October 14, 2023 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon give some upset specials for the upcoming weekend.
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will have more football coming up later on, actually in
about twenty minutes or so. But this has really bothered
me today. It's really bothered me today. Look, I had
a great day today. Happy Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Everything is yeah, Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
My day, right, It's Jason's day.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
On Friday the thirteen horror movies on wherever you look.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know that the one thing about Friday the thirteenth
now is like is it you know I'm fifty right
or fifty two actually? And you know Jason went growing up,
was always somewhat of a somewhat of a unique name,
like not I didn't know many Jason's, but apparently, you know,
in the seventies and eight that's when the name had
its heyday. And I remember looking in a book when
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we were looking up names for Zoe. We're gonna have
Zoe looking at a name book and everything else, and
and I just like, I wonder what they say about Jason,
And they say, Jason is a name that first was
popularized here, was a popular name here. You know, it
was an it name for a little bit here. And
they go, Now, though, if you hear the name Jason,
kids are just gonna think, oh, that's my dad's name.
Like Jason's becomes such an old name. When I think
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of Jason Friday the thirteenth, I think of like, he's
old now, he's like in his sixties. He's gotta get up,
he's got a stretch in the morning. I can't kill
those campers unless I've had my coffee. I gotta do
some exercise.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Right, And now he gets up around whenever he used
to get up on time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Exactly. I can't just get up and kill people like
I used to. I gotta run in the morning. I
I can't wear those big, heavy work boots. I gotta
wear sneakers. Man, I need a lot of padding. He's
wearing sketches as he's running through the woods. Now, Oh,
I tell you this keeps my posture up straight as
I run. I'm just thinking about that. Jason's such an
old It's an older person's name. Now, I never thought
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about that.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, I can't say that. I've run across many classmates
through the years from my kids where Jason was the name.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah. No, no, Jason's your dad, your friend's dad's name.
I'm like, ah, yeah, okay, another mind of getting older. Yep,
that's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Time to bring it back something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
This is this is what, this is what what I
was upset about today is, And it kind of I
was hoping it wasn't that. No, no, no, no, not
that no whatever. It's fine. Look, dude, I got Colorado
on one TV, and I got Jared Padileki from Supernatural
trying to Evadejason on the other Uh, I mean, I
don't know why. He just doesn't call Dean and they
can kill Jason together. He Dean sam So after the
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Dodgers win, After the Dodgers lose to the Diamondbacks, Diamondbacks
win and go on to the LCS. Dave Roberts had
an interesting statement after the game, and he said, you know,
I got to get the team ready for the play.
I gotta get them ready for whatever format it is.
And said, wait a minute, you're gonna blame for the format.
The Really, the format is what's costing you. And after
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the Braves lost last night, I saw a lot of
that in my timeline, buy a lot of bitter Braves
fans and insiders and everything else going, oh, you know,
the format didn't help and this, and I'm going, what
what what?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
What?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
What is?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
What do they mean by the format? The format is hurting? Like,
what did you if it was best of twenty seven
you would have won enough games? I mean, what do
you mean the for? And the only thing I've seen
that that makes even the tiniest bit of sense was, hey,
because of the off days, the teams that that are
able to win in the wildcard round can line up
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there pitching how they want them to do it, and
I'm like, okay, that's fine, I get it. I understand
that's a little bit of a thing, but you gotta
go win games. Spencer Stryder was able to pitch right,
and he was and and they lost. He got beat right,
So that's not you know, Zach Wheeler pitched well. At
some point you have to play the games. And I
know that it's always It just doesn't feel right that
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teams with a hundred wins are going home much more early,
and everybody is missing the big point. Everybody's missing the point.
Why are we seeing these hundred win teams go home early?
It's pretty easy. Anybody can win a three game series,
five game series, seven games series. Anybody can. But up
until a few years ago, you didn't allow that many
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teams in, so you didn't see that many upsets. Look
at upset here, so the best teams were always advancing.
And if you had an upset where a division winner
was upsetting another division winner in the playoffs, well you
got two division winners, so it doesn't matter. You're not
seeing we weren't seeing the eighty five win wildcard teams
get on to be within a step of the World Series.
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That's all it is. That's the difference is that Major
League Baseball playoffs have changed forever. It's nothing with the
fact that there's MLB teams and a hundred. It's not
the format, it's not being able to bring your aces back.
It's that baseball has had such a big change. This
is a sport that's gone from we're letting in the
division winners only to now okay, it's division winners and
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one wildcards. Now division winners and two wide three wildcards.
You're letting in so many we had the COVID year
where sixteen teams made the playoffs. The baseball playoffs have
changed to adjust with the times where more playoff teams
mean more interest. This is the new normal for the
MLB playoffs. There's going to be more teams in and
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we're just not used to it. And that's all we
have to do is get used to the fact that
this is the new normal for the baseball playoffs. That
you're gonna see more upsets because the hottest teams are
getting in. And that's why we talked about the changes
for next season. It's not about teams and figuring out
the play It's about not having to go crazy winning
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one hundred and ten games. Be a five hundred is
team going into the regular season, and if you're good,
you make your moves of the trade deadline and become
a great team. Baseball playoffs have changed. Embrace that, don't
embrace it. There needs to be some kind of sho Okay,
we go out to win one hundred games, what are
we doing wrong? The Braves didn't do anything wrong. The
Dodgers didn't do anything wrong. You have to go play.
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It's like fans wanted the Dodgers and Braves to get
a buy into the NLCS. Well, sorry, that doesn't happen.
You eventually have to play the games. The best teams
get in and the hottest teams win it. That's the
best thing it's ever been said about the playoffs, and
Derek Jeter said it. The best teams get in and
the hottest teams win it. But now that we've added
these wild card teams in, we just have to get
used to that. And we're not used to it yet.
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We're not used to this new normal of the baseball
season being oh man, I don't know. We've seen these
upsets here in this and I don't get it. It's
the same thing as the NBA playoffs getting used to
the fact that we have play in games and it's
all I don't like it. But now we've had it
for a few years and the league is adjusted. The
players and teams. Their strategy is, let's just get in
the playoffs. Regular season means nothing, right, let's just get in.
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We got to be one of the top ten teams.
We don't really care if we're in the playing round.
We can still make it to the NBA Finals. Look
at the Heat there. They were one quarter away from
going home after one game, and instead here they are
in the NBA Finals. So NBA has seen their new
playoff format that for the first couple of years people
didn't like. I'm not a big fan, but now they're
used to it. We just need a couple more years
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of this in the baseball playoffs and people will get
used to the fact that, Okay, there's more teams in
and there's just more upsets, which will be more fun
for the game because a we get to see these
teams get in and it's kind of like the NCAA
tournament a little bit where more teams are getting in.
We could see up teams move on. But that's all
it is. It's not anything that these teams did or
didn't do. It's not the format that's got a change
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or be adjusted. It's just this is the new normal.
And anytime you see a new normal, you need time
to get used to it. And sometimes it's a season,
sometimes it's two years, three years, four years, whatever it is.
But as soon as fans get used to it, this
is not gonna be a story and it's gonna be Well,
the Dodgers got in, but man they lost. Boy, they
got upset. Well they got another team gots in all,
but they get upset. It's gonna be a lot easier
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to stomach and move on. Just fans have to get
used to it. That's all that has to happen.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, I think part of it is the extension back
into the way baseball is being played beyond just the
the idea of the formatics in how you're playing series.
Here's your three game home stand in the wildcard round
and the layoff and whatever else. Is like, it's not
like those guys all got on a boat like they
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were the giants, you know in the NFL a few
years back, right where that became the Curse of the Giants.
In theory, they were all still working out. Yeah, there
were some optional workouts and guys you know, did some
other things on their time. But in theory, first pitch
on Saturday for the Dodgers game on, let's go, and
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then you know, you have a butchered fly ball followed
by absolute chaos and disaster for three games. But we
talked about it in the regular season of with all
the rules changes, changing your philosophy, changing how you're building
your squad, changing whether you're aggressive on the base pass,
and getting back to old school baseball, get them on,
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get them over, get them in, creating runs versus sitting
around and waiting for the three run homer. Adding extra pitching,
and I know pitching is a whole other debate that
you can get into of starters in this age. You know,
in my day, we had guys going seven innings all
the time. Nolan Ryan threw out a first pitch last
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week and it was still eighty five miles an hour,
seventy five years old. I mean, all of that stuff
that we we get into. But there is some bit
of reality to it, right, paralysis by analysis, analytics, whatever,
you got, the old the old head. See I'm bringing
that NFL term in.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah they don't.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, but I mean Boachee and Dusty Baker are getting
after it too, cantankerous old managers doing it old school
style and saying I'm not babying you.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Get out there and play. You think what Arcia did
the video.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Making the rounds when he turned to the fans and
was doing the nanny nanny and boo boo and whatever,
and Acuna had to grab him and just like shut up.
You know, do you think that's happening in one of
those other clubhouses on the American League side of things. No,
because those guys get winded it they're gonna slap you
upside the head. Say stop, come on.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Just really just say nanny nanny, boo boo.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I did I didn't, Really I didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I didn't know how I wasn't. It was either gonna
be that or actually do it and in and like
I was still well angel going back to a league
of their own. But you get the point is that,
you know there's the philosophical way of how you're playing baseball.
And I think one of the things again for the
older set, you know, the baseball purists, the old school,
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seeing Bochee and Baker matched up is getting people excited.
See they play at the old school with a little
bit of other stuff mixed in, and it's working just fine.
So yeah, I think your format and adjusting and fans
just recognizing that there's a new normal. It's like anything, right,
changes of games, changes of rules, changes go. You talk
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about the NBA and look at the regular season, right,
they tried to make this rule last week. He's like, yeah,
look at load management and this is how it's gonna work.
And everybody says, yeah, sure, good luck actually policing that
in terms of the regular season. Put an ice pack
on my leg and walk to the court.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Wave at you.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Ah, he's not available. What happened? He strained himself walking
from the locker room to the layup line. I mean,
so you're not gonna be able to get that out.
But it's all about playoffs for the NFL right now.
You've got a couple of guys where we're looking at
injuries and and some of it is all right. I
think to a degree, it's like you manage it saying
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we can afford to lose a guy for a week
or two in October versus December when we're trying to
ramp up towards the playoffs. Because if you are say Cincinnati,
I don't know how I herd t Higgins is. He's
a guy that's looking for a contract. So there's a
lot swirling behind the scenes. But if you're the Bengals,
you're saying, well, we're playing for January, which is why
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the way they handled Carl I wanted to say Carson Palmer,
the why they handled this show, but why that why
they handled Joe Burrow the way they have was curious
for us, Right. We talked about it a bunch like, no,
you know, why, why wouldn't you you run him out,
you know, and give him a couple of weeks to
heal and then hopefully things haven't gone awry and you
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can get back into it. Well, they're saying he's getting healthier,
he's gonna run, he got a great matchup this week
against Seattle. But it's the same thing, right, Trying to
change and adapt philosophies to where the game is and
with the playoffs in Major League Baseball, it's the same thing.
But the rules of the game might change and alter
a little bit, but the basics are still there. If
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you pay a guy forty million dollars a year, he
still has to hit the damn ball Moki.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Look, it's it's something that everybody needs to come around to.
And change is always difficult, and change especially difficult for
teams and fans that were expecting more. Right, I was
expecting more from the Dodgers, more from the Braves. If
the Phillies had lost Diamondbacks last Okay, well we lost.
We gave it a good run. But wait a bitte,
Wait a minute, waitite, this is wrong. This is wrong.
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Now you played. Look, you play a lot of games
in the regular season, right, the regular seasons become less
and less important. It's just like the NBA, Right, the
NBA eighty two games not important. Just just get into
the playoffs. That's all we care about. You don't need
to worry about going crazy and finishing first in your conference.
And the same thing now is gonna be true for
Major League Baseball. That's why the best advice is for
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teams to go into the season like we've said, hey,
go in, build a team that compete. Don't go crazy
and say we've solved all our probably spend all this
might no, no, no, going with a team to compete that
you think is a five hundred is team. And as
time goes on, you make your moves of the deadline,
you become better, you get in the playoffs. Because right
you're seeing that eighty seven eighty nine, you win in
a eighty some odd number of games, you are gonna
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get into the playoffs. And that's only a couple of
games over five hundred. It's not even one game over
five hundred every month. It's one game over five hundred
every two months, and you're in the playoffs. So that's
how it's going to be. That's gonna wind up being
what the adjustment's gonna be is teams are no longer
gonna go crazy loading up on plays. We're gonna go
at this guy we need, so we need a third
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basement and a starting pitcher and three guys in the bullpen.
Well maybe instead of the offseason, you get a starting pitcher,
you get a third basement, and you leave the bullpen
to figure it out. As the season goes on, or
you get a third baseman and a couple of bullpen
guys and you wait to get your starting pitcher the deadline.
That's how it's gonna go. And teams are gonna change
that way and say, well, we're not gonna go cover
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everything and walk into spring training and say now we're
a one hundred win team. No, those days are gone.
And at least the Dodgers and Braves have shown us
that way that going crazy to win is not going
to do it. And the Dodgers have done it the
traditional way. We have great guys coming up from the
miners and we signed big time free agents the Braves
that we're doing it a new way. We're identifying all
our young stars and we're signing them to all long
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term deals at a big at a big rate for
us later on. And that hasn't worked. So what can
you say. That's the adjustment. It's adjust to what the
what October is, and teams are gonna do that now
beginning of the season.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That's the best way to do it. Well, you're trying
to do it, dad, right here in Los Angeles. Everybody's
wringing their hands, you know, division titles, and we've said
it for a long time here you and I working
together here at Fox Sports Radio. You know, after a while,
that's that's cute and that's fun. Right, You got to
keep some level of consistency. But you get to a
point it's like, all right, it's those are those are
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all fine and good. Now now you're what happens in
October and when you keep having to go back to
you know, you got the the COVID year and taking
care of that, which so many people went out and
took the baseball bat to it after the elimination this week.
I mean, my goodness, the level of angst and anger
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against the Dodgers. I mean, folks, I'm not saying here
in Los Angeles there's certainly some folks that need the hug,
but now nationwide it's like, man, go find some happiness
and light in your lives. But it does speak to
a whole other philosophical shift and adapting to the way
the game is moving. We say that on the other
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side of our mouth saying, show im, Donnie's gonna look
really good as a Dodger, right, So, I mean, looks
it's a curious beast to navigate, and all those games
create a little bit of separation which is just lost
in the postseason in this new world order exit.
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H Before we get to the two stories, are gonna
double down here on in the NFL. Yes, this went
viral today and it's kind of fun. Actually, it's a
lot of fun. Last night, the celebration in the Phillies
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locker room was really fantastic, right, you know, the rivalry
they have with the Braves, and how upset that members
in the media the Braves are that Lando RCA is
Ata Boy. Harper got out and that did that help
motivate the Phillies. And Harper hit two home runs the
next game and he stared at our sea as eat
him both and they win last night, and guys in
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the lockerom were wearing Ata Boy Harper T shirts and yeah,
he wasn't supposed to hear it on the back. It
was awesome. But it goes a little bit further than
just the Braves and the Phillies. And oh, by the way,
you wonder why I am the why I am as
a Mets fan, and why I don't want teams from
the NL East to win. Why I'm glad the Braves
are out. I hope the Phillies are out. Next. Here
is Garrett Stubbs, backup catcher for the Phillies. This is
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after the game. Champagne is flowing. Everybody's excited, and he's
very happy, and he wants to say blank a few things.
Let's hear Garrett Stubbs list of things that he says,
we should blank you you you, you're cool. He was
very clear. I didn't hear the champagne, but that's okay.
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This is Garrett Stubbs. And listen because it's a there's
a lot of stuff going on, a lot of ambient
sound and that sound in the background. But he says,
blank one thing, Blank another thing, and take a listen,
Blank the Bravos, Blank, whoever we play next?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
And always the Mets. It's good advice.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I'm sorry, but you know, as a Met fit, I
just love that. I just think that's hilarious. And always
the mat And you like how you hear all the
guys saying it. It's I asked him, so you know
that's a thing. Blake, whoever we play next, and always
the Mets. Like that, it's so funny. Look, I love
the fact that Mets live rent free in the Phillies
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head because apparently they do. But I just I think
that's really funny. I'm not mad, I'm not upset, but look,
now you understand when I say, oh, the Braves, they're
so elite and they think they're so great. And the Phillies,
how am I supposed to feel? Right? You had you
had the guy that made the last out of the
Braves game last night, Vaughan Grissom. When he got drafted,
they asked him how he felt. He said, I was
thinking I was gonna be a Met that was gonna
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be terrible. Now you got the Philly saying blank everybody
and always the Mets, how am I supposed to feel
about that? I'm sposa say, oh ah, no, this is
why I feel the way I do. Is that works.
It's the way it's supposed to be in sports.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
It's funny because it's true. Uh yeah, heads, Look, sometimes
you gotta just accept that you're the butt of the joke.
On this show, we expose ourselves to big, big hits. Right,
the Bears being what they've been for several weeks, that's
quieted a little bit. But the White Sox for the
two weeks that anybody pays attention outside of our core
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on the show making fun of me, that's gone. But
the Mets, the Jets, the Knicks, I mean, you're attached to,
you know, far bigger entities, and certainly given the number
of blowhards in our business. Not saying you're a blowhard, buddy,
but the number of folks that align themselves with those squads.
You know, people start hate watching because they don't like
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certain personalities. Now I will ask you this all right, Now,
the RCA thing is interesting, right where people started to
get on their soapboxes and wag their fingers about stuff,
and players taken to social media, going the sanctity of
the clubhouse, you know, where you can hide or you
can just look around and see, you know, the enemy
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is in the clubhouse, right, going to almost famous. He
can't say that in front of the enemy, all right,
Which which is the bigger surprise that the RCA thing.
Look not that Harper utilized it, you know, and found
a way to channel that in Castellanos and whatever. That's great,
But that everybody got really out of sorts about that,
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or the number of people that really got offended. And
I hate to bring his name up at all, that
Pat McAfee paid Aaron Rodgers like the latter.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It's like, oh my god, how could we how could
you believe that? It's because it's the two of the
dumbest stories going at all the money is what it was.
People said, oh, wow, he gets paid a million dollars
to do hits. I mean, I'm sure they know people
get they know people get paid to be on the
radio in certain amounts of money. But to hear you
get paid a million dollars to do interviews and that
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cuts through its boke I gets a million bucks just
to talk on Pat McAfee show every week. Like I
think there was the number. It was just that that
number that gains everybody. A million dollars gains everybody. If
it was five hundred grand or two hundred and fifty grand,
it would have just passed by. But WHOA a million dollars.
That's what got everybody's attention on this.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, I just thought it was. It was funny and
you know one of those I can't outrage moments that made.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Had that kind of money to give to again, you
have a million dollars to give to again. Really, you
saw how much mac if he got paid.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
The fact that a million of it might have gone
to Aaron Rodgers to show up as an exclusive was
suddenly a big oh my god, He's not doing this
out of the goodness of his heart kind of moments
like who the hell, how dumb are we anymore?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Man?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Anyway, go sing Dixie Land Delight. This is really going
to catch on in a whole other way. Ah.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
And always the Mets. That's what I want is I
want to I want a blue an orange T shirt
that just says and always the Mets with the Mets
local That's what I want.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
That's I think Eleanor's got a little bit of time.
As the weekend gets underway, we'll see if we can
make that happen.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And Always the Mets. Now to a couple of NFL
takes that I'm ready to double down on and going
into this week. I've told you that Tampa Bay is
not very good, right. Baker Mayfield deserves a lot of
credit for playing as well as he has. He has
played really well, but Tampa Bay is not good. But
I will say that I'm doubling down. Tampa Bay is
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not good. But if they beat the Lions this weekend,
then I will believe. Then I will believe that they
are good enough to potentially take that division, which is
a week division. The Saints defense is probably the best
thing that division has going on, but I will believe
in them that they can win that week division because
it is a week division, but they gotta beat the
Lions this weekend. I know the Lions are on the road,
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but the Lions offense is great. No Jamiir Gibbs, but
they have been living without him okay so far. Now
they get Jamison Williams back, maybe another week and he
turns into something pretty special. But I will start believing
if they beat the Lions. I still don't now, and
I don't think they're gonna beat the Lions, but if
they do, then I'll say, hey, Tampa might be pretty good.
Then I'll that is one of the upset specials. Upset special.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Mike Evans is gonna play. So feeling pretty good about
that defense, flying around, still waiting for Rashad White to
really pick it up in the run game. It's kind
of like we were talking about Houston a little bit earlier, Jason,
where there's a lot of component parts that seem to
be working. And for Houston they've been able to do
it without well any of their starting lineman really, so
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to that point there, they'll get healthy and rise up
with it. With the Bucks, they've had their share of
injuries as well, right you had. You know, as the
season began, you lose one of your your top guys
that was coming back. So for Baker Mayfield, it's been
a good run and it's an opportunity here. Lions are
a bit beat up people maybe reading a little bit
(25:48):
of their press clippings. My fear is that you get
a sledgehammer effect from David Montgomery. Not that he's you know,
running at six yards of pop or whatever, but they
just start to get that lean and eventually can take
a big shot down field or two against the Tampa secondary.
But three points spread forty fours is total pretty low.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Now this other one I'll double down on as well.
Even though it didn't work out last week. They played
well for a while. But I told you look the
Rams offensively. You watch the leap they're gonna make. They
get Cooper Cup back. Now they have three receivers who
are terrific and a running game that is getting better
and better. Watch out for the Rams as time goes
on this season, they're going to jump into that. Hey,
(26:29):
maybe they're contenders as well instead of being a kind
of start overseason. Look, Puka Nakua has been a huge
find to tuat well. Has been really good and they're
going to find I really thought they would continue their
chemistry last week, but a couple of they had a
couple of bad possessions. It didn't go their way. The
Eagles are still the most talented team, a talented roster
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in the NFC. They're not the best team, but they're
the most talented roster. But I'm a big believer that
this Rams team is going to cause a lot of
problems offensively. And it's gonna go this weekend. Obviously game
against Arizona. Yes they should win this game, but just
watch every week. Those wide receivers are all gonna have
big weeks, and it's gonna be some guys some weeks,
and some guys are that there's enough footballs to go
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around that every week two out of those three guys
are gonna have a big week. Some weeks it's gonna
be Cup and at Well. Sometimes it's gonna be Nakoula
and at Well. Sometimes it will be Nicoua and Cup
sometimes at Well. But you're gonna see there's enough to
go around for two of those guys that have really
big games every week, and the Rams are gonna start
really scaring teams because offensively, the already the chemistry that
Stafford has with them, they're gonna start scoring tons of
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points and being problems. And by the time we get
to the middle two thirds part of the season, because
we're getting towards the middle of now, but like two
thirds part of the season, it's gonna be. Man, you
gotta watch out for this high octane rams offense. I'm
a big believer that's gonna happen. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I think it's the curiosity because watching the opening of
that game last week, I get it. You want to
get Cooper Cup involved early. There were just times like, remember,
just spread the ball around. It's okay, you can look
to other receivers and it was pretty efficient. But you
always wonder if you know you're trying to force feed
(28:06):
and you miss opportunities. I haven't gone back and watched
the All twenty two to see if you got that,
but it was good to see Nakua still involved. And
you've got to pick your poison, right. They need to
get more consistent in the run game with Williams and
the offensive line sound like a broken record. I think
every team it's kind of like finding starting pitching anymore.
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In baseball. I don't think we have enough offensive linemen
to go around in the NFL anymore. But when we
look at what the rams are, I mean, Stafford's been efficient,
defense has been pretty good in spots, but you need
the run game to give you a little more jolt. There.
You've got Higbee, you've got weapons in your passing game.
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It'll be curious to see what happens if mcveigh's baby
does decide to come, because Raheem Morris would take over
as the interim head coach if that were to happen.
How much changes in a week and it's a good spot,
like at some point the try hard Cardinals. Don't you
run out of try hard after a while?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Of course, you gotta try hard.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
No, no, no, I'm not saying that they don't, but
I'm saying the results, right, you're not You're not jumping
up and surprising anybody anymore. No that like you did
with the Cowboys, Like all right, people know they're gonna
be in for at least a fight for thirty minutes
and Josh Doobbs, Hey, there's been some good things to see,
but overall, the explosiveness is not there with James Connor hurt.
(29:34):
You know, opportunity knocks good spot on the schedule for
the Rams exit.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Ou about a Fresca exit swollen. Watch out this Rams offense.
Just watch out and watch Matthew Stafford become the new
media of the new Fantasy Darling again. Oh, Stafford's great again.
Now I gotta start Matthew Stafford every week, right now,
A guy we start every week here at Fox Sports Radio.
He is the number one start for Update anchors. It
is specially DELIVERI Steve regardless of matchup. He is matchup proof,
(30:03):
match of proof. So whether Sauce Gardner is covering Steve
de Saga or not, you still start Steve in your
Fantasy Update anchor League ten team standard. Uh PPR. Maybe
Steve is number two, but non PPR number one, Steve
de Sager.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Not such your deep bench here. And no bye week tonight,
just for the record.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, the Rams. Steve on the by, I
got the Saga on the bye.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I was on the bye Monday because he's got to work.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Starting Fenley in stats Friday, I get some points from Rams.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Will be hosting in that stadium Arizona on Sunday. Cardinals
wide receiver Marquise Brown questionable due to illness, but did
practice today. Rams linebacker Ernest Jones questionable with a knee
injury Sunday, Browns quarterback to Shaun Watson out again with
the bad shoulder, and Giants quarterback Daniel Jones out with
a neck injury. Baseball's ALCS starts Sunday night on Fox
(30:53):
TV Texas at Houston. Game two is Monday afternoon on Fox.
Houston is in the LCS for the seventh straight year.
The record is eight straight by Atlanta. By the way,
so far this postseason, teams that out homer their opponent
in the game are fourteen and one. Over fifty percent
of the run scored so far in the playoffs have
come via the home run. Rangers pitcher Max shirs Or.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Was all given up by Lance Lynn.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Every home run that does kind of skew things.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Actually degrees of separation of Lance Lynn.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah, well, there could be some offseason separation of Lance
Linn and the matches. Rangers pitcher Max shirs are with
a strange shoulder through a bullpen session today, says he's ready.
Was not on the roster for the divisional round. Rosters
need to be set Sunday morning for the LCS. The
NLCS starts Monday night. That's Philadelphia hosting Arizona. Philadelphia just
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eliminated the Atlanta Braves. Brase pitcher Kyle Wright this week
had shoulder surgery. It is likely to miss next year
battling injuries this season. He was one and three with
an ERA near seven right led the majors the year
before and wins when he was twenty one and five.
Star pitcher Brandon Woodruff had shoulder surgery, could miss next year,
(32:04):
and twins Byron Buxton as knee surgery. Hopes to play
the outfield next year. Last night's Braves at Phillies' playoff
game average five point eight million viewers on cable, largest
audience in five years for a Division Series Game four,
and Phillies versus Braves delivered four of the five largest
(32:24):
audience of the Division Series round. Meanwhile, there's Thursday Night Football.
NFL just kills anything and everything in its past. It's
even just on streaming basically, and it's averaging thirteen point
six million viewers for the season, which is up about
twenty five percent from last year according to Nielsen. Last
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night it was thirteen point eight million viewers for Broncos
at Chiefs. By the way, I saw Patrick mahomestad that
here like last night, when his team allows under twenty
seven points. Mahomes record is fifty two and four number
one all time. Jalen Hurts in the Eagles twenty three
and three record when his team allows less than twenty
seven points out for the Eagles. This weekend, defensive tackle
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Jalen Carter and defensive back Darius Slay five and oh
Philadelphia will be hosted by the Jets. Jets defensive back
Sauce Gardner misspractice due to illness today. Philadelphia's record all
time against the Jets twelve and oh. Second on the
long list of best records against one opponent is Green
Bay going ten and oh against Brooklyn. So there's that.
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As for college football, it's yes, Colorado on its way
to a victory.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Tonight.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
It was twenty nine nothing at half, now twenty nine
to twelve against Stanford with about six minutes to go
in the third quarter. Colorado starred Travis Hunter, who missed
three games after taking an illegal hit returned had a
touchdown reception in the first quarter. Fresno State is six
and one after winning at Utah State thirty seven thirty
two to lane one at Memphis thirty one to twenty
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one two exhibitions in the NBA, Tonight, Spurs defeats did
the Heat one twenty to one oh four rookie center
Victor Wembiniana twenty three points in twenty three minutes and
fifteen seconds left in La Golden State leads one twenty
six one twenty five over the Lakers. Jonathan Kamingo with
twenty four points for the Warriors.
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon Happy thirtieth to Nightmare Before Christmas on
Friday the thirteenth in October. Wow, this is like a
like this is like the peak time of Halloween, like tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
So you dressed up now, I mean you've face painted,
ready to go out. I'm ready to chaos.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Never paint the face, man, Never paint the face. Never
why paint the chess? Chess is okay, never paint the face.
Oh so you're a.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
David Putty guy. I did the face paint. I was
in a video game face painted up. But the hard
part was when it was sunny. You then had a
temporary tattoo.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah. Like if I'm face painting because I'm gonna fight
like Mel Gibson in Braveheart. Like okay, that that I
kind of get. But face penning to go to a game, no, no, no,
don't pay the face. Don't pay the face.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Not the face.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
The course of course, if you are an eagle eyed
listener to this show, you remember before the season started,
I told you, hey, USC Notre Dame is gonna be
the game of the year in college football. Both teams
are gonna be undefeated. Sam Hartman's gonna be on his
way to taking the Heisman Trophy away from Caleb Williams,
and Williams being the number one pick in the draft,
and it's gonna be an undefeated USC team and it's
(36:29):
gonna be the game of the year. Well I was
kind of right, except except I wasn't because the game
of the year is still tomorrow. But it's not USC
Notre Dame Oregon Washington is. I can't tell you how
much fun I'm looking forward to this game because it's
one of those games that cuts through the clutter. It's
not here's Alabama Auburn, or here's another Alabama LSU game,
(36:53):
or here's another the Michigan Michigan State game. No, here's
Oregon Washington with both teams having huge college football playoff hopes,
and honestly, they may be the two best teams in
the country right now. They're playing better than anybody else. Certainly,
you know, Georgia's had a little bit of a tough time,
They're still undefeated. Michigan hasn't played anybody. Florida States had
a tough time, nearly lost a game to Boston College.
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These teams are beating everybody. Washington did struggle a little
bit with Arizona one time last week, but look, we
told you that was gonna happen games at night in Arizona, Oregon.
That happens that way. But both of these offenses are
two of the top three offenses in all of college football.
And again, they may be the two best teams in
the country right now going at it tomorrow, and it
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is gonna be some kind of fun day. Defenses are
both really good. Oregon's defense is really good. The thing
is not a lot of turnovers, and these are not
quarterbacks to turn the football over either. There's gonna be
a lot of points. It's gonna be so much fun.
And the fact the game is in Washington, and even
though both quarterbacks are good, bo Nix has been terrific.
(37:58):
Michael Pennix Junior has been unstoppable. Guy's averaging four hundred
yards a game. I mean, you're talking about Heisman Trophy winner.
This is your leader right now. So in a game
like this, I'll take the little bit better quarterback. Give
me Washington by a field goal thirty eight to thirty five.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah, I mean, I do like the facts that Pennix
has his eight carries for nine yards. I'm throwing the ball,
it's all. I'm doing. Sixteen touchdowns, two picks, seventy five
percent completion rate, and he's one yard shy of two
thousand for the year thus far. But you know me,
I'm enamored with the idea of bo Nicks. I like
the quarterbacks that are all coming out, and as they
(38:34):
get into the draft next year, it'll still be you know,
these guys are all older than Sam Darnold. He's just
like the benchmark for all of these things. But for
Nicks and for Oregon, he's completing at an eighty percent rate,
completing seventy four percent of passes when you blitz him,
So pick your poison. Fifteen touchdowns, one pick, just ridiculous
(38:54):
efficiency from both these squads. You look at the yardage
they're putting up per game. Jason Washington five hundred and
sixty nine yards of offense per week Oregon at five
point fifty six. So fireworks, grab, grab your favorite beverage,
and a giant bucket of wings, maybe a bag of wings,
a bag of chicken, as we like to say, or
(39:15):
I like to say on the show, and enjoy this one.
Look and it's you hate to say the it's a
shame that someone's gotta lose because we're still only in
the you know, really just starting that middle portion of
the schedule. So this is one you wish it was
a little further down the line, you know, But here
we go. We get a gift in the middle of
(39:37):
October that gets everybody around the TV set and tongues wagon,
right because both these guys show out. Now we keep
having more of the conversation because I'm really tired and
I'm bored with the they're tanking for Caleb Williams talk,
and Caleb Williams should bring Lincoln Riley with him. You know,
you still have to coach defense in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
That's just a minor worry.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
They're not impressing boosters in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
That's just a minor worry right there. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live the tyrech dot Com Studios.
I mean, the game of the year. There's nothing gonna
be more fun than that game tomorrow coming up next way,
do we tell you what happened in Colorado's game against
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will have more football coming up later on, actually in
about twenty minutes or so. But this has really bothered
me today. It's really bothered me today. Look, I had
a great day today. Happy Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Everything is yeah, Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
My day, right, It's Jason's day.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
On Friday the thirteen horror movies on wherever you look.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You know that the one thing about Friday the thirteenth
now is like is it you know I'm fifty right
or fifty two actually? And you know Jason went growing up,
was always somewhat of a somewhat of a unique name,
like not I didn't know many Jason's, but apparently, you know,
in the seventies and eight that's when the name had
its heyday. And I remember looking in a book when
(01:42):
we were looking up names for Zoe. We're gonna have
Zoe looking at a name book and everything else, and
and I just like, I wonder what they say about Jason,
And they say, Jason is a name that first was
popularized here, was a popular name here. You know, it
was an it name for a little bit here. And
they go, Now, though, if you hear the name Jason,
kids are just gonna think, oh, that's my dad's name.
Like Jason's becomes such an old name. When I think
(02:05):
of Jason Friday the thirteenth, I think of like, he's
old now, he's like in his sixties. He's gotta get up,
he's got a stretch in the morning. I can't kill
those campers unless I've had my coffee. I gotta do
some exercise.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Right, And now he gets up around whenever he used
to get up on time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Exactly. I can't just get up and kill people like
I used to. I gotta run in the morning. I
I can't wear those big, heavy work boots. I gotta
wear sneakers. Man, I need a lot of padding. He's
wearing sketches as he's running through the woods. Now, Oh,
I tell you this keeps my posture up straight as
I run. I'm just thinking about that. Jason's such an
old It's an older person's name. Now, I never thought
(02:41):
about that.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, I can't say that. I've run across many classmates
through the years from my kids where Jason was the name.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah. No, no, Jason's your dad, your friend's dad's name.
I'm like, ah, yeah, okay, another mind of getting older. Yep,
that's how it goes.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Time to bring it back something like that.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
This is this is what, this is what what I
was upset about today is, And it kind of I
was hoping it wasn't that. No, no, no, no, not
that no whatever. It's fine. Look, dude, I got Colorado
on one TV, and I got Jared Padileki from Supernatural
trying to Evadejason on the other Uh, I mean, I
don't know why. He just doesn't call Dean and they
can kill Jason together. He Dean sam So after the
(03:21):
Dodgers win, After the Dodgers lose to the Diamondbacks, Diamondbacks
win and go on to the LCS. Dave Roberts had
an interesting statement after the game, and he said, you know,
I got to get the team ready for the play.
I gotta get them ready for whatever format it is.
And said, wait a minute, you're gonna blame for the format.
The Really, the format is what's costing you. And after
(03:41):
the Braves lost last night, I saw a lot of
that in my timeline, buy a lot of bitter Braves
fans and insiders and everything else going, oh, you know,
the format didn't help and this, and I'm going, what
what what?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
What?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
What is?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
What do they mean by the format? The format is hurting? Like,
what did you if it was best of twenty seven
you would have won enough games? I mean, what do
you mean the for? And the only thing I've seen
that that makes even the tiniest bit of sense was, hey,
because of the off days, the teams that that are
able to win in the wildcard round can line up
(04:13):
there pitching how they want them to do it, and
I'm like, okay, that's fine, I get it. I understand
that's a little bit of a thing, but you gotta
go win games. Spencer Stryder was able to pitch right,
and he was and and they lost. He got beat right,
So that's not you know, Zach Wheeler pitched well. At
some point you have to play the games. And I
know that it's always It just doesn't feel right that
(04:35):
teams with a hundred wins are going home much more early,
and everybody is missing the big point. Everybody's missing the point.
Why are we seeing these hundred win teams go home early?
It's pretty easy. Anybody can win a three game series,
five game series, seven games series. Anybody can. But up
until a few years ago, you didn't allow that many
(04:56):
teams in, so you didn't see that many upsets. Look
at upset here, so the best teams were always advancing.
And if you had an upset where a division winner
was upsetting another division winner in the playoffs, well you
got two division winners, so it doesn't matter. You're not
seeing we weren't seeing the eighty five win wildcard teams
get on to be within a step of the World Series.
(05:17):
That's all it is. That's the difference is that Major
League Baseball playoffs have changed forever. It's nothing with the
fact that there's MLB teams and a hundred. It's not
the format, it's not being able to bring your aces back.
It's that baseball has had such a big change. This
is a sport that's gone from we're letting in the
division winners only to now okay, it's division winners and
(05:39):
one wildcards. Now division winners and two wide three wildcards.
You're letting in so many we had the COVID year
where sixteen teams made the playoffs. The baseball playoffs have
changed to adjust with the times where more playoff teams
mean more interest. This is the new normal for the
MLB playoffs. There's going to be more teams in and
(06:00):
we're just not used to it. And that's all we
have to do is get used to the fact that
this is the new normal for the baseball playoffs. That
you're gonna see more upsets because the hottest teams are
getting in. And that's why we talked about the changes
for next season. It's not about teams and figuring out
the play It's about not having to go crazy winning
(06:21):
one hundred and ten games. Be a five hundred is
team going into the regular season, and if you're good,
you make your moves of the trade deadline and become
a great team. Baseball playoffs have changed. Embrace that, don't
embrace it. There needs to be some kind of sho Okay,
we go out to win one hundred games, what are
we doing wrong? The Braves didn't do anything wrong. The
Dodgers didn't do anything wrong. You have to go play.
(06:41):
It's like fans wanted the Dodgers and Braves to get
a buy into the NLCS. Well, sorry, that doesn't happen.
You eventually have to play the games. The best teams
get in and the hottest teams win it. That's the
best thing it's ever been said about the playoffs, and
Derek Jeter said it. The best teams get in and
the hottest teams win it. But now that we've added
these wild card teams in, we just have to get
used to that. And we're not used to it yet.
(07:03):
We're not used to this new normal of the baseball
season being oh man, I don't know. We've seen these
upsets here in this and I don't get it. It's
the same thing as the NBA playoffs getting used to
the fact that we have play in games and it's
all I don't like it. But now we've had it
for a few years and the league is adjusted. The
players and teams. Their strategy is, let's just get in
the playoffs. Regular season means nothing, right, let's just get in.
(07:24):
We got to be one of the top ten teams.
We don't really care if we're in the playing round.
We can still make it to the NBA Finals. Look
at the Heat there. They were one quarter away from
going home after one game, and instead here they are
in the NBA Finals. So NBA has seen their new
playoff format that for the first couple of years people
didn't like. I'm not a big fan, but now they're
used to it. We just need a couple more years
(07:45):
of this in the baseball playoffs and people will get
used to the fact that, Okay, there's more teams in
and there's just more upsets, which will be more fun
for the game because a we get to see these
teams get in and it's kind of like the NCAA
tournament a little bit where more teams are getting in.
We could see up teams move on. But that's all
it is. It's not anything that these teams did or
didn't do. It's not the format that's got a change
(08:06):
or be adjusted. It's just this is the new normal.
And anytime you see a new normal, you need time
to get used to it. And sometimes it's a season,
sometimes it's two years, three years, four years, whatever it is.
But as soon as fans get used to it, this
is not gonna be a story and it's gonna be Well,
the Dodgers got in, but man they lost. Boy, they
got upset. Well they got another team gots in all,
but they get upset. It's gonna be a lot easier
(08:29):
to stomach and move on. Just fans have to get
used to it. That's all that has to happen.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, I think part of it is the extension back
into the way baseball is being played beyond just the
the idea of the formatics in how you're playing series.
Here's your three game home stand in the wildcard round
and the layoff and whatever else. Is like, it's not
like those guys all got on a boat like they
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were the giants, you know in the NFL a few
years back, right where that became the Curse of the Giants.
In theory, they were all still working out. Yeah, there
were some optional workouts and guys you know, did some
other things on their time. But in theory, first pitch
on Saturday for the Dodgers game on, let's go, and
(09:15):
then you know, you have a butchered fly ball followed
by absolute chaos and disaster for three games. But we
talked about it in the regular season of with all
the rules changes, changing your philosophy, changing how you're building
your squad, changing whether you're aggressive on the base pass,
and getting back to old school baseball, get them on,
(09:37):
get them over, get them in, creating runs versus sitting
around and waiting for the three run homer. Adding extra pitching,
and I know pitching is a whole other debate that
you can get into of starters in this age. You know,
in my day, we had guys going seven innings all
the time. Nolan Ryan threw out a first pitch last
(09:57):
week and it was still eighty five miles an hour,
seventy five years old. I mean, all of that stuff
that we we get into. But there is some bit
of reality to it, right, paralysis by analysis, analytics, whatever,
you got, the old the old head. See I'm bringing
that NFL term in.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yeah they don't.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, but I mean Boachee and Dusty Baker are getting
after it too, cantankerous old managers doing it old school
style and saying I'm not babying you.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Get out there and play. You think what Arcia did
the video.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Making the rounds when he turned to the fans and
was doing the nanny nanny and boo boo and whatever,
and Acuna had to grab him and just like shut up.
You know, do you think that's happening in one of
those other clubhouses on the American League side of things. No,
because those guys get winded it they're gonna slap you
upside the head. Say stop, come on.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Just really just say nanny nanny, boo boo.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I did I didn't, Really I didn't.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I didn't know how I wasn't. It was either gonna
be that or actually do it and in and like
I was still well angel going back to a league
of their own. But you get the point is that,
you know there's the philosophical way of how you're playing baseball.
And I think one of the things again for the
older set, you know, the baseball purists, the old school,
(11:19):
seeing Bochee and Baker matched up is getting people excited.
See they play at the old school with a little
bit of other stuff mixed in, and it's working just fine.
So yeah, I think your format and adjusting and fans
just recognizing that there's a new normal. It's like anything, right,
changes of games, changes of rules, changes go. You talk
(11:42):
about the NBA and look at the regular season, right,
they tried to make this rule last week. He's like, yeah,
look at load management and this is how it's gonna work.
And everybody says, yeah, sure, good luck actually policing that
in terms of the regular season. Put an ice pack
on my leg and walk to the court.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Wave at you.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Ah, he's not available. What happened? He strained himself walking
from the locker room to the layup line. I mean,
so you're not gonna be able to get that out.
But it's all about playoffs for the NFL right now.
You've got a couple of guys where we're looking at
injuries and and some of it is all right. I
think to a degree, it's like you manage it saying
(12:24):
we can afford to lose a guy for a week
or two in October versus December when we're trying to
ramp up towards the playoffs. Because if you are say Cincinnati,
I don't know how I herd t Higgins is. He's
a guy that's looking for a contract. So there's a
lot swirling behind the scenes. But if you're the Bengals,
you're saying, well, we're playing for January, which is why
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the way they handled Carl I wanted to say Carson Palmer,
the why they handled this show, but why that why
they handled Joe Burrow the way they have was curious
for us, Right. We talked about it a bunch like, no,
you know, why, why wouldn't you you run him out,
you know, and give him a couple of weeks to
heal and then hopefully things haven't gone awry and you
(13:06):
can get back into it. Well, they're saying he's getting healthier,
he's gonna run, he got a great matchup this week
against Seattle. But it's the same thing, right, Trying to
change and adapt philosophies to where the game is and
with the playoffs in Major League Baseball, it's the same thing.
But the rules of the game might change and alter
a little bit, but the basics are still there. If
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you pay a guy forty million dollars a year, he
still has to hit the damn ball Moki.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Look, it's it's something that everybody needs to come around to.
And change is always difficult, and change especially difficult for
teams and fans that were expecting more. Right, I was
expecting more from the Dodgers, more from the Braves. If
the Phillies had lost Diamondbacks last Okay, well we lost.
We gave it a good run. But wait a bitte,
Wait a minute, waitite, this is wrong. This is wrong.
(13:56):
Now you played. Look, you play a lot of games
in the regular season, right, the regular seasons become less
and less important. It's just like the NBA, Right, the
NBA eighty two games not important. Just just get into
the playoffs. That's all we care about. You don't need
to worry about going crazy and finishing first in your conference.
And the same thing now is gonna be true for
Major League Baseball. That's why the best advice is for
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teams to go into the season like we've said, hey,
go in, build a team that compete. Don't go crazy
and say we've solved all our probably spend all this
might no, no, no, going with a team to compete that
you think is a five hundred is team. And as
time goes on, you make your moves of the deadline,
you become better, you get in the playoffs. Because right
you're seeing that eighty seven eighty nine, you win in
a eighty some odd number of games, you are gonna
(14:39):
get into the playoffs. And that's only a couple of
games over five hundred. It's not even one game over
five hundred every month. It's one game over five hundred
every two months, and you're in the playoffs. So that's
how it's going to be. That's gonna wind up being
what the adjustment's gonna be is teams are no longer
gonna go crazy loading up on plays. We're gonna go
at this guy we need, so we need a third
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basement and a starting pitcher and three guys in the bullpen.
Well maybe instead of the offseason, you get a starting pitcher,
you get a third basement, and you leave the bullpen
to figure it out. As the season goes on, or
you get a third baseman and a couple of bullpen
guys and you wait to get your starting pitcher the deadline.
That's how it's gonna go. And teams are gonna change
that way and say, well, we're not gonna go cover
(15:21):
everything and walk into spring training and say now we're
a one hundred win team. No, those days are gone.
And at least the Dodgers and Braves have shown us
that way that going crazy to win is not going
to do it. And the Dodgers have done it the
traditional way. We have great guys coming up from the
miners and we signed big time free agents the Braves
that we're doing it a new way. We're identifying all
our young stars and we're signing them to all long
(15:42):
term deals at a big at a big rate for
us later on. And that hasn't worked. So what can
you say. That's the adjustment. It's adjust to what the
what October is, and teams are gonna do that now
beginning of the season.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That's the best way to do it. Well, you're trying
to do it, dad, right here in Los Angeles. Everybody's
wringing their hands, you know, division titles, and we've said
it for a long time here you and I working
together here at Fox Sports Radio. You know, after a while,
that's that's cute and that's fun. Right, You got to
keep some level of consistency. But you get to a
point it's like, all right, it's those are those are
(16:16):
all fine and good. Now now you're what happens in
October and when you keep having to go back to
you know, you got the the COVID year and taking
care of that, which so many people went out and
took the baseball bat to it after the elimination this week.
I mean, my goodness, the level of angst and anger
(16:37):
against the Dodgers. I mean, folks, I'm not saying here
in Los Angeles there's certainly some folks that need the hug,
but now nationwide it's like, man, go find some happiness
and light in your lives. But it does speak to
a whole other philosophical shift and adapting to the way
the game is moving. We say that on the other
(17:00):
side of our mouth saying, show im, Donnie's gonna look
really good as a Dodger, right, So, I mean, looks
it's a curious beast to navigate, and all those games
create a little bit of separation which is just lost
in the postseason in this new world order exit.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
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Speaker 1 (18:07):
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Friend Mike Harmon live from the Tirac dot com Studios.
H Before we get to the two stories, are gonna
double down here on in the NFL. Yes, this went
viral today and it's kind of fun. Actually, it's a
lot of fun. Last night, the celebration in the Phillies
(18:32):
locker room was really fantastic, right, you know, the rivalry
they have with the Braves, and how upset that members
in the media the Braves are that Lando RCA is
Ata Boy. Harper got out and that did that help
motivate the Phillies. And Harper hit two home runs the
next game and he stared at our sea as eat
him both and they win last night, and guys in
(18:54):
the lockerom were wearing Ata Boy Harper T shirts and yeah,
he wasn't supposed to hear it on the back. It
was awesome. But it goes a little bit further than
just the Braves and the Phillies. And oh, by the way,
you wonder why I am the why I am as
a Mets fan, and why I don't want teams from
the NL East to win. Why I'm glad the Braves
are out. I hope the Phillies are out. Next. Here
is Garrett Stubbs, backup catcher for the Phillies. This is
(19:16):
after the game. Champagne is flowing. Everybody's excited, and he's
very happy, and he wants to say blank a few things.
Let's hear Garrett Stubbs list of things that he says,
we should blank you you you, you're cool. He was
very clear. I didn't hear the champagne, but that's okay.
(19:40):
This is Garrett Stubbs. And listen because it's a there's
a lot of stuff going on, a lot of ambient
sound and that sound in the background. But he says,
blank one thing, Blank another thing, and take a listen,
Blank the Bravos, Blank, whoever we play next?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
And always the Mets. It's good advice.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I'm sorry, but you know, as a Met fit, I
just love that. I just think that's hilarious. And always
the mat And you like how you hear all the
guys saying it. It's I asked him, so you know
that's a thing. Blake, whoever we play next, and always
the Mets. Like that, it's so funny. Look, I love
the fact that Mets live rent free in the Phillies
(20:24):
head because apparently they do. But I just I think
that's really funny. I'm not mad, I'm not upset, but look,
now you understand when I say, oh, the Braves, they're
so elite and they think they're so great. And the Phillies,
how am I supposed to feel? Right? You had you
had the guy that made the last out of the
Braves game last night, Vaughan Grissom. When he got drafted,
they asked him how he felt. He said, I was
thinking I was gonna be a Met that was gonna
(20:45):
be terrible. Now you got the Philly saying blank everybody
and always the Mets, how am I supposed to feel
about that? I'm sposa say, oh ah, no, this is
why I feel the way I do. Is that works.
It's the way it's supposed to be in sports.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
It's funny because it's true. Uh yeah, heads, Look, sometimes
you gotta just accept that you're the butt of the joke.
On this show, we expose ourselves to big, big hits. Right,
the Bears being what they've been for several weeks, that's
quieted a little bit. But the White Sox for the
two weeks that anybody pays attention outside of our core
(21:17):
on the show making fun of me, that's gone. But
the Mets, the Jets, the Knicks, I mean, you're attached to,
you know, far bigger entities, and certainly given the number
of blowhards in our business. Not saying you're a blowhard, buddy,
but the number of folks that align themselves with those squads.
You know, people start hate watching because they don't like
(21:38):
certain personalities. Now I will ask you this all right, Now,
the RCA thing is interesting, right where people started to
get on their soapboxes and wag their fingers about stuff,
and players taken to social media, going the sanctity of
the clubhouse, you know, where you can hide or you
can just look around and see, you know, the enemy
(22:00):
is in the clubhouse, right, going to almost famous. He
can't say that in front of the enemy, all right,
Which which is the bigger surprise that the RCA thing.
Look not that Harper utilized it, you know, and found
a way to channel that in Castellanos and whatever. That's great,
But that everybody got really out of sorts about that,
(22:21):
or the number of people that really got offended. And
I hate to bring his name up at all, that
Pat McAfee paid Aaron Rodgers like the latter.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
It's like, oh my god, how could we how could
you believe that? It's because it's the two of the
dumbest stories going at all the money is what it was.
People said, oh, wow, he gets paid a million dollars
to do hits. I mean, I'm sure they know people
get they know people get paid to be on the
radio in certain amounts of money. But to hear you
get paid a million dollars to do interviews and that
(22:52):
cuts through its boke I gets a million bucks just
to talk on Pat McAfee show every week. Like I
think there was the number. It was just that that
number that gains everybody. A million dollars gains everybody. If
it was five hundred grand or two hundred and fifty grand,
it would have just passed by. But WHOA a million dollars.
That's what got everybody's attention on this.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, I just thought it was. It was funny and
you know one of those I can't outrage moments that made.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Had that kind of money to give to again, you
have a million dollars to give to again. Really, you
saw how much mac if he got paid.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
The fact that a million of it might have gone
to Aaron Rodgers to show up as an exclusive was
suddenly a big oh my god, He's not doing this
out of the goodness of his heart kind of moments
like who the hell, how dumb are we anymore?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Man?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Anyway, go sing Dixie Land Delight. This is really going
to catch on in a whole other way. Ah.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
And always the Mets. That's what I want is I
want to I want a blue an orange T shirt
that just says and always the Mets with the Mets
local That's what I want.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
That's I think Eleanor's got a little bit of time.
As the weekend gets underway, we'll see if we can
make that happen.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And Always the Mets. Now to a couple of NFL
takes that I'm ready to double down on and going
into this week. I've told you that Tampa Bay is
not very good, right. Baker Mayfield deserves a lot of
credit for playing as well as he has. He has
played really well, but Tampa Bay is not good. But
I will say that I'm doubling down. Tampa Bay is
(24:16):
not good. But if they beat the Lions this weekend,
then I will believe. Then I will believe that they
are good enough to potentially take that division, which is
a week division. The Saints defense is probably the best
thing that division has going on, but I will believe
in them that they can win that week division because
it is a week division, but they gotta beat the
Lions this weekend. I know the Lions are on the road,
(24:37):
but the Lions offense is great. No Jamiir Gibbs, but
they have been living without him okay so far. Now
they get Jamison Williams back, maybe another week and he
turns into something pretty special. But I will start believing
if they beat the Lions. I still don't now, and
I don't think they're gonna beat the Lions, but if
they do, then I'll say, hey, Tampa might be pretty good.
Then I'll that is one of the upset specials. Upset special.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Mike Evans is gonna play. So feeling pretty good about
that defense, flying around, still waiting for Rashad White to
really pick it up in the run game. It's kind
of like we were talking about Houston a little bit earlier, Jason,
where there's a lot of component parts that seem to
be working. And for Houston they've been able to do
it without well any of their starting lineman really, so
(25:25):
to that point there, they'll get healthy and rise up
with it. With the Bucks, they've had their share of
injuries as well, right you had. You know, as the
season began, you lose one of your your top guys
that was coming back. So for Baker Mayfield, it's been
a good run and it's an opportunity here. Lions are
a bit beat up people maybe reading a little bit
(25:48):
of their press clippings. My fear is that you get
a sledgehammer effect from David Montgomery. Not that he's you know,
running at six yards of pop or whatever, but they
just start to get that lean and eventually can take
a big shot down field or two against the Tampa secondary.
But three points spread forty fours is total pretty low.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Now this other one I'll double down on as well.
Even though it didn't work out last week. They played
well for a while. But I told you look the
Rams offensively. You watch the leap they're gonna make. They
get Cooper Cup back. Now they have three receivers who
are terrific and a running game that is getting better
and better. Watch out for the Rams as time goes
on this season, they're going to jump into that. Hey,
(26:29):
maybe they're contenders as well instead of being a kind
of start overseason. Look, Puka Nakua has been a huge
find to tuat well. Has been really good and they're
going to find I really thought they would continue their
chemistry last week, but a couple of they had a
couple of bad possessions. It didn't go their way. The
Eagles are still the most talented team, a talented roster
(26:50):
in the NFC. They're not the best team, but they're
the most talented roster. But I'm a big believer that
this Rams team is going to cause a lot of
problems offensively. And it's gonna go this weekend. Obviously game
against Arizona. Yes they should win this game, but just
watch every week. Those wide receivers are all gonna have
big weeks, and it's gonna be some guys some weeks,
and some guys are that there's enough footballs to go
(27:11):
around that every week two out of those three guys
are gonna have a big week. Some weeks it's gonna
be Cup and at Well. Sometimes it's gonna be Nakoula
and at Well. Sometimes it will be Nicoua and Cup
sometimes at Well. But you're gonna see there's enough to
go around for two of those guys that have really
big games every week, and the Rams are gonna start
really scaring teams because offensively, the already the chemistry that
Stafford has with them, they're gonna start scoring tons of
(27:34):
points and being problems. And by the time we get
to the middle two thirds part of the season, because
we're getting towards the middle of now, but like two
thirds part of the season, it's gonna be. Man, you
gotta watch out for this high octane rams offense. I'm
a big believer that's gonna happen. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I think it's the curiosity because watching the opening of
that game last week, I get it. You want to
get Cooper Cup involved early. There were just times like, remember,
just spread the ball around. It's okay, you can look
to other receivers and it was pretty efficient. But you
always wonder if you know you're trying to force feed
(28:06):
and you miss opportunities. I haven't gone back and watched
the All twenty two to see if you got that,
but it was good to see Nakua still involved. And
you've got to pick your poison, right. They need to
get more consistent in the run game with Williams and
the offensive line sound like a broken record. I think
every team it's kind of like finding starting pitching anymore.
(28:26):
In baseball. I don't think we have enough offensive linemen
to go around in the NFL anymore. But when we
look at what the rams are, I mean, Stafford's been efficient,
defense has been pretty good in spots, but you need
the run game to give you a little more jolt. There.
You've got Higbee, you've got weapons in your passing game.
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It'll be curious to see what happens if mcveigh's baby
does decide to come, because Raheem Morris would take over
as the interim head coach if that were to happen.
How much changes in a week and it's a good spot,
like at some point the try hard Cardinals. Don't you
run out of try hard after a while?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Of course, you gotta try hard.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
No, no, no, I'm not saying that they don't, but
I'm saying the results, right, you're not You're not jumping
up and surprising anybody anymore. No that like you did
with the Cowboys, Like all right, people know they're gonna
be in for at least a fight for thirty minutes
and Josh Doobbs, Hey, there's been some good things to see,
but overall, the explosiveness is not there with James Connor hurt.
(29:34):
You know, opportunity knocks good spot on the schedule for
the Rams exit.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Ou about a Fresca exit swollen. Watch out this Rams offense.
Just watch out and watch Matthew Stafford become the new
media of the new Fantasy Darling again. Oh, Stafford's great again.
Now I gotta start Matthew Stafford every week, right now,
A guy we start every week here at Fox Sports Radio.
He is the number one start for Update anchors. It
is specially DELIVERI Steve regardless of matchup. He is matchup proof,
(30:03):
match of proof. So whether Sauce Gardner is covering Steve
de Saga or not, you still start Steve in your
Fantasy Update anchor League ten team standard. Uh PPR. Maybe
Steve is number two, but non PPR number one, Steve
de Sager.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Not such your deep bench here. And no bye week tonight,
just for the record.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, the Rams. Steve on the by, I
got the Saga on the bye.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I was on the bye Monday because he's got to work.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Starting Fenley in stats Friday, I get some points from Rams.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Will be hosting in that stadium Arizona on Sunday. Cardinals
wide receiver Marquise Brown questionable due to illness, but did
practice today. Rams linebacker Ernest Jones questionable with a knee
injury Sunday, Browns quarterback to Shaun Watson out again with
the bad shoulder, and Giants quarterback Daniel Jones out with
a neck injury. Baseball's ALCS starts Sunday night on Fox
(30:53):
TV Texas at Houston. Game two is Monday afternoon on Fox.
Houston is in the LCS for the seventh straight year.
The record is eight straight by Atlanta. By the way,
so far this postseason, teams that out homer their opponent
in the game are fourteen and one. Over fifty percent
of the run scored so far in the playoffs have
come via the home run. Rangers pitcher Max shirs Or.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Was all given up by Lance Lynn.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Every home run that does kind of skew things.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Actually degrees of separation of Lance Lynn.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Yeah, well, there could be some offseason separation of Lance
Linn and the matches. Rangers pitcher Max shirs are with
a strange shoulder through a bullpen session today, says he's ready.
Was not on the roster for the divisional round. Rosters
need to be set Sunday morning for the LCS. The
NLCS starts Monday night. That's Philadelphia hosting Arizona. Philadelphia just
(31:44):
eliminated the Atlanta Braves. Brase pitcher Kyle Wright this week
had shoulder surgery. It is likely to miss next year
battling injuries this season. He was one and three with
an ERA near seven right led the majors the year
before and wins when he was twenty one and five.
Star pitcher Brandon Woodruff had shoulder surgery, could miss next year,
(32:04):
and twins Byron Buxton as knee surgery. Hopes to play
the outfield next year. Last night's Braves at Phillies' playoff
game average five point eight million viewers on cable, largest
audience in five years for a Division Series Game four,
and Phillies versus Braves delivered four of the five largest
(32:24):
audience of the Division Series round. Meanwhile, there's Thursday Night Football.
NFL just kills anything and everything in its past. It's
even just on streaming basically, and it's averaging thirteen point
six million viewers for the season, which is up about
twenty five percent from last year according to Nielsen. Last
(32:45):
night it was thirteen point eight million viewers for Broncos
at Chiefs. By the way, I saw Patrick mahomestad that
here like last night, when his team allows under twenty
seven points. Mahomes record is fifty two and four number
one all time. Jalen Hurts in the Eagles twenty three
and three record when his team allows less than twenty
seven points out for the Eagles. This weekend, defensive tackle
(33:08):
Jalen Carter and defensive back Darius Slay five and oh
Philadelphia will be hosted by the Jets. Jets defensive back
Sauce Gardner misspractice due to illness today. Philadelphia's record all
time against the Jets twelve and oh. Second on the
long list of best records against one opponent is Green
Bay going ten and oh against Brooklyn. So there's that.
(33:31):
As for college football, it's yes, Colorado on its way
to a victory.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Tonight.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
It was twenty nine nothing at half, now twenty nine
to twelve against Stanford with about six minutes to go
in the third quarter. Colorado starred Travis Hunter, who missed
three games after taking an illegal hit returned had a
touchdown reception in the first quarter. Fresno State is six
and one after winning at Utah State thirty seven thirty
two to lane one at Memphis thirty one to twenty
(33:56):
one two exhibitions in the NBA, Tonight, Spurs defeats did
the Heat one twenty to one oh four rookie center
Victor Wembiniana twenty three points in twenty three minutes and
fifteen seconds left in La Golden State leads one twenty
six one twenty five over the Lakers. Jonathan Kamingo with
twenty four points for the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
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It's not USC Notre Dame. It's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon Happy thirtieth to Nightmare Before Christmas on
Friday the thirteenth in October. Wow, this is like a
like this is like the peak time of Halloween, like tonight.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
So you dressed up now, I mean you've face painted,
ready to go out. I'm ready to chaos.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Never paint the face, man, Never paint the face. Never
why paint the chess? Chess is okay, never paint the face.
Oh so you're a.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
David Putty guy. I did the face paint. I was
in a video game face painted up. But the hard
part was when it was sunny. You then had a
temporary tattoo.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Yeah. Like if I'm face painting because I'm gonna fight
like Mel Gibson in Braveheart. Like okay, that that I
kind of get. But face penning to go to a game, no, no, no,
don't pay the face. Don't pay the face.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Not the face.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
The course of course, if you are an eagle eyed
listener to this show, you remember before the season started,
I told you, hey, USC Notre Dame is gonna be
the game of the year in college football. Both teams
are gonna be undefeated. Sam Hartman's gonna be on his
way to taking the Heisman Trophy away from Caleb Williams,
and Williams being the number one pick in the draft,
and it's gonna be an undefeated USC team and it's
(36:29):
gonna be the game of the year. Well I was
kind of right, except except I wasn't because the game
of the year is still tomorrow. But it's not USC
Notre Dame Oregon Washington is. I can't tell you how
much fun I'm looking forward to this game because it's
one of those games that cuts through the clutter. It's
not here's Alabama Auburn, or here's another Alabama LSU game,
(36:53):
or here's another the Michigan Michigan State game. No, here's
Oregon Washington with both teams having huge college football playoff hopes,
and honestly, they may be the two best teams in
the country right now. They're playing better than anybody else. Certainly,
you know, Georgia's had a little bit of a tough time,
They're still undefeated. Michigan hasn't played anybody. Florida States had
a tough time, nearly lost a game to Boston College.
(37:15):
These teams are beating everybody. Washington did struggle a little
bit with Arizona one time last week, but look, we
told you that was gonna happen games at night in Arizona, Oregon.
That happens that way. But both of these offenses are
two of the top three offenses in all of college football.
And again, they may be the two best teams in
the country right now going at it tomorrow, and it
(37:36):
is gonna be some kind of fun day. Defenses are
both really good. Oregon's defense is really good. The thing
is not a lot of turnovers, and these are not
quarterbacks to turn the football over either. There's gonna be
a lot of points. It's gonna be so much fun.
And the fact the game is in Washington, and even
though both quarterbacks are good, bo Nix has been terrific.
(37:58):
Michael Pennix Junior has been unstoppable. Guy's averaging four hundred
yards a game. I mean, you're talking about Heisman Trophy winner.
This is your leader right now. So in a game
like this, I'll take the little bit better quarterback. Give
me Washington by a field goal thirty eight to thirty five.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah, I mean, I do like the facts that Pennix
has his eight carries for nine yards. I'm throwing the ball,
it's all. I'm doing. Sixteen touchdowns, two picks, seventy five
percent completion rate, and he's one yard shy of two
thousand for the year thus far. But you know me,
I'm enamored with the idea of bo Nicks. I like
the quarterbacks that are all coming out, and as they
(38:34):
get into the draft next year, it'll still be you know,
these guys are all older than Sam Darnold. He's just
like the benchmark for all of these things. But for
Nicks and for Oregon, he's completing at an eighty percent rate,
completing seventy four percent of passes when you blitz him,
So pick your poison. Fifteen touchdowns, one pick, just ridiculous
(38:54):
efficiency from both these squads. You look at the yardage
they're putting up per game. Jason Washington five hundred and
sixty nine yards of offense per week Oregon at five
point fifty six. So fireworks, grab, grab your favorite beverage,
and a giant bucket of wings, maybe a bag of wings,
a bag of chicken, as we like to say, or
(39:15):
I like to say on the show, and enjoy this one.
Look and it's you hate to say the it's a
shame that someone's gotta lose because we're still only in
the you know, really just starting that middle portion of
the schedule. So this is one you wish it was
a little further down the line, you know, But here
we go. We get a gift in the middle of
(39:37):
October that gets everybody around the TV set and tongues wagon,
right because both these guys show out. Now we keep
having more of the conversation because I'm really tired and
I'm bored with the they're tanking for Caleb Williams talk,
and Caleb Williams should bring Lincoln Riley with him. You know,
you still have to coach defense in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
That's just a minor worry.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
They're not impressing boosters in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
That's just a minor worry right there. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live the tyrech dot Com Studios.
I mean, the game of the year. There's nothing gonna
be more fun than that game tomorrow coming up next way,
do we tell you what happened in Colorado's game against
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