October 6, 2023 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the ending of the Bears vs Commanders game with DJ Moore having a crazy game.
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way tire buying should be. So the commanders are on
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the move. Just under six minutes left to go. Sam
Howell has the Commander's in Bear territory. This possession should
end with some kind of score, whether it's a touchdown
and making a three point game, or a field goal
to make it a touchdown game. That's what remains to
be seen. But if fields was the story of the
first half, Sam Howell the story of the second half
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up to three thirty and two touchdowns. Is also run
for a two point conversion, thrown for a two point conversion.
He's also the leading rusher for Washington with four carries
and nineteen yards. Now, all the great stuff I said
about him a few minutes ago, the one thing I
will tell him that he's got to dude's got a slide.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I get that he wants to make the extra play
and get the extra yard or two, but he is
leaving himself open to a lot of big hits. He's
lucky he is a bigger quarterback, so we can absorb
those hits. But still, you're only gonna do it for
so long. And there's I've seen three or four plays
where I can point and go just go down. It's
trying to endear himself off. It's not worth the extra
yard if you're scrambling, you know, and look, quarterbacks know
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where they are in the field all the time. So
if you're if it's second down and seventeen and you're
scrambling and you gain twelve yards, okay, that's great. It's
not worth It's not worth trying to get an extra
yard to make it third and six instead of third
and seven when you could get hit and knocked out
of the game.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You know it's I mean, how many times like it's
the tail as old as time, right and the beast.
No even better than that, okay, is that young quarterbacks
need to be told to get down right. That was
week one, Trevor Lawrence going up to Anthony Richardson. You
got a lot of great stuff. Get the hell.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Down, lie man. Slide slide, do take that hit slide
demaggio slide as a callback to fifty start to do
for you. So right now again, thirty to twenty, Washington trailing,
but it looks like they are on the cusp of
a score that will make this potentially a one score game.
Still have not seen Khalil Herbert since leaving the game
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with an injury for the Bears about a half hour ago.
He is running on the sideline, so that is good
for him. Well, they haven't had the ball much yet,
you don't have it. They have not total opposite in
terms of time of possession and all that fun stuff.
Justin fields in the second half, hass thirty seven thirty seven,
thirty seven passing yards. Meanwhile, DJ Moore working on a
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thirty seven point day for Fantasy.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Should be more, should be more?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
There was a there was a sure touchdown that was
called back that he stepped out of bounds. On Amazon
has not shown anything close to the right replay. I
don't know that they have it. I do know that
they have the over the How do you not have
the overhead angle?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I don't know it's going to be available to me
probably what about an hour after the game ends. That'd
be in my NFL Plus for the All twenty two.
So kind of waiting to see that. And but here's
the thing, right, you have this pass interference call that
you heard in the update Steve Desager making mention of it.
That would have been a forty yard pass interference call
that they picked up the flag same field judge that
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called DJ Moore on a mounse. So the conspiracy theorists
are running a buck in the world.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of I really can can't wait to see that. That's
gonna be a really interest because I don't know that
he was anywhere close to being out of bounds. I
really got to see where the.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Angle that we've seen. I find it hard.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
We've only seen two angles we've seen the we've seen
the game angle, and we've seen the sideline angle. Neither one.
Can you see where the how is there no overhead angle?
How is that? Really? You don't see that? Is there
something going on? No, don't show it. Don't show it.
People are the referees. No, we got to see that angle.
We got to see it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And I think I just jinks the Washington Commanders Joey
Sli has just missed a very makeable forty five yard
field goal. So instead of a one touchdown game, it
is still a thirty to twenty lead for the Bears.
A stunning miss from a guy who's been good from
fifty one earlier in the game. And let's face, one
of the better field goal kickers in the NFL misses one,
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and that might be it. I mean that that might
be the game for the Commanders because it was a
one score game. You missed that field goal. Now it's
still thirty to twenty Bears with the football now just
under five minutes left to go, but with injuries.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
As you said, Herbert's on the sideline and you know
he's doing the time to eat kind of motion along
the way. As we see that you know, stealing from
the great Zeke Elliott from back in the day. They
haven't been effective offensively, They've been three and out. The
offensive line hasn't been able to withstand pressure fields as
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really struggled here to get anything going down field here
in the second half. Like I said, just thirty seven
passing yards in the second half, had one hundred and
eighty nine and those three scores. That seems like a
lifetime ago. This is a repeat of the Denver game
where you're just you know, holding on to the reins
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for dear life, hoping that the finish line comes.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
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dot com. Meanwhile, in other quarterback related news, we had
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a great, great statement today from none other than Cam Newton. Now,
when Aaron Rodgers got hurt, there was all the question,
who are the Jets gonna call to get get them
to replace Aaron Rodgers because nobody else is any good.
Zach Wilson's no good, and Cam Newton's name came up.
All right, well, Cam Jetna now that maybe Zach Wilson
(06:31):
was better against the Chiefs. Last week that talk has
calmed down.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Cam Newton went on a podcast and he said, hey,
go in to play for what I'm likely gonna get offered.
I'm not interested. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I still believe Cam that you can play. So if
the Jets called you right now, what's your answer? Going
back to control? You not about to sit up here
and peny pensionly, Bro, I'm not about to sit up
here and sign oh five point five million.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Dollars the year, Bro that those days are over. I'll
be wasting my time because I will tell you if
you don't think that I could be on a roster
right now, I could. But it's bigger than that to me.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Am I in a shape right now? Hell yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
In any situation, I'm gonna sit up there and I'm
gonna analyze it as much as possible.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't want to walk into a dysfunctional situation.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Have you guys made Zach Wilson aware also, Aaron Rodgers
is trying to come back this year, let's also talk
about that.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So when he comes back, or is it just gonna
be something that you just say, hey, watch out.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
So it's a lot of things that I don't just
make impulse decisions.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Kim Newton talking like he actually has an NFL career coming,
like he still is actually going to play, Like there's
someone still internet on the decision I had to make.
I'm not coming out for one year and five point
five million dollars. First of all, I'll tell you this,
that's about five and a half million dollars more than
I'm willing to pay. Cam Newton. I like he thinks
he's controlling the conversation by saying, well, there's a lot
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of factors here. Aaron Rodgers wants to come back. I'm
not gonna come back and just lose my job after
a while. I'm not going to play for one year
and five and a half million, dude, No one's going
to give you five and a half million dollars to
play this year. You know, Zach would do Zach Wilson
know about all. There's a lot of things that go
into this. No there's one thing that goes into this.
The Jets need to call you and say do you
want to come play? The Jets have not called you
because you know why. Your career is done. Cam. Your
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career is over. Man, I'm sorry, but it's over. Cam.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Cam is doing what a lot of athletes like to
do now. And this is where guys who don't realize
or want to admit that their careers are over, whether
it's NFL or NBA anything else, they don't want to
admit that they're done. So what they do is they
go and they talk on podcasts and do interviews and say, well,
it would have to be the really right situation for
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me to go back and play. No, you mean a
team calling you. That's the right situation, right, A team
calling you. No one's calling you. No one's calling you. Means, hey,
guess what, Cam, Your career is done. You don't hold
any cards in this situation. And Cam Nut's making it
seem like I'm home every day and I field offers
and I tell my agent call this team back. Don't
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call them back. Let's see what they have to say. Meanwhile,
no one's calling. It's over. No one wants you. You
were done. You were done, you were done. I'm sorry.
You had a great heyday. It was a decade long, good, awesome,
and you made a business decision in the Super Bowl
and not jump on a fumble that you could have
maybe won the super Bowl if you decided to do that.
You had a great grip. But it's over, and yet
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here he is on a podcast talking like, yeah, I'm
still calling the shots. So many guys like to do
this now. So many guys that are not working want
to put the optic out there that I'm not working
by choice, right, It's like the guys didn say anything
that are hanging out of the gas and sip. Hey,
if you guys are so smart, why are you hanging
out at the gas and sip on the weekends? By choice?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
By choice? By choice? Yeah, it's by no. If they
called you, you would go back, right, But no one's
calling you. This is not your choice game. Your career
is all. I'm sorry, but your career is over. Yeah,
I mean, like, look, everybody's done this, right, because we
went through the laundry list of players who have been
active the last couple of years and gone down that road.
I mean, you saw RG three trying to talk about
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it earlier today as well. It's like nobody's knocking on
the door.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
But you know what I did with the Cam Newton
and immediately became the all right, between endorsements and his contract,
what did he make in his career that five point
five wouldn't get.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Him off the couch?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
And obviously we know he made a lot of money
in both. And then you take away taxes, you know,
agency fees, your trainers, your nutritionists, all of these obviously
you know taxes along the way. But figure if you
invested it pretty well, like no, I mean, he legitimately
could have enough to wear five point five is what
he makes an interest off his his savings, so perhaps
(10:45):
you know he'd rather do that, But yeah, nobody's calling
at this point. I mean Bill Belichick did. It was
the you know, reclamation projects of all and nobody celebrated
Cam as much. I don't think as we did when
he was Cam Newton, right, But after eight plus years
of getting battered the way he did wasn't the same player,
(11:06):
couldn't couldn't change up And the next iteration of Cam
wasn't wasn't viable. But I do like that that narrative,
no five for five point five, I'm not getting off.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, we'll look at all these things. Yeah, yeah, I'm not.
I'm not. I'm not gonna play. You're not gonna play
by the time you play, it's half a seat and
not gonna play for five and a half million. So
instead of playing for five and a half million, I'm
gonna do nothing. I do nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I'm gonna do with this podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now, maybe he's got the money and he doesn't need that,
you know, based on if you say money, if you
have the money, that, don't sit here and tell me
I'm not gonna do it for five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well, but that's that's kind of where I went with it,
is you know, five and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
He's saying that I've got plenty of cash.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, you really need to motivate me with a much
higher dollar amount than that.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Forget about the god that a team could want him
and he could get to continue his NFL career. I
have the money, so ei the money matters of the money,
I'd be happy to continue my career to play again
if the price is right. I want to play again.
Oh but really, no, I not for that. I mean,
I just love now that that this is like a
strategy that athletes are taking that people believe that, oh,
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you know, Cam, Cam would come back if if somebody
had But Cam's got to make that decision on it.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
But it's the same thing as coaches withdrawing their name
from consideration for jobs. You were told you weren't getting
the job, right, they said they were looking at a
different right, I withdraw my application.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You're gonna allow me to withdraw from this with dignity? Right, Okay, great,
thank you. I applied for the third shift. Ed gonna
get out of this insert retail establishment. You know what
you told me about? So I love I withdraw my application.
Exit out bout a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smiths Or with Mike Carmen live from the TIREC dot
(12:53):
Com Studios. DJ Moore is now working on a forty
nine point fantasy night in PAPR. He just had his
third touchdown of the night. Now you should have four
because it looks like he got rooked on that other one.
Make it three touchdowns. This win a fifty six yarder
from Justin Fields. He now has a night where he
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has eight catches, two hundred and thirty yards and three touchdowns.
The Chicago Bears looked like they're gonna get their first
win of the season. They lead Washington thirty seven to twenty.
We're coming up on the two minute warning. So look
at DJ Moore, look at the Bears. Look at the Bears.
Are gonna win their first game since Elon Musk blocks. Yeah,
how about that?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Look at that breaking that long losing streak and give
it up twenty five a game and all of that
stuff averaging eighteen points a game coming in plenty to
break down, including the fact that only three receivers actually
caught balls from Justin Fields tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
But we'll get to that. We got Jay Glazer coming
up on the way. All the latest news out of
the NFL. We got Fields, we got hal we got
DJ Moore, we got drama, we got it all. Keep
it right here. Happy Thursday. Hey, Jason and Mike, This
is Fox.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
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 3 (14:14):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I can't believe the news today. The Bears have a win, DJ,
I hate you and everything you stand for. Huh Hey,
nothing more fun than absolute garbage time for fantasy points.
Just an extra two or three fantasy points for Sam
Howell as he goes up the field a little bit
before the clock strike zero comminitions with three eighty eight. Yeah,
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commanders don't get in the end zone. Doesn't matter. And
I'm happy because I started Sam Howell this week because
I had to.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Three eighty eight two and one, did absorb five sacks
and had you know, a big game, a ransom two
point conversion two?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
No, he did, he did? They get that back off
the ID.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I mean, he didn't quite have the game of DJ
Moore No, who had eight catches for two thirty and
three touchdowns, and honestly it should have been for he
gets called out of bounds on a play that we
still haven't.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Seen the replay of the only wide receiver to catch
a ball. Yeah, but that's okay from justin field today.
Forget that seven receptions between Cole Comet five for forty
two and a score and two for Robert Tunyan. No
catches from the rest of the receiving corps.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Joining us now on the hot line to break it
all down. Nobody better NFL on Fox Inside are extraordinary,
Jay Glazer, You can follow him on Twitter at Jay Glazer. Jay,
what's happening? Buddy?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Are you man?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yo? Man? I've watched it the whole time. I realized
that that was the only reason for such a pass.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, well for the Bears, it's ok. Yeah, for the Bears,
that's all right. Yeah, he had a couple of shots
to Mooney early, but then he went away from him.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
But then the other receiver too in Chase Claypool, he's
not there and now look at the offensive running.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Well, he really wasn't there when he was on the field,
was he was all Chase Claypool's fault, Chase. That's that's
where all the blame's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Here. Here's a little laughing. You know.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The thing is with Justin Fields is there can you
draw a line of Hey, since he said I get
coached too much and I need to go out and
just play, he's been a different quarterback. Can you compare, Hey,
what happened in the media there that maybe the Bears
have done stuff behind the scenes and suddenly Justin Fields
is back on track or was a year ago.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I don't know if he's been a different Tonight was
very different. But here's the thing. I think last year
you saw, Okay, this guy has has you know, he's
great on the ground. They still have to evaluate him.
The current regime did not draft justin fields, so they
have to evaluate him. So then they're gonna put him
in a position to see if he's a passer, right,
they have to evaluate him. Obviously he's not that pure passer.
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So I think at that point they say, okay, now
we know we can't what he can't do. Let's kind
of go back to more of a hybrid we know
we can do, and let him use his threat with
his legs and and you saw a lot more design
plays for him. You've seen that that you know since
he said that more design plays, more design plays not
just for him to be a ball carrier and run
with it, but also to get out of the pocket
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and kind of make people just afraid if you give
them the fear that you're going to run. That opens
up some more options downfield. Certainly, I still think, look,
this is one games it is great to build off of.
I think, look if they if he can build off
this and really you know, not just throw the DJ more,
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but get more receivers in time and become a passing threat. Also,
that opens up so much to the Bears draft wise.
Right now you're looking at saying, okay, they stilled it
into quarterback and you know, maybe Marvin Harrison with that
second picture, that's what happens. It shakes out they have
one and two. But if they realize, okay, this is
our quarterback in the future, that completely changed everything.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah, Jay DJ Moore already with more receiving yards this
year than any Bears wide receiver last year.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
They were in Week five.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Obviously monster game today, but swirling around, you know a
lot of rumor conjecture, speculations that the Bears might have
jumped off the eberflus mandwagon, which would have gone completely
opposite to everything the history of the organization. You know,
from the people you talk to, is it that you
point in the year for them?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Before this game, I didn't think it.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Was gonna happen, only because look, they don't have their
defensive coordinator right and then so Ebra flues to their
defensive coordinator. Also, so if you get rid of him,
you're missing your defense coordinator and your head coach, What
do you do? Who do you put in? It just
didn't seem like is gonna make a lot of sense
to shack it up and make that move. You know what,
here's why you get rid of a coach during the season.
If the coach is a distraction. If everybody quits on
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you and the coach is a distraction, Abra Flues is
not a distraction at all. So it doesn't make sense.
A lot of times too, when you get rid of
a guy in the middle of the season, it does
did the team a little bit juice, and sometimes it's
false juice, and a lot of times the owner is going, oh, man,
this is I was supposed to be and then a
pirate that interim coach, and more than not, the interim
coach does not work out.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Jay really weird night for the Bears. Obviously, you know
they play this game and on the day they lose
one of their great legends, Dick Buckets, passing away at
the age of eighty. I told the story early in
the show. I remember sharing an elevator with him at
Fox once and I got in the elevator and I'm like, oh,
I'm going to get to meet Dick Buckus, and he
looked up from a piece of paper he was looking at,
and he looked at me, and I said to myself,
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I am not going to meet Dick Buckets right now.
I'm going to stand on the side of the elevator
and we're going to take the elevator silently.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
There's not too many people who are so at conact
that you're like, oh my god, I'm beyond starstruck. And
he's one of those guys who you know, even legends
in the NFL gets starstruck by him, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Did you get to meet him at all at any
any at Fox and you were there the last few
years at all, since he's you know, something Fox, but
just a you.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Know, Super Bowlder or or Hall of Fame, different things
I've come across from. And I interviewed him one time,
and I think it was about Lawrence Taylor, but I
can't remember. Back when I was covering the Giants, and honestly,
he was whatever I was calling about. He was so
incredibly nice and gracious and grateful and just you know,
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my interaction with him, he was great. But you're right
when you call a guy like that, especially me, a
little beat reporter for the Giants. Nobody knows. There's no
internet back then, so basically, you know, people knew me
him in New York and outside of it. For him
to take my call, I was just man, I was like,
oh my god, I can't believe this is happening.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
That next level thing. Maybe in the South Side Chicago.
And weird kind of day with the huge win and
the passing of Dick Budde he.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Passed away in Malibu. I live in Malibla, had no
idea who lived here.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Well, you know all those those Hollywood moments that he had.
You can go back and watch some Hangtime or Johnny
Dangerously to see some of his great comedic timing along
the way. Hey, a guy that's trying to look for
some levity. Big divisional matchup this week. Mike Tomlin kind
of intimating that they they've played a bit soft through
the first quarter of the season.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
What changes this week against Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You know, I look, everybody's expected him to The more
they call for him to fire his offenseve coordinator, the
more I said to myself, he's not gonna fire the
offense coordinator. People tell him what to do. The more
you say He's like, oh, just just stick to my guns.
But he also every time you think that team is
just odd, they're done. They got to do this that
he has a way of bouncing the back right. Ty
(21:29):
of the guy's never had a losing season. It's ridiculous
that he's never had a losing season.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Jay Glazer, NFL on Fox Insider with Us, The Jason
smithser with Mike Carmon Liverom Thetirech dot Com Studios. Are
you mentioned the Giants a couple of minutes ago, and
I don't think there's any team happier to turn the
page to another week in the NFL than the Giants.
You have Daniel Jones and the the bad game they
all played on Monday. Now, Evan Neil is having a
backtrack when he criticized the fans.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
The worst thing you.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Could do in New York that is, Yeah, you're always
gonna lose that. Jay, Yeah, you can't go out.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
There was a player back in the day I was
interviewing the Giant locker room and he started going off
about the Giants fans, and I turned my recorder off
and I said to him, listen, man, your new year,
if you want to go with this, no problem, I'll
print it. I got you, But I want you to
take a deep breath when you start a fight with
these New Yorkers, you want to take a deep breath.
(22:25):
If this is your thoughts, I'm good with it, but
I want to make sure these are your thoughts, and
because if you are, it's just a different road. And
he sat there, took a deep breath. He looked at me,
and he goes, yeah, I don't want to do that.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
He's saving that.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
He saved Phil simms career right there.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Ja forever man, because I just printed well with it.
But I didn't want to catch someone. I knew he
was in a moment of emotion, and I want to
catch someone in emotion, you know. I want this is
what your thoughts are. That's, by the way, for other
you know, even like you're reporters out there. Whenever somebody
said something controversial to me when I was a newspaper reporter,
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I would read it back to him and say, okay,
so you're saying this, this and this. I just want
to make sure that we're clear because tomorrow I don't
want you saying you're misquoted. This is what you're attentive,
and you know there there's been a lot of times
I don't ever recall somebody saying to me besides this, yeah,
you know what, let me change this. Oh one time,
one time because somebody is saying something he would have
(23:26):
got arrested for.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
But I want to make sure then when we have
something controversial, Hey, this is what you said, I just
make sure about this. And every time, for the most part,
like I said, ninety percent of the times, players have said, Okay,
I'm good with it. I'll deal with it all you
can tell us.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
So what did Peyton say about elight they?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
So?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
But where do the Giants go now? Jay? I mean, look,
it seems like it's such disarray right now with everything that,
which is.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Odd because the coach and staff over there in front
of like, it's just it's kind of not who they are.
So they've got to pull together somehow, some way. But
that's the thing. Also, you know, when you're in New York,
it's an emotional place, as you know, And what people
don't realize about in New York is you're not just
comparing yourself to the Jets and the Giants over there.
You get compared to the Yankees and not the Yankees
(24:16):
of this year, the Yankees of their great years, and
it's it's and it's the Knicks, and it's the Rangers.
They all get compared. So it's a different city of
what your expectations are because they had so many great
years for years and years and decades and decades with
the Yankees, So it tends to get a lot more emotional.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Jay Jonathan Taylor returns to the goals. He says, quote,
I'm here right now. What does that mean? Have they
mended fences and he's just getting right physically? Is he
a colt or is he eventually in another uniform?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
He's a cult right now, Let's see what happens so much,
you know, and there weren't a lot of There weren't
a lot of you know, look, if they had a
good offer, that would have taken it. But they didn't
have a good enough offer. And you know, at the
same time too, look they do they were hoping that
this was going to work itself out and things would
calm down and Jonathan Tellor would come back because they
(25:07):
know they got something to build off of that seemed
special on Anthony Richardson, But they're hoping that. Okay, if
we can get Jonathan Tylor back to pre injury Jonathan
Taylor and put him with Anthony Richardson with an offensive
coach like Snich, and we got something here that can
be more special than we sought a lot sooner than
we thought.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Well, especially with the Jaguars not exactly running away and
hiding the Titans week to week. We don't know what
we're getting. And Houston's been plucky, but the division's potentially
there for the taking.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Hey, Dimigo, Ryan's doing an incredible job.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Unbelievable and he's got no offensive lineman and he's still
getting it done.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Nobody saw that coming. Nobody saw that coming.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Hey, you said the word special, Jay. You know every
week we talk about the Unbreakable podcast, you have special
guests all the time, but an extra special guest this week.
You had Mercedes Lewis on because he meant a lot
to you. At the very beginning of the talk a
little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
By the way, Mercedes Lewis is getting a win right
now with the Bears. He and by he had offers
to go elsewhere, and I was like, why did you
go there to the Bears? And I'll get the other
thing in a second. And he's like, because I'm in
my last years, I wanted to go somewhere with people
that I love and I know, and Luke Getzi I
know from Green Bay and he means a lot to me.
So you know, yeah, I want to be partners building
(26:22):
something special over there with the Bears. But it was
also mental lot to me to be with people my
last year is that I care about and care about me.
And that was a really really honest moment, right from
an NFL veteran. Usually, right, guys are chasing money. It's
all about the ring and we don't think about the
other part. Hey, my last year is I want to
be around people I don't care about me. I've never
(26:42):
heard a player say that ever, and I've had bunch
of calls about it. Actually, K started airing yesterday about
that and some of the other things he said. But
when I first started doing my mental health checkups and
I try to this is well before my book came out,
and I was like, you know what, the Internet is terrible.
It's causing me all these issues, but it's a lot
(27:02):
of the issues. I'm gonna try to use the internet
to be raw and vulnerable and not just have highlights
and and knock everybody out there to look at, you know,
or compare ourselves to everybody else's filtered fraction of a
secondary feel this hate. So I was clearing on it.
I'm like, listen, is the first time I'm coming out
at depression and anxiety and bipolar and ADHD, which I'm
(27:27):
sure you guys stand that one everybody figured out already.
But I said, I want to be raw and real
and vulnerable for a lot of time. For a long time,
people looked me like eight Glazier's crazy and that was
a badge of honor in football and fighting, but no
one knew how much pain I was really in. And
that was once I did that, and I said, you know,
I want to really be wrong with people here, real
(27:48):
and show people the real stuff out here, so you
could also start following along and you know, be vulnerable
with each other. And I'm going to start showing all
you how to talk to each other and be all
and give you the words so you could have these
conversations with others. And Mercedes who I started training and
mixed martial arts fifteen years ago whatever it was, so
(28:10):
he's known me forever. He was the first player to
reach out, and he was attacked to the quote I
just got this from I didn't use it in the post.
And he's like, man, I always knew you were you know,
you're enoughs, but I just didn't know you were in pain.
And I'm sorry and I'm there for you forever. And
I was like, man, and I hadn't talked to him
like a por a year, year and a half something
like that would just you know, are you know, people's
(28:30):
kids kind of come and go sometimes and because you're all,
you're also busy. But he was the first guy to
reach out and say that and constantly checks up on me,
and I constantly check up on him. And that's where,
you know, it's great to be able to open up
like that. And so I can use this platform in
the Unbreakable podcast to give it words, so we could
(28:51):
start open up to each other to realize, look how
much closer this brings us together, Like Mara and I
hadn't talked to a year and a half for two years,
and suddenly we're back talking all the time, making sure
we're good. So for everybody out there, if you think, hey,
I got his shoes. I want to open up to someone,
but they're gonna turn their back on me if I do.
Now what happens, it's the other way. Look at this
story with me and Mercedes Lewis. It gets you closer together.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It is the Unbreakable podcast. You can get it. You
can get off a Jay's link on his Twitter page
at Jay Glazer Unbreakable a mental health podcast. This week's
gets Marcides wherever you get podcasts phenomenal stuff. Jay is
always keep fighting the good fight, my friend. Thanks so much.
We'll talk to you next week, but get away, brother,
take care. Always a great visit with Jay Glazer. You
(29:36):
get everything now it's just it. You get NFL insight,
you get inside stuff we get, you get unbelievable things.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Well, well and call somebody, tell them that the Bears won.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Hey, the our long national nightmare is over.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Don't lie to me.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Never call me again, you liar. Click. Oh crap, the Bears.
What I gotta call him an apologize and Bears one
by twenty Bears by twenty. No, Now you're really lying
to me, man, I'm never talking to you again. Click
right now to find out what's trending. In the wide
world of sports. Steve Desager, who will give us the
real score of the Bears Commanders game? I'd witcher, which
I believe was Commander's twenty four to seven. I think
(30:10):
that was the actual. Actually, the Bears did win forty
to twenty.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
This is just stunning, you know, aside from the preseason opener,
which was a victory for Chicago, I don't believe there's
a parade after that one. Aside from that, this is
the first Bears victory at over almost three hundred and
fifty days. They had lost fourteen straight games, including zero
to four this year, but they got a lead at
Washington of twenty seven three at the half, forty to
(30:35):
twenty as the final four touchdown passes for Justin Fields.
He had two hundred and eighty two yards fifteen of
twenty nine through the year. The star receiver DJ Moore,
he was targeted ten times, eight catches, two hundred and
thirty yards, and three of the touchdowns should have been
four should have been, but should have been four once
again by noon tomorrow, perhaps Amazon delivery of that replay
(30:58):
that they didn't show here.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I am I started DJ Moore in three leagues. I
got forty nine points, and here I am complaining I
should have had more, had fifty six points from here's
your letter of apology.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
That is the biggest fantasy output for any wide receiver
so far.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah this year. Yeah, forty nine. It's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
I mean bigger than the Keenan Allen game or a
Tyreek Hill or anyone you can name. The Bear scored
on all five possessions in the first half and they
get the twenty point victory on the day that Hall
of Fame linebacker Dick Buckiss passed away at the age
of eighty. He was a Pro bowler in his first
eight seasons in the league, all with the Bears. Rams
wide receiver Cooper Cup practice fully today after his hamstring injury.
(31:37):
Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is still in the final stages
of concussion protocol, but he did practice today. Las Vegas
at one and three hosts the Packers on Monday. Packers
wide receiver Christian Watson returned to limited practice. Vegas wide
out DeVante Adams did not practice today due to his
shoulder injury. Saints quarterback Derek Carr was limited at practice
(31:57):
again with his bad shoulder but Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett
practice fully after last weekend's knee injury. Mets general manager
Billy Eppler resigned. They're still looking for a manager with
the Mets. They have a new baseball operations president from
the Brewers, David Stearns. By the way, Eppler is a
focus of MLB's investigation of improper use of the injured list.
(32:18):
The best of five division series all start this Saturday,
FS one. We'll have Texas at Baltimore than Minnesota at
Houston on both Saturday and Sunday. And NBA MVP Joel
emban To Philadelphia will play for the US, not for
France at next summer's Paris Olympics. He's now a US citizen.
The American roster is not due to be named until
(32:39):
the spring, but it could also include Kevin Durant, Steph Curry,
Devin Booker, and many other stars.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
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by giving you the two new teams that have ascended
or descended into the dumpster firepile. Oh, great NFL teams
this year, Let's go. Yeah, who's going to join the
(33:06):
Patriots and the Broncos and the aforementioned Bears Mears in
that dumpster fire pile? That's next, right here, Jason and
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the Bears win coming up in about twelve minutes. Say
that again to Bears win forty to twenty. They don't
just win, they win going away and Justin Fields throws
four touchdowns and it's insane.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, but they made it interesting for a minute, didn't
they A minute?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Minute?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Sam Sam Sam.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
So to celebrate the Bears getting a win, yep, their
first win since Elon Musk bought Twitter some three hundred
and fifty days ago. Uh. Let's talk about two new
teams that have entered the pantheon of absolute tire fires.
Oh good, good good, And both teams this week, both
team had really weird stories out today. And the first
(34:57):
team we can tell you that has entered the pantheon
of tire fires. It along with the Bears, the Patriots,
the Broncos. Let's put the Giants on that list. I mean,
Jay Glazer said a few minutes ago this is not
who they are, but yet this is who you are.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
You had appropriate that you get to use the Bill
Parcells quote.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, so yeah you are you are? Yeah, No, you
had a defense. You had an unnamed defensive coach criticized
Daniel Jones, saying they're running a college offense and it's
as simple as it can be. And he can't complete passes.
This is not my opinion. Look at the tape. Look
at the tape. But Daniel Jones, you know these these
boot passes aren't designed for you to be able to
(35:36):
be really technical and go downfield. I mean, he can't
complete the simplest of passes. And this is a college offense.
And like you said, it's not my opinion. Look at
the tape. The Giants are a tire fire now man,
And and I don't know. The way forward isn't just
you have to you have to figure out a way
to make a decision on what are you gonna do
(35:56):
for this year because your roster has no jump. Right. Yes,
you're hoping Saquon Barkley comes back as that gonna be enough,
but your your playmakers are just guys. Darren Waller's not
who you thought he was.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Gonna get more involved.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Well apparently, haven't Neil want him involved, want him blocking
a guy. But he wouldn't block a guy, right, so
he blocked him instead. That play, you know that you
bring that up. I don't know that people are seeing
the all twenty two of it because you watched it live.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
It's like, wow, that guy suddenly flashes in front of us, Like, no,
it's because Waller gets blocked by Neil, freeing the guy
to shut the way, come straight up the gun at
Daniel Jons.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
It was almost like he's trying to be a hero
in an action movie. Oh get out of here, I'll
save you, And why are you pushing me out of
the way? All I did was force an interception. The
Giants are in absolute tire fire, and by the middle
of the season they're gonna have to decide where do
we want to go. And I'm telling you their decision
is gonna be We're gonna put this team out there
and we're gonna get a new quarterback next year, and
(36:57):
Daniel Jones is going to be on a new team.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Well, we talked about very ear in the week. It
became the popular yeah subject ahead of the car once again.
H to which the quote for me that was out
on the Fox Sports Radio x Slash Twitter account was who.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
The hell's taking on the thirty five million?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
If it's one year, you can always figure out the money.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Yeah, who was figuring out that they want to run
the college offense.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Point so, joining the Giants on this list, and I
can't believe they're two and two. You say Hawking a
two and two team, and I say the Pittsburgh Steelers
are retire fire and you're like, oh yeah. Every day
is we want the offensive coordinator fire, we want Matt
Canada fired. Steelers fans have never been happy with their
offensive coordinators, but this business is something we see he
at next level.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
He was beefing with the CBS for people from that
misquoting him in mischaracterizing what he had to say.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You had the story today that in the advance meeting
that he had with the CBS folks that they have
on the weekends, he said, look, our offense is not
built to come from behind. That's why we've had so
much difficulty. They had to push back at them because
that was pretty embarrassing. Kenny Pickett had to weigh in
on that today and he said it's hard job to
put points on the board. It doesn't matter. We need
to do this more. The Steelers are a tire fire.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Yeah, but whose offense is built to come from behind?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Well, but no, just to be able to have a
modern offense where you can throw the football. I get it,
I'm back and get a couple of scores. But like
most offenses, you fall behind. You have to change up
what you do right.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
And if you're built in theory where Najie Harris and
Jalen Warren are supposed to set the table, then then yeah,
that's where your offense is.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
But just just think about this for a second. The
Giants and the Steelers are the two organizations you could say,
I guess over the past forty years that I could
say they always find a way to get it right.
They always find a way to say we're doing things
the right way. And we are the organization that you
hold us up. We don't always win, but you hold
(38:55):
us up as the example of what an organization is.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Well when you've made missteps, particularly in the Giant case. Right,
the Steelers very few job changes through the year. Coaching
general managers, you know, front office guys normally get a
run with the Giants. Generally, they recognize suckage pretty fast
and they pivot, and.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
This year is not the case. And these two heritage
teams that it's like they're usually too. It's it's shocking
to me that they're both this dysfunctional, because yes, they've
had bad years. The Giants have had bad years, They've
never been dysfunctional. The Steelers have had bad years where
you know, they go nine to eight, that's a bad year,
but they've never been dysfunded.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Yeah, players that were dysfunctional, that threaten the fabric, and
they still find a way to win. And they eventually
found all those guys out of town, right.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
But Tom, I'm still found a way to win games
to get to the playoffs, whether it's Antonio Brown or
Le'Veon Bell or whatever. But this year is is there
their absolute dumpster fires, both of these teams. And that's
shocking to me considering where they normally are. Yeah, dysfunction.
The curiosity of how much does your running back matter?
Right in a year when we talked about running backs, like.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Is Saquon Barkley the guy that solves everything by being
on the field.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Suddenly to where they're everybody where they're at.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Least functional, not so much. Right does he cover up
for how bad that offensive line is?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Does he save Daniel Jones into easier throws? This and many.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Questions luck will be answered on the next episode of Soap.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Just Wait for Saquon, Wow, very nice. Just Wait for
Saqua really will be one and seven. Yeah, it doesn't matter,
it's gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
That was my attempt to get Robert Mandan into the show.
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the move. Just under six minutes left to go. Sam
Howell has the Commander's in Bear territory. This possession should
end with some kind of score, whether it's a touchdown
and making a three point game, or a field goal
to make it a touchdown game. That's what remains to
be seen. But if fields was the story of the
first half, Sam Howell the story of the second half
(01:14):
up to three thirty and two touchdowns. Is also run
for a two point conversion, thrown for a two point conversion.
He's also the leading rusher for Washington with four carries
and nineteen yards. Now, all the great stuff I said
about him a few minutes ago, the one thing I
will tell him that he's got to dude's got a slide.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I get that he wants to make the extra play
and get the extra yard or two, but he is
leaving himself open to a lot of big hits. He's
lucky he is a bigger quarterback, so we can absorb
those hits. But still, you're only gonna do it for
so long. And there's I've seen three or four plays
where I can point and go just go down. It's
trying to endear himself off. It's not worth the extra
yard if you're scrambling, you know, and look, quarterbacks know
(01:56):
where they are in the field all the time. So
if you're if it's second down and seventeen and you're
scrambling and you gain twelve yards, okay, that's great. It's
not worth It's not worth trying to get an extra
yard to make it third and six instead of third
and seven when you could get hit and knocked out
of the game.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You know it's I mean, how many times like it's
the tail as old as time, right and the beast.
No even better than that, okay, is that young quarterbacks
need to be told to get down right. That was
week one, Trevor Lawrence going up to Anthony Richardson. You
got a lot of great stuff. Get the hell.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Down, lie man. Slide slide, do take that hit slide
demaggio slide as a callback to fifty start to do
for you. So right now again, thirty to twenty, Washington trailing,
but it looks like they are on the cusp of
a score that will make this potentially a one score game.
Still have not seen Khalil Herbert since leaving the game
(02:52):
with an injury for the Bears about a half hour ago.
He is running on the sideline, so that is good
for him. Well, they haven't had the ball much yet,
you don't have it. They have not total opposite in
terms of time of possession and all that fun stuff.
Justin fields in the second half, hass thirty seven thirty seven,
thirty seven passing yards. Meanwhile, DJ Moore working on a
(03:12):
thirty seven point day for Fantasy.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Should be more, should be more?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
There was a there was a sure touchdown that was
called back that he stepped out of bounds. On Amazon
has not shown anything close to the right replay. I
don't know that they have it. I do know that
they have the over the How do you not have
the overhead angle?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I don't know it's going to be available to me
probably what about an hour after the game ends. That'd
be in my NFL Plus for the All twenty two.
So kind of waiting to see that. And but here's
the thing, right, you have this pass interference call that
you heard in the update Steve Desager making mention of it.
That would have been a forty yard pass interference call
that they picked up the flag same field judge that
(03:52):
called DJ Moore on a mounse. So the conspiracy theorists
are running a buck in the world.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of I really can can't wait to see that. That's
gonna be a really interest because I don't know that
he was anywhere close to being out of bounds. I
really got to see where the.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Angle that we've seen. I find it hard.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
We've only seen two angles we've seen the we've seen
the game angle, and we've seen the sideline angle. Neither one.
Can you see where the how is there no overhead angle?
How is that? Really? You don't see that? Is there
something going on? No, don't show it. Don't show it.
People are the referees. No, we got to see that angle.
We got to see it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And I think I just jinks the Washington Commanders Joey
Sli has just missed a very makeable forty five yard
field goal. So instead of a one touchdown game, it
is still a thirty to twenty lead for the Bears.
A stunning miss from a guy who's been good from
fifty one earlier in the game. And let's face, one
of the better field goal kickers in the NFL misses one,
(04:49):
and that might be it. I mean that that might
be the game for the Commanders because it was a
one score game. You missed that field goal. Now it's
still thirty to twenty Bears with the football now just
under five minutes left to go, but with injuries.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
As you said, Herbert's on the sideline and you know
he's doing the time to eat kind of motion along
the way. As we see that you know, stealing from
the great Zeke Elliott from back in the day. They
haven't been effective offensively, They've been three and out. The
offensive line hasn't been able to withstand pressure fields as
(05:22):
really struggled here to get anything going down field here
in the second half. Like I said, just thirty seven
passing yards in the second half, had one hundred and
eighty nine and those three scores. That seems like a
lifetime ago. This is a repeat of the Denver game
where you're just you know, holding on to the reins
(05:43):
for dear life, hoping that the finish line comes.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
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(06:10):
a great, great statement today from none other than Cam Newton. Now,
when Aaron Rodgers got hurt, there was all the question,
who are the Jets gonna call to get get them
to replace Aaron Rodgers because nobody else is any good.
Zach Wilson's no good, and Cam Newton's name came up.
All right, well, Cam Jetna now that maybe Zach Wilson
(06:31):
was better against the Chiefs. Last week that talk has
calmed down.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Well.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Cam Newton went on a podcast and he said, hey,
go in to play for what I'm likely gonna get offered.
I'm not interested. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I still believe Cam that you can play. So if
the Jets called you right now, what's your answer? Going
back to control? You not about to sit up here
and peny pensionly, Bro, I'm not about to sit up
here and sign oh five point five million.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Dollars the year, Bro that those days are over. I'll
be wasting my time because I will tell you if
you don't think that I could be on a roster
right now, I could. But it's bigger than that to me.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Am I in a shape right now? Hell yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
In any situation, I'm gonna sit up there and I'm
gonna analyze it as much as possible.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I don't want to walk into a dysfunctional situation.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Have you guys made Zach Wilson aware also, Aaron Rodgers
is trying to come back this year, let's also talk
about that.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So when he comes back, or is it just gonna
be something that you just say, hey, watch out.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
So it's a lot of things that I don't just
make impulse decisions.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Kim Newton talking like he actually has an NFL career coming,
like he still is actually going to play, Like there's
someone still internet on the decision I had to make.
I'm not coming out for one year and five point
five million dollars. First of all, I'll tell you this,
that's about five and a half million dollars more than
I'm willing to pay. Cam Newton. I like he thinks
he's controlling the conversation by saying, well, there's a lot
(07:57):
of factors here. Aaron Rodgers wants to come back. I'm
not gonna come back and just lose my job after
a while. I'm not going to play for one year
and five and a half million, dude, No one's going
to give you five and a half million dollars to
play this year. You know, Zach would do Zach Wilson
know about all. There's a lot of things that go
into this. No there's one thing that goes into this.
The Jets need to call you and say do you
want to come play? The Jets have not called you
because you know why. Your career is done. Cam. Your
(08:20):
career is over. Man, I'm sorry, but it's over. Cam.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Cam is doing what a lot of athletes like to
do now. And this is where guys who don't realize
or want to admit that their careers are over, whether
it's NFL or NBA anything else, they don't want to
admit that they're done. So what they do is they
go and they talk on podcasts and do interviews and say, well,
it would have to be the really right situation for
(08:44):
me to go back and play. No, you mean a
team calling you. That's the right situation, right, A team
calling you. No one's calling you. No one's calling you. Means, hey,
guess what, Cam, Your career is done. You don't hold
any cards in this situation. And Cam Nut's making it
seem like I'm home every day and I field offers
and I tell my agent call this team back. Don't
(09:04):
call them back. Let's see what they have to say. Meanwhile,
no one's calling. It's over. No one wants you. You
were done. You were done, you were done. I'm sorry.
You had a great heyday. It was a decade long, good, awesome,
and you made a business decision in the Super Bowl
and not jump on a fumble that you could have
maybe won the super Bowl if you decided to do that.
You had a great grip. But it's over, and yet
(09:24):
here he is on a podcast talking like, yeah, I'm
still calling the shots. So many guys like to do
this now. So many guys that are not working want
to put the optic out there that I'm not working
by choice, right, It's like the guys didn say anything
that are hanging out of the gas and sip. Hey,
if you guys are so smart, why are you hanging
out at the gas and sip on the weekends? By choice?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Man?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
By choice? By choice? Yeah, it's by no. If they
called you, you would go back, right, But no one's
calling you. This is not your choice game. Your career
is all. I'm sorry, but your career is over. Yeah,
I mean, like, look, everybody's done this, right, because we
went through the laundry list of players who have been
active the last couple of years and gone down that road.
I mean, you saw RG three trying to talk about
(10:06):
it earlier today as well. It's like nobody's knocking on
the door.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
But you know what I did with the Cam Newton
and immediately became the all right, between endorsements and his contract,
what did he make in his career that five point
five wouldn't get.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Him off the couch?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
And obviously we know he made a lot of money
in both. And then you take away taxes, you know,
agency fees, your trainers, your nutritionists, all of these obviously
you know taxes along the way. But figure if you
invested it pretty well, like no, I mean, he legitimately
could have enough to wear five point five is what
he makes an interest off his his savings, so perhaps
(10:45):
you know he'd rather do that, But yeah, nobody's calling
at this point. I mean Bill Belichick did. It was
the you know, reclamation projects of all and nobody celebrated
Cam as much. I don't think as we did when
he was Cam Newton, right, But after eight plus years
of getting battered the way he did wasn't the same player,
(11:06):
couldn't couldn't change up And the next iteration of Cam
wasn't wasn't viable. But I do like that that narrative,
no five for five point five, I'm not getting off.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, we'll look at all these things. Yeah, yeah, I'm not.
I'm not. I'm not gonna play. You're not gonna play
by the time you play, it's half a seat and
not gonna play for five and a half million. So
instead of playing for five and a half million, I'm
gonna do nothing. I do nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I'm gonna do with this podcast.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now, maybe he's got the money and he doesn't need that,
you know, based on if you say money, if you
have the money, that, don't sit here and tell me
I'm not gonna do it for five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well, but that's that's kind of where I went with it,
is you know, five and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
He's saying that I've got plenty of cash.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, you really need to motivate me with a much
higher dollar amount than that.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Forget about the god that a team could want him
and he could get to continue his NFL career. I
have the money, so ei the money matters of the money,
I'd be happy to continue my career to play again
if the price is right. I want to play again.
Oh but really, no, I not for that. I mean,
I just love now that that this is like a
strategy that athletes are taking that people believe that, oh,
(12:14):
you know, Cam, Cam would come back if if somebody
had But Cam's got to make that decision on it.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
But it's the same thing as coaches withdrawing their name
from consideration for jobs. You were told you weren't getting
the job, right, they said they were looking at a
different right, I withdraw my application.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
You're gonna allow me to withdraw from this with dignity? Right, Okay, great,
thank you. I applied for the third shift. Ed gonna
get out of this insert retail establishment. You know what
you told me about? So I love I withdraw my application.
Exit out bout a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smiths Or with Mike Carmen live from the TIREC dot
(12:53):
Com Studios. DJ Moore is now working on a forty
nine point fantasy night in PAPR. He just had his
third touchdown of the night. Now you should have four
because it looks like he got rooked on that other one.
Make it three touchdowns. This win a fifty six yarder
from Justin Fields. He now has a night where he
(13:15):
has eight catches, two hundred and thirty yards and three touchdowns.
The Chicago Bears looked like they're gonna get their first
win of the season. They lead Washington thirty seven to twenty.
We're coming up on the two minute warning. So look
at DJ Moore, look at the Bears. Look at the Bears.
Are gonna win their first game since Elon Musk blocks. Yeah,
how about that?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Look at that breaking that long losing streak and give
it up twenty five a game and all of that
stuff averaging eighteen points a game coming in plenty to
break down, including the fact that only three receivers actually
caught balls from Justin Fields tonight.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
But we'll get to that. We got Jay Glazer coming
up on the way. All the latest news out of
the NFL. We got Fields, we got hal we got
DJ Moore, we got drama, we got it all. Keep
it right here. Happy Thursday. Hey, Jason and Mike, This
is Fox.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
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 3 (14:14):
TJ.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I can't believe the news today. The Bears have a win, DJ,
I hate you and everything you stand for. Huh Hey,
nothing more fun than absolute garbage time for fantasy points.
Just an extra two or three fantasy points for Sam
Howell as he goes up the field a little bit
before the clock strike zero comminitions with three eighty eight. Yeah,
(14:37):
commanders don't get in the end zone. Doesn't matter. And
I'm happy because I started Sam Howell this week because
I had to.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Three eighty eight two and one, did absorb five sacks
and had you know, a big game, a ransom two
point conversion two?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
No, he did, he did? They get that back off
the ID.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I mean, he didn't quite have the game of DJ
Moore No, who had eight catches for two thirty and
three touchdowns, and honestly it should have been for he
gets called out of bounds on a play that we
still haven't.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Seen the replay of the only wide receiver to catch
a ball. Yeah, but that's okay from justin field today.
Forget that seven receptions between Cole Comet five for forty
two and a score and two for Robert Tunyan. No
catches from the rest of the receiving corps.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Joining us now on the hot line to break it
all down. Nobody better NFL on Fox Inside are extraordinary,
Jay Glazer, You can follow him on Twitter at Jay Glazer. Jay,
what's happening? Buddy?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Are you man?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yo? Man? I've watched it the whole time. I realized
that that was the only reason for such a pass.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah, well for the Bears, it's ok. Yeah, for the Bears,
that's all right. Yeah, he had a couple of shots
to Mooney early, but then he went away from him.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
But then the other receiver too in Chase Claypool, he's
not there and now look at the offensive running.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Well, he really wasn't there when he was on the field,
was he was all Chase Claypool's fault, Chase. That's that's
where all the blame's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Here. Here's a little laughing. You know.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The thing is with Justin Fields is there can you
draw a line of Hey, since he said I get
coached too much and I need to go out and
just play, he's been a different quarterback. Can you compare, Hey,
what happened in the media there that maybe the Bears
have done stuff behind the scenes and suddenly Justin Fields
is back on track or was a year ago.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I don't know if he's been a different Tonight was
very different. But here's the thing. I think last year
you saw, Okay, this guy has has you know, he's
great on the ground. They still have to evaluate him.
The current regime did not draft justin fields, so they
have to evaluate him. So then they're gonna put him
in a position to see if he's a passer, right,
they have to evaluate him. Obviously he's not that pure passer.
(16:54):
So I think at that point they say, okay, now
we know we can't what he can't do. Let's kind
of go back to more of a hybrid we know
we can do, and let him use his threat with
his legs and and you saw a lot more design
plays for him. You've seen that that you know since
he said that more design plays, more design plays not
just for him to be a ball carrier and run
with it, but also to get out of the pocket
(17:14):
and kind of make people just afraid if you give
them the fear that you're going to run. That opens
up some more options downfield. Certainly, I still think, look,
this is one games it is great to build off of.
I think, look if they if he can build off
this and really you know, not just throw the DJ more,
(17:35):
but get more receivers in time and become a passing threat. Also,
that opens up so much to the Bears draft wise.
Right now you're looking at saying, okay, they stilled it
into quarterback and you know, maybe Marvin Harrison with that
second picture, that's what happens. It shakes out they have
one and two. But if they realize, okay, this is
our quarterback in the future, that completely changed everything.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah, Jay DJ Moore already with more receiving yards this
year than any Bears wide receiver last year.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
They were in Week five.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Obviously monster game today, but swirling around, you know a
lot of rumor conjecture, speculations that the Bears might have
jumped off the eberflus mandwagon, which would have gone completely
opposite to everything the history of the organization. You know,
from the people you talk to, is it that you
point in the year for them?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Before this game, I didn't think it.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Was gonna happen, only because look, they don't have their
defensive coordinator right and then so Ebra flues to their
defensive coordinator. Also, so if you get rid of him,
you're missing your defense coordinator and your head coach, What
do you do? Who do you put in? It just
didn't seem like is gonna make a lot of sense
to shack it up and make that move. You know what,
here's why you get rid of a coach during the season.
If the coach is a distraction. If everybody quits on
(18:48):
you and the coach is a distraction, Abra Flues is
not a distraction at all. So it doesn't make sense.
A lot of times too, when you get rid of
a guy in the middle of the season, it does
did the team a little bit juice, and sometimes it's
false juice, and a lot of times the owner is going, oh, man,
this is I was supposed to be and then a
pirate that interim coach, and more than not, the interim
coach does not work out.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Jay really weird night for the Bears. Obviously, you know
they play this game and on the day they lose
one of their great legends, Dick Buckets, passing away at
the age of eighty. I told the story early in
the show. I remember sharing an elevator with him at
Fox once and I got in the elevator and I'm like, oh,
I'm going to get to meet Dick Buckus, and he
looked up from a piece of paper he was looking at,
and he looked at me, and I said to myself,
(19:30):
I am not going to meet Dick Buckets right now.
I'm going to stand on the side of the elevator
and we're going to take the elevator silently.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
There's not too many people who are so at conact
that you're like, oh my god, I'm beyond starstruck. And
he's one of those guys who you know, even legends
in the NFL gets starstruck by him, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Did you get to meet him at all at any
any at Fox and you were there the last few
years at all, since he's you know, something Fox, but
just a you.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Know, Super Bowlder or or Hall of Fame, different things
I've come across from. And I interviewed him one time,
and I think it was about Lawrence Taylor, but I
can't remember. Back when I was covering the Giants, and honestly,
he was whatever I was calling about. He was so
incredibly nice and gracious and grateful and just you know,
(20:17):
my interaction with him, he was great. But you're right
when you call a guy like that, especially me, a
little beat reporter for the Giants. Nobody knows. There's no
internet back then, so basically, you know, people knew me
him in New York and outside of it. For him
to take my call, I was just man, I was like,
oh my god, I can't believe this is happening.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
That next level thing. Maybe in the South Side Chicago.
And weird kind of day with the huge win and
the passing of Dick Budde he.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Passed away in Malibu. I live in Malibla, had no
idea who lived here.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Well, you know all those those Hollywood moments that he had.
You can go back and watch some Hangtime or Johnny
Dangerously to see some of his great comedic timing along
the way. Hey, a guy that's trying to look for
some levity. Big divisional matchup this week. Mike Tomlin kind
of intimating that they they've played a bit soft through
the first quarter of the season.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
What changes this week against Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You know, I look, everybody's expected him to The more
they call for him to fire his offenseve coordinator, the
more I said to myself, he's not gonna fire the
offense coordinator. People tell him what to do. The more
you say He's like, oh, just just stick to my guns.
But he also every time you think that team is
just odd, they're done. They got to do this that
he has a way of bouncing the back right. Ty
(21:29):
of the guy's never had a losing season. It's ridiculous
that he's never had a losing season.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Jay Glazer, NFL on Fox Insider with Us, The Jason
smithser with Mike Carmon Liverom Thetirech dot Com Studios. Are
you mentioned the Giants a couple of minutes ago, and
I don't think there's any team happier to turn the
page to another week in the NFL than the Giants.
You have Daniel Jones and the the bad game they
all played on Monday. Now, Evan Neil is having a
backtrack when he criticized the fans.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
The worst thing you.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Could do in New York that is, Yeah, you're always
gonna lose that. Jay, Yeah, you can't go out.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
There was a player back in the day I was
interviewing the Giant locker room and he started going off
about the Giants fans, and I turned my recorder off
and I said to him, listen, man, your new year,
if you want to go with this, no problem, I'll
print it. I got you, But I want you to
take a deep breath when you start a fight with
these New Yorkers, you want to take a deep breath.
(22:25):
If this is your thoughts, I'm good with it, but
I want to make sure these are your thoughts, and
because if you are, it's just a different road. And
he sat there, took a deep breath. He looked at me,
and he goes, yeah, I don't want to do that.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
He's saving that.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
He saved Phil simms career right there.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Ja forever man, because I just printed well with it.
But I didn't want to catch someone. I knew he
was in a moment of emotion, and I want to
catch someone in emotion, you know. I want this is
what your thoughts are. That's, by the way, for other
you know, even like you're reporters out there. Whenever somebody
said something controversial to me when I was a newspaper reporter,
(23:04):
I would read it back to him and say, okay,
so you're saying this, this and this. I just want
to make sure that we're clear because tomorrow I don't
want you saying you're misquoted. This is what you're attentive,
and you know there there's been a lot of times
I don't ever recall somebody saying to me besides this, yeah,
you know what, let me change this. Oh one time,
one time because somebody is saying something he would have
(23:26):
got arrested for.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Now.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
But I want to make sure then when we have
something controversial, Hey, this is what you said, I just
make sure about this. And every time, for the most part,
like I said, ninety percent of the times, players have said, Okay,
I'm good with it. I'll deal with it all you
can tell us.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
So what did Peyton say about elight they?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
So?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
But where do the Giants go now? Jay? I mean, look,
it seems like it's such disarray right now with everything that,
which is.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Odd because the coach and staff over there in front
of like, it's just it's kind of not who they are.
So they've got to pull together somehow, some way. But
that's the thing. Also, you know, when you're in New York,
it's an emotional place, as you know, And what people
don't realize about in New York is you're not just
comparing yourself to the Jets and the Giants over there.
You get compared to the Yankees and not the Yankees
(24:16):
of this year, the Yankees of their great years, and
it's it's and it's the Knicks, and it's the Rangers.
They all get compared. So it's a different city of
what your expectations are because they had so many great
years for years and years and decades and decades with
the Yankees, So it tends to get a lot more emotional.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Jay Jonathan Taylor returns to the goals. He says, quote,
I'm here right now. What does that mean? Have they
mended fences and he's just getting right physically? Is he
a colt or is he eventually in another uniform?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
He's a cult right now, Let's see what happens so much,
you know, and there weren't a lot of There weren't
a lot of you know, look, if they had a
good offer, that would have taken it. But they didn't
have a good enough offer. And you know, at the
same time too, look they do they were hoping that
this was going to work itself out and things would
calm down and Jonathan Tellor would come back because they
(25:07):
know they got something to build off of that seemed
special on Anthony Richardson, But they're hoping that. Okay, if
we can get Jonathan Tylor back to pre injury Jonathan
Taylor and put him with Anthony Richardson with an offensive
coach like Snich, and we got something here that can
be more special than we sought a lot sooner than
we thought.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Well, especially with the Jaguars not exactly running away and
hiding the Titans week to week. We don't know what
we're getting. And Houston's been plucky, but the division's potentially
there for the taking.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Hey, Dimigo, Ryan's doing an incredible job.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Unbelievable and he's got no offensive lineman and he's still
getting it done.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Nobody saw that coming. Nobody saw that coming.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Hey, you said the word special, Jay. You know every
week we talk about the Unbreakable podcast, you have special
guests all the time, but an extra special guest this week.
You had Mercedes Lewis on because he meant a lot
to you. At the very beginning of the talk a
little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
By the way, Mercedes Lewis is getting a win right
now with the Bears. He and by he had offers
to go elsewhere, and I was like, why did you
go there to the Bears? And I'll get the other
thing in a second. And he's like, because I'm in
my last years, I wanted to go somewhere with people
that I love and I know, and Luke Getzi I
know from Green Bay and he means a lot to me.
So you know, yeah, I want to be partners building
(26:22):
something special over there with the Bears. But it was
also mental lot to me to be with people my
last year is that I care about and care about me.
And that was a really really honest moment, right from
an NFL veteran. Usually, right, guys are chasing money. It's
all about the ring and we don't think about the
other part. Hey, my last year is I want to
be around people I don't care about me. I've never
(26:42):
heard a player say that ever, and I've had bunch
of calls about it. Actually, K started airing yesterday about
that and some of the other things he said. But
when I first started doing my mental health checkups and
I try to this is well before my book came out,
and I was like, you know what, the Internet is terrible.
It's causing me all these issues, but it's a lot
(27:02):
of the issues. I'm gonna try to use the internet
to be raw and vulnerable and not just have highlights
and and knock everybody out there to look at, you know,
or compare ourselves to everybody else's filtered fraction of a
secondary feel this hate. So I was clearing on it.
I'm like, listen, is the first time I'm coming out
at depression and anxiety and bipolar and ADHD, which I'm
(27:27):
sure you guys stand that one everybody figured out already.
But I said, I want to be raw and real
and vulnerable for a lot of time. For a long time,
people looked me like eight Glazier's crazy and that was
a badge of honor in football and fighting, but no
one knew how much pain I was really in. And
that was once I did that, and I said, you know,
I want to really be wrong with people here, real
(27:48):
and show people the real stuff out here, so you
could also start following along and you know, be vulnerable
with each other. And I'm going to start showing all
you how to talk to each other and be all
and give you the words so you could have these
conversations with others. And Mercedes who I started training and
mixed martial arts fifteen years ago whatever it was, so
(28:10):
he's known me forever. He was the first player to
reach out, and he was attacked to the quote I
just got this from I didn't use it in the post.
And he's like, man, I always knew you were you know,
you're enoughs, but I just didn't know you were in pain.
And I'm sorry and I'm there for you forever. And
I was like, man, and I hadn't talked to him
like a por a year, year and a half something
like that would just you know, are you know, people's
(28:30):
kids kind of come and go sometimes and because you're all,
you're also busy. But he was the first guy to
reach out and say that and constantly checks up on me,
and I constantly check up on him. And that's where,
you know, it's great to be able to open up
like that. And so I can use this platform in
the Unbreakable podcast to give it words, so we could
(28:51):
start open up to each other to realize, look how
much closer this brings us together, Like Mara and I
hadn't talked to a year and a half for two years,
and suddenly we're back talking all the time, making sure
we're good. So for everybody out there, if you think, hey,
I got his shoes. I want to open up to someone,
but they're gonna turn their back on me if I do.
Now what happens, it's the other way. Look at this
story with me and Mercedes Lewis. It gets you closer together.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
It is the Unbreakable podcast. You can get it. You
can get off a Jay's link on his Twitter page
at Jay Glazer Unbreakable a mental health podcast. This week's
gets Marcides wherever you get podcasts phenomenal stuff. Jay is
always keep fighting the good fight, my friend. Thanks so much.
We'll talk to you next week, but get away, brother,
take care. Always a great visit with Jay Glazer. You
(29:36):
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Speaker 2 (29:42):
Well, well and call somebody, tell them that the Bears won.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Hey, the our long national nightmare is over.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Don't lie to me.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Never call me again, you liar. Click. Oh crap, the Bears.
What I gotta call him an apologize and Bears one
by twenty Bears by twenty. No, Now you're really lying
to me, man, I'm never talking to you again. Click
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real score of the Bears Commanders game? I'd witcher, which
I believe was Commander's twenty four to seven. I think
(30:10):
that was the actual. Actually, the Bears did win forty
to twenty.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
This is just stunning, you know, aside from the preseason opener,
which was a victory for Chicago, I don't believe there's
a parade after that one. Aside from that, this is
the first Bears victory at over almost three hundred and
fifty days. They had lost fourteen straight games, including zero
to four this year, but they got a lead at
Washington of twenty seven three at the half, forty to
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twenty as the final four touchdown passes for Justin Fields.
He had two hundred and eighty two yards fifteen of
twenty nine through the year. The star receiver DJ Moore,
he was targeted ten times, eight catches, two hundred and
thirty yards, and three of the touchdowns should have been
four should have been, but should have been four once
again by noon tomorrow, perhaps Amazon delivery of that replay
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that they didn't show here.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I am I started DJ Moore in three leagues. I
got forty nine points, and here I am complaining I
should have had more, had fifty six points from here's
your letter of apology.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
That is the biggest fantasy output for any wide receiver
so far.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah this year. Yeah, forty nine. It's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
I mean bigger than the Keenan Allen game or a
Tyreek Hill or anyone you can name. The Bear scored
on all five possessions in the first half and they
get the twenty point victory on the day that Hall
of Fame linebacker Dick Buckiss passed away at the age
of eighty. He was a Pro bowler in his first
eight seasons in the league, all with the Bears. Rams
wide receiver Cooper Cup practice fully today after his hamstring injury.
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Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is still in the final stages
of concussion protocol, but he did practice today. Las Vegas
at one and three hosts the Packers on Monday. Packers
wide receiver Christian Watson returned to limited practice. Vegas wide
out DeVante Adams did not practice today due to his
shoulder injury. Saints quarterback Derek Carr was limited at practice
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again with his bad shoulder but Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett
practice fully after last weekend's knee injury. Mets general manager
Billy Eppler resigned. They're still looking for a manager with
the Mets. They have a new baseball operations president from
the Brewers, David Stearns. By the way, Eppler is a
focus of MLB's investigation of improper use of the injured list.
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The best of five division series all start this Saturday,
FS one. We'll have Texas at Baltimore than Minnesota at
Houston on both Saturday and Sunday. And NBA MVP Joel
emban To Philadelphia will play for the US, not for
France at next summer's Paris Olympics. He's now a US citizen.
The American roster is not due to be named until
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the spring, but it could also include Kevin Durant, Steph Curry,
Devin Booker, and many other stars.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
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Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We got more
NFL on the way. We'll celebrate the Bears winning tonight
by giving you the two new teams that have ascended
or descended into the dumpster firepile. Oh, great NFL teams
this year, Let's go. Yeah, who's going to join the
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Patriots and the Broncos and the aforementioned Bears Mears in
that dumpster fire pile? That's next, right here, Jason and
Mike Fox.
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the Bears win coming up in about twelve minutes. Say
that again to Bears win forty to twenty. They don't
just win, they win going away and Justin Fields throws
four touchdowns and it's insane.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yeah, but they made it interesting for a minute, didn't
they A minute?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Minute?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Sam Sam Sam.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
So to celebrate the Bears getting a win, yep, their
first win since Elon Musk bought Twitter some three hundred
and fifty days ago. Uh. Let's talk about two new
teams that have entered the pantheon of absolute tire fires.
Oh good, good good, And both teams this week, both
team had really weird stories out today. And the first
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team we can tell you that has entered the pantheon
of tire fires. It along with the Bears, the Patriots,
the Broncos. Let's put the Giants on that list. I mean,
Jay Glazer said a few minutes ago this is not
who they are, but yet this is who you are.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
You had appropriate that you get to use the Bill
Parcells quote.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yeah, so yeah you are you are? Yeah, No, you
had a defense. You had an unnamed defensive coach criticized
Daniel Jones, saying they're running a college offense and it's
as simple as it can be. And he can't complete passes.
This is not my opinion. Look at the tape. Look
at the tape. But Daniel Jones, you know these these
boot passes aren't designed for you to be able to
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be really technical and go downfield. I mean, he can't
complete the simplest of passes. And this is a college offense.
And like you said, it's not my opinion. Look at
the tape. The Giants are a tire fire now man,
And and I don't know. The way forward isn't just
you have to you have to figure out a way
to make a decision on what are you gonna do
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for this year because your roster has no jump. Right. Yes,
you're hoping Saquon Barkley comes back as that gonna be enough,
but your your playmakers are just guys. Darren Waller's not
who you thought he was.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Gonna get more involved.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Well apparently, haven't Neil want him involved, want him blocking
a guy. But he wouldn't block a guy, right, so
he blocked him instead. That play, you know that you
bring that up. I don't know that people are seeing
the all twenty two of it because you watched it live.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
It's like, wow, that guy suddenly flashes in front of us, Like, no,
it's because Waller gets blocked by Neil, freeing the guy
to shut the way, come straight up the gun at
Daniel Jons.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
It was almost like he's trying to be a hero
in an action movie. Oh get out of here, I'll
save you, And why are you pushing me out of
the way? All I did was force an interception. The
Giants are in absolute tire fire, and by the middle
of the season they're gonna have to decide where do
we want to go. And I'm telling you their decision
is gonna be We're gonna put this team out there
and we're gonna get a new quarterback next year, and
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Daniel Jones is going to be on a new team.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Well, we talked about very ear in the week. It
became the popular yeah subject ahead of the car once again.
H to which the quote for me that was out
on the Fox Sports Radio x Slash Twitter account was who.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
The hell's taking on the thirty five million?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
If it's one year, you can always figure out the money.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Yeah, who was figuring out that they want to run
the college offense.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Point so, joining the Giants on this list, and I
can't believe they're two and two. You say Hawking a
two and two team, and I say the Pittsburgh Steelers
are retire fire and you're like, oh yeah. Every day
is we want the offensive coordinator fire, we want Matt
Canada fired. Steelers fans have never been happy with their
offensive coordinators, but this business is something we see he
at next level.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
He was beefing with the CBS for people from that
misquoting him in mischaracterizing what he had to say.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You had the story today that in the advance meeting
that he had with the CBS folks that they have
on the weekends, he said, look, our offense is not
built to come from behind. That's why we've had so
much difficulty. They had to push back at them because
that was pretty embarrassing. Kenny Pickett had to weigh in
on that today and he said it's hard job to
put points on the board. It doesn't matter. We need
to do this more. The Steelers are a tire fire.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Yeah, but whose offense is built to come from behind?
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Well, but no, just to be able to have a
modern offense where you can throw the football. I get it,
I'm back and get a couple of scores. But like
most offenses, you fall behind. You have to change up
what you do right.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
And if you're built in theory where Najie Harris and
Jalen Warren are supposed to set the table, then then yeah,
that's where your offense is.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
But just just think about this for a second. The
Giants and the Steelers are the two organizations you could say,
I guess over the past forty years that I could
say they always find a way to get it right.
They always find a way to say we're doing things
the right way. And we are the organization that you
hold us up. We don't always win, but you hold
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us up as the example of what an organization is.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
Well when you've made missteps, particularly in the Giant case. Right,
the Steelers very few job changes through the year. Coaching
general managers, you know, front office guys normally get a
run with the Giants. Generally, they recognize suckage pretty fast
and they pivot, and.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
This year is not the case. And these two heritage
teams that it's like they're usually too. It's it's shocking
to me that they're both this dysfunctional, because yes, they've
had bad years. The Giants have had bad years, They've
never been dysfunctional. The Steelers have had bad years where
you know, they go nine to eight, that's a bad year,
but they've never been dysfunded.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Yeah, players that were dysfunctional, that threaten the fabric, and
they still find a way to win. And they eventually
found all those guys out of town, right.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
But Tom, I'm still found a way to win games
to get to the playoffs, whether it's Antonio Brown or
Le'Veon Bell or whatever. But this year is is there
their absolute dumpster fires, both of these teams. And that's
shocking to me considering where they normally are. Yeah, dysfunction.
The curiosity of how much does your running back matter?
Right in a year when we talked about running backs, like.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Is Saquon Barkley the guy that solves everything by being
on the field.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Suddenly to where they're everybody where they're at.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Least functional, not so much. Right does he cover up
for how bad that offensive line is?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Does he save Daniel Jones into easier throws? This and many.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Questions luck will be answered on the next episode of Soap.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Just Wait for Saquon, Wow, very nice. Just Wait for
Saqua really will be one and seven. Yeah, it doesn't matter,
it's gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
That was my attempt to get Robert Mandan into the show.
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