
there and we're talking about him being dealt in the
Cubs won him. Supposedly that was a story a couple
(35:48):
of days ago. They want to go all in for pee.
Alonzo tells me they are so far apart on what
he asked. He's asking for it. The Mets want to
give him that, they say, we're just gonna have to
trade him. And now you're throw in the news today.
Billy Eppler, who was the Mets general manager, now David
Stern sterns he comes in to run the team and
Billy Eppler, who was the GM running the team for
(36:10):
the last couple of years, resigns today. Well wait a minute,
I thought he was out up he decided to resign. Initially,
it wasn't that weird to me because I'm like, well,
Stern's is gonna make the call and Billy Eppler is
not gonna make the calls anymore. I don't think that's
that big a deal. But then, of course, you know,
Mets can't have nice things. Apparently there was a probe
going on the Mets misused the injured list this year,
(36:30):
and maybe that Billy Eppler is falling on his sword
and being the guy to hey, because he even said
in leaving today, I want to put David Stearns on
even foot. I want to have a clean slate. So
whatever happened last year with the injured list, he's gonna
wind up, get it. It's last night. We find out
that Billy Eppler wanted Daniel volgelback to play and built
Buck Showalter and he fought about it. Okay, that was
(36:52):
a crazy ass story. Now today Eppler resigns and there's
controversy and Pete Lonzo, so it's all coming down to
the Mets can't even hire a guy that everybody says
is one of the top two executives in all of baseball.
It should be a celebratory day. And here Eppler is leaving.
There could be an investigation and now I know Peede
Alonzo is gone. Mets can't have nice things, man, Well.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
This strikes to me as one of those nzaa self
sanctioned kind of things. We fix the glitch. You don't
need to penalize us, take draft picks, take any of
our international pool money. You know, whatever restrictions you might
put on us, don't do it. Because that guy did it.
It was all him. It was all Eppler. So, yeah,
(37:36):
just a weird couple of days, right, Bucks gone. Alonso
was not happy about that, and very vocal, you know
he was. He did the old Hey, I'm glad it happened.
You know, sorry, it's over and all, but you know,
I'm glad that it happened. And for his own time, right,
the fans gave him a standing ovation in his final
at bat, all of those great things. But when you
(37:57):
hire Boris Corp. To start going and building the nine
thousand page dossier probably doesn't bode well for the incumbent.
Means that you wanted to go further in the numbers
and your your efforts and what you mean to the
team than whatever their metrics are. Right, because at hitting
two seventeen I think was what his batting average was
(38:19):
this year, that's you know, traditional metrics, and the team's
gonna say, well, that's not good. We need you to
at least be league average.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yeah, but certain metrics don't matter when you're a power
hitter and you're hitting forty five home runs, knocking a
hundred twenty, hit two twenty, that's Grant's it.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
Okay, we cant hit two twenty. That's all right. Not
when I'm gonna pay you a giant extension. I'm gonna
try to use that against you. Yeah, whereas Boris korp
is gonna come back over the top.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Here's the money that Peter Alonzo brings in for parking.
Here's the extra fans that come to the ballpark to
see Pee Alonzo. Here's the cut of the jerseys out
he saw. Pee Alonzo pays for himself. He needs five
hundred million dollars. That's that's what Scott boy.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
And he's gonna do it really well, because we've seen
this act for a couple of decades at this point
of making far lesser players than Alonso. Uh, you know,
in that one hundred million plus club. So I'm certainly
expected here now the Cubs being part of the act.
You know, there's been a lot of questions of spending
money in which teams would get involved, uh in potentially
(39:19):
trade market. I don't know. I think there's gonna be
some chaos this charge with your gay.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
It could even be early. They could even trade him
early in the off season if someone comes up with
a big offer. Hey, that that makes it because what
the Mets are looking for is they're looking for who's
gonna help us now and in the future. And if
you can do that, Hey, peter A, Lonzo's gonna be gone.
Like I've already come come to terms with like it's happening.
It's gonna happen. I've moved past. I'm in the acceptance stage,
(39:44):
and now I'm just okay, what what can we get?
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Can you send? What are we gonna get? Oh? Man,
I don't know. I don't know. Man, that's another guy
they can afford. I don't know. I trade him for
Juan Soto. Well, that's kind of what I'm gonna do.
Give you. He doesn't want to sign with you. Our
guy doesn't want to sign with us. How do we
make this right? Yeah? Or just I thought you meant
just going to San Diego. No, no, no, he's still
gotta be uh, there's still gotta be some compensation there,
(40:08):
and I mean it's not an easy Hey, he just
leaves Padres payroll is a billion dollars. Congratulations. I have
still finished second exit out about a Fresca exit.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Swallen Dome coming up next. Got a big story out
of the NFL. Will keep you update on what could
be a much closer TNF game. As the Commanders are
driving down the field, Fox
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